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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Caribbean Coast"”.
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Inner Shelf Circulation off Cartagena De Indias, Caribbean Coast of Colombia
… the city of Cartagena de Indias on the Colombian Caribbean Sea, from water depths varying from 7 to 20 m. The analysis has focused in two particular time scales: subtidal and diurnal. The region is characterized by two main seasons, the 'dry' and 'rainy' season. During the 'dry' season (December …
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Stories from the frontline of music and social transformation: a study of teachers working for Batuta in the Caribbean coast of Colombia
… Batuta in war-affected places of the Colombian Caribbean region. Batuta is one of Colombia’s largest Social Action Through Music (SATM) organizations, and it was born as an offshoot of the Venezuelan El Sistema de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles (El Sistema). As such, Batuta receives an …
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Towards Colombian small-scale marine fisheries management: Hacia un manejo de la pesca marina artesanal en Colombia
… and social foundation for the livelihood of coastal communities in Colombia. Yet artisanal fishing communities are characterized by a low quality of life and a struggle for the basic components of well being, in part because of inadequate marine resource management. As a consequence of …
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Adapting Small Unmanned Aerial Systems for Behavioral Research with Coastal Marine Mammals
… to study. New tools are needed to study coastal marine mammals in a world increasing impacted by climate change related shifts in weather and animal distribution patterns. Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are important remote-sensing tools for studying a range of wildlife including …
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The Genomics of Divergence and Adaptation in Sister Reef Fishes Separated by the Isthmus of Panamá
… of the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) and Caribbean. I compiled de novo transcriptomes of the retina and investigated expression and coding sequence changes in opsin genes and expression changes in other key visual pathways. I use microspectrophotometry readings of visual sensitivity within …
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Functional analysis of secondary tropical dry forests in a region of the Colombia, Caribbean
… an environmental gradient in a region of the Caribbean coast of Colombia and a multi-trait approach to study functional diversity at three scales: species, communities and landscape. The analysis of the variation in functional traits of SDTF trees at the species level allowed me to support the …
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Essays in economic geography: Convergence, inequalities and innovations in the knowledge economy
… regions such as the city of Barranquilla in the Caribbean Coast and Pasto in the southern part of the country. In the paper “Real Wages in Colombia: A Convergence Conditional Analysis: 1984-2009”, the convergence hypothesis is studied from a different perspective than has traditionally been done …
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Keeping Kids in School: A Slippery Slope for Miskitu Families Living in the Pearl Lagoon Basin of Nicaragua
… community members living on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast. This investigation employed the participatory-action research methodology, allowing participants to tell their own stories about the events leading up to their dematriculation.</p> <p>The six participants, male and female, are of Miskitu …