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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Great Lakes Basin"”.

  1. Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Climate-Driven Risk of Compound Flood Events in the Great Lakes Basin

    Wang, YuxuanThe University of Western Ontario2025

    … types of climate-driven flood events in the Great Lakes basin, driven by Rain-on-Snow (ROS), Saturation Excess flooding (SEF), and Successive Rainfall (SR), in the historical period (1985-2014) and the future period (2071-2100). Assessments are based on WRF-Hydro simulations forced by RDRS …

    uwo Repository record

  2. A HYDRO-CLIMATIC MODELING FRAMEWORK FOR ADAPTIVE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE GREAT LAKES BASIN

    Gyawali, Rabi

    mtu Repository record

  3. An Evaluation of the Occurrence of Micronuclei and other Nuclear Abnormalities in Fishes from the Great Lakes Basin, United States

    Braham, Ryan Patrick2019

    … of the 30 areas of concern (AOC) located in the Great Lakes basin within the United States. As each AOC evaluates this specific BUI for possible delisting, biomarkers sensitive to both genotoxic and mutagenic chemicals can be integrated as a possible criterion for delisting. The micronucleus …

    wvu Repository record

  4. Evaluating time-series smoothing algorithms for multi-temporal land cover classification

    Wheeler, Brandon MylesVirginia Tech2015

    … for improving land cover classification in the Great Lakes Basin, and providing groundwork to support cyanobacteria and cyanotoxin monitoring efforts. We used inter-class separability and intra-class variability, at varying levels of pixel homogeneity, to evaluate the effectiveness of three …

    vt Repository record

  5. The Use of Remote Sensing to Map and Monitor Coastal Dune Vegetation Change at Southampton, Ontario, Canada

    Hague, BrodieBrock University2016

    Coastal dune ecosystems in the Great Lakes Basin are fragile, rare ecosystems that are under increasing threat due to anthropogenic and natural forces. The Chantry Dune system in Southampton, Ontario is one of five major dune systems along the eastern shores of Lake Huron. The dune complex provides …

    brock Repository record

  6. Economic Models of Recreational and Commercial Fishing and Their Impact on the Great Lakes Ecosystem

    Speir, CameronUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2015

    … it applies to three environmental issues in the Great Lakes basin. The first paper estimates response to government-issued information on the risks of eating PCB-contaminated sportfish. We use 19 years of creel survey data to estimate the effect of more lenient fish consumption advisories (FCAs) …

    uiuc Repository record

  7. Can we get there from here? Ecosystem based governance in the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine region

    Coon, John R

    … the governance regime that existed in the Great Lakes Basin during the first two decades under the International Joint Commission's oversight of activities under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. The framework model is then used to analyze the current governance regime in the Gulf of …

    unh-thes Repository record

  8. Investigating the distribution of Nitellopsis obtusa in Ontario Lakes and its role as an ecosystem engineer

    Harrow-Lyle, Tyler J.University of Ontario Institute of Technology2021

    … macrophyte introduced into the Laurentian Great Lakes in 1974. Over the last decade, increasing reports emerged for N. obtusa within lakes in the Great Lakes Basin. Despite N. obtusa being in North America since the 1970s, little is known about the ecosystem- and community-level impacts …

    uoit Repository record

  9. Mercury Transport and Fluxes in the Lake Ontario Basin

    Denkenberger, Joseph Steven

    … I assess mercury dynamics in the Lake Ontario Basin. In four interrelated phases, ecosystem mercury concentrations and fluxes were analyzed at increasing scales. Each phase is presented in order of increasing scale, starting with a reach-by-reach analysis in the Seneca River in New York, then …

    syracuse-diss Repository record

  10. Old and subsurface water contributions to storm runoff generation in flat, fractured, clayey terrain.

    Huang, Mao.University of Windsor1995

    … from cropping practices has increased in the Great Lakes basin including this study area. By investigating surface and subsurface runoff generation processes and amount generated during individual storm events, this study was aimed to provide a better understanding of transport processes in …

    windsor Repository record

  11. Plant introductions and community dynamics across environmental gradients in Great Lakes coastal wetlands

    Town, KendalynSUNY Brockport Department of Environmental Science and Ecology2026

    Great Lakes coastal wetlands provide vital ecosystem services, including water quality improvement, flood mitigation, and fish and wildlife habitat. However, many of these wetlands have been lost, and those that remain face various threats, including invasion by nonnative plants. Within coastal …

    brockport Repository record