U.S. Navy ships were made up of many unexpected jobs during World War II. Traditional war histories say little about sailors who rarely saw direct combat below active war decks but instead worked skilled jobs. Specialized sailors were often unseen as they worked below the waterl…
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Photosynthetic bacteria--Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus--are important components of phytoplankton biomass and primary production in the most warm open ocean. To determine the relative importance of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus to primary production in various oceanic ec…
Coral tissue and skeleton contain physical and chemical proxy signatures of the surrounding environment. The purpose of this thesis is to broaden or refine the use of corals as environmental recorders/tracers by examining the fidelity of both new and existing techniques. Corals …
The goal of my dissertation has been to test hypotheses for the origins of high-latitud eclimatic warmth and the subsequent global cooling in the middle Miocene, aimed primarily at understanding the oceanographic evolution of the Pacific realm. I attempted to constrain the exten…
Copepod fecal pellets can be an important vector for transporting organic carbon and amino acids from the surface waters to deep water and the sediments. Understanding the processes, e.g., fecal pellet production, organic carbon composition and concentration along with dissolved…
An ocean model is used in conjunction with tracer and hydrographic data to study the wind-driven circulation of the upper Pacific Ocean. The introductory chapter provides a descriptive overview of the physical and tracer oceanography for the upper Pacific Ocean. The second chapt…
A series of numerical model experiments were run to investigate the annual cycle of mass transport between the Pacific and Indian Oceans via the Indonesian throughflow (ITF). The 1{1\over 2}-layer, reduced-gravity model used in this study, forced by climatological wind stress, p…
Understanding the spatial scales over which populations of coral reef fishes are connected is important for elucidating the evolutionary mechanisms generating biodiversity. Describing connectivity also is vital for setting conservation priorities to protect that biodiversity. Di…