OPTIMIZING DUMPING SITES NEAR DREDGED CHANNELS

Detection of construction debris dumping sites using Landsat images (Case study: Shahriar and Mallard districts)

Natural phenomena and human activities are always changing the earth and Knowing about changad information of the earth’s surface is becoming more and more important in monitoring the local, regional and global resources and environments. The large collection of past and present remote sensing images made it possible to analyze spatio-temporal pattern of environmental elements and impacts of hu...

Geo-Chip analysis reveals reduced functional diversity of the bacterial community at a dumping site for dredged Elbe sediment.

The dumping of dredged sediments represents a major stressor for coastal ecosystems. The impact on the ecosystem function is determined by its complexity not easy to assess. In the present study, we evaluated the potential of bacterial community analyses to act as ecological indicators in environmental monitoring programmes. We investigated the functional structure of bacterial communities, app...

Optimizing over measurements and channels

Substratum heterogeneity of dredged vs un-dredged maerl grounds

Maerl grounds are formed from loose-lying, normally non-geniculated, coralline red algae (Corallinaceae). Such grounds are found in areas characterized primarily by high water movements in the photic zone. Maerl grounds form shallow marine biotopes of high biodiversity, analogous to kelp forests and sea grass beds, all of which are habitats created by marine phototrophs (Birkett et al., 1998; B...

Optimizing Web Sites for Customer Retention

With customer relationship management (CRM) companies move away from a mainly product-centered view to a customer-centered view. Resulting from this change, the effective management of how to keep contact with customers throughout different channels is one of the key success factors in today’s business world. Company Web sites have evolved in many industries into an extremely important channel ...