A water column sampler for invertebrates in salt-marsh tidal pools

A column sampler for use in shallow (1 m) pools is described. The apparatus is a 10-cm diameter PVC pipe mounted on a base plate. A sliding trap on the base plate is attached to a cable which runs over a pulley to the upper part of the sampler. A whole water column of 78 cm² is sampled and 1–2 cm of substrate can be included as desired. The sampler has been used successfully in salt marsh pools to census gastropods, amphipods, and copepods.     

Interceptor Trenches for Positive Ground Water Control

Interceptor trenches are an effective ground water control method at waste management sites. Trenches may be installed without disturbing the wastes, and the withdrawal of ground water recovers contaminants that have left the waste management perimeter. The rapid and steep depression of the piezometric surface on both sides of the trench is positive proof of a barrier to horizontal flow across the trench in the affected permeable units.
Historically, the construction of interceptor trenches has been very difficult. A new and efficient installation method has been developed and successfully utilized for several applications at a petrochemical facility on the Texas coastal plain. Rapid and cost-effective installation is made possible by innovations in sump and trench construction and the tie-in between the two.
The sump is constructed first using standard well construction techniques to drill a 96-inch diameter hole to contain the 42-inch diameter polyethylene pipe sump. A European designed and fabricated trenching machine then excavates the trench, inserts the drainage pipe and backfills with sand and/or gravel in one operation. A specially designed perforated pipe entry door built into the side of the sump barrel provides for efficient and safe connection of the drainage pipe to the specially designed collection sump. The effectiveness of interceptor trenches has been confirmed in full scale applications through the reversal of flow gradients and the prevention of continued horizontal migration of ground water contaminants.     

Glaciolacustrine varved sediment as an alpine hydroclimatic proxy

The physical significance of a negative correlation between a varve record from Mud Lake, British Columbia, and temperature is discussed in the context of a process-network. The process-network is defined as the system of temporally and spatially connected processes involved in the transfer of a signal from climate to varved glaciolacustrine sediment. The six systems defining the network include climate, glacier, fluvial, geomorphic, terrestrial biologic and lacustrine systems to which each process belongs. A literature review outlines significant variation in the strength and character of correlations between components of the process-network and highlights that more comprehensive interpretations of varves as a hydroclimatic proxy require an improved understanding of the process-network. Documenting each process in the network is integral to informing a more complete model of this system, identifying processes that constitute signal transfer and assessing hydroclimatic proxies based on linear correlation. Such documentation is of growing importance as varved lacustrine sediments are increasingly used as a hydroclimatic proxy. The complex nature of the process-network requires greater emphasis on interdisciplinary cooperation and alternative methods to the linear statistical model.     

High-Frequency Hydroacoustic Monitoring in an Underground Iron Mine

The monitoring of the stability of old mines constitutes an important research objective for our institution, BRGM. The study reported here shows the contribution of high-frequency (>30 kHz) acoustic emissions to the detection of the damage within a rock mass, during an experiment within a pilot site of an old flooded iron mine. The experiment consisted of recording all the hydroacoustic events in a broad frequency band (between 30 Hz and 180 kHz), during 18 months. The monitoring network has been calibrated by a triggered block fall that made it possible to highlight a relationship between the occurrence of high-frequency/low-frequency hydroacoustic emissions and rock falls. The events recorded have been associated with the micro-failure of the rock mass near the roof, prior to the detachment of the blocks. This monitoring showed important high-frequency hydroacoustic activity, which may be associated with mechanical instabilities generated by the evolution of water pressure during the experiment. In conclusion, the high-frequency hydroacoustic activity appears to be a good indicator of instability and, therefore, this new technique constitutes a promising tool for monitoring abandoned underground cavities.     

链烷烃的热力学性质与分子拓扑指数的关系

定义了一种新的连接性指数^1Y=Σk1/m^2 n^2,研究了链烷烃的标准生成焓、标准熵、标准生成吉布斯自由能等三个热力学性质与碳原子个数N，^1Y之间的定量关系，相关系数为优，其计算值与实验值较为接近，对未参与回归的正癸烷的60个异构体的三个热力学性质进行了计算，计算值与实验值较一致。     

海洋真菌的化学研究

综述了从海洋真菌中分离出结构新奇、有特殊生物活性和有潜在实用意义的新化合物。     

Beitrag zur Charakterisierung und Identifizierung organischer Stoffe niederer molarer Massen in biologischen Kläranlagenabläufen

Contribution to the characterization and identification of low molecular weight organic substances in biologically treated effluent. In a review it is shown that by determination of sum parameters only 25% of low molecular weight substances <1000 Dalton in biologically treated effluent can be divided into different classes of compounds. A method is described to separate the low molecular weight compounds (freeze concentration, electrodialysis, vacuum evaporation, freeze drying) in order to identify single compounds. In a first GC-MS analysis 87 compounds, among them a high proportion of substances with hetero atoms, could be identified. Their concentrations lie between 0,1 and 3 μg/1. Only 3% of the low molecular weight fraction related to the DOC value is covered by the identified substances. Therefore it can be assumed, that a broad variety of low molecular weight compounds in very low concentrations is present in the effluent of biological treatment plants.     

Das bewegliche Luftvolumen des Erdbodens

Zusammenfassung Das für die Bodenatmung wesentliche, bewegliche Luftvolumen wird in Abhängigkeit von der Tiefe aus der Absorption von Druckwellen im Boden abgeleitet. Zur Prüfung werden periodische Druckwellen künstlich erzeugt und in verschiedenen Erdbodentiefen gemessen und registriert.

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Summary The volume of moving air, which is essential for the respiration of the soil, has been calculated with the dependency on depth from absorption of pressure waves in the soil. The results have been controlled by experiments with artificial periodic pressure waves which are measured and registered at different depths in the soil.

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Résumé Le volume d'air mouvant qui est d'importance essentielle pour la respiration du sol, est déduit de l'absorption d'ondes de pression dans le sol et de leur dépendance de la profondeur. Pour vérifier la théorie, l'auteur produit des ondes de pression artificielles et périodiques qui sont ensuite mesurées et enregistrées à diverses profondeurs.

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Die Arbeit wurde mit Unterstützung des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten und der Karlsruher Hochschulvereinigung durchgeführt.     

Wavelet analysis of the standard map: Structure and scaling

Wavelet analysis is applied to distributions of points generated by iterating the standard map. The initial condition is chosen so that the points fill the largest chaotic region. When the standard map parameterk=1.3, the distribution of points contains many voids corresponding to islands in the chaotic region. The wavelet transform is dominated by contributions from these islands. Fork=10 the chaos fills phase space and no structure is apparent; the wavelet transform reveals statistical fluctuations in the distribution of points.