PURPOSE: This technical note summarizes current knowledge regarding the conservation and management of Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus; abbreviated as SNPL; also called Kentish Plover in Europe) along the eastern Gulf of Mexico coast in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi (Figures 1 and 2). Comprehensive surveys suggest there are ~250 SNPL breeding pairs in this region. This has led to subs...

Marine records from the northern Gulf of Mexico indicate that significant multidecadaland century-scale variability was common during the Holocene. Mean annual sea-surface temperature (SST) during the last 1,400 years may have varied by 3C, and excursions to cold SST coincide with reductions in solar output. Broad trends in Holocene terrestrial climate and environmental change along the eastern...

Beaked whales are deep diving elusive animals, difficult to census with conventional visual surveys. Methods are presented for the density estimation of beaked whales, using passive acoustic monitoring data collected at sites in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) from the period during and following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010-2013). Beaked whale species detected include: Gervais' (Mesoplodon e...

From May 19 to May 21, 2010, the Armed Forced Health Surveillance Center and the Uniformed Services University cosponsored an educational symposium and workshop on the assessment of potentially hazardous environmental exposures among military populations. Symposium participants reviewed and analyzed historical exposure events, from herbicides in Vietnam to the 1991 Gulf War oil well fires and W...

To the Editor: In “Reemergence of Plasmodium vivax malaria in the Republic of Korea” (1), the term eradication was, in my judgment, inappropriately used. In 1981, Yekutiel proposed that eradication is “The purposeful reduction of specific disease prevalence to the point of continued absence of transmission within a specified area by means of a time limited campaign” (2). In 1984, Hinman propose...

Pyridostigmine bromide (PB) is a drug, often given as a tablet, that has been approved since 1955 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of myasthenia gravis, a disease characterized by weakness and fatigability of the muscles. During the Persian Gulf War (PGW), PB was used as an “investigational new drug” (IND) by the U.S. military and some other allied forces as a pretreatment...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of and risk factors for self-reported symptoms suggestive of multiple chemical sensitivities/idiopathic environmental intolerance (MCS/IEI) in Persian Gulf War (PGW) veterans from Iowa and a comparison group of PGW-era military personnel. METHODS A population-based sample of Iowa military personnel was surveyed using a cross-sectional telephone interview. St...

Only a few cross-country empirical studies have been conducted to measure the performance of commercial banks especially before, during, and after crises (financial or political). This study makes an attempt to fill the gap in literature by investigating the impacts of crises on Gulf corporate conceal (GCC) commercial banks performance over the period between1997-2007. The rationale behind this...