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Filtering by: Creator Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (Program) Committee Member Barreto, Felipe Degree Name Honors Bachelor of Science (H.B.S.)

Science Education Through Comics: Improving Understanding of Current Marine Environmental Issues

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Schwarz, Zale

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According to a 2017 Pew Research Study, 44% of adults in America say that they do not feel informed enough about science to understand news and new discoveries discussed on the media (Funk et al. 2019). This is concerning, because adults are not just passive consumers of media; among other...

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Honors College Thesis

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is to increase science knowledge on environmental issues relating to the ocean, through a series of
Gene expression of four carbonic anhydrase paralogs across the symbiotic states of the model temperate sea anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima (Brandt 1835)

Creator:

Meier, Emily K.

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Anthropogenic CO₂ emissions are shifting the global climate equilibrium, causing widespread losses in biodiversity. Anthozoan cnidarians are some of the species most vulnerable to environmental change. Environmental stress causes corals and sea anemones to expel their endosymbiotic algae, which constitute a primary source of nutrition for some Anthozoa. Carbonic anhydrase...

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Honors College Thesis

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ocean acidification Global climate change is a grave threat to ecosystem stability. As anthropogenic