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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 11 : 22, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 11 : 08, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 10 : 11, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 10 : 04, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 09 : 20, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 09 : 13, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 08 : 09, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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Availability And Quality Of Vegetation Affects Reproduction Of The Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus Polyphemus) In Improved Pastures, Anna Louise Hathaway

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

As part of a state-funded Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus Daudin) translocation project, I monitored actively grazed improved pastures to determine if they could serve as suitable recipient sites for the threatened Gopher Tortoise displaced by human development. For cattle ranches to be considered suitable recipient sites females must be able to acquire sufficient energy to produce a clutch of viable eggs, and sufficiently high quality vegetation must be available to support juvenile recruitment into the population. Vegetation surveys were conducted to determine the composition and percent cover of plant species, especially those containing high amounts of nutrients, specifically nitrogen. Resident …

The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 06 : 07, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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Bradenton, Fl: A Patchwork City, Rebekah G. Brightbill

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The City of Bradenton is a patchwork city, whose neighborhoods vary greatly in quality. While its neighborhoods differ in type based on consumer preference, they vary in quality because of federal, state, and local planning and urban policy. These policies have resulted in inequality of place and race, clustering racial minorities in center city neighborhoods with deteriorated infrastructure and income inequality. This impacts the ability of the City to be competitive with other cities as a metropolitan whole. The City's economically and racially segregated neighborhoods are not the inevitable outcome of market forces, but rather reflect decades of federal, state, …

The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 05 : 31, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 05 : 24, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 05 : 10, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 05 : 03, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 04 : 26, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 04 : 19, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 03 : 29, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 03 : 22, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Illusion Of Opportunity And Access To Kindergartens In The Southeastern United States During The 1970s, Deanna Michael

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 03 : 01, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 02 : 23, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 02 : 09, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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Hydrologic And Microclimate Characterizations Of Thornton’S Cave, West-Central Florida (Usa), Dorien K. Mcgee

Studia UBB Geologia

A cave’s environment is controlled by a suite of factors unique to the environments in which they formed, including, but not limited to, regional geologic and climate settings. These factors collectively owe to wide variations in cave biology, geomorphology and overall speleogenesis. This report combines local climate, hydrologic, and CO₂ data collected over the course of a two-year study at Thornton’s Cave, a partially-flooded cave in the West-Central Florida karst belt, to characterize its current environment and yield insight regarding how changes in regional climate and hydrology impact its past and future speleogenesis. Data loggers continuously monitoring cave and …

The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 02 : 02, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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The Weekly Challenger : 2012 : 01 : 26, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

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Federal Neighborhood Stabilization Policy Deployment In Select Florida Jurisdictions, Kevin Carl Mccarthy

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In 2008 the Federal government enacted a Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) to address the neighborhood effects of the late-2000s foreclosure crisis. Congress subsequently funded a second and third NSP. This research employs mixed methods to examine the effectiveness of the first round of the NSP in three Florida jurisdictions. The results are analyzed within the larger context of substantive housing theory and federal housing policy. The success of the program is evaluated using a mixed-scanning procedural planning theoretical framework.

Occurrence, Toxicity, And Diversity Of Pseudo-Nitzschia In Florida Coastal Waters, Sheila O'Dea

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Domoic acid (DA), a potent neurotoxin that has the potential to cause amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP), is produced by members of the marine diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia. Outbreaks of ASP in humans and of DA poisoning in birds and marine mammals have been reported across the United States and Canada since the late 1980's. Pseudo-nitzschia species can be extremely abundant in Florida waters, with densities often exceeding 10⁶ cells/L, and sometimes exceeding 10⁷ cells/L. Based on preliminary data, it is evident that at least nine species of Pseudo-nitzschia are found in Florida coastal waters. At least six of …

Archaeological Survey And Testing On St. Vincent Island, Northwest Florida, Elicia Victoria Kimble

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

St. Vincent Island is one of the barrier islands in the Florida panhandle between Apalachicola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge encompasses all 5000 hectares of the island. Archaeological fieldwork in the summer of 2009 included a survey of the entire island and a test unit at one of the island's richest sites. In spring of 2010 a second test unit was excavated at another archaeologically rich site. A total of 16 known sites were investigated and two newly discovered sites recorded. This research combines all these data with information obtained from existing artifact …

Optical Detection And Classification Of Phytoplankton Taxa Through Spectral Analysis, Daniel Tyler Sensi

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Phytoplankton serve as the bottom of the marine food web and therefore play an essential role in marine ecosystems. On the other hand, coastal phytoplankton communities can adversely affect the marine ecosystem and humans. A variety of techniques have been developed to measure and study phytoplankton, including in situ methods (e.g., flow cytometry) and laboratory methods (e.g., microscopic taxonomy). These provide accurate measurements of phytoplankton taxa and concentrations, yet they are limited in space and time, and synoptic information is difficult to obtain with these techniques.

Optical remote sensing may provide complementary information for its synoptic nature, as demonstrated by …

Environmental Change And Place-Based Identities: Sponge Fishing In Tarpon Springs, Florida, Michael Suver

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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As the environmental consequences of urbanization and climate change become apparent in coastal communities, it has become important to understand how residents of these communities experience and approach their changing environments. This becomes especially significant in places where nature-based livelihoods constitute a major part of the economy. This thesis focuses on the city of Tarpon Springs, located along the Gulf of Mexico in Florida, where sea sponge fishing is an important contributor to the local economy while also being central to place-based tourist and ethnic identities. It seeks to understand how environmental changes in the sea sponge economy will …