DAMAGE BY HAIL IN KANSAS

Wildlife Damage Control in Kansas: Private Operators and Public Agencies

The private industry in wildlife damage control is expanding into territory predominantly occupied by public agencies in the past. There is a potential for overlap and competition in services provided by the public and private sectors in Kansas. We examined wildlife damage control activity reports from the Cooperative Extension Service (CES), Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (IDWP), and ...

Hail suppression and society.

An interdisciplinary assessment of hail suppression in the past, present, and future has shown it to be currently scientifically uncertain but a potentially beneficial future technology. An established suppression technology would be widely adopted in the Great Plains, providing benefits to agriculture and secondarily to the American consumer. Development of a reliable technology will require a...

Evaluation of Approaches to Identifying Hail Damage to Crop Vegetation Using Satellite Imagery

During the growing season in the central United States, severe thunderstorms frequently occur and produce large hail that damages the underlying vegetation, often in agricultural areas. Satellite remote sensing provides a tool for identifying these damaged areas. Previous studies have used changes in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to identify and examine these areas of damage...

All hail reproducibility in microbiome research

At its core, microbiome research relies on complex and sophisticated statistical analyses of large datasets and their associated metadata (e.g., experimental parameters, sample characteristics). Heavy reliance on big data has presented new challenges in communicating the details of complex analyses in a manner sufficient for others to replicate analytical workflows. Reproducibility is a pillar ...

Hail and Farewell