Watershed Management and Organizational Dynamics: Nationwide Findings and Regional Variation

Recent attention has focused on resource management initiatives at the watershed scale with emphasis on collaborative, locally driven, and decentralized institutional arrangements. Existing literature on limited selections of well-established watershed-based organizations has provided valuable insights. The current research extends this focus by including a broad survey of watershed organizations from across the United States as a means to estimate a national portrait. Organizational characteristics include year of formation, membership size and composition, budget, guiding principles, and mechanisms of decision-making. These characteristics and the issue concerns of organizations are expected to vary with respect to location. Because this research focuses on organizations that are place based and stakeholder driven, the forces driving them are expected to differ across regions of the country. On this basis of location, we suggest basic elements for a regional assessment of watershed organizations to channel future research and to better approximate the organizational dynamics, issue concerns, and information needs unique to organizations across the country. At the broadest level, the identification of regional patterns or organizational similarities may facilitate the linkage among organizations to coordinate their actions at the much broader river basin or ecosystem scale.     

大气环境质量分析与评价研究的新进展

简要地介绍了人工神经网络（ANN）、物元可拓集（MEES）、集对分析（SPA）、遗传算法（GA）和投影寻踪技术（PP）等的基本思想和特点，评述了近年来国内外将这些新理论和新技术应用于大气环境质量分析与评价取得的最新成果，指出了大气环境质量分析与评价研究的可能发展前景。     

Large-Scale Effects of Timber Harvesting on Stream Systems in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, USA

Using Basin Area Stream Survey (BASS) data from the United States Forest Service, we evaluated how timber harvesting influenced patterns of variation in physical stream features and regional fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages. Data were collected for three years (1990–1992) from six hydrologically variable streams in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, USA that were paired by management regime within three drainage basins. Specifically, we used multivariate techniques to partition variability in assemblage structure (taxonomic and trophic) that could be explained by timber harvesting, drainage basin differences, year-to-year variability, and their shared variance components. Most of the variation in fish assemblages was explained by drainage basin differences, and both basin and year-of-sampling influenced macroinvertebrate assemblages. All three factors modeled, including interactions between drainage basins and timber harvesting, influenced variability in physical stream features. Interactions between timber harvesting and drainage basins indicated that differences in physical stream features were important in determining the effects of logging within a basin. The lack of a logging effect on the biota contradicts predictions for these small, hydrologically variable streams. We believe this pattern is related to the large scale of this study and the high levels of natural variability in the streams. Alternatively, there may be time-specific effects we were unable to detect with our sampling design and analyses.     

基于指数标度法的大气污染物标准浓度限值

从韦伯—费希纳定律S＝KlogR出发,指出在大气污染物背景浓度限值C_ioo至明显危害浓度限值C_I∞范围内,当污染物浓度成等比变化时,人对污染物浓度刺激量的主观差别感觉成等差变化。应用＂等差分级、等比赋值＂的指数标度法计算出６种大气污染物的三级标准浓度限值与我国制定的《大气环境质量标准》,GB3095－82规定的污染物日平均浓度限值基本接近,为我国《大气环境质量标准》提供了合理依据。     

无消防水池的变电站火灾工况数值模拟研究

当前,建于市区的变电站为了节约用地,其消防系统通常不建设消防水池,消防用水直接从市政管网取水,该消防模式下的取水安全及管网响应情况值得关注.论文以某城市中心城区为例,采用EPANET 2.0构建了供水管网模型,针对供水高峰、流量转输和事故爆管3种不利供水条件,开展了无消防水池变电站的消防系统5种不同火灾工况的水力计算与...     

Root uptake of lead by Norway spruce grown on Pb spiked soils

The root uptake of lead (Pb) by trees and the transfer of Pb by leaf litter deposition to the forest floor were investigated through a pot experiment with Norway spruce. Natural Pb and radio isotopic lead (²¹⁰Pb) were determined in needles and twigs and in the pot soil spiked with ²¹⁰Pb. Calculations of the specific activity in plant material and in the supporting pot soil showed that less than 2% of the Pb content of needles and twigs originates from root uptake and approximately 98% are deposited from the atmosphere. Atmospheric Pb has declined by a factor of 7 from 1980 to 2007 but is still a major pathway of Pb to vegetation and topsoils. The conclusion from the experiment is that the internal circulation of Pb through root uptake, translocation and litterfall, gives an insignificant input of Pb to the forest floor compared to atmospheric deposition.     

Requirements for estimation of doses from contaminants dispersed by a ‘dirty bomb’ explosion in an urban area

The ARGOS decision support system is currently being extended to enable estimation of the consequences of terror attacks involving chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological substances. This paper presents elements of the framework that will be applied in ARGOS to calculate the dose contributions from contaminants dispersed in the atmosphere after a ‘dirty bomb’ explosion. Conceptual methodologies are presented which describe the various dose components on the basis of knowledge of time-integrated contaminant air concentrations. Also the aerosolisation and atmospheric dispersion in a city of different types of conceivable contaminants from a ‘dirty bomb’ are discussed.     

Management of hazardous road derived respirable particulates using magnetic properties of tree leaves

The magnetic properties of tree leaves along with their ecological, economical and aesthetic importance can be used to control road derived respirable particulates. Isothermal remanent magnetization (IRM₃₀₀ mT) of three different tree leaves viz. Mango (Mangifera indica), Sisso (Dalbergia sisso) and Banyan (Ficus benghalensis) were determined and IRM₃₀₀ mT normalized for the leaf area. The normalized 2-D magnetization of leaves as shown by results is dominantly controlled by leaf morphology and traffic density. F. benghalensis (Banyan) leaf has highest 2-D magnetization and D. sisso (Sisso) leaf having least 2-D magnetization suggesting greater ability of F. benghalensis (Banyan) tree leaves to reduce magnetic particulates. The particle size of the magnetic grains falls in the category of PM2.5, a particle size hazardous to human health due to its capacity to be inhaled deeply into the lungs.     

北京大气沉降样品中的PCBs

采集了4个北京大气沉降样品,包括3个总沉降与1个湿沉降样品.利用高分辨率气质联用仪(HRGC-HRMS),参照国际标准方法分析测定了其中的多氯联苯(PCBs)含量.总沉降样品的PCBs含量水平为4.47～7.08ng·g-1(平均为5.52ng·g-1)和TEQ为0.55～5.43 pg·g-1(平均为2.27 pg·g-1).湿沉降样品含量水平为15.02 ng·g-1,其TEQ为2.87 pg·g-1.首钢样品的TEQ远高于其它3个样品.根据我国大气降尘数据,粗略估计北京PCBs大气沉降通量平均值为67.9 ng·m-2·m-1和TEQ平均通量为27.9 pg·m-2·m-1.首钢样品中,IUPAC编号为77的类二(噁)英PCBs含量异常高,但TEQ仍以编号为126的PCBs所占比例最高.随着取代氯原子数的增加,同族体的含量逐渐降低.     

南宁市城区大气微生物污染状况调查与评价

为了解南宁市城区大气微生物的污染状况,本文利用自然沉降法对南宁市城区不同功能区74个监测点进行大气微生物含量调查,并分析评价了南宁市城区大气微生物的污染状况。调查结果表明:南宁市城区大气微生物含量变化范围为1101~29094 cfu/m3,平均值含量高低顺序为交通干线区>工业区>商业区>居民区>文教机关区>休闲广场区>公园旅游区;大气微生物中细菌占79.2%,霉菌占20.8%;在参与评价的74个监测点中,大气微生物总数属于清洁~较清洁级的有60.8%,轻微污染~污染级的有32.8%,中污染占5.4%。