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Community and Quality of Life
Quality of life . . . livability . . . sense of place. Communities across America are striving to define these terms and to bring them to life, as they make decisions about …
Managing Coal Combustion Residues in Mines
Burning coal in electric utility plants produces, in addition to power, residues that contain constituents which may be harmful to the environment. The management of large volumes …
Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources
When the U.S. Department of the Interior released its 1989 estimates of how much undiscovered oil and gas remain in the United States, a controversy ensued. Some members of the …
Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems
The 1997 Conference on the World Climate Research Programme to the Third Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded that the …
Evaluation of a Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the Department of Homeland Security's Planned National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas
Congress requested that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) produce a site-specific biosafety and biosecurity risk assessment (SSRA) of the proposed National Bio- and …
Evolving the Geodetic Infrastructure to Meet New Scientific Needs
Satellite remote sensing is the primary tool for measuring global changes in the land, ocean, biosphere, and atmosphere. Over the past three decades, active remote sensing …
Government Data Centers
Environmental data centers have been successfully acquiring, disseminating, and archiving data for decades. However, the increasing volume and number of data sets, coupled with …
Haze in the Grand Canyon
This book presents working principles for assessing the relative importance of anthropogenic emission sources that contribute to haze in U.S. national parks and wilderness areas …
Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Science
Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Science identifies areas of high-priority research within the purview of the Earth Science Division of the National Science Foundation, …
Flowback and Produced Waters
Produced water"e;water from underground formations that is brought to the surface during oil and gas production"e;is the greatest volume byproduct associated with oil and …
Development of Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources in the Appalachian Basin
Development of Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources in the Appalachian Basin is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council to examine the geology and …
Understanding the Long-Term Evolution of the Coupled Natural-Human Coastal System
The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, interconnected coastal system. …