The copepod Diaptomus sanguineus begins diapause in permanent ponds in late March as an adaptation to avoid summer fish predation. During a study of copepod populations in two Rhode Island ponds, a severe drought dried one pond killing all fish. The second (control) pond did not dry, and no fish were killed. Before the drought copepods in the two ponds entered diapause on nearly the same date. ...

This study used particle size analysis to investigate the initial accumulation and trap efficiency of radiocesium ((137)Cs) in four irrigation ponds, ~4-5 months after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (DNPP) accident. Trap efficiency, represented by the inventory of (137)Cs in pond sediment to the inventory of radiocesium in soil surrounding the pond (i.e., total (137)Cs inventory), w...

Two clinical isolates and an environmental isolate of Edwardsiella tarda biogroup 1 (ETB1), recovered from liver pus, the stool specimen and from the pond water of the village of the patient, diagnosed to have liver abscess, were found to be identical by protein fingerprinting and ribotyping. It can be construed that the pond water served as the source of infection. The epidemiological triad of...

The study evaluated the status of fish pond projects initiated in the 1980s on resource-poor farms in Guatemala and Panama. In both places, the host country and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provided financial assistance and Auburn University provided technical support to the respective governments. The study examined the impact of aquaculture technology, extens...

The impact of mosquito control on nontarget organisms using Abate-4-E was investigated in terms of immediate mortality and residual activity. Three 10 year old, man-made ponds having similar community structures and population densities were studied. The residual activity, determined by bioassays with 4th instar Aedes communis, was significantly longer in a relatively cooler pond. Populations o...

1761. Figure 1. CSR FeO map of the central basalt pond in Apollo crater. The edges of the basalt pond were modeled as different units due to lateral mixing with the surrounding materials. The absolute FeO abundances from CSR may be overestimated by as much as 2 wt.% [15]. Figure 2. Map of modeled Th compositions used in the forward model. Region 1 = 0.9 ppm Th, Region 2 = 2.5 ppm Th, and Region...

Oil sands process-affected water (OSPW), produced by surface-mining of oil sands in Canada, is alkaline and contains high concentrations of salts, metals, naphthenic acids, and polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHs). Residual hydrocarbon biodegradation occurs naturally, but little is known about the hydrocarbon-degrading microbial communities present in OSPW. In this study, aerobic oxidation of b...

Significant changes in the distribution of selenium (Se) oxidation states of fresh soil were noted with oven-drying (90°C) or with outdoor storage (>5 yr) in compromised plastic containers compared with small changes in Se oxidation state distribution in air-dried samples. Compromised outdoor storage resulted in a 25% increase in the selenate (Se6+) concentrations with a concomitant 18.4 and 5....