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 ...

Antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii were determined in serum samples from 47 grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) and 56 harbor seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina) from the Atlantic coasts of United Kingdom and France. Antibodies to T. gondii assayed by the modified agglutination test (MAT) were found in 14 (13.6%; IC(95%): 7.0-20.2) of 103 seals tested, with titres of 1:25 in 13 seals and 1:50 in 1 seal. S...

For the past three years, GROUP (Group for Research On Usage and Pragmatics) has been developing the VesselWorld system. In VesselWorld, three participants collaborate on remote workstations to remove barrels of toxic waste from a harbor. Each participant is the captain of a ship, and their joint goal is to remove all of the barrels from the harbor without spilling any toxic waste. Each ship ha...

Groundwater typology is a method which is intended to address the relative lack of submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) data on a global basis. On the local scale, a typology was developed for Port Jefferson Harbor with the ultimate goal of scaling nitrates additions to the Long Island Sound. SGD measurements at one location in the south-east side of the Harbor were extrapolated around the sho...