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- Creator:
- Lehman John T
- Description:
- Data were collected while developing a management plan for eliminating nuisance algal blooms in a chain of reservoirs along the Huron River in southeastern Michigan. Federal funding was provided by both the U.S. EPA and the USDA. The river-reservoir system is used for municipal drinking water, wastewater disposal, irrigation, industrial processes, hydroelectric generation, sport fishing, and recreation. The impoundments episodically developed surface scums of cyanobacteria, contained microcystin toxins, and emitted foul odors including hydrogen sulfide. Past management strategy had focused on external phosphorus loading but failed to prevent nuisance conditions. Data collection and analysis pointed to the overwhelming role of internal nutrient loading and resulted in a series of whole lake experiments that destratified Ford Lake during summer and eliminated the nuisance conditions.
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- Eutrophication, Limnology, and Nuisance Algae
- Citation to related publication:
- Ferris JA, Lehman JT. 2007. Interannual variation in diatom bloom dynamics: roles of hydrology, nutrient limitation, sinking, and whole lake manipulation. Water Res. 41:2551-2562., Ferris JA, Lehman JT. 2008. Nutrient budgets and river impoundments: Interannual variation and implications for detecting future changes. Lake Reserv Manage. 24:273-281., Goldenberg SZ, Lehman JT. 2012. Diatom response to the whole lake manipulation of a eutrophic urban impoundment. Hydrobiologia 691:71-80., Lehman EM, McDonald KE, Lehman JT. 2009. Whole lake selective withdrawal experiment to control harmful cyanobacteria in an urban impoundment. Water Res. 43:1187-1198., Lehman JT, Ferris JA, Platte RA. 2007. Role of hydrology in development of a vernal clear water phase in an urban impoundment. Freshwater Biol. 52:1773-1781., Lehman JT, Bell DW, McDonald KE. 2009. Reduced river phosphorus following implementation of a lawn fertilizer ordinance. Lake Reserv Manage. 25:307-312., Lehman JT. 2011. Nuisance cyanobacteria in an urbanized impoundment: Interacting internal phosphorus loading, nitrogen metabolism, and polymixis. Hydrobiologia 611:277-287., Lehman JT, Bell DW, Doubek JP, McDonald KE. 2011. Reduced additions to river phosphorus for three years following implementation of a lawn fertilizer ordinance. Lake Reserv Manage. 27:390-397. , Lehman JT, Doubek JP, Jackson EW. 2013. Effect of reducing allochthonous P load on alkaline phosphatase activity of phytoplankton in an urbanized watershed, SE Michigan, U.S.A. Lake Reserv Manage. 29:116-125., Lehman JT 2014. Understanding the role of induced mixing for management of nuisance algal blooms in an urbanized reservoir. Lake Reserv Manage. 30:1-9., and McDonald KE, Lehman JT. 2013. Dynamics of Aphanizomenon and Microcystis (cyanobacteria) during experimental manipulation of an urban impoundment. Lake Reserv Manage. 29:103-115.
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for phalanx (pathological) of phytosaur (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 13838) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin.
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- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Phytosauria, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Triassic, and e06c6866-4cba-4532-2a68-d8e3357a674e
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for Right innominate (acetabulum region) of Remingtonocetus domandaensis (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number GSP-UM 3408) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin.
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- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Remingtonocetidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, and Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP)
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Limon, Garrett C.
- Description:
- The work guides the processing of CAM6 data for use in machine learning applications. We also provide workflow scripts for training both random forests and neural networks to emulate physic s schemes from the data, as well as analysis scripts written in both Python and NCL in order to process our results.
- Keyword:
- Machine Learning, Climate Modeling, and Physics Emulation
- Citation to related publication:
- Limon, G. C., Jablonowski, C. (2022) Probing the Skill of Random Forest Emulators for Physical Parameterizations via a Hierarchy of Simple CAM6 Configurations [Pre Print]. ESSOAr. https://10.1002/essoar.10512353.1
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Umana, Maria
- Description:
- Functional trait data from six species of trees widely distributed across an elevational gradient in El Yunque, Puerto Rico.
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- SLA, LA, leaf thickness, wood specific gravity, crown volume
- Citation to related publication:
- Umaña, M. N. In review. The interplay of drought and hurricanes on tree recovery: insights from dynamic and weak functional responses. Forthcoming
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Salaree, Amir, Spica, Zack, and Huang, Yihe
- Description:
- The items in this bundle are supporting videos to a study of subsea seismo-acoustics carried out regarding an earthquake in the Persian Gulf. The main data used in the study is a diver's recording of the acoustic waves from the earthquake. The epicenter and topography data used in this study are publicly available as cited in the README.txt file.
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- Seismo-acoustics, Persian Gulf, Divers’ Microphones, Seismic Hazard, Early Warning
- Discipline:
- Science
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Resources for Training Machine Learning Algorithms Using CAM6 Simple Physics Packages
User Collection- Creator:
- Limon, Garrett
- Description:
- The collection contains the code and the data used to train machine learning algorithms to emulate simplified physical parameterizations within the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM6). CAM6 is the atmospheric general circulation model (GCM) within the Community Earth System Model (CESM) framework, developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). GCMs are made up of a dynamical core, responsible for the geophysical fluid flow calculations, and physical parameterization schemes, which estimate various unresolved processes. Simple physics schemes were used to train both random forests and neural networks in the interest of exploring the feasibility of machine learning techniques being used in conjunction with the dynamical core for improved efficiency of future climate and weather models. The results of the research show that various physical forcing tendencies and precipitation rates can be effectively emulated by the machine learning models.
- Keyword:
- Machine Learning, Climate Modeling, and Physics Emulators
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Bradshaw, Lisa, Vernon, Julianne, Schmidt, Thomas, James, Timothy, Zhang, Jianzhi, Archbold, Hilary, Cadigan, Ken, Wolfe, John P., and Goldberg, Deborah E.
- Description:
- This is the experimental data referenced in our manuscript entitled "Influence of CUREs on STEM retention depends on demographic identities." The dataset comprises csv files with results from student surveys given to students enrolled in Biology 173 from Fall 2015 through Fall 2019 as well as institutional data of their course grades and cumulative GPA at the time they enrolled in Biology 173, and graduation and major data for student who had graduated by 2021. The survey questions used in the analysis and the IRB consent form are also included as pdfs.
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- undergraduate research, STEM retention, CURE, introductory biology laboratory, and education research
- Citation to related publication:
- Bradshaw, L., Vernon J., Schmidt T., James T., Zhang J., Archbold H., Cadigan K., Wolfe J.P. & Goldberg D. 2023. Research article: Influence of CUREs on STEM retention depends on demographic identities. J Microbiol Biol Educ (accepted)
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Wu, Chen/ University of Michigan, Ridley, Aaron/ University of Michigan, and DeJong, Anna/ Howard Community College
- Description:
- 1.5 years of Polar UVI data was used to construct the Feature Tracking empirical model of Auroral Precipitation (FTA). A cumulative energy grid was tracked with the energy flux and the latitude position in each MLT bin for individual images. The auroral characteristics show linear relationships with the AE index depending on the MLT region. Thus, the FTA model was constructed to describe the global energy flux and the averaged energy as a function of the AE index based on the LBHl and LBHs emissions. Compared with two other empirical models, FTA predicted more consistent aurora with the observations on 17 March 2013 at higher activity levels.
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- Aurora, Polar UVI, precipitation model
- Citation to related publication:
- Wu, C., Ridley, A. J., DeJong, A. D., & Paxton, L. J. (2021). FTA: A Feature Tracking Empirical Model Of Auroral Precipitation. Space Weather, 19, e2020SW002629. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020SW002629
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Penner-Hahn, James, Sension, Roseanne, McClain, Taylor, Lamb, Ryan, Alonso-Mori, Roberto, Lima, Frederico, Ardana-Lamas, Fernando, Biednov, Mykola, Chollet, Matthieu, Chung, Taewon, Deb, Aniruddha, Dewan, Paul, Gee, Leland, Huang, Joel, Yifeng, Khakhulin, Dmitry, Li, Jianhao, Michocki, Lindsay, Miller, Nicholas, Otte, Florian, Uemura, Yohei, and van Driel, Tim
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- UV-visible, X-ray absorption, and X-ray emission data used to characterize the dynamics of aquo and hydroxo cobalamin. Details of data collection and reduction are provided in the associated manuscript. Data files are all text files which contain tab-delimited columns of data corresponding to each figure in the manuscript.
- Keyword:
- Ultrafast, X-ray, Transient absorption, cobalamin, vitamin B12, XAS, XES, and XANES
- Citation to related publication:
- Sension, R.J., et al. (2023). Watching Excited State Dynamics with Optical and X-ray Probes: The Excited State Dynamics of Aquocobalamin and Hydroxocobalamin. J. Am. Chem. Soc. in press. and https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c04099
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for navicular of Cantius trigonodus (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP 73318) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Notharctidae, Eocene, and 0d607d85-8d27-6be2-dbc5-9cb73f1324ae
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for L cuboid of Cantius mckennai (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP 81824) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Notharctidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, and e763ae30-4a86-9d02-0b8a-9297ff48cf58
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for navicular of Cantius mckennai (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP 86543) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin.
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- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Notharctidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, and 00827513-d7c4-2cf2-9bc7-ad510d0e4886
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Umaña, Maria, Swenson, Nathan G, and Arellano, Gabriel
- Description:
- Identifying the functional traits that enable recovery after extreme events is necessary for assessing forest persistence and functioning, yet this is a difficult task because the traits mediating the responses to disturbance may vary depending on the disturbance type and over time. This study investigates the effects of traits on tree growth –for short and longer terms– in response to two vastly different extreme climatic events, droughts, and hurricanes, in a Puerto Rican forest.
- Keyword:
- Tropical tree, relative growth rates , and Puerto Rico
- Citation to related publication:
- Umaña, M. N. In review. The interplay of drought and hurricanes on tree recovery: insights from dynamic and weak functional responses. Forthcoming and Umana, M. (2023). Functional trait data across an elevational gradient of six tree species in El Yunque National Park, Puerto Rico in 2015 [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/7962-4t98
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for navicular of Cantius trigonodus (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP 87973) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Notharctidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, and a537f0d8-6185-9562-9b9a-a233468bf8e1
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Thompson, Ellen P. and Ellis, Brian R.
- Description:
- Accurate prediction of physical alterations in carbonate reservoirs under dissolution is critical for development of subsurface energy technologies. The impact of mineral dissolution on flow characteristics depends on the connectivity and tortuosity of the pore network. Persistent homology is a tool from algebraic topology that describes the size and connectivity of topological features. When applied to 3D X-ray computed tomography (XCT) imagery of rock cores, it provides a novel metric of pore network heterogeneity. Prior works have demonstrated the efficacy of persistent homology in predicting flow properties in numerical simulations of flow through porous media. Its ability to combine size, spatial distribution, and connectivity information make it a promising tool for understanding reactive transport in complex pore networks, yet limited work has been done to apply persistence analysis to experimental studies on natural rocks. In this study, three limestone cores were imaged by XCT before and after acid-driven dissolution flow through experiments. Each XCT scan was analyzed using persistent homology. In all three rocks, permeability increase was driven by the growth of large, connected pore bodies. The two most homogenous samples saw an increased effect nearer to the flow inlet, suggesting emerging preferential flow paths as the reaction front progresses. The most heterogeneous sample showed an increase in along-core homogeneity during reaction. Variability of persistence showed moderate positive correlation with pore body size increase. Persistence heterogeneity analysis could be used to anticipate where greatest pore size evolution may occur in a reservoir targeted for subsurface development, improving confidence in project viability.
- Keyword:
- Carbonate dissolution, X-ray computed tomography, Porous media, Topology, and Persistent homology
- Citation to related publication:
- Thompson, E.P.; Ellis, B.R. (2023) Persistent Homology as a Heterogeneity Metric for Predicting Pore Size Change in Dissolving Carbonates. In Review.
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Dewey, Ryan M, Livi, Stefano, Lepri, Susan T, Raines, Jim M, Ploof, Keeling, and The HIS Science Team
- Description:
- The data contained within the archive are for analysis and replication of Figure 2 in Livi et al. (2023), First Results from the Solar Orbiter Heavy Ion Sensor, Astronomy & Astrophysics. The readme.txt file contains more details on the contents of the archive and its files. Livi et al. (2023) reports the first solar wind composition measurements collected from the Heavy Ion Sensor (HIS) on the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The period of study spans January-June 2022 during with the spacecraft completed nearly a full orbit about the Sun, from 0.3 AU to 1.0 AU. The solar wind composition within this publication are the first within the inner heliosphere. This paper describes the data and its processing from raw measurements (e.g., the data contained within this archive) to derived composition data products, and examines these composition data products about an interplanetary shock and interplanetary coronal mass ejection. Finally, these composition data are examined statistically and compared to historical data sets.
- Keyword:
- Solar Orbiter, Solar wind, Heavy ions, and Heavy Ion Sensor
- Citation to related publication:
- Livi, S., et al. (2023), First Results from the Solar Orbiter Heavy Ion Sensor, Astronomy & Astrophysics. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202346304 and Owen, C., et al. (2020), The Solar Orbiter Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) suite, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 642. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937259
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Srodawa, Kristy, Cerda, Peter A, Davis Rabosky, Alison R, and Crowe-Riddell, Jenna M
- Description:
- Snake venom research has historically focused on front-fanged species (Viperidae and Elapidae), limiting our knowledge of venom evolution in rear-fanged snakes across their ecologically-diverse phylogeny. Three finger toxins (3FTxs) are a known neurotoxic component in the venoms of some rear-fanged snakes (Colubrinae, Colubridae), but it is unclear how prevalent 3FTxs are both in expression within venom glands and more broadly among colubrine species. Here, we used a transcriptomic approach to characterize the venom expression profiles of four species of colubrine snakes from Neotropics that were dominated by 3FTx expression (in the genera Chironius, Oxybelis, Rhinobothryum, and Spilotes) and reconstructed the gene trees of 3FTxs. Overall, our results highlight the importance of exploring the venoms of understudied species in reconstructing the full evolutionary history of toxins across the tree of life.
- Keyword:
- snake venom, neurotoxin, molecular evolution, gene families, and opisthoglyphous
- Citation to related publication:
- Srodawa, K., Cerda, P.A., Davis Rabosky, A.R., Crowe-Riddell, J.M. Evolution of Three Finger Toxin Genes in Neotropical Colubrine Snakes (Colubridae). Toxins 2023, 15(9), 523; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins15090523
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Ludlow, Andrew and Kim, Jeongjin
- Description:
- Part of the regulation of telomerase activity includes the alternative splicing (AS) of the catalytic subunit telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT). Although a therapeutic window for telomerase/TERT inhibition exists between cancer cells and somatic cells, stem cells express TERT and rely on telomerase activity for physiological replacement of cells. Therefore, identifying differences in TERT regulation between stem cells and cancer cells is essential for developing telomerase inhibition-based cancer therapies that reduce damage to stem cells. In this study, we measured TERT splice variant expression and telomerase activity in induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), neural progenitor cells (NPCs), and non-small cell lung cancer cells (NSCLC, Calu-6 cells). We observed that a NOVA1-PTBP1-PTBP2 axis regulates TERT alternative splicing (AS) in iPSCs and their differentiation into NPCs. We also found that splice-switching of TERT, which regulates telomerase activity, is induced by different cell densities in stem cells but not cancer cells. Lastly, we identified cell type-specific splicing factors that regulate TERT AS. Overall, our findings represent an important step forward in understanding the regulation of TERT AS in stem cells and cancer cells. These data and subsequent studies may reveal a splicing factor(s) or their binding site(s) that could be targeted with small molecule drugs or antisense oligonucleotides, respectively, to reduce telomerase activity in cancer cells and promote durable cancer remissions.
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- Telomere, telomerase, TERT, alternative RNA splicing
- Citation to related publication:
- Dynamics of TERT Regulation via Alternative Splicing in Stem Cells and Cancer Cells. Accepted in Plos One
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Lojko, Alexander, Zhang, Yingxiao, Whitcomb, Morgan, Yang, Emily, Dacic, Natasha, and Holmes, Janelle
- Description:
- GIS (.lpkx) data layers that inform of areas to construct new rain gardens in Washtenaw County, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Data layers can be opened with a GIS program. There is a single .lpkx dataset that contains four layers. The first layer contains 'Wildlife Corridors' which contains information on where to prioritize new green infrastructure based on how well-connected different patches of forested areas are. The second layer, 'Social Inequality', shows where to prioritize new rain gardens based on social inequality criteria. The 'Creeksheds and Future Runoff' contains information on future changes in precipitation runoff based on climate change projections of rainfall. Lastly, 'Runoff/Water Quality' is a layer that includes a priority map regarding where new rain gardens should be developed based on areas that are most at risk of poor water quality and enhanced surface run-off. The project was completed for Washtenaw County Water Resources as part of a course taught at the University of Michigan, CLIMATE 592. A description of the course is also provided: "Introduction to individual and team research on real-world problems in the area of applied climate. On a research project started in CLIMATE 591 and guided by a mentor from a commercial or government laboratory, students will apply the principles of risk analysis and objective assessment of adaptive strategies".
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- GIS, Climate Change, Local, Community, and Graduate Student Project
- Citation to related publication:
- Dacic, N., Lojko, A., Zhang, Y., Yang, E., Whitcomb, M., Bassis, J., and Rood., R.B., 2023 'Modernizing the Climate Science Curriculum: Engaging in Local Government Collaboration Projects', In Preperation for the Bulletin of American Meteorological Society
- Discipline:
- Science