are rapidly heading toward a world in which the computing infrastructure will contain billions of devices that are carried or worn by their users as they go through their daily routines. These devices require two key resources to function: power and data. The mobile nature of such devices combined with the economic limitations of size and cost makes it impractical to keep them continually conne...

[1] We assess the spatial distribution of the largest rainfall-generated streamflows from a database of 35,663 flow records composed of the largest 10% of annual peak flows from each of 14,815 U.S. Geological Survey stream gaging stations in the United States and Puerto Rico. High unit discharges (peak discharge per unit contributing area) from basins with areas of 2.6 to 26,000 km (1–10,000 mi...

Questions: 1. How do physiography, flooding regime, landscape pattern, land-cover history, and local soil conditions influence the presence, community structure and abundance of overstorey trees? 2. Can broad-scale factors explain variation in the floodplain forest community, or are locally measured soil conditions necessary? Location: Floodplain of the lower 370 km of the Wisconsin River, Wisc...