• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2022년도 학술발표회
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• pp.85-85
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• 2022

The world's most extensive and active deltas, Louisiana's wetlands, are deteriorating rapidly due to multiple stressors such as the discharge of the Mississippi River, sea-level rise, and coastal retreat, the substantial but spatially and temporally variable impacts. However, the ecological and anthropogenic histories, the mode of environmental changes on a multi-millennial timescale have not been thoroughly documented. This study, a palynology-based multiproxy analysis, investigates hydrological, geological, geochemical, and anthropogenic impacts on southern Louisiana wetlands and a variety of external forcing agents influencing ecological succession. Sediment cores extracted from a small pond on a mangrove-dominate island near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, USA yielded a 4,000-year record. The site has been transformed from freshwater to saline water environments, to a mangrove dominant island over the late Holocene. The multivariate principal component analysis identified the relative strength of external drivers responsible for each ecological shift. The Mississippi River delta cycle (lobe switching) was the dominant driver of ecosystem changes during the late Holocene, while relative sea-level rise, tropical cyclones, climate, and anthropogenic effects have been the main drivers late in the site's history.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈B:순수및응용수학
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.353-364
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• 2008

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the finite extension of weighted word L-delta groups. The paper revealed that a finite extension of a weighted word L-delta group is a weighted word L-delta group, and an abelian group, in addition, is a weighted word L-delta group and simultaneously a word L-delta group.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2019

Long chain plant waxes (n-alkanes, n-alkanoic acids, and n-alcohols) and their carbon isotopic compositions (${\delta}^{13}C$) in geologic archives are valuable tools for paleovegetation reconstruction. However, the sensitivity of different plant wax constituents to vegetation shift is not well understood. This study explores controls on the variation in ${\delta}^{13}C$ values of long-chain n-alkanes ($C_{27}$ to $C_{33}$) and n-alkanoic acids ($C_{26}-C_{30}$) in the Gulf of Mexico core sediments (ODP 625B) near the Mississippi River delta. n-Alkanoic acids' ${\delta}^{13}C$ values were higher than those of n-alkanes by 1-2‰ on average and such a pattern is the opposite from their isotope fractionation observed in living plants: 1-2‰ smaller in n-alkanes than n-alkanoic acids. We attribute this offset to contributions from aquatic plants or microbes that produce high concentrations of $^{13}C-enriched$ long-chain n-alkanoic acids. The sensitivity of n-alkanes and n-alkanoic acids to vegetation and climate varied among chain lengths. The $n-C_{33}$ alkanes were most sensitive to $C_4$ grassland expansion among n-alkane homologues, while no specific trend was observed in n-alkanoic acids. This is due to the similarity in n-alkanoic acid concentrations between $C_3$ and $C_4$ plants by homologues and low terrestrial plant-derived n-alkanoic acid contributions to the sediments. The results of this study suggest that long chain n-alkanoic acids' ${\delta}^{13}C$ values in sediments may be influenced by contributions from different sources such as aquatic plants or microbial inputs and therefore interpretations regarding this matter should be cautiously formulated. We suggest that there is a need for further studies on characterizing long-chain n-alkanoic acids ($C_{26}-C_{34}$) in aquatic plants and microbes from various climates and environments in order to investigate their production and integration into sedimentary archives.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.20-24
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• 2012

Denitrification rate was determined for various freshwater wetland types in the Mississippi River Coastal delta plain. Site 1 and 4 were collected from forested-tupelo dominated wetland, and site 2 and 3 were from floating emergent marsh. The maximum $N_2O$ emission was $7.47mg\;N\;m^{-2}$ for site 1 at day 6 after the addition of nitrate, $6.96mg\;N\;m^{-2}$ for site 2 at day 4, $6.63mg\;N\;m^{-2}$ for site 3 at day 3, and $9.64mg\;N\;m^{-2}$ for site 4 at day 4. The denitrification rate was determined using the acetylene inhibition method $1.24mg\;N\;m^{-2}d^{-1}$ for site 1, $1.93mg\;N\;m^{-2}d^{-1}$ for site 2, $2.24mg\;N\;m^{-2}d^{-1}$ for site 3, and $2.78mg\;N\;m^{-2}d^{-1}$ for site 4. The maximum denitrification rate was in the order of site 4 > site 3 > site 2 > site 1.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제41권4호
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• pp.337-341
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• 2016

Purpose: Evaluation of atmospheric conditions for proper timing of spray application is important to prevent off-target movement of crop protection materials. Susceptible crops can be damaged downwind if proper application procedure is not followed. In our previous study, hourly data indicated unfavorable conditions, primarily between evening 18:00 hrs in the evening and 6:00 hrs next morning, during clear conditions in the hot summer months in the Mississippi delta. With the requirement of timely farm operations, sub-hourly data are required to provide better guidelines for pilots, as conditions of atmospheric stability can change rapidly. Although hourly data can be interpolated to some degree, finer resolution for data acquisition of the order of 15 min would provide pilots with more accurate recommendations to match the data recording frequency of local weather stations. Methods: In the present study, temperature and wind speed data obtained at a meteorological tower were re-sampled to calculate the atmospheric stability ratio for sub-hour and hourly recommendations. High-precision evaluation of temperature inversion periods influencing atmospheric stability was made considering strength, time of occurrence, and duration of temperature inversion. Results and Discussion: The results indicated that atmospheric stability could be determined at different time intervals providing consistent recommendations to aerial applicators, thereby avoiding temperature inversion with minimal off-target drift of the sprayed liquid.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.51-61
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• 2010

북동 멕시코 만에서 particulate organic carbon(POC)의 시/공간적 변화를 조사하기 위하여, 1997년 11월부터 2000년 8월까지 총 9번의 관측이 이루어 졌으며, 같은 기간 동안 위성자료(해색, 표층수온, 해면고도이상, 표층바람)와 주요 강들 의 유출량이 조사되었다. POC 농도는 내 대륙붕과 미시시피 하구 역에서 높은 값을 (>100 $mg/m^3$) 나타내고 대륙붕과 대륙사면으로 가면서 감소된다. POC의 경년 변화는 상대적으로 1997과 1998년(El $Ni\tilde{n}o$)이 1999과 2000년(La $Ni\tilde{n}a$) 보다 상대적으로 증가되어 나타난다. 이런 현상은 미시시피강 및 다른 주요 강들에 영향을 주는 강우량 변화에 따른 담수 유 입의 변화와 직접적으로 연관되어 있으며, 강우량 변화는 ENSO 현상과 같은 세계 기후변화와 관련이 있는 것으로 사료 된다. 북동 멕시코 만 연안으로 유입되는 주요 강들의 방류량은 초봄에 증가되어 여름과 가을에 감소되지만, 공간적으로 확장된 높은 농도의 POC 분포는 여름 조사기간에서 관측되고, 낮은 농도 및 제한된 확산은 가을과 초 봄 관측에서 나타 난다. 여름철 동안 상대적인 강의 유출량은 봄에 비하여 현저하게 감소하지만, 증가된 표층수온은 수층을 강하게 성층화 시키고 표층에서 부력을 증가시킨다. 이런 조건에서 고농도의 POC를 함유하는 저염수는 상부 대륙사면까지 확장되고 이 는 Loop Current와 Loop Current Eddies의해서 조절된다. 봄과 가을 동안 유출량은 보통이거나 이상을 보이지만, 증가된 바람과 낮은 표층수온으로 인하여 수직적 혼합을 유발하고 이는 높은 농도의 POC를 내 대륙붕에 제한 시키는 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.61-75
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• 2007

우리나라에서는 암반 및 자갈층과 같은 단단한 층 내에 깊은 기초를 매입하는 것이 일반적이다. 그러나 Chaophraya(Bangkok)와 Mississippi강 삼각주에서 실시되고 있는 것과 같이, 대심도 낙동강 삼각주 퇴적토에서도 말뚝의 지지층으로써 중간 깊이에 위치하는 모래 및 모래질 자갈층을 고려할 필요가 있다. 이 연구는 이 지역에서 PHC 말뚝을 요구하는 깊이까지 항타할 때, 말뚝의 지지력을 위한 적절한 평가법을 찾고자 하였다. 지반조사는 두 현장의 5개소에서 실시되었다. 말뚝의 지지력은 지반조사 결과를 이용하고 CPT에 근거한 평가법과 여러 다른 해석법을 적용하여 계산되었으며, 상호 비교가 이루어 졌다. 항타된 5개의 말뚝에 대해 매입된 전 깊이에 걸쳐 잘 알려진 PDA시험이 체계적으로 수행되었다. 여러 평가법에 의하여 계산된 지지력은 PDA 및 정재하 시험결과와 함께 비교되었다. 그 결과, 주면마찰력은 set-up 효과에 따라 지배적으로 영향을 받으며, 장시간 경과 후에는 $\beta$법에 의한 결과와 좋은 일치를 보였다. 선단 지지력은 과소평가되는 PDA시험 보다는 정재하시험결과에 근거하여 적절한 평가법을 선정하였다. 최종적으로, CPT결과를 이용하여 이 지역에 적합한 지지력의 평가법을 도출하였다.