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Title: Evaluating Foraminifera as a Tool for Recreating Historical Landscapes and Verifying Cartographic Accuracy at Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Author: Di Bari, Sofia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Environmental sciences, Marine biology
Description: The research in this thesis focused on the use of Foraminifera to determine paleo-subenvironments and to quantify changes in the subenvironments through time at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Historical maps were assessed with respect to the subenvi...

Title: Recovery of macroinvertebrate communities following flood disturbance in urban restored streams, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Henderson, Sara
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Ecology, Human ecology--Study and teaching, Environmental management
Description: Flooding is an important disturbance structuring stream communities. Understanding macroinvertebrate post flood dynamics is critical for informing key ecosystem processes such as food web dynamics and organic matter processing in these systems. Wh...

Title: Response of Foraminifera to a Reverse Osmosis Briny Discharge
Author: Small, Richard
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Planetary science, Human ecology--Study and teaching
Description: Reverse osmosis water treatment plants are becoming the preferred means of generating potable water for many eastern North Carolina communities. At these facilities, reject brine solutions—sometimes containing up to 10 times the initial concentrat...