| Water_Framework_Directive_-_Groundwater_Statistics Report from a European Union project to develop statistical methods for data aggregation for assessment of groundwater quality status, including trend assessment. |
| Young-Jin_Kim Describes his research, particularly on preferential flow and its influence to contaminant transport in the vadose zone. |
| African_Writing_Systems An examination of the writing systems of Africa, including Amharic (Ethiopian). |
| Amanye_Tenceli_The_Writing_Systems_of_Aman Complete descriptions of the Sarati and Tengwar scripts created by J.R.R. Tolkien for his celebrated artificial languages. Also includes fonts and specialized writing programs. |
| Ancient_Mesoamerican_Writing Mesoamerican culture as expressed in Precolumbian writing systems, inscriptions and codices, with links to related sites. |
| Ancient_Scripts_of_the_World Lawrence Lo describes the origins, types and families of writing systems. Sections on phonetics, historical linguistics. Bibliography and links. |
| Blissymbolics_Resources Integrated Pictographic Language System for international communication, currently used by people with language-related disabilities. |
| C__C__Elian An alternative writing system examplified through art works that are visually similar to Asian and Middle Eastern systems, but based on Western concepts of language as it relates to perception and the |
| Creative_Ideas___Evolutions_in_the_English_Lexicon The combination of the symbology of the English language with that of mathematics to create new meanings. |
| Eskaya_Script Describes the Eskaya people of Bohol, and their writing, numerical, and calendar system, as well as links to information about other Philippine scripts. |
| Evolution_of_Alphabets Site details the evolution of many of the world's major alphabets. |
| Impact_of_the_Dravidian_Culture_on_the_Writing_Systems_in_India_ A paper which examines the development of scripts in India. |
| Indian_Alphabet_Comparison A comparison of written Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and Gujarati by Eden Golshani. |
| Multilingual_Computing Links to sites of interest in multilingual computing and other closely related areas of scripts and languages as well as a guide for finding language fonts on the Internet. |
| Naxi_Dongba_Pictographs_Software Commercial software for writing in Dongba, a pictographic writing system. Also includes some background information on Dongba. |
| The_Numbers_in_Various_Writing_Systems Numbers 1-10, in syllabaries, consonantal scripts, and sign. |
| The_Origin_of_Writing Post-structural analysis of the non-metrical image writing used by the Aboriginal Peoples of North America during pre-Columbian times, a system based upon material production within a visual context. |
| Orthography_Examples Samples of non-Latin writing systems, including Cyrillic, Aramaic, a syllabary, and a phonetic system. |
| A_Philippine_Leaf A description of literacy and writing systems in Pre-Hispanic Philippines. |
| A_Short_Presentation_and_Overview_of_the_Rune_alphabet,_the_Futhark Contains a good discussion of the changes in the Norse Runic alphabet (the Futhark) over time. |
| A_Study_of_Chinese_Writing_Systems Academic paper which examines Chinese orthography . |
| Symbols Encyclopedia of western signs and ideograms. More than 2,500 signs, from ideograms to graffiti, arranged into groups according to their graphic characteristics. Their histories, uses, and meanings. |
| Truetype_fonts_by_Curtis_Clark Downloadable Truetype fonts of ancient alphabets. |
| World_Writing_Systems Features linguistic basics of writing systems, attempts of spelling reforms, social and political aspects of many languages' orthographies. |
| The_Bauu_Institute Specialises in social science research, publishing, and other needs; offering services in research, database design and maintenance, graphic design, GIS mapping, and other areas for the social science |
| Institute_for_Social_and_Economic_Research_and_Policy_(ISERP)_at_Columbia_University Columbia University, NY,USA. Information on centers, projects, seed grants, workshops, events, and research fellows at the Institute. |
| Ivo_Pilar_Institute_of_Social_Sciences Information about the institute, governance, activities and emloyees. Zagreb, Croatia. |
| Max_Planck_Institute_for_Human_Development A multidisciplinary research institute dedicated to the study of processes of human development and education and their evolutionary, social, historical, and institutional contexts. Features news, pub |
| Scottish_Centre_for_Research_on_Social_Justice The Scottish Centre for Research on Social Justice [SCRSJ] is based jointly at the University of Glasgow's Urban Studies Department and the Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research at the Univer |
| Stanford_IIS_Initiative_on_Distance_Learning Program created by the Institute for International Studies, Stanford University to promote the development of social science in post-Communist countries. |
| Österreichische_Kulturdokumentation A non-university institute for applied cultural research and cultural documentation based in Vienna. Site provides selected publications in PDF, links for current projects, and event information, as w |
| The_Annual_R&M_Symposium_(RAMS) Annual reliability and maintainability conference. Includes a message from the chair, on-line registration, and a program brochure. |
| ASQC_Reliability_Division The reliability part of the American Society for Quality Control, a quality improvement organization headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA. Includes general information and how to join. |
| Design_Analytx_International Provide tools to do probabalistic systems design analysis. Includes information on consultancy and seminars. |
| Electronics_Quality_and_Reliability_Center A division of Sandia National Laboratories. Includes information on the center as a whole, training offered, ways to work with the center, and related links. |
| Equipment_Reliability_Institute A specialized engineering school that focuses on solving hardware reliability problems. |
| INEEL_Center_for_Risk_and_Reliability Demonstrates improved Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) and Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) methods and tools to PRA/PSA practitioners. |
| International_Reliabilitiy_Physics_Symposium Conference in April, 2002. Includes information on hotel, tutorials, poster sessions, and a history of the event. |
| Maintenance_and_Reliability_Center An R&D group at the University of Tennessee. Includes information on their mission, internship program, staff, continuing education and related links. |
| Quanterion_Solutions Provides reliability engineering consulting services aimed at improving system reliability. |
Home People Publications Norman Landfill Bemidji Oil Spill Lab Links Home Organic Compounds in Near-Surface Environments: Understanding Fate in a Changing Biogeochemical Landscape Principal Investigators: Isabelle M. Cozzarelli and Robert P. Eganhouse 
In order to predict the short- and long-term fate of toxic organic substances in a variety of aquatic environments, it is necessary to determine the physical properties of these compounds and to understand their biogeochemical fate. The transport, sorption, volatilization, and biodegradation of organic compounds are investigated in a variety of hydrogeologic environments. The relative importance of different removal processes and the geochemical alterations resulting from organic-inorganic interactions are quantified under different environmental conditions and incorporated into conceptual and numerical models. The approach involves long-term environmental studies of biogeochemical processes in contaminated aquifers, coupled with laboratory studies aimed at identifying specific pieces of the complicated fate and transport puzzle. The research being conducted by this project, as part of the USGS National Research Program, directly supports the Toxic Substances Hydrology Program and its mission to provide earth science information on toxic substances in the Nation’s surface and ground waters. The results are directly applicable to the prioritization of contamination sites for cleanup and the design of optimal remedial strategies, particularly the application of monitored Natural Attenuation. Our intensive field and laboratory investigations at the Bemidji crude-oil spill site and the Norman Landfill site have demonstrated that naturally occurring microbes degrade these contaminants in the subsurface. Our research has contributed to the body of knowledge about the environmental conditions that determine the suitability of natural attenuation as a viable remediation approach. The results of our intensive field investigations provide an understanding of natural processes at contaminated sites that can readily be used by resource managers at other sites throughout the U.S. In addition, our research into chemical heterogeneity provides insight into the scale of biogeochemical processes and will improve our ability to sample contaminated systems. See: Investigation of Norman Landfill, Norman, Oklahoma Investigation of Bemidji, Minnesota crude-oil spill 
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