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Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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LONG-TERM MONITORING OF THE NW ATLANTIC THROUGH ALTIMETRY AND AN ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER, Jessica Shaughnessy Worst

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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In-Situ Feeding in the Northern Krill, Meganyctiphanes norvegica: A DNA Analysis of Gut Contents, Alison Cleary

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CONSTITUENTS OF SEA SURFACE HEIGHT VARIABILITY IN DRAKE PASSAGE, Amy Lynn Cutting

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Using passive samplers to measure the bioavailability and transport of sedimentary organic contaminants, Carey L. Friedman

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Physical and chemical interactions between marine phytoplankton and particle-colonizing bacteria, Jason Robert Graff

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DEEP VARIABILITY IN THE KUROSHIO EXTENSION, Andrew Dale Greene

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Nonlinear internal waves in the South China Sea, Qiang Li

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Benthic habitat mapping and assessment using organism-sediment relationships, Emily J. Shumchenia

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A SEDIMENTARY RECORD OF INTENSE STORMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE FROM A COASTAL FRESHWATER LAKE IN REHOBOTH BEACH, DELAWARE, Stephen G. Smith

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Roll vortices and their impact on the mean flow in the atmospheric boundary layer, Zhitao Yu

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Full-wave tomography: Method and application to the south-east Tibetan plateau, Zhigang Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Overwintering ecology of young-of-the-year winter flounder in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, Richard James Bell

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Benthic macrofauna in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: An examination of factors causing variability in community structure, Christopher John Calabretta

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MEAN THERMOHALINE AND VELOCITY STRUCTURE OF THE MID-ATLANTIC BIGHT MID-SHELF FRONT, Lauren Brooke Decker

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Simulating widespread tephra dispersal from explosive volcanic eruptions, Julie Ann Fero

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Habitats in a Rhode Island Coastal Lagoon Experiencing Episodic Hypoxia, Marisa L. Guarinello

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MAPPING THE SUBMERGED LANDSCAPE OF NORFOLK CANYON , VA USING ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES AND THE SEARCH FOR SUBMERGED PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES, Christopher Scott Jazwa

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Petrogenesis and eruption dynamics at Hudson Volcano, southern Chile, David Jon Kratzmann

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On the dynamics of oceanic gap-traversing boundary currents, Joseph J. Kuehl

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Biomass spectra in Narragansett Bay from phytoplankton to fish, Brooke A. Longval

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Bio-optical and remote sensing investigation of phytoplankton community size structure, Colleen Beckmann Mouw

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Fertilizing the land, lagoons, and sea: A first look at human impacts on the Nile Delta fishery, Egypt, Autumn Jean Oczkowski

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Subseafloor sulfate reduction: Investigation of an unrecognized pathway and quantification of low rates, Heather Nicole Schrum

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Assimilating mesoscale oceanic features and understanding their impact on hurricanes, Richard Michael Yablonsky

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Mesoscale variability and Lagrangian statistics in the tropical North Atlantic, Long Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Cross-Frontal Velocity and Temperature Structure of the New Jersey Midshelf Frontal Zone, Michelle Louise Aleszczyk

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An Observational Study of the Kuroshio in the East China Sea: Local, Regional and Basin-Wide Perspectives on a Western Boundary Current, Magdalena Andres

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SEA SURFACE HEIGHT VARIABILITY AND THE STRUCTURE OF EDDIES IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC CAPE BASIN, Sheekela Baker-Yeboah

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Numerical and theoretical investigations of North Pacific subtropical mode water with implications to Pacific climate variability, Xujing Jia Davis

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Paleo-and environmental magnetic studies of Late Cenozoic estuarine, lacustrine, and terrestrial sediments, Clifford William Heil Jr.

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STREAM-COORDINATE STRUCTURE AND VARIABILITY OF THE KUROSHIO EXTENSION, Penelope Jane Howe

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The magnetic susceptibility record of the Chinese red-clay sequence: Enhancement mechanisms, temporal variation, and its relationship to orbital and tectonic forcing, Junsheng Nie

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Evaluation of a novel autonomous detector for microbial water quality monitoring, Heather L. Saffert

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A study of formaldehyde sources in air, Haiwei Shen

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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NORTHERN ADRIATIC CIRCULATION AND TIDES, Jeffrey W. Book

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Composition and depositional processes of Cretaceous-Tertiary impact deposits in Belize and southeastern Mexico, Emily Burns

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EFFECTS OF SURFACE WAVES ON AIR-SEA MOMENTUM AND ENERGY FLUXES AND OCEAN RESPONSE TO HURRICANES, Yalin Fan

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The impact of climate change on benthic-pelagic coupling and the biogeochemical cycling of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, Robinson Walter Fulweiler

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A Cenozoic history of the central Arctic Ocean, Matthew Aaron O'Regan

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Feeding ecology of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz (Ctenophora, Lobata), Lindsay J. Sullivan

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AIR-SEA SCALAR FLUX DUE TO WIND-GENERATED NEAR-SURFACE TURBULENT EDDIES: THE EDDY RENEWAL MODEL, Eric G. Van Inwegen

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Population dynamics of the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus, in the northwest Atlantic: An examination of food habits, movement and habitat, survival, and population size, Anthony Darrell Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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A regional comparison between the seasonal cycles of the Western Irish Shelf and the Georges Bank, Gulf of Maine ecosystems: The impact of physical variability, Bronwyn Elizabeth Cahill

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MOBILITY AND FATE OF CONTAMINANTS IN ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENTS, Mark G. Cantwell

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Particle dynamics and shelf-basin interactions in the western Arctic Ocean investigated using radiochemical tracers, Kate Hagstrom

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The virtual eelgrass meadow: A simulation of Zostera marina L. linking physiology to population level processes, Lora Anna Harris

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Radium Isotopes as Tracers of Water Mass Age and Groundwater Flux to Shallow Coastal Salt Ponds, Andrea L. Hougham

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Late Holocene climate variability as preserved in high-resolution estuarine and lacustrine sediment archives, Jeremiah Bradford Hubeny

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Interannual and seasonal phytoplankton variability in Massachusetts Bay from remote and in situ measurements, Kimberly Joy Whitman Hyde

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The effect of breaking waves on a coupled model of wind and ocean surface waves, Tobias Kukulka

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Manatee response to environmental noise, Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds

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Analysis of the Gulf Stream path and Rossby waves in the North Atlantic based on satellite data, Vladimir Osychny

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Surface wind response to oceanic fronts, Qingtao Song

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Metabolic activities in deep subseafloor sediments, Guizhi Wang

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ANALYSES OF SEA SURFACE HEIGHT, BOTTOM PRESSURE AND ACOUSTIC TRAVEL TIME IN THE JAPAN/EAST SEA, Yongsheng Xu

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Seismic constraints on structure beneath hotspots: Local earthquake tomography and finite frequency tomography approaches, Ting Yang

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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An assessment of the habitat quality and nutritional intake of North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay, Amy Susanna Delorenzo

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Recombinant antimicrobials for feed based delivery in aquaculture, Tarquin Dorrington

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Underway profiling of photosynthesis and dissolved oxygen in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, Donald Christopher Melrose

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Nanoplankton biodiversity in the Pettaquamscutt River Estuary, Rhode Island, Unites States, Sunshine Menezes

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Energetic constraints on diapause in Calanus finmarchicus: Implications for population dynamics in the Gulf of Maine, Whitley Joseph Saumweber

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Mid-Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Pacific-Phoenix-Farallon triple junction, Richard Viso

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Hydrography, suspended sediments, chlorophyll A, chromophoric dissolved organic matter and optical characteristics of the Pearl River (Zhujiang) Estuary during July and November, 1998, Wendy Lynn Woods

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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An Assessment of Predation by the Lobate Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi (Agassiz, 1865) on Ichthyoplankton in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, Angela R. Allen

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Examining the processes controlling water column variability in Narragansett Bay: Time series data and numerical modeling, Deanna L. Bergondo

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Potential use of nitrogen-15 to assess nitrogen sources and fate in Narragansett Bay, Joaquin E. Chaves

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Determining Components of Fluorophoric DOM in Narragansett Bay Using Fluorescence EEMs and PARAFAC, Jessica Dombroski

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Culture of summer flounder Paralichthys dentatus: Environmental and endocrine synchronization of growth and settlement in larvae and identification of stressors in juveniles, Steven Gavlik

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Geochemical correlation, variation, and petrogenesis, of ignimbrites in Central America and associated Caribbean Sea tephra layers, Benjamin R. Jordan

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Determination of chlorophyll a concentrations and phytoplankton primary production in New England estuarine waters using ocean color remote sensing from low-flying aircraft, Darryl Joel Keith

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Macrozooplankton and micronekton in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone, Mary Rapien

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An observational and numerical study of the South Atlantic circulation, Regina Rodrigues Rodrigues

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF INUNDATED COASTAL PREHISTORIC SITES, Dwight F. Coleman

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Assessment of the Rhode Island Coastal Lagoon Ecosystem, Kathryn Hale Ford

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Free and forced convection in Earth's upper mantle, Paul S. Hall

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Upper Current Structure and Variability in the Southwestern Japan/East Sea, Douglas A. Mitchell

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Observations of the wind-wave spectrum and steep wave statistics in open ocean waters, Nicholas Vicente Scott

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Thyroidal regulation of stomach development and toxicity of PCB 126 in metamorphosing summer flounder, Bruno Soffientino

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Bacterioplankton seasonal dynamics in Narragansett Bay, Andrew M. Staroscik

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Predation on the early life history stages of winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) by the sand shrimp (Crangon septemspinosa), David Lenox Taylor

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Sources, transport, and fates of particulate trace metals in the Gulf of Maine-Scotian Shelf and Labrador Sea, Sarah Elizabeth Weinstein

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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New England Salt Marsh Pools: Analysis of Geomorphic and Geographic Parameters, Macrophyte Distribution and Nekton Use, Susan C. Adamowicz

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The ecology and morphology of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) and its associated macrophyte community in relation to environmental variables, Joanne C. Bintz

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Analysis and simulation of Skeletonema costatum (Grev.) Cleve annual abundance patterns in lower Narragansett Bay 1959 to 1996, David Gerald Borkman

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Development of a numerical model for shallow marine ecosystems with application to Greenwich Bay, Rhode Island, Mark James Brush

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Influence of turbulent transport and chemistry on the distributions of hydrogen peroxide, methyl peroxide and formaldehyde in the remote marine boundary layer, Wonil Chang

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A numerical study of Gulf Stream meandering and associated physical processes, Sergey Alexander Frolov

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Effects of mobile fishing gear on the benthic megafauna and production of Georges Bank, Jerome Michael Hermsen Jr.

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The geochemistry of basalts from the Easter microplate boundaries and the western Easter-Salas y Gomez seamount chain: A comprehensive study of mantle plume-spreading center interaction, Richard Hale Kingsley

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The ocean response to atmospheric intraseasonal variability in the tropical Pacific Ocean, Alexander Gennadievich Kochurov

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Lagrangian studies of oxygen variability in the North Atlantic Ocean, Peter Lazarevich

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The North Atlantic current-subpolar front system: A study combining float data and historical hydrography, Paula Perez Brunius

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Convective transport of hydroxyl and hydroperoxyl precursors to the upper troposphere, Julie Amy Snow

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Hafnium Isotope Ratio in Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts: a Global Survey and a Focus on the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (40°S - 55°S), Magdalena Andres

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Explosive rhyodacitic volcanism: The evolution and frequency of pre-1883 eruptions at Krakatau volcano, Indonesia, Jennifer Livesley Beauregard

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Remote sensing of bio-optical water types, phytoplankton seasonality, and algal pigments in ocean margin waters, Paula Susan Bontempi

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Investigation of the Physical Mechanisms Controlling Exchange Between Mount Hope Bay and the Sakonnet River, William Deleo

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Contaminants in Narragansett Bay sediments, Paul Christian Hartmann

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Characterization and fractal analysis of volcanic particles: A multidimensional approach to interpretation of volcaniclastic deposits, Anton Hanna Maria

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Aspects of the physiology of early juvenile cod (Gadus morhua L.) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus L.), Myron Arms Peck