EXPLORATORY FISHING BASE, PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI

Self-collected vaginal swabs for HPV screening: An exploratory study of rural Black Mississippi women

OBJECTIVES To determine the post-procedure acceptability of self-collecting a vaginal swab for HPV testing among a highly impoverished and geographically isolated population of medically underserved Black women residing in the Mississippi Delta. Further, to test correlates of reporting that self-collection is preferred over Pap testing. Finally, to determine the prevalence of any of 13 high-ris...

Phylogenetic affinities of Plagiocirrus Van Cleave and Mueller, 1932 with the description of a new species from the Pascagoula River, Mississippi.

Plagiocirrus loboides n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae) is described from Fundulus nottii, F. dispar blairae, F. chrysotus, and Notemigonus crysoleucas from the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. Plagiocirrus loboides differs from P. primus Van Cleave and Mueller, 1932, by having a longer postcecal space (14-25% of body length vs. about 7%); a more anterior vitellarium (extending at least to the midd...

Life on the mississippi

Case Study: Mississippi-Lungs

Satellite imaging provides us with a unique way to study and appreciate the Earth. I use imagery to visually attract the viewer, and hopefully, stimulate some curiosity about the Earth and the imagery itself. As a professional geographer I have been working with satellite imagery for well over two decades. I have been using it to understand how the Earth’s environment has been changing, with an...

Over fishing: Hong Kong's fishing crisis finally arrives.

Wherever I go in the world today, newspapers invariably contain a story about over fishing. In Australia, it is Patagonian toothfish, abalone and the resources of the Great Barrier Reef. In Asia, shark finning. In the Caribbean, Garoupa s. In the Pacific, Tuna, and in the Atlantic, Cod. To name but a few. We have come to regard over fishing as a fact of life, but in a few places it has become a...