Field studies were conducted to evaluate the effect of crop rotation on annual bluegrass plant population dynamics, seed rain, and seed bank in 1996 and 1997 at two sites. Growth-chamber studies were conducted to determine the influence of the mother plant environment on annual bluegrass germination. The change in population,...
Fire suppression has increased fuel loads and fuel continuity in mixed-conifer ecosystems, resulting in forest structures
that are vulnerable to catastrophic fire. This paper models fire behaviour in a mixed-conifer forest and investigates how
silvicultural and fuels treatments affect potential fire behaviour. The computer program FARSITE was used to spatially...
Dynamical assimilation of surface elevation from tide gauges is investigated to estimate the bottom drag coefficient and surface stress as a first step in improving modeled tidal and wind-driven circulation in the Chesapeake Bay. A two-dimensional shallow water model and an adjoint variational method with a limited memory quasi-Newton optimization...