The Alcantara River estuary was studied to obtain the first data on both water quality and ecological status of the only River Park in Sicily (Italy). Water samples were seasonally collected from three selected stations in the estuarine area and from one station at the mouth of the estuary in the marine coastal zone. Picoplankton and picophytoplankton counts were among the highest observed in e...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the current status of metal pollution of the sediments from urban-stream, estuary and Jinzhou Bay of the coastal industrial city, NE China. Forty surface sediment samples from river, estuary and bay and one sediment core from Jinzhou bay were collected and analyzed for heavy metal concentrations of Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, Ni and Mn. The data reveals that ther...

Coastal Ecosystems Research Station of the Yangtze River Estuary, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, The Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China, Research Institute for the Changing Global Environment, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma,...

1 University of Hannover, Institute of Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Callinstraße 34, 30167 Hannover, Germany, [email protected] 2 University of New South Wales, Water Research Laboratory, King Street, Sydney, 2093, Australia, [email protected] 3 University of Technology Hamburg, Department of River and Coastal Engineering, Denickestraße 22, 21073 Hamburg, Germany,...

Academic Background: •Ph.D. Student in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Alabama. Currently working on Computational Fluid Dynamics and Physical Modeling of Hydrodynamic Stormwater Devices. •M.Sc. Water Resources, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2003 •Specialization in River and Coastal Eng., Universidad del Norte, Colombia, 2001 •Bachelor in Civil Engineering, Universidad de...

To identify potential reservoirs/vectors of Mycobacterium ulcerans in northern Queensland, Australia, we analyzed environmental samples collected from the Daintree River catchment area, to which Buruli ulcer is endemic, and adjacent coastal lowlands by species-specific PCR. We detected M. ulcerans DNA in soil, mosquitoes, and excreta of bandicoots, which are small terrestrial marsupials.

This paper provides a preliminary evaluation of the Regional Impact Simulator a user-friendly, PCbased tool designed with stakeholders for stakeholders wishing to assess the effects of climate and/or socio-economic change on the important sectors and resources in the UK at a regional scale, in particular, impacts to coastal and river flooding, agriculture, water resources and biodiversity. While

Red tides and eutrophication have been frequently observed over the past two decades in coastal waters around Hong Kong, which are caused by many factors and one of them is the nutrient from nonpoint source pollution (NSP). This paper concentrates on the nutrients carried by river flow from watersheds. Since there are no systematical data sets of nonpoint source pollution in Hong Kong, monthly ...

Across their range, mangroves are responding to coastal environmental change. However, separating the influence of human activities from natural events and processes (including that associated with climatic fluctuation) is often difficult. In the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia (Leichhardt, Nicholson, Mornington Inlet, and Flinders River catchments), changes in mangroves are assumed to ...

River water-quality studies rarely measure dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) routinely, and there is a gap in our knowledge of the contributions of DIC to aquatic carbon fluxes and cycling processes. Here, we present the THINCARB model (THermodynamic modelling of INorganic CARBon), which uses widely-measured determinands (pH, alkalinity and temperature) to calculate DIC concentrations, speciatio...