Publications
The Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center publishes water-information reports on many topics and in many formats. From this page, you can locate, view, download, or order scientific and technical articles and reports as well as general interest publications such as booklets, fact sheets, pamphlets, and posters resulting from the research performed by our scientists and partners.
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Water budgets of forested and agriculturally-developed watershed in Puerto Rico
No abstract available.
Authors
Matthew C. Larsen, I.M. Concepcion
Detection of conduit-controlled ground- water flow at selected sites in northwestern Puerto Rico
No abstract available.
Authors
Jesus Rodriguez-Martinez, R.T. Richards
Puerto Rico, humedales [Puerto Rico, wetlands]
La isla de Puerto Rico, localizada al noreste del Mar Caribe y sus islas principales, Vieques, Culebra e Isla de Mona, poseen humedales en abundancia . El clima subtropical, la lluvia abundante y las complejas formas topográficas y geológicas de estas islas dan origen a los humedales, que varían desde los raros e inusuales bosques cubiertos por nubes en las tierras altas, hasta los extensos mangla
Authors
D. Briane Adams, John M. Hefner, Teresa Dopazo
Short-lived isotopic chronometers: A means of measuring decadal sedimentary dynamics
No abstract available.
Authors
Charles Ward Holmes
Chemical weathering in a tropical watershed, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico: I. Long-term versus short-term weathering fluxes
The pristine Rio Icacos watershed in the Luquillo Mountains in eastern Puerto Rico has the fastest documented weathering rate of silicate rocks on the Earth's surface. A regolith propagation rate of 58 m Ma-1 calculated from iso-volumetric saprolite formation from quartz diorite, is comparable to the estimated denudation rate (25-50 Ma-1) but is an order of magnitude faster than the global average
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A. F. White, A.E. Blum, M. S. Schulz, D.V. Vivit, David A. Stonestrom, M. Larsen, S.F. Murphy, D. Eberl
The frequency and distribution of recent landslides in three montane tropical regions of Puerto Rico
Landslides are common in sttep mountainous areas of Puerto Rico where mean annual rainfall and the frequency of intense storms are high. Each year, landslides cause extensive damage to property and coccasionally result in loss of life. Average population density is high, 422 people/km2, and is increasing. This increase in population density is accompanied by growing stress on the natural environme
Authors
M. C. Larsen, A. J. Torres-Sanchez
Determination of predevelopment denudation rates of an agricultural watershed (Cayaguas River, Puerto Rico) using in-situ-produced 10Be in river-borne quartz
Accurate estimates of watershed denudation absent anthropogenic effects are required to develop strategies for mitigating accelerated physical erosion resulting from human activities, to model global geochemical cycles, and to examine interactions among climate, weathering, and uplift. We present a simple approach to estimate predevelopment denudation rates using in-situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be i
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E.T. Brown, R.F. Stallard, M. C. Larsen, D.L. Bourles, G.M. Raisbeck, F. Yiou
Florida Bay surface salinities
No abstract available.
Authors
Robert B. Halley, Dewitt Smith, Mark Hansen
Environmental quality and preservation, fragile coral reefs of the Florida Keys; preserving the nation's only reef ecosystem
No abstract available.
Authors
B. H. Lidz
Pollen and geochronological data from South Florida; Taylor Creek Site 2
Many recent changes in plant and animal communities of the Everglades have been attributed to human alteration of the environment, such as changes in the hydrologic regime and increased agricultural activity, but cause-and-effect relationships between environmental and biotic changes have not been documented scientifically. This report on pollen and geochronological evidence from cores collected a
Authors
D. A. Willard, C. W. Holmes
Preliminary paleontologic report on cores 19A and 19B, from Russell Bank, Everglades National Park, Florida Bay
The fauna and flora preserved in two cores, 19A and 19B, from the south side of Russell Bank (N 25 03.831', W 80 37.486') in north-central Florida Bay, Everglades National Park, Florida, record a history of environmental change over the last century. The benthic foraminifera and molluscs indicate fluctuating salinities with increasing average salinity upcore in core 19B. Shifts from low salinity (
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G. L. Brewster-Wingard, S. E. Ishman, D. A. Willard, Lucy E. Edwards, C. W. Holmes
How wide is a road? The association of roads and mass-wasting in a forested montane environment
A spatial data base of 1609 landslides was analysed using a geographic information system to determine landslide frequency in relation to highways. A 126 km long transportation network in a 201km2 area of humid-tropical, mountainous, forested terrain in Puerto Rico was used in conjunction with a series of 20 buffer (disturbance) zones varying from 5 to 400m in length, measured perpendicular to the
Authors
M. C. Larsen, J.E. Parks