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<font face="Segoe UI Light" color="#000000">The [http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2018+MC2 VAST Mini Challenge 2 2018] is a direct sequel to the [http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2017+MC2 VAST Mini Challenge 2 2017] which investigated the endangering of the Rose crested blue pipit bird species by environmental pollution.
 
<font face="Segoe UI Light" color="#000000">The [http://vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2018+MC2 VAST Mini Challenge 2 2018] is a direct sequel to the [http://www.vacommunity.org/VAST+Challenge+2017+MC2 VAST Mini Challenge 2 2017] which investigated the endangering of the Rose crested blue pipit bird species by environmental pollution.
  
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Last year, the Kasios Furniture Company was implicated in environmental damage to the Boonsong Lekagul Wildlife Preserve for both dumping toxic waste and polluting the air with chemicals from its manufacturing process. But Kasios is not taking these accusations lying down, and they deny any accusation of industrial waste dumping! Kasios’ spokespersons state that there isn’t any ground contamination near the remote ranger station that was suggested by last year’s mini-challenge 1 and 3 participants, and they have inspected that area and found it as pristine as the rest of the preserve.
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Boonsong Legakul is a wildlife preserve nearby the city of Mistford. The preserve is home to many species of wild animals and birds including the Rose crested blue pipit. Inside the preserve is also situated 5 furniture manufacturing factories, one of which is Kasios. These factories are suspected to be releasing chemical waste into the environment and causing the deaths/migration of the wildlife in the preserve. The case in hand, is a sequel to the previous case investigated last year, and is about the disappearance of the Rose crested blue pipit bird species from the preserve and the reason was proven to be the pollutants from the factories. Now the company is having it’s take against that research and stating against any contamination by dumping. They have even tested samples from the touted dumping site and mentioned it to be in pristine condition. Suspecting foul play, researchers head to the dumping site and find no evidence of contamination but are informed that there was recent construction activity at the spot. This could be a move to cover up the top layer contaminated soil, so they tend to the water sample readings taken over the years to re-create any possible evidence against Kasios.</font>
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Outraged ornithology professors from Mistford College journeyed out to look over the dumping site themselves and perform soil analyses. They returned to report that the site looked like there had been recent excavation and building activities going on. Boonsong Preserve rangers later confirmed that a new ranger station was being built at that site! Soil samples taken from the site were inconclusive in detecting Methylosmolene (the toxic manufacturing chemical in the suspected dumping) or any other contaminant, as new top soil had been trucked in.
 
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With a primary piece of evidence against Kasios now gone, investigators will need to take another approach. Professors in the Mistford College Hydrology Department have come forward with several years of water sensor readings from rivers and streams in the preserve. These samples were taken from different locations scattered throughout the area and contain measurements of several chemicals of possible interest, but they have never been analyzed due to lack of funding. Could visual analytics help reveal something in this data that could make up for the soil evidence that was destroyed?</font>
 

Revision as of 19:41, 6 July 2018

VAST Challenge 2018: Suspense at the Wildlife Preserve
Mini Challenge 2 - Like a duck to water

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Setting the scene

The VAST Mini Challenge 2 2018 is a direct sequel to the VAST Mini Challenge 2 2017 which investigated the endangering of the Rose crested blue pipit bird species by environmental pollution.

Boonsong Legakul is a wildlife preserve nearby the city of Mistford. The preserve is home to many species of wild animals and birds including the Rose crested blue pipit. Inside the preserve is also situated 5 furniture manufacturing factories, one of which is Kasios. These factories are suspected to be releasing chemical waste into the environment and causing the deaths/migration of the wildlife in the preserve. The case in hand, is a sequel to the previous case investigated last year, and is about the disappearance of the Rose crested blue pipit bird species from the preserve and the reason was proven to be the pollutants from the factories. Now the company is having it’s take against that research and stating against any contamination by dumping. They have even tested samples from the touted dumping site and mentioned it to be in pristine condition. Suspecting foul play, researchers head to the dumping site and find no evidence of contamination but are informed that there was recent construction activity at the spot. This could be a move to cover up the top layer contaminated soil, so they tend to the water sample readings taken over the years to re-create any possible evidence against Kasios.

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