Pelicans on Brisbane River

Salinity and turbidity distributions in the Brisbane River estuary, Australia

Lz Where Pelicans Kiss Seals

he story of how children learn to seems at f i rs t be a simple one: At a very early age they begin by scribbling with any available marker on any available surface. At first the children’s drawings are simple, clumsy and unrealistic; gradually they become more technically skilled and realistic. But the development of drawing is not quite so simple and straightforward. In fact, the story turns ...

Development of a predictive model for ross river virus disease in Brisbane, Australia.

This paper describes the development of an empirical model to forecast epidemics of Ross River virus (RRV) disease using the multivariate seasonal auto-regressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) technique in Brisbane, Australia. We obtained computerized data on notified RRV disease cases, climate, high tide, and population sizes in Brisbane for the period 1985-2001 from the Queensland Depart...

Mandibular Bowing and Mineralization in Brown Pelicans

Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) plunge dive into water to capture fish with highly distensible pouches. During prey capture, the pouch may expand to hold 11 L of water and the mandibular rami may bow from a resting position of 5 cm to over 15 cm. We compared mineralization of two bending regions of the mandible with a nonbending region, and examined cross-sectional morphology to determi...

Exploring Aerosol Effects on Rainfall for Brisbane, Australia

The majority of studies assessing aerosol effects on rainfall use coarse spatial scale (1° latitude/longitude or more) and multi-seasonal or decadal data sets. Here, we present results from a spatial correlation of aerosol size distribution and rain rate for selected stratiform and cumuliform precipitation events. The chemistry transport version of the Weather Research and Forecasting model was...