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Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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An analysis of wetland patterns and functions at the watershed and sub-watershed scales, with *policy applications, Jennifer Newton Bissonnette

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A Mycobacterium-inducible Nramp in striped bass Morone saxatilis, Erin Jeffrey Burge

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The Wind Effects on the Evaluation of Proposed Craney Island Expansions in the Lower James and Elizabeth Rivers, Momo Chen

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Persistent Organic Pollutants at the Base of the Antarctic Marine Food Web, Amy Lee Chiuchiolo

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Microbial dynamics and biogeochemistry in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, Matthew J. Church

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Bioavailability of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDES) in Biosolids and Spiked Sediment to the Aquatic Worm Lumbriculus variegatus, Serena Ciparis

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Inverse Model Analysis of Plankton Food Webs in the North Atlantic and Western Antarctic Peninsula, Robert M. Daniels

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Taxonomic Composition and Growth Rates of Phytoplankton Assemblages at the Subtropical Convergence East of New Zealand, Liza M. Delizo

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Automated Fish Species Classification using Artificial Neural Networks and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Daniel Foster Doolittle

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Metabolic Rates and Bioenergetics of Juvenile Sandbar Sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus), W. Wesley Dowd

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Laboratory oxide coatings: Physical form and surface chemistry, Kea U. Duckenfield

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Diet of the Sandbar Shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in Chesapeake Bay and Adjacent Waters, Julia K. Ellis

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Biology of Mated Triploid Crassostrea ariakensis in Multiple Environments: Gametogenesis, Sex Ratio, Disease Prevalence, and Reversion, Alan J. Erskine

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Controls on the delivery of fluvial sediment to the coastal ocean: The Salinas River, California, Katherine L. Farnsworth

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A theoretical and experimental study of Allee effects, Joanna Gascoigne

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Imposex as an Indication of Butyltin Exposure in the Veined Rapa Whelk (Rapana venosa), a Chesapeake Bay Invader, Ethan Alexander Jestel

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A Genetic Analysis of the Intraspecific Relationships of Tropical Marine Shorefishes Common to Bermuda and the Southeastern Atlantic Coast of the United States, Kelly R. Johnson

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Investigations into the Etiology of Ulcerative Lesions in Atlantic Menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, RaeMarie Ann Johnson

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ANN wave prediction model for winter storms and hurricanes, Jun-Young. Kim

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Bacterial Properties and Dissolved Organic Matter Distributions in the Black Sea, Jessica A. Morgan

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Synalpheus shrimp from Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Systematics, phylogenetics and biological observations (Crustacea: Decapoda: ; Alpheidae), Ruben Rios Gonzalez

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Ecosystem Gas Exchange in Natural and Created Tidal Salt Marshes of Tidewater, Virginia, Molly Mitchell Roggero

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Socioeconomic effects of area management and the potential for community-based co-management: A case study of the Atlantic sea scallop fishery, Winifred L. Ryan

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Availability of humic nitrogen to phytoplankton, Jason Holt See

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Historical Diet Analysis of Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and Kemp's Ridley (Lepidochelys kempi) Sea Turtles in Virginia, Erin E. Seney

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Relationships between Watershed Characteristics and Base Flow Nutrient Discharges to Eastern Shore Coastal Lagoons, Virginia, Jennifer Wu Stanhope

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A Genetic Investigation of Population Structure and Phylogenetics of the Benthic Polychaete Paraprionospio pinnata in Chesapeake Bay, Julie Beck Stubbs

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Sublethal Effects of Sediment Contamination on an Estuarine Amphipod, Bruce W. Vogt

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon sources and distribution in an urban estuary, Shelby E. Walker

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Effects of Sediment Characteristics on the Distribution of Fiddler Crabs (Uca spp) at Goodwin Island, Virginia, Landon Alan Ward

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Genetic Variation Within and among the Suminoe Oyster (Crassostrea ariakensis) Populations and Stocks as Assessed by Molecular Markers, Qian Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Fate of organic compounds associated with extractable and bound phases of estuarine sediments deposited under varying depositional regimes, Krisa Murray Arzayus

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Development of a watershed and stream-reach spawning habitat model for river herring Alosa pseudoharengus and Alosa aestivalis, Rebecca A. Boger

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Nekton Utilization of Intertidal Fringing Salt Marsh and Revetment Hardened Shorelines, Robert A. Carroll

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Meta-Analysis and Modeling of Benthic Oxygen and Nutrient Fluxes, Tyler Christensen

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Estuarine suspended aggregate dynamics and characteristics, David C. Fugate

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Diet Composition of Young-of-The-Year Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, in the Lower Chesapeake Bay and Virginia's Coastal Ocean, James Gartland

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Estimating Commercial Scallop Dredge Efficiency through Vessel Tracking, Catch Data, and Depletion Models, Todd Gedamke

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Ring Diameter and Closed Area Scallop Fisheries: The Performance of a Dredge with 4" Rings in the Atlantic Sea Scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) Fishery, in the Context of an Area Rotation Management Scheme, Kevin D. Goff

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Aspects of age, growth, demographics and thermal biology of two lamniform shark species, Kenneth J. Goldman

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Organism -sediment interactions: The role of seabed dynamics in structuring the mesohaline York River macrobenthic community, Elizabeth K. Hinchey

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Effects of urbanization and land use on PAH accumulation in wetland sediments, Kimani L. Kimbrough

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An Evaluation of Closed Area Boundaries of the Sea Scallop Stock in the Middle Atlantic Bight, John David Lange

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The Development of a Water Quality Model in Baltimore Harbor, Back River, and the Adjacent Upper Chesapeake Bay, Hui Liu

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Chemical, isotopic and microbial characterization of dissolved and particulate organic matter in estuarine, coastal and open ocean systems, Ai Ning Loh

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Comparison of the Fate of Dissolved Organic Matter in Two Coastal Systems: Hog Island Bay, VA (USA) and Plum Island Sound, MA (USA), Tami L. Lunsford

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Molecular and morphological evolution of the amphipod radiation of Lake Baikal, Kenneth S. Macdonald III

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Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on the Utilization of Eelgrass (Zostera marina) by Mobile Epifauna and Macrofauna, Scott R. Marion

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Organic matter cycling in the York River estuary, Virginia: An analysis of potential sources and sinks, Leigh McCallister

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Genetic stock structure of the sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus, based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA, Jan Renee McDowell

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Use of Remote Sensing to Identify Essential Habitat for Aeschynomene virginica (L) BSP, a Threatened Tidal Freshwater Wetland Plant, Elizabeth M. Mountz

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Predicting metal interactions with a novel quantitative ion character -activity relationship (QICAR) approach, David R. Ownby

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Distribution, Fluxes, and Bacterial Utilization of Different Molecular Weight Fractions of Dissolved Organic Matter in the York River Estuary, Carol J. Pollard

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Microevolutionary processes in Chesapeake Bay (Virginia, USA) eelgrass, Zostera marina L, Jennifer Michelle Rhode

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Coastal zone landscape classification using remote sensing and model development, Kevin R. Slocum

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Oyster Reef Restoration in Virginia: Broodstock Addition & Nutrient Exchanges, Laurie Ann Sorabella

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Temporal and Spatial Variation in Reproductive Output of the Veined Rapa Whelk (Rapana venosa) in the Chesapeake Bay, Catherine C. Ware

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Chromosome Set Instability in 1--2 Year Old Triploid Crassostrea ariakensis in Multiple Environments, Mingfang Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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New dimensionless indices of structural habitat complexity, Aaron Bartholomew

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Molecular characterization of cultured Perkinsus marinus isolates, Gwynne D. Brown

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Mycobacteriosis in Striped Bass, Morone saxatilis, from Virginia Waters of Chesapeake Bay, Jennifer L. Cardinal

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Growth Patterns of Three Species of Catfish (Ictaluridae) from Three Virginia Tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, William J. Connelly

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Heat shock protein (HSP70) response in the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, exposed to various contaminants (PAHs, PCBs and cadmium), Luis A. Cruz Rodriguez

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Age, Growth, and Mortality of Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, in the Chesapeake Bay Region, John R. Foster

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Effects of Light and Salinity Stress on Vallisneria americana (Wild Celery), Gail T. French

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Genetic Investigation of Interspecific and Intraspecific Relationships Within the Genus Rapana, Arminda L. Gensler

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Morphological Variation of Three Populations of the Veined Rapa Whelk, Rapana venosa, an Invasive Predatory Gastropod Species, Rebecca A. Green

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Nursery delineation, habitat utilization, movements, and migration of juvenile Carcharhinus plumbeus in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, United States of America, R. Dean. Grubbs

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Sediment budgets, estuarine sediment loads, and wetland sediment storage at watershed scales, York River watershed, Virginia, Julie D. Herman

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Life History Attributes of Mid-Atlantic Menidia menidia (Pisces: Atherinidae) and a Comparison with Northern (Massachusetts) and Southern (South Carolina) Populations, Richard K. Holmquist

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Use of Pop-Up Satellite Tag Technology to Estimate Survival of Blue Marlin (Makaira nigricans) Released from Pelagic Longline Gear, David Kerstetter

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Cobia (Rachycentron canadum) Aquaculture: Captive Growth Rates and Product Quality Evaluation, David Patrick Kilduff

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Spatial and Temporal Variability of Physical and Biological Mixing in the York River Subestuary, Tara A. Kniskern

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Spatial and Temporal Variation in Plant Communities of Three Tidal Salt Marshes along the York River, Virginia, Rosemary E. Laird

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A study of the secondary turbidity maximum in the York River Estuary, Virginia, Jing Lin

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Post-glacial sedimentation in a river -dominated epicontinental shelf: The Yellow Sea example, Jing-pu Liu

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Effects of humic acids and salinity on pesticide bioavailability and toxicity as estimated by SPME and toxicity tests, Laurent C. Mézin

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Vitellogenin -- a Biomarker of Exposure to Environmental Estrogens for Mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) from a Creosote-Contaminated Site?, Sara Mirabilio

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Modeling of Critically-Stratified Gravity Flows: Application to the Eel River Continental Shelf, Northern California, Malcolm E. Scully

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Application of the genetic algorithm to an ecological simulation, William J. Seufzer

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Evaluation of Opercular Bones for Aging Eight Species of Chesapeake Bay Fishes, Ann M. Sipe

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The impact of marine reserves on exploited species with complex life histories: a modeling study using the Caribbean spiny lobster in Exuma Sound, Bahamas, William T. Stockhausen

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Persistent organic pollutant transport and fate: Assessment by molecular tracers, Padma T. Venkatraman

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Reproductive Biology of Atlantic Croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, in the Chesapeake Bay, Elizabeth Shaw Watkins

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A Descriptive Study of the Reproductive Biology of the Veined Rapa Whelk (Rapana venosa) in the Chesapeake Bay, Erica S. Westcott

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An Examination of Potential Conflict between SAV and Hard Clam Aquaculture in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Helen Woods

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Assessment of Development Impacts on Coastal Zone: Integrated Approach, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia, Sarunas Zableckis

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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A Framework for Construction and Analysis of Juvenile Abundance Indices for American Shad (Alosa sapidissima) in the York River, Virginia, Mary Lynn Aiken

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Bioremediation of Tributyltin Contaminated Sediment using Spartina alterniflora in a Created Tidal Wetland, Britt-Anne Anderson

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Seasonal Residence, Movement, and Activity Patterns of Adult Tautog, Tautoga onitis, in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Michael D. Arendt

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Microgeographic Population Genetic Structure of the Mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus L) Inhabiting an Industrialized Waterway, Luis Felipe Arzayus

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Field Measurement of Mixed Grain Size Suspension in the Nearshore Under Waves, Grace M. Battisto

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Assessment of spawning and nursery habitat suitability for American shad (Alosa sapidissima) in the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers, Donna Marie Bilkovic

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An Investigation of Hybridization between Two Serranid Fishes, the Coney (Cephalopholis fulva) and the Creole Fish (Paranthias furcifer), Meredith A. Bostrom

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Osteology, phylogeny, and biogeography of the marine fish family Ephippidae (Perciformes, Acanthuroidei), with comments on sister group relationships, Martin Ray Cavalluzzi

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Population Dynamics of the Smooth Dogfish, Mustelus canis, in the Northwest Atlantic, Christina L. Conrath

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Application of genetic markers to provide species identification and define stock structure: Analyses of selected marine fishes of the Mid -Atlantic Bight, Jan F. Cordes

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Accuracy Assessment of Remote Sensing in a Tidal Wetland, Jason S. Goldberg

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Efficiency of Pound-Net Cull Panels: A Comparison of Size Selectivity and Relative Release for Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) and Summer Flounder (Paralichthys dentatus), Christian Harding Hager

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Ecological interactions between benthic oyster reef fishes and oysters, Juliana Maria Harding