Selected Elements of Technical Infrastructure in Municipalities Territorially Connected with National Parks

Compliance of Children's Play Equipment in Urban Parks of Gonabad with National Safety Standards (Case Study)

Background and aims: Parks are a place for children's play and activity, so making safety these environments that are somehow a social work environment is one of the requirements of environmental planning. Making safety these environments is one of the requirements of environmental planning. It will be necessary to provide quality and sustainable conditions for park playgrounds to improve the s...

A survey of hantavirus antibody in small-mammal populations in selected United States National Parks.

Hantavirus activity in 39 National Parks in the eastern and central United States was surveyed by testing 1,815 small mammals of 38 species for antibody reactive to Sin Nombre virus. Antibody-positive rodents were found throughout the area sampled, and in most biotic communities. Antibody was detected in 7% of 647 deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), 2% of 590 white-footed mice (P. leucopus), 17...

Exploitation of freshwater eels in National Parks

Connected Vehicles- Infrastructure UTC

The goal of the Infrastructure Safety Assessment in a Connected Vehicle Environment project was to develop a method to identify infrastructure safety “hot spots” using connected vehicle data. The premise was to show that using connected vehicle basic safety messages to detect hot spots could allow for a quicker detection than traditional methods using police-reported crashes. This is because th...

Mercury in Fish from National Parks

Mercury (Hg) is a toxic, global contaminant that threatens ecosystem and human health. Human activities have increased atmospheric concentrations 3-5 fold during the past 150 years. Airborne Hg enters environmental cycles in complex ways, resulting in the contamination of even remote places. The National Park Service (NPS) protects some of the most pristine and sensitive wilderness in North Ame...