토양수분은 지면환경에서 일어나는 수문 순환을 이해하기 위한 중요한 기상인자일 뿐만 아니라 가뭄, 홍수, 산불 등과 같은 자연재해와 밀접하게 연관되어 있다. 그러나 위성기반 토양수분 자료는 공간해상도가 매우 떨어져서 국지규모 분석에 직접적 으로 적용하기에는 한계가 있다. 이 연구에서는 마이크로파 위성센서로부터 산출된 토양수분 자료가 가지는 공간해상도의 제약을 완화하기 위하여, 다양한 지면 변수와 공간통계법을 활용한 다운스케일링 기법을 도입하였다. 가장 정교한 다운스케일링 기법으로 평가되는 회귀크리깅을 이 연구를 통하여 토양수분 자료에 처음으로 적용하였다. 우리나라의 2013년과 2014년의 4월부터 10월까지 의 일자별 AMSR2(Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2) 공간해상도 10km와 25km의 토양수분 자료를 각각 2km와 4km로 다운스케일링한 결과, 고해상도로 다운스케일링된 자료와 저해상도 원자료와의 일관성이 우수하게 유지되어, 다운스케일링 전후의 공간패턴과 자료특성이 잘 보존되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 이 연구에서 제시한 다운스케일링 기법은 토양수분뿐만 아니라 여러 기상요소에 적용될 수 있으며, 위성영상이나 모형자료의 공간해상도 한계를 극복하기 위한 방편이 될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

The genus of Gustavia Kramer, 1879 comprises 16 species are collectively distributed in the worldwide. Only one species, Gustavia microcephala Nicolet, 1855 has been recorded in Korea. We found a new species, Gustavia aominensis Fujikawa, 2008 to Korean inventory from the litter and soil samples of Sasa borealis at Cheong-ok mountain natural recreation forest. A diagnostic description of this species with detailed illustration and data on its geographical distribution are presented.

The genus Peloribates is comparatively species rich, and world-wide, more than eighty species are assigned to this genus (Bayartogtokh, 2000). In Korea, four species of Peloribates were recorded. In this study, Peloribates barbatus Aoki is reported from Korea for the first time. This species was collected from rice straw mat of Cherry tree in Andong National University. We present the morphology of this species relative to body size, length, shape of sensillus, position of seta, and feeding comparing with previously recorded four species of Peloribates. A diagnostic description of this species with detailed illustration.

Soil biodiversity is important for proper functioning of soil ecosystem. Soil microarthropods play roles in cycling of nutrients and decomposition of organic matter. We compared the diversity of oribatid mites in organically and conventionally managed apple orchards. Sampling were done from 10 orchards; 5 from organic and 5 from conventional, in spring season of 2011 and 2012. Species richness and abundance were higher in conventional (25, 4,222/m2) than organic orchard (21, 1,906/m2). Diversity index was higher in conventional than organic orchard. Common dominant species present in orchards were Perglumna duplicata nipponica and Scheloribates latipes. Only observed in apple orchards were Pilogalumna tenuiclava, Protoribates agricola, Hypochthonius luteus, Punctoribates manzanoensis, Punctoribates sphaericus, and Scheloribates corpusculum. In organic orchard, Suctobelbella naginata and Tectocepheus cuspidentatus were only present. Pergalumna altera, Galumna longiporosa, and Protoribates lophotrichus, Galumna sp. were found only in conventionally managed apple orchard. Further study on the functional aspects and association with other soil biotic and abiotic factors are demanding.

Soil harbours great biodiversity and governs the ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling and energy flow. Among groups of mesofauna, soil mites; oribatids, gamasids, prostigmatids, astigmatids are hyper-diverse and abundant in soil ecosystem. This renders the use of soil mite assemblage for biological indicator of the ecosystem health. Gamasida are the main predator among the soil mesofauna, playing a crucial role in maintaining the soil food web and contribute significant influence on material cycling and energy flow. Several concepts of environmental assessment using soil mites, specially Oribatid mite and Gamasid mites have been proposed, but not quite applied yet. Examples are the indexes of conventional community analysis, Aoki’s index of oribatid mites and maturity index of gamasid mites, We have collected soil mites from diverse ecosystems; natural forests, disturbed forests, perennial tree orchards, and annul farming fields. Using those data, here we present some of the results on environmental assessment of the habitats.

Soil microarthropods play important role in soil food web and contribution the nutrient cycling and soil system health. Among diverse taxa, gamasid mite Acari: Gamasida) is considered as a top predator group in soil ecosystem. We compared the soil microarthropod communities focused on gamasid mite species composition. Soil samples were collected Mt. Cheonju in bukmyeon, Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do. On the mountain hill, contagious pine tree (Pinus densiflora) and oak tree (Quercus acutissima) stand were sampled while the bamboo tree (Phyllostachy bambusoides) stand is located in ap. 200m below from the mountain hill. Soil microarthopods abundance was high in bamboo and pine tree stand, but lower in oak tree stand. The dominance order was oribatid mite, collembolan and gamasid mites in pine tree stand, oribatid mite, insects, and gamasid in oak tree stand while in bamboo stand, oribatid mites were out numbered (75%) followed by collembolan. Collected gamasid mites were 146 individuals and 34 species. Species richness and diversity was highest in oak tree stand and lowest in bamboo stand. Cluster analysis showed highest similar in pine-oak stand to bamboo stand. Dominant species were Holaspina dentatus (Parholaspididae) in pine stand, Gamasus fujisanus, Veigaia sp in oak stand, and Gamasus fujisanus in bamboo stand.

Grapholita molesta, G. dimorpha and C. sasakii as “internal feeders” are important apple pests in Korea. Three species overwinters around and in apple orchards. New young larvae of three species bore into new shoots or fruits and then feed inside apple. When mature larvae escape from fruits they make holes that reduces the commercial value of fruit. Therefore, understanding the phenological distribution of three species is critical to establish the precise management system for reducing three species population. The study was conducted to investigate the adult emergence of G. molesta, G. dimorpha and C. sasakii using pheromone traps and to forecast the cumulative proportion of each population. This study is second part of consecutive experiment. Data collection was carried out on three commercial apple orchards and one experimental orchard of Giran in 2010 and 2011. The experimental process was same in the study of plum. More than 50% of G. molesta male was occurred in spring season (within 500 degree-days), 2010 and 2011. The adult emergence of G. dimorpha and C. sasakii was linear and sigmoidal pattern in each year. The phenology of C. sasakii was explained well by nonlinear functions and the equation 3, 6, 8 and 11 were selected based on AICc and BIC. The selected equations were validated by the data of present year (2011) in each region. The performance of G. molesta and G. dimorpha was analyzed well by bimodal functions. The importance of phenological model is discussed to develop and maintain a more precise system for multiple pest management on apple orchard.

The study was conducted to investigate the phenological distribution of G. molesta, G. dimorpha and C. sasakii and to estimate the emergence timing of three species in plum orchards. It was known that G. molesta and G. dimorpha are a multi-voltine insect and C. sasakii has one to two generations depending on temperature and geographic location. Three species damage to many economically important fruit tree such as plum, pear, peach and apple. The main emergence time of each species is different depending on host plant and environmental conditions, specially temperature. Therefore, if we have the information of population density and low temperature threshold of a species and air mean temperature of a region in previous year we can predict the phenology of a species in present year. This is one part of consecutive research. Data collection was carried out in seven plum-growing commercial orchards of Uiseong in 2010 and 2011. The commercial pheromone monitoring traps (GreenAgroTech) were used to investigate the flight phenology of three speices. The record of temperature was received from meteorological center close to monitoring orchards. The relationships between degree-day accumulated above the low temperature threshold and cumulative proportion of accumulated moth caught of previous year was used to predict the phenology of three species in present year. The results of G. molesta and G. dimorpha estimated by bimodal functions were better than those analyzed by nonlinear functions. The phenology of C. sasakii was analyzed well by nonlinear function and the equation 3, 6, 8 and 11 were selected based on AICc and BIC. The selected equations were validated in each orchard.

From the soil samples collected at Seonginbong in Ulleung Island two unrecorded species of oribatid mite, Punctoribates hexagonus Berlese and Galumna cuneata Aoki were identified. Genus Punctoribates Berlese (1908) are rather small, dark brown, and ball-shaped as adults inhabiting mainly terrestrial ecosystem, but some species live in wet habitats and other mosses at the edge of lakes (Seniczak and Seniczak, 2008). The members of Galumnidae is one of the largest groups of oribatid mites with a world - wide distribution. They are ball-shaped, both the juvenile and adult stages. The sclerotized integument of adults are brown to black. Member of this family are fairly abundant in litter or upper layers of forest soils and commonly distributed in pasture soils of open habitats (Bayartogtokh and Weigmann, 2005). Soil samples were collected from five random samples at 5cm depth consisting of one sample unit. The abundances of soil microarthropods collected from acari and collembola were consisted of 31% and 32%, respectively. We collected 11 species, 9 families of oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) from the research site.

The study was conducted to investigate the spring emergence pattern of G. molesta and to forecast the emerging time of overwintering G. molesta on tree fruit orchards. G. molesta is one of major insect pests on fruit trees in Korea. The host range of G. molesta includes many economically important tree fruit plants such as apple, pear, peach and plum. The overwintering G. molesta emerge from late March as an adult lay eggs on the shoot of peach or fruits of apple, plum and peach. Therefore, it is important to understand the biofix and to forecast the emerging peak period of overwintering G. molesta for establishing the pest management strategy. The pheromone trap of G. molesta has been utilized to monitor the population density in apple orchard. The commercial stick trap (GreenAgroTech) and lure (Z8-12:AC, E8-12:Ac, Z8-12:OH, 95:5:1) was set to monitor the population density of G. molesta on each place (56 different fruit orchards). The record of temperature was received from meteorological center close to monitoring orchards. The parameters for forecasting the emerging time and peak period of overwintering G. molesta were calculated from the results of Yang et al (1997 and 2001). Although the estimated biofix of G. molesta was not fitted well, the peak period of overwintering G. molesta was explained by linear regression model. The spring emergence pattern of G. molesta was presented differently related to host plant and geographical location. The peak period of G. molesta at the same mornitoring county was presented differently according to host plant. The synchronization between host plant and G. molesta may be studied to figure out the spring emerging time of overwintering G. molesta.

Community analysis of oribatid mites was conducted in unburned and burned area of Samcheok-si, Gangwon province with differential burn severity that occurred in April 2000. Except control site, four sites (T1, T2, T3 and C2) were selected according to burn severity and subsequent recovery following a year after fire form T1 (heavily burned) to Control (unburned). This study analyzes the abundance, species richness, diversity and evenness, similarity, dominant species, and MGP types of oribatid mites. Oribatid mites were sampled 8times from each site from 2005 to 2007. Total of 40 families, 58 genus, 123 species and 4,638 individuals were founded. Species richness and abundance of oribatid mites decreased as burn severity increased. Diversity index of control site was higher than all other sites and decreased as the burn severity increased. Similarity between control and C2 sites was highest among the sites and cluster analysis showed control and C2 as closely related followed by T3, T2 and T1 respectively. MGP-I analysis revealed oribatid mites of all sites as GP type. MGP-II analysis showed control as G type and all other sites as GP type.

The Goal of research is that budget maintenance of Bridge Shoes in Highway were estimated in network-level bridges. We determined the life cycle of Bridge Shoes with HBMS(Highway Bridge Management System) data by the survival analysis probability model. We developed the method that predicted cost of maintenance in all bridge shoes of the highway bridge in Korea.

Anti-icing system can reduce traffic accidents and congestion by quickly removing the frozen road surface area. there is no decision criteria for determining application of the Anti-icing system in Korea. In this study, we proposed the decision criteria for determining application of the anti-icing system based on weather and road conditions, i.e., geometric and topographic conditions. Regional climate survey, Solar Radiation analysis, and dynamic vehicle simulation considered road geometry was conducted to standardize the installation method of anti-icing system. Also, we have developed a software that can be determined an installation of anti-icing system.

진단적 초음파가 태아에 미치는 영향에 대하여는 대부분의 연구결과, 심각한 영향을 미칠 가능성이 매우 낮다고 보고되고 있으나, 장시간의 과도한 조사는 초음파가 인체조직에 온도 상승이나 물리적인 영향을 줄 수 있어 초음파 검사시간에 따라 허벅지의 온도 변화를 조사하여 태아 초음파 검사 시 영향이 없는 시간을 알아보았다. 그 결과 초음파 검사 전보다 40분 안에는 온도가 떨어졌고 50분에는 허벅지의 온도가 검사 전보다 1℃이상 올라가는 것을 확인하였다.그러므로 40분 안에 초음파 검사를 한다면 안전한 것으로 추론해 본다.

총경동맥은 심장으로부터 혈액을 직접 대뇌로 전달하는 동맥 혈류 순환이 중요하며, 특히 동맥 혈관내의 혈액의 흐름을 방해하는 여러 변인들이 있다. 그 변인 중에서도 평균혈류속도, 맥박지수, 및 혈류 저항 변인 등이 있는데,이중 맥박지수나 혈류저항지수는 최대 수축기와 이완기시 혈류속도와 관련이 되어있기 때문에 혈압과도 중요한 변인들이 된다, 이와 같은 뇌혈류 속도 변인들의 변화에 대해서 관찰하는 데는 비침습적인 초음파를 이용한 도플러 뇌혈류 측정법을 이 용한다. 최대운동은 20대 남성에서 뇌로가는 혈류인 총경동맥의 혈류속도를 증가 시킬 수있는 것으로 나타났다.