Closing the Book on Pearl Harbor

Historical Cognition: An Investigation of Factors Affecting Reasoning about Historical Causality

We assessed whether students’ reasoning about historical causality is biased by accessibility and previous knowledge. Undergraduates in Canada provided explanations for historical events: the attacks on Pearl Harbor and September 11, 2001. Participants were then given several explanations for these events, including conventional historical and alternative conspiracist explanations, and reported...

Effects of initial surface wettability on biofilm formation and subsequent settlement of Hydroides elegans.

Hydroides elegans is a major fouling organism in tropical waters around the world, including Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. To determine the importance of initial surface characteristics on biofilm community composition and subsequent colonization by larvae of H. elegans, the settlement and recruitment of larvae to biofilmed surfaces with six different initial surface wettabilities were tested in Pearl ...

TEMPORAL VARIATION IN AN INITIAL MARINE BIOFILM COMMUNITY AND ITS EFFECT ON LARVAL SETTLEMENT OF THE TUBEWORM Hydroides elegans

Planktonic larvae of many invertebrates settle preferentially on surfaces covered by bacterial biofilms. The polychaete tubeworm Hydroides elegans is induced to settle by biofilms and is the primary colonizer of newly submerged surfaces in the succession of macrofouling invertebrates in Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i. This study examines cultureindependent community composition, as well as densities of ...

The Secrecy of Pearl Harbor

Numerical investigation of effective harbor geometry parameters on sedimentation inside square harbors

Sedimentation is one of the most important problems in harbors that results in considerable economic costs. Harbor planforms affects the flow pattern in the harbor basin and consequently, plays an important role in sediment transport and sedimentation. In the present study, a two dimensional depth-averaged hydrodynamic and sediment transport model has been developed to investigate the effect of...