Information on spatial patterns of water depth in river channels is valuable for numerous applications, but such data can be difficult to obtain via t...
An understanding of oceanographic conditions and processes important to marine animal ecology is fundamental to the development of effective managemen...
Data from four lightning networks collected during three quasi-linear convective systems (QLCS) are used to understand the differences in detection fo...
2024 | Environmental Biology of Fishes, 107(3), 391-400
Description:
Skin color aberrations are naturally occurring abnormal pigment patterns that are generally rare among chondrichthyans. In this study, we highlight di...
Observers are deployed on commercial fishing trips to collect representative samples of discard rates. However, fishers may change their fishing habit...
2024 | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 24(4), 1163-1183
Description:
Floods are the primary natural hazard in the French Mediterranean area, causing damages and fatalities every year. These floods are triggered by heavy...
Climate change has rapidly altered marine ecosystems and is expected to continue to push systems and species beyond historical baselines into novel co...
Understanding how model physics impact tropical cyclone (TC) structure, motion, and evolution is critical for the development of TC forecast models. T...
Dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) are caught throughout the western Atlantic Ocean over varying spatial and temporal scales. Prior attempts to quantif...
The differential reflectivity (ZDR) column is a notable polarimetric signature related to updrafts in deep moist convection. In this study, pseudo–w...
2024 | Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 15(4), 744-755
Description:
Ecological analyses typically involve many interacting variables. Ecologists often specify lagged interactions in community dynamics (i.e. vector‐au...
Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) migrate along the east coast of the United States, traversing the South and Mid-Atlantic Bights (SAB an...
We describe a new species of redbait in the genus Emmelichthys collected from fish markets on Panay and Cebu islands in the Visayas region of the Phil...
As ocean temperatures continue to rise, coral bleaching events around the globe are becoming stronger and more frequent. High-resolution temperature d...
Determining how resilient a stock-recruitment relationship is to environmental variation is crucial for fisheries management. Steepness is a key facto...
2024 | North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 44(2), 449-462
Description:
This study compares the probability of detecting juvenile Coho Salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch using both environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques and underwat...
Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) stocks off the U.S. Pacific coast undergo boom and bust cycles modulated by decadal changes in oceanic and atmospher...
Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax) in the Northeast Pacific Ocean are aged for stock assessments assuming the formation of two otolith growth bands (on...
With our growing understanding of the risks of air pollution to human health, air quality forecasting has become a very important tool to enable decis...
The vermilion rockfish complex consists of two distinct species, vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus) and sunset rockfish (S. crocotulus) with clear...
Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) hatch and feed in freshwater habitats, migrate to sea to mature, and return to spawn at natal sites. The final, riv...
To optimize fragmentation approaches for restoration applications, this study assessed fragmentation size influences on health and growth rates of mes...
This report provides recommendations on NOAA's NESDIS spaceborne observing capability and a discussion of generalizing the approach to other NOAA obse...
This report provides recommendations on NOAA's need for a national, open access, high resolution forecasting system to support ocean, weather and haza...
The purpose of this report is to provide an annual update to the Science Advisory Board and the US Congress on the activities of the Environmental Inf...
United States. Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management. ...
1994
Description:
This booklet is designed to provide you with guidelines for restoring and enhancing migratory songbird habitat. Some of the suggestions are for volunt...
This Manual describes the Department of Commerce's (the Department) environmental management ?Tid compliance program and assists the Department in ach...
The past forty years have seen large increases in nutrient inputs to coastal waters as a result of population growth and greater production of food an...
Pursuant to the requirements of section 103(f) of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (86 Stat. 1027; hereinafter, the "Act"), this report descri...
1972 | Report (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Institute of Atmospheric Sciences) ; 72-12
Description:
A numerical model of cloud growth over a mountain has been modified to simulate the formation and development of hurricane rainband clouds. The first ...
1979 | Report (University of Texas at Austin. Atmospheric Science Group) ; 51
Description:
Rossby number similarity theory has been used to calculate surface winds and transport of an oil slick over the ocean. Calculations were compared with...
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Institute of Atmospheric Sciences. ...
1978 | Report (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Institute of Atmospheric Sciences) ; 78-2
Description:
A study was made of the precipitation patterns obtained from digital recordings of radar echoes from one summer's rainfall in North Dakota. The data w...
University of Texas. Atmospheric Science Group. ...
1978 | Report (University of Texas at Austin. Atmospheric Science Group) ; 46
Description:
A laboratory apparatus is used to study the problem of the relative dispersion of a cluster of oil patches on a turbulent ocean surface. The apparatus...
The passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, hereafter referred to as the Act, gave the Department of the Interior (Department) responsibi...
The passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, hereafter referred to as the Act, gave the Department of the Interior (Department) responsibi...
Part I of this report is a summary of the major cruise activities and part II presents the hydrographic data (CTD and XBT) collected during the cruise...
This paper provides new information on the low level structure and behavior of African easterly waves (AEWs) and relates this information to previous ...
The passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, hereafter referred to as the Act, gave the Department of the Interior (Department) responsibi...
United States. Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
1989
Description:
This document consists of Amendments 5 and 6 to the Alaska Coastal Management Program. Amendment 5 is the Bering Straits Coastal Management Program {B...
The application to ice mapping of recently available ITOS and Nimbus thermal infrared data is investigated. The ITOS-1 Scanning Radiometer (SR) and th...
Midwater trawling is a critical component of acoustic-trawl fisheries surveys, and it is used to determine the species and size composition of acousti...
Scientists from the Alaska Fisheries Science Center conducted an acoustic-trawl survey in the Gulf of Alaska from March 9 to March 16 to estimate the ...
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