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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Hudson River"”.
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Sediment deposition in the lower Hudson River estuary
… sedimentological data collected from the Lower Hudson River estuary to identify the depositional response of the estuary to high river discharge events. Erosional and depositional environments in the estuary are identified through the use of side-scan sonar, bottom penetrating sonar and …
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Sediment deposition in the lower Hudson River estuary
Thesis (S.M. in Civil and Environmental Engineering)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 1999.
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The Recreation Geography of Westchester County Along The Hudson River, 1900-Present
… neglected is recreation in urban and suburban riverine environments. This study looks at recreational access to the Hudson River in Westchester County, New York. </p><p> Two fundamental research questions were examined: 1) how has the number of recreational sites providing access to the river …
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The Relative Contribution of Hudson River Tributaries to River Herring Spawning Dynamics
… Kill (Poughkeepsie, New York) to obtain spawning river herring egg counts for abundance modeling and subsequent population estimation. Geographic coordinates (NAD 1983 UTM Zone 18N) were recorded at sites of egg collection, and kernel density based functions in GIS were used to visualize the …
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Multiproxy Analyses of Past Vegetation, Climate, and Sediment Dynamics in Hudson River Wetlands
The Hudson River estuary (New York, USA) is a heavily urbanized estuary with a long history of environmental impacts from anthropogenic activities for hundreds of years. The estuary is intensely utilized, serving over ten million people throughout New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey. The portion …
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An investigation of a Hudson River clay deposit of the Terry Brick Corp
… consists of an investigation of a deposit of Hudson River clay from the Terry Brick Corp. of Kingston, N.Y., to determine the best possible uses for the clay in the ceramic industry. The effect of blending the Goldrick clay with shale, and the addition of sodium carbonate and chestnut extract …
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Overwintering abundance and distribution of striped bass (Morone saxtilis) in the Hudson River estuary using hydroacoustic techniques
… applied to hydroacoustic data collected on the Hudson River in December of 1995 and 1997. The goal of the hydroacoustic data collection was to assess the abundance and distribution of overwintering Hudson River striped bass. Results from this study showed that striped bass primarily occupied the …
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Optical Signatures of Bioavailable and Terrigenous Dissolved Organic Matter Across Long Island Sound and Hudson River Estuaries
… scale, remote sensing observations resolved riverine and basin-level export, enabling the study of mobilization events during extreme precipitation. These approaches show how optics provide a unifying framework for linking fine-scale biogeochemical mechanisms to large-scale patterns of DOM …
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Post-settlement processes and early life history dynamics of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) in the Hudson River estuary
… polymorpha, in an estuarine habitat such as the Hudson River, provides an ideal system for examining the early life history period and the effect of early life history processes on population dynamics. My dissertation research focuses on the early post settlement period of which little is known …
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The use of a water quality model to evaluate the impacts of combined sewer overflows on the lower Hudson River
… WASP 6.1, is utilized in this study. The Lower Hudson River is selected as a case study. Data are collected from the US EPA, USGS, NYC DEP, and NJ DEP. After calibration, the receiving water quality model can be used to study the impacts of CSO with a series of scenarios, which include the major …
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Assessment of local abundance, demographics, health and exploitation of Chesapeake Bay American eel
… and with an unexploited population in the Hudson River. A mark-recapture experiment in the Potomac River yielded growth, abundance, and production estimates. Sub-estuaries characterized by lower salinity had a lower proportion of females, and American eels were older, slower growing and …
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Architecture and Rehabilitation: How Architecture can be Rehabilitative for its Patients, for its City
… open to the public, lifts upward toward the Hudson River and allows an unobstructed view of the Hudson River Greenway, the Hudson River, and Fort Lee, New Jersey. In a neighborhood of overworked doctors and staff, family members visiting sick loved ones, and residents of an urban environment …
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Gifford Pinchot's Photographic Aesthetic
… and combined the pictorial considerations of the Hudson River School with the use philosophy of early landscape architecture and the format of early western survey photographers. Pinchot and photography came of age during the American industrial revolution; at a time when medium and man seemed to …
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Gifford Pinchot's Photographic Aesthetic
… and combined the pictorial considerations of the Hudson River School with the use philosophy of early landscape architecture and the format of early western survey photographers. Pinchot and photography came of age during the American industrial revolution; at a time when medium and man seemed to …
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Picturesque Portraiture: The Composition of Reality in Hawthorne, Melville, and James
… regarding the representation of reality. The Hudson River School of picturesque landscape painters tackled this dilemma with a compromise formula which used the real objects of nature to create ideal scenes. This dissertation applies the same picturesque formula to select examples of literary …
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Detecting long-term trends in water quality parameters using remote sensing techniques
… models for SDD, Chl-a, and DOC in the Hudson River Estuary, New York. The accuracy of model estimates was evaluated using a validation dataset and water quality indicators were mapped for the period 2005-2008. The correlation between predicted and observed values was highest for SDD and …
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Dynamics and kinematics of an estuarine network
… Bay, a sub-estuarine network connected to the Hudson River estuary through New York Harbor. Estuarine networks differ from simple estuaries in that they may have multiple connections to the ocean, multiple freshwater sources, and often contain complex junctions between estuarine segments. The …
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Nyack River Front Park: a conversation between land and water
… led me to design a public park on the Hudson River in Nyack, New York. *note* the printed version of this book is in the format of double sided pages and is best viewed in the format of facing pages.
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Westway
… acre landfill project proposed for Manhattan' s Hudson River shore. The thesis also makes suggestions for the design and uses of the waterfront parks and open spaces adjacent to the residential areas. The thesis' s designs are developed with concern for making Westway appropriate for its …
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Urban temporal storage : re-thinking the public domain using interstitial space in NYC
… York City, between Pennsylvania Station and the Hudson River, the thesis introduces diverse and temporary programs in a sequence of interstitial spaces as a tool to integrate the homeless issue in the dynamic of the city. The aim is to encourage public intervention that soften the threshold …
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