The need to continuously monitor the air quality in our environment has continued to grow due to the ever increasing level of atmospheric pollutants. Indoor air pollution and urban air pollution are listed as two of the world’s worst toxic pollution problems in the 2008 Blacksmit...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/21931
An electromagnetic survey was used to delineate conductive and non conductive zones in order to accurately locate electrical resistivity tomography profiles at Ikhueniro refuse dumpsite. The survey comprised four roughly N – S, and E – W direction, very low frequency electromagne...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/19899
Fault mapping on Madagali Hills area (Longitudes 13°36’E to 13°41.5’E and Latitude 10°51’N to 10°57.5’N) was done with the objective of producing a structural map of the area and to see the implications of the fault patterns. The area is polygenic, having experienced magmatism, m...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/21383
The field mapping carried out in the study area was aimed at establishing the local geology of the area, which include the identification of rocks and minerals, and the reconstruction of the petrogenesis and structural evolution of the rocks in the area. Six representative rock s...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/19888
Regions of the permanent ionosphere instability are identified with 24h daily global W-index maps produced from Global Ionospheric Maps of Total Electron Content, GIM-TEC, provided by Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Planetary Wp index derived from hourly W-index maps from January, 199...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/20488
In this study, the excess heat factor (EHF) index was applied in five (5) selected stations in Nigeria to investigate heat wave characteristics. The EHF originally introduced for use in Australian heatwave monitoring and forecasting, has now been incorporated into a newly designe...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/18181
This paper discusses the results of a study done in River Thome which is located in Nairobi county in Kenya. The purpose of the study was to establish whether the river water meets the set quality standards for surface water and irrigation water. It was established that the river...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/20051
The study areas is located in the Northern, central and the southern part of Lagos Lagoon, South western Nigeria, longitude 3° 22' 27.97" to 3° 28' 58.60" East and latitude 6° 27' 41.44" to 6° 35' 42.60" North. Sediment samples were collected from bottom sediments in twelve samp...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/20333
River runoff in semi-arid urban watersheds may consist entirely of treated wastewater effluent (dry-weather) and/or urban nonpoint source runoff (wet-weather), which can be a source of nutrients, bacteria, and metals to receiving waters. The purpose of this study is to identify s...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/20717
Present research was undertaken to examine the influence of parent materials and land use on exchangeable cations in Edo state, Nigeria. This investigation was carried out with the following objectives (i) to examine the status of exchangeable cations in the soils (ii) to determi...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/19600
Terrestrial and marine environments are experiencing pronounced changes. As species and their ecosystems undergo rising temperatures, varying precipitation patterns and alterations in their chemistry and phenology, there is a great deal of added stress on many organisms. Many spe...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/20815
The study investigates the distribution and mapping of air pollutants in Benin City using land use and administrative maps, a Global Positioning System (GPS) device, Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques and field sampling. Air sampling for the study covered a period of...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/20359
The article aims to highlight the issue that resists to enhance the resilience to climate change and to reduce the vulnerability to natural disasters in most of the developing countries like Pakistan – a country extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and natural ha...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/18706
Aims: The objective of this study is to highlight and document indigenous weather forecasting knowledge of the people of Higher Himalaya in Uttarakhand so that the same could be improvised and used effectively for disaster risk reduction in remote and inaccessible areas. Study De...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/19016
The mineralogical characteristics of metacarbonate from the Obajana area were determined with combine petrographic and X-ray diffraction methods. These methods revealed that the marble samples contains major proportion of calcite with minor quartz, dolomite, graphite, pyrite, oli...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2015/19622