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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Galapagos Islands"”.
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The impact of the Galapagos Islands on the dynamics of the equatorial East Pacific
… the equator of a medium-sized island group - the Galapagos Archipelago. The project is carried through using a combination of: in situ oceanographic data from ships and moorings; satellite SST and colour images; and diagnostics from both a sophisticated ocean general circulation model and a …
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Precipitation amount, altitude, and moisture trajectory effects on the stable isotopic composition of precipitation in the Galapagos Islands
Understanding how climate processes facilitate stable water isotope variability in precipitation over time and space is critical to interpreting stable isotope-based paleoclimate proxies, particularly in the eastern equatorial Pacific where stable water isotope observations from precipitation …
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Something Like Human
… war humanity have relocated to colonies on the Galapagos Islands. The novel follows the young daughter of a metalworker, Kyra Krikorian, as she befriends a squid boy, who she names OctoBoy. Concurrently, the novel explores her adulthood and the ramifications of this friendship, including her …
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Analysis of biomarker candidates from plant lipid inputs into Galapagos lacustrine sediments
… Junco lake catchmernt on Sari Cristobal in the Galapagos Islands were solvent extracted, identified and quantified using gas chromatography arid mass spectrometry. The analysis revealed evidence for significant aquatic and terrestrial vascular plant inputs to lake sediments. High concentrations …
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Towards the Advancement of Rotating Synthetic Aperture Space Telescope Technology
… maps that locate invasive plant species on the Galapagos islands. Regardless of the observing target, it is desirable to obtain the highest resolution imagery possible. The traditional approach to improving image resolution is to increase the size of the optical payload’s aperture. However, …
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Mantle plume-midocean ridge interaction : geophysical observations and mantle dynamics
… dimensions, and fluxes of the Icelandic and Galapagos plumes. In Chapter 1 we analyze bathymetric and gravity anomalies along the hotspot-influenced Galapagos Spreading Center. We find that the Galapagos plume generates along-axis bathymetric and mantle-Bouguer gravity anomalies (MBA) that …
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Reconstructing Tropical Pacific Climate Variability from Coral Archives
The tropical Pacific Ocean is a critical component of the climate system, and its mean state and variability are linked to effects across the globe. Our understanding of the area is limited by the scarcity of direct observations of important climatic variables prior to the mid-twentieth century, …
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Seasonal variation in population location of the Galapagos tortoise, geochelone elephantopus vandenburghi, on Volcan Alcedo, Isabela Island, Galapagos archipelago
<p>Twenty tortoises, 10 adult males and 10 adult females, were tagged with radio transmitters. Numbers were painted on each carapace to aid in visual sighting. The tortoises were released, and their movement was monitored over a one year period.</p> <p>The percent recovery of tagged tortoises along …