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Bird Response To Monofilament Lines At Backyard Feeders, Kimberly K. Kessler Dec 1991

Bird Response To Monofilament Lines At Backyard Feeders, Kimberly K. Kessler

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.


Biology And Ecology Of Dioryctria Ponderosae Dyar And Dioryctria Tumicolella Mutuura, Munroe And Ross, Mark A. Brohman Dec 1991

Biology And Ecology Of Dioryctria Ponderosae Dyar And Dioryctria Tumicolella Mutuura, Munroe And Ross, Mark A. Brohman

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.


Ecological Aspects Of Burrowing Owl Nesting Strategies In The Nebraska Panhandle, Martha J. Desmond Dec 1991

Ecological Aspects Of Burrowing Owl Nesting Strategies In The Nebraska Panhandle, Martha J. Desmond

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.


Biology And Ecology Of Dioryctria Ponderosae Dyar And Dioryctria Tumicolella Mutuura, Munroe And Ross, Mark A. Brohman Dec 1991

Biology And Ecology Of Dioryctria Ponderosae Dyar And Dioryctria Tumicolella Mutuura, Munroe And Ross, Mark A. Brohman

School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

No abstract provided.


Soil Surveys And Related Investigations In The Ord River Area, East Kimberley, 1944, George Henry Burvill Dec 1991

Soil Surveys And Related Investigations In The Ord River Area, East Kimberley, 1944, George Henry Burvill

Technical Bulletins

No abstract provided.


Geology Newsletter- 1991, Department Of Geology Dec 1991

Geology Newsletter- 1991, Department Of Geology

Geological and Environmental Sciences News

Vol.1, No. 16

  • Core Research Lab
  • Faculty News
  • Service Staff News
  • Alumni/ Friends/ Former Faculty Notes
  • 1991 Speakers Program
  • New Alumni
  • Awards and Scholarships
  • Geology Club


Environmental Radiocesium In Subarctic And Arctic Alaska Following Chernobyl, M. Baskaran, J. J. Kelley, A. S. Naidu, D. F. Holleman Dec 1991

Environmental Radiocesium In Subarctic And Arctic Alaska Following Chernobyl, M. Baskaran, J. J. Kelley, A. S. Naidu, D. F. Holleman

Environmental Science and Geology Faculty Research Publications

Radiocesium (¹³⁴ Cs and ¹³⁷ Cs) concentrations were measured in soil, plant and wildlife samples from subarctic to arctic Alaska. Concentrations of ¹³⁷ Cs ranged from below detectable or low levels in whale and fish samples to as high as 242 Bq/kg in lichen. For all potential human food items, the radiocesium concentrations measured in this study were below accepted permissible levels for human consumption. Chernobyl-derived radiocesium concentrations ranged from below detectable or low levels in all arctic samples (soil, sediment, lichen, whale, fish and caribou) to 32 Bq/kg in subarctic moss. Therefore the distribution and subsequent deposition of Chernobyl-derived …


Remote Estimation Of The Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient In A Moderately Turbid Estuary, Richard P. Stumpf, Jonathan Pennock Dec 1991

Remote Estimation Of The Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient In A Moderately Turbid Estuary, Richard P. Stumpf, Jonathan Pennock

School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering

Abstract

Solutions of the radiative transfer equation are used to derive relationships of water reflectance to the diffuse attenuation coefficient (K) in moderately turbid water (K > 0.5 m−1). Data sets collected from the NOAA AVHRR and in situ observations from five different dates confirm the appropriateness of these relationships, in particular the logistic equation. Values of K calculated from the reflectance data agree to within 60% of the observed values, although the reflectance derived using a more comprehensive aerosol correction is sensitive to chlorophyll concentrations greater than 50 μg L−1. Agreement between in situ and remote …


Sediment Characterization Of Coastal Lagoons And Bays, Mid-Atlantic Region, Maynard N. Nichols, C. M. Brouwer-Riel Dec 1991

Sediment Characterization Of Coastal Lagoons And Bays, Mid-Atlantic Region, Maynard N. Nichols, C. M. Brouwer-Riel

Reports

Sediment characterizations for the following lagoons and bays:

  • Great South Bay
  • Barnegat Bay
  • New Jersey Inland Bays, Great Sound
  • Delaware Inland Bays
  • Chincoteague Bay


Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1990, Gregory V. Steele, Perry B. Wigley Dec 1991

Groundwater Levels In Nebraska, 1990, Gregory V. Steele, Perry B. Wigley

Conservation and Survey Division

No abstract provided.


Trace Fossils Of Shallow Subtidal To Dunal Ichnofacies In Bahamian Quaternary Carbonates, H. Allen Curran, Brian White Oct 1991

Trace Fossils Of Shallow Subtidal To Dunal Ichnofacies In Bahamian Quaternary Carbonates, H. Allen Curran, Brian White

Geosciences: Faculty Publications

Pleistocene and Holocene carbonate grainstones or calcarenites capping the islands of the Bahamas commonly contain distinctive animal and/or plant trace fossils. Three ichnocoenoses within the Skolithos and Psilonichnus ichnofacies are recognized in the transition from sediments deposited in the shallow shelf environment, commonly associated with coral reefs, to sediments of the coastal dune environment. Analog relationships between the trace fossils and modern tracemakers can be established in many cases, and this correspondence strengthens the interpretive model. Ophiomorpha

and Skolithos linearis characterize beds deposited in shallow shelf settings. Psilonich- nus upsilon, the fossil burrow of the ghost crab Ocypode quadrata …


Climate, Physiography, Geology, Hydrology And Land Use In The North Stirlings Area : A Precursory Report, R Lennard, R A. Nulsen, C E. Southwell Oct 1991

Climate, Physiography, Geology, Hydrology And Land Use In The North Stirlings Area : A Precursory Report, R Lennard, R A. Nulsen, C E. Southwell

Resource management technical reports

No abstract provided.


Metamorphic Evidence For Tilt Of The Spuzzum Pluton – Diminished Basis For The Baja British-Columbia Concept, E. H. Brown, Russ R. Burmester Oct 1991

Metamorphic Evidence For Tilt Of The Spuzzum Pluton – Diminished Basis For The Baja British-Columbia Concept, E. H. Brown, Russ R. Burmester

Geology Faculty Publications

To address the question of tilt versus translation as the mechanism responsible for discordance between paleomagnetic directions of Cretaceous plutons in the British Columbia Coast Plutonic Complex and the North American reference direction, metamorphic pressures around the margin of the Spuzzum pluton have been determined. Pressures are derived from microprobe analyses and evaluation of exchange equilibria in the assemblage garnet-biotite-plagioclase-aluminum silicate-quartz. Samples studied come from eight localities in the contact aureole around the pluton and encompass the area of a previous paleomagnetic study. The analyzed samples are coarse grained and exhibit textural features indicative of equilibrium crystallization following emplacement of …


Sediment Characterization Of Chesaapeake Bay And Its Tributaries, Maynard M. Nichols, S. C. Kim, C. M. Brouwer Oct 1991

Sediment Characterization Of Chesaapeake Bay And Its Tributaries, Maynard M. Nichols, S. C. Kim, C. M. Brouwer

Reports

Sediment characterizations for the following estuaries and rivers:

  • Chesapeake Bay
  • Potomac River
  • Rappahannock River
  • York River
  • James River
  • Chester River
  • Choptank River


Soil Warming Experiments In Global Change Research, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Sep 1991

Soil Warming Experiments In Global Change Research, Long-Term Ecological Research Network

Long Term Ecological Research Network

The report of a workshop held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

There is widespread consensus that the global temperature is likely to increase by about 1° C during the next 35 years as a result of enhanced retention of the Earth's reradiation by "greenhouse" gases (IPCC 1990). The anticipated rate of global warming will exceed all known climate changes during human history and during the development of all human socio-economic systems, including agriculture. These changes in climate will have unprecedented impact on natural and managed ecosystems.

As a result of concern about soil warming caused by anticipated global climate change, the …


Lava-Seawater Interactions At Shallow-Water Submarine Lava Flows, Francis J. Sansone, Joseph A. Resing, Gordon W. Tribble, Peter N. Sedwick, Kevin M. Kelly, Ken Hon Sep 1991

Lava-Seawater Interactions At Shallow-Water Submarine Lava Flows, Francis J. Sansone, Joseph A. Resing, Gordon W. Tribble, Peter N. Sedwick, Kevin M. Kelly, Ken Hon

OES Faculty Publications

Hydrothermal plumes associated with nearshore lava flows from Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii were studied on five occasions during 1989-1990 to address the current lack of data on direct lava-seawater interactions. The following enrichments were found in the sea-surface hydrothermal plumes above the active underwater lava flows: H2, 15,000x ambient seawater concentrations; Mn, 250x; and Si, 20x. Water temperatures reached 46°C. Lower concentrations and temperatures were observed in the plumes with increasing distance from shore, with H2, Si, and Mn concentrations linearly related to seawater temperature. Unlike deep sea spreading center hydrothermal plumes, no CH4 enrichment was …


Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology Aug 1991

Ua66/8/3 Geogram, Wku Geography & Geology

WKU Archives Records

Newsletter created by and about the WKU Geography & Geology highlighting activities of faculty, students and alumni.


Kinetics And Mechanisms Of Atrazine Adsorption And Desorption In Soils Under No-Till And Conventional Management, V. P. Evangelou, W. W. Witt, E. Portig, Mike Barrett Aug 1991

Kinetics And Mechanisms Of Atrazine Adsorption And Desorption In Soils Under No-Till And Conventional Management, V. P. Evangelou, W. W. Witt, E. Portig, Mike Barrett

KWRRI Research Reports

Both soils (Maury silt loam and Sadler) exhibited three apparent mechanisms of atrazine adsorption. The first two mechanisms were very rapid (10 minutes) and were assigned to soil-clay surface adsorption reactions via hydrogen bonding. The quantity of atrazine involved in these two reactions for the 0.5 mg/1 solution atrazine varied, depending on the soil, from 67 μg/100 g clay to 219 μg/100 g clay. The reason there were two possible atrazine sinks in this range of atrazine adsorption was believed to be the presence of two types of reactive surfaces, the clay inorganic phase and the organic carbon phase. The …


Volcanic Ash From The 1362 A.D. Oræfajokull Eruption (Iceland) In The Greenland Ice Sheet, J. M. Palais, K. Taylor, Paul Andrew Mayewski, P. Grootes Jul 1991

Volcanic Ash From The 1362 A.D. Oræfajokull Eruption (Iceland) In The Greenland Ice Sheet, J. M. Palais, K. Taylor, Paul Andrew Mayewski, P. Grootes

Earth Science Faculty Scholarship

A continuous record of electrical conductivity measurements (ECM) was made on site during the drilling of a 200 m ice core at Summit, Greenland and was used to identify horizons in the ice that might be linked to volcanic eruptions. In one detailed section that we studied a large peak in the number of particles, two orders of magnitude above the background, was measured. The particle peak was not associated with an ECM peak, however. The particles were identified as volcanic ash on the basis of both particle morphology and chemical composition. The ash composition suggests an explosive rhyolitic eruption …


Regulation Of Ground Water In Salt Lake Valley, Robert L. Morgan Jun 1991

Regulation Of Ground Water In Salt Lake Valley, Robert L. Morgan

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

24 pages (includes illustrations and maps).

Contains references.


The Public Interest: A Matter Of Discretion?, R. Keith Higginson Jun 1991

The Public Interest: A Matter Of Discretion?, R. Keith Higginson

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

15 pages.


Federal Regulatory Interests In Water, Patricia Sanderson Port Jun 1991

Federal Regulatory Interests In Water, Patricia Sanderson Port

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

39 pages.

Contains references.


Washington Instream Resources Protection: In Transition, Hedia Adelsman Jun 1991

Washington Instream Resources Protection: In Transition, Hedia Adelsman

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

45 pages.

Contains references.


Dam Fights And Water Policy In California: 1969-1989, Harrison C. Dunning Jun 1991

Dam Fights And Water Policy In California: 1969-1989, Harrison C. Dunning

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

49 pages (includes illustrations and maps).

Contains references.


Negotiating An Indian Water Rights Settlement: The Colorado Ute Indian Experience, Lois G. Witte Jun 1991

Negotiating An Indian Water Rights Settlement: The Colorado Ute Indian Experience, Lois G. Witte

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

28 pages.


Pyramid Lake Negotiated Settlement: Overview And Perspective, Joe Ely Jun 1991

Pyramid Lake Negotiated Settlement: Overview And Perspective, Joe Ely

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

20 pages.


The 1990 Fort Hall Water Rights Agreement: A Study In The Federal Trust Responsibility, Indian Self-Determination, And Water Rights Settlement, John S. Bushman Jun 1991

The 1990 Fort Hall Water Rights Agreement: A Study In The Federal Trust Responsibility, Indian Self-Determination, And Water Rights Settlement, John S. Bushman

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

171 pages.


Coordinated Water Management Under The Prior Appropriation Doctrine In New Mexico: The Rio Grande Case – The Pecos River Case, Eluid L. Martinez Jun 1991

Coordinated Water Management Under The Prior Appropriation Doctrine In New Mexico: The Rio Grande Case – The Pecos River Case, Eluid L. Martinez

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

26 pages.


Surface Water And Groundwater Conjunctive Use Management: Santa Clara County, California, Jeanette L. Micko Jun 1991

Surface Water And Groundwater Conjunctive Use Management: Santa Clara County, California, Jeanette L. Micko

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

47 pages (includes illustrations and maps).


Colorado’S Law Of “Underground Water”: A Look At The South Platte Basin & Beyond, Lawrence J. Macdonnell Jun 1991

Colorado’S Law Of “Underground Water”: A Look At The South Platte Basin & Beyond, Lawrence J. Macdonnell

Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

50 pages (includes illustrations and maps).

Contains footnotes.