Oil spill fishery impact assessment modeling: The fisheries recruitment problem     

Mark Reed  Malcolm L. Spaulding  Ernesto Lorda  Henry Walker  Saul B. Saila 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1984,19(6):591-610

A model to assess the impact of oil spill on fisheries, consisting of an oil spill fates model, a continental shelf hydrodynamics model, an ichthyoplankton transport and fates model, and a fish population model, has been applied to the Georges Bank-Gulf of Maine region to estimate the impact of oil spills on several important commercial fisheries. The model addresses direct impacts of oil on a fishery through hydrocarbon-induced egg and larval mortality. This early life stage mortality is estimated by dynamically mapping the spatial intersection of the surface and subsurface oil concentrations resulting from the spill with the developing eggs and larvae. Ichthyoplankton entering an area with hydrocarbon concentrations in excess of a specified threshold are assumed lost. Model output is given in terms of differential catch, comparing the non-impacted and the hydrocarbon impacted fisheries. Difficulties in establishing stock-recruit relationships, and the inability to predict first year survival even one year ahead make the quantification of absolute catch losses impossible. Output of the model system discussed here is therefore limited to relative rather than absolute catch losses.The paper is organized to demonstrate first the importance of the recruitment question to impact estimation, second that a modeling methodology is necessary to evaluate impacts given the magnitude of unexplained observed recruitment variability, and third a stochastic solution to the problem which places impact estimates in the context of a probability distribution. Lastly, the model system is applied to the problem of attaining better early life history mortality estimates, to ultimately improve impact estimation capabilities.  相似文献   

Sedimentary diatom and pigment-inferred recent anthropogenic accelerated eutrophication of a Mediterranean lake (Lake Dojran,Republic of North Macedonia / Greece)     

Zhang  Xiaosen  Xu  Xinyu  Reed  Jane M. 《中国海洋湖沼学报》2020,38(6):1787-1798

Journal of Oceanology and Limnology - Lake eutrophication is recognised as a serious global challenge, and many regional legislative programmes are being made to attempt to relieve nutrient...  相似文献   

Some Observations on Field Experiences With Monitor Wells     

Geoffrey G. Hunkin  Thomas A. Reed  Gregory N. Brand 《Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation》1984,4(1):43-45

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Rainfall,runoff and erosion on bare arable soils in east Shropshire,England     

Michael A. Fullen  Alan Harrison Reed 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1986,11(4):413-425

The magnitude, frequency, and duration of erosive rainfall on bare arable soils is investigated within an area of sandy soils in east Shropshire. Rainfall parameters are compared with runoff and erosion from ten 25 m² runoff plots, maintained in a bare condition on slopes of varying steepness. On rain-drop compacted (capped) soils measured erosion rates of ≦ 42.7t ha^?1 occur during individual storms. Erosion rates increase markedly with slope and on slopes > ? 13° are largely attributable to rill erosion. Prolonged duration, low intensity events cause relatively little erosion; most is accomplished by short duration, high intensity (> 10 mm h^?1) convective rainstorms. Comparison of measured erosion-producing events and long-term rainfall records indicate that potentially erosive storms are quite frequent, and are most likely to cause erosion in late spring/early summer.  相似文献   

Experimental determination of the partitioning of gallium between solid iron metal and synthetic basaltic melt: Electron and ion microprobe study     

Michael J. Drake  Horton E. Newsom  Stephen J.B. Reed  M.Clare Enright 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1984,48(8):1609-1615

The distribution of Ga between solid Fe metal and synthetic basaltic melt has been investigated experimentally at two temperatures over a limited range of oxygen fugacities. Reversal experiments were conducted, indicating a close approach to equilibrium. Analysis of run products was performed using an electron and an ion microprobe. At 1 bar total pressure, the solid metal/silicate melt partition coefficient. D(Ga), is given by: 1190°C: logD(Ga) = ?0.92 logfO₂ ? 11.91330°C: logD(Ga) = ?0.77 logfO₂ ? 8.8. For the common assumption of a valence state for Ga of 3 in silicates and assuming ideal solution of Ga in both phases, a slope of ?0.75 is predicted. The slope obtained at 1300°C (?0.77) is indistinguishable from this value, while the slope at 1190°C (?0.92) is somewhat higher. Henry's law is obeyed over the concentration range 0.007 wt.% to 0.15 wt.% Ga in metal, a factor of 20 in concentration. These partition coefficients may be utilized to evaluate metal/silicate fractionation processes in the Earth, Moon and Eucrite Parent Body. The lunar mantle appears to be depleted in Ga by a factor of 20–40 relative to CI abundances. This depletion is consistent with extraction of Ga into a geophysically plausible lunar core if Ga was initially present at a subchondritic concentration. A similar explanation probably accounts for the depletion of Ga in the Eucrite Parent Body. The upper mantle of the Earth appears to be depleted in Ga by a factor of 4– 7 relative to CI abundances. This depletion is far smaller than would be expected as a result of core formation, but is consistent with two quite different hypotheses: (i) a small amount of solid metal and sulfur-bearing metallic liquid was retained in the mantle after core formation; or (ii) addition of a late-stage chondritic component involving 5% to 10% of the upper mantle following core formation.  相似文献   

Aquifer Transmissivity from Surficial Electrical Methods   总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7  

Paul C. Heigold  Robert H. Gilkeson  Keros Cartwright  Philip C. Reed 《Ground water》1979,17(4):338-345

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Barium content of marine sediments near drilling sites: A potential pollutant indicator     

Tsaihwa J. Chow  John L. Earl  John H. Reed  Nicholas Hansen  Victor Orphan 《Marine pollution bulletin》1978,9(4):97-99

Barite is commonly used as a weighting agent in oil- and gas-well drilling mixture; therefore, the distribution pattern of barium in marine sediments near drilling sites may provide an indicator of anthropogenic chemical contamination from these operations. Present average content of barium in benthic sediments from the Southern California Bight was determined to be 637 ppm, with a range from 43 to 1899 ppm, and that of the mainland and the channel island intertidal sediments averaged 879 and 388 ppm, respectively.  相似文献   

A microstructural study of the Tishomingo meteorite     

L.K. Ives  M.B. Kasen  R.E. Schramm  A.W. Ruff  R.P. Reed 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1978,42(7):1051-1066

Metallography, electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction techniques were employed to study a fragment of the Tishomingo iron meteorite. The results suggest the following thermal-mechanical history: The fragment was originally a large crystal of taenite (γ). Cooling through the α + γ phase boundary did not result in accompanying precipitation of kamacite (α). Transformation to a martensitic structure initiated between ? 25 and ?65°C. Transformation continued as the temperature fell to ? 75 to ? 115°C, resulting in approx 80% martensite (α′). Subsequent shock deformation and thermal aging processes substantially modified the taenite and martensite microstructures. Twins in the retained taenite phase are attributed to shock deformation at a pressure estimated for a single event at ~170 kbar. The existing complex, altered martensite structure containing both taenite and kamacite (3–15% Ni) particles was apparently the product of both shock deformation and thermal aging processes. The maximum temperature reached during thermal aging is estimated to be less than 400°C, and perhaps below 310°C.  相似文献   

IGU commission on the coastal environment     

Dr. Denise J. Reed 《GeoJournal》1990,20(2):158-158

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Molecular compositions of weathered petroleum and comparison with its possible source     

Walter E Reed 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1977,41(2):237-247

Two surface outcrop samples and three drill core samples of oil-impregnated sandstone from the P.R. Spring Seep, Uinta Basin, Utah were analyzed. These oils exhibit in common the entire homologous series of tricyclic diterpane hydrocarbons, which have been previously described only in extracts from the Mahogany Ledge Member of the Green River Formation. Hopane and a series of degraded hopanes are also present in the oil samples, while steranes are conspicuously absent. Aliphatic alkanes are present only in the deepest core sample.The cycloalkanes are apparently not readily utilized by the petroleum oxidizing microbes, and therefore survive the weathering process. Tricyclic and tetracyclic alkylated diterpanes are unchanged, whereas the series from norhopane through tetrakisnorhopane may be interpreted as progressive bacterial degradation of the hopane molecule.The occurrence and distribution of tricyclic diterpanes, of tetracyclic diterpanes and pentacyclic triterpanes is similar to the stratigraphically nearby Mahogany Ledge Member, suggesting that the oil shales were the source rocks for the oil now exposed as the P.R. Spring Seep. The absence of steranes, which are abundant in the oil shales, is puzzling.  相似文献