Author: Jean Cutler Prior
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The geological basis of Iowa's groundwater resources, including its occurrence, distribution, availability, behavior, quality, and vulnerability.
Iowa's Groundwater Basics
Author: Jean Cutler Prior
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The geological basis of Iowa's groundwater resources, including its occurrence, distribution, availability, behavior, quality, and vulnerability.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The geological basis of Iowa's groundwater resources, including its occurrence, distribution, availability, behavior, quality, and vulnerability.
Iowa Real Estate Basics
Author: Dearborn Trade
Publisher: Dearborn Real Estate
ISBN: 9780793158249
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher: Dearborn Real Estate
ISBN: 9780793158249
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Groundwater Primer for Iowa Issues
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Value of Information
Author: Ramanan Laxminarayan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400748396
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The book examines applications in two disparate fields linked by the importance of valuing information: public health and space. Researchers in the health field have developed some of the most innovative methodologies for valuing information, used to help determine, for example, the value of diagnostics in informing patient treatment decisions. In the field of space, recent applications of value-of-information methods are critical for informing decisions on investment in satellites that collect data about air quality, fresh water supplies, climate and other natural and environmental resources affecting global health and quality of life.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400748396
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The book examines applications in two disparate fields linked by the importance of valuing information: public health and space. Researchers in the health field have developed some of the most innovative methodologies for valuing information, used to help determine, for example, the value of diagnostics in informing patient treatment decisions. In the field of space, recent applications of value-of-information methods are critical for informing decisions on investment in satellites that collect data about air quality, fresh water supplies, climate and other natural and environmental resources affecting global health and quality of life.
Iowa Geological Survey Educational Series
Author: Iowa Geological Survey
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Emerald Horizon
Author: Cornelia F. Mutel
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587297477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In The Emerald Horizon, Cornelia Mutel combines lyrical writing with meticulous scientific research to portray the environmental past, present, and future of Iowa. In doing so, she ties all of Iowa's natural features into one comprehensive whole. Since so much of the tallgrass state has been transformed into an agricultural landscape, Mutel focuses on understanding today’s natural environment by understanding yesterday’s changes. After summarizing the geological, archaeological, and ecological features that shaped Iowa’s modern landscape, she recreates the once-wild native communities that existed prior to Euroamerican settlement. Next she examines the dramatic changes that overtook native plant and animal communities as Iowa’s prairies, woodlands, and wetlands were transformed. Finally she presents realistic techniques for restoring native species and ecological processes as well as a broad variety of ways in which Iowans can reconnect with the natural world. Throughout, in addition to the many illustrations commissioned for this book, she offers careful scientific exposition, a strong sense of respect for the land, and encouragement to protect the future by learning from the past. The “emerald prairie” that “gleamed and shone to the horizon’s edge,” as botanist Thomas Macbride described it in 1895, has vanished. Cornelia Mutel’s passionate dedication to restoring this damaged landscape—and by extension the transformed landscape of the entire Corn Belt—invigorates her blend of natural history and human history. Believing that citizens who are knowledgeable about native species, communities, and ecological processes will better care for them, she gives us hope—and sound suggestions—for the future.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587297477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In The Emerald Horizon, Cornelia Mutel combines lyrical writing with meticulous scientific research to portray the environmental past, present, and future of Iowa. In doing so, she ties all of Iowa's natural features into one comprehensive whole. Since so much of the tallgrass state has been transformed into an agricultural landscape, Mutel focuses on understanding today’s natural environment by understanding yesterday’s changes. After summarizing the geological, archaeological, and ecological features that shaped Iowa’s modern landscape, she recreates the once-wild native communities that existed prior to Euroamerican settlement. Next she examines the dramatic changes that overtook native plant and animal communities as Iowa’s prairies, woodlands, and wetlands were transformed. Finally she presents realistic techniques for restoring native species and ecological processes as well as a broad variety of ways in which Iowans can reconnect with the natural world. Throughout, in addition to the many illustrations commissioned for this book, she offers careful scientific exposition, a strong sense of respect for the land, and encouragement to protect the future by learning from the past. The “emerald prairie” that “gleamed and shone to the horizon’s edge,” as botanist Thomas Macbride described it in 1895, has vanished. Cornelia Mutel’s passionate dedication to restoring this damaged landscape—and by extension the transformed landscape of the entire Corn Belt—invigorates her blend of natural history and human history. Believing that citizens who are knowledgeable about native species, communities, and ecological processes will better care for them, she gives us hope—and sound suggestions—for the future.
Landforms of Iowa
Author: Jean Cutler Prior
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9781587291951
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9781587291951
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Groundwater Availability Modeling of the Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer in Iowa
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Category : Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
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Category : Cambrian-Ordovician Aquifer
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Natural History of the Snakes and Lizards of Iowa
Author: Terry VanDeWalle
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609388380
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book is an in-depth look at the natural history of each snake and lizard species/subspecies found in Iowa. Each of the thirty-three species accounts includes a sampling of the common names the species has been known by in the past, the first specimens collected in the state, and a brief history of the early Iowa literature related to the species, along with a complete description and a discussion of similar species, distribution in the state, habitat, behavior, threats, foods and feeding, and reproduction. While readers will be able to identify Iowa’s snakes and lizards through its species accounts, identification keys, and beautiful photographs and illustrations, this book is intended to be more than a field guide. What makes it truly unique is the comparison of historic data collected by Iowa herpetologists in the 1930s and 1940s with data collected by the author, along with James L. Christiansen and others, since 1960. Custom maps show the reader how species’ distributions have changed over time.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609388380
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book is an in-depth look at the natural history of each snake and lizard species/subspecies found in Iowa. Each of the thirty-three species accounts includes a sampling of the common names the species has been known by in the past, the first specimens collected in the state, and a brief history of the early Iowa literature related to the species, along with a complete description and a discussion of similar species, distribution in the state, habitat, behavior, threats, foods and feeding, and reproduction. While readers will be able to identify Iowa’s snakes and lizards through its species accounts, identification keys, and beautiful photographs and illustrations, this book is intended to be more than a field guide. What makes it truly unique is the comparison of historic data collected by Iowa herpetologists in the 1930s and 1940s with data collected by the author, along with James L. Christiansen and others, since 1960. Custom maps show the reader how species’ distributions have changed over time.
Groundwater Availability Modeling of the Lower Dakota Aquifer in Northwest Iowa
Author:
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Category : Dakota Aquifer
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Dakota Aquifer
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description