Assessing cultivated cropland inherent vulnerability to sediment and nutrient losses with the Soil Vulnerability Index

Sediment and Nutrient Losses from Field-scale Cropland Plots Treated with Animal Manure and Inorganic Fertilizer

A field-scale plot study was conducted at Virginia Tech’s Prices Fork Research Farm, to evaluate the transport of nutrients in runoff from manure and fertilizer applied at P-based agronomic rates to cropland planted to corn. Simulated rainfall events representing 2to 10-year storms in southwest Virginia, occurring 1 and 2 days following manure and fertilizer application were used to generate ru...

Assessing vulnerability

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Assessing Vulnerability of Groundwater

Assessing the vulnerability to soil erosion of the Ukai Dam catchments using remote sensing and GIS

The investigation of basins for planning soil conservation requires a selective approach to identify smaller hydrological units, which would be suitable for more efficient and targeted conservation management programmes. One criterion, generally used to determine the vulnerability of catchments to erosion, is the sediment yield of a basin. In India, sediment yield data are generally not collect...

Assessing DNS Vulnerability to Record Injection

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical component of the Internet infrastructure as it maps human-readable names to IP addresses. Injecting fraudulent mappings allows an attacker to divert users from intended destinations to those of an attacker’s choosing. In this paper, we measure the Internet’s vulnerability to DNS record injection attacks—including a new attack we uncover. We find that r...