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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Andros Island"”.
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An Evaluation of the Medicinal Plants of Andros Island, Bahamas
… more commonly known as “bush medicine” on Andros Island, has been rapidly decreasing due an increased presence of western medicine and increased population pressures from urbanization that are threatening local biodiversity hotspots. Ethnobotany is not only important from a conservation …
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High resolution sedimentary archives of past millennium hurricane activity in the Bahama Archipelago
… along the U.S. coastline and in the Caribbean islands. Unfortunately, little is known about the forces that alter hurricane activity on multi-decadal to centennial timescales. This thesis uses proxy development and proxy-model integration to constrain the spatiotemporal variability in hurricane …
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Depositional and Diagenetic History of the Middle Ordovician Carbonates of the Shenandoah Valley, Northern Virginia
… been compared to the sediments of the modern Andros Island, Bahamas to establish a depositional and diagenetic model. The models proposed for the study area are in agreement with models proposed for adjacent areas along strike.</p>
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Passive microwave and hyperspectral infrared retrievals of atmospheric water vapor profiles
… flights during the tropical CAMEX-3 mission near Andros Island. The retrievals were robust in the face of unknown instrument bias and noise, which introduced a difference between the training data and the flight data. A noise-averaging technique achieved robustness in exchange for a degradation in …