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This is a presentation to be delivered at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2019 (http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/jmm) in a session of talks from Business, Industry, and Government.
Critical military training and testing on lands along the nation’s coastal and estuarine shorelines are increasingly placed at risk because of encroachment pressures in surrounding areas, impairments due to other anthropogenic disturbances, and changes in climate and sea level. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) intends to enhance and sustain its training and testing assets and also optimize its stewardship of natural resources through the development and application of an ecosystem-based management approach on DoD installations. To accomplish this goal, particularly for installations in estuarine/coastal environments, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) launched the Defense Coastal/Estuarine Research Program (DCERP) as a 10-year effort at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (MCBCL) in North Carolina. The results of the second 5 years of the program (DCERP2) are presented in the DCERP2 Final Report.There were four overarching objectives of DCERP2. The first objective was to understand the effects of climate change impacts, including warming temperatures, variability in the hydrological cycle, storm events, and sea level rise on the coastal ecosystems at MCBCL from observations and measurements made over the 10-year program. The second objective was to understand the carbon cycle of the coastal and terrestrial ecosystems at MCBCL through a highly integrated sampling program. The third objective was to develop models, tools, and indicators to evaluate current and projected future ecosystem state changes and translate scientific findings into actionable information for installation managers. The last objective was to recommend adaptive management strategies to sustain ecosystem natural resources within the context of an active military installation.The LANDIS-II model shows different annual estimates of forest C storage (g/m2) across the MCBCL landscape, based on the user selecting different forest management scenarios typically used in the southeastern US. LANDIS-II is a model with several extensions capable of simulating different landscape and ecosystem-level dynamics.
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This is an unclassified presentation on Monte Carlo simulated observations estimated at the FXR CFF and comparisons to actual measurements are quantified appropriately.
Presentation on project to explore the concept of achieving current amplification by principles of high-explosive magnetic compression generation but without high explosives and demonstrate that a gas gun or launcher could be configured to provide the input energy and action necessary for magnetic compression generation performance in a more controlled, cost-effective manner with improved safety.
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Presentation describes project to improve processing of Cygnus radiographs by simplifying data processing and modifying options/parameters, displaying and saving images in desired format and path, and improving performance of basic processing methods, to include de-star, subtract, normalize, rotate, tile boundaries, and de-warp.