Browsing by Department "Marine Sciences"
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(2017-04-28)No Man’s Land Sink is one of the largest inland lakes on the Little Bahama Bank in the northern Bahamas, so its paleoenvironmental history may provide insight into how the regional hydroclimate and groundwater systems ...
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(2014-09-29)Sargassum is a common type of seaweed observed in the Sargasso Sea, located in a portion of of the western mid-Atlantic. Seasonally Sargassum inundates the beaches of Texas and the cost for its removal results in great ...
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(2016-05-02)Certain variables suspected to influence the behavior of the Sargassum Migratory Loop System (SMLS) were examined using Robert Webster’s Development and Implementation of Sargassum Early Advisory System (SEAS). This analysis ...
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(2014-01-22)Arctic rivers are the dominant pathways for the transport of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon to the Arctic Ocean, but knowledge of sources, transformations and transfer of organic carbon and nitrogen in Arctic river ...
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(2013-05-08)As a highly targeted species, red snapper have been overfished since the 1970’s. Inadequate monitoring and reporting of discard rates impedes regulatory measures which are in place to allow red snapper populations to reach ...
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(2012-10-19)In 1988, the red snapper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico was declared severely overfished. Since then, the daily bag limit has been reduced from 7 to 2, the minimum size limit has increased from 13 to 16 inches, and the ...
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(2015-05-08)Lake Botanisk, a small isolated body of water that was once a part of the moat that surrounded Copenhagen, Denmark, has remained relatively undisturbed for four centuries. Due to this long undisturbed record and restricted ...
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(2013-02-04)Currently biofuel is produced from plants as well as microbes. The oils, carbohydrates or fats generated by the microorganisms or plants are refined to produce biofuel. Algae can be converted directly into energy and ...
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(2016-04-25)The fluorescence and absorbance optical properties of seawater samples from the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill were analyzed to examine the transport and fate of oil both during and after the spill, as well as the effect ...
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(2019-05-16)The Gulf of Mexico penaeid shrimp fishery is perennially one of the most productive fisheries in the southeast United States in terms of landings and value. Since 2007, a mandatory fishery observer program has been collecting ...
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(2012-10-19)In Galveston Bay, Texas, the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is found throughout the bay both intertidal along mudflats and subtidal where their self-built reefs extend vertically deeper. The eastern oyster is an ...
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(2017-08-10)Andros Island is one of the largest island areas in the Bahamas, yet its paleoclimate and paleocological history remains poorly understood and largely based on inference from research on other Bahamian Islands. Understanding ...
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(2014-09-22)The estimated magnitude of organic carbon (OC) stocks contained in the first meter of US coastal wetland soils represents ~10% of the entire OC stock in US soils (4 vs. 52 Pg, respectively). Because this stock extends to ...
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(2020-08-06)Flood damages occur when just one inch of water enters a residential household and models of flood damage estimation are sensitive to first floor elevation (FFE). The current sources for FFEs consist of costly survey-based ...
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(2020-04-22)Global coastlines provide vital benefits to both nature and humans alike in the form of embayed and estuarine waters. Often, these coastal interfaces are subject to development and modification by humans and undergo changes ...
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(2012-11-13)eBird, a citizen-science program developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon, allows users to enter bird sightings from around the world in order to develop a large scale data set for research. This ...
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(2017-08-03)This study examines the impacts of red tide, Karenia brevis, cell intensity on collected tourism tax revenues by municipality along the central Gulf of Mexico coast of Florida. The study area consists of 27 municipalities ...
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(2012-07-16)Understanding how nutrient input into coastal wetlands influences aquatic vegetation and the fate of anthropogenic nutrient inputs can help improve water quality management plans. The goals of this study were to (1) compare ...
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(2012-02-14)Eutrophication, particularly due to nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) input, has been massively altered by anthropogenic activities. Thus it is important to understand the impact on salt marsh plants; however studies on salt ...
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(2018-05-25)Declining blue crab stocks in Texas coastal systems in the 1980s and most recently in the early 2000s have led scientists and policy makers to re-evaluate fishery management plans. A newer ecosystem-based approach to ...