On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy struck the U.S. northeast and mid-Atlantic seaboard; the effects of the storm extended to southeastern and midwestern states and to eastern Canada. At the time, 1,899 residents in the most affected areas were undergoing treatment for tuberculosis (TB) disease or infection. To ascertain the operational abilities of state and local TB programs during and after...

Center for Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, 2 The Nature Conservancy, Mid-Atlantic Marine Program, Richmond, VA, United States, Urban Coast Institute, Monmouth University, Long Branch, NJ, United States, 4 EcoTrust, Portland, OR, United States, 5 Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning & Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United...

To investigate factors related to the distribution of intertidal species, and specific predictions of the swash exclusion hypothesis for exposed sandy beaches, we compared the burrowing abilities and swash behavior of three species of anomuran crabs in the superfamily Hippoidea (Emerita analoga, Blepharipoda occidentalis and Lepidopa californica) which commonly inhabit the intertidal and shallo...

At the end of October 2012, more than eight million homes lost power as Superstorm Sandy battered the east coast of the United States. The electricity system disruption from this extreme weather event impacted households and businesses across seventeen states, including those as far west as Michigan. The storm left some without power for weeks, and lower Manhattan was in the dark for several da...

This article presents a research study into the dynamics of negative changes to almost untouched coastal landscape Bay Pomerania on south-western coast Baltic Sea, taking consideration impact spatial development port Świnoujście and leisure facilities in small fishing villages coast. The authors highlight natural resulting from topography, aggression Sea against beaches sandy moraine hills, phy...

Determining the position of range edges is the first step in developing an understanding of the ecological and evolutionary dynamics in play as species' ranges shift in response to climate change. Here, we study the leading (poleward) range edge of Ocypode cordimanus, a ghost crab that is common along the central to northern east coast of Australia. Our study establishes the poleward range edge...

OBJECTIVE To determine the geographical, epidemiological and clinical features of sporotrichosis (a cutaneous fungal infection caused by Sporothrix schenckii) in the New South Wales mid-north coast. DESIGN AND SETTING We undertook a retrospective case review of S. schenckii infections that occurred during the period 2000-2010. Microbiology laboratory staff and medical practitioners in the NSW...

The Gulf Coast contains some of the most important shorebird habitats in North America. This area encompasses a diverse mixture of estuarine and barrier island habitats with varying amounts of freshwater swamps and marshes, bottomland hardwood forests, and coastal prairie that has been largely altered for rice and crawfish production, temporary ponds, and river floodplain habitat. For the purpo...

We studied germination behaviors and persistence mechanism of wild Glehnia littoralis, a typical coastal species at temperate sandy coasts of the North Pacific Ocean, and tested the hypothesis that the coastal plants may have evolved special seeds adapting to the coasts, by which they recruit and persist easily, occupying the coasts as ideal habitats. In the Shandong Peninsula, China, we invest...