Browsing by Subject "Gulf of Mexico"
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)In the northern Gulf of Mexico, seafloor hydrocarbon fluid and gas seepage is an ubiquitous process on the continental margin. Although seafloor seepage and seep-related features (mud volcanoes, carbonate formation) have ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, )The question addressed in this dissertation is what is the primary energy source for the anticyclonic gyre found in the western Gulf of Mexico. Two energy sources are considered: the Loop Current through the mechanism of ...
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(2012-07-16)The numerous benefits that wetlands provide make them essential to ecosystem services and ecological functions. Historically, wetland losses have been caused by natural and anthropogenic changes. In Texas, nearly 50% of ...
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(2009-05-15)My research in coastal Ecuador and the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) elucidated differences in value of shallow estuarine habitats for fishes and invertebrates. I focused on mangrove and tidal river habitats in Ecuador, ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The number of subsea production systems placed in deepwater locations in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) has increased significantly in the last ten to fifteen years. Currently, API-RP2A (2000 a,b) designates the GOM as a low ...
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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SHRIMP CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES IN THE GULF OF MEXICO (2013-02-04)The commercial shrimp harvest is the second most important fishery in the United States, and eighty percent of this harvest by weight is caught in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Survival rate in the post larval stage in GOM ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Total mercury (Hg) levels were determined in the tissues of ten taxa of pelagic fishes, with a special emphasis on apex predators (large vertebrates). Highest Hg levels were observed in blue marlin (Makaira nigricans), ...
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(2018-12-05)Studies on larvae and juvenile fishes during the first few months of life are limited for many pelagic species despite the fact that biological data on these stages are needed to better assess and monitor recruitment ...
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(2017-06-05)The calcium carbonate saturation state is decreasing globally in the surface waters due to the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and dissolved carbon dioxide in the oceans. Recent evidence suggests that the ...
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(2012-10-19)Previous studies showed that sea surface salinity (SSS) in the Florida Straits as well as Florida Current transport covaried with changes in North Atlantic climate over the past two millennia. However, little is known about ...
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(2009-05-15)This research was carried out in support of fieldwork in the Gulf of Mexico in summers 2004 and 2005 as part of the multidisciplinary Sperm Whale Seismic Study (SWSS). Important aspects of SWSS research include oceanographic ...
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(2014-07-17)Current velocities from 21 years (1992-2012) of near-continuous observations are used to investigate the Texas Coastal Current on the western Texas-Louisiana continental shelf in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Observations ...
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(2012-07-16)Upwelling, atmospheric nitrogen (N2) fixation by cyanobacteria, and freshwater inputs from the Mississippi River system have been shown to stimulate new production by alleviating nitrogen (N) limitation in the northern ...
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(2013-05-07)A combination of in situ sampling and real-time ocean observations was used to investigate the processes responsible for the formation and the areal extent of Texas coastal hypoxia from 2002 to 2011. In situ sampling, ...
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(2018-06-19)Background–The commercial fishing work sector continues to experience one of the highest occupational fatality rates in the U.S. There are regional differences in distribution of these events relative to fishery type, ...
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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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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Density, species diversity, species richness, and evenness of bivalve mollusks were measured in the deep (0.2km to 3.7km) northern Gulf of Mexico to describe the community structure of benthic bivalve mollusks. Density ...
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(2016-04-26)This paper addresses utilizing borehole acoustic logs to predict pore pressure at the borehole and employing seismic inversion to extrapolate these predictions. We implemented common approaches with our proposed quality ...
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(PLOS, 2015-05-06)Landscape-level shifts in plant species distribution and abundance can fundamentally change the ecology of an ecosystem. Such shifts are occurring within mangrove-marsh ecotones, where over the last few decades, relatively ...
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(2011-08-08)Gas hydrate is a potential energy source that has recently been the subject of much academic and industrial research. The search for deep-water gas hydrate involves many challenges that are especially apparent in the ...