Browsing by Subject "Florida"
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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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(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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(2011-02-22)This research presents the first coastal and marine protected areas specific quantitative management plan evaluation protocol. This critical research gap in the coastal and marine protected area (CMPA) research literature ...
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(2012-07-16)This dissertation addresses how Paleoindians used the karst drainage of the Aucilla River in northwestern Florida during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition (approximately 15-10,000 14C yr B.P.). I take a geoarchaeological ...
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(2016-04-07)Rather than assess the efficacy of a specific groundwater quality program, this research explored what it means to protect groundwater quality at the state level. Specifically, it examined how groundwater quality protection ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Urban development is of particular concern in the management of endangered Key deer (Odocoileous virginianus clavium) because highway mortality is the greatest single cause of deer mortality (≈ 50%), and the rural community ...
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(2018-04-20)The Second Seminole War, fought from 1835-1842, was undoubtedly the longest, costliest conflict the United States engaged in between the American Revolution and the Civil War. From 1836 to 1839 the federal budget quadrupled ...
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(2010-10-12)Planning researchers believe that property losses from natural hazards, such as floods can be reduced if governments address this issue and adopt appropriate policies in their plans. However, little empirical research has ...
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(2012-10-19)This Ph.D. dissertation integrates stable isotope and trace element geochemistry in modern and fossil gastropod shells to study low-latitude marine paleoenvironments. First, stable isotopes (delta18O and delta13C) and Sr/Ca ...
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(2009-05-15)Florida’s Spanish borderland was the result of over two hundred and fifty years of cooperation and contention among Indians, Spain, Britain, the United States and Africans who lived with them all. The borderland was shaped ...
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(2011-08-08)The NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is situated along the east coast of central Florida, where a high frequency of lightning occurs annually. Although cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning forecasting using radar echoes has been ...
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(2016-08-03)Sediment archives in sinkholes and blueholes in both Cenozoic and Mesozoic carbonate platforms preserve important records of paleoenvironmental change. However, there is still a poor understanding of detailed sedimentary ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)This dissertation examines three state shoreline resources planning programs; Texas, Florida and California's San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. These programs are examined in the context of the ...
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(Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu), 2010-08)The aim of this paper is to promote efficient and cost effective implementation of advanced solar cooling systems and techniques for the hot and humid climates cities in the United States. After an introduction of basic ...