The City of Houston has been facing flood problems of a serious nature, some of which occurred in 1989, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2001, and 2003. Tropical Storm Allison in June 2001 created the most extensive urban flood damage in U.S. history ($5 billion). Urban flood problems have repeatedly brought attention to the need for improved urban drainage design and flood prediction, as in the case of the T...

The widespread hillslope- and gully-erosion in Liaoning Province of Northeast China, pose serious challenges to the local agricultural production. Hillslope- have typically been studied separately; however, there has little investigation on relationship these two types erosion. In this study, coupling from perspectives erosion intensity land use, as well slope gradient, aspect, shape, was analy...

Introduction: The latitude-dependent distribution [1-4] and non-uniform orientation [5-9] of gullies on Mars indicate that their formation is controlled by climate conditions at the surface within the last million years [10-11], while their global distribution [2,4] and morphology [12-13] show direct correlations with the ice-rich Latitude Dependent Mantle (LDM), a potential source for melting....

Introduction: Martian gullies were first identified by Malin and Edgett [1]. Previous work [2] has examined the characteristics of gullies in the southern hemisphere in detail. Less detailed work has been done for the northern hemisphere [3,4]. Gullies are found predominantly in the midlatitudes of both hemispheres between 30°-50° [1,2], which implies a thermal control on their formation. Sever...

Cellulosilyticum sp. strain I15G10I2 was isolated from a coal seam gas water treatment pond at the Spring Gully water treatment facility, Roma, Queensland, Australia. Analysis of the genome of 4,489,861 bp and G+C content of 35.23% revealed that strain I15G10I2 shared limited similarity to members of the genus Cellulosilyticum, family Lachnospiraceae.

More than 27 species of deep-sea corals have been identified off Atlantic Canada but their distributions are largely unknown. Bottom trawling is recognized as a threat to deep-sea corals in Atlantic Canada but the degree of damage has not been quantified. It is difficult to assess the level of conservation required for these organisms without basic information about their distribution. This stu...

Collapsed gully erosion constantly plagues the sustainability of rural areas in China. To control collapsed gully erosion, an ecological and economic approach, which uses tree plantation to gain economic benefits and control soil erosion, has been widely applied by local governments in Southern China. However, little is known about the economic feasibility of this new method. The objective of t...

Debris flow is one of the major threats for the sustainability of environmental and social development. The velocity directly determines the impact on the vulnerability. This study focuses on an approach using radial basis function (RBF) neural network and gravitational search algorithm (GSA) for predicting debris flow velocity. A total of 50 debris flow events were investigated in the Jiangjia...

Permanent gullies are a serious type of soil erosion. A special permanent gully, called “Benggang” severly affects agricultural production in hilly areas. To reveal the influence Benggang erosion on granitic restoration and fertility, we selected three stages (active, semi-stable stable) recovery subtropical granite region, corresponding samples were collected to analyze spatial variation physi...