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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Everglades"”.
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Water, waterworks and water journeys in South Florida's Everglades
… a journey through a portion of South Florida's Everglades traversed by waterworks structures which protect the region's developed land from flooding. The notion is that while the marsh has been seriously damaged by flood control efforts, both the marsh and the waterworks are important. Both are …
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Assessing land conservation strategies : the case of the Florida Everglades
South Florida's Everglades is home to 67 threatened and endangered species. By 2100 it is estimated that sea level rise will inundate over 20% of existing conservation lands. Species will be dislocated and migrate to new land. Simultaneously, more than 500,000 people are moving to the region …
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Restoration refocused : an evaluation of the Central Everglades Planning Project
… signed legislation authorizing the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), a $7.8 billion, 68 project, 30-year effort to restore one of the most unique and diverse ecosystems in the world. The plan was the culmination of efforts by environmentalists to reverse a century of drainage and …
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Reducing uncertainties of mercury loading into the Everglades nutrient removal project
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.
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Cities in the Everglades : the implications of compact urban development for regional water storage in Palm Beach County
… of rapid urbanization and degradation of the Everglades, a unique ecosystem containing the largest freshwater wetlands in the United States. Resolving the competition for water between growing urban populations, the agriculture sector, and the plants and animals of the Everglades is one of the …
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The Mangrove Mosaic: An Ecological Landscape Design Strategy for Everglades City's Climate Adaptation and Phased Transition Amidst Sea-level Rise
… of mangroves, an action plan was implemented in Everglades City, Florida, chosen as a focused site. Located at the intersection of major ecological reserves and facing serious threats from significantly higher sea level rise, Everglades City presents ecological and cultural challenges as well as …
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SWAMP BANDIT: The Legend of John Ashley and Florida's Notorious Ashley Gang
… keep from starving by fishing and hunting in the Everglades.</p> <p>Accused of killing a Seminole Chief’s son, Ashley sits through two trials, the first ending in a mistrial and the second interrupted by his escape from jail under mysterious circumstances. The local sheriff and several prominent …
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Waterworks: Settler Industrialization and Literary Experimentation in Twentieth-Century North America
… of water including the Owens River, the Florida Everglades, Lake Superior, and the Colorado River. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, infrastructure such as canals, aqueducts, dredges, and dams transformed the continent. This project tracks settlers’ shifting understandings of water— …
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Salt Flats, Finger Islands, and Ponds: Reading the Landscape through Infrastructure in Tampa, Florida
… greater Tampa Bay area, people commute to the Everglades to hunt pythons, iguanas fall from the sky, and planners build desalination plants to turn saltwater into freshwater. This thesis is an inquiry into the beliefs and ideas that have led to these environmental happenings. It looks at racial …
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Parametric Resampling Methods for Retrospective Changepoint Analysis
… proposed for the mean-shift model. Data from the Everglades, Florida, USA is used to showcase the methodology in a real-world setting. An extension to the case of time-series data represented via transition matrices is presented as a result of joint work with Matt Williams (Department of …
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Mixed-use at the landscape scale : integrating agriculture and water management as a case study for interdisciplinary planning
… pastures and reduce phosphorous levels in the Everglades. The thesis begins with a discussion of the challenges and prior attempts to integrate agriculture and water management as well as a summary of the case study's context. Next, it presents the model for integrated management, supported by …
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Swamp rats, fat cats and soggy suburbs : planners and engineers in south east Florida
… with the canals and ditches used to drain the Everglades have been crucial to the accommodation of urban population growth on the east coast of the Florida peninsula. But neither profession appears satisfied with the extent of their influence on urban growth in Florida or the nation. At the …
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Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Optical Properties of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter on Florida’s Gulf Coast: Shelf to Stream to Aquifer
… River system and the Shark River in the Everglades revealed a wide range in CDOM seasonality. A regional dependence of CDOM was also found, where highest aromaticity and concentration of organic material was found for the southernmost watersheds. Basin characteristics, vegetation …
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Spatially-Explicit Agent-Based Modeling of Ecosystem Change and Epizootiological Impacts on Caribbean Spiny Lobster, <i>Panulirus argus</i>
… of changes in hydrology due to the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Program on the spiny lobster and associated hard-bottom communities. I found that water quality changes associated with the restoration effort will likely reduce lobster recruitment in Florida Bay 6–24% and will likely prevent …
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Recent natural and anthropogenic ecosystem change to the marine environments of Biscayne Bay, Florida
… flows to Biscayne Bay as part of the ongoing Everglades restoration to reduce the high stress of salinity fluctuations that are a recent alteration to the natural ecosystems in Biscayne Bay.
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Developing artificial life simulations of vegetation to support the virtual reconstruction of ancient landscapes
… Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and the Virtual Everglades at Florida. Other important efforts to conserve artefacts and educate visitors include Virtual Stonehenge, Pompeii and the Caves of Lascaux. Entire villages, cities and even caves have been constructed as part of virtual conservation …
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Contribution of agricultural fire and wildfire smoke PM2.5 concentrations in rural regions of the US and the associated health impacts
… observed. We contrasted the region near the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) with large populations of low-income and minoritized groups to the more affluent coastal region. The inland region experienced more smoke-impacted monitor days than the Florida east coast region, and there was a …