Browsing by Department "Marine Sciences"
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(2019-07-19)Flooding has historically occurred within coastal areas of Texas due to hurricanes and other catastrophic weather events and continues to be a frequent and costly hazard. One community where flood vulnerability has intensified ...
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(2014-06-04)Approximately 66% of Texas surface waters are impaired with bacteria from fecal waste, including several tributaries and segments within the Galveston Bay system. This study was conducted in the waters of the Marina Del ...
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(1982)Of the known sources of ocean energy, salinity gradients have the most potential. These gradients are found naturally in estuarine environments, but can be artificially produced, given a salt source, such as a hypersaline ...
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(2020-06-17)In the past century the San Jacinto Estuary (SJE), including the Houston Ship Channel (HSC) and its surrounding area, has experienced a significant increase in industrialization and urbanization. As a result of industrialization, ...
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(2011-08-08)Increased environmental regulatory policy has been put in place by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in response to waterborne oil pollution events. We examine the IMO regulatory response to these incidences. ...
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(2010-07-14)Satellite tracking data of juvenile and subadult green turtles captured and released by Texas A&M University at Galveston?s Sea Turtle and Fisheries Ecology Research Lab (STFERL) from the lower Laguna Madre indicate green ...
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(2016-06-01)Urban development can cause increased nutrient loads in nearby streams and rivers. Understanding how the pattern of urban development affects the level of nutrients, specifically phosphorus, within the Galveston Bay Estuary ...
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(2019-04-05)Rapidly increasing population along with episodes of drought puts a substantial strain on water resources in parts of the state of Texas. Thus, sustainable and long-term management of the future of water supply has become ...
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(2017-07-17)With a high sensitivity to local environmental changes and high preservation potential in coastal sediments, benthic foraminifera are useful proxies of long-term environmental change. However, their ecology and distributions ...
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(2012-04-16)In the past decade there has been an overall decrease in Arctic Ocean sea ice cover. Changes to the ice cover have important consequences for organic carbon cycling, especially over the continental shelves. When sea ice ...
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(2012-02-14)Large aggregations of Sargassum, when at sea, provide important habitat for numerous marine species of vertebrates and invertebrates. It is especially important for the young of several species of sea turtles. However, ...
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(2019-07-12)Estuaries have played a major role in the movement of people, goods and services, and knowledge, as societies have developed over time. They are crucial ecosystems for storm buffering and biological resources. The health ...
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(2013-05-08)Wildfires are a natural hazard that present an increasing risk to communities in fire-prone areas. This study examines the impacts of the municipal-level built environment upon fire damages in California, a particularly ...
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(2021-05-17)The Geum River is the third longest river in South Korea. Prior to 1994, the Geum River had an active river-mouth estuary with an upstream salt wedge. In 1994, the Geum River Dam was completed 9 km upstream from the mouth ...
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(2015-09-18)Marine mammals live a life of dual constraints and must balance energetic demands (oxygen consumption) and limited O2 availability while breath-holding. In order to overcome these dual constraints, marine mammals have ...
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(2012-11-28)Peak energy is the notion that the world’s total production of usable energy will reach a maximum value and then begin an inexorable decline. Ninety-two percent of the world’s energy is currently derived from the non-renewable ...
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(2012-07-16)Birding, the act of observing birds in the outdoors, is a form of nature recreation and traditionally considered ecologically benign. Unfortunately, birders, in the pursuit of interactions with wild birds, can have negative ...
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(2014-11-19)In the last decade, in lieu of many financial and environmental problems, the confidence in a traditional risk management strategy has fallen. Due to issues facing the sustainability of natural resources and globalization ...
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(2018-07-06)Effective management of marine resources requires an understanding of the spatial distribution of biologically important communities. The northwestern Gulf of Mexico contains diverse marine ecosystems at a large range of ...
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(2013-09-19)Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and alpha spectroscopy were used to measure Plutonium (Pu) concentrations in soil samples from the Savannah River Site (SRS) and Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, the latter ...