Hazardous contaminants buried within vadose zones can accumulate in soil gas. The concentrations and spatial extent of these contaminants are measured to evaluate potential transport to groundwater for public risk evaluation. Tritium is an important contaminant found and monitored for in vadose zones across numerous sites within the US nuclear weapons complex, including Los Alamos National Labo...

The influence of moisture content of mulberry leaf on the growth, development and moisture build up in the body of silkworm was studied by feeding with different maturity leaves to late age of silkworm larvae. Significantly higher larval moisture (79.78%), larval weight (65.65 g), pupal moisture (73.81%) was recorded in top tender leaf (high moisture) fed batches and least was recorded in the c...

[1] Soil moisture trends, particularly during the growing season, are an important possible consequence of global warming. Climate model simulations of future soil moisture changes should be made with models that can produce reliable simulations of soil moisture for past climate changes. In this paper, we compare soil moisture simulations from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth As...

Light use efficiency (LUE) is a key biophysical parameter characterizing the ability of plants to convert absorbed light to carbohydrate. However, the environmental regulations on LUE, especially moisture stress, are poorly understood, leading to large uncertainties in primary productivity estimated by LUE models. The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of moisture stress on L...

Within the frame of the project GeoBIRD (ESA contract 12950/98/NL/GD entitled "Retrieval of geoand bio-physical information from remote sensing data") an attempt was made to derive soil moisture by combining the microwave remote sensing model CLOUD and the land surface process model PROMET-V (PROcess oriented Modular Environment and Vegetation model. Three test sites in Europe, which show diffe...

The Ellis-Roberts seed viability equation is accepted as an accurate predictor of seed longevity over a range of storage temperatures and moisture contents (MC). One application of this model is to identify different combinations of seed MC and temperature that can result in similar seed storage lifetimes. The present study was conducted to determine whether the reduction in storage life of pri...

Sample preparation effects on the compaction properties of Swedish fine-grained tills Per Lindh & M.G. Winter Head of Malmö Branch, Swedish Geotechnical Institute, Hospitalsgatan 16 A, SE-211 33 Malmö, Sweden and Ph.D. Student at Dept. of Soil Mechanics, Lund University. Regional Manager (Scotland), TRL Limited, Redwood House, 66 Spylaw Road, Edinburgh EH10 5BR, UK F ine-grained tills are a dom...