Curtis J. Richardson, Peter Reiss, Najah A. Hussain, Azzam Alwash et al.
Uncontrolled releases of Tigris and Euphrates River waters after the 2003 war have partially restored some former marsh areas in southern Iraq, but restoration is failing in others because of high soil and water salinities. Nearly 20% of the original 15,000-square-kilometer marsh area was reflooded ...
Peter Lavezzoli
A little more than 50 years ago, in 1955, Ali Akbar Khan issued an LP called Music of India: Morning and Evening Ragas, with spoken introduction by violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Until then, Indian music was terra incognita in the West. When the same album was reissued as a CD in 1995, under the title Th...
Bharat Karnad
Abstract Notes 1. For a recent piece of writing along this line, see Mitchell B. Reiss, “The Nuclear Tipping Point: Prospects for a World of Many Nuclear Weapons States,” in Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. Einhorn, and Mitchell B. Reiss, eds., The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nucle...
Muhana K. Habeeb, Maitham A. Al-Shaheen, Adil F. Abbas, Haifa A. Hamza et al.
In southern Iraq, the Mesopotamian marshes have suffered for decades from a decrease in freshwater input from both rivers Tigris and Euphrates. The Shatt Al-Arab River and East Hammar marsh in southern Iraq were affected by a salt wedge that advanced from the Arabian Gulf during July and August 2018...
Najah A. Hussain, Amjed K. Resen, Peter Reiss
Abstract This article demonstrates how deliberate and unintended interventions can have a disastrous impact on a once flourishing ecosystem. Iraq’s southern marshlands were historically the richest inland fishing ground in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. During the 1960s, fish catches in the mar...
J. Thel Hooks, Edward A. Butler, Mitchell J. Reiss, Rohn J. Petersen
This report describes research activities associated with automated LSO training system concepts. The primary activity involved development and demonstration of a laboratory LSO training system. The laboratory system was designed to enable LSO task interaction with simulated carrier approaches. This...