Browsing University Undergraduate Research Fellows (1968–2012) by Department "Oceanography"
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(1997)Diatoms (marine algae) are the largest contributor of biological productivity in the Antarctic. As the siliceous diatoms die their tests begin to accumulate on the sea floor, and preserve a record of how environmental ...
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(1997)Three tows were taken at Galveston Bay, Tx on November 3rd and 4th, 1996 and were evaluated for abundance, with respect to the physical parameters: salinity, temperature, tide stage, and diel stage. These tows yielded a ...
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(1989)The scope of this research is to quantify phytoplankton cell numbers at the Antarctic ice edge in horizontal and vertical dimensions during austral winter. Identification is to the species level where possible. Other methods ...
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(1995)The Gulf of Mexico contains the only known breeding population of Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys kempi); the turtles come ashore to nest along a seventeen mile stretch of coastline near the town of Rancho Nuevo ...
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(1997)The transport of water masses and energy along and across the shelf edge has significance for both the abiotic and biotic components of local and distant regions of the Texas-Louisiana continental shelf in the northwestern ...
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(1990)Feature tracking is a technique that produces a sea surface velocity field from sequential images of sea surface brightness temperature derived from satellite measurements of upwelling radiation intensity. To test the ...