Resultaten voor 'david allen'

1. David Allen Burke

Atomic Testing in Mississippi

Atomic Testing in Mississippi adds to the body of work on nuclear testing by focusing on the Project Dribble pair of underground nuclear detonations and the follow-on work with nonnuclear explosions. . . . The book provides good coverage of issues surrounding the tests, such as local politics, concerns over outsiders coming to the state, the handling of damage claims, and the possible cancer-rate links to the tests. Further, the book offers clear explanations of the geology of salt domes in the southeastern United States, the local history of the Tatum salt dome where the tests were conducted, and a condensed history of nuclear-weapons testing and negotiations with the Soviet Union to end such testing. The technical details of the tests and their seismic effect are lucidly presented." - Technology and Culture "The great strength of this book is the sheer depth and relentlessness of Burke's research. He has uncovered every document possible about the testing program and has spoken to as many local residents as will talk about the events. He has dug into the politics of the tests as well as the ways in which local landowners tried to use the program for their own financial gain. Given document classification issues as well as the reluctance of some people to speak on the record, Burke's achievements should not be underestimated. He weaves documents, maps, photos, and interviews together into a coherent narrative, and this history is brief, clear, and to the point." - American Historical Review "Burke has written an enlightening and provocative book that deserves attention. . . . [It is] a well-researched and well-written study of a very important topic." - Journal of Southern History

1. R Quentin Grafton
2. Paul Wyrwoll
3. Chris White

Global Water

1. Jonathan M , Fisk
2. Soren , Jordan
3. David Allen , Good

The Shale Renaissance

Although a technique for hydraulic fracturing--more commonly known as fracking--was developed and implemented in the 1970s in Texas, fracking of the Marcellus Shale formation that stretches from West Virginia through Pennsylvania to New York did not begin in earnest until the twenty-first century. Unconventional natural gas production via fracking has ignited debate, challenged regulators, and added to the complexity of twenty-first-century natural resource management. Through a longitudinal study taken from 2000 to 2015, Jonathan M. Fisk, Soren Jordan, and A. J. Good examine how the management of natural resources functions relative to specific regulatory actions including inspections, identifying violations, and the use of specific regulatory tools. Ultimately, they find that factors as disparate as state policy goals, elected officials, the availability of data, inspectors, front-line staff, and the use of technology form a context that, in turn, shapes the use of specific regulatory tools and decisions.

1. David Allen
2. David R. Shonnard

Sustainable Engineering

Dr. David T. Allen is the Gertz Regents Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of multiple books and hundreds of scientific papers in areas ranging from coal liquefaction and heavy oil chemistry to the chemistry of urban atmospheres. The quality of his work has been recognized by research awards from the National Science Foundation, the AT&T; Foundation, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, and the State of Texas. The findings from his research have been used to guide air quality policy development, and he has served on the U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board and the National Research Council’s Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, addressing issues at the interface between science, engineering, and public policy. For the past two decades, his work has also focused on the development of materials for environmental education, including coauthoring the textbook Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes. He has won teaching awards at the University of Texas and UCLA. Dr. Allen received his B.S. in chemical engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University in 1979. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering were awarded by the California Institute of Technology in 1981 and 1983. He has held visiting faculty appointments at the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Department of Energy.   Dr. David R. Shonnard is Robbins Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University and director of the Sustainable Futures Institute. He received a B.S. in chemical/metallurgical engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1983; an M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 1985; a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, in 1991; postdoctoral training in bioengineering at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1990 to 1993; and he was a visiting instructor at the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. His experiences in life-cycle assessment (LCA) methods and applications include a one-year sabbatical at the Eco-efficiency Analysis Group at BASF AG in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He has been on the faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University since 1993. Dr. Shonnard has more than twenty years of academic experience in sustainability issues in the chemical industry and Green Engineering. He is coauthor of the textbook Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes, published by Prentice Hall in 2002. His current research interests focus on investigations of new forest-based biorefinery processes for production of transportation fuels, such as cellulosic ethanol and pyrolysis-based biofuels, from woody biomass using recombinant DNA and other approaches. Another active research area is LCA of biofuels and other biorefinery products to determine greenhouse gas emissions and net energy balances. He has contributed to National Academy of Sciences publications on green chemistry/engineering/sustainability in the chemical industry. Dr. Shonnard has coauthored 70 peer-reviewed publications and received numerous honors and awards for teaching and research into environmental issues of the chemical industry, including the Ray W. Fahien Award from ASEE (2003). He is a recipient of the NSF/Lucent Technologies Foundation Industrial Ecology Research Fellowship (1998) for research that integrates environmental impact assessment with process design.