Marine Birds of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico. Part I, Gaviiformes through Pelecaniformes Roger B. Clapp Richard C. Banks Deborah Morgan-Jacobs Wayne A. Hoffman Marine Birds of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico. Part II, Anseriformes Roger B. Clapp Deborah Morgan-Jacobs Richard C. Banks Marine Birds of the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico. Part III, Charadriiformes Roger B. Clapp Deborah Morgan-Jacobs Richard C. Banks

The Auk ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 222-223
Author(s):  
John P. Ryder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Marine Birds

The Development of Bycatch Reduction Technology in the Southeastern United States Shrimp Fishery

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Watson ◽  
Daniel Foster ◽  
Scoll Nichols ◽  
Arvlnd Shah ◽  
Elizabeth Scoll-oenlon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Red Snapper ◽  
Shrimp Fishery ◽  
Spanish Mackerel ◽  
Bycatch Reduction ◽  
Shrimp Trawl ◽  
Shrimp Fisheries ◽  
Southeastern Atlantic

Shrimp trawl bycatch is a significant source of fishery induced mortality for managed species including red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus Poey), Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus maculatus MitcheU), and weakfish (Cynoscion regalis Baloch, Schneider) in the southeastern United States. These species have been overfished and are under both state and federal management plans which include regulations mandating reduction of shrimp trawl bycatch mortality. In 1990 the U.S. Congress passed amendments to the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1854) which called for a research program that included the design and evaluation of approaches for reducing shrimp trawl bycatch mortality. A strategic planning initiative addressing finfish bycatch in the Gulf of Mexico and southeastern Atlantic shrimp fisheries was developed by the Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation through funding and guidance provided by the National Marine Fisheries Service. A cooperative research plan was developed in 1992 which included the identification, development, and evaluation of gear options for reducing bycatch in the Gulf of Mexico and southeastern Atlantic shrimp fisheries. Between 1990 and 1996 one hundred and forty five bycatch reduction conceptual gear designs contributed by fishers, net shops, gear technicians, and biologists were evaluated. Sixteen of these designs were tested on cooperative commercial shrimp vessels by observers under the southeast regional cooperative bycatch program. Analyses of data from commercial vessel testing indicates that two bycatch reduction designs have potential to significantly reduce shrimp trawl bycatch for weakfish and Spanish mackerel in the southeastern Atlantic and two designs have the potential to significantly reduce red snapper bycatch in the Gulf of Mexico. The fisheye and the extended funnel bycatch reduction devices have been mandated for use in the southeastern Atlantic shrimp fishery and the fisheye and Jones/Davis bycatch reduction devices have been mandated for use in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery.

Influence of the "Hypsithermal Age" and "Neoglaciation" climatic conditions on the Brazilian coast.

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 213 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENITIRO SUGUIO
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Brazilian Coast ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Relative Sea Level ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
The Past

Meanwhile the highest relative sea-level is the present one in southeastern United States (Gulf of Mexico) or in Netherlands coast, most of the Brazilian coast exhibited Holocene sea-levels higher than the present in the past. The Brazilian curves, representing the relative sea-level changes during last 7.000 years, are outlined using sedimentological, biological and prehistorical past sea-level records. This paper shows that these relative sea-level records, during the Holocene, can be suitably used to demonstrate the influence of the worldwide known paleoclimatic events, like the “Hypsithermal Age” and “Neoglaciation” on the Brazilian coast.

Ameroculodes miltoni, a new species of estuarine amphipod (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Oedicerotidae) from the southeastern United States

Zootaxa ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN M. FOSTER ◽  
RICHARD W. HEARD
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Fine Sand ◽  
Northwest Atlantic ◽  
Northern Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
A New Species

The genus Ameroculodes Bousfield and Chevrier, 1966 is emended to accommodate a new species of oedicerotid amphipod, Ameroculodes miltoni, common to estuarine habitats of the southeastern United States. In this region the new species has been confused with Ameroculodes (=Monocu- lodes) edwardsi (Holmes, 1905) and Deflexilodes (= Monoculodes) intermedius (Shoemaker, 1930), both of which are distinctly larger and endemic to the cold temperate waters of the Northwest Atlantic. Ameroculodes miltoni can be distinguished from A. edwardsi by (1) having the postero-ventral margins of epimeral plates 1-3 rounded, (2) a short, blunt rostrum, (3) uropod 2 with relatively few dorsal spines on the peduncle, (4) and a subovate telson. Deflexilodes intermedius, like A. miltoni, has rounded epimeral plates, but is readily distinguished by the well-developed, elongate dactyls on its 3 rd and 4 th pereopods. Ameroculodes miltoni occurs over a wide range of salinities (<1°/ °° to 35°/ °° ) and is most common in medium to fine sand or sand-silt substrata. It appears to be an important biotic component of northern Gulf of Mexico estuaries.

scholarly journals Susceptibility to Taura Syndrome Virus of Some Penaeid Shrimp Species Native to the Gulf of Mexico and the Southeastern United States

1997 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin M. Overstreet ◽  
Donald V. Lightner ◽  
Ken W. Hasson ◽  
Stacey McIlwain ◽  
Jeffrey M. Lotz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Penaeid Shrimp ◽  
Taura Syndrome Virus ◽  
Shrimp Species

Decadal Variation of Rainfall Seasonality in the North American Monsoon Region and Its Potential Causes

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 4258-4274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola A. Arias ◽  
Rong Fu ◽  
Kingtse C. Mo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
North American ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Atmospheric Stability ◽  
Cyclonic Circulation ◽  
North American Monsoon ◽  
Monsoon Region ◽  
The North ◽  
Anomalous Cyclonic Circulation

Abstract This study shows that the North American monsoon system’s (NAMS) strength, onset, and retreat over northwestern Mexico exhibit multidecadal variations during the period 1948–2009. Two dry regimes, associated with late onsets, early retreats, and weaker rainfall rates, occurred in 1948–70 and 1991–2005, whereas a strong regime, associated with early onsets, late retreats, and stronger rainfall rates, occurred in 1971–90. A recovery of the monsoon strength was observed after 2005. This multidecadal variation is linked to the sea surface temperature anomalies’ (SSTAs) variability, which is a combination of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) and the warming SST trends. These SST modes appear to cause an anomalous cyclonic circulation and enhanced rainfall over the southeastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico, which in turn increases the atmospheric stability over the monsoon region. However, these SST modes cannot fully explain the circulation and rainfall anomalies observed during the early-retreat monsoons. An expansion of the North Atlantic surface high (NASH) in recent decades also contributes to the anomalous circulation associated with the early retreats of the NAMS. A northwestward expansion of the NASH further enhances the anomalous cyclonic circulation and rainfall over the southeastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico. Its associated northwestward shift of the subtropical jets over the western United States enhances subsidence over the NAMS region. The combined effects of the AMO, the warming trends, and the NASH expansion on atmospheric circulation contribute to a stronger and more persistent earlier retreat during the recent dry regime (1991–2005), while the earlier dry regime (1948–70) appears to be only influenced by the positive phase of the AMO.

scholarly journals Aircraft Observations of Cumulus Microphysics Ranging from the Tropics to Midlatitudes: Implications for a “New” Secondary Ice Process

2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (9) ◽  
pp. 2899-2920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Lawson ◽  
Colin Gurganus ◽  
Sarah Woods ◽  
Roelof Bruintjes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Drop Size ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Supercooled Liquid ◽  
Cloud Base ◽  
High Plains ◽  
Convective Clouds ◽  
The Caribbean

Abstract In situ data collected by three research aircraft in four geographical locations are analyzed to determine the relationship between cloud-base temperature, drop size distribution, and the development of supercooled water drops and ice in strong updraft cores of convective clouds. Data were collected in towering cumulus and feeder cells in the Caribbean, over the Gulf of Mexico, over land near the Gulf Coast, over land in the southeastern United States, and the high plains in Colorado and Wyoming. Convective clouds in the Caribbean, over the Gulf of Mexico and its coast, and over the southeastern United States all develop millimeter-diameter supercooled drops in updraft cores. Clouds over the high plains do not generate supercooled large drops, and rarely are drops &gt;70 μm observed in updraft cores. Commensurate with the production of supercooled large drops, ice is generated and rapidly glaciates updraft cores through a hypothesized secondary ice process that is based on laboratory observations of large drops freezing and emitting tiny ice particles. Clouds over the high plains do not experience the secondary ice process and significant concentrations of supercooled liquid in the form of small drops are carried much higher (up to −35.5°C) in the updraft cores. An empirical relationship that estimates the maximum level to which supercooled liquid water will be transported, based on cloud-base drop size distribution and temperature, is developed. Implications have applications for modeling the transport of water vapor and particles into the upper troposphere and hygroscopic seeding of cumulus clouds.

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