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A preliminary biological study of the link port canal
Title
A preliminary biological study of the link port canal.
Creator
Mook, David H.
Date Issued
1974
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3358469
Subject Headings
Canals, Canals Florida, Eutrophication, Canal ecology
Format
Document (PDF)
INVESTIGATING THE TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF CANALWETLAND EXCHANGE AT LOXAHATCHEE SLOUGH NATURAL AREA, FL.
Title
INVESTIGATING THE TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF CANALWETLAND EXCHANGE AT LOXAHATCHEE SLOUGH NATURAL AREA, FL.
Creator
Hooler, Skylar, Johanson, Erik, Root, Tara, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Geosciences, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Abstract/Description
Wetlands are an essential part of the water management system in South Florida, providing many ecosystem services. However, the hydrologic connections of many wetlands, including Loxahatchee Slough in Florida, are poorly understood. Loxahatchee Slough is Palm Beach County’s most diverse natural area and a site of ongoing restoration. The primary objective of this research was to characterize the spatial and temporal variability of surface-groundwater exchange at Loxahatchee Slough. The...
Show moreWetlands are an essential part of the water management system in South Florida, providing many ecosystem services. However, the hydrologic connections of many wetlands, including Loxahatchee Slough in Florida, are poorly understood. Loxahatchee Slough is Palm Beach County’s most diverse natural area and a site of ongoing restoration. The primary objective of this research was to characterize the spatial and temporal variability of surface-groundwater exchange at Loxahatchee Slough. The Magnitude of groundwater seepage to the canal varied spatially. Little seasonal variability in exchange was identified in this study. Canal stage had a strong relationship with groundwater levels and slough stage indicating its important influence. This study provides more insight into the heterogeneous nature of wetland-canal exchange and the need for site-specific evaluation at wetlands for successful management.
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Date Issued
2021
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013797
Subject Headings
Wetlands, Canals, Wetland hydrology--Florida
Format
Document (PDF)
canals at Cape Sable: A remote sensing perspective
Title
The canals at Cape Sable: A remote sensing perspective.
Creator
Ferik, Catherine Ann., Florida Atlantic University, Kennedy, William J.
Abstract/Description
Florida is home to five known aboriginal canoe canal complexes, most of which have been destroyed by urban development and the ravages of time. These canals were large undertakings suggesting an organized, chiefdom society and sedentary populations. Two of these complexes, Mud Lake and Snake Bight canals, are located on Cape Sable in South Florida. These canals remain fairly intact and are observable in the field and on high resolution aerial photographs. Digital image enhancement and...
Show moreFlorida is home to five known aboriginal canoe canal complexes, most of which have been destroyed by urban development and the ravages of time. These canals were large undertakings suggesting an organized, chiefdom society and sedentary populations. Two of these complexes, Mud Lake and Snake Bight canals, are located on Cape Sable in South Florida. These canals remain fairly intact and are observable in the field and on high resolution aerial photographs. Digital image enhancement and traditional ground truthing methods add valuable information to the study of Cape Sable's canals. Field work was completed with permission from Everglades National Park, study number EVER-00035, permit number EVER-2001-SCI-0035. Carbon-14 dates indicate that both of the canals were constructed at approximately the same time, during the Glades II and III periods, making the Cape Sable canals contemporaneous with Florida's other aboriginal canals. Information about these enigmatic features aids archaeologists in the quest to understand Florida's earliest inhabitants.
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Date Issued
2003
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13027
Subject Headings
Canals--Sable, Cape (Fla.), Canals--Remote sensing., Sable, Cape (Fla.), Aerial photography in archaeology.
Format
Document (PDF)
DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF METHODS FOR STABLE WATER ISOTOPE SAMPLING FROM A LOW GRADIENT CANAL
Title
DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF METHODS FOR STABLE WATER ISOTOPE SAMPLING FROM A LOW GRADIENT CANAL.
Creator
Greathouse, Jesse N., Root, Tara, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Geosciences
Abstract/Description
Stable isotopes of water are used as tracers for characterizing surface water/groundwater interactions. Gaps in sampling protocol for these tracers in low gradient canals limits their use in studies of canal-groundwater exchanges. Several sampling methods were developed to determine the temporal and spatial isotopic variation in a canal. The influence of a flow control gate on isotopic composition and the sensitivity of isotope mixing calculations to choice of sampling method were also...
Show moreStable isotopes of water are used as tracers for characterizing surface water/groundwater interactions. Gaps in sampling protocol for these tracers in low gradient canals limits their use in studies of canal-groundwater exchanges. Several sampling methods were developed to determine the temporal and spatial isotopic variation in a canal. The influence of a flow control gate on isotopic composition and the sensitivity of isotope mixing calculations to choice of sampling method were also evaluated. There was little variability in the isotopic composition of the canal along a cross section perpendicular flow. Some variation occurred monthly and seasonally. The greatest variability occurred between the upstream and downstream side of the flow control gates when the gates were closed. Mixing calculations were not sensitive to the choice of sampling method. This study shed light on isotope sampling methods in canals for canal-groundwater interactions studies.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013313
Subject Headings
Stable isotope tracers, Environmental sampling--Methodology, Water--Sampling--Technique, Canals--Florida
Format
Document (PDF)
Geochemical conditions and groundwater-surface interactions within a municipal well field in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Title
Geochemical conditions and groundwater-surface interactions within a municipal well field in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Creator
Antolino, Dominick J., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Geosciences
Abstract/Description
This thesis presents a preliminary study on geochemical conditions within the Snapper Creek well field in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The study investigates the background groundwater chemistry within the Biscayne aquifer in order to provide information on the geochemical processes and water-rock interactions within the study site. In conjunction with hydraulic gradient information, major ion chemistry and deuterium and oxygen-18 data were used as environmental tracers to help describe the...
Show moreThis thesis presents a preliminary study on geochemical conditions within the Snapper Creek well field in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The study investigates the background groundwater chemistry within the Biscayne aquifer in order to provide information on the geochemical processes and water-rock interactions within the study site. In conjunction with hydraulic gradient information, major ion chemistry and deuterium and oxygen-18 data were used as environmental tracers to help describe the groundwater-surface water interactions between the well field and the Snapper Creek canal. Hydrologic data show there is potential for natural groundwater recharge from the canal within the shallow flow zone of the Biscayne aquifer and chemical data show evidence of canal-groundwater mixing within this zone. The limitations for the v environmental tracers employed within the study are addressed, as well as recommendations for further research involving natural geochemical tracers and groundwater-surface water interactions near municipal well fields. This study was part of a larger effort being conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey in order to assess municipal well field pumping effects on the Snapper Creek (C-2) canal.
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3329830
Subject Headings
Groundwater flow, Simulations, Groundwater flow, Hydrogeology, Aquifiers
Format
Document (PDF)
Application of canal locations within grid cells to the study of surface water-groundwater interaction
Title
Application of canal locations within grid cells to the study of surface water-groundwater interaction.
Creator
Sosnowski, Robert Joseph., Florida Atlantic University, Restrepo, Jorge I.
Abstract/Description
Within St. Lucie County, Florida, a network of canals has been cut to provide flood protection, drainage, and irrigation. Many of these canals maintain a permanent to semi-permanent hydraulic connection with the surficial aquifer. MODFLOW code was used to simulate St. Lucie County groundwater levels. One of stresses that contributed to the solution of the groundwater levels, was the volume of water that flowed into or out of the aquifer through the canal system. In MODFLOW, the flow...
Show moreWithin St. Lucie County, Florida, a network of canals has been cut to provide flood protection, drainage, and irrigation. Many of these canals maintain a permanent to semi-permanent hydraulic connection with the surficial aquifer. MODFLOW code was used to simulate St. Lucie County groundwater levels. One of stresses that contributed to the solution of the groundwater levels, was the volume of water that flowed into or out of the aquifer through the canal system. In MODFLOW, the flow calculation between a canal and the aquifer is independent of the canal's location within the grid cell. The flow calculation was modified to incorporate canal location. Simulation results showed 34 percent of the model area realized groundwater levels that were plus or minus two-tenths to one-half foot when compared to the original levels. These results can be significant for model applications such as wetland protection and salt water intrusion.
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Date Issued
1999
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15651
Subject Headings
Groundwater flow--Mathematical models, Canals--Florida--St Lucie County, Aquifers
Format
Document (PDF)
Parallelization of the canal subsystem of the Everglades Landscape Model
Title
Parallelization of the canal subsystem of the Everglades Landscape Model.
Creator
Xu, Yan., Florida Atlantic University, Evett, Matthew P., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Abstract/Description
Environmental simulations are computationally very demanding. South Florida Water Management District has implemented the Everglades Landscape Model (ELM) to simulate the ecosystem in South Florida. The current implementation parallelizes all of the model except the canal system. This thesis describes the parallelization of the canal system. We study the canal system and its interaction with the rest of the ELM, and created three distinct parallel implementations. Two of the methods, one-do...
Show moreEnvironmental simulations are computationally very demanding. South Florida Water Management District has implemented the Everglades Landscape Model (ELM) to simulate the ecosystem in South Florida. The current implementation parallelizes all of the model except the canal system. This thesis describes the parallelization of the canal system. We study the canal system and its interaction with the rest of the ELM, and created three distinct parallel implementations. Two of the methods, one-do-all and all-do-all, provide parallelism via task replication while the third method, task-parallel, decomposes the canal system into tasks and uses a locality-based heuristic algorithm to schedule the tasks. We analyze the performance of three methods and discuss future directions for parallelization of the ELM and other environmental models.
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Date Issued
1997
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15476
Subject Headings
Hydrologic models, Canals--Florida, Parallel processing (Electronic computers)--Florida
Format
Document (PDF)
Seeds of the Suez Canal crisis: United States-Egyptian relations from 1950 to 1955. Egypt's quest for arms
Title
Seeds of the Suez Canal crisis: United States-Egyptian relations from 1950 to 1955. Egypt's quest for arms.
Creator
Zimmerman, Todd Paul., Florida Atlantic University, Reichard, Gary W.
Abstract/Description
On 26 July 1952 Gamal Abdul Nasser and the Revolutionary Command Council deposed the Egyptian monarchy. The new regime initially exhibited a pro-American attitude and requested armaments from the United States, but Washington had attached too many conditions. In addition, the American government feared that Egypt's nationalism might generate a pan-Arab nationalism that would disrupt the Western relationship with the Middle East. Frustrated with the lack of a positive American response and...
Show moreOn 26 July 1952 Gamal Abdul Nasser and the Revolutionary Command Council deposed the Egyptian monarchy. The new regime initially exhibited a pro-American attitude and requested armaments from the United States, but Washington had attached too many conditions. In addition, the American government feared that Egypt's nationalism might generate a pan-Arab nationalism that would disrupt the Western relationship with the Middle East. Frustrated with the lack of a positive American response and recognizing Egypt's vulnerability as a result of a February raid with Israel, Nasser sought and obtained armaments from the Soviet-bloc in September 1955. This permitted the Soviet Union, in effect, to hurdle America's containment policy. Thus, the Arab-Israeli arms race began.
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Date Issued
1992
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14810
Subject Headings
United States--Foreign relations--Middle East, Egypt--History--Intervention, 1956, Suez Canal (Egypt)
Format
Document (PDF)
Speech of the Hon. James E. Cooley, before the democracy of Syracuse, in mass meeting assembled, on Tuesday evening, Nov. 1, 1853.
Title
Speech of the Hon. James E. Cooley, before the democracy of Syracuse, in mass meeting assembled, on Tuesday evening, Nov. 1, 1853.
Creator
Cooley, James Ewing 1802-1882, Trow, John Fowler 1810-1886
Abstract/Description
Caption title: Issues of the campaign in New-York : presidential interference boldly rebuked and denounced : the canal policy vindicated. Speech of the Honorable James E. Cooley, before the democracy of Syracuse, in mass meeting assembled. FAU copy edges trimmed to 21 cm.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb16f26
Subject Headings
Canals -- New York (State), Erie Canal (N.Y.), New York (State) -- Appropriations and expenditures, New York (State) -- Constitution, New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- Politics and government -- 1853-1857
Format
E-book