The Lake Urmia and its satellite wetlands have been selected as a demonstration site for the United Nations Development Program / Global Environment Facility / Department of Environment Conservation of Iranian Wetlands Project. This project aims to demonstrate reduction of the major threats of this wetland protected area coordinated through an integrated management plan. A choice experiment was...

The ongoing changes affecting Lake Urmia (NW Iran) are revealed by the lake water level decrease (~7 m in last 20 yr) that was attributed to natural and anthropogenic causes but exact impact of these factors on state is still not identified. Indeed, lack detailed record environmental evolution past limits understanding actual future processes. Our project aims obtain a high-temporal resolution ...

Mahrokh G. Shayesteh , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , and Jawad A. Salehi 2,4 1 Dep. of Electrical Eng., Amir Kabir University of Tech., Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected] , [email protected] 2 Dep. of Electrical Eng., Sharif University of Tech., Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected] , [email protected] 3 Faculty of Eng., Urmia University, Urmia, Iran 4 Iran Telecommunication Re...

Of several problems associated with theoretical explanations of the jokul­ hlaups which emerge from the outlet glacier Skeioararj okull of the ice c ap Vatnajokull i n southeast Iceland, the mechanism of flood ini ti atio n i s one that has h itherto defied explanation. We provide such an explanation based on a careful analysis of the classical Nye-Rothlisberger model; near the subglacial lake ...