Search Results - "STEPHENSON, W"

Sea-level rise may not uniformly accelerate cliff erosion rates by Dickson, M. E., Matsumoto, H., Stephenson, W. J., Swirad, Z. M., Thompson, C. F., Young, A. P.

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Modeling future cliff-front waves during sea level rise and implications for coastal cliff retreat rates by Matsumoto, H., Dickson, M. E., Stephenson, W. J., Thompson, C. F., Young, A. P.

“…It is often assumed that future coastal cliff retreat rates will accelerate as global sea level rises, but few studies have investigated how SLR (sea level…”
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Reef islands have continually adjusted to environmental change over the past two millennia by Kench, P. S., Liang, C., Ford, M. R., Owen, S. D., Aslam, M., Ryan, E. J., Turner, T., Beetham, E., Dickson, M. E., Stephenson, W., Vila-Concejo, A., McLean, R. F.

“…Global environmental change is identified as a driver of physical transformation of coral reef islands over the past half-century, and next 100 years, posing…”
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Pursuit and escape drive fine-scale movement variation during migration in a temperate alpine ungulate by John, Christian, Avgar, Tal, Rittger, Karl, Smith, Justine A., Stephenson, Logan W., Stephenson, Thomas R., Post, Eric

“…Climate change reduces snowpack, advances snowmelt phenology, drives summer warming, alters growing season precipitation regimes, and consequently modifies…”
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On the role of discontinuities in mediating shore platform erosion by Naylor, L.A., Stephenson, W.J.

“…In this paper, we quantitatively demonstrate that dominant erosion processes on different shore platforms can be explained, in part, by geological properties…”
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Rock coast geomorphology: Recent advances and future research directions by Naylor, L.A., Stephenson, W.J., Trenhaile, A.S.

“…There have been considerable advances in rock coast research in the past decade, as measured in terms of the number of active researchers and in the number of…”
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Measuring erosion with the micro-erosion meter—Contributions to understanding landform evolution by Stephenson, W.J., Finlayson, B.L.

“…We review the contribution made to understanding landform evolution through the use of the micro-erosion meter (MEM) and the variant, the traversing…”
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Microsporidian Infection Is Prevalent in Healthy People in Cameroon by Nkinin, Stephenson W, Asonganyi, Tazoacha, Didier, Elizabeth S, Kaneshiro, Edna S

“…Most studies of opportunistic infections focus on those with weak immune systems, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS patients and children…”
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Rip current escape strategies: lessons for swimmers and coastal rescue authorities by Miloshis, M., Stephenson, W. J.

“…Lagrangian flow of two rip currents was measured using human drifters to understand how variations in surf zone circulation affect exit positions of floating…”
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Geological controls on boulder production in a rock coast setting: Insights from South Wales, UK by Stephenson, W.J., Naylor, L.A.

“…We investigate some of the geological controls on boulder size, using a heterogeneous outcrop of Blue Lias limestone. Discontinuity and predicted boulder size…”
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Decadal scale micro erosion rates on shore platforms by Stephenson, W.J., Kirk, R.M., Hemmingsen, S.A., Hemmingsen, M.A.

“…Knowledge of the long-term rates of erosion of shore platforms are needed to assist modeling platform development, understand rates and modes of development…”
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Stochastic characteristics of seismic excitations at a non-uniform (rock and soil) site by Zerva, A., Stephenson, W.R.

“…This study analyzes data recorded at the dense array in the Parkway Valley, Wainuiomata, New Zealand, a small alluvial valley surrounded by graywacke outcrops…”
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Site characterization for urban seismic hazards in lower Manhattan, New York City, from microtremor array analysis by Stephenson, W. J., Hartzell, S., Frankel, A. D., Asten, M., Carver, D. L., Kim, W. Y.

“…We characterize the shear‐wave velocity (Vs) of soil deposits in lower Manhattan at six sites using the SPAC and HVSR microtremor methods. The soil Vs ranges…”
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Wave Transformation on a Fringing Reef System With Spur and Groove Structures by Acevedo‐Ramirez, César A., Stephenson, W., Wakes, S., Mariño‐Tapia, I.

“…Spurs and Grooves (SAG) are coral forereef structures with their main axis normal to the reef crest. The dimensions of SAG vary considerably on a global scale…”
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Direct exfoliation of graphite with a porphyrin--creating functionalizable nanographene hybrids by Malig, Jenny, Stephenson, Adam W I, Wagner, Pawel, Wallace, Gordon G, Officer, David L, Guldi, Dirk M

“…Exfoliation of graphite was achieved using a free-base porphyrin 1 resulting in an efficient fabrication of single-layer nanographene (NG)- hybrid platelets…”
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Fuel Tax versus Vehicle-Miles-Traveled Fee: Identifying Vulnerable Households by Three-Stage Least Squares Analysis by Kastrouni, Eirini, Gkritza, Konstantina, Hallmark, Shauna L., Stephenson, W. Robert

“…The vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) fee has been widely suggested as an alternative funding mechanism to the current state of practice, the fuel tax per gallon…”
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Spectroscopic and computational study of β-ethynylphenylene substituted zinc and free-base porphyrins by Earles, John C, Gordon, Keith C, Stephenson, Adam W I, Partridge, Ashton C, Officer, David L

“…A series of tetraphenylporphyrins appended at the β-pyrrolic position with an ethynylphenylene- or ethynylpyridine-substituent have been subjected to…”
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Fast Technology Analysis Enables Identification of Species and Genotypes of Latent Microsporidia Infections in Healthy Native Cameroonians by Ndzi, Edward S, Asonganyi, Tazoacha, Nkinin, Mary Bello, Xiao, Lihua, Didier, Elizabeth S, Bowers, Lisa C, Nkinin, Stephenson W, Kaneshiro, Edna S

“…Several enteric microsporidia species have been detected in humans and other vertebrates and their identifications at the genotype level are currently being…”
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Shore platforms: a neglected coastal feature? by Stephenson, W. J.

“…This review identifies four themes in shore platform research: 1) the role of marine and subaerial processes in platform development; 2) morphology of shore…”
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Muscle metaboreflex control of ventricular contractility during dynamic exercise by Sala-Mercado, Javier A, Hammond, Robert L, Kim, Jong-Kyung, Rossi, Noreen F, Stephenson, Larry W, O'Leary, Donal S

“…When oxygen delivery to active skeletal muscle is insufficient for the metabolic demands, afferent nerves within muscles are activated, which elicit reflex…”
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