Climate change poses a growing threat to freshwater ecosystems and water quality. This dissertation examines the relationship between changes in climate and two key water quality parameters: the transport of nitrogen within rivers, referred to as nitrogen loading, and river temp…
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Cold-water corals are important habitat builders in the deep ocean worldwide. Despite being known for centuries, recent technological advances and deep-sea exploration has revealed cold-water corals thriving at depths of up to 6000m. Similar to their warm-water relatives, coldwa…
Standard pullout tests (e.g. 200 mm cubes) with a short embedment length have shown a significant reduction (80% loss at 200 °C) in the bond strength of GFRP bars at high temperatures. More detailed bond behaviour of glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforcing bars has bee…
Climate is called "the only nature that has not been artificially created". With the acceleration of globalization, the convergence of buildings in different regions is increasingly apparent. When we retrospect to the regionality of buildings, the local climate with which the bu…
Accurate projections of flooding are critical to climate change adaptation, as floods are a devastating and costly natural disaster sensitive to climate. Floods occur mainly in response to extreme precipitation, and the northeastern United States has experienced a dramatic incre…
The plant microbiome is essential to the maintenance of plant community structure and diversity. In addition, anthropogenic forces are altering these long-standing relationships. Despite the importance of the plant microbiome and increasing human impacts, questions about how the…
How does one begin to analyze an inexplicable history? A history with no actual proof, just the words of those who've claimed to see—experience—these "things". With wars, or other events of the like, there are hundreds—thousands—of witnesses. Treaties are signed. Declarations ar…
This essay explores how our memories become recurring images, and how, in a controlled setting, illustrating these difficult memories through both narrative and image can change the experience of our memories over time, and ultimately be one step along the road to healing. This …
Flavobacteriia is the largest class within the phylum Bacteroidetes. Members of Flavobacteriia (frequently written as “flavobacteria”) thrive in a broad range of marine and non-marine ecological niches. Besides, a large proportion of flavobacteria are known as animal pathogens, …