Structural health monitoring (SHM) provides a useful tool for ensuring safety and detecting the evolution of damage and performance deterioration of civil infrastructures. A great number of civil infrastructures under construction can be used as test beds for SHM systems. The Binzhou Yellow River Highway Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in Shandong Province, China. An SHM system has been impleme...

We present preliminary results of an Earth observation approach for the study of past human occupation and landscape reconstruction in the Central Sahara. This region includes a variety of geomorphological features such as palaeo-oases, dried river beds, alluvial fans and upland plateaux whose geomorphological characteristics, in combination with climate changes, have influenced patterns of hum...

To investigate hydrodynamic processes above and within river beds, laboratory experiments have been performed to quantify the interaction between turbulent flow and pressure fluctuations at a porous gravel bed. A 2-D Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) system measuring in streamwise vertical or horizontal planes above the gravel layer was used, synchronized with a pressure sensor array of 16 minia...

The unique mosaic of ecosystems of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, comprising an extensive network of channels, shallow pools and hundreds of lakes, combined with marshes, reed-beds, lagoons, islands and floodplains, form a valuable natural area, sheltering a high biodiversity. One of the main drivers of the functionality of these ecosystems is the climate change, affecting especially the s...

DING WANG,∗†† XIANFENG ZHANG,∗ KEXIONG WANG,∗ ZHUO WEI,∗ BERND WÜRSIG,† GILLIAN T. BRAULIK,‡ AND SUSIE ELLIS§ ∗Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China †Texas A&M University, 4700 Avenue U, Building 303, Galveston, TX 77551, U.S.A. ‡Downstream Research Group, 3950 S. Fletcher Avenue, Amelia Island, FL 32034, U.S.A. §Conservation International, 1919 M Street, S...

In Australia, Ross River virus (RRV) is predominantly identified and managed through passive health surveillance. Here, the proactive use of environmental datasets to improve community-scale public health interventions in southeastern Tasmania is explored. Known environmental drivers (temperature, rainfall, tide) of the RRV vector Aedes camptorhynchus are analysed against cumulative case record...

We describe extensive testing of a large-volume, high-speed water sampler for the concentration and measurement of radionuclides using high-resolution gamma ray spectrometry. The sampler processed hundreds to thousands of liters of natural waters with variable suspended sediment and salinity loads at flow rates of 10-201/min. Extraction of most radionuclides in the water column was accomplished...

Determining the evolution of the bed of a river or channel due to the transport of sediment was first examined in a theoretical context by Exner in 1925. In his work, Exner presents a simplified bed evolution model derived from the conservation of fluid mass and an “erosion” equation that is commonly referred to as the sediment continuity or Exner equation. Given that Exner’s model takes the fo...