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Sophie C. McKee, John J. Mayer and Stephanie A. Shwiff
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) cause damage to agricultural crops in their native range as well as in the portions of the globe where they have been introduced. In the US, states with the highest introduced wild pig populations are Alabama, Arkansas, California,...
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Souleymane Fall, Kapo Coulibaly, Joseph Quansah and Gamal El Afandi
Urban heat vulnerability varies within and across cities, necessitating detailed studies to understand diverse populations? specific vulnerabilities. This research assessed urban heat vulnerability at block group level in three Alabama cities: Birmingham...
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Chaloemporn Ponprasit, Yong Zhang, Xiufen Gu, Andrew M. Goodliffe and Hongguang Sun
Groundwater vulnerability assessment helps subsurface water resources management by providing scientific information for decision-makers. Rigorous, quantitative assessment of groundwater vulnerability usually requires process-based approaches such as gro...
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Gamal El Afandi, Hossam Ismael and Souleymane Fall
Pesticides have been widely used in agriculture, resulting in significant pollution that affects both the environment and human health. This pollution is particularly prevalent in nearby agricultural areas, where sensitive resources are contaminated thro...
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Souleymane Fall, Ehsan Abdalla, Joseph Quansah, Meghan J. Franklin and Timmera Whaley-Omidire
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented challenge to public health across the world and has further exposed health disparities and the vulnerability of marginal groups. Since the pandemic has exhibited marked regional differences, it is necessar...
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Cigdem Ozkan, Talea Mayo and Davina L. Passeri
Wave energy conversion technologies have recently attracted more attention as part of global efforts to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy resources. While ocean waves can provide renewable energy, they can also be destructive to coastal areas th...
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Yunfei Hou, Xiaojing Qian, Rui Zhang, Fan Gu and Ping Feng
This paper proposes an integrated life cycle assessment-life cycle cost (LCA-LCC) model of environmental and economic factors for highway engineering technical schemes to problems such as the limitations of single-dimensional assessment, their narrow sco...
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Joseph E. Quansah, Amina B. Naliaka, Souleymane Fall, Ramble Ankumah and Gamal El Afandi
Global climate change is expected to impact future precipitation and surface temperature trends and could alter local hydrologic systems. This study assessed the likely hydrologic responses and changes in streamflow due to future climate change within th...
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Achim D. Herrmann, John T. Haynes, Richard M. Robinet and Norlene R. Emerson
Altered tephras (K-bentonites) are of great importance for calibration of the geologic time scale, for local, regional, and global correlations, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Thus, definitive identification of individual tephras is critical. Si...
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Mengwei Xuan, Jack Montgomery and J. Brian Anderson
Slope failures in high plasticity clay deposits are common occurrences in many parts of the world. In western and central Alabama, expansive Prairie clays are commonly found, and shallow slope failures have occurred in both fill and cut slopes containing...
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