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Spring 2017

Kiani, Mina

Managing the land properly should lead us to conserve the soil which is a critical substance for sustaining our life and the global society. Quantifying the effects of land management and land-use conversion on soil physical and biological properties can aid to identify best management practices...

Fall 2017

Guenette, Kris G.

Growth of the human population within the next half century is projected to reach a staggering quantity. Maintaining our food security for future generations without causing further environmental degradation in an ever dynamic landscape is a complex challenge, which may be partially remedied...

Spring 2015

Mooney, Cole R

Evaluating the resource contained in a precious metals deposit is a challenging task because they are often characterized by heavily-skewed grade distributions and outlier values. Traditional geostatistical modelling methods are difficult to apply in the presence of outlier values because they...

2006

Chanasyk, D.S., Mapfumo, E., Chaikowsky, C.L.A.

Studies of spatial variability and simulation of available soil water and extractable soil water are scarce and yet such data are essential in hydrologic and solute transport modeling. A study was conducted to characterize spatial variability of available soil water and extractable soil water on...

Fall 2009

Gallardo, Enrique

Subsurface geological characterization requires solving a classification problem to obtain a model of facies that is later populated with continuous properties. The classification problem, which consists of assigning a single category to any unsampled location based on observed data, is analyzed...

Fall 2022

Pereira,Fabio

Quantifying uncertainty is key to rational decision‐making in a geological context. Samples collected for Mineral Exploration are usually sparse and only represent a very small portion of the volume that might be mined in the future. To characterize and quantify geological uncertainty, it is...