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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Marine Science"”.
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Marine Science Lesson Plans about the Pacific Marine National Monuments: Options for Enhancing Ocean Literacy in the 7th through 12th Grade Classroom
… the benefits of increased levels of ocean science education. Barriers, challenges, and potential solutions for the increased implementation of ocean literacy in the classroom are identified. One of the barriers identified is lack of appropriate curricula available to teachers. In response, …
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Establishing a Link Between Personality and Social Rank in a Group of Bottlenose Dolphins (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>)
… dolphins housed at the Roatan Institute for Marine Science (RIMS). Social rank was established using questionnaires distributed to the RIMS experienced staff. Personality traits were derived from behavioral coding using context-specific correlational matrices. The traits were then correlated …
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A Description of Vocalizations and Their Association with Mouthing Behaviors and Social Context in Bottlenose Dolphins, <i>Tursiops truncatus</i>
… bottlenose dolphins at the Roatan Institute for Marine Science from March 2010 through June 2011. Raven Pro 1.4 is used to visually code vocalization types during all instances of each of three mouthing behaviors (mouthing, open mouth and bite/rake) and associated social contexts. Burst-pulse ‘B’ …
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Multiple-vehicle resource-constrained navigation in the deep ocean
… for more efficient and capable infrastructure in marine science, industry, and naval applications. Navigation for fleets of vehicles in the ocean presents a large challenge, as GPS is not available underwater and dead-reckoning based on inertial or bottom-lock methods can require expensive sensors …
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Review and optimization of housing and husbandry of anemonefishes for use in research
… Amphiprion are emerging as a model organism for marine science, it is critical to have standardization in housing and husbandry protocols for research laboratories. Here, we conducted a literature review, a questionnaire survey, and two experiments regarding the housing and husbandry of …
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Ecological role of mining ponds in Southern Coastal Mines, Namibia
Targeting marine diamondiferous deposits along the south-western Namibian coastline has involved the construction of seawall berms to advance the coastline and permit mining in previously subtidal areas. Large areas are mined out to bedrock level by the removal of overburden (sand and gravel), and …
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JUSTGrid: a pure Java HPCC grid architecture for multi-physics solvers using complex geometries
… the Earth Simulator, built by NEC at the Japan Marine Science and Technology Centre (JAMSTEC) on an area of 3,250 m2 (50mx65m), began it's work in March 2002 with the outstanding performance of 35,860 Gflops (40 TFIops peak) [TRIOO], numerous scientists opted in favour of such a high-performance …
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Multisector Mitigation of Plastic Pollution: Approaches from Biology, Policy, Law and Industry
… actively determining how plastic pollution harms marine animals and which measures should be used to reduce pollution. I use the four pathways to global sustainability (created by Folke et al., 2021) as a guiding framework for this dissertation because this framework outlines how society can …
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Stakeholder engagement in marine spatial planning
… explores the issue of stakeholder engagement in Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). The formal introduction of spatial planning in the marine environment, through the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 makes for an interesting and unique context for considering a central aspect of spatial planning, …
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Seasonal and spatial variability of pelagic fishes in relation to environmental variability in St Helena Bay
The St Helena Bay Monitoring Line (SHBML) stretches 197 nautical miles off Elands Bay on the west coast of South Africa. It is an extensive long term project on environmental monitoring, running from 2000 till 2012 on an almost monthly basis but currently running on a quarterly basis. It extends …
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Pātangaroa: Co-developing management strategies for a starfish outbreak in Ōhiwa Harbour
The management of marine environments often prioritises scientific information to address complex marine social-ecological issues. However, there is a wealth of learning to be gained from Indigenous people who have generated place-based intergenerational understandings and cultural ethics and …
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Expansion of Deltaproteobacteria diversity from marine sediment reveals unique metabolic features
Deltaproteobacteria are a ubiquitous class of bacteria that play a substantial role in carbon and nutrient cycling. However, our understanding of Deltaproteobacteria is biased towards cultured exemplars. To better understand the biodiversity and ecology of the Deltaproteobacteria, we obtained …
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Sex determination in southern flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma from the Texas Gulf Coast and implications of climate change
In marine flatfish of the genus Paralichthys, temperature plays a large role in sex determination. Thus, global climate change could have significant effects on southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma), a commercially and recreationally important flatfish whose populations have steadily …
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Development and validation of PCR-RFLP assay for identification of Gambierdiscus species in the Greater Caribbean region
The genus Gambierdiscus is a recognized group of marine epiphytic-benthic dinoflagellates that produce the toxins that cause Ciguatera Fish Poisoning (CFP). To date, 12 species and 6 ribotypes of Gambierdiscus have been identified, and multiple species commonly co-occur within a single site or …
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Relationships between climate, growth and fisheries production in a commercially exploited marine fish
… (Cynoscion othonopterus), a heavily exploited marine fish in the Gulf of California, Mexico, as a model to investigate relationships between El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) as measured by the Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI), sea surface temperature (SST), precipitation, drought as measured by …