Browsing Colleges and Schools by Department "Geography"
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(2017-04-27)Extreme storms, hurricanes, nor’easters, and tropical depressions can cause widespread erosion and washover on barrier islands and threaten coastal communities. The strong winds and waves of these storms can erode the beach ...
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(2021-07-20)In the region of northwestern Namibia, the desert elephants’ population has been reduced to a total of 81 remaining as of 2019. Their population has been on a steady decline due to poaching, wars in the region, increasing ...
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(2016-11-16)Drought is a natural phenomenon induced by precipitation deficiency and it impacts economy, environment and society. The drought monitoring tools include direct measurements, such as precipitation, soil moisture and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Over the past century, glaciers throughout the tropics have predominately retreated. These small glaciers, which respond quickly to climate changes, are becoming increasingly important in understanding glacier-climate ...
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(2015-07-10)The North American Monsoon System (NAMS) has been projected to undergo a redistribution of precipitation due to enhanced spring convective barriers. Previous studies have utilized coarse-scaled global climate models (GCMs) ...
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Assessment of the Potential Effect of Climate Change on Hurricane Risk and Vulnerability in Florida (2014-12-05)Hurricanes are a yearly threat to the eastern and Gulf coasts of the United States. An increase in frequency and intensity of hurricanes is a possible and dangerous consequence of future climate change. To assess the threat ...
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(2010-07-14)Between 1893 and 1941, the understanding of the Milky Way galaxy within the American culture changed from a sphere to a spiral and Earth's location within it changed from the center to the periphery. These changes were ...
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(2020-07-08)Mesophication across the southeastern United States has raised curiosity regarding the frequency and spatial distribution of fire and the extent of fire-dependent vegetation before European settlement. This study examines ...
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(2009-05-15)The economic competition between the Netherlands, France and England is documented in the atlases published in Amsterdam, Paris and London between 1500 and 1800. However, the relationship between mapping and economic ...
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(2009-05-15)This study uses geographic information systems to determine if the aggregation of census block data are better than census block group data for analyzing social vulnerability. This was done by applying a social vulnerability ...
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(2009-05-15)Patterns and perceptions of water use have changed since Anglo settlement in Texas in the early nineteenth century. Change has not been constant, gradual, or linear, but rather has occurred in fits and spurts. This pattern ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The meandering stream has been well studied in temperate environments but the same level of research has not been achieved for meandering streams in tropical areas. The overall objective of this research was to gain an ...
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(2010-10-12)Information on the locations for feeding, reproductions, and resting, are essential to effectively protect sea turtle populations and implement conservation efforts. This type of ecological information is critically important ...
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(2014-07-30)Shrub expansion is one of the most recognized components of terrestrial Arctic change and has been documented in studies involving fine-scale experimental manipulations or broad-scale satellite remote sensing. The ...
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(2018-01-17)Texas voters and the legislature have made water conservation an important requirement for cities. Landscape irrigation is the largest component of Texas single family residential (SFR) water use and is a prime subject ...
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(2022-07-27)Rivers host complex exchanges between the water and atmosphere at their flowing surface. Constraining estimates of global river and surface area is important to account for greenhouse gas evasion from the fluvial network. ...
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(2012-07-16)This dissertation investigates characteristics of the vertical distributions of mass flux observed in field and laboratory experiments. Thirty vertical mass flux profiles were measured during a field experiment in Jericoacoara, ...
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(2017-12-11)As transition zones between river and ocean, estuaries face increasing pressure on their ecosystem health due to changes of freshwater quantity and quality – especially under the impacts of population growth, land use/land ...
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(2010-01-16)The main objectives of this investigation were to determine the impact of climate on mountain birch (Betula pubecens ssp. czerepanovii (Orlova)) growth and to develop a regional chronology of autumnal moth outbreaks. To ...
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(2022-10-17)Eastern North American boreal forests shifted poleward and upslope during the Holocene period, and anthropogenic disturbance and changing climate have accelerated that shift. To better understand the causes of northward ...