Judul: Penggunaan Bio Soil Booster untuk Perbaikan Kualitas Tanah pada Lahan Bekas Tambang Batubara
Abstrak: Revegetation activities at the former mines often experience many obstacles such as the low soil pH, soil compaction, low nutrient content, and contain toxic materials on the ground. Improvement of soil quality needs to be done to support the success of reclamation. Improvement of soil quality can be done by adding bio soil booster on the ground soil. This research aims to know the influence of bio soil booster on granting the land ex coal mining with sorgum (Sorghum bicolor Linn.) as an indicator of soil quality. Bio soil booster used consisting of four concentration levels, namely concentration of 0%, concentration of 0.4%, concentration of 0.2%, concentration of 0.1%. Planting media consisting of six soil types, the land top soil and five a type of soil land a former coal mines derived from different location in PT. Jorong Barutama Greston tbk. Responses observed are growth was high, the long roots, the performances of roots and leaves. The use of bio soil booster in a planting media can increased an average of a height and length „s root S. bicolor and to increase its performance root and leaves, this indicates an increase in the quality of the soil in a planting media. The use of bio soil booster effective the first concentration 0.4% and a 0.2%.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), soil quality, S. bicolor, bio soil booster

Judul: Quality Analysis of River Water Around and Soil in the Mining Area of PT Berau Coal Binungan Site, East Kalimantan Province
Abstrak: Salah satu hal terpenting dalam aktivitas penambangan batubara dengan sistem tambang terbuka adalah bagaimana melakukan reklamasi lahan dan mengembalikan agar kelestarian lingkungan tetap terjaga. Reklamasi lahan pasca tambang merupakan bagian dari perencanaan dan pelaksanaan kegiatan penambangan untuk memastikan agar upaya perbaikan lahan-lahan yang terganggu oleh kegiatan pertambangan dapat dilaksanakan secara efektif dan efisien dengan mempertimbangkan karakteristik kondisi fisik, kimia, dan biologi tanah. Sampai saat ini reklamasi yang telah dilakukan diduga belum ada yang berpihak pada pembangunan kawasan pasca tambang batubara yang berkelanjutan dengan menganut prinsip memanfaatkan, melindungi dan melestarikan lingkungan. Sementara itu, pelaksanaan reklamasi yang dilakukan sampai saat ini sifatnya sekedar memenuhi tuntutan prosedur yaitu hanya menjadikan reklamasi sebagai bagian dari persyaratan pelaksanaan pertambangan batubara yang kebanyakan belum memadai. Kegiatan reklamasi ini selain ditunjukan untuk memperbaiki sifat-sifat tanah, diharapkan juga akan memperbaiki kualitas air permukaan di sekitar areal reklamasi. Oleh karena itu perlu dilakukan penelitian untuk mengetahui kondisi air dan tanah di sekitar areal daerah tersebut. Dengan penelitian ini, diharapkan menjadi acuan dalam pelaksanaan reklamasi yang berkelanjutan., Coal mining activities without reclamation will lead to environmental degradation such as change of freshwater and soil qualities. Reclamation of post mining land is part of the planning and implementation of mining activities to ensure that repairing of lands affected by mining activities can be conducted effectively and efficiently by improving the post mined soil conditions. This research was aimed to analyze the qualities of river water around and soil in the mining area of PT Berau Coal Binungan Site. Samples of river water were taken as many as 10 locations, whereas soil samples were taken from soils of land after 0, 3, 6, and 9 years of reclamation and forest soil. The results showed that some of the parameters of water such as temperature, pH, DO, Fe, Mn, oils and fats, were below the grade I Quality Standard of Government Regulation No. 82/ 2001. However, COD was above Grade III, while BOD was above grade IV of the Quality Standard. These indicates that all the water sample were not qualified as standart drinking water (grade I). Results of soil analysis indicated that physical, chemical and biological of soil properties varied both due to the increase in reclamation age and the heterogeneous nature of the soil materials. Properties including BD, infiltration, aggregate stability, organic-C, and biological properties were improved with increasing the age of reclamation approaching the properties of forest soil. Other properties including pH, CEC, exchangeable bases, base saturation, available P, available micro elements, and total S were varied due also to the heterogeneous nature of the soil material.
Keyword: Coal mining, Water quality, Soil quality

Judul: Infeksi Virus Parainfluenza Pada Anjing
Abstrak: Virus parainfluenza anjing termasuk famili Paramyxoviridae, berbentuk pleomorf dengan ukuran bervariasi (bergaris tengah antara 100-500 nm), berpembungkus peka ether, berisi genom RNA dan secara serologis mempunyai kesamaan dengan virus SV-5 kera; dikenak sebagai salah satu kausa penting dari sindrom "kennel cough". Infeksinya dapat mengenai anjing semua umur yang belum pernah terinfeksi atau mendapatkan vaksinasi mengakibatkan gejala klinis ringan yang terbatas pada traktus respirasi atu infeksi yang secara klinis tidak memperlihatkan gejala nyata. Gejala klinis yang nampak setelah masa inkubasi (1-5 hari) terlewati berupa batuk yang tidak berat selama beberapa hari, berbagai tingkat tonsilitis dan pharyngitis dan kadang-kadang ditemukan kenaikan temperatur rektal antara 1-2 derajat C dari temperatur normal rat-rata. Anjing terinfeksi mengandung virus pada traktus respirasi bagian atas dan bawah serta limfonoduli sampai hari ke 9 setelah infeksi. Penyebaran virus antar anjing terjadi secara aerogen.
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