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Fluvial Deposition, El Nino And Landscape Construction In Northern Coastal Peru, Paul M. Pluta
Fluvial Deposition, El Nino And Landscape Construction In Northern Coastal Peru, Paul M. Pluta
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The El Nino global climate anomaly is a major cause of weather variation that can have far-reaching effects on human populations around the world. Northern coastal Peru is an area of historically major impacts where strong El Nino events have resulted in catastrophic flooding and mass wasting, leading to significant social disruption. There is a growing body of literature on the prehistoric chronology of El Nino and how it affected human populations of the past, but more work is needed. In order to address the timing and characteristics of past El Nino events I investigated the alluvial sedimentary sequences at …
Wintertime Weather-Climate Variability And Its Links To Early Spring Ice-Out In Maine Lakes, Mussie Beyene, Shaleen Jain
Wintertime Weather-Climate Variability And Its Links To Early Spring Ice-Out In Maine Lakes, Mussie Beyene, Shaleen Jain
Publications
In recent decades, Maine lakes have recorded their earliest ice-out dates in over a century. In temperate regions, seasonal lake ice-cover is a critical phenomenon linking climate, aquatic ecosystem and society. And the lengthening of the ice-free period due to warmer climate has been linked to increased algal growth and declining lake water quality, warming of water temperatures leading to alterations in aquatic biodiversity, and the shortening of ice-fishing period and other traditional winter activities over lakes. In this study, historical record of eight lakes and six benchmarked meteorological stations in Maine for the period 1950–2010 were analyzed to (1) …
Putting The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Into Context, George H. Denton, Brenda L. Hall
Putting The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Into Context, George H. Denton, Brenda L. Hall
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
This award supports a project to develop new insights into the cause and pattern of events during the last glacial termination in South America and Antarctica. One emerging view is that a warming Southern Ocean (SO), driven by a chain of events initiated in the Northern Hemisphere (NH) and tied to the interhemispheric climate seesaw of the last termination, was the underlying mechanism that drove the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) from its Late Glacial Maximum (LGM) position back to present-day grounding lines. This ocean thermal forcing would have impacted WAIS by accelerating basal melt rates on fringing floating ice …
Contribution Of Raman Scattering To Polarized Radiation Field In Ocean Waters, Peng Wang Zhai, Yongxiang Hu, David M. Winker, Bryan A. Franz, Emmanuel Boss
Contribution Of Raman Scattering To Polarized Radiation Field In Ocean Waters, Peng Wang Zhai, Yongxiang Hu, David M. Winker, Bryan A. Franz, Emmanuel Boss
Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship
We have implemented Raman scattering in a vector radiative transfer model for coupled atmosphere and ocean systems. A sensitivity study shows that the Raman scattering contribution is greatest in clear waters and at longer wavelengths. The Raman scattering contribution may surpass the elastic scattering contribution by several orders of magnitude at depth. The degree of linear polarization in water is smaller when Raman scattering is included. The orientation of the polarization ellipse shows similar patterns for both elastic and inelastic scattering contributions. As polarimeters and multipolarization-state lidars are planned for future Earth observing missions, our model can serve as a …
Reconstructing Late Holocene Hydrographic Variability Of The Gulf Of Maine, Nina Millicent Whitney
Reconstructing Late Holocene Hydrographic Variability Of The Gulf Of Maine, Nina Millicent Whitney
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
I present an annually resolved reconstruction of seawater temperatures in the
western North Atlantic from 1695-1915. This paleoclimate record was constructed
using oxygen isotopes measured in precisely dated Arctica islandica shells collected
off of Seguin Island in the western Gulf of Maine. The temperature reconstruction
was derived from this oxygen isotope time series using a modern d18Ow-salinity
mixing line developed for coastal waters in the Gulf of Maine from water samples
collected over the last decade. The d18Ow and salinity composition of these water
samples indicate that coastal surface waters consist of a …
Spectral Attenuation And Backscattering As Indicators Of Average Particle Size, Wayne Homer Slade, Emmanuel Boss
Spectral Attenuation And Backscattering As Indicators Of Average Particle Size, Wayne Homer Slade, Emmanuel Boss
Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship
Measurements of the particulate beam attenuation coefficient at multiple wavelengths in the ocean typically exhibit a power law dependence on wavelength, and the slope of that power law has been related to the slope of the particle size distribution (PSD), when assumed to be a power law function of particle size. Recently, spectral backscattering coefficient measurements have been made using sensors deployed at moored observatories, on autonomous underwater vehicles, and even retrieved from space-based measurements of remote sensing reflectance. It has been suggested that these backscattering measurements may also be used to obtain information about the shape of the PSD. …
Regional Ocean-Colour Chlorophyll Algorithms For The Red Sea, Robert J.W. Brewin, Dionysios E. Raitsos, Giorgio Dall'olmo, Nikolaos Zarokanellos, Thomas Jackson, Marie Fanny Racault, Emmanuel S. Boss, Shubha Sathyendranath, Burt H. Jones, Ibrahim Hoteit
Regional Ocean-Colour Chlorophyll Algorithms For The Red Sea, Robert J.W. Brewin, Dionysios E. Raitsos, Giorgio Dall'olmo, Nikolaos Zarokanellos, Thomas Jackson, Marie Fanny Racault, Emmanuel S. Boss, Shubha Sathyendranath, Burt H. Jones, Ibrahim Hoteit
Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship
The Red Sea is a semi-enclosed tropical marine ecosystem that stretches from the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba in the north, to the Gulf of Aden in the south. Despite its ecological and economic importance, its biological environment is relatively unexplored. Satellite ocean-colour estimates of chlorophyll concentration (an index of phytoplankton biomass) offer an observational platform to monitor the health of the Red Sea. However, little is known about the optical properties of the region. In this paper, we investigate the optical properties of the Red Sea in the context of satellite ocean-colour estimates of chlorophyll concentration. Making …
Nonstationarity In Seasonality Of Extreme Precipitation: A Nonparametric Circular Statistical Approach And Its Application., Nirajan Dhakal, Shaleen Jain, Alexander Gray, Michael Dandy, Esperanza Stancioff
Nonstationarity In Seasonality Of Extreme Precipitation: A Nonparametric Circular Statistical Approach And Its Application., Nirajan Dhakal, Shaleen Jain, Alexander Gray, Michael Dandy, Esperanza Stancioff
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Changes in seasonality of extreme storms have important implications for public safety, storm water infrastructure, and, in general, adaptation strategies in a changing climate. While past research on this topic offers some approaches to characterize seasonality, the methods are somewhat limited in their ability to discern the diversity of distributional types for extreme precipitation dates. Herein, we present a comprehensive approach for assessment of temporal changes in the calendar dates for extreme precipitation within a circular statistics framework which entails: (a) three measures to summarize circular random variables (traditional approach), (b) four nonparametric statistical tests, and (c) a new nonparametric …
Collaborative Research: Historic Perspectives On Climate And Biogeography From Deep-Sea Corals In The Drake Passage, Rhian G. Waller
Collaborative Research: Historic Perspectives On Climate And Biogeography From Deep-Sea Corals In The Drake Passage, Rhian G. Waller
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
Polar oceans are the main sites of deep-water formation and are critical to the exchange of heat and carbon between the deep ocean and the atmosphere. This award "Historic perspectives on climate and biogeography from deep-sea corals in the Drake Passage" will address the following specific research questions: What was the radiocarbon content of the Southern Ocean during the last glacial maximum and during past rapid climate change events? and What are the major controls on the past and present distribution of cold-water corals within the Drake Passage and adjacent continental shelves? Testing these overall questions will allow the researchers …
Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution Project (Rice): Us Deep Ice Core Glaciochemistry Contribution (2011- 2014), Paul Andrew Mayewski, Karl J. Kreutz, Andrei V. Kurbatov
Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution Project (Rice): Us Deep Ice Core Glaciochemistry Contribution (2011- 2014), Paul Andrew Mayewski, Karl J. Kreutz, Andrei V. Kurbatov
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
This award supports a project to analyze a deep ice core which will be drilled by a New Zealand research team at Roosevelt Island. The objectives are to process the ice core at very high resolution to (a) better understand phasing sequences in Arctic/Antarctic abrupt climate change, even at the level of individual storm events; (b) determine the impact of changes in the Westerlies and the Amundsen Sea Low on past/present/future climate change; (c) determine how sea ice extent has varied in the area; (d) compare the response of West Antarctica climate to other regions during glacial/interglacial cycles; and (e) …
Ghostshipping, Margot A. Kelley
Yesterday's Edges: Land, Sea, Sky, Ellen Goldsmith
Editor's Note, Linda Buckmaster
Collaborative Research: A Nanostructure Sensor For Measuring Dissolved Iron And Copper Concentrations In Coastal And Offshore Seawater, Mark Wells, Carl Tripp
Collaborative Research: A Nanostructure Sensor For Measuring Dissolved Iron And Copper Concentrations In Coastal And Offshore Seawater, Mark Wells, Carl Tripp
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
Iron and Copper serve as key co-constituents for numerous enzymes in a wide range of biological systems, and their elevated or impoverished levels in aqueous systems have dramatic consequences at organismal, ecosystem, and human health scales. Over the last decade these effects have increasingly been recognized to be important in ocean systems. Identifying sites and times where these metals cause negative environmental outcomes is greatly hampered by their comparatively sparse datasets. This problem is a direct consequence of the analytical challenge of obtaining accurate Fe and Cu determinations in saline waters at very low (trace) concentrations, and the limitations of …
Optical Techniques For Remote And In-Situ Characterization Of Particles Pertinent To Geotraces, Emmanuel Boss, Lionel Guidi, Mary Jo Richardson, Lars Stemmann, Wilford Gardner, James K.B. Bishop, Robert F. Anderson, Robert M. Sherrell
Optical Techniques For Remote And In-Situ Characterization Of Particles Pertinent To Geotraces, Emmanuel Boss, Lionel Guidi, Mary Jo Richardson, Lars Stemmann, Wilford Gardner, James K.B. Bishop, Robert F. Anderson, Robert M. Sherrell
Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship
Field and laboratory characterization of marine particles is laborious and expensive. Proxies of particle properties have been developed that allow researchers to obtain high frequency distributions of such properties in space or time. We focus on optical techniques used to characterize marine particles in-situ, with a focus on GEOTRACES-relevant properties, such as bulk properties including particle mass, cross-sectional area, particle size distribution, particle shape information, and also single particle optical properties, such as individual particle type and size. We also address the use of optical properties of particles to infer particulate organic or inorganic carbon. In addition to optical sensors …
Collaborative Research: Byrd Glacier Flow Dynamics, Gordon S. Hamilton
Collaborative Research: Byrd Glacier Flow Dynamics, Gordon S. Hamilton
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
This award supports a project to understand the flow dynamics of large, fast-moving outlet glaciers that drain the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The project includes an integrated field, remote sensing and modeling study of Byrd Glacier which is a major pathway for the discharge of mass from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) to the ocean. Recent work has shown that the glacier can undergo short-lived but significant changes in flow speed in response to perturbations in its boundary conditions. Because outlet glacier speeds exert a major control on ice sheet mass balance and modulate the ice sheet contribution to …
Collaborative Research: Glacier-Ocean Coupling In A Large East Greenland Fjord, Gordon S. Hamilton
Collaborative Research: Glacier-Ocean Coupling In A Large East Greenland Fjord, Gordon S. Hamilton
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
This award will support a study of glacier-fjord interactions in east Greenland. The 'Intellectual Merit' of the proposed study lies in the current understanding that the contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet to sea level rise more than doubled in the last seven years, mostly because of a widespread and nearly simultaneous acceleration of many glaciers that terminate at tidewater in deep fjords. Understanding the causes of changes in glacier dynamics, and predicting their future trajectories is a topic of enormous scientific and societal importance. The Greenland fjords provide an intimate connection between the ice sheet and the ocean and, …
Ocean Acidification-Category 1- Impact Of Ocean Acidification On Survival Of Early Life Stages Of Planktonic Copepods In The Genus Calanus In The Northern, Jeffrey A. Runge, John P. Christensen
Ocean Acidification-Category 1- Impact Of Ocean Acidification On Survival Of Early Life Stages Of Planktonic Copepods In The Genus Calanus In The Northern, Jeffrey A. Runge, John P. Christensen
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
While attention concerning impacts of predicted acidification of the world's oceans has focused on calcifying organisms, non-calcifying plankton may also be vulnerable. In this project, the investigator will evaluate the potential for impacts of ocean acidification on the reproductive success of three species of planktonic copepods in the genus Calanus that are prominent in high latitude oceans. C. finmarchicus dominates the mesozooplankton biomass across much of the coastal and deep North Atlantic Ocean. C. glacialis and the larger C. hyperboreus are among the most abundant planktonic copepods in the Arctic Ocean. Previous research showed that hatching success of C. finmarchicus …
Collaborative Proposal: Cameo: Using Interdecadal Comparisons To Understand Trade-Offs Between Abundance And Condition In Fishery Ecosystems, Andrew J. Pershing, Jeffrey A. Runge
Collaborative Proposal: Cameo: Using Interdecadal Comparisons To Understand Trade-Offs Between Abundance And Condition In Fishery Ecosystems, Andrew J. Pershing, Jeffrey A. Runge
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
The investigators will conduct a model-based investigation of the dynamics of a productive pelagic ecosystems in the Gulf of Maine. The middle trophic levels in highly productive marine ecosystems are typically dominated by a few species of pelagic fish, such as sardines and anchovies in upwelling environments or herring and/or capelin in temperate and subpolar regions. These species act as important conduits for energy to higher trophic levels, including larger fish, seabirds, and cetaceans. When abundant, small pelagics can exert significant pressure on their prey, typically large mesozooplankton. Small pelagic fish exhibit complex dynamics and managing these species under an …
Promotingclimate Change Awareness And Adaptive Planning In Atlantic Fisheries Communities Using Dialogue-Based Participatory Vulnerability Analysis, Mapping, And Collaborative Systems Dynamic Modeling, Thomas Webler, Seth Tuler, Esperanza Stancioff, Elizabeth Fly
Promotingclimate Change Awareness And Adaptive Planning In Atlantic Fisheries Communities Using Dialogue-Based Participatory Vulnerability Analysis, Mapping, And Collaborative Systems Dynamic Modeling, Thomas Webler, Seth Tuler, Esperanza Stancioff, Elizabeth Fly
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
The goals for the proposed project are twofold:
• First, the project will improve understandings of how a changing climate will affect fishing communities’ abilities to maintain marine fisheries and the local economies historically dependent upon them.
• Second, the project will investigate the role of a structured dialogue and participatory modeling process to support decision makers in fishing communities addressing consequences, vulnerabilities, and adaptive strategies in a context of climate stressors.
The American Lobster Settlement Index: An Early Warning System?, Maine Sea Grant College Program
The American Lobster Settlement Index: An Early Warning System?, Maine Sea Grant College Program
Maine Sea Grant Publications
The harvest of American lobsters is the Gulf of Maine’s largest, most valuable, and most iconic fishery. The catch has never been higher, but how long will it last? Fishing communities in eastern Maine and southern Nova Scotia are seeing historically high landings, some five times higher than the 1980s. At the same time, the lobster fishery south of Cape Cod has all but collapsed, plagued by shell disease and stressfully warm summers. It has never been more important to monitor this vital fishery. The American Lobster Settlement Index measures the annual pulse of baby lobsters to rocky nurseries some …