ists with miles of beaches, sea breezes, an arts and museum district, waterfront restaurants, shopping and more. It is also home to a major seaport, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, a large health care system, military bases, refineries and chemical plants. Port activity and tourism remain important components of the Corpus Christi economy. However, some sectors are declining in importance,...

Rapid and persistent suppression of feeding behavior induced by sensitization training in Aplysia Ama Acheampong, Kathleen Kelly, Maria Shields-Johnson, Julie Hajovsky, Marcy Wainwright, and Riccardo Mozzachiodi Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas 78412, USA; Houston Community College, Houston, Texas 77002, USA; Endicott College, Beverly, Mass...

M.J. Brewer *, Texas AgriLife Research and Department of Entomology, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX 78406; J.S. Armstrong, USDA ARS Beneficial Insect Research Unit, Kika de la Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center, Weslaco, TX 78596; E.G. Medrano, USDA ARS Cotton Pathology Research Unit, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, C...

1 Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2 Marine Biogeochemistry, United States Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA, 3 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, 4 Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, USA, 5 In...

The Sixty-first Annual meeting of The Wilson Ornithological Society, and the third jointly with The Cooper Ornithological Society, was held Wednesday, 19 March to Sunday, 23 March 1980, at the La Quinta Royale Motor Inn, Corpus Christi, Texas. The hosts for the meeting were Corpus Christi State University and the Coastal Bend Audubon Society. Dr. Brian R. Chapman chaired the local arrangements ...

We conducted a field study in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Cobb County, Georgia, to evaluate exposure measures for disinfection by-products, with special emphasis on trihalomethanes (THMs). Participants were mothers living in either geographic area who had given birth to healthy infants from June 1998 through May 1999. We assessed exposure by sampling blood and water and obtaining information abo...

Paliurus spina-christi Mill. (Rhamnaceae), also known as Christ's thorn, is a perennial thorny shrub of widespread distribution in dry and rocky places in the Mediterranean region and Asia. In Croatia, this plant grows along the Adriatic coast and on the islands (Polunin and Huxley, 1981). Christ's thorn is used as a diuretic, against diarrhoea and rheumatism in traditional Croatian herbal medi...

Suspended sediment dynamics of Corpus Christi Bay, Texas, USA, a shallow-water wind-driven estuary, were investigated by combining field and satellite measurements of total suspended solids (TSS). An algorithm was developed to transform 500-mModerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Aqua satellite reflectance data into estimated TSS values. The algorithm was developed using a reflec...