Polcari, John J.

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Buchanan, Donald Gene

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Bonnett, John William

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Vassiliou, Stavros.

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Nelson, Arthur Ronald

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Mahaffy, Lorrence Alger.

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Magruder, Peyton Marshall

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Becken, Bradford Albert

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Hopkins, Charles K.

Approved for public release; distribution in unlimited. / The current meter records collected at three sites in the Gulf of Mexico during the passage of Hurricane Frederic are analyzed to determine the storm-induced flow at various ocean depths, determine the associated energy increase and decay, and compare these observations to similar results from a numerical model. The records at the two deeper sites are rather unique because they are within 100 km of the hurricane track. Pre-storm condition...

Lindh, Markus V.

Bacterioplankton is characterized by high diversity, short generation times and rapid turnover. Despite their small size, these numerous microorganisms are a fundamental piece of aquatic ecosystems by channeling carbon to higher trophic levels through dissolved organic matter utilization. Yet, several gaps remain in our knowledge and understanding of bacterioplankton populations regarding detailed temporal dynamics, and mechanisms determining biogeographical patterns and potential responses to c...

Kuo, Feng-yu.

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Llewellyn, William E.

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Fournoil, Jacques M.

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Coleman, John Edward

An investigation into the chemistry of two species of marine sponges has led to the isolation of eighteen new and twelve previously known secondary metabolites. The structures of the new compounds were elucidated by a combination of spectroscopic analysis and chemical degradation. A study of the organic extracts of a pink sponge collected of the coast of British Columbia led to the identification of botanones A to C (55-57), botanicol (58), cadlinolide C methyl acetal (59), and cadlinoglyc...

Gan, Jianping, 1962-

An eddy-resolving upper ocean model is developed to study the dynamics and thermo-dynamics of Baie des Chaleurs (BdC, 47.5-48.5N, 65.5-66.5W), Gulf of St. Lawrence (GSL), Canada. The model has primitive equation dynamics with two active layers embedded with a Kraus-Niiler type mixed layer model at the top. / Forced by observed wind, atmospheric heat fluxes, river runoff and appropriate remote forcing (in particular, the Gaspe Current, GC), the model demonstrates that the mean cyclonic general ci...

Kalmikov, Alexander G

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-160). / Quantifying uncertainty and error bounds is a key outstanding challenge in ocean state estimation and climate research. It is particularly difficult due to the large dimensionality of this nonlin...

Majodina, Mark

Sea surface temperatures in the tropical Indian Ocean have been shown to be inversely related to South African summer rainfall, making advanced predictions of this rainfall practicable. Such predictability has enormous potential economic benefits. However, these predictions have been purely statistical; very little is currently known about the marine-atmospheric processes in the Indian Ocean tropics. To address this lack of information, the structure of the upper ocean and lower atmosphere as we...

Senan, Retish

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Dusek, Daniel P.

Thesis (M.S. in Physical Oceanography) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1997. / "September 1997." Thesis advisor(s): Roland W. Garwood. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63). Also available online.

Xiradakis, Pavlos.

Thesis (M.S. in Physics)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Walters, Donald. Second Reader: Borden, Brett. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 27, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Ocean waves, Laser Scattering, Absorption, Refraction. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55). Also available in print.

Kennedy, Deborah Jane

This dissertation investigates some conceptions of oceans in modern Western societies that are highly influential in shaping human-ocean relations. My main aim in this dissertation is to demonstrate that the Western discourses of law, science and the aesthetic of the sublime illuminate characteristics of human-ocean relations in Western societies. I argue that the conceptions developed and perpetuated in the discourses of law, aesthetics and science unnecessarily constrain the possibilities for ...

Dusek, Daniel P.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / A comparison of two versions of coupled physical and biological models of the oceanic mixed layer and upper pycnocline are presented: the first model (NPZ), based on Steel (1977), contains components for nutrients, phytoplankton and zooplankton; a second model (NPZD) based on equations from Flierl and Davis (1993) contains additional components for detritus and light budgets. These models were used to study short duration dynamic mixing ev...

O'Carroll, Rosemarie Helen.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / Comparisons between the two model runs, a half degree resolution and a quarter degree resolution of the Semtner-Chervin eddy-resolving global ocean model, and the Hydrographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean observations are conducted by analyzing horizontal and vertical sections. The quarter degree model, employing a Mercator grid, was interpolated forward from the half degree model initialization. For the last three years of the model run ti...

debkennedy@iprimus.com.au, Deborah Jane Kennedy

This dissertation investigates some conceptions of oceans in modern Western societies that are highly influential in shaping human-ocean relations. My main aim in this dissertation is to demonstrate that the Western discourses of law, science and the aesthetic of the sublime illuminate characteristics of human-ocean relations in Western societies. I argue that the conceptions developed and perpetuated in the discourses of law, aesthetics and science unnecessarily constrain the possibilities for ...

Wu, Pao-Kun

This study was conducted to examine the effects of clouds on the ocean mixed layer, both short-term and seasonal. It utilized data collected at Ocean Station Papa in the northeast Pacific. Two numerical modeling simulations were performed (i.e., with variable cloud and with variable precipitation). The results for the variable cloud simulation indicated that the downward surface buoyancy flux and longer daylight period in summer may induce a significant albedo effect of cloud on ocean mixed laye...

Ries, Harry J.

Seasonal changes of mixed layer depth (MLD) can be related to the forcing by the net surface heating and wind speed. This is shown in this study by comparing the monthly mixed layer depth from temperature profiles in the Bauer-Robinson Numerical Atlas with monthly net surface heating and wind speed obtained from the Weare Marine Climatic Atlas of the Tropical Pacific Ocean. Using a conceptual model based on mixed layer physics, ocean response and atmospheric forcing are examined using the Obukho...

Charters, Jeffrey William

Using a method which simultaneously concentrates and isolates Pb from seawater, a total of 208 samples collected using trace-metal clean techniques were determined for dissolved Pb concentration in the subarctic Northeast Pacific and the Canada Basin of the southwestern Arctic Ocean. The analytical method found good agreement between determined values and consensus values of several seawater standards. Concentration in seawater was generally dictated by proximity to pollution sources which a...

The Tongue of the Ocean (TOTO) region located within the Bahamas archipelago is a relatively under-studied region in terms of both its biological and physical oceanographic characteristics. This region is comprised of a deep trough along with steep boundaries that are commonly associated with elevated turbulent dissipation rates, and #949;, when impacted by currents and internal waves. A prey-field mapping cruise took place in the fall between 9/15/2008 and 10/01/2008, consisting of a series of ...

Sundermeyer, Miles Aaron

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), September 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215). / This thesis is written in two parts. The first part deals with the problem of lateral dispersion due to mesoscale eddies in the open ocean, and the interaction between the mesoscale strain and horizontal diffusion on spatial scales les...

Shepard, George Woods

Thesis (Ocean E)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1979. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Bibliography: leaves 178-180. / Ocean E

Abernathey, Ryan (Ryan Patrick)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2012. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-175). / Mesoscale eddies mix and transport tracers such as heat and potential vorticity laterally in the ocean. While this transport plays an important role in the climate system, especially in the Southern Ocean, we lack a, comprehensive understanding of what sets mixing rates. This thesis seeks t...

Mascarenhas, Affonso da Silveira

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, 1983. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Bibliography: leaves 154-156. / by Affonso da Silveira Mascarenhas, Jr. / Ph.D.

Dougherty, Martin Eugene

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1990. / GRSN 589503 / Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-301). / by Martin Eugene Dougherty. / Ph.D.

Kim, Kuh

Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 169-174. / Ph.D.

Callies, Jörn

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2016. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-201). / Submesoscale flows, current systems 1-100 km in horizontal extent, are increasingly coming into focus as an important component of upper-ocean dynamics. A range of pr...

Button, Peter

Includes bibliography. / Ocean waves represent an important design factor in many coastal engineering applications. Although extreme wave height is usually considered the single most important of these factors there are other important aspects that require consideration. These include the probability distribution of wave heights, the seasonal variation and the persistence, or duration, of calm and storm periods. If one is primarily interested in extreme wave height then it is possible to restric...

Dick, Beryl Allen

A design is developed for a community park on the ocean edge of West Vancouver, British Columbia. The guiding design goal is to achieve a sensitive response to the essence of this edge. The experience of this ocean, land and sky interface is explored as are its conditions of context and memory. Overarching design responses are presented and a conceptual design is articulated. The design of the park attempts to reveal the tactile nature of this ocean edge. The design is authentic to today y...

LeBlond, Paul Henri

The dynamics of the Arctic ocean are studied on a polar projection of the sphere. The density structure is idealized as a two-layer system, and a general formulation is developed which allows inclusion of latitudinal and longitudinal depth variations as well as asymmetries in the boundaries of the ocean. For simplicity, the density structure is neglected when depth variations are present. Time dependent displacements from equilibrium levels are assumed to be waves of constant zonal wave number; ...

Lowry, James K.

The following thesis is written in five parts. These include a diversity paper, a zoogeography paper, two taxonomy papers, and a catalogue. Although each paper is a separate entity, they are all inherently related. The foundation of the thesis is a series of collections made between southern New Zealand and McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, intermittently from December 1970 to February 1973. They have formed the basis of the diversity study and raised the questions on which the rest of the thesis depen...

Scaven, Victoria Leigh

My goal with this project was to create a body of work themed around the environment, and the ways in which we interact with and make sense of our natural world. During the fall semester of 2014, I read several ecopoetry anthologies and studied the unique ways in which writers talk about the environment and environmental issues. Over the course of the spring 2015 semester, I continued reading other environmental and poetic works, and composed my own environmental poetry. With the help of Al...

Das, Pritha.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of New South Wales, 1998. / Also available online.

O'Regan, Matthew Aaron.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rhode Island, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-228).

Beal, Miah Allan

Graduation date: 1969

Ingham, Merton C., 1930-

Graduation date: 1966

Olson, Eric J.

Graduation date: 1982

Hammarlund, Emma U.

Oxygen has been assumed to be a vital trigger for the evolution of multicellular life forms on Earth, partly based on its power to promote substantial energy flux in cell respiration and partly as biosynthesis of compounds like collagen require oxygen. However, the co-evolution of large life and the Earth’s chemical environment is not well understood at present, and there is particular disagreement in the field about whether the Cambrian explosion of animal life forms was a chemical or biologica...

Corell, Hanna

The advective motion of seawater governs the transport of almost everything, animate or inanimate, present in the ocean and those lacking the ability to outswim the currents have to follow the flow. This makes modelling of advective ocean transports a powerful tool in various fields of science where a displacement of something over time is studied. The present thesis comprises four different applications of ocean-transport modelling, ranging from large-scale heat transports to the dispersion of ...

Sedivy, Dean Gordon, Thompson, Warren C.

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Hiestand, Frank Hilty.

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Hackathorn, Michael F.

University of Central Florida College of Engineering Thesis / A design for a deep ocean hydrophone is proposed here. The hydrophone's sound sensing element is comprised of a capped end, piezoelectric cylinder. This sound sensing element is encased in an acoustic coupling fluid filled elastomeric boot. A small diameter tube communicates hydrostatic pressure from the coupling fluid to the interior of the sound sensing element for hydrostatic pressure compensation. The theoretical free field voltag...