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Marine recreation and public health microbiology: Quest for the ideal indicator Marine recreation and public health microbiology: Quest for the ideal indicator
Four-fifths of the population of the United States live in close proximity to the oceans or Great Lakes, and approximately 100 million Americans use the marine environment for recreation each year (Thurman 1994). Consequently, contamination of lakes, rivers, and coastal waters raises significant public health issues. Among the leading sources of chemical and biological contamination of...
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Dale W. Griffin, Erin K. Lipp, Molly R. McLaughlin, Joan B. Rose
South China Sea South China Sea
The South China Sea is poorly understood in terms of its marine biota, ecology and the human impacts upon it. What is known is most often contained in reports and workshop and conference documents that are not available to the wider scientific community. The South China Sea has an area of some 3.3 million km2 and depths range from the shallowest coastal fringe to 5377 m in the Manila...
Authors
Brian Morton, Graham Blackmore
Archive of boomer seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruise 99LCA01, Crescent Beach Spring, Florida, 26 April-27 April, 1999 Archive of boomer seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruise 99LCA01, Crescent Beach Spring, Florida, 26 April-27 April, 1999
No abstract available.
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Gina M. Brewer, Shawn V. Dadisman, James G. Flocks, Dana S. Weise, Jeffrey B. Davis
Confounding factors in coral reef recovery Confounding factors in coral reef recovery
No abstract available.
Authors
Caroline S. Rogers
The use of U-Th series radionuclides and transient tracers in oceanography: an overview The use of U-Th series radionuclides and transient tracers in oceanography: an overview
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R.E. Hester, R.M. Harrison, P.W. Swarzenski, D. Reide Corbett, Joseph M. Smoak, Brent A. McKee
Bacterial indicator occurrence and the use of an F+ specific RNA coliphage assay to identify fecal sources in Homosassa Springs, Florida Bacterial indicator occurrence and the use of an F+ specific RNA coliphage assay to identify fecal sources in Homosassa Springs, Florida
A microbiological water quality study of Homosassa Springs State Wildlife Park (HSSWP) and surrounding areas was undertaken. Samples were collected in November of 1997 (seven sites) and again in November of 1998 (nine sites). Fecal bacterial concentrations (total and fecal coliforms, Clostridium perfringens, and enterococci) were measured as relative indicators of fecal contamination. F+...
Authors
Dale W. Griffin, Rodger Stokes, J.B. Rose, J.H. Paul
Analysis of USVI coastal feature products from the 1980s and 1990s Analysis of USVI coastal feature products from the 1980s and 1990s
The authors have used color stereo photos along with a three-dimensional visualization photogrammetric software package, Socet Set, to produce orthophotometric-corrected mosaics of St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. These mosaics are used for numerous applications such as characterization of the shallow water benthic habitat, terrestrial habitat...
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R.A. Warner, D.G. Catanzaro, Rafe Boulon, C. Rogers, Zandy Hillis-Starr, B. Phillips, D. Barry, Stuart Henry, Barry E. Devine
Planktic foraminifer census data from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico Planktic foraminifer census data from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico
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Authors
Harry J. Dowsett, Richard Z. Poore
Monitoring beach morphology changes using small-format aerial photography and digital softcopy photogrammetry Monitoring beach morphology changes using small-format aerial photography and digital softcopy photogrammetry
Current methods of monitoring beach morphology changes commonly involve the establishment of Global Positioning System profiles that are surveyed on a regular basis. Although this method produces precise measurements of coastal topography, it is costly in time and effort and may result in large data gaps between profiles. Much of our understanding of coastal dynamics is thus limited by...
Authors
Cheryl Hapke, Bruce M. Richmond
The Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of October 17, 1989: Landslides The Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of October 17, 1989: Landslides
Central California, in the vicinity of San Francisco and Monterey Bays, has a history of fatal and damaging landslides, triggered by heavy rainfall, coastal and stream erosion, construction activity, and earthquakes. The great 1906 San Francisco earthquake (MS=8.2-8.3) generated more than 10,000 landslides throughout an area of 32,000 km2; these landslides killed at least 11 people and...
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David K. Keefer, Michael W. Manson, Gary B. Griggs, Nathaniel Plant, Robert L. Schuster, Gerald F. Wieczorek, David G. Hope, Edwin Harp, J. M. Nolan, Gerald E. Weber, William F. Cole, Dale R. Marcum, Patrick O. Shires, Bruce R. Clark
Assessment of acreage and vegetation change in Florida's Big Bend tidal wetlands using satellite imagery Assessment of acreage and vegetation change in Florida's Big Bend tidal wetlands using satellite imagery
Fluctuations in sea level and impending development on the west coast of Florida have aroused concern for the relatively pristine tidal marshes of the Big Bend. Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) images for 1986 and 1995 are processed and evaluated for signs of change. The images cover 250 km of Florida's Big Bend Gulf Coast, encompassing 160,000 acres of tidal marshes. Change is detected...
Authors
Ellen A. Raabe, Richard P. Stumpf
Maps of the shallow shelf off the Florida Keys (subsurface bedrock topography, overlying reefs and sediments, benthic habitats) Maps of the shallow shelf off the Florida Keys (subsurface bedrock topography, overlying reefs and sediments, benthic habitats)
No abstract available.
Authors
Barbara H. Lidz