A method for the analysis of 10 perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in whole fish homogenate is presented and applied to 60 fish samples collected from the Ohio, Missouri, and upper Mississippi Rivers in 2005. Method accuracy ranged between 86 and 125% with limits of quantitation between 0.2 and 10 ng/g wet weight. Intra- and inter-batch precision was generally +/-20%. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PF...

Stable nitrogen isotopes were used to assess the effects of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) upgrades on the utilisation of sewage-N by estuarine biota in Moreton Bay, Australia. We measured delta(15)N of filamentous algae, mangrove leaves and shore crabs at the Brisbane and Logan Rivers before and after scheduled WWTP upgrades, and at two reference rivers where WWTPs had been upgraded >4 year...

A detailed microbiological and parasitological survey of salmonids and indigenous fish in the upper reaches of selected river systems in Natal was undertaken. Fish were collected from the rivers by electro-fishing, from dams by gill netting and from hatcheries along the rivers. A total of 678 fish from 26 different sites along 8 river systems were collected. No parasites could be detected on fi...

Major volcanic eruptions in the central North river systems by dispersing through the sea. However, some Island of New Zealand and, in particular, an eruption dated rivers, that were probably severely affected in their at  186, spread ignimbrite and volcanic ashes (tephra) headwaters, have lower elevation and more distant over a broad area, deposition of which caused major tributaries whose c...

Sampling of whitebait from the migrations in a series of West Coast and Southland rivers (Heaphy, Orowaiti, Buller, Hokitika, Wanganui, Okarito, Mataura) showed that whitebait of the giant kokopu migrate late in the spring, beginning to enter rivers during early November and continuing well through December. Amongst 70 whitebait samples containing nearly 9000 whitebait there were only 231 giant...

We present a new method for the realistic real-time simulation of rivers. Our solution includes a 2D fluid solver that simulates the flow of a river’s surface, an efficient method for adaptively computing 3D flow information and an animated 3D procedural wave texture that is advected through the fluid via advection particles in order to mimic the highly detailed fluid surfaces that are characte...

Biological uptake of dissolved silicate (DSi) and formation of biogenic silica (BSi) during diatom growth modifies the form of Si carried from the continents to the world ocean. Significant concentrations of BSi, averaging 28.0 pmol L-l, are found in all sizes of rivers. The global contribution of BSi carried by rivers was estimated as 1.05 ? 0.20 Tmol Si year’. Combined with the global mean ri...

Amazon, 21, 24, 378–379 overbank, crevasses processes, 25 physical and biogeochemical processes, 92 plume dispersals, 55 sediment accumulation rates, 91 subaqueous delta clinoform system, 91–96 tidal-regime changes, sediment dynamics model, 92–94 Arctic Ocean, riverine organic and inorganic carbon fluxes, processing, fate acids to aldehydes ratios, 534–535 aragonite undersaturation, 542–543 Arc...