Lin, Sheng, 林勝

published_or_final_version / Asian Studies / Master / Master of Philosophy

Zhang, Yingxuan, 張映璇

published_or_final_version / abstract / Urban Planning and Environmental Management / Master / Master of Philosophy

Ding, Guoping, 丁國平

published_or_final_version / abstract / Earth Sciences / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Lee, Hok-shing., 李學成.

published_or_final_version / Civil and Structural Engineering / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Rinard, Stephen K.

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van Norden, Maxim F., Litts, Steven E.

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Yeager, David Winston

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McCallister, Michael Alan.

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Whitson, William Frederick.

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Austin, Marshall Harlan.

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Martinez, Johnny R.

To investigate the Northern Canary Current System (NCCS), results from four numerical experiments of increasing complexity are examined. Experiment I, which uses seasonal wind forcing only, shows that, as expected, wind forcing is the key generative mechanism for the current, upwelling, meander, eddy, and filament structures. Experiments 2 and 3 have the addition of an irregular coastline. These two experiments show that capes are areas for enhanced upwelling, extensive filaments, maximum curren...

Delgado, Raymond R.

Over-water wind directions derived from high frequency (HF) radar - the new Multi-frequency Coastal Radar (MCR) - are compared to in-situ observations to determine the skill of the radar measurements. Conventional beam processing of data collected from two MCR sites located around Monterey Bay during summer 1997 is used to create wind directions based on the relative strength of the positive and negative Bragg-resonant peaks, which correspond to the wind-driven waves approaching and receding fro...

Stetson, John B.

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Single, M. B.

The role of high energy events in determining beach morphology on mixed sand and gravel barrier beaches is examined. Analysis of the beach response to high energy events contributes to the understanding of the significance of these events in determining the general and long term function of mixed sand and gravel beach systems. Issues concerned with the contribution of events of differing sizes to the geomorphic character of landforms are an ongoing area of debate in geomorphology. The concepts o...

Shipes, James Claybourne

<p>Mottled ducks (<i>Anas fulvigula</i>) are endemic to Gulf Coastal United States and Mexico. Birds from Florida, Louisiana, and Texas were released in coastal South Carolina from 1975-1983, and banding data suggest an expanding South Carolina population. We radio-marked 116 females in August 2010-2011 in the Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto (ACE) Rivers Basin and used radio telemetry to study habitat selection, searched for nests of non-radiomarked females, and conducted indicated breeding pair s...

Ferrario, Filippo <1981>

Climate-change related impacts, notably coastal erosion, inundation and flooding from sea level rise and storms, will increase in the coming decades enhancing the risks for coastal populations. Further recourse to coastal armoring and other engineered defenses to address risk reduction will exacerbate threats to coastal ecosystems. Alternatively, protection services provided by healthy ecosystems is emerging as a key element in climate adaptation and disaster risk management. I examined two dist...

Nowell, Megan Sarah

La presión antropogénica es la amenaza preeminente para la biodiversidad, la resiliencia y el funcionamiento ecológico de los medios costero y marino. El desarrollo de respuestas efectivas a esta amenaza multifacética es un desafío importante para los gestores y responsables de la toma de decisiones, debido a la complejidad de los ecosistemas marinos poco conocidos. La interpretación ecológica fidedigna de los datos espaciales utilizando técnicas de ecología del paisaje marino tiene el potencial...

Earon, Robert

Water resources in hard rock terrain are difficult to characterize due to heterogeneity and anisotropy in the fracture network, low porosities and limited recharge volumes available during the summer season. Three methods were developed and evaluated in order to assist in water supply planning. A groundwater resources potential index was estimated using multivariate statistics, where physical and geological variables were classified using Analysis of Variance and Fisher's Least Significant Diffe...

Franco, Teresa Cristina de Borges

During the early-middle Holocene (7500-4000 BP) on the west coast of South America, the intense exploitation of a changing marine environment led to sedentism and an increase in social complexity (e.g., Moseley 1975, 1988; Yesner 1980; Erlandson and Jones 2002; Arnold 2004). One of the most archaeologically visible societies during this period was Chinchorro in northern Chile and southern Peru. These people were maritime foragers who developed a sophisticated mummification process of human cadav...

Stirling, David

For certain shellfish species, a mechanical harvester has the potential to greatly reduce harvesting costs. Traditionally, hand rakes are used in shellfish harvesting in British Columbia. In order to determine if it is environmentally feasible to use a mechanical harvester, an environmental assessment on mechanical harvesting and traditional harvesting needs to occur for comparison. In July 2008, a preliminary oceanographic assessment was conducted at three study sites in Baynes Sound. Each of t...

Harris, Katherine Anne

The purpose of this work was to examine the source and fate of hydrocarbons, the primary constituents of oil, in sea otter (Enhydra lutris) habitat on the west coast of British Columbia (BC), Canada and their fate in the sea otter food web. Oil pollution is the primary threat to this recovering population, reflecting their extreme vulnerability as a result of several unique life history characteristics, including the absence of a blubber layer, reliance on their fur for insulation, and the fact...

King, Stephanie

An oceanographic buoy with 10 atmospheric and oceanographic instruments was deployed in Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Canada in 2007. The high-resolution time series was used to monitor the fine-scale variability in the coastal ocean. Over 700 CTD profiles measuring temperature, salinity and chlorophyll fluorescence made in the region of the buoy were used to relate the buoy data to spatial patterns. Analysis showed that large-scale upwelling in combination with the localized winds and ...

Abeysirigunawardena, Dilumie Saumedaka

The research presented in this dissertation attempted to determine whether climate variability is critical to sea level changes in coastal BC. To that end, a number of statistical models were proposed to clarify the relationships between five climate variability indices representing large-scale atmospheric circulation regimes and sea levels, storm surges, extreme winds and storm track variability in coastal BC. The research findings demonstrate that decadal to inter decadal climatic variability ...

Willers, Valeria

Low dissolved zinc concentrations in marine waters can limit growth and productivity of phytoplankton. as Zn is a required component of critical enzymes such as carbonic anhydrase. This thesis examined the effects of Zn availability on growth rates. cell morphology, elemental composition and ratios, and incorporation rates of macronutrients in the coastal diatom Skeletonema costatum and the oceanic diatom Thalassiosira oceanica. Under Zn limitation. S. costatum exhibited a decrease in maximum gr...

Divakarannair, Nandakumar

Marine fish stocks are under serious threat of depletion due to increasing numbers of resource users with competing interests, resulting in degradation and the decline of fish catch. Using qualitative and quantitative techniques such as in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, household surveys and remote sensing and GIS, this study addresses: (1) the complex and inter-related nature of resource dependency, (2) the role of assets in determining survival strategies of households in artisanal...

Johnson, Stephanie Lynn, 1977-

The focus of this work was to develop a general methodology for modeling water quality in coastal waterbodies. The methods were developed in the context of modeling bacterial total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), but the general approach is applicable to a wide variety of pollutants. The study area for this dissertation was the Copano Bay watershed, which is located on the Texas Gulf Coast. The developed approach combines simple modeling techniques, of the type recommended by state and national adv...

Kosco, George Francis, Dorsett, John O. F.

This thesis document was issued under the authority of another institution, not NPS. At the time it was written, a copy was added to the NPS Library collection for reasons not now known. It has been included in the digital archive for its historical value to NPS. Not believed to be a CIVINS (Civilian Institutions) title. / In the preliminary considerations of this problein, the Idea back of the whole Investigation was to afford the U.S. Naval Service with a detailed study 'of the weather con...

Fragkou, Maria Christina

Reconociendo la importancia de la urbe en el desarrollo sostenible global, esta tesis se enfoca en dos aspectos de la sostenibilidad urbana mediante una perspectiva metabólica. De acuerdo con las pautas metodológicas de la Análisis de Flujos de Materiales (Material Flow Accounting - MFA) presentadas por Eurostat en 2001, dos nuevas metodologías se desarrollan con el objetivo de evaluar la gestión de agua y de residuos Sólidos Urbanos (RSU). Ellas se aplican en los municipios litorales de la reg...

McLain, Nathan K.

<p> Many southern California coastal salt marshes are urbanized and heavily impacted, but still provide important ecosystem services, including carbon and nutrient cycling. Salt marsh community structure and functions, such as decomposition, are essential for marsh ecosystems and are potentially vulnerable to inundation impacts created by sea level rise (SLR). The saltmarsh communities driving decomposition are comprised of invertebrates, fungi, and bacteria, which may be susceptible to SLR. ...

Stevens, R. Scott

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / The California Coastal Jet can have a significant impact on many operations. This study examines the sensitivity of the California Coastal Jet to the synoptic-scale flow by examining the surface reflection of the jet at a particular buoy (buoy 46028) off the Central California coast. Statistical analysis and subjective examination of surface charts were performed to help determine the relationship between the synoptic flow regime and the o...

Alexander, Shavonne A., Brinkley, Walter R., Cohen, Jordan M., Roberts, Thomas M., Beery, Paul, Bubulka, Joseph, Kenfield, Matt C., Quilenderino, Johnny M.

Further distribution of all or part of this report is subject to the Distribution Statement appearing on the front cover. / One of the global security challenges the United States faces is disaster coupled with political instability. The U.S. Military‘s ability to rapidly respond to disasters enhances regional and global security and stability. Foreign Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (FHA/DR), increasingly a mission that relies on a significant military component, focuses on the prov...

Savolainen, Michelle A.

As part of ongoing efforts to assess ecosystem services provided by wetlands, this research focuses on estimating the private monetary value of wetland services to residential property owners in Louisiana and Alabama using a hedonic price model. Understanding that tradeoffs must be made with limited resources, valuing ecosystem services is important for policy and decision making purposes, such as determining how much public and private financial resources should be put towards wetland maintenan...

Dehkordi, S. Emad

Stockholm archipelago is a combination of coastal and young glaciated conditions on hard rock geology with almost no primary porosity and very limited secondary porosity. Therefore the aquifer is both of limited capacity and exposed to salinity problem. In this context importance of fractures and soil cover is magnified. Lineaments are representatives of fractures in remote sensing. Fracture mapping in study area proves close correspondence between orientation of fractures and nearly located lin...

Breier, John Arthur

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Barraza Lizárraga, Eleonor

The Gulf of Mexico is a shared resource at risk. It is facing many problems such as exponential population growth, degrading water quality, consequences of oil and gas activities, unsustainable exploitation of resources, and lack of public education and political interest. In response, Mexico and the United States have devised their own set of programs and strategies to best manage their coastal zones. There have been a few official coastal management efforts between the U.S. Gulf states and Mex...

Johnston, Marshall Conring, 1930-

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Smith, Virginia Burton

The lower Trinity River in Texas flows 180 river kilometers from Livingston Dam to Trinity Bay. Like many sandy coastal rivers the lower Trinity is geomorphically active. Within this 180-km reach, the river exhibits three styles of channel geometry and kinematic behavior that have been characterized using aerial photographs spanning the past 60 years, as well as bathymetric surveys and field work completed over the past 5 years. The three channel zones are connected to spatial change in properti...

Algus, Mitchell.

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Gent, Malcolm Richard.

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Westrick, Autumn Anastasia

The fate of subsurface oiled sands collected from Fourchon Beach in Louisiana were determined while modifying biogeochemical controls on the degradation of PAHs. Groundwater on the beach has intrinsically low dissolved oxygen concentrations, which may limit natural biodegradation of the crude oil components. The intent of this research was to characterize the biogeochemical properties and degradability of oiled sands (with >10% of pore filled with MC252 oil) using a combination of laboratory flo...

Maass, Audrey

Inherently resilient practices are one mechanism that communities engage in to cope with disruptive events. A community retains and passes down the practices associated with inherent resilience in their collective memory. The inherent resilience of a community is developed over time, yet the explanation provided by Colten et al. lacks a genesis of how this process developed particularly in relation to the oil industrys entry into Louisiana. The foundations of these practices will be explored thr...

Blundell, Ian, n/a

For Maori, the management fo New Zealand�s coast and its resources is fundamental to their cultural identity. Iwi and hapu throughout New Zealand have close relationships with the coast and unique rights and responsibilities for its future management. However, there does not appear to be wide recognition of the crucial role of Maori in New Zealand�s coastal management regime. Co-management initiatives in coastal management, particularly under the Conservation Act 1987, Resource Management Act 1...

Johansen, Grace, w.johansen@cqu.edu.au

While in agreement with the perceived wisdom that events during World War Two were responsible for many social changes for women in Australia, the thesis disagrees with the implication in existent Queensland women’s historiography that these changes affected women equally in all parts of the State. Research undertaken in Central Queensland provides evidence that, although some similarities existed, the conservative forces in this region restricted the liberating effect of such changes. It also a...

Kinsela, Andrew Stephen, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW

The cycling of biogenic volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) within marine and terrestrial ecosystems has been shown to play an integral role in atmospheric chemistry; by influencing global climate change through the creation of cloud condensation nuclei and controlling acid-base chemistry; as well as influencing sediment chemistry including the interactions with trace metals, particularly regarding iron sulfide formation. Despite this, the examination of VSCs within Australian coastal acid sulfate ...

Kemp, Annabeth S.

Relatively little published information on cyanoprokaryote (blue-green algal) blooms in the freshwater wetlands in Western Australia is available. There has been little research on the urban lakes and rivers, examining the relationship between environmental conditions and toxin-producing blooms. In this project the ecology, morphology and toxicity of cyanoprokaryota blooms in 27 metropolitan lakes and sumplands, as well as three major rivers, from 2000 to 2003, on the Swan Coastal Plain (SCP) in...

Rickard, Darcel

Burgeoning coastal development, recreational use, and the future affects of climate change are placing increasing strain on regulators to manage risk associated with coastal hazards. Low-lying coastal communities in particular are vulnerable to a range of natural hazards including coastal erosion, storm surge inundation, tsunami and water safety that come with varying levels of risk to life and property. New Zealand's coastal hazard monitoring network is patchy and resources are limited. As a c...

Scott, Glenn

An eddy covariance system and micrometeorological station was deployed at two locations along the coastline of Hudson Bay during the summers of 2005 and 2006 to document and to understand mass and energy fluxes in high-latitude intertidal and near-shore environments. Despite the proximity of these two zones, it was found that they exhibited distinctly different characteristics. The near-shore zone was a sink for CO2 with an average uptake of -0.11 μmol·m-2·s-1 and the intertidal zone tended to b...

Cockcroft, Victor Gavin.

The biology of bottlenose dolphins from the east coast of southern Africa is investigated. Births occur predominantly in summer, after a one year gestation period. Calves are born at a length of approximately 103 cm and a mass of nearly 14 kg. Neonates are closely attended by the mother, she determines the calf's respiration rate and behaviour as it swims in a negative pressure vortex high on her flank. The initial weeks are marked by the calf's acquisition of swimming skills and its ability to ...

Mingliang, Lu

As the impacts of climate change become more severe, coastal communities are required to prepare plans for adaptation to the invasive environmental changes. A well-prepared adaptation plan can effectively reduce the overall risks of coastal communities. However, a plan is not the final solution for the climate change on coastal communities. How to take the plan into action and implement it in the local communities and find the opportunities for the enhanced preparedness and development of coasta...

Sara, Barghi

It is no longer a question of scientific debate that research declares our climate is changing. One of the most important and visible impacts of this phenomenon is sea level rise which has impacts on coastal cities and island communities. Sea level rise also magnifies storm surges which can have severely damaging impacts on different human made infrastructure facilities near the shorelines in coastal zones. In this research we are concerned about the proximity of water systems as one of the most...