Recent research has suggested that changes in temperature and precipitation events due to climate change have had a significant impact on the availability and timing of streamflow. In this study, monthly temperature and precipitation data collected over 29 climate divisions covering the entire Colorado River basin and monthly natural flow data from 29 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) gauge locatio...

Introduction: Landing on Venus and geochemical investigations of Venusian materials either in-situ or with returned samples are thought to be of the highest priority in future scientific robotic exploration of Ve-nus. Harsh conditions at the surface strongly limit mobility and operations at the landing sites, as well as the total number of different samples that can be analyzed. This makes it e...

Improvements in Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology and spatial analysis of high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) have advanced the accuracy and diversity of applications for coastal hazards and natural resources management. This article presents a concise synthesis of LiDAR analysis for coastal flooding and management applications in low-relief coastal plains and a case st...

The models of stress corrosion and pressure solution established by Yasuhara et al. were introduced into the 2D FEM code of thermo-hydro-mechanical-migratory coupling analysis for dualporosity medium developed by the authors. Aiming at a hypothetical model for geological disposal of nuclear waste in an unsaturated rock mass fromwhich there is a nuclide leak, two computation conditions were desi...

This chapter will summarize the historical development of geology and in particular the development of the modern uniformitarian view of the geological record and the millions-of-years time-scale. The important proponents of old-earth thinking (including Werner, Smith, Hutton, Cuvier, and Lyell) along with some of the opponents of this view as it was developing (the scriptural geologists) will ...

theoretical discussion of toolkit composition and assemblage variability intriguing, their interpretation of the Nogahabara I site as a single, short-term occupation, reflecting a systemic assemblage unbiased by taphonomic disturbance, is unsubstantiated by the data presented in their article. Because their argument hangs on the premise that all of the artifacts are the same age and represent a...