Jump to... Constitutive Modeling of Glacial Till Climate History of Guam Study Constitutive Modeling of Glacial Till Interdisciplinary study of the potential role of subglacial sediment in ice sheet movement. J.W. Jenson Water & Environmental Research Institute of the Western Pacific, University of GuamC.S. Desai Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, University of ArizonaA.E. Carlson Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-MadisonP.U. Clark Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University Background Exposure of glacial till layers in bluffs above the Nelson River, northern Manitoba, from which specimens of the Sky Pilot Till,…

Natural Resources of Southern Guam A common problem in Guam, as well as every other place in the Western Pacific is the lack of accessibility to local natural resources data. This includes vegetation, soil types, river miles, badlands, roads, location of stream gage, and maps. In Guam, this information is scattered among government agencies.In 2005, WERI researchers, Drs. Shahram Khosrowpanah and Yuming Wen, and their collaborator, Dr. Danko Taborosi of Island Research & Education Initiative, Pohnpei, began constructing a digital atlas of the natural resources of southern Guam’s watersheds using GIS technology…

Jump to... GWUDI Study Guam Septic Tank Survey GWUDI Study WERI is currently engaged in an ongoing collaborative study with representatives from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Guam Environmental Protection Agency, (GEPA), Guam Waterworks Authority (GWA), the military and the private sector; to determine whether Guam’s aquifer should be designated as groundwater under the direct influence (GWUDI) of surface water and, as such, fall under the USEPA Surface Water Treatment Rule (SWTR) of 1989 and subsequent amendments. Background The SWTR requires all raw water sources be evaluated to determine if they…