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Timescales and Magnitude of Water Quality Change in Three Texas Estuaries Induced by Passage of Hurricane Harvey
(Estuaries and Coasts, 2020-10-14)Tropical cyclones represent a substantial disturbance to water quality in coastal ecosystems via storm surge, winds, and flooding. However, evidence to date suggests that the impacts of tropical cyclones on water quality ... -
Motivating the Documentation of the Verbal Arts: Arguments from Theory and Practice
(Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017-02-06)For language documentation to be sufficiently extensive to cover a given community’s language practices (cf. Himmelmann 1998), then including verbal arts is essential to ensure the richness of that comprehensive record. ... -
Morphology in the Muskogean languages
(Language and Linguistics Compass, 2016-12-29)The indigenous languages of the Americas exemplify a number of uncommon typological patterns, especially in their morphology. Here, that rich morphology is illustrated via the Muskogean languages of the southeastern United ... -
Kalman filtering and application to storm surges
(2019-08)Over the last decades with the advancement of computational power and access to data, the ability to create advanced forecasts and hind-casts too has grown. Recently, with an increase of the global population moving ... -
Inferning networks for graph partitioning
(2019-05)Image analysis, pattern recognition, and computer vision pose very interesting and challenging problems, especially in this time when billions of images are generated and uploaded every single day. In many computer vision ... -
New Insights Into the Seasonal Movement Patterns of Shortfin Mako Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico
(Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021-01-26)Highly mobile apex predators such as the shortfin mako shark (mako shark; Isurus oxyrinchus) serve an important role in the marine ecosystem, and despite their declining populations and vulnerability to overexploitation, ... -
Palimpsest
(2020-12)Palimpsest is an exhibition of large drawings, artists books, and monotypes which considers the social influences of colonialism, geographic bias, authority, and nationalism amongst shifting global cultures. It is abstract ... -
Dna methylation patterns in wild-caught juvenile red drum (sciaenops ocellatus) collected in chronic high-oil and low-oil deepwater horizon impacted louisiana estuaries
(2020-12)This study characterized differences in DNA methylation patterns of wild-caught juvenile red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) collected in estuarine areas that were differentially impacted by oiling during the Deepwater Horizon ... -
"My name is Sara" a biomythography exploring the life of Sakine Cansiz
(2020-12)This creative thesis explores the story of Sakine Cansiz, one of the first women activists and a central figure of the Kurdish liberation movement. By taking into account different sources of Sakine Cansiz’s life and ... -
Creating pathways for educational success: Understanding the challenges of Latina doctoral student mothers
(2020-12)The experiences of Latina doctoral student mothers are very complex and multifaceted, influenced by the intersectionality of their cultural Latina motherhood and academic doctoral student roles. The purpose of this ... -
The validity of the state of Texas assessments of academic readiness in predicting middle school's rating
(2020-12)The A – F Accountability System, which has been adopted by 33.00% of the states, is the most widely used educational accountability system in the USA. However, it has not been adequately examined, particularly in Texas, ... -
The importance of submarine groundwater discharge on nutrient fluxes and dissolved organic matter molecular composition in a semi-arid, highly disturbed estuary
(2020-12)This dissertation advances our understanding of the temporal and spatial variability of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) rates, SGD-derived nutrient fluxes and its role in the nitrogen budget, and the dissolved ... -
Molecular ecology and conservation genomics of scalloped (sphyrna lewini) and carolina hammerheads (s. gilberti)
(2020-12)Scalloped hammerheads (Sphyrna lewini) are a circumglobally distributed shark that has experienced declines in abundance throughout its range. Management of scalloped hammerheads in the U.S. Atlantic is a challenge due ... -
Determining habitat quality for species that demonstrate dynamic habitat selection
(Ecology and Evolution, 2015-11-19)Determining habitat quality for wildlife populations requires relating a species' habitat to its survival and reproduction. Within a season, species occurrence and density can be disconnected from measures of habitat quality ... -
Mechanisms That Generate Resource Pulses in a Fluctuating Wetland
(PLoS ONE, 2016-07-22)Animals living in patchy environments may depend on resource pulses to meet the high energetic demands of breeding. We developed two primary a priori hypotheses to examine relationships between three categories of wading ... -
Time‐integrated habitat availability is a resource attribute that informs patterns of use in intertidal areas
(Ecological Monographs, 2018-05-30)In dynamic environments, resource availability may change by several orders of magnitude, over hours to months, but the duration of resource availability is not often included as a characteristic attribute of resources ... -
Urban food subsidies reduce natural food limitations and reproductive costs for a wetland bird
(Scientific Reports, 2020-08-20)There is a strong conservation need to understand traits of species that adapt to urban environments, but results have been equivocal. Wetland birds exhibit a strong phylogenetic signal towards urban tolerance; however, ... -
Organic carbon fluxes mediated by corals at elevated pCO2 and temperature
(Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2015-01-20)Increasing ocean acidification (OA) and seawater temperatures pose significant threats to coral reefs globally. While the combined impacts of OA and seawater temperature on coral biology and calcification in corals have ... -
Coral Energy Reserves and Calcification in a High-CO2 World at Two Temperatures
(2013-10-11)Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations threaten coral reefs globally by causing ocean acidification (OA) and warming. Yet, the combined effects of elevated pCO2 and temperature on coral physiology and resilience remain ... -
Physiological response to elevated temperature and pCO2 varies across four Pacific coral species: Understanding the unique host+symbiont response
(2015-12-16)The physiological response to individual and combined stressors of elevated temperature and pCO2 were measured over a 24-day period in four Pacific corals and their respective symbionts (Acropora millepora/Symbiodinium ...