GIS and geostatistics: Essential partners for spatial analysis

Initially, geographical information systems (GIS) concentrated on two issues: automated map making, and facilitating the comparison of data on thematic maps. The first required high quality graphics, vector data models and powerful data bases, the second is based on grid cells that can be manipulated by suites of mathematical operators collectively termed map algebra. Both kinds of GIS are widely available and are taught in many universities and technical colleges. After more than 20 years of development, most standard GIS provide both kinds of functionality and good quality graphic display, but until recently they have not included the methods of statistics and geostatistics as tools for spatial analysis. Recently, standard statistical packages have been linked to GIS for both exploratory data analysis and statistical analysis and hypothesis testing. Standard statistical packages include methods for the analysis of random samples of cases or objects that are not necessarily co-located in space—if the results of statistical analysis display a spatial pattern then that is because the underlying data also share that pattern. Geostatistics addresses the need to make predictions of sampled attributes (i.e., maps) at unsampled locations from sparse, often expensive data. To make up for lack of hard data geostatistics has concentrated on the development of powerful methods based on stochastic theory. Though there have been recent moves to incorporate ancillary data in geostatistical analyses, insufficient attention has been paid to using modern methods of data display for the visualization of results. GIS can serve geostatistics by aiding geo-registration of data, facilitating spatial exploratory data analysis, providing a spatial context for interpolation and conditional simulation, as well as providing easy-to-use and effective tools for data display and visualization. The value of geostatistics for GIS lies in the provision of reliable interpolation methods with known errors, methods of upscaling and generalization, and for supplying multiple realizations of spatial patterns that can be used in environmental modeling. These stochastic methods are improving understanding of how errors in models of spatial processes accrue from errors in data or incompleteness in the structure of the models. New developments in GIS, based on ideas taken from map algebra, cellular automata and image analysis are providing high level programming languages for modeling dynamic processes such as erosion or the development of alluvial fans and deltas. Research has demonstrated that these models need stochastic inputs to yield realistic results. Non-stochastic tools such as fuzzy subsets have been shown to be useful for spatial analysis when probabilistic approaches are inappropriate or impossible. The conclusion is that in spite of differences in history and approach, the linkage of GIS, statistics and geostatistics provides a powerful, and complementary suite of tools for spatial analysis in the agricultural, earth and environmental sciences.     

大气颗粒物中微生物分析方法及分布特征的研究进展

大气颗粒物(particulate matter, PM)可能携带病原微生物,会对人体健康产生影响,因此,对大气颗粒物中微生物的采集和分析已成为当今的研究热点。本文对大气颗粒物中微生物的采集方法和分析方法(培养法、菌群多样性组成谱测序和宏基因组学技术)的研究进展进行简要概括,着重介绍不同条件下(区域、时间、粒径、天气条件和气象因素)大气颗粒物中微生物的分布状况差异,并对引起相关差异的原因进行了探讨,旨在为深入认识大气颗粒物中微生物的分布特征提供参考。     

Reaction of spruce cells toward heavy metals and the influence of culture conditions

BACKGROUND: Plant cell cultures may serve as biosensors for the detection of heavy metals and other toxic substances. Standard culture media and protocols are frequently utilised, but in these media no care is usually taken to control the influence of hormones and nutrients on the reaction of the enzymes or m under consideration as parts of the sensor. The present paper investigates the influence of media composition on the reaction of spruce cells towards heavy metals. METHODS: Spruce cell cultures were grown in a standard medium, either i) alone, ii) containing 0.3% sucrose or iii) containing 3% sucrose and the hormones BAP and NAA. The cell cultures were then incubated in medium with fungal elicitor, H2O2, CdSO4 (50 to 500 microM), or, alternatively, with a standard heavy metal mixture containing 80 microM Na2HAsO4, 150 microM CdSO4 and 200 microM PbCl2. RESULTS: Depending on the nutrient status and hormone availability, large differences in glutathione contents and the GSH/GSSG ratio were observed. However, the cellular redox state seemed to remain more or less constant. Glutathione S-transferase activity was determined with four substrates, and high induction rates for the conjugation of three substrates were observed when hormones were omitted from the media. 1,2-epoxy-nitrophenoxy-propane conjugation was highest in starving cell in the presence of hormones, showing a transient GST induction, with highest rates occurring after 16 hrs following incubation; the induction effect was lost after 24 hrs. CONCLUSION: A medium containing 3% sucrose and both hormones (BAP and NAA) appears to be most favourable for cellular growth as well as the expression of a basis level of detoxification enzymes and antioxidants. With this combination, early responses towards heavy metals at low concentration can be monitored. RECOMMENDATIONS AND PERSPECTIVE: Plant cell cultures are valuable tools for the bioindication of heavy metals and toxic xenobiotics. If standard media and protocols are utilised, the influence of hormones and nutrients on the reaction of the biosensor have to be evaluated thoroughly.     

苯酚厌氧降解的厌氧污泥驯化方法研究

在厌氧法处理含酚废水时，苯酚厌氧降解的厌氧污泥的培养与积累十分重要。本文通过混合厌氧污泥驯化、单一厌氧污泥驯化、好氧污泥转兼性驯化三组对比试验，探讨了合适的苯酚厌氧降解的厌氧污泥的驯化方法。研究表明：好氧污泥转兼性法驯化历时最短，处理效果好。静态培养时，微生物经过２个多月的驯化，日均降解苯酚的速率达１００ｍｇ／（Ｌ·ｄ）     

工程项目大气环境影响评价中污染物浓度叠加方法研究

本文对工程项目大气环境影响评价中污染物浓度叠加方法进行了研究。在叠加方法研究中,提出用判别指数判别筛选叠加方法。通过叠加方法筛选,选取了瞬时浓度,日均浓度叠加方法。经实例验证,证明方法是合理可行的,适用于大气污染物浓度叠加计算。     

冰箱厂喷漆工段废水(废渣)处理方法探讨

针对喷漆工段各类废水的特点，通过静态试验论述了不同性质废水的有效处理方法，提出处理喷漆工段废水应视其特点采用分类别、分方法处理，给出其除油废水宜采用超滤法处理而其它废水混合采用混凝沉淀法的处理方案．     

海洋环境中漂浮垃圾的监测方法

本文分析和比较了环境中漂浮塑料垃圾的监测方法。目测估计法多用于宏观分析大区域漂浮塑料垃圾的数量；拖网法主要用来估计塑料颗粒物质的分布和数量；单位面积海滩调查法多用于塑料垃圾的统计计算。     

A Comparison of Bacterial Indicators and Methods in Rural Surface Waters

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) recommends the use of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and enterococci as indicators of enteric pathogens in fresh waters; however, fecal coliform analyses will remain important by virtue of the large amount of historic data collected in prior years. In this study, we attempted, in a real-world situation (i.e., a rural inland watershed in the Piedmont of South Carolina) to compare different bacterial indicators and methods to one another. We compared fecal coliforms, enumerated by membrane filtration with E. coli, enumerated by a commercialized enzyme substrate method and observed E. coli/fecal coliform ratios of 1.63 and 1.2 for two separate tests. In the same watershed, we observed an E. coli/fecal coliform ratio of 0.84 when we used the commercialized enzyme substrate method for both enumerations. Given these results, users of such data should exercise care when they make comparisons between historic membrane filtration data and data acquired through the use of the more modern enzymatic methods. Some sampling and side-by-side testing between methods in a specific watershed may be prudent before any conversion factors between old and new datasets are applied.     

Numerical integration of chemical ODE problems arising in air pollution models

The numerical treatment of a regional air pollution model (such models are, as a rule, described mathematically by systems of partial differential equations) leads to the solution of very large computational problems. The chemical submodel of an air pollution model is normally the most timeconsuming part of the computational work. The application of appropriate discretization and splitting procedures reduces the chemical submodel to a large number of relatively small ODE systems (one such system per gridpoint). In the process of searching for efficient numerical algorithms for the chemical submodels one can carry out experiments by using only one such ODE system in order to facilitate the work. This approach has been used in connection with a particular chemical scheme, the condensed CBM IV scheme, which is used in several large air pollution models. Six integration algorithms have been tested on a set of typical scenarios (consisting of different starting concentrations and/or of different values of the emissions). The advantages and the disadvantages of the algorithms tested are discussed. The final decision about the most efficient algorithm, among the algorithms tested, should be made after a second series of experiments. The coupling of the chemical process with the transport of air pollution (on, at least, a twodimensional domain) together with the application of highspeed computers has to be studied in the second series of experiments, which will be performed in a subsequent paper.     

大气二氧化硫采样对比试验

对大气二氧化硫连续自动采样过程中的导气管吸附，样品的放置时间，吸收液的放置时间，采样高度等方面进行了试验，结果表明，导气管的吸附是使二氧化硫的监测值较五日采样法明显偏低的主要因素，其余方面无显著影响。