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Little Venice Water Quality Monitoring Quarterly Reports #7, Ronald Jones, Joseph N. Boyer

SERC Research Reports

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Land-Cover Detection And Landscape Structure Analysis In The Pachitea Basin, Peruvian Amazon, Daniel Gann

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Classification procedures, including atmospheric correction satellite images as well as classification performance utilizing calibration and validation at different levels, have been investigated in the context of a coarse land-cover classification scheme for the Pachitea Basin. Two different correction methods were tested against no correction in terms of reflectance correction towards a common response for pseudo-invariant features (PIF). The accuracy of classifications derived from each of the three methods was then assessed in a discriminant analysis using crossvalidation at pixel, polygon, region, and image levels. Results indicate that only regression adjusted images using PIFs show no significant difference between images in …

Effects Of Invasive Africanized Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera Scutellata) On Native Stingless Bee Populations (Meliponinae) And Traditional Mayan Beekeeping In Central Quintana Roo, Mexico, Christine Elizabeth Cairns

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Maya of the Yucatan region have a long history of keeping the native stingless bees (subfamily Meliponinae). However, market forces in the last two decades have driven the Maya to favor the use of invasive Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera scutellata) for producing large quantities of high quality honey which has an international market. Furthermore, the native bees traditionally used by the Maya are now disappearing, along with the practice of keeping them.

An interdisciplinary approach was taken in order to determine the social factors behind the decrease in stingless beekeeping and the ecological driving forces behind their disappearance …

Little Venice Water Quality Monitoring Quarterly Report #6, Ronald Jones

SERC Research Reports

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Little Venice Water Quality Monitoring Annual Report, Ronald Jones, Joseph N. Boyer

SERC Research Reports

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Little Venice Water Quality Monitoring Quarterly Reports #5, Ronald Jones, Joseph N. Boyer

SERC Research Reports

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Environmental Quality Monitoring At Five Golf Courses In Miami-Dade County, Lorna Bucknor

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Five golf courses in Miami-Dade County, Florida participated in a one year monitoring study to investigate the environmental impact of agrichemical turf management activities.

Groundwater, soil, surface water, and sediments were sampled quarterly at the golf courses in 1997. Ground and surface water were sampled for 51 pesticide residues (including arsenic), nitrates, and phosphates. Soil and sediments were sampled for arsenic.

Arsenic was the main contaminant of interest. Seventy-five percent of soil samples exceeded the Florida residential soil cleanup target level (CTL) while thirty-two percent of shallow groundwater samples exceeded the maximum contaminant level (MCL). Five other pesticide residues were …

An Integrated Surface Water Quality Monitoring Program For The South Florida Coastal Waters Fy2002 Cumulative Report To The South Florida Water Management District (Contract No. 10244- A2), Joseph N. Boyer, Ronald Jones

SERC Research Reports

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Fy2002 Annual Report Of The Water Quality Monitoring Project For The Water Quality Protection Program In The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Ronald Jones, Joseph N. Boyer

SERC Research Reports

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Dive Tourism: Evaluating Service Quality, Martin O'Neill, Martin Maccarthy, Paul Abdullah

Hospitality Review

Through the application of importance- performance analysis (/PA), the author investigated the conceptualization and measurement of service quality for tour operators in the scuba diving industry Findings from a study of consumer perceptions of service quality as they relate to a dive tour operator in Western Australia revealed the core service quality dimensions hat need to be improved for the operator and demonstrated the values and relative simplicity of the importance-performance analyses for dive tour operators generally