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A robust dune system is one of the principal factors in the protection of recreational and residential property within barrier islands. Storm surge from significantly large storm events may remove some or all of the dunes during overwash...
The inter-annual variability of typhoon landfalls in China is investigated using historical and modern records. A north-to-south anti-correlation in yearly activity is confirmed from the historical records. When activity over Guangdong...
Land changes are complex and dynamic processes that involve the human and natural systems interacting over space and time to reshape the earth's surface. As a fundamental form of global environmental changes, land changes also hold wide...
Landscape characteristics are believed to have a close linkage with in-stream nutrient level. Both empirical and process-based approaches have been used to model the relationship between landscape characteristics and non-point source ...
This dissertation describes the development of a very large, multi-domain ontology. It addresses the processes involved in developing object-oriented ontological data structures in general and specifically ontological data structures of...
This study examines the robustness of the proposed modern solar activity / hurricane frequency relationship in light of recently compiled Atlantic hurricane records made available for the period 1700-1850. Constructing a thermodynamic...
There are two major paradigms in geography. These are human-environment interaction and spatial analysis. Human-environment interaction is defined as how the human race interacts with the environment it is surrounded by and spatial...
Home range analysis involves characterizing the spatial extent that an animal occupies from sample points that record its location periodically over time. Kernel density estimation (KDE) is currently the most widely applied and accepted...
Human-wildlife conflicts are a major challenge for wildlife management owing to the rapid expansion of settlement growth into wilderness. Research has been conducted on human development impacts on the overall survival of wildlife, as...
Florida is uniquely susceptible to economic loss from hurricanes and has been affected by some of the most destructive to ever reach the United States. In the wake of the devastating 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, risk assessment...
Hurricane track data from the NHC HURDAT best track dataset from 1900-2003 are analyzed with respect to landfalls along the east coast of Florida. Using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method changepoint analysis technique, a changepoint in...
In this research I explored the use of the statistical characteristics of the distribution of elevation points within a basin for predicting the rate at which at peak in rainfall at some point within the basin becomes at peak in runoff...
This dissertation elucidates how tourism is a context in which people have the capacity to perform exotic spatializations by creating nature/culture hybrids in marginalized spaces. Specifically it focuses on how swamp tour guides in...
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