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A coral Sr/Ca calibration and replication study of two massive corals from the Gulf of Mexico

This study examined the variations in the ratio of strontium-to-calcium (Sr/Ca) for two Atlantic corals (Montastraea faveolata and Siderastrea siderea) from the Dry Tortugas National Park (centered on 24.7°N, 82.8°W) in the Gulf of Mexico. Cores from coral colonies in close proximity (10s of meters) and with the same environmental conditions (i.e., depth and water chemistry) were micro-sampled wit
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Kristine L. DeLong, Jennifer A. Flannery, Christopher R. Maupin, Richard Z. Poore, Terrence M. Quinn

The high life: Transport of microbes in the atmosphere

Microbes (bacteria, fungi, algae, and viruses) are the most successful types of life on Earth because of their ability to adapt to new environments, reproduce quickly, and disperse globally. Dispersal occurs through a number of vectors, such as migrating animals or the hydrological cycle, but transport by wind may be the most common way microbes spread. General awareness of airborne microbes preda
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D.J. Smith, Dale W. Griffin, D.A. Jaffe

Natural radium and radon tracers to quantify water exchange and movement in reservoirs

Radon and radium isotopes are routinely used to quantify exchange rates between different hydrologic reservoirs. Since their recognition as oceanic tracers in the 1960s, both radon and radium have been used to examine processes such as air-sea exchange, deep oceanic mixing, benthic inputs, and many others. Recently, the application of radon-222 and the radium-quartet (223,224,226,228Ra) as coastal
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Christopher G. Smith

Management case study: Tampa Bay, Florida

Tampa Bay, Florida, USA, is a shallow, subtropical estuary that experienced severe cultural eutrophication between the 1940s and 1980s, a period when the human population of its watershed quadrupled. In response, citizen action led to the formation of a public- and private-sector partnership (the Tampa Bay Estuary Program), which adopted a number of management objectives to support the restoration
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Gerold Morrison, Holly Greening, Kimberly K. Yates

EAARL coastal topography-Virginia, post-Nor'Ida, 2009

This DVD contains lidar-derived first-surface (FS) and bare-earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Virginia coastline beachface. These datasets were acquired post-Nor'Ida on November 27, 2009, November 29, 2009, and December 1, 2009.
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J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, Amar Nayegandhi, Xan Fredericks, E.S. Klipp, D.B. Nagle, Saisudha Vivekanandan, C. W. Wright, A. H. Sallenger, J. C. Brock

EAARL coastal topography - Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland and Virginia, 2010

This DVD contains lidar-derived bare-earth (BE) and first-surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia. These datasets were acquired on March 19 and 24, 2010.
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J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, Amar Nayegandhi, C. W. Wright, J. C. Brock, D.B. Nagle, Saisudha Vivekanandan, E.S. Klipp, Xan Fredericks, Sara Stevens

EAARL coastal topography-eastern Florida, post-Hurricane Jeanne, 2004

This DVD contains lidar-derived bare-earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the eastern Florida coastline beachface, acquired post-Hurricane Jeanne on October 1, 2004.
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Xan Fredericks, Amar Nayegandhi, J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, C. W. Wright, A. H. Sallenger, J. C. Brock, E.S. Klipp, D.B. Nagle

EAARL topography-Three Mile Creek and Mobile-Tensaw Delta, Alabama, 2010

This DVD contains lidar-derived first-surface (FS) and bare-earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta region and Three Mile Creek in Alabama. These datasets were acquired on March 6, 2010.
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Amar Nayegandhi, J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, A.P. Clark, C. W. Wright, J. C. Brock, D.B. Nagle, Saisudha Vivekanandan, Xan Fredericks

EAARL topography-Potato Creek watershed, Georgia, 2010

This DVD contains lidar-derived first-surface (FS) and bare-earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Potato Creek watershed in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River basin, Georgia. These datasets were acquired on February 27, 2010.
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J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, Amar Nayegandhi, Xan Fredericks, J. W. Jones, C. W. Wright, J. C. Brock, D.B. Nagle

EAARL coastal topography-Northern Outer Banks, North Carolina, post-Nor'Ida, 2009

This DVD contains lidar-derived first-surface (FS) and bare-earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the northern Outer Banks beachface in North Carolina. These datasets were acquired post-Nor'Ida on November 27 and 29, 2009.
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J.M. Bonisteel-Cormier, Amar Nayegandhi, C. W. Wright, A. H. Sallenger, J. C. Brock, D.B. Nagle, Saisudha Vivekanandan, E.S. Klipp, Xan Fredericks

Archive of digital Chirp subbottom profile data collected during USGS cruises 10CCT01, 10CCT02, and 10CCT03, Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Islands, March and April 2010

This Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution imply any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Surv
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Arnell S. Forde, Shawn V. Dadisman, James G. Flocks, Dana S. Wiese, Nancy T. DeWitt, William R. Pfeiffer, Kyle W. Kelso, Phillip R. Thompson

The influence of the Atlantic Warm Pool on the Florida panhandle sea breeze

 In this paper we examine the variations of the boreal summer season sea breeze circulation along the Florida panhandle coast from relatively high resolution (10 km) regional climate model integrations. The 23 year climatology (1979–2001) of the multidecadal dynamically downscaled simulations forced by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction–Department of Energy (NCEP‐DOE) Reanalysis II
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Vasubandhu Misra, Lauren Moeller, Lydia Stefanova, Steven Chan, James J. O'Brien, Thomas J. Smith, Nathaniel Plant