Conventional ocean color satellites sensors are not very suitable for inland and coastal waters applications due to their low spatial resolutions. High spatial resolution satellite sensors are required to monitor the water quality of inland and coastal waters. The conventional high-resolution satellites such as Landsat, SPOT and IKONOS have limited number of spectral bands. In comparison, the W...

Studies of ecotypic differentiation in the California Floristic Province have contributed greatly to plant evolutionary biology since the pioneering work of Clausen, Keck, and Hiesey. The extent of gene flow and genetic differentiation across interfertile ecotypes that span major habitats in the California Floristic Province is understudied, however, and is important for understanding the prosp...

The coastal meteorology of southeastern Alaska frequently consists of intense orographically enhanced winds. Inland cold pools develop as air cools over the interior and accelerates downs the terrain, resulting in strong winds manifested as gap and channel flows, and downslope windstorms depending on the location and synoptic situation. The latter are locally known as “Taku” windstorms (Dierkin...

Measurement of radioactive dose rates in fine sediment that has recently deposited on channel bed-sand provides a solution to address the lack of continuous river monitoring in Fukushima Prefecture after Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (FDNPP) accident. We show that coastal rivers of Eastern Fukushima Prefecture were rapidly supplied with sediment contaminated by radionuclides originatin...

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ABSTRACT The French Mediterranean coastal aquifers are essentially alluvial, deep sedimentary and karst. Whereas the alluvial aquifers are particularly sensitive to salt-water intru sion, contamination of the deep aquifers is generally due to vertical hydraulic connec tion with the shallow aquifers. As for the karst systems, which are quite well developed f rom Languedoc-Roussillon to Provence-...

Saltwater intrusion and upconing phenomena affect coastal aquifers worldwide. Over-exploitation leads to high salinity levels which threaten sustainable use of these freshwater resources. There is an increasing need to accurately, and practically, model the physics of these coastal pumping systems while also incorporating the relevant economics. We formalize a decision model able to define the ...

In the coastal multilayer aquifer system of a highly urbanized southern city (Recife, Brazil), where groundwaters are affected by salinization, a multi-isotope approach (Sr, B, O, H) was used to investigate the sources and processes of salinization. The high diversity of the geological bodies, built since the Atlantic opening during the Cretaceous, highly constrains the heterogeneity of the gro...

Migratory divides are contact zones between breeding populations that use divergent migratory routes and have been described in a variety of species. These divides are of major importance to evolution, ecology and conservation but have been identified using limited band recovery data and/or indirect methods. Data from band recoveries and mitochondrial haplotypes suggested that inland and coasta...