Category - "General Earth Sciences"

This book and CD-ROM offer a complete simulation system for modeling groundwater flow and transport processes. The companion full-version software (PMWIN) comes with a professional graphical user-interface, supported models and programs and several other useful modeling tools. Tools include a Presentation Tool, a Result Extractor, a Field Interpolator, a Field Generator, a Water Budget Calculator and a Graphic Viewer. Book and CD-ROM are targeted at novice and experienced groundwater modelers.

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"A must–have volume for rock and fossil collectors, naturalists, and travelers. . . ideal for the nature enthusiast with little or no background in geology.

This user friendly, plain English, straightforward guide to new EPA and OSHA regulations describes, explains and demonstrates a tested, proven, workable methodology for installation of complete, correct safety and risk programs. It provides the tools needed to ensure full compliance with the requirements of both regulations. It is designed to be applicable to the needs of most operations involved in the production, use, transfer, storage, and processing of hazardous materials. It addresses Process Safety Management and Risk Management Planning for facilities handling hazardous materials, and describes the activities and approach to use within U.S. plants and companies of all sizes.

Written by industry experts, this dynamic new book concentrates on the successful management and creation of a risk assessment report. A Practical Guide to Understanding, Managing and Reviewing Risk Assessment Reports provides team leaders and team members with a strategy for developing reports that are accurate, useful, and adaptable for an industry-wide basis. Belluck and Benjamin explore a variety of techniques for creating accurate and useful reports, such as Proactive Risk Assessment a method that can drastically increase the chance of detecting errors while they can still be corrected, a key factor in creating quality reports.

Now in paper! This exhilarating survey of the four and half billion years of Earth′s history charts both the geological and biological history of the planet. It moves from the origin of the earth′s iron core to the formation of today′s seven continents, and from the primordial building blocks of life to the evolution of the human form.

The first of its kind, this book reviews image processing tools and techniques including Independent Component Analysis, Mutual Information, Markov Random Field Models and Support Vector Machines. The book also explores a number of experimental examples based on a variety of remote sensors. The book will be useful to people involved in hyperspectral imaging research, as well as by remote-sensing data like geologists, hydrologists, environmental scientists, civil engineers and computer scientists.