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Investigating The Effectiveness Of Best Management Practices In Reducing Fecal Bacteria In Narrow River, Rhode Island, Katherine Thompson
Investigating The Effectiveness Of Best Management Practices In Reducing Fecal Bacteria In Narrow River, Rhode Island, Katherine Thompson
Open Access Master's Theses
Fecal bacterial contamination shapes how communities manage and use estuarine waters, with consequences for ecosystem health and public access. In Rhode Island's Narrow River, elevated concentrations of fecal coliforms and enterococci have restricted shellfishing for decades despite ongoing management efforts. From 2004 to 2018, local organizations implemented Best Management Practices (BMPs) to address water quality challenges, yet their effectiveness remains incompletely understood. This study analyzes three decades of monitoring data using linear regression, generalized additive models, and Before After Control Impact methods to evaluate BMP effectiveness and identify key drivers of contamination. Linear regression revealed spatially variable trends, with bacterial …
Incorporating Time-Varying Parameters And Climate Drivers Into Fisheries Models, Rachel Catherine Marshall
Incorporating Time-Varying Parameters And Climate Drivers Into Fisheries Models, Rachel Catherine Marshall
Open Access Dissertations
Commercial fishing is a highly valuable industry in the United States and globally, and as such, managing based on the best available science is necessary to maintain important fish stocks. Some parameters in stock assessment models that are assumed to be constant over age and time may actually vary to an extent that stock assessment modeling results could be improved by allowing the parameters to vary in the models. In the present dissertation, two stock assessment parameters that are typically held constant are explored for potential time or age variance. Potential environmental drivers of nonstationary parameters are also explored. Productivity, …
Coupled Numerical Modeling Of Wave-Current Interactions In Tropical Cyclones, Angelos Papandreou
Coupled Numerical Modeling Of Wave-Current Interactions In Tropical Cyclones, Angelos Papandreou
Open Access Dissertations
This Ph.D. dissertation presents a numerical modeling study of wave-current interactions in tropical cyclones. Chapter 1 focuses on wave-current interaction in shallow water during hurricane landfall, when strong winds often generate severe storm surges that dramatically raise water levels and cause significant damage to human lives and property. Large waves generated by these winds further amplify storm surges, making it necessary to couple storm surge models with wave prediction models. Currently, two-dimensional coupled storm surge-wave models incorporate the effect of waves on the storm surge through the forcing of radiation stress gradients. However, recent studies on wave-current interactions indicate that …