Song, Youn Kyung

Since the devastating hurricane seasons of 2004, 2005, and 2008, the stability and serviceability of coastal bridges during and following hurricane events have become a main public concern. Twenty coastal bridges, critical for hurricane evacuation and recovery efforts, in Texas have been identified as vulnerable to hurricane surge and wave action. To accurately assess extreme surges at these bridges, a dimensionless surge response function methodology was adopted. The surge response function def...

Neuenhoff, Rachel Dawn

Common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are apex predators and indicators of localized ecosystem health. Accurate characterization of population demography is crucial to parameter predictions. However, descriptions of age growth investigations of odontocetes are limited to the postnatal life. In contrast, the modeled scenario for terrestrial mammalian growth has been described along a continuum of pre- and postnatal data. Few age distribution data exist for the western Gulf of Mexico des...

Islam, Mohammad S.

Corpus Christi Bay (TX, USA) is a shallow wind-driven bay which is designated as a National Estuary due to its impact on the economy. But this bay experiences periodic hypoxia (dissolved oxygen <2 mg/l) which threatens aerobic aquatic organisms. Development of the Coastal Margin Observation and Assessment System (CMOAS) through integration of real-time observations with numerical modeling helps to understand the processes causing hypoxia in this energetic bay. CMOAS also serves as a template for...

Gao, Yige

With the ever increasing population and economic activities in coastal areas, coastal hazards have become a major concern for coastal management. The fundamental requirement of coastal planning and management is the scientific knowledge about coastal forms and processes. This research aims at developing algorithms for automatically extracting coastal morphological information from LiDAR data. The primary methods developed by this research include automated algorithms for beach profile feature ex...

Qian, Tingting

Two problems in mesoscale wave dynamics are addressed: (i) wave-turbulence interaction in a breaking mountain wave and (ii) gravity wave generation associated with coastal heating gradients. The mean and turbulent structures in a breaking mountain wave are considered using an ensemble of high-resolution (essentially LES) wave-breaking calculations. A turbulent kinetic energy budget for the wave shows that the turbulence production is almost entirely due to the mean shear. Most of the production ...

McNeal, Karen Sue

Understanding complex Earth systems is challenging for scientists and students alike, because of the characteristics (e.g. bifurcations, self-organization, chaotic response) that are associated with these systems. This research integrates two research strands which contribute to the scientific and pedagogical understanding of complex Earth systems. In the first strand, a method that characterizes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as ecological proxies of soil microbial ecosystems was validated. ...

Holmblad, Peter

This work attempts to seek new insights in understanding the archeological phenomena traditionally labelled as the western Bronze Age and the coastal Pre-Roman cultures of Finland (1500 BC-AD 1), by studying the phenomena from a socioeconomic interaction and practice oriented community perspective. The basic line of thought is that it was the everyday life of the local agents and their interactions that constituted the local communities. Communities are seen as built from the bottom up by the in...

Lindgren, Georg

Pollutants follow various subsurface and surface water pathways from sources within a catchment to its outlet and may cause detrimental effects on downstream water quality and ecosystems. Along their different transport pathways through a catchment, pollutants may be attenuated subject to different physical and biogeochemical processes. In this thesis, physical process effects on such catchment-scale pollutant transport and attenuation, resulting coastal pollutant loading and its efficient abate...

Vonk, Jorien Elisabeth

Arctic soils store half of the global soil organic carbon (OC) pool and twice as much C as is currently present in the atmosphere. A considerable part of these carbon pools are stored in permafrost. Amplified climate warming in the Arctic will thaw permafrost and remobilize some of these substantial carbon stocks into the active carbon cycle, potentially causing positive feedback to global warming. Despite the global importance of this mechanism, our understanding of the fate of these thawing or...

Hollige, Oliver

<p>The study was undertaken in the coastal area of the Benguela Province in Angola. The research question can be formulated as follows: How do laws, policies and regulations influence the development of MSMEs in the coastal area of the Benguela Province? The theory of transaction cost as developed by the new institutional economists will provide the framework for the study.</p>

陳扣平, Chen, Kouping.

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

Shiu, Y. B., Ivan., 蕭猷斌.

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Landscape Architecture

Renganathan, Giridharan.

published_or_final_version / abstract / Architecture / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Fung, Wing-sze., 馮詠詩.

published_or_final_version / Urban Planning / Master / Master of Science in Urban Planning

Ng, Sing-keung., 伍升強.

published_or_final_version / Environmental Management / Master / Master of Science in Environmental Management

Leung, Wai-hung., 梁偉雄.

published_or_final_version / Environmental Management / Master / Master of Science in Environmental Management

Jori, Carol Diane

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McMurtrie, John T., Jr

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Labyak, Peter Stephen

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Biggs, Leslie Ronald

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Comfort, Julie Anne

This thesis provides a history of coastal hazards at South Brighton Spit, Christchurch, through the description and documentation of past coastal hazard events. South Brighton Spit is one of the most intensively developed coastal landforms in New Zealand. Together with the natural fluctuations associated with spit landforms, this provides a useful base for an examination of coastal hazards in a dynamic and high intensity-use coastal environment. The study period is from the establishment of the ...

D'Adamo, Nick

The hydrodynamics of a relatively deep semi-enclosed micro-tidal stratified coastal embayment and its adjacent waters is investigated through a combination of observational and analytical modelling techniques. The relative importance of hydrodynamic processes influenced by baroclinic and barotropic mechanisms, at time scales from hourly to annual, is detailed. The field site for the investigation is Cockburn Sound and surrounding waters, off southwest Australia. It is shown that for either a hom...

Maguire, Lynette (Lynne) Alyson

This case study has been about the attitudes and values of a group of participants in a specific workplace. The aim has been to try and ascertain if the identified attitudes and values of the participants have had any influence on career development. There were 12 participants involved and at the time of this project they were either in permanent part or full time employment with ‘The Company’. ‘The Company’ is a pseudonym given to the business where the participants worked and the setting for t...

Oliver, Robert Craig

Maungatapu Peninsula is a northeast trending peninsula located within the Tauranga Basin covering an area of 1.6km². Maungatapu is underlain by a sequence of volcanic tephras, ashes and fluvial deposits derived both locally and from the Taupo Volcanic Zone. In late May 1995 three landslides occurred at 83, 85 and 89 Te Hono Street, and again in late December 1995 at 330 Maungatapu Road. The purpose of this study was to carry out a geotechnical investigation of these landslides, and to establish ...

Steenson, Michael Allen

This thesis argues the case of community involvement in coastal management in New Zealand. It takes as its starting point objective six of the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement (2010). Which it is suggested, frames the issue on community involvement in specific but rather limited ways. The thesis examines the potential for community-based management in two contrasting places, namely Kaikoura and Waiheke Island. Not only are these within different Regional Council jurisdictions, but they also...

Kelland, Emma Jean

Coastal and river environments are exposed to a number of natural hazards that have the potential to negatively affect both human and natural environments. The purpose of this research is to explain that significant vulnerabilities to seismic hazards exist within coastal and river environments and that coasts and rivers, past and present, have played as significant a role as seismic, engineering or socio-economic factors in determining the impacts and recovery patterns of a city following a seis...

Teeter, Lianna

Under steady state conditions where the rate of biological oxygen production is balanced by oxygen evasion to the atmosphere, net community production (NCP) can be estimated from mixed layer oxygen/argon measurements. This method is effective in the open ocean but not in coastal zones where upwelling of low oxygen water violates the simple steady state assumption. Since these upwelling regions are highly productive, excluding them can lead to significant underestimations of global productivity. ...

Di Iorio, Daniela

Graduate

Wicks, Adam Joseph

The southern Chukchi and Bering Sea region regularly experiences powerful storms that bring high winds that cause positive and negative water level set-up (storm surges) events. Positive set-up events can cause coastal inundation, sometimes extending far inland for low-relief locations, and negative set-up events can be problematic for shallow-draft marine equipment, such as barges. A ten year record (2004-2014) of water level data is available from a NOAA tide gauging station situated at the Te...

Meade, Angela Kaye

<p> Community integration and involvement is the overarching goal in planning for the transition from high school to adulthood for students with disabilities. The provision of a continuum of services, based on each student's individual needs is, the cornerstone of special education and transition services. The focus of this study was on how educational leaders in the coastal region of a South Atlantic state ensure that the transition requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Ac...

Rasico, Patrick David

The othering of Welsh persons was a recurrent feature of English home tour travelogues throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet, in the eighteenth-century English popular imaginary, the Welsh landscape acquired new meanings as a locus of picturesque topographical beauty. Against this background of anterior travel accounts proclaiming Welsh social otherness and visual praise of Waless ecological picturesque beauty, William Daniell and Richard Ayton defined the objectives of their t...

Blythe, Jessica

Change has become a ubiquitous force in a highly globalized and interconnected world. Coastal systems are being restructured by overfishing, globalization, climate change and other factors. Further, social and ecological changes in coastal systems interact across spatial and temporal scales creating challenges that are complex, nonlinear and often difficult to predict. These new challenges have the potential to push social-ecological systems past their experienced range of variability and thu...

Lara Espinosa, Alejandra

Despite recent interest in understanding long-term trends in ocean acidity, natural variations of carbon chemistry on short timescales are still poorly understood. Unfortunately, historical observations of the oceanic CO2 system are relatively few in number. Such data are particularly scarce along the highly productive Canadian Pacific coast. However, hydrographic data such as temperature, salinity, oxygen and nutrients have been collected regularly in this region. I developed a fully cross-vali...

Kobryn, Arielle Jensen

This study was conducted in Esquimalt lagoon, located southwest of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Physical characteristics of the water column, e.g. circulation and stratification, changed seasonally resulting from variations in tides, temperature, precipitation and wind. Chemical characteristics, e.g. oxygen and dissolved nutrient concentrations, also differed temporally relative to those in the lagoon’s ocean source water (Juan de Fuca Strait) because of variations in local photosynthesi...

Liston, Mary K.

This thesis is a study of change and adaptability in a social-ecological system. In order to contribute to efforts toward sustainability on the British Columbia coast, the study focuses on the fisheries and aquaculture sector in Ucluelet, BC to investigate four specific issues, including: how coastal communities experience and deal with change; how global environmental change affects coastal communities; the key factors that build or threaten social-ecological resilience in coastal communities; ...

Lawrence, Breanna Catherine

The transition from education to the world of work has changed significantly for most young people in recent years. Social and economic changes have impacted the process, particularly for youth in small communities. Much career development research has identified the needs of urban youth; however, the needs of young people living in rural areas have largely been omitted. This qualitative study illuminated the work-life transitions of nine adults from a small, coastal community on northern Vancou...

Harrop-Archibald, Hilary

Much emphasis has been placed on the recovery and maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Although a number of studies have focused on the relationship between carbon sequestration and ecosystem dynamics, few have focused on the effects of management activities oriented towards biodiversity values on soil carbon and nitrogen pools. The dual goals of restoration for ecosystem structure and function versus restoration for soil carbon sequestration may not be mutually exclusive. This re...

Piller, Christiaan

Optical remote detection of surface water quality for open ocean waters has been ongoing since the 1960's. This method of detection is much more challenging, and not yet standard practice, for the more optically complex inland and coastal waters. A series of empirically developed models were built relating remote sensing reflectance (Rrs) for Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imagery (CASI), acquired over both inland and coastal water bodies of the Cowichan River watershed in British Columbia, to ...

McLaren, Duncan

Coastal archaeological sites dating to the late Pleistocene and early Holocene are rare on the northwest coast of North America, as they are in many regions of the world, due to changing environmental factors, in particular glacial isostasy and eustasy, resulting in low visibility and survival of archaeological deposits. This dissertation outlines methods and results used to locate late Pleistocene and early Holocene archaeological sites on the Dundas Island Archipelago on the Northwest Coast c...

Dai, Sulan

Communities on Canada’s east and west coasts have experienced profound changes as a result of environmental and economic restructuring associated with the decline of traditional resource-based industries, principally fishery, forestry and mining. This restructuring has resulted in social changes with potentially major implications for the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Coasts under Stress (CUS) examines the effects of restructuring on coastal communities in British Columbi...

McKillip, J. C. S., Oberholtzer, W. E.

This research subject deals primarily with the layer of stratus clouds encountered so frequently on the southwestern coast of the United States.

Keung, Neil C.

<p> Habitat use by federally threatened California Red-Legged Frogs (CRLF; <i>Rana draytonii</i>) is incompletely understood. I captured, PIT-tagged, and radio-tracked CRLFs (n = 20) at Waddell Creek, Santa Cruz County, from July&ndash;December 2012. Limited tracking for movements was also conducted in 2013. Frogs were clumped in deep, complex habitats along the stream within 2 km of breeding ponds near the stream mouth, but most adults were concentrated in the lagoon. Marked and tracked frogs h...

Parker, Heather A.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / In situ measurements of hydrographic, wind and Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) data, along with satellite imagery, were collected off central California during the upwelling season of three successive years, 1993, 1994 and 1995. The survey was conducted three times in the late spring of each year within 75 km of the coastline from Point Reyes south to Cypress Point, along a region of irregular coastline and bathymetry. The upwelli...

Kormanec, Marshall James

Fish otoliths are composed of inorganic calcium carbonate that aid in gravity and auditory reception. Substances permanently accrete to otolith surfaces in distinct temporal patterns of alternating opaque and translucent rings; these rings are direct proxies for a fishs age. The objective of my research is to demonstrate how otoliths can be used through time and space to estimate both age and growth of fish. I investigated the spatial differences in age distributions and growth models for red sn...

Wakil, Md. Abdul

Tourism is acquiring the attention worldwide especially in the developing countries (Akpabio et al. 2006). In the case of coastal areas, tourism is more sensitive to environmental degradation compared to other economic activities because the environment is its primary resource. With the help of efficient planning and proper management of natural resources, tourism can significantly contribute to environmental conservation and to achieve environmental sustainability in coastal areas (Orhon et al....

Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur

Global climate is changing continuously as a result of industrial revolution and rapid urbanisation in many countries of the world which has significant impacts on environment, socio-economic condition, physical and biological issues. Increase of global temperature, rainfall changes, sea level rise, occurrences of extreme weather events such as floods, cyclones, typhoons, droughts etc. are the major and direct consequences of climate change in the world (Pulhin et al., 2010, & Shaw et al., 2010)...

Kwok, Pui-tin, 郭沛鈿

The aim of this project is to study the impact of future sea level rise on coastal development in Hong Kong and to review current marine design work standard of Port Work Design Manual. Projection of sea level rise to 2060 and 2099 from past tide gauge records has been carried out in this study. The recent redevelopment area, Kai Tak (Old airport), is chosen as study area. Data has been obtained from Hong Kong Observatory, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007), Lands Department and Civil Engineer...

Li, Meng, 李猛

published_or_final_version / Biological Sciences / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Chan, Yuen-man, 陳苑雯

published_or_final_version / Civil Engineering / Master / Master of Philosophy

McFarland, Jason J.

<p> Arctic Grayling (<i>Thymallus arcticus</i>) are widely distributed on the Arctic Coastal Plain (ACP) of Alaska, and are one of the few upper level consumers in streams, but the trophic pathways and food resources supporting these fish are unknown. Grayling migrate each summer into small beaded streams, which are common across the landscape on the ACP, and appear to be crucial foraging grounds for these and other fishes. I investigated prey resources supporting different size classes of gra...