Ward, Megan E.

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Alshwairikh, Yara

Corals reefs worldwide are facing many challenges due to global warming. Of these challenges, increasing sea temperatures represent a major threat. An increase of 1 °C above summer mean levels is greatly associated with coral bleaching, and massive coral bleaching is observed when accumulation of thermal-stress reaches 4 °C-weeks according to Degree Heating Weeks (DHW) measurements. The coral holobiont is an assemblage of many organisms including Symbiodiniaceae; a family of photosynthetic micro...

Wojcik, Jane Hsiung

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, 1984. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Science. / Vita. / Bibliography: leaves 233-238. / by Jane Hsiung Wojcik. / Ph.D.

McDermott, Jill Marie

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2015. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / This thesis examines the controls on organic, inorganic, and volatile species distributions in hydrothermal fluids venting at Von Damm and Piccard, two recently discovered vent fields at the ultra slow spreading M...

Guan, Yue

The deep-sea hypersaline lakes in the Red Sea are among the most challenging, extreme, and unusual environments on the planet Earth. Despite their harshness to life, they are inhabited by diverse and novel members of prokaryotes. Methanogenesis was proposed as one of the main metabolic pathways that drive microbial colonization in similar habitats. However, not much is known about the identities of the methane-producing microbes in the Red Sea, let alone the way in which they could adapt t...

Öbrink, Emil

I takt med att informationen blir en allt större del av logistiken måste även den utvecklas och inte bara den fysiska delen. Hos Baltic Sea Gateway har informationslogistiken haft en stor utveckling på sidan som heter Fredriksskans medan Granudden som den andra sidan av vattnet heter har fortsatt som tidigare. I det här arbetet kommer informationsflödet på Granudden att ses över för att se vilka förbättringar som kan utföras på detta flöde som även kommer att stötta det fysiska flödet. Metoderna...

Guy, Neil Raymond

Bibliography: p. 363-375. / Of necessity LOSC Articles are brief and in some instances vague and requiring interpretation. There is general consensus that LOSC is successful and that its vagueness in certain areas is an asset allowing a variety of otherwise contrary attitudes to be accommodated. 1 It is necessary to analyse the Articles with a view to a better understanding of them and to possibly prepare for some future conference or convention that will more than likely be necessary to resolve...

Laerum, Jan Harald

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Lee, Kessina

<p> As changing ocean conditions lead to declining fish stocks and movement of forage fish, sea lions on the Oregon coast are subject to the pressures of declining prey availability and increasing conflicts with commercial and recreational fisheries. An analysis of strandings of California sea lions, _{Zalophus californianus,} and Steller sea lions, <i>Eumetopias jubatus, </i> from 2006 to 2014, included cause of death, changing ocean conditions, and anthropogenic activity. Causes of de...

Wittskog, Cristoffer

The Carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere has increased dramatically since the start of the industrialisation. The effects that the increase of CO2 has on the future climate are still not fully investigated. CO2 in the atmosphere contributes to the, for all life on earth, necessary greenhouse effect. It is confirmed that higher CO2 concentration in the atmosphere increases the green house effect, which results in higher temperature. The main source to the increase of CO2 is burnin...

Mbiydzenyuy, Gideon

Today, freight volumes on roads have gone up to a level that there is a need for alternative transport modes. Short Sea Shipping (SSS) is one alternative with a potential that can help reduce the high traffic on roads. Most SSS systems use vessels whereby cargo is rolled on and off using a ramp with very small capacities usually less than 500 TEU, but with increasing cargo traffic, it is not clear if such solutions will be efficient. For ports involved in SSS to meet up this new wave of change, ...

Kazhura, Yury, Souza, Paulo Bento Maffei de, Worosz, Heather

This study examines Sustainable Community Development (SCD) in the context of the Baltic Sea Region. The research focuses on understanding a model for SCD piloted in Robertsfors, Sweden. The model is said to be transferable to any community around the world. This study seeks to understand the concepts and tools used in the Robertsfors Model. It also examines whether the model is strategic with regards to sustainability and whether it is successful in engaging the local community around these iss...

Dirkson, Arlan

Arctic sea ice has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent decades, including a substantial reduction in sea ice extent in summer months. Such changes, combined with relatively recent advancements in seasonal (1-12 months) to decadal forecasting, have prompted a rapidly-growing body of research on forecasting Arctic sea ice on seasonal timescales. These forecasts are anticipated to benefit a vast array of end-users whose activities are dependent on Arctic sea ice conditions. The research g...

Li, Yiwen

<p> The lengthy descriptions of tribute embassies in the Chinese dynastic histories have led to the widespread belief that the China-centered tribute system dominated the trade of pre-modern East Asia at all times. The tribute trade, however, was not the main form of trade between China and Japan. In the year 838 CE, the last Japanese embassy for nearly six centuries traveled to Tang-dynasty China (618-907). Until 1403, when the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of the Ashikaga bakufu dispatched a dele...

Hikmawan, Tyas I.

Deep-sea anoxic brine pools are one of the most extreme ecosystems on Earth, which are characterized by drastic changes in salinity, temperature, and oxygen concentration. The interface between the brine and overlaying seawater represents a boundary of oxic-anoxic layer and a steep gradient of redox potential that would initiate favorable conditions for divergent metabolic activities, mainly methanogenesis and sulfate reduction. This study aimed to investigate the diversity of Bacteria, par...

Kopec, David M., Suarez, Armando, Pessarakli, Mohammed, Gilbert, Jeff J.

The ET rate of bermudagrass is relatively well known. The ET rate of Seashore paspalum in an arid environment is not, nor is there any information on the ET of Distichlis as a mowed turf. A greenhouse test using gravimetric lysimeters was conducted in the late summer of 2004 to measure and compare the ET of two Distichlis clones and Sea Isle 1 seashore paspalum to that of Tifway 419 bermudagrass. This test showed that under glass house conditions when soil moisture was not limiting: (1)Seashore ...

Palmer García, Margarita

This work compiles the results of the analysis of hydrographical data collected in January 2008 over the western sector of the South Scotia Ridge (SSR). The cruise was carried out on board R/V Hespérides in the framework of the Synoptic Antarctic Shelf-Slope Interaction (SASSI) study, one of the core projects endorsed by the International Polar Year. SASSI focused on shelf-slope processes taking place all along the Antarctic continental slope, paying particular attention to the Antarctic Slope F...

Jerosch, Kerstin.

Bremen, University, Diss., 2006. / Enth. 6 Sonderabdr. aus verschiedenen Zeitschr. und Publ.

Borgendahl, Johanna,

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Egana, Ana Luisa.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2000. / Adviser: Susan G. Ernst. Submitted to the Dept. of Biology. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-118). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Peters, Janna.

University, Diss., 2006--Bremen.

Henson, Joshua I.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2006. / Title from PDF of title page. Document formatted into pages; contains 60 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Raguá Gil, Juana Marianne.

University, Diss., 2004--Bremen. / Enth. 3 Sonderabdr. aus verschiedenen Zeitschr.

Xu, Yongsheng.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rhode Island, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-86).

Callihan, Laura Dawn. Bartek, Louis Robert.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. / Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 11, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in the Department of Geological Sciences." Discipline: Geology; Department/School: Geological Sciences.

Möbius, Jürgen Henning.

Univ., Diss., 2010--Hamburg.

Ohta, Atsuyuki, Naito, Koh, Okuda, Yoshihisa, Kawabe, Iwao

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Pisut, Daniel P. (Daniel Peter)

Many organisms that lack vision rely on chemical signals to glean information from their environment. Little is known, however, about the ability of sea urchins to detect and respond to such signals. This lack of understanding is especially surprising given the ecological impact of urchins in their respective communities. Regardless of geography, urchins exert strong top down control of plants, algae, and sedentary invertebrates, and these effects are especially evident when urchins, or urchi...

Thum, Nicolai

The atmospheric response to the oceanic forcing in the eastern Pacific along the northern equatorial sea surface temperature (SST) front is investigated in terms of sensible and latent heat flux during the 6-month period 28 July 1999 through 27 January 2000. Of particular interest is the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) response to oceanic Tropical Instability Waves (TIWs) that distort the SST front during May through January in normal years. In previous studies, time series of boundary layer pr...

Hülck, Kathrin

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-136). / xvi, 177 leaves, bound ill., maps 29 cm

Nordlöf, Ulrika

The white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) is in the top of the marine food chain and its existence in Sweden has been threatened several times. The species succeeded to recover from the deep decline in the 1970s when the exposure to persistent organic pollutants influenced the reproduction negatively. The species is today spread over the country but is still seen as a near threatened species. Even though a recovery has occurred there is still some reproduction problems seen in the region...

Sexton, Harold Patrick

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Drury, Devon

In the years between 1789 and 1792 the shores of what is now British Columbia were opened to European scrutiny by a series of mostly Spanish expeditions. As the coastline was charted and explored by agents of European empires, the Pacific Northwest captured the attention of Europe. In order to carry out these explorations the Spanish relied on what turned out to be an experiment in ‘gentle’ imperialism that depended on the support of the indigenous “colonized”. This thesis examines how the Sp...

Skillman, John B.

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. / Daily coastal surface temperature and adjusted sea level data for the period 1955-1988 were used to characterize the surface temperature and adjusted sea level anomalies, and the propagation of features along the west coast of the United States during El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The strong ENSO years examined were 1957-58, 1972-73, and 1982-83. Moderate ENSO years used were 1966, 1976, and 1987. To look at regional differences in...

Lau, Pik-ha, 劉碧霞

To have better understandings of the partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2)in northern South China Sea(NSCS), the pCO2readings from 1999-2012 were reviewed. Both the pCO2in NSCS and in the atmosphere also showed an increasing trends and the pCO2in NSCS varied across the seasons. There are many important processes that influenced the pCO2in NSCS, which were the rise of the temperature, biological production, seasonal upwelling, Pearl River discharge, increase in the concentration of atmospheri...

Fagan, Michael.

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Rashid, Harunur

Thirty eight piston cores and numerous seismic profiles collected by two R/V Marion Dufresne and several CSS Hudson cruises were examined and cores from other cruises reinterpreted in the course of this study of Late Pleistocene ice-rafting events (Heinrich events) in the Labrador Sea. / In the northwestern Labrador Sea, close to the margin of the former Laurentide Ice Sheet, Heinrich layers are unusually thick. Thicknesses of up to 4.8 m result from deposition from nepheloid-flows and low-densi...

Wang, Qiang

The seasonal pattern of ice motion in response to wind forcing and potential consequences to upwelling on the Mackenzie Shelf are considered using satellite-derived ice motion data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the NCEP 10 m wind data. The frequency of strong upwelling-favorable alongshore ice motion is high in early winter (November and December) compared to middle and late winter (January to May).For periods when the alongshore component of the wind is upwelling-favorable, the...

Jayarathne, Thilina

Particulate matter (PM) suspended in air varies in size from nanometers to micrometers and contains a wide range of chemical components, including organic compounds, black carbon (soot), inorganic minerals and metals. Atmospheric aerosols are generated from either primary sources like volcanic eruptions, re-suspended soil dust, sea spray, vegetative detritus, fossil fuel and biomass combustion emissions; or secondary atmospheric reactions via gas-to-particle conversion of atmospheric gases. Part...

Laskina, Olga

Aerosols are important atmospheric constituents that impact the Earth's radiative balance and climate. The detailed knowledge of the aerosol optical properties is required for a comprehensive analysis of the impacts of aerosols on climate. Mie theory is often used in satellite and ground-based retrieval algorithms to account for atmospheric mineral dust. However, the approximations used in Mie theory are often not appropriate for mineral dust and can lead to errors in the optical properties mode...

Yahya, Razan

Aeolian dust exerts a notable influence on atmospheric and oceanic conditions and human health, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions like Saudi Arabia. Dust is often characterized by its mineral and chemical composition, but there is a microbiological component of natural aerosols which has received comparatively little attention. Moreover, the amount of materials suspended in the atmosphere is highly variable from day to day. Thus, knowing the loads of dust and suspended microbes and...

Marta Inês Rocha Reis

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Harding, David V

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University

Guo, Daquan

Baroclinic tides play a significant role in driving deep-ocean mixing, which not only influences the transport of nutrients and other biologically tracers, but also affects the large scale circulations. This thesis combines advanced numerical modeling techniques and available observations to investigate the characteristics of baroclinic tides in the Red Sea, and understand their formation and fate, and their influence on the circulation and ecosystem. Based on a validated 3D, non-hydrostat...

Skarp, Douglas

Coastal populations of perch (Perca fluviatilis) in the Baltic Sea has declined substantially the last decades while the populations of three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) has increased rapidly during the same time period. Earlier studies have suggested that predation on perch larvae and or competition from sticklebacks are the causes behind the decline in perch. To test if predation from sticklebacks commonly occur on perch larvae as well as provide data on stickleback diets in g...

Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) are an important measure of our current weather and climate, as well as an essential variable in both short and long term weather forecasting. Infrared SST retrievals are reliant on passive sensors, and retrieval techniques are influenced by changes in atmospheric composition, including aerosols. Many empirically derived retrieval algorithms are based on matching Top of Atmosphere (TOA) Brightness Temperatures (BTs) from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiomete...

For a long time I wanted to compose a concerto for a single percussionist and ensemble. My main motivation was educational: I had not done it before and I wanted to explore the percussion world. I chose chamber orchestra for practical reasons in order to make it more flexible and hopefully easier for performance. In composing The Sun of the Sea I was influenced by John Adams's use of the chamber orchestra in his Chamber Symphony and Pierre Boulez's orchestral textures. Also I wanted to use and e...

Collection of short stories. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor or Philosophy. / Spring Semester, 2015. / March 20, 2015. / Includes bibliographical references. / Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Professor Directing Dissertation; Thomas Joiner, University Representative; Diane Roberts, Committee Member; David Kirby, Committee Member; Jennine Capó Crucet, Committee Member.

Non-random mating is presumed to be an important mechanism that allows for the maintenance of genetic variation. Assortative mating has been studied extensively in organisms that possess defined ways in which sperm is transferred to eggs (e.g. via copulation, courtship or vector assisted pollination in plants), but rarely in broadcast spawners. Broadcast spawning is perceived as a mating event that allows for mixing of gametes and promotes random mating. However, there are multiple pathways in w...

Mosby, Anna Ford

The Ross Sea is a highly productive region of the Southern Ocean characterized by spatially variable distribution of phytoplankton, primarily Phaeocystis antarctica, but phytoplankton growth rates in the region have not been thoroughly investigated. Variability in growth rates was investigated from January to February 2012 on a cruise to the Ross Sea using two methods: 14C-isotopic tracer incubations and dilution experiments. Because all methods of measuring growth rates may not be appropriate i...