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Acoustic Tracking of Southern Flounder (<i>Paralichthys lethostigma</i>) Released in the Charleston Harbor Estuarine System, South Carolina
Southern flounder is an economically important fish in the southern U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coastal regions, but population numbers are declining. Genetic and morphometric studies have shown that the Atlantic ... -
TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL CHANGES IN FISH BIODIVERSITY ALONG THE SOUTHEASTERN ATLANTIC COAST OF THE UNITED STATES
There is increasing concern over biodiversity loss during this age of rapid global change, an issue referred to as a global biodiversity crisis. Though most studies find that global species richness is declining, studies ... -
Microplastic Debris in Charleston Harbor: Identifying Sources and Assessing Effects on Grass Shrimp (<i>Palaemonetes pugio</i>) Immune Function
Microplastics are ubiquitous in the marine environment and are comprised of heterogeneous small plastic particles (<5 mm). Previous research determined that Charleston Harbor contains 414±77 microplastics/m<sup>2</sup> in ... -
Characterization of Growth Anomalies in Finger Coral (<i>Porites compressa</i>) Using Metabolomics and Trace Elemental Analysis
Coral growth anomalies (GAs) are tumor-like coral lesions, generally characterized by localized increased skeletal growth resulting in an abnormal protuberant mass on a coral colony. There are competing hypotheses of ... -
On Coorbital Moons
In 1980, spacecraft Voyager I discovered two new moons around Saturn, Janus and Epimetheus. Because their orbits are so close together, these two moons are called coorbital. Counterintuitively, whenever these two moons get ... -
QUANTIFYING THE DEMOGRAPHICS, HABITAT CHARACTERISTICS, AND FOUNDATION SPECIES ROLE OF THE RIBBED MUSSEL (<i>Geukensia demissa</i>) IN SOUTH CAROLINA SALT MARSHES
<i>Geukensia demissa</i>, the ribbed mussel, is a mytilid bivalve that inhabits salt marshes along the East Coast of North America. It is an important ecosystem engineer, contributing to salt marsh species diversity and ... -
What Are The Factors Affecting Trip Satisfaction in the For-Hire Industry in South Carolina in Relation to the Black Sea Bass Bag Limit?
The for-hire industry is an economically important recreational activity that thrives in tourist destinations in coastal areas. While there has been much research on factors contributing to trip satisfaction for freshwater ... -
An Assessment of Southeast United States Headwater Tidal Creek Sediment Contamination and the Macrobenthic Community over a Twenty-Year Period in Relation to Coastal Development
Salt marshes and the tidal creeks that drain them are essential ecosystems along the southeastern coastline as they provide nursery, feeding, and protective habitat for many coastal organisms. Headwater tidal creeks are ... -
Chairwork
This is a poetry collection by Josh Lowder that represents the culmination of work he performed toward the Masters of Fine Arts degree at The Graduate School of the University of Charleston, South Carolina at the College ... -
What After Grows
As its title suggests, <i>What After Grows</i> is a collection of poetry concerned with time and how we respond to the internal and external transformations that accompany the passage of time. In these poems, time is at ... -
TOGETHER AS ONE: STORIES OF YOUTH
<i>Together as One: Stories of Youth</i> is a collection of works covering the beginnings of a novel, multiple short stories, and flash fiction. It is designed to showcase the author’s knowledge of craft elements in the ... -
"An Interesting But Blighted Area": The Ansonborough Rehabilitation Project in the Postwar Preservation Movement
Historic preservation is synonymous with Charleston’s twentieth century history. Yet, most scholars focus on the preservation efforts from the interwar preservation movement, completely ignoring the postwar preservation ... -
Graduation
This is a collection of linked flash fiction. The stories follow multiple perspectives over the course of a single day, which is Graduation Day at Smythe High School. We primarily witness the day through the lens of eight ... -
Improving Network Protocol Uptime During Upgrades Through Component Containerization
A Network Operating Systems (NOS) is a core component of a computer network. They reside on all forms of networking hardware—from switches and routers to wireless access points and firewalls—acting as the control plane for ... -
Your Future Career
The story collection <i>Your Future Career</i> features eight stories centered on the concept of work identity. What we do for a living—our employment, our job, our occupation—has a distinct impact on how we see ourselves, ... -
<b>LONG JOURNEY HOME AND TWO STORIES<b>
This collection contains long-form writing by way of a novel excerpt in addition to two short stories. The novel, entitled <i>Long Journey Home</i>, explores multi-generational family relationships in light of traumatic ... -
Sitting in the Kitchen Sink
My thesis contains five short stories and the opening chapter(s) of two unfinished novels, all of which reflect my interest in writing character-driven stories, some of them set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, where ... -
A Leaving Place
This is a collection of poems divided into four distinct sections that address the complexities of relationships, religion, self, family, and the American educational microcosm, as well as consider the impact and significance ... -
Sustainability and effectiveness of a community-based marine protected area: a case study of the Villahermosa Marine Sanctuary in the Philippines
The Philippines has 7,641 islands, 22,549 miles of coastline, and a population of 103,425,838. Over half of this population lives along a coastline. The coastlines’ urbanization has resulted in the rapid degradation of the ... -
LOCAL HOST CITY IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL REFUGEE POLICY: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY
As an act of international cooperation, states participating in the UNHCR Refugee Resettlement Programme share the host nation responsibility of welcoming permanently resettled refugees into their own country but remain ...
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