Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Volume 1 and Volume 2

ISBN-13: 9781493968947 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

C. Herb Ward

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The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich innatural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, includingagricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development.

Spis treści

Volume 1.- 1.Habitats And Biota Of The Gulf Of Mexico: An Overview.- 2.Water Quality Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- 3.Sediments Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- 4.Sediment Contaminants Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- 5.Oil And Gas Seeps In The Gulf Of Mexico.- 6.Coastal Habitats Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- 7.Offshore Plankton And Benthos Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- 8.Shellfish Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- Appendix A:List of Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Symbols.- Appendix B: Unit Conversion Table.- Index.- Volume 2.- 9. Fish Resources Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- 10.Fish Resources Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- 11.Fish Resources Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- 12.Avian Resources Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- 13.Marine Mammals Of The Gulf Of Mexico.- 14.Diseases And Mortalities Of Fishes And Other Animals In The Gulf Of Mexico.- Index.

O autorze

C. Herb Ward is Professor Emeritus at Rice University. He held the A. J. Foyt

Family Chair of Engineering and was Professor of Civil and Environmental

Engineering in the George R. Brown School of Engineering and Professor of

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the Weiss School of Natural Sciences.

He is now a Scholar in Environmental Science and Technology Policy in the

James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. He received

his BS (1955) in Biology and Agricultural Science from New Mexico College

of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, his MS (1958) and PhD (1960) in

Microbial Diseases, Physiology, and Genetics of Plants from Cornell

University, and the MPH (1978) in Environmental Health from the

University of Texas School of Public Health. He is a registered professional

engineer in Texas and a Board-Certified Environmental Engineer by the

American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He was the founding Chair

of the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Chair of the

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the inaugural

Director of the Energy and Environmental Systems Institute at Rice

University. He also served as Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (USEPA)-sponsored National Center for Ground Water Research

and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)-sponsored Advanced Applied

(Environmental) Technology Development Facility. Dr. Ward was a member

of the USEPA Science Advisory Board and served as Chair of the

Scientific Advisory Board of the DoD Strategic Environmental

Research and Development Program (SERDP).

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This is a two volume open access set under a CC BY-NC license.