Translating Diverse Environmental Data Into Reliable Information: How to Coordinate Evidence from Different Sources

ISBN-13: 9780128124468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 500 str.

Daniel Vallero

Opis

Translating Diverse Environmental Data into Reliable Information: How to Coordinate Evidence from Different Sources helps environmental scientists determine data needs, assess their quality, and efficiently manage their findings. Topics include 1) Issues specific to fully understanding interdisciplinary data, 2) Which fields are pulling in the most citizen scientists to facilitate data collection, and 3) How that impacts results. This book helps professionals and students utilize open data in environmental science.

• Provides tools to manage data of varying sizes and quality
• Reexamines the way knowledge is built about environmental issues to meet the needs of modern students and professionals
• Applies to data collected by academic, governmental and citizen scientists across environmental systems
• Improves readers' ability to organize and visualize their work in the age of big data

Spis treści

Part I: Data and the Environment1. Building a New Environmental Knowledgebase2. The Environmental Knowledge Cascade

Part II: Environmental Knowledgebases3. Stressors4. Pathways5. Air6. Water7. Contaminant Storage Systems

Part III: Managing Environmental Knowledge Building8. Environmental Models9. Environmental Data Analysis10. Data Interpretation and Presentation11. Examples and Case Studies

Appendices1. Physicochemical Data Sources2. OECD's Emission Scenario Document Method for Calculating Environmental Releases3. Key terms and notation

O autorze

Professor Daniel A. Vallero is an internationally recognized author and expert in environmental science and engineering. He has devoted decades to conducting research, teaching, and mentoring future scientists and engineers. He is currently developing tools and models to predict potential exposures to chemicals in consumer products. He is a full adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. He has authored 20 environmental textbooks, with the most recent addressing the importance of physical principles in environmental science and engineering. His books have addressed all environmental compartments and media within the earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.