Abstract: Ocean observing systems provide a means to monitor oceanic variables on a variety of temporal and spatial scales. Data from ocean observing systems are most useful when they are collected in real-time; real-time data allow the detection of important events as they occur. Various real-time telemetry options exist for transferring data from sea to shore and from the subsurface to the su...

The influence of environmental variables on the planktonic growth, pelagic larval duration and settlement magnitude was examined for the coral reef surgeonfish Acanthurus chirurgus. Newly settled fish were collected daily from patch reefs in the San Blas Archipelago, Caribbean Panama for 3.5 years. Environmental influences on growth were examined at three different life history stages: from 0 t...

one of the most rugged and inaccessible coastlines in South Africa, and it is considered by many shore-anglers to be a premier recreational angling destination. A study conducted by the Oceanographic Research Institute in 1993 showed that shore-angling was the second most important tourist attraction out of a list of 54 attractions to the Transkei coast (Fielding et al. 1994). In addition, many...

The design and analysis of manipulative experiments is a key skill for undergraduate ecologists to learn. Despite this, students rarely conduct a true manipulative experiment with appropriate control treatments in the field, because of practical constraints such as time. Meaningful ecological experiments typically require months to obtain results, as well as constant maintenance and attention; ...

Waves on the ocean are generated well away from any shoreline and travel under a prevailing wind towards a distant shore. These deep-water waves eventually become shallow-water waves and break near the shore creating a turbulent surf front of bubbles, foam and spray, encompassing secondary breaking and smaller splashing waves. Human surfers can propel themselves shorewards on these breakers or ...

1) As part of the Tropical Rivers Inventory and Assessment Project (TRIAP), a databaseof 94,148 waterbird records was assembled, comprising 82,596 records from the TRIAParea and 11,552 records from a surrounding 10 km buffer. These records were sourcedfrom databases for Atlas1 and Atlas2 provided by Birds Australia, 99.1% of which arefrom the Historical Atlas (pre-1977), the...

Massini Merzkani, Nupur N. Uppal, Daniel W. Ross, Pranisha Gautam-Goyal, Prashant Malhotra, Hitesh H. Shah, Kenar D. Jhaveri and Vivette D. D’Agati Division of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension, North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, Great Neck, New York, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, North Shore University Hospital an...

In this paper hydrographic observations made over a fringing coral reef at the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba near Eilat, Israel, are discussed. These data show exchange flows driven by the onshore–offshore temperature gradients that develop because shallow regions near shore experience larger temperature changes than do deeper regions offshore when subjected to the same rate of heating or c...

In the last 20 years external cavity semiconductor lasers (ECSLs) have been the subject of extensive research due to their importance for technical applications like optical fiber communications. One of the most detailed investigated dynamical phenomenon occurring in ECSLs are low frequency fluctuations (LFFs) [Fischer et al., 1996; Fischer et al., 1998]. The intensity of the laser oscillates a...

Three-dimensional Princeton Ocean Model (POM) is used to understand coastal ocean processes and its variability along the west coast of India. An attempt is first made to understand variability of the surface circulation and associated SST during July-August 2000 and 2002 as a response of daily wind stress forcing derived from the QSCAT winds. The coastal current reverses its direction to eithe...