Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Department "Marine Biology"
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(2013-02-04)Lake Botanisk, a small isolated body of water in Copenhagen, Denmark, has remained relatively undisturbed for four centuries, making its sediments an excellent historical archive of past deposition rates of atmospheric ...
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS are a family of anthropogenic pollutants that consists of approximately 1200 structurally related chemical compounds. PFAS were discovered accidentally over 70 years ago by a ...
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(2013-09-25)The effects of anthropogenic noise on acoustic communication among cetaceans have become an increasing concern because cetaceans use acoustic communication as a major part of their interactions. Human contribution to the ...
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Enhydra lutris nereis, otherwise known as the Southern Sea Otter, has been listed as threatened since 1977. The initial reasoning for their listing was the population deficit due to hunting in the era of fur trading and ...
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Balaenopterids are among the largest animals to have lived on earth, yet they are often the most elusive to research. Despite their size, we are still discovering new populations. As technology and the sciences converge, ...
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(2013-09-26)Dolphins in many parts of the world follow fishing boats to eat fish and invertebrates stirred into the water column by them, and so do the dolphins that frequent Galveston Bay and the Galveston Ship Channel. These individuals ...
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Characterization of genetic variation of the gulf killifish (Fundulus grandis) along the Texas coast (2014-09-25)The gulf killifish (Fundulus grandis) is a widely distributed cyprinodontiform of ecological importance in salt marshes of the Gulf of Mexico. Both the reproductive strategy and apparently limited dispersal capabilities ...
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(2014-09-26)Wetlands are important to the coastal environment because of the variety of purposes they serve to the area wildlife. The ecological and economic importance of wetlands makes it imperative to understand the benefits of ...
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Colonization of Hard-substrate Invertebrate Communities on Various Materials in Galveston Bay, Texas (2021-04-22)Hard-substrate organisms such as oysters and barnacles reduce coastal erosion, improve water quality, and promote biodiversity. However, hard-substrate communities are threatened by dredging, sedimentation, invasive species, ...
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As the global human footprint increases, animals are forced to adapt biologically and behaviorally. Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) show advanced early behavioral plasticity to their environment especially in ...
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(2018-04-25)Annelida is a diverse phylum that includes leeches, earthworms, polychaetes, and several model species like Platynereis dumerilii (clam worm), Helobdella robusta (leech), and Capitella capitata (polychaete worm), that are ...
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(2014-09-15)Parasites, in particular trematodes (Platyhelminthes: Digenea), play major roles in the population dynamics and community structure of invertebrates on soft-sediment mudflats (Leung, 2009). Austrobilharzia variglandis and ...
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(2018-04-27)Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans) and Devil Firefish (Pterois miles) are Indo-Pacific species introduced into the western North Atlantic Ocean in the 1980s. Their range currently extends from New York to Florida and adjacent ...
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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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(2017-05-03)The microstructure of vibrissae, or whiskers, of terrestrial mammals has been well-studied, but the study of marine mammal vibrissae is relatively overlooked. The lack of comparative data regarding the vibrissae, or ...
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(2013-09-25)The Flower Garden Banks consist of two salt domes raised above the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico roughly 190 km southeast of Galveston, Texas. With mean annual temperature variations of 18 to 32°C and relatively ...
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(2017-04-24)The aim of this project was to investigate the evolution and genetic diversity of populations of the hydrozoan Janaria mirabilis (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa: Hydractiniidae) and its hermit crab host Manucomplanus varians (Crustacea: ...
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(2014-05-28)The feeding ecology of three coastal shark species consisting of Atlantic Sharpnose (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae), Bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo), and Atlantic Blacktip (Carcharhinus limbatus) was examined in the northwest ...
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(2014-09-25)Janaria mirabilis (Hydractiniidae, Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) is a calcareous hydrozoan that forms encrusting colonies on gastropod shells. Identifying Hydractiniids using morphology only has been shown to be misleading due to ...
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(2017-05-01)Salt marshes serve as essential habitat for many organisms. Grass shrimp of the genus Palaemonetes encompass approximately 25 to 70 percent of nekton within salt marsh edge habitat, serving as prey items for commercially ...