Study Goal. To conduct a comprehensive baseline evaluation to identify context-specific information to aid the design and refining of activities for the innovation project, refine targets, and measure baseline indicators for comparison at the end of the project.
Study Goal. Develop a management plan that: 1) identifies historic and a most likely future depletion scenario; 2) uses (and refines) the Recovery Program’s draft endangered fish flow recommendations and current hydrology to identify the effects of past and future water development on endangered fish habitat; 3) develops flow recommendations for the White River and 4) identifies recovery actions needed to offset depletion effects. A federal-state cooperative or other agreement to implement the resultant management plan will constitute the federal action (likely via USFWS participation) that serves as the basis for a Section 7 consultation and development of a White River PBO.
Study Goal. Develop a management plan that: 1) identifies historic and a most likely future depletion scenario; 2) uses (and refines) the Recovery Program’s draft endangered fish flow recommendations and current hydrology to identify the effects of past and future water development on endangered fish habitat; and 3) identifies recovery actions needed to offset depletion effects. A federal-state-local cooperative or other agreement to implement the resultant management plan will constitute the 1 Membership on the White River Planning Team includes Upper Colorado River basin water users, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CWCB, State of Utah Division of Water Rights, the Rio Xxxxxx Water Conservancy District, the Ute Indian Tribe, and The Nature Conservancy. federal action (likely via USFWS participation) that serves as the basis for a Section 7 consultation and development of a White River PBO.
Study Goal. Building on Bachelor programmes in physics or geophysics, the Joint Master Study Programme provides a broad and deep scientific education in physics of the Earth. This fundamental education allows not only to understand the principal functioning of our planet, but also some of the major challenges facing humanity through its dependence on the physical environment, e.g. natural resources and hazards, as well as the impact of man on nature and man`s own environment. The focus of the study programme is on furthering the exposure to mathematics and physics as relevant in the physics of the Earth, and the quantitative methods used in the field. Students learn how to observe and mathematically describe phenomena occurring in the physical environment. The fundamental education advances analytical thinking, and graduates are able to work independently and develop problem-solving competence that can be applied to questions of basic research as well as industrial applications. There are optional classes in applications such as exploration-related techniques and seismic hazard analysis. Through the thorough education in the field of physics of the Earth, students will be able to choose between careers in fundamental research and technologically-oriented companies, particularly in the fields of energy, natural hazard and risk, security, raw materials, groundwater, and environment. Pertaining research is performed in national research organizations, universities, and the private sector, with applications in national and international organizations (e.g., CTBTO, IAEA), in companies dealing with oil and gas or other natural resources, and in the insurance industry. The rigorous approach learned in this programme allows graduates to use their skills also in other physical and natural science occupations. Students acquire skills in information technologies and data processing, as well as physical measurement. Beyond job opportunities that are available exclusively to quantitatively-trained graduates, more general opportunities exist in public administration, engineering companies, consulting etc. Graduates also profit from the exposure to the English language in which the Master programme is taught.
Study Goal. Consider a central urban area surrounded by satellite cities. Can a satellite city infect the urban centre? Can a satellite city protect itself from infection stemming from the urban centre? How does the size of a city affect its vulnerability to invasion by an infectious disease or its role in facilitating the spread of a disease? Model Type SIR-type metapopulation model Input Data Epidemiological data: existing literature Population: census Travel: University of Manitoba Transport Information Group Validation Data none Notes Article focus is on analysing mathematical system.
Study Goal. Describe the (theoretical) global spread of smallpox being released before any intervention is set up Model Type Large scale structured metapopulation model: Global Epidemic and Mobility model (GLEaM) Input Data Epidemiological: existing data Population: Center for International Earth Science Information – Gridded Population of the World and Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project Travel: IATA, OAG, existing literature Validation Data none Notes
Study Goal. Development of a computer simulation model for the worldwide spread of a person to person transmissible disease. Model Type metapopulation
