Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Department "Marine Science"
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(1979)Water and sediment samples taken from an area near the discharge of the Galveston Sewage Treatment Plant were analyzed for copper, nickel, lead and zinc. Two twenty-four hour sampling periods were conducted at four hour ...
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(2018-04-30)Hurricane Harvey brought over 100 cm of rain to the lower drainage basin of the Brazos River and resulted in the highest discharge event in the recorded history of the river. On Sept. 10th, 2017, during the waning phase ...
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The inundation associated with flooding events often transfers otherwise abnormal levels of contaminants into the ecosystem. The Houston/Galveston region poses a unique threat due to the high concentration of petrochemical ...
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(2017-04-25)The stratigraphic record in Great Cistern sinkhole on Abaco Island, The Bahamas, contains coarse-grained layers composed of calcite rafts. Calcite rafts usually form in quiescent cave waters saturated with CaCO3. The ...
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(2019-04-29)Social costs associated with disaster recovery in the United States have been on a rise in recent decades given unprecedented number of extreme weather events including floods, coastal storms and hurricanes. Understanding ...