FerryMon: Ferry-based monitoring and assessment of human and climatically driven environmental change in the Albemarle-Pamlico sound system

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 7609-7613

  Paerl, Hans W ^a   Rossignol, Karen L ^a   Guajardo, Rodney ^a   Hall, Nathan S ^a   Joyner, Alan R ^a   Peierls, Benjamin L ^a   Ramus, Joseph S ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEMARLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT; SOUND SYSTEMS;

SHIPS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RESEARCH VESSEL;

DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; HABITAT QUALITY; HYDROLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; REVIEW; SHIP; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; HUMAN; HURRICANE;

ALBEMARLE SOUND; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; PAMLICO SOUND; UNITED STATES;

SEA WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CYCLONIC STORMS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; SEAWATER; SHIPS;

EID: 70449957102     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900558f     Document Type: Review

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