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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Outer Banks of North Carolina"”.
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Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) demography, behavior, and movement on the Outer Banks of North Carolina
… shorebird that inhabits sandy beaches along the North American Atlantic Coast. The species' decline has been attributed to habitat loss, disturbance, and predation throughout its range, although most conservation efforts have focused on increasing reproductive output during the breeding season. …
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Survey Techniques to Examine Morphological Evolution of Coastal Regions
… from the dune to the low-tide water line on the Outer Banks of North Carolina at the US Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility in Duck. The 22,500 m2 area of interest was surveyed daily by a walker carrying a GPS-equipped backpack and occasionally with a lidar equipped drone. Surveys of …
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Biology and Impacts of Leech Infestation in Largemouth Bass (Micropterus Salmoides) in Back Bay, Virginia
… Virginia, USA. The Oregon Inlet along the Outer Banks of North Carolina is the only significant salinity source to the Bay via the Pamlico and Currituck Sounds of North Carolina. Today Back Bay is considered a brackish ecosystem with salinity of 2004, leeches have been observed in the oral …
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Activity patterns at Cape Hatteras National Seashore: an analysis of off-road vehicle and pedestrian users among visitors and residents
The purpose of this study was to describe the use of Cape Hatteras National Seashore from visitors and local residents of the Outer Banks, and to explore the differences in use for off-road vehicle (ORV) users and pedestrians within each of these user groups. During the summer of 1978, 598 visitors …
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Understanding the Risk Perception of Commercial Fishermen
Commercial fishing is indisputably one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States and the world. Due to the hazardous work conditions such as bad weather, the commercial fishing industry is plagued with high amounts of fatal and non-fatal injuries. Safety training is mandatory, but …
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The Application of Macro- and Microfossils to Identify Paleoearthquakes in Sumatra, Indonesia and to Characterize Geomorphic and Ecological Succession on a Marsh Platform After Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina, USA
… I focused on the litho- and biostratigraphy of the lower buried soil, which is indicative of coseismic subsidence from a paleoearthquake estimated to have occurred ca. 6500-7000 years BP. Approximately 1-3 m above the lower buried soil sequence is an upper buried soil with an age of ca. …
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A Methodological Reconsideration of Early English-Indigenous Communication in Sixteenth Century Northeastern America
… next two years the English tried various methods of communication with the Inuit – including miming, drawing, writing and kidnapping “interpreters” – but were unable to recover their lost men or even learn their fate. During this frustrating period English-Inuit relations deteriorated steadily …