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Theses/Dissertations from 1993

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Zooplankton distributions in the Great South Channel and the genetic population structure of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus in the Gulf of Maine, Lisa Marie Kann

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Molecular oxygen and oxygen-18: Co-tracers of oceanic productivity, John Afton Kiddon

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O2 and 18O: CO-Tracers of Oceanic Productivity, John Afton Kiddon

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Analysis, Distribution, and Oxidation-Reduction Chemistry of Fe(II) in Seawater, Daniel William O'Sullivan

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Source and Sink of Ammonia in the Marine Boundary Layer, Liangzhong Zhuang

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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The Seismic Stratigraphy, Crustal Structure, Volcanic and Sedimentary History of the East Mariana and Pigafetta Basins of the Western Pacific, Lewis Julius Abrams

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The long-range transport of aerosol particles over the North Atlantic Ocean, William Grenville Ellis Jr.

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Gulf Stream warm surges: Thermal and potential vorticity anomalies in the Stream, Craig Gilman

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Sensitivity of modeled Cretaceous climate to insolation forcing created by varying Earth-Sun orbital relationships, Thomas J. Glancy Jr.

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Abundance, condition, growth and mortality of winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus, Walbaum) larvae in Narragansett Bay during spring of 1988, Einar Horleifsson

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Variability of the Gulf Stream path between 74 degrees W and 70 degrees W: Observations and quasi-geostrophic modeling of mixed instabilities, Harris Kontoyiannis

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Aspects of the bioenergetics and ecology of sand lance on Georges Bank, Sharon Nicole Larimer

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The variation of nitric acid vapor and nitrate aerosol concentrations near the island of Hawaii, Gangwoong Lee

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Habitat utilization, diet, and foraging behavior of two species of Caribbean moray eels, Gymnothorax moringa and Gymnothorax vicinus, Robert Franklin Young

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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The influence of the Gulf Stream on the regional biogeography of zooplankton (Copepods), Carin Jessica Ashjian

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The response of benthic suspension feeders and their grazing impact on phytoplankton in eutrophied coastal ecosystems, Lynn Laffin Beatty

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The relationship of mid-ocean eddy fields to sea surface temperature fronts during the Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment, James John Bisagni

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Nutrient and Phosphorus Geochemistry in the Taunton River Estuary, Massachusetts, Joceline M. Boucher

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Phosphorus Dynamics in the Parker River Estuary, Richard Chinman

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Hydrothermal activity in the Mariana Mounds area: Processes and products, Kathleen Ann Dadey

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Plankton production dynamics in Laguna Joyuda, Jorge R. Garcia-Sais

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Morphology and tectonics of the southern mid-Atlantic ridge: Implications for accretion of oceanic lithosphere, Nancy Ruth Grindlay

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The Strontium Isotope Geochemistry of the Cenozoic Ocean, Jennifer Hess

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Sediment bioassays: Factors which influence their interpretation and their use in bioassay directed fractionation, Kay Tze Yau Ho

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New geophysical constraints on the structure of oceanic crust, Ellen Morris

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The fate of nutrient inputs to estuaries: Evidence from estuarine mesocosms, Barbara Louise Nowicki

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A pattern recognition approach to stock identification of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., based on derived morphometric features of scales, Tun Liang Ong

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Morphology of mid-ocean ridges and ridge flanks: Implications for processes operative at mid-ocean ridges, Robert Avery Pockalny

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Numerical studies of Lagrangian motion in a meandering jet, Henrik Soiland

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The isotopic composition of trapped oxygen molecule and nitrogen molecule in ice cores: Biogeochemical and stratigraphic implications, Todd Anthony Sowers

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DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID CHARACTERIZATION OF THREE SPECIES OF DIATOMS WITHIN GENUS THALASSIOSIRA, Robert D. Vaillancourt

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On assessing ocean disposal risks: Oceanographic, climatic, and anthropogenic considerations, Henry Allen Walker

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The Physical Chemistry of Atmospheric Iron and Its Geochemical Behavior in the Surface Waters of the Open Ocean, Guoshun Zhuang

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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Diatom evidence for latest Quaternary history of upwelling and biogenic productivity: Portugal, NW Africa and Alboran Sea, Fatima Guedes Abrantes

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RATES OF NITRIFICATION AND THEIR IMPORTANCE TO THE NITROGEN CYCLE OF NARRAGANSETT BAY, RHODE ISLAND, Veronica Marie Berounsky

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The History of Metals Pollution in Narragansett Bay as Recorded by Salt Marsh Sediments, Suzanne Boyd Bricker

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The use of length frequency analysis for estimation of the age structure of the catch of Nephrops norvegicus, Maria Margarida Miranda De Castro

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Variability in length-at-age in marine fishes, Karim Erzini

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The Brazil Current at subtropical latitudes, Newell Garfield III

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Morphotomology of Rhode Island Barrier Shores: A Method of Distinguishing Beach from Dune/Barrier Component Histories Within a 29 Yeah Record of Shore Zone Profile Data, with Special Reference to the Role of the Beach as a Buffer and Modulator of Erosional Coastline Retreat, Scott Michael Graves

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The rock-magnetic signature of high-latitude northern hemispheric deep-sea sediments and their relationships to Quaternary glacial cycling, Frank Reginald Hall

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Geochemical and physical processes influencing the composition of particles in diverse environments, eastern North Atlantic Ocean, Ann Elaine Isley

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Ecology of an exploited Antarctic fish community, James Edward McKenna Jr.

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AN INVESTIGATION OF PEROXIDE, IRON AND IRON BIOAVAILABILITY IN IRRADIATED MARINE WATERS, William L. Miller

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Relationship of vertebral band deposition to age and growth in the dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus, and the little skate, Raja erinacea, Lisa J. Natanson

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Petrology and geochemistry of South Atlantic Ridge basalts and geochemical variations along the Cameroon Line, Susanna Eleonora Sichel

Theses/Dissertations from 1989

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RECENT AND HISTORICAL ACCUMULATION OF TRACE METAL CONTAMINANTS IN THE SEDIMENT OF NARRAGANSETT BAY, RHODE ISLAND, Jeffrey M. Corbin

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A comparison of methods of stock identification of the silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis, Paul Stephen Joyce

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Changes in fatty acid and hydrocarbon composition of zooplankton assemblages related to environmental conditions, Rose Marie Lambert

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The sources, transport, and fate of polychlorinated biphenyls in Narragansett Bay, James Stephen Latimer

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Cenozoic depositional history of the middle U.S. Atlantic continental rise, Stanley Dwight Locker

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Effects of eutrophication on the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, oxygen, sulfur and energy in coastal marine ecosystems, Peter Andre Sampou

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Formic and acetic acids in the boundary layer over the North Atlantic ocean, Joseph John Schmultz Tokos

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Amino acids in planktonic foraminiferal tests, Linda Stathoplos

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Antarctic paleoceanography, Lowell D. Stott

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Ecology of oceanic diatoms: Investigations of symbioses, suspension and growth dynamics of selected Rhizosolenia species, Tracy Alan Villareal

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An isotopic and trace element study of mantle heterogeneity beneath the Norwegian-Greenland Sea, David Guy Waggoner

Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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Geochemistry of Tributyltin in Coastal Waters: An Experiment in a Merl Mesocosm, David Adelman

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Stable Isotopic Analyses of Selected Narragansett Bay Molecules, David J. Allard

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Isopycnal drifter studies in the Gulf Stream, Amy Sue Bower

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Volcanologic and petrologic studies of tephra from the Neapolitan volcanic area, Italy, Winton Charles Cornell

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Rock-magnetic and paleomagnetic studies of marine sediments from the central and western North Pacific: Stratigraphic and paleoceanographic implications, Seong-Jae Doh

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Phosphorus fluxes, phosphorite sedimentation and associated diagenesis in oxygen-deficient basins: The modern Black Sea and Peru margin and the Upper Cretaceous of Egypt, Craig Richard Glenn

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The use of the stable isotope, oxygen-18, as a tracer to measure gross primary production in coastal and oligotrophic waters and in monoclonal cultures of marine phytoplankton, Karen Diane Grande

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Spectrophotometric Determination of pH and Iron in Seawater: Equilibria and Kinetics, D. Whitney King

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Aspects of the feeding ecology of the blue shark, Prionace glauca in the Western North Atlantic, Nancy E. Kohler

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Pulsing technique for improved performance of oxygen sensors and a comparative study of the causes of interspecific differences in the growth-irradiance relationship of three marine phytoplankton species; Skeletonema costatum, Olisthodiscus luteus and Gonyaulax tamarensis, Christopher Langdon

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The isostasy and crustal structure of the East Pacific Rise and the morphotectonic fabric of the Orozco Transform Fault, John Alfred Madsen

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The Biology of Juvenile Scup (Stenotomus chrysops (L.)) in Narragansett Bay, R.I.: Food Habits, Metabolic Rate and Growth Rate, Mary Sinnamon Michelman

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A kinetic approach to zinc speciation in marine and estuarine waters, Francois Muller

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The cycle of atmospheric cadmium in the remote North Pacific, Thomas Lee Patterson

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Tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the Neogene Gulf of Suez and northern Red Sea rift: Depositional environment and hydrocarbon source potential of evaporites, Mark Richardson

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Effects of eutrophication on growth and bioenergetics of the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, Gregory Allen Tracey

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Erosion of the Florida Escarpment: Eastern Gulf of Mexico, David Cushman Twichell Jr.

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Aspects of Late Cretaceous and Paleogene oceanic climate and productivity, James C. Zachos

Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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Aspects of the growth and life history of the sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus, from Rhode Island and Florida, Walter John Berry

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Role of volatiles in Lesser Antilles island arc magmas, Joseph Driscoll Devine III

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GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC SEA-SALT DEPOSITION, DAVID JULIUS ERICKSON III

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Photoacclimation in the marine dinoflagellate Protogonyaulax tamarensis, Lucie Maranda

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Atmospheric deposition of nitrate to the ocean surface, Alexander A. P. Pszenny

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Intraspecific morphological variability within resting spores of the marine diatom Chaetoceros Ehrenberg, Dean Alan Stockwell

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DEPTH DISTRIBUTION OF NARRAGANSETT BAY DECAPOD LARVAE AND THE ONTOGENY OF BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO GRAVITY, LIGHT, HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE, AND CURRENT IN NEOPANOPE SAYI (SMITH), DONNA MICHELE TRIFAN

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TEMPO AND MODE OF EVOLUTION IN NEOGENE PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA: TAXONOMIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE, KUO-YEN WEI

Theses/Dissertations from 1986

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Morphology and Crustal Structure of the Kane Fracture Zone Transverse Ridge, Lewis J. Abrams

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Spatial and Temporal Variability in Zooplankton Distributions and Abundances Across the Gulf Stream, Stuart K. Allison

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Tectonics of the Juan Fernandez Microplate and Nazca-Antarctic Plate Boundary, Sandra Anderson-Fontana

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METHYL-IODIDE AND IODINE IN THE MARINE ATMOSPHERE, ERIC LAWRENCE BUTLER

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Recent and Glacial Age Organic Carbon and Biogenic Silica Accumulation in Marine Sediments, Douglas S. Cwienk

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THE GEOCHEMISTRY OF COPPER AND CHROMIUM ORGANIC COMPLEXES IN NARRAGANSETT BAY INTERSTITIAL WATERS (METAL-ORGANICS), GREGORY SCOTT DOUGLAS

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TECHNIQUES FOR THE VISUALIZATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AQUATIC MICROORGANISMS, KENNETH WILLIAM ESTEP

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MAJOR EVENTS IN NEOGENE PALEOCEANOGRAPHY: FAUNAL AND ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE (MICROPALEONTOLOGY), DAVID ARNOLD HODELL

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MODELING THE PRODUCTIVITY OF NATURAL PHYTOPLANKTON POPULATIONS USING MESOCOSM DATA ALONG A NUTRIENT GRADIENT (NARRAGANSETT BAY, P-I CURVE), AIMEE A. KELLER

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REGIONAL SOURCE APPORTIONMENT AND RELATED STATISTICAL TOPICS (SIGNATURES, TRACERS, BARROW), DOUGLAS HEYWOOD LOWENTHAL

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ON THE ESTIMATION OF FIRST ORDER DYNAMICAL QUANTITIES IN THE LAGRANGIAN POTENTIAL VORTICITY EQUATION (POTENTIAL VORTICITY, HYDROGRAPHIC DATA, POLYMODE), ARTHUR JOSEPH MARIANO

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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MACROBENTHIC INFAUNA AND ORGANIC CARBON (BENTHOS, ENRICHMENT, SEDIMENT), JAMES TILGHMAN MAUGHAN

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DYNAMICS OF DIAPAUSING EGG PRODUCTION BY ACARTIA TONSA DANA IN NARRAGANSETT BAY, RHODE ISLAND, UNITED STATES (COPEPODA: CALANOIDA), LIANA TALAUE MCMANUS

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GASTRIC EVACUATION, STOMACH CONTENTS, AND FOOD CONSUMPTION IN THE SANDBAR SHARK, CARCHARHINUS PLUMBEUS (NARDO, 1827), ROBERT J. MEDVED

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THE ATMOSPHERIC BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF SELENIUM, BYARD WILLIAM MOSHER

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THE INTERACTION OF WARM CORE RINGS WITH THE SHELF WATER AND SHELF/SLOPE FRONT SOUTH OF NEW ENGLAND (ENTRAINMENT, COLD STREAMERS, FRONTAL STABILITY), STEVEN RICHARD RAMP

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RELATIONSHIP OF ACOUSTIC BASEMENT RELIEF TO SEAFLOOR SPREADING IN THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC BASIN AND EAST PACIFIC RISE, MICHAEL TODD SUNDVIK