Dam-lake Operation to Optimize Fish Habitat

Lake Habitat: Acres of “Prime” Fish Habitat

Fish Abundance and Habitat Recommendations of the Lake Whatcom Tributaries

The tributaries of Lake Whatcom, Austin/Beaver, Anderson, Olsen, and Smith Creeks, provide essential habitat for many fish species native to the Pacific Northwest. However, development in the watershed has contributed to habitat alterations and even degradation of habitat quality. In this report, fish abundance and diversity, and habitat quality is compared both temporally, and among different ...

Array Operation Synthesis to Optimize HPF Programs

An increasing number of programming languages, such as Fortran 90, HPF, and APL, are providing a rich set of intrinsic array functions and array expressions. These constructs which constitute an important part of data parallel languages provide excellent opportunities for compiler optimizations. The synthesis of consecutive array operations or array expressions into a composite access function ...

Three-Gorges Dam: risk to ancient fish.

THE HUGE THREE-GORGES DAM (TGD) OF THE Yangtze River is going to demonstrate the mighty power of humanity to change and fragment an area of about 58,000 km2 with the formation of a huge reservoir of 1080 km2. It is expected to exert disastrous influences on many terrestrial plants and animals, as discussed by J. Wu et al. in their Policy Forum “Three-Gorges Dam— experiment in habitat fragmentat...

Determination of Heavy Metals in Fish, Water and Sediments of Avsar Dam Lake in Turkey

In the present study, some heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni and Pb) were seasonally determined in water, sediment and some tissues of Cyprinus carpio from Avsar Dam Lake, which is an important water source for irrigation and drinking in Turkey. Heavy metal levels in water, sediment and fish samples were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy (ICP/AES). The obtained results showed t...