Design principles for engaging and retaining virtual citizen scientists

Citizen science initiatives encourage volunteer participants to collect and interpret data and contribute to formal scientific projects. The growth of virtual citizen science (VCS), facilitated through websites and mobile applications since the mid‐2000s, has been driven by a combination of software innovations and mobile technologies, growing scientific data flows without commensurate increases in resources to handle them, and the desire of internet‐connected participants to contribute to collective outputs. However, the increasing availability of internet‐based activities requires individual VCS projects to compete for the attention of volunteers and promote their long‐term retention. We examined program and platform design principles that might allow VCS initiatives to compete more effectively for volunteers, increase productivity of project participants, and retain contributors over time. We surveyed key personnel engaged in managing a sample of VCS projects to identify the principles and practices they pursued for these purposes and led a team in a heuristic evaluation of volunteer engagement, website or application usability, and participant retention. We received 40 completed survey responses (33% response rate) and completed a heuristic evaluation of 20 VCS program sites. The majority of the VCS programs focused on scientific outcomes, whereas the educational and social benefits of program participation, variables that are consistently ranked as important for volunteer engagement and retention, were incidental. Evaluators indicated usability, across most of the VCS program sites, was higher and less variable than the ratings for participant engagement and retention. In the context of growing competition for the attention of internet volunteers, increased attention to the motivations of virtual citizen scientists may help VCS programs sustain the necessary engagement and retention of their volunteers.     

A conceptual framework of agricultural land use planning with BMP for integrated watershed management

Land use planning is an important element of the integrated watershed management approach. It not only influences the environmental processes such as soil and stream bed erosion, sediment and nutrient concentrations in streams, quality of surface and ground waters in a watershed, but also affects social and economic development in that region. Although its importance in achieving sustainable development has long been recognized, a land use planning methodology based on a systems approach involving realistic computational modeling and meta-heuristic optimization is still lacking in the current practice of integrated watershed management. The present study proposes a new approach which attempts to combine computational modeling of upland watershed processes, fluvial processes and modern heuristic optimization techniques to address the water-land use interrelationship in its full complexity. The best land use allocation is decided by a multi-objective function that minimizes sediment yields and nutrient concentrations as well as the total operation/implementation cost, while the water quality and the production benefits from agricultural exploitation are maximized. The proposed optimization strategy considers also the preferences of land owners. The runoff model AnnAGNPS (developed by USDA), and the channel network model CCHE1D (developed by NCCHE), are linked together to simulate sediment/pollutant transport process at watershed scale based on any assigned land use combination. The greedy randomized adaptive Tabu search heuristic is used to flip the land use options for finding an optimum combination of land use allocations. The approach is demonstrated by applying it to a demonstrative case study involving USDA Goodwin Creek experimental watershed located in northern Mississippi. The results show the improvement of the tradeoff between benefits and costs for the watershed, after implementing the proposed optimal land use planning.     

GSK-XGBoost模型在井底风温预测中的应用*

为防治矿井热害,针对矿井井底风温在预测过程中精度较低的问题,提出1种网格搜索法结合K折交叉验证优化XGBoost的预测模型。通过分析确定影响井底风温的主要因素,使用网格搜索算法结合K折交叉验证,进行迭代缩小搜索范围并调参,选取最优参数配置,实现对XGBoost模型的优化,得到预测结果并与其他模型进行比较。研究结果表明:初始参数经优化后,当最大回归树深度为3且学习速率为0.1时,XGBoost回归模型性能最佳,与随机森林模型、BP神经网络模型、T-S模糊神经网络模型相比,平均相对误差分别降低了2.12%,0.88%,0.3%,均方根误差分别降低了0.66,0.24,0.11 ℃。     

基于贝叶斯网络拓扑结构的水环境风险溯源——以饮马河流域为例

为了解决流域水环境风险诊断过程中污染来源不清、污染贡献难以量化等问题,提出了一种基于贝叶斯网络拓扑结构的污染源追责量化方法.该方法首先通过互信息的计算实现流域水环境典型污染物的准确识别,在此基础上通过贝叶斯网络拓扑结构分析与启发式搜索算法快速辨析流域内典型污染来源及其污染贡献.本次选取吉林省饮马河流域2017~2020年水质监测数据进行分析.结果表明,氨氮为流域内的典型污染物;靠山南楼、靠山大桥、刘珍屯3个站点的污染来源分别为:杨家崴子、新立城大坝、砖瓦窑桥.其中靠山南楼有63%的污染来源于杨家崴子,靠山大桥有30%的污染来源于新立城大坝,刘珍屯有75%的污染来源于砖瓦窑桥.本次评估方法的构建可为流域水环境风险溯源及污染责任认定提供技术支撑.     

基于SSA-BP与SSA的地下水污染源反演识别

应用基于SSA-BP神经网络替代模型的模拟-优化方法和SSA研究了地下水污染源位置及释放历史的反演识别问题。并在建立地下水水流模型时,应用Cholesky分解方法建立含水层渗透系数连续场,该方法相比于普通的参数分区方法更好地描述了水文地质参数的非均质性。结果表明:SSA-BP神经网络替代模型对模拟模型具有较高的逼近精度,其平均相对误差仅有3.21%。应用SSA求解优化模型,能够快速准确地识别出点污染源的位置及释放历史。SSA对污染源位置的反演识别相对误差在10%左右,对污染源源强的反演识别相对误差不超过4%。因此,本文所提出的方法是一种有效的地下水污染源识别方法,可为污染责任认定及污染修复方案的优化提供参考。     

国家陆地搜救基地训练设施设计原则及构成分析

＂科学施救＂是公安消防部队进行应急救援任务的核心理念,而专业化、模拟化训练则是实现＂科学施救＂的必要手段。如何构建高仿真、动态化的模拟训练设施,进一步提高公安消防部队应急救援水平,已成为公安消防部队面临的一个重要课题。文章对部分发达国家应急救援训练设施建设情况进行了分析,从实战救援的角度,提出了国家陆地搜寻与救护基地模拟训练设施的设计原则,并结合实战需要,给出了模拟训练设施的基本构成和功能介绍,供各地在规划和建设模拟训练设施时参考、借鉴。     

A FUZZY SETS MODEL FOR MEASURING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN WATER RESOURCES PLANNING1

Mathematical modeling of complex water resources System problems, particularly water pollution control, is aided by fizzy set theory. Public participation in large scale federally funded water resources and pollution control projects is now a federal requirement and practice of various planning agencies. However, no systems based model for quantifying and measuring the effectiveness of public participation is known to exist. In this paper, we report a fuzzy set based model developed for doing this in areawide water resources planning The model is essentially cascade in nature and employs the concepts of fuzzy pessimistic and optimistic aggregations to cluster and analyze the evaluations of the basic factors. Sample computations of the model are provided.     

微生物絮凝剂的制备及在实验室废水处理中的应用研究

介绍了微生物絮凝剂的富集培养、分离和筛选的方法及过程。并用试验所制备的微生物絮凝剂对啤酒工艺实训室废水进行了处理研究。研究发现,微生物絮凝剂对啤酒工艺实训室废水具有较好的去除效果。     

如何在Internet上进行环境信息检索

在分析归类网上检索工具的基础上，介绍了如何从Internet网络上检索环境信息资料，并给出了一些有用的网址。     

环境保护图书网络管理系统的开发及应用

在多年环保图书管理工作的基础上，自主研发了一套图书网络管理系统，该系统基于ASP VBScript语言开发，采用B／S结构设计模型，适合于中小型企事业单位局域网的图书自动化管理。