The expansion of a deepwater brownfield may become necessary to increase the production hydrocarbons. Such often requires installation additional risers existing floating platform. However, seabed footprint facilities be congested with subsea pipelines and structures. Tying back such as steel catenary riser (SCR) platform becomes challenging. Floating (FCR) is novel solution bends or ‘waves’ cl...

Recognizing the growing importance of both structure (maintenance of biodiversity) and function (fostering natural cycles) of urban ecologies, we examine coarse scale (herbaceous, shrub and forest) beta guild trajectory in an urban brownfield. The distribution of the pioneer forest assemblage dominated by Betula populifolia Marsh. and Populus spp. could be correlated positively with total soil ...

Currently, remotely sensed data for the study of regional and global scale environmental change are available from a multitude of sensors. Each has its own intrinsic characteristics and so the choice becomes more challenging since these characteristics determine the suitability of the dataset for any particular task. Once a dataset has been identified, the method of extracting the information o...

Richard T. Melstrom, Professor Professor, School of Environmental Sustainability, Loyola University, Chicago; rmelstrom{at}luc.edu

Nature reserves are important areas delineated to protect natural resources and the ecological environment. They have various functions, such as protecting biodiversity, conserving water sources, purifying atmosphere. However, with rapid development of social economy, human disturbance in is becoming increasingly pronounced, which has seriously damaged initial balance ecosystem reserves. Based ...