• Characterization of Organic Compounds in Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid 

  Luek, Jenna Lynn (2017)

  Over the past decade, hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling has become the dominant technique for extracting shale gas in the US, and is increasingly important globally. A complex mixture of chemicals is ...

• Thermal Physiology in a Widespread Lungless Salamander 

  Novarro, Alexander Joseph (2018)

  Understanding species responses to climate change has become a top priority for conservation biologists. Unfortunately, current models often treat species as a single entity, ignoring population-level variation. This ...

• HARMFUL ALGAE IN CHESAPEAKE BAY: A STUDY FOCUSED ON KARLODINIUM VENEFICUM APPLYING TIME SERIES, PHYSIOLOGICAL, AND MODELING APPROACHES 

  Lin, Chih-Hsien (2018)

  Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are expanding worldwide. The harmful dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficum is of concern because its toxigenic properties cause fish kills. Despite considerable study on nutrient-HAB relationships, ...

• Response of the coastal ocean and estuaries to tropical cyclones 

  Zhang, Fan (2018)

  Landfalling tropical cyclones (TC) pose great threats to public safety. The recent decades have witnessed major advances of knowledge in TC dynamics and improvement in TC forecast models, however, occasionally inaccurate ...

• The Diversity of Sex Chromosomes within African Cichlids 

  Gammerdinger, William Jacob (2018)

  Genetic sex-determination is one of the most prevalent systems by which the sex of an organism can be established. The genes that determine sex reside on chromosomes that experience a unique pattern of evolutionarily ...

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