Gulf Of Mexico Origin Waters And Biota

Author : Darryl L. Felder,David K. Camp
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 1405 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781603442695

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by Darryl L. Felder,David K. Camp Pdf

This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers, and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information. Presenting a comprehensive summary of knowledge of Gulf biota through 2004, the book includes seventy-seven chapters, which list more than fifteen thousand species in thirty-eight phyla or divisions and were written by 138 authors from seventy-one institutions in fourteen countries.This first volume of Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, a multivolumed set edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle, provides information on each species' habitat, biology, and geographic range, along with full references and a narrative introduction to the group, which opens each chapter.

Author : Noreen A. Buster,Charles W. Holmes
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781603442909

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by Noreen A. Buster,Charles W. Holmes Pdf

Volume 3 of Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota; a series edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle A continuation of the landmark scientific reference series from the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, Volume 3, Geology provides the most up-to-date, systematic, cohesive, and comprehensive description of the geology of the Gulf of Mexico Basin. The six sections of the book address the geologic history, recent depositional environments, and processes offshore and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Scientific research in the Gulf of Mexico region is continuous, extensive, and has broad-based influence upon scientific, governmental, and educational communities. This volume is a compilation of scientific knowledge from highly accomplished and experienced geologists who have focused most of their careers on gaining a better understanding of the geology of the Gulf of Mexico. Their research, presented in this volume, describes and explains the formation of the Gulf Basin, Holocene stratigraphic and sea-level history, energy resources, coral reefs, and depositional processes that affect and are represented along our Gulf coasts. It provides valuable synthesis and interpretation of what is known about the geology of the Gulf of Mexico. Five years in the making, this monumental compilation is both a lasting record of the current state of knowledge and the starting point for a new millennium of study.

Author : James C. Cato
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1603440860

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by James C. Cato Pdf

The many economic factors affecting sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico region are perhaps as important as the waves on its shores and its abundant marine life. This second volume in Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota (a multivolumed work edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle) assesses the Gulf of Mexico as a single economic region. The book provides information and baseline data useful for assessing the goals of economic and environmental sustainability in the Gulf. In five chapters, economists, political scientists, and ecologists from Florida, California, Louisiana, Texas, Maine, and Mexico cover topics such as: the idea of the Gulf as a transnational community; the quantitative value of its productivity; a summary of the industries dependent on the Gulf, including shipping, tourism, oil and gas mining, fisheries, recreation, and real estate; the human uses and activities that affect coastal economies; and the economic trends evident in Mexico's drive toward coastal development. This first-of-its-kind reference work will be useful to scientists, economists, industry leaders, and policy makers whose work requires an understanding of the economic issues involved in science, business, trade, exploration, development, and commerce in the Gulf of Mexico.

Author : John W. Tunnell (Jr.),Darryl L. Felder,Noreen A. Buster,Charles Ward Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCSD:31822045450335

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by John W. Tunnell (Jr.),Darryl L. Felder,Noreen A. Buster,Charles Ward Holmes Pdf

Author : Darryl L. Felder,Sylvia A. Earle,David K. Camp,John W. Day,Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia,Noreen A. Buster,John W. Tunnell (Jr.),Charles Ward Holmes
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Geology
ISBN : 1603447652

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by Darryl L. Felder,Sylvia A. Earle,David K. Camp,John W. Day,Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia,Noreen A. Buster,John W. Tunnell (Jr.),Charles Ward Holmes Pdf

Taken from the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies website: Gulf of Mexico origin, waters, and biota, is an updated and enlarged version of the Gulf of Mexico: its origin, waters, and marine life, first published by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Fishery bulletin, v. 89, 1954.

Author : John W. Tunnell (Jr.),Darryl L. Felder,Sylvia A. Earle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Geology
ISBN : LCCN:2008025312

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Geology by John W. Tunnell (Jr.),Darryl L. Felder,Sylvia A. Earle Pdf

Author : James C. Cato
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603440868

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by James C. Cato Pdf

The many economic factors affecting sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico region are perhaps as important as the waves on its shores and its abundant marine life. This second volume in Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota (a multivolumed work edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle) assesses the Gulf of Mexico as a single economic region. The book provides information and baseline data useful for assessing the goals of economic and environmental sustainability in the Gulf. In five chapters, economists, political scientists, and ecologists from Florida, California, Louisiana, Texas, Maine, and Mexico cover topics such as: the idea of the Gulf as a transnational community; the quantitative value of its productivity; a summary of the industries dependent on the Gulf, including shipping, tourism, oil and gas mining, fisheries, recreation, and real estate; the human uses and activities that affect coastal economies; and the economic trends evident in Mexico's drive toward coastal development. This first-of-its-kind reference work will be useful to scientists, economists, industry leaders, and policy makers whose work requires an understanding of the economic issues involved in science, business, trade, exploration, development, and commerce in the Gulf of Mexico.

Author : Thomas S. Bianchi
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781623497750

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by Thomas S. Bianchi Pdf

The fifth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides the first comprehensive study that covers the major core subjects of chemical oceanography in the Gulf. It synthesizes a tremendous amount of established research, together with the most recent information emerging from studies conducted during and after the Macondo Well oil spill that resulted from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. Situated within the boundaries of a changing semi-tropical region, the Gulf of Mexico is a particularly important body to its bordering countries—the United States, Mexico, and Cuba—and directly influences the economies of these nations through shipping, oil and gas extraction, mineral mining, fisheries, and myriad ecosystem services and recreational opportunities. The changing chemistry of the Gulf also has wide-ranging effects on weather patterns as many of the hurricanes that reach land in the US and Mexico pass through this ocean basin. We are already seeing some of the consequences of climate change, including, to name one example, the increased frequency of harmful algal blooms, the cause of which is still unknown in most cases. This book brings together a team of expert chemical oceanographers from the US and Mexico to provide a foundational understanding of the complex chemistry of North America’s only marginal sea. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume 5, Chemical Oceanography serves as an important reference for understanding the basic science, management, and economic issues facing the Gulf of Mexico while pointing out key topics in critical need of additional research.

Author : James C. Cato
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1603440860

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by James C. Cato Pdf

The many economic factors affecting sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico region are perhaps as important as the waves on its shores and its abundant marine life. This second volume in Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota (a multivolumed work edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle) assesses the Gulf of Mexico as a single economic region. The book provides information and baseline data useful for assessing the goals of economic and environmental sustainability in the Gulf. In five chapters, economists, political scientists, and ecologists from Florida, California, Louisiana, Texas, Maine, and Mexico cover topics such as: the idea of the Gulf as a transnational community; the quantitative value of its productivity; a summary of the industries dependent on the Gulf, including shipping, tourism, oil and gas mining, fisheries, recreation, and real estate; the human uses and activities that affect coastal economies; and the economic trends evident in Mexico's drive toward coastal development. This first-of-its-kind reference work will be useful to scientists, economists, industry leaders, and policy makers whose work requires an understanding of the economic issues involved in science, business, trade, exploration, development, and commerce in the Gulf of Mexico.

Author : John W. Day,Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Geology
ISBN : OCLC:961594741

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by John W. Day,Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia Pdf

Author : John W. Day,Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Geology
ISBN : OCLC:961594741

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by John W. Day,Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia Pdf

Author : Rezneat Milton Darnell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781623492823

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The American Sea by Rezneat Milton Darnell Pdf

For more than a decade, Rezneat Darnell worked on this major synthesis of what is known about the Gulf of Mexico. His goal: to bring a deeper understanding of “the American Sea” to students, scientists, managers, and educated citizens of the public at large. The American Sea builds on Darnell’s own research, the research of his graduate students, government agency research reports, data synthesis reports, and literature summaries to present a holistic view of the Gulf of Mexico. Although he is recognized as a pioneer in the study of continental shelf ecology, Darnell largely resisted specialization, remaining throughout his career “the writer and bringer together of things.” Here, he has written a book that embraces history, geology, geography, meteorology, chemistry, biology, ecology, and human relations in one comprehensive reference. Although it is thorough and meticulous in coverage, what comes through in these pages is the enormity, complexity, and mystery of the world that lies just beyond the Texas vacation beach, the Louisiana wetland, or the Mexico fishing village. In addition to photographs of deep water and other organisms that are included in the book, a number of illustrations have been added to provide excellent visual material, including historical and ocean floor maps and many works of original art depicting marine species, sea turtles, fish, and crustaceans.

Author : David K. Camp,Darryl L. Felder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1393 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Geology
ISBN : OCLC:874515749

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota by David K. Camp,Darryl L. Felder Pdf

Author : C. Herb Ward
Publisher : Springer
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781493934478

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Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill by C. Herb Ward Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. The Gulf of Mexico has been continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons for millions of years from natural oil and gas seeps on the sea floor, and more recently from oil drilling and production activities located in the water near and far from shore. Major accidental oil spills in the Gulf are infrequent; two of the most significant include the Ixtoc I blowout in the Bay of Campeche in 1979 and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010. Unfortunately, baseline assessments of the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before these spills either were not available, or the data had not been systematically compiled in a way that would help scientists assess the potential short-term and long-term effects of such events. This 2-volume series compiles and summarizes thousands of data sets showing the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Volume 1 covers: water and sediment quality and contaminants in the Gulf; natural oil and gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico; coastal habitats, including flora and fauna and coastal geology; offshore benthos and plankton, with an analysis of current knowledge on energy capture and energy flows in the Gulf; and shellfish and finfish resources that provide the basis for commercial and recreational fisheries.

Author : Joanna Burger
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781623495466

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Birdlife of the Gulf of Mexico by Joanna Burger Pdf

The Gulf of Mexico is one of the most important ecological regions in the world for birds. The mosaic of diverse habitats in the region provides numerous niches for birds. There are productive salt marshes, barrier islands, and sandy beaches for foraging and nesting; a direct pathway between North and Central and South America for migrating; and warm, tropical waters for wintering. Many species are residents all year around, some migrate through, and still others spend the winter along the shores. The Gulf Coast is home to a significant portion of the world’s population of Reddish Egret and Snowy Plover and a significant portion of the US breeding populations of certain birds, including the Sandwich Tern, Black Skimmer, and Laughing Gull. In total, there are more than 400 bird species that rely on the Gulf at some time during the year. Drawing on decades of fieldwork and data research, renowned ornithologist and behavioral ecologist Joanna Burger provides detailed descriptions of birdlife in the Gulf of Mexico. Burger records trends in bird population, behavior, and major threats and stressors affecting birds in the region, including the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. While some of this data exists in journal articles, research papers, and government reports, this is the first volume to weave together a comprehensive overview of the birds and related natural resources found in the Gulf of Mexico. Illustrated with over 900 color photographs, charts, and maps, this landmark reference volume will be immensely important for researchers, conservationists, land managers, birders, and wildlife lovers.