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School Of Marine Science Graduate Catalog 2008-2009, College Of William And Mary, School Of Marine Science Aug 2008

School Of Marine Science Graduate Catalog 2008-2009, College Of William And Mary, School Of Marine Science

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Catalog for the Graduate program from the School of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary for the listed academic year.


Ocean Urea Fertilization For Carbon Credits Poses High Ecological Risks, Pm Glibert, R Azanza, M Burford, K Furuya, E Abal, D. A. Bronk, Et Al. Jan 2008

Ocean Urea Fertilization For Carbon Credits Poses High Ecological Risks, Pm Glibert, R Azanza, M Burford, K Furuya, E Abal, D. A. Bronk, Et Al.

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The proposed plan for enrichment of the Sulu Sea, Philippines, a region of rich marine biodiversity, with thousands of tonnes of urea in order to stimulate algal blooms and sequester carbon is flawed for multiple reasons. Urea is preferentially used as a nitrogen source by some cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates, many of which are neutrally or positively buoyant. Biological pumps to the deep sea are classically leaky, and the inefficient burial of new biomass makes the estimation of a net loss of carbon from the atmosphere questionable at best. The potential for growth of toxic dinoflagellates is also high, as many …


Crassostrea Ariakensis In Chesapeake Bay: Growth, Disease And Mortality In Shallow Subtidal Environments, Kt Paynter, Jd Goodwin, Me Chen, Nj Ward, Mw Sherman, Dw Meritt, Standish K. Allen Jan 2008

Crassostrea Ariakensis In Chesapeake Bay: Growth, Disease And Mortality In Shallow Subtidal Environments, Kt Paynter, Jd Goodwin, Me Chen, Nj Ward, Mw Sherman, Dw Meritt, Standish K. Allen

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In April 2004, triploid native (Crassostrea virginica) and nonnative (Crassostrea ariakensis) oysters were deployed in cages at four sites along a salinity gradient in Chesapeake Bay. In Maryland, the lowest salinity site was located in the Severn River and two low to mid-salinity sites were located in the Choptank and Patuxent Rivers. The highest salinity site was located in the York River in Virginia. Growth, disease acquisition, and mortality were measured in the deployed oysters through August 2006. Although ANOVA revealed that the nonnative oysters were significantly larger at the end of the experiment than the native oysters at all …


Broad Spatial Trends In Osprey Provisioning, Reproductive Success, And Population Growth Within Lower Chesapeake Bay, Kenneth Andrew Glass Jan 2008

Broad Spatial Trends In Osprey Provisioning, Reproductive Success, And Population Growth Within Lower Chesapeake Bay, Kenneth Andrew Glass

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The Survival Benefit Of Benthic Macroalgae Gracilaria Vermiculophylla As An Alternative Nursery Habitat For Juvenile Blue Crabs, Justin A. Falls Jan 2008

The Survival Benefit Of Benthic Macroalgae Gracilaria Vermiculophylla As An Alternative Nursery Habitat For Juvenile Blue Crabs, Justin A. Falls

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The Chesapeake Bay blue crab is in decline. One of the threats to it is the loss of its once plentiful nursery habitat, seagrass, due to baywide eutrophication and climate change. The emergence of the non-native benthic macroalga Gracilaria vermiculophylla may offer the blue crab an alternative nursery if it can provide juvenile crabs a refuge from predation. The ability of Gracilaria to protect juvenile blue crabs was investigated in mesocosm and field survival studies, which were combined into a larger dataset. All of these studies used tethering and therefore a tethering validation study in mesocosms accompanied these experiments. In …


Mercury Levels In Newly Independent Songbirds, Anne Moire Condon Jan 2008

Mercury Levels In Newly Independent Songbirds, Anne Moire Condon

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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