Vrana, Til Kristian

The construction of the North Sea Super Grid is the major step towards meetingthe future demand for electric power transmission in northern Europe. This gridwill likely also extend onshore towards the load centres, and eventually form theEuropean Super Grid.Large-scale electric power generation at remote locations will lead tosignificant long distance power flows with a preferred flow direction. A methodto identify these unidirectional flows has been developed and applied on a casestudy, indicat...

Cormier, Justin

To respond to the global issue of sea level rise, this thesis examines architectural adaptation strategies by focusing on a low-lying coastal community in Dartmouth Cove in Halifax, Canada. Without a comprehensive adaptation strategy, these residents, along with 75% of the properties surrounding the harbour, will be forced to abandon their homes, resulting in a massive retreat from the coast. This project explores ways to build that can accommodate the future rise in sea level and population gro...

Carson, Stuart

We consider a data set comprising encounters between gray seals off Sable Island in the autumn of 2009. We apply Spatial Point Pattern data analysis approaches to this data set and demonstrate the effectiveness of these techniques. Specifically we propose using point processes for clustered data; the Inhomogeneous Poisson process, and the subset of cluster processes called Cox processes. We utilize maximum likelihood methods to produce a model for the mean intensity of the seal encounters which ...

Hanneman, Lauren E.

<p> Environmental education programs aim to develop participant awareness, sensitivity, and understanding of their affective relationship to the natural environment through conceptual knowledge and personal experiences. Previous findings have suggested that participation in environmental education programs leads to short-term positive increases in environmental knowledge, pro-environmental attitudes, and intentions to act in environmentally responsible behaviors; however, few studies have includ...

Shipp, Stephanie Staples

High-resolution geophysical and geologic data were acquired in western and central Ross Sea, Antarctica, to determine the: (1) maximum extent and configuration of the ice sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM); (2) conditions and processes at the base of the expanded ice sheet and their role in ice stream activity; and (3) relative retreat history of the ice sheet. This information can provide geologic constraints for modeling of ice-sheet retreat. The research formed the basis for developm...

Emmet, Peter Anthony

A geophysical and geological study utilizing high quality seismic and well log data was undertaken of a marginal basin in the Western Flores Sea, Indonesia, to document the evolution of Paleogene extensional basins and their transformation during the Neogene into compressional uplifts. These are referred to as inversion structures because they begin as extensional half-grabens and are transformed by compression into structural highs. The crust underlying the area is transitional between continen...

Hoge, Bradley Earle

Texas coastal wetlands will be increasingly endangered over the coming century as sea level rises due to global warming. Since estimates of sea-level rise may be similar to trends interpreted from Holocene sediments, a paleoecologic analysis of wetland peats may provide a predictive model for wetland succession. Three areas of focus are necessary to achieve predictive power, however: ecologic, sedimentalogic, and taphonomic. No single microtaxonomic group is well preserved in all depositional en...

Glaser, Karen Sullivan

Four main factors control the accumulation of periplatform sediment on the northeastern Nicaragua Rise: (1) input of carbonate sediment; (2) input of siliciclastic sediment; (3) physical redistribution of sediment; and (4) partial dissolution of carbonate phases (aragonite and magnesian calcite). The intensity of these factors is directly influenced by climatic variations and associated sea-level fluctuations, creating the cyclic glacial/interglacial pattern characteristic of late Quaternary hig...

Lange, Benjamin A.

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Bélanger, Maxime

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Cherry, Seth G.

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Katavouta, Anna

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Bouchard, Renée A.

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Lunde, Bendik

The Middle Jurassic Hugin Formation in the Sleipner area has been studied in five wells in the southern Viking Graben in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The main objective is to understand how the diagenetic development has influenced the reservoir quality by the use of petrographical methods, in combination with core plug measurements of porosities and permeabilities. The Hugin Formation sandstones are characterized by textural and compositional maturity, and are classified as quartz are...

Hejazin, Yazan Henry

The Aquarius/SAC-D is an Earth Science remote sensing satellite mission to measure global Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) that is sponsored by the NASA and the Argentine Space Agency (CONAE). The prime remote sensor is the Aquarius (AQ) L-band radiometer/scatterometer, which measures the L-band emitted blackbody radiation (brightness temperature) from the ocean. The brightness temperature at L-band is proportional to the ocean salinity as well as a number of physical parameters including ocean surfac...

Hagy, James Dixon

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Fiske, Richard P.

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Lowack, Frederick John.

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Eleuterio, Daniel Patrick.

The Louis et al. (1982) bulk aerodynamic method for air-sea flux estimates is currently used in mesoscale models such as COAMPS, while the TOGA- COARE method is a state of the art flux parameterization involving recent findings in surface layer meteorology, and has been proposed as a replacement to Louis. The Louis and TOGA-COARE methods were compared to direct observations daring ACE-1. Results from both methods compared well to observations for momentum flux. For sensible and latent heat flux,...

Conrad, John Woeppel

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Wright, William Archer.

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Lohrmann, Walter Richard

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Allinder, Grace Elizabeth

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McLaughlin, Philip G.

In August 1992, an acoustic tomography experiment was conducted in the Barents Sea. The objective of this thesis is the development of space-time signal processing algorithms to extract the arrival times of rays and modes for that experiment. The temporal signal processing involves pulse compression of the phase-encoded signal. Spatial signal processing consists of plane wave and modal beamforming on data fram a 16 element vertical line array. After signal processing an arrival detection, identi...

Jones, Marcia L.

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Stanton, Lowell S.

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Mauerhan, Todd A.

Since June 2, 1986, several institutions have conducted a variety of drifter studies within the Mediterranean Sea for scientific and operational purposes. The data from these studies include 521 individual drifters and span over 13 years. This thesis examines these data in an effort to better describe the Mediterranean Sea surface circulation. Interpretation of the data is conducted by calculating Eulerian and Lagrangian statistics and evaluating some of the errors they contain. An Eulerian fram...

McCarren, David Hilton.

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Clarke, Stephen M.

The U.S. Navy doctrine '...From the Sea' anticipates that future naval confrontations will likely occur in the littoral regions of the world in support of operations ashore. One of the challenges facing naval forces are corvette or light frigate warships incorporating advanced technologies. In this thesis, a review of the historical developments of these limited displacement warships is presented. World War 2 escorts of the Allied forces formed the backbone of many of the navies which formed aft...

Myers, Robin Keith.

This paper examines the political and technical verification issues associated with proposals to place quantitative and/or qualitative limits on the deployment of nuclear armed sea-launched cruise missiles (SLCMs). Overviews of the arms control relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, the development of the SLCM, and Soviet and American concepts of verification are presented. The views of the American arms control and defense communities regarding the SLCM is discussed in dep...

Knodle, William C.

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Psihogios, Panagiotis.

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Marom, Moshe.

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Hipsey, Stephen J.

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Ezequiel, Augusto M.

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Jönsson, Anette

Wave heights and periods of surface waves in the Baltic Sea have been modelled for a two-year period (1999-2000) with the wave model Hypas on an 11x11-km grid scale. There is a clear seasonal variation with higher waves during winter and lower during summer. This is mainly a reflection of the wind climate in the area where the winters are windier than the summers. The largest waves are found in the Skagerrak and over the deeper, eastern areas in the Baltic Proper. In the Baltic Sea, the surface ...

Eagle, Carlton R.

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Peterson, Donna Kristin

Chapter One will examine the first alternative to patriarchy, the sacrifice of the father, by tracing the influence of the Pin Well legend in Woolf's work. Chapter One will explore not only the phallic pins, but also the related notion of the gaze. In opposition to the gaze, Woolf sets out coverings, and we will briefly examine the significance of shoes and stockings in her work. Chapter Two will explore the second alternative to patriarchy, the father who voluntarily abdicates his position of ...

Buchary, Eny

Trawl fishing was banned in Indonesia in 1980 (except in the Arafura Sea) due to resource access conflicts between trawl operators and small-scale artisanal fishers. Recently, however, the new Indonesian government opened a debate on trawl ban revocation. This research evaluates the effect of the 1980 trawl ban on the sustainability of Java Sea fisheries, using an ecosystem approach. Three approaches were used. The first was to construct an Ecopath model for the Java Sea prior to the ban, t...

Porter, Boyd

The goal of this study was to describe aspects of the winter ecology of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) from behavioural observations made at a winter haulout between January and April 1996 in Southeast Alaska (Timbered Island, 133° 48' W, 55° 41' 45" N). My major hypotheses were: 1) Mothers suckle male offspring more than female offspring, and spend less time on shore to provide for the higher metabolic needs of males. 2) Mothers with yearlings have higher demands than those with pup...

Ahn, Ok-Hyun

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis: a fish farm can fertilize kelp during summer when only nitrogen is a limiting factor for the growth of kelp. Temperature (10.0-14.7°C), salinity (22.3-30.0%o), water visibility (3.5-9.5 m) and daytime-irradiance data at 2 m depth in summers of 1995 and 1996 indicated suitable levels for the growth of kelp. Three kelp species, Laminaria saccharina, L. groenlandica and Nereocystis luetkeana, were collected from salmon fish farm nets and cult...

Stelle, Lei Lani

This thesis presents the first hydrodynamic investigation of swimming in Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). Passive drag was calculated from "deceleration during glide" measurements. A total of sixty-six glides from six juvenile sea lions yielded an average drag coefficient (referenced to total wetted surface area) of 0.0056 at an average Reynolds number of 5.5 x 10⁶. The drag values indicate that the boundary layer is largely turbulent at these Reynolds numbers, which are past the point ...

Faucher, Manon

Short-term variations of sea surface temperatures (SST) over Queen Charlotte Sound have been poorly understood, mainly due to the lack of data, and therefore hardly predictable. A potentially important consequence of SST variations is the choice of salmon homeward migratory route, which has a significant impact on commercial fisheries. Until recently, predictions of fish migration routes have been made by using SST data at Kains Island, one of the lighthouse stations at the northern end of...

Lehman, Jessica

In this thesis, I explore the relationship between displacement and the environment on Sri Lanka’s East coast. In particular, I analyze the intersections between armed conflict, the 2004 tsunami, and climate change, and the ways they are enlisted to pose threats to impoverished people living on the coast. My tactic is following the ocean as an actor, employing a relational ontology. I bring posthumanist literature into conversation with social theory of the sea, as well as current literature on ...

Allen, Pamela Claire

Morphometric measurements and daily feeding records of 62 captive Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) were analyzed to provide information about seasonal growth and food consumption that has been impossible to collect from wild animals. Data from nursing pups, intact and castrated males, and pregnant, lactating and non-reproductive females were also used to determine differences in rates of sexual maturity, and the effects that climate, sexual maturity, castration and reproduction have on gro...

Daniel, Raychelle G.

I documented the timing and progression of the moult by sex and age class in a wild population of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) on Lowrie Island, Alaska (Jul-Nov 2001) and from captive animals at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre (1993-2000). In the wild, juveniles (ages 1-2 years) were the first to moult followed by adult females, bulls and pups. The mean date when juveniles started their moult was 21 Jun which was significantly different from the mean start date of 07 Aug f...

Walrut, Bernard Phillip

The growth of world aquaculture has encouraged increased attention to methods that may be used to continue that growth and expansion. One such method is sea ranching. Most discussions of sea ranching recognise the difficulty of undertaking that activity unless there is certainty about sea ranchers' legal rights. There are also a number of environmental and ecological considerations. This thesis considers briefly the initial adoption by the English common law of the Roman law principles app...

Kienast, Markus

The South China Sea (SCS) is the largest marginal basin off the Asian continent and its surface hydrography as well as sedimentation within the basin are strongly influenced by the SE Asian monsoon and eustatic sea-level changes. The rapidly accumulating sediments in this basin are therefore a unique and sensitive monitor of past variations in monsoonal climate, ocean-continent linkages, deglacial sea-level, and marine biogeochemical processes and their relationship to climate change. This ...

Winship, Arliss J.

The primary goal of my study was to develop a bioenergetic model to predict the food requirements of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). An important component of the bioenergetic model was a physical growth model. Growth models were constructed using morphometric measurements of males (> 1 year old), females (> 1 year old), and pregnant females with a foetus that had been shot on rookeries, haulouts, and in the coastal waters of southeastern Alaska, the Gulf of Alaska and along the Ber...

Ruggieri, Gabriella <1978>

The main goals of this Ph.D. study are to investigate the regional and global geophysical components related to present polar ice melting and to provide independent cross validation checks of GIA models using both geophysical data detected by satellite mission, and geological observations from far field sites, in order to determine a lower and upper bound of uncertainty of GIA effect. The subject of this Thesis is the sea level change from decades to millennia scale. Within ice2sea collaboration...