Judul: Analysis of water availability, sedimentation, and organic carbon using SWAT model in the upper jeneberang watershed, South Sulawesi
Abstrak: Management of upstream watersheds is a key to get a sustainable availability of water. Moreover, failure in land managing will cause erosion which increase sedimentation in water bodies. Because of soil erosion the remnants of decaying plants on topsoil also were eroded. This case will cause carbon losses in the eroded land, which flowed into the water. Growth of population which have a tendence to increase with the time, caused increasing demand of land included in the upstream of watershed. Increased demand for land is directly proportional to the land use change and will affect watershed hydrologic condition. In the rainy season the water are not well absorbed by the land and resulted water runoff that are not utilized and caused environmental damage such as erosion and sedimentation. Sedimentation will affect the lifetime of water storage structures such as dams. With the growing volume of sediment, reservoir load will be heavier and reservoir capacity will decreased. Land use change influenced hydrological processes and also concentration of organic carbon. Objectives of the study were 1) to identify parameter-parameter of SWAT model for analyzing discharge and sediment, 2) to analyze fluctuation of discharge, sediment, and organic carbon content in sediment, and 3) to study impact of soil conservation technology applied into model. The SWAT model was applied to evaluate catchment hydrology and sediment and associated organic carbon yield using historical flow and meteorological data in the upstream of Jeneberang watershed. Sediment retrieval is done using a simple tool Experimental Sediment Trap (EST). Organic carbon content was analyzed from trapped sediment using Walkley-Black metod. The spatially distributed data (GIS input) needed for ArcSWAT interface include the Digital Elevation Map (DEM), soil data and landuse data. Meteorological data and river discharge were also used for prediction of streamflow and calibration purposes. In this study, Digital elevation map (DEM) with a resolution of 30 m × 30 m was received from ASTERGDEM. Meteorological data included daily precipitation from two rainfall stations were obtained from BPDAS Jeneberang. Soil texture, available water content, hydraulic conductivity, bulk density and organic carbon content for different layers of each soil type were obtained mainly from soil map (BPDAS Pompengan-Walane) with the scale of 1:300000 and UNESCO/FAO soil database. Landuse data was obtained from BPDAS Pompengan-Jeneberang and Soil Testing Laboratory. The upstream of Jeneberang watershed, located in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, is hilly agricultural area of 236 km2 with dominant rice field (30%), forest (25%), moor (23%), and coppice (21%). The downstream, approximately 9 km, is Bili-Bili multipurpose dam and reservoir. Type of soil is dominated by Eutric Cambisols (55%), Dystric Nitosols (29%), Humic Andosol (16%). Slope range dominant is greater than 30%. The climatic conditions are monsoonal with v annual precipitation of 2500-4800 mm/years. The dry period runs from July to September (precipitation < 60 mm/day) and the wet period from October to June (precipitation > 100 mm/day). The calibration was carried out daily using flow data from January to December 2001. Calibration process was done by adjusting 26 parameters using Algoritma SUFI2 and had identified 19 sensitives parameters. Simulated daily discharge matched
Keyword: discharge, Jeneberang Watershed, organic carbon, sediment, SWAT model

Judul: Discharge and Sedimentation Prediction by MWSWAT Model In Upper Citarum Sub-Watershed, West Java Province
Abstrak: This research was conducted in Upper Citarum Watershed – Majalaya region, West Java province within 20 520.71 ha area, from Desember 2010 - June 2011. The main objectives of this study were: (1) to calibrate MWSWAT model using local data, (2), to predict discharge and sediment as hydrological response of land use condition using MWSWAT calibrated model and (3) to simulate MWSWAT calibrated model on several land use conditions. Spatial analysis showed 9 land use classifications were identified on Majalaya, such as: forest, industrial, residential, orchard, estate crops, agricultural land, pasture, paddy field, and shrubland. Farmland on Majalaya was dominated by vegetables (corn, leek, cassava, carrot, cabbage, potatoes and garlic), flowers and paddy. Simulation with MWSWAT calibrated model with climate data of May to December 2001 showed an accurrate and satisfy result with Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) 0.54 and R2 0.69 for discharge prediction and R2 0.77 and NSE 0.51 for sediment prediction. Calibration proccess was done by adjusting 12 parameters which consists of 8 discharge parameters (OV_N, CN2, SOL_AWC, SOL_K, GW_DELAY, ESCO, ALPHA_BF and CH_K2), and 4 sediment parameters (LAT_SED, SPEXP, SLSSUBBSN, and USLE_P). The calibrated MWSWAT model was used to simulate land use 1994 and 2005 with climate conditions based on 2001. The simulation result showed that the land use 1994 had the lowest water yield (43.41 mm) and sediment yield 0.026 t/ha. Land use 2001 had the highest water yield (44.11 mm) and the lowest sediment yield (0.020 t/ha). Meanwhile, land use 2005 showed water yield 44.05 mm and sediment yield 0.10 t/ha. By comparing land use series 1994, 2001 and 2005, the results showed that several land use changes were happening. A lot of forest area were converted to plantation, orchard and agricultural land and it changed surface roughness, curve number (CN), and also crop factor (C), support practice factor (P), and soil erodibility factor (K) of USLE.
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Judul: Leukemia pada kucing
Abstrak: Leukemia pada kucing adalah suatu penyakit yang sangat patogen, disebabkan oleh sejenis virus. Virus ini dikenal sebagai Feline Leukemia Virus atau FeLV. FeLV ini oleh beberapa ahli dikatakan hanya bersifat ganas pada hewan kucing. Penularannya bisa secara horizontal maupun congenital. Kucing pada semua tingkat umur dapat terserang oleh FeLV ini. Khusus pada bentuk "thymic leukemia", virus ini hanya menyerang anak-anak kucing berumur diba- wah 1 tahun. Kucing-kucing liar atau yang tidak terpeli- hara jarang sekali terinfeksi FeLV. Selain dari serangan virus FeLV itu sendiri, maka penyakit leukemia ini bisa disebabkan oleh beberapa fak- tor yang sudah ada dalam tubuh hewan dan sangat menunjang perkembangan penyakit ini, yaitu antara lain tumor, agen toksik, cedera oleh kecelakaan dan gangguan hemopoiesis. FeLV menyerang sel-sel darah dalam tubuh hewan se- hingga pembentukan darah berjalan tidak normal. Terlihat sel-sel darah yang belum dewasa sudah beredar dalam sir- kulasi darah. Bentuk dan jumlahnya tidak lagi seimbang dalam tubuh hewan kucing tersebut. Gejala klinis antara lain kekurusan, ikterus, anemia, lemah, anoreksia, dyspnoe, sulit menelan, batuk, dan membran mukosa pucat. Selain itu kelenjar pertahanan tubuh juga membengkak, kemudian terjadi hepatomegali, spleenomegali dan pembengkakan pada ginjal. Terbentuk massa tumor pada beberapa tempat. Secara biopsy pada sumsum tulang akan terlihat be- berapa perubahan. Sumsum tulang berwarna merah tua atau abu-abu. Konsistensinya lunak dan terdapat banyak sekali memproduksi sel darah putih. Melalui gambaran darah leukemia ini lebih mudah didiagnosa. Jumlah retikulosit rendah sekali. PCV 8-15%, hemoglobin menurun, sel darah putih (WBC) meningkat, lim- fosit meningkat, Alfaglobulin juga ada peningkatan, dan banyak eosinofil yang belum dewasa beredar dalam darah…dst
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