Browsing by Subject "Galveston Bay"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1978)Trawl collections were taken from June 1974 to September 1975 to determine the abundance and distribution of fishes in the canal system of the Houston Lighting & Power P.H. Robinson Generating Station with emphasis on ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This study was designed to examine the uptake and depuration of trace organic contaminants, e.g. poly nuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), including planar congeners, and butyltin species, ...
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Tom Bullinton & Bill Wardel (man with beard), are collecting samples from Galveston Bay for disease investigations in the aquatic animal medicine program at Texas A&M.
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(2007-09-17)Offatts Bayou is an embayment in the Galveston Bay complex on the upper Texas coast. The bayou is approximately 4.8 km long with a maximum width of 1 km, and an average depth of approximately 5 m. A small created lake (Lake ...
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(2012-10-19)The structure and function of coastal marshes results from a complex interaction of biotic and abiotic processes that continually influence the characteristics of marsh vegetation. A great deal of research has focused on ...
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(2015-12-07)The Gulf Coast has seen a dramatic decline in commercial oyster harvest in recent years. Lack of fresh-water inflow and elevated temperatures and salinities have been identified as factors contributing to increased Dermo ...
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Water quality is a critical parameter in ensuring the health of Galveston Bay due to the presence of major commercial and recreational fisheries that take place there. One way to assess the health of the bay is to monitor ...
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(2013-01-15)With steady growth in global commerce and intensified ship traffic worldwide, comes the increased risk of invasion by non-indigenous organisms. Annually, >7000 vessels traveled across Galveston Bay, Texas from 2005-2010. ...
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(2009-05-15)Freshwater inflows are essential to the health of estuaries and minimum discharge levels must be maintained in order to sustain a healthy ecosystem. Due to the predicted 50% increase in urban population growth along the ...
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(2018-07-17)Methyl halides, methyl chloride (CHv3Cl), methyl bromide (CHv3Br), and methyl iodide (CHv3I), play an important role in atmospheric chemistry, because they deplete ozone through catalytic ozone destruction. Measurements ...
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(2017-07-12)This study investigates sedimentation rates within Galveston bay, TX, and their utility in estimating differential compaction in Texas coastal plain estuaries. Most modern Texas estuaries are situated over incised Pleistocene ...
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(2013-07-05)Galveston Bay is the second largest estuary in the Gulf of Mexico. The bay’s watershed and shoreline contains one of the largest concentrations of petroleum and chemical industries in the world, with the greatest concentration ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Adaptation of species for shoreline stabilization; use of wave-stilling devices; effects of fertilizers, water salinity, tidal fluctuations, and selected soil characteristics on plant establishment and growth were studied ...
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(2017-12-09)Hydrozoa (phylum Cnidaria) is one of the most diverse and widespread classes of gelatinous zooplankton. They are understudied because they are often inconspicuous and overlooked in many planktonic studies. Due to their ...
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(2020-12-01)The ocean is absorbing an increasing amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), which is rapidly changing seawater chemistry. As seawater CO2 increases, ecosystem calcification is hindered by the resulting decline in pH, aragonite ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Seasonal occurrence, abundance and susceptibility to cooling-water operations were determined for 89 species of fish occurring in intake and discharge canals of the P. H. Robinson Generating Station on Galveston Bay, Texas ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The sediment geochemistry of Mn at a site in Galveston Bay, Texas, was investigated through a three-fold approach. A field study demonstrated that despite the coarse, quartz-rich nature of the bottom sediments, Mn was ...
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(Texas A&M University, 1979)Not available
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(Texas A&M University, 1980)Not available
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(2015-12-08)Galveston Bay is an economically and ecologically important estuarine system on the Texas Coast sourced by freshwater inflows from an increasingly urbanized watershed. To regulate these flows, a baseline of ecological ...