Climbers for Bat Conservation: creating a citizen science program in Red River Gorge Kentucky by Emily E. Gross, Morgan E. Siebka, Robert A. Schorr, Jennifer N. Solomon, Shawn K. Davis

“…Though most bats tend to roost and hibernate in caves, still many roost in cracks, crevices, and other hard to reach places. Rock climbers recreate on a large array of rock features that are inaccessible or unknown to bat biologists and could serve as a valuable resource in identifying the location of bat species for conservation efforts. …”
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Estimating surface water availability in high mountain rock slopes using a numerical energy balance model by M. Ben-Asher, F. Magnin, S. Westermann, J. Bock, E. Malet, J. Berthet, L. Ravanel, P. Deline

“…Snowmelt occurs between spring and late summer, but most of it may not reach the rock surface due to refreezing and the formation of an impermeable ice layer at the base of the snowpack, which was observed at the field site. …”
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Research on slope stability of open-pit mine under coupled seepage-stress by LI Zhu, XIE Feng

“…The research results show that rock strength decreases gradually with soaking time prolonging, but when the rock reaches saturation, rock strength tends to be stable. Slope displacement under coupled seepage-stress is larger than the one without seepage, and safety factor of slope reduces with decrease of permeability coefficient of slope body. …”
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Damage Model and Numerical Experiment of High-Voltage Electro Pulse Boring in Granite by Changping Li, Longchen Duan, Songcheng Tan, Victor Chikhotkin, Wenpeng Fu

“…At present, there is no suitable physical and mathematical model to describe the process and results of rock breakage in EPB, and the conclusions reached regarding rock-breakage mechanisms are not uniform. …”
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Effect of thermal maturation and organic matter content on oil shale fracturing by Fatemeh Saberi, Mahboubeh Hosseini-Barzi

“…The stress accumulated due to hydrocarbon production, reaching the rock’s fracture strength, further contributed to damage zone development. …”
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Hydrogeochemistry and Strontium Isotopic Signatures of Mineral Waters from Furnas and Fogo Volcanoes (São Miguel, Azores) by Letícia Ferreira, José Virgílio Cruz, Fatima Viveiros, Nuno Durães, Rui Coutinho, César Andrade, José Francisco Santos, Maria Helena Acciaioli

“…The Sr isotope also shows that the hydrochemical signatures of the groundwater was controlled by the rock leaching, and the samples Furnas reached water-rock isotopic equilibrium.…”
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