UF researchers: beach mice face high probability of extinction
...s, but retreat to nearby scrub dune habitat when a hurricane destroys their burrows or temporarily eliminates seeds such as sea oats that constitute their diet, Oli said. While most frontal beach zones remain intact, scrub habitat is ideal for beachside development and has become increasingly scarce as condom...Scholar: hurricanes helped shape Cuban culture, history
CHAPEL HILL -- When hurricane season in the Caribbean officially ends Friday, (N...of what they were experiencing, he said.For years, hurricane parties were a tradition, complete with rum and beer, but that changed in 1963 when Hurricane Flora ...Hurricane floods pose risk to environment, health, new research on 1999 storm reveals
...mages of the region recorded a week after the 1999 hurricane to see how many animal operations appear to have been affected. Researchers say their findings suggest that many more livestock operations were flooded than previous N.C. Division of Water Quality records had indicated. Significant chemical and biol...Portable unit created to treat wastewater in remote locations
... it could be used for such emergency situations as hurricane and earthquake disaster areas. UTD is also in the process of designing complete portable communities for up to 550 people that could be delivered to war or disaster areas, with instant provisions for water and wastewater treatment, housing, food fac...Hurricanes impact carbon sequestration by forests
...long the southeastern seaboard. At least one major hurricane hits the southeastern US coastline two out of ever... southern U.S. is forested: timber damage from one hurricane can exceed $1 billion and significantly reduce carbon stored. A single hurricane can convert ten pe...Sea Grant news: Shipworms, ozone, hurricanes
...rs studying storm wind-pressure hope that should a hurricane hit the southeastern United States mainland this season that one of their 25 "hurricane test houses" will be in its path. A researcher team headed by Tim Reinhold, a South Carolina Sea Grant - supported professor of Civil engineering at Clemson Unive...Big fish not always best, sounds might mean hurricanes and Hawaii tsunami safety
...NG METHODS MAY IMPROVE HURRICANE PREDICTION False hurricane evacuations can cost coastal areas millions of dol...m's destructive power and wind speeds. To improve hurricane assessment, MIT Sea Grant researcher Nicholas Makris is developing methods that will provide critica...New books show social side of weather and climate
...ronmental challenges of our time: climate change, hurricane disasters, and La Nia. The fourth is for traveler...cientific discovery, the science and technology of hurricane research, or the societal and economic challenges posed by major disasters. Robert Simpson, former d...UN development work guided from space
...the potential of EO data." Service born out of a hurricane The catastrophic experience of Hurricane Mitch - which killed 10,000 people and destroyed 150 bridges as it crossed Central America in November 1998 was actually helpful in demonstrating how an operational EO service might work. The scale of the ...Science picks: Leads, feeds and story seeds for August 2003
...ING THROUGH SCIENCE: We?re now in the "middle" of hurricane season and this year is still predicted to produce an above-normal number of Atlantic storms. USGS scientists are focused on the effects of intense storms to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, which can leave extensive human, economic...Ecosystem bounces back from hurricanes
...gen, phosphorus and fecal bacteria. After the 1999 hurricane season, however, contaminant loads were about the ...o-author of the paper, to the relationship between hurricane floodwaters, the crabs' migration response to the floodwaters and the subsequent overfishing of the ...NASA data shows hurricanes help plants bloom in 'ocean deserts'
Whenever a hurricane races across the Atlantic Ocean, chances are phyto...ted. "Because 1998 was the first complete Atlantic hurricane season observed by this instrument, we first noticed this effect in late 1998 after looking at hurri...DuPont introduces in-home personal protection from dangers of hurricanes
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