Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies
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Morphological Assessment of the Eastern Oyster Crassostrea virginica throughout the Gulf of Mexico
(Wiley Periodicals LLC, 2021-07-03)The eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica is a commercially and ecologically important organism found throughout the western North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Morphological differences in shell shape of eastern oysters are ... -
Role and Value of Nitrogen Regulation Provided by Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) in the Mission-Aransas Estuary, Texas, USA
(PLoS ONE, 2013-06-06)Suspension-feeding activities of oysters impart a potentially significant benefit to estuarine ecosystems via reduction of water column nutrients, plankton and seston biomass, and primary productivity which can have a ... -
Economic Impact of Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Goods and Services and Integration Into Restoration Decision-Making
(Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium of Alabama, 2013)Sustainability of natural resources requires balancing exploitation and conservation, enabled by management based on the best available scientific and economic information. Valuation of ecosystem goods and services is an ... -
Gulf of Mexico offshore ecosystem services: Relative valuation by stakeholders
(Science Direct, 2015-07-26)While efforts to integrate ecosystem services into the management of coastal and terrestrial systems continue to advance, similar efforts for deepwater environments are still in the early stages of deliberation. To begin ... -
Evolving academic culture to meet societal needs
(Springer Nature, 2017-11-21)Given today’s complex societal challenges, academia should work better with government, industry and others in offering innovative solutions that benefit our society, economy and environment. Researchers across disciplines ... -
Transnational research for coastal wetlands conservation in a Cuba–US setting
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-07-15)Sharing information between different countries is key for developing sustainable solutions to environmental change. Coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico are suffering significant environmental and human-related threats. ... -
Valuing Nature Waste Removal in the Offshore Environment Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018-12-10)The offshore and deep-sea marine environment provides many ecosystem services (i.e., benefits to humans), for example: climate regulation, exploitable resources, processes that enable life on Earth, and waste removal. ... -
Extending Marine Species Distribution Maps Using Non-Traditional Sources
(Pensoft, 2015-04-17)Background Traditional sources of species occurrence data such as peer-reviewed journal articles and museum-curated collections are included in species databases after rigorous review by species experts and evaluators. ... -
Using UAS Hyperspatial RGB Imagery for Identifying Beach Zones along the South Texas Coast
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017-02-15)Shoreline information is fundamental for understanding coastal dynamics and for implementing environmental policy. The analysis of shoreline variability usually uses a group of shoreline indicators visibly discernible in ... -
Estuarine Suspended Sediment Dynamics: Observations Derived from over a Decade of Satellite Data
(Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017-12-20)Suspended sediment dynamics of Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, USA, a shallow-water wind-driven estuary, were investigated by combining field and satellite measurements of total suspended solids (TSS). An algorithm was developed ... -
Unsupervised Clustering Method for Complexity Reduction of Terrestrial Lidar Data in Marshes
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018-01-18)Accurate characterization of marsh elevation and landcover evolution is important for coastal management and conservation. This research proposes a novel unsupervised clustering method specifically developed for segmenting ... -
Ensemble Neural Networks for Modeling DEM Error
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-10-09)Digital elevation models (DEMs) have become ubiquitous and remarkably effective in the field of earth sciences as a tool to characterize surface topography. All DEMs have a degree of inherent error and uncertainty that is ... -
Unsupervised Clustering of Multi-Perspective 3D Point Cloud Data in Marshes: A Case Study
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-11-19)Dense three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data sets generated by Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Unmanned Aircraft System based Structure-from-Motion (UAS-SfM) photogrammetry have different characteristics and provide ... -
Meeting Regional, Coastal and Ocean User Needs With Tailored Data Products: A Stakeholder-Driven Process
(Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019-06-07)New coastal and ocean observing stations and instruments deployed across the globe are providing increasing amounts of meteorological, biological, and oceanographic data. While these developments are essential for the ... -
Using Lidar Data to Assess the Relationship Between Beach Geomorphology and Kemp’s Ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) Nest Site Selection Along Padre Island, TX, United States
(Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020-04-08)The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) is the most endangered sea turtle species in the world, largely due to the limited geographic range of its nesting habitat. There has been limited research regarding the ... -
Impact of the Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica on microbial community structure in a salt marsh estuary
(Inter-Research, 2002-05-16)In the tidal creeks of North Inlet, a high salinity salt marsh estuary near Georgetown, South Carolina, USA, the Eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica is an abundant component of the benthic macrofauna that exerts controls ... -
Response of bacteria to simulated upwelling phytoplankton blooms
(Inter-Research, 2004-05-19)Until recently, studies of the fate of primary production in coastal upwelling systems have focused mainly on export through sinking of particulate organic matter (POM). In week-long deck incubations conducted during the ...
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