Simultaneous visual and oceanographic surveys were conducted in the lower Bay of Fundy and in Roseway Basin of the SW Scotian Shelf during the summers of 1999 to 2001 to investigate the physical and biological oceanographic factors associated with North Atlantic right whale occurrence. Sightings of right whales were recorded...
Climate sensitivity is generally studied using two types of models. Atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) include interactive ocean dynamics and detailed heat uptake. Atmospheric GCMs (AGCMs) with slab ocean models (SOMs) cannot fully simulate the ocean's response to and influence on climate. However, AGCMs are computationally cheaper and thus are...
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The eruption of South Sarigan Seamount in the southern Mariana arc
in May 2010 is a reminder of how little we know about the hazards associated with
submarine explosive eruptions or how to predict these types of eruptions. Monitored
by local seismometers and distant hydrophones, the eruption from ~ 200...
Although most eastern North Pacific (ENP) gray whales feed in the Bering, Beaufort,
and Chukchi Seas during summer and fall, a small number of individuals,
referred to as the Pacific Coast Feeding Group (PCFG), show intra- and interseasonal
fidelity to feeding areas from northern California through southeastern Alaska. We
used...
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, OregonStateUniversity, Hatfield Mar-
ine Science Center, Newport, Oregon 97365, U.S.A.; JEFF K
Natural disturbances and human activities can alter the benthic composition of coral reefs and other marine ecosystems. Reef fishes that associate with particular structures on the sea floor, such as coral heads, may be vulnerable to perturbations of those habitats. The spread of a newly discovered crustose alga (Ramicrusta sp.)...
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OregonStateUniversityUniversity Honors College
Drones provide a privileged birds’-eye view for collecting high-resolution imagery formorphometric and behavioral sampling of animals. Biologically meaningful measurements extracted from overhead images require an accurate estimate of altitude, but current commercial drones include inaccurate barometer estimates. Recent proposals for coupling altimeter systems to drones have provided customized, open-source solutions,...
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
have a large impact on undergraduate instruction but are often poorly prepared to teach. Teaching
self-efficacy, an instructor’s belief in his or her ability to teach specific student populations a specific
subject, is an important predictor of teaching skill...
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Forest Ecosystems and Society
and §College of Education, OregonStateUniversity, Corvallis, OR 97331
Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have a large impact on undergraduate instruction but are often poorly prepared to teach. Teaching self-efficacy, an instructor’s belief in his or her ability to teach specific student populations a specific subject, is an important predictor of teaching skill...
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Forest Ecosystems and Society
and §College of Education, OregonStateUniversity, Corvallis, OR 97331
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As global climate change and exponential human population growth intensifies pressure on agricultural systems, the need to effectively manage invasive insect pests is becoming increasingly important to global food security. Drosophila suzukii is an invasive pest that drastically expanded its global range in a very short time since 2008,...
A three-dimensional sea ice model is presented with resolved snow thickness variations and
melt ponds. The model calculates heating from solar radiative transfer and simulates the formation and
movement of brine/melt water through the ice system. Initialization for the model is based on observations
of snow topography made during the...
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1College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, OregonStateUniversity, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, 2Cold