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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Potomac River"”.
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American Eel Subpopulation Characteristics in the Potomac River Drainage, Virginia
… scale within drainages are scarce. Eels in the Potomac River drainage, Virginia, were sampled over a two-year period in both near-coastal and inland areas to describe characteristics in each area as well as to understand drainage-wide patterns. Inland data resulted from sampling in the …
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Bat Resource Utilization Along the Potomac River Corridor in Maryland
… the range of the cicada emergence along the Potomac River corridor of Maryland and Virginia. For total bat activity, there was significantly more acoustic activity within the range of the cicada emergence the year during and the year following emergence than where emergence did not occur. …
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Renegotiating the Edge: Creating an Inspired Reality in the Potomac River Watershed
… looks to the past at a 1967 report entitled; The Potomac: A Report on Its Imperiled Future and a Guide for Its Orderly Development, authored by pioneers Stewart Udall, Ian McHarg and others. The report approached the ecology and culture of the Potomac River basin through the lens of the 1960s, a …
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Impact of Indirect Potable Reuse on Endocrine Disrupting Compounds in the Potomac River Basin
The Potomac River Basin is significant for both public and ecological health as it flows directly into the ecologically-sensitive Chesapeake Bay. It is a drinking water source for about 5 million people living in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. The discovery of intersex fish, an indicator …
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Maintaining a Nitrogen Cap for Virginia's Potomac River: The Contribution of Alternative Development Patterns
… to reduce its annual load of Nitrogen, to the Potomac River, to 60% of what the load was estimated to be in 1985. Virginia would like to accomplish this goal at the lowest cost to its citizens. Therefore the state needs to determine the combination of nitrogen control efforts which will achieve …
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North Bend: Archaeological Site Formation and the Hough Type at Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary
… significant vessel abandoned within Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary. The research centers around understanding the disintegration process for North Bend and identifies factors influencing its current preservation and future site formation. The research draws upon Donald …
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Optimization of Multi-Reservoir Management Rules Subject to Climate and Demand Change in the Potomac River Basin
… because the system relies on flow in the Potomac river, which is largely uncontrolled and augmented by the Jennings-Randolph reservoir, located 9-10 days travel time upstream. Given this lag, release decisions must be made collectively by federal, state and local stakeholders amid …
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Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and correlation of the aquia formation in the type area, along the Potomac River, Virginia
… 2 localities in the Aquia type area along the Potomac River 7 miles southeast of Stafford, Virginia to: identify taxa present, and to effect biostratigraphic correlation with other Paleocene studies on the Virginia Coastal Plain. Two genera and twenty-two species were recovered, allowing …
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The Silver Fraction - A Weathered Inebriation: Plans, Elevations, Sections, Details, Models and Texts for a Brewery and a Biergarten on the bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria, Virginia
Architecture is an exhaustive act. With the Herculean efforts of the patron, the architect and the builder, a building comes into being. Materials are collected and transformed in order to create a place for Man to dwell. That is, materials occurring in their natural state are transformed by the …
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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 showed …
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An Architectural Response to Movement
… lot adjacent to King Street's terminus at the Potomac River. Given the importance of movement to my site, especially in terms of pedestrians and the Potomac River, a dance center is a fitting building type. To aid in crafting a cohesive building that spoke to both the demands of the site and …
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School for Children who are Blind
… its own urban context with boundaries like the Potomac River, trees, old railroad ways, a tunnel, and other landmarks like churches, libraries, museums, etc. The children in the education center have an opportunity to learn more and show their life skills easily in the old town. Also the site …
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Celebration of the edge: Old Town Alexandria waterfront, Alexandria, Virginia: a collage of architectural and landscape elements engaged in the transition from land to water
The edge of the Potomac river at Founder's Park in Old Town Alexandria provides a site where visitors can acknowledge the river and the city. A transitional zone has been developed here through the exploration of dualities. The concept of water meeting land is translated in the fragmentation and …
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Choreography for the Aficionado: A Phenomenological Study Choreographing between Site, Volume, and Material to Enhance the Moment of the Aficionado
Encompassed between the Potomac River, the Washington metro line and train bridges at 14th Street, the proposal is a phenomenological study choreographing between site, volume and material to enhance the moment of the aficionado. Exterior and interior spaces become unique stages for patron and …
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Nothing is Perfect, But Something is Just Right: Redevelopment of Inner-Ring Suburbs - Integrating Ecological Systems into Modern Urban Villages
… in Virginia, west of Washington, D.C. across the Potomac River. Then, key intersections between stream systems and the development corridors are identified and assessed to determine (a) whether any existing landscape framework surrounding the stream feature is in place and (b) whether the …
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