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Book Air Pollutant Deposition and Its Effects on Natural Resources in New York State

Download or read book Air Pollutant Deposition and Its Effects on Natural Resources in New York State written by Timothy J. Sullivan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecosystem effects from air pollution in the Adirondacks, Catskills, and elsewhere in New York have been substantial. Efforts to characterize and quantify these impacts, and to examine more recent recovery, have focused largely on surface waters, soils, and forests. Lakes, streams, and soils have acidified. Estuaries have become more eutrophic. Nutrient cycles have been disrupted. Mercury has bioaccumulated to toxic levels. Plant species composition has changed. Some surface waters show signs of partial chemical recovery in response to emissions control programs, but available data suggest that soil chemistry may continue to deteriorate under expected future emissions and deposition. Resource managers, policymakers, and scientists now need to know the extent to which current and projected future emissions reductions will lead to ecosystem recovery.In this book, Timothy J. Sullivan provides a comprehensive synthesis of past, current, and potential future conditions regarding atmospheric sulfur, nitrogen oxides, ammonium, and mercury deposition; surface water chemistry; soil chemistry; forests; and aquatic biota in New York, providing much needed information to help set emissions reduction goals, evaluate incremental improvements, conduct cost/benefit analyses, and prioritize research needs. He draws upon a wealth of research conducted over the past thirty years that has categorized, quantified, and advanced understanding of ecosystem processes related to atmospheric deposition of strong acids, nutrients, and mercury and associated ecosystem effects. An important component of this volume is the new interest in the management and mitigation of ecosystem damage from air pollution stress, which builds on the "critical loads" approach pioneered in Europe and now gaining interest in the United States.This book will inform scientists, resource managers, and policy analysts regarding the state of scientific knowledge on these complex topics and their policy relevance and will help to guide public policy assessment work in New York, the Northeast, and nationally.

Book The Hudson River Estuary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey S. Levinton
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-09
  • ISBN : 9780521844789
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book The Hudson River Estuary written by Jeffrey S. Levinton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hudson River Estuary, first published in 2006, is a scientific biography with relevance to similar natural systems.

Book Deposition of Air Pollutants to the Great Waters

Download or read book Deposition of Air Pollutants to the Great Waters written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Air Quality Citizen Science Research Project in NYC

Download or read book Air Quality Citizen Science Research Project in NYC written by Holger Michael Eisl and published by Eliva Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional approaches to air quality monitoring typically involve regulatory agencies that utilize expensive and complex stationary equipment, maintained by trained staff, to provide the type of highly accurate data needed to demonstrate attainment with federal air quality standards. While this type of monitoring is a vital component to air quality management, in urban areas these monitors are often deployed at, only, a limited number of rooftop locations. Though intended to track urban scale trends in pollution levels, the placement of these monitors is not spatially dense enough to characterize intra-urban spatial variation in air quality, due to local emissions sources such as traffic. To address this limitation, this project explored the feasibility of using stationary low-cost monitoring networks for spatial and temporal estimation of ambient fine particulate concentrations in two environmental justice communities in New York City - El Puente (Brooklyn) and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (the Bronx). The data from the community-based low-cost stationary monitoring networks were compared to FEM/FRM data and the findings land use regression (LUR) analysis of the New York City Community Air Survey (NYCCAS). The stationary networks in both neighborhoods consisted of a total of 22 monitoring locations. The data collection started in January 2019 and lasted until November 2019. In collaboration with the New York State Department of Environment Conservation (DEC), the low-cost air quality monitors (AirBeam2) were surveyed and assessed through field colocation and integrated into a cellular data acquisition system. QC/QA data were collected both, before and after the deployment for a duration of 3 weeks. Based on the r2-value a strong agreement was observed between FEM and AirBeam2 low-cost sensors. Personal monitoring and stationary network (2019) PM2.5 averages were found to be around 6 μg/m3, while NYCCAS LUR (2017) PM2.5 averaged 8.50 μg/m3. Based on the time series analysis of the collected data it can be concluded that the Stationary Network provided us more precise information on diurnal patterns by going into the details of hourly measurements while NYCCAS study was more focused on the identification of seasonal patterns.

Book Air Quality in New York City After the September 11  2001 Attacks

Download or read book Air Quality in New York City After the September 11 2001 Attacks written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, and Climate Change and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply

Download or read book Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-02-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an analysis of the agreement's scientific validity. The resulting book finds New York City's watershed agreement to be a good template for proactive watershed management that, if properly implemented, will maintain high water quality. However, it cautions that the agreement is not a guarantee of permanent filtration avoidance because of changing regulations, uncertainties regarding pollution sources, advances in treatment technologies, and natural variations in watershed conditions. The book recommends that New York City place its highest priority on pathogenic microorganisms in the watershed and direct its resources toward improving methods for detecting pathogens, understanding pathogen transport and fate, and demonstrating that best management practices will remove pathogens. Other recommendations, which are broadly applicable to surface water supplies across the country, target buffer zones, stormwater management, water quality monitoring, and effluent trading.

Book Selected Water Resources Abstracts

Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acidic Deposition   State of Science and Technology

Download or read book Acidic Deposition State of Science and Technology written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Freedom to Breathe

    Book Details:
  • Author : New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Task Force on Air Pollution
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book Freedom to Breathe written by New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Task Force on Air Pollution and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interim Assessment  Effects of acidic deposition

Download or read book Interim Assessment Effects of acidic deposition written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Air Pollution Abstracts

Download or read book Air Pollution Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radioactive Waste Processing and Disposal

Download or read book Radioactive Waste Processing and Disposal written by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resource Recovery Act of 1969  Part 1   Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution     91 1  on S  2005  April 10  1969   Boston  MA  June 23  1969   Jacksonville  Fla   Serial No  91 13

Download or read book Resource Recovery Act of 1969 Part 1 Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution 91 1 on S 2005 April 10 1969 Boston MA June 23 1969 Jacksonville Fla Serial No 91 13 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: