Internationally renowned as the ambassador-at-large to the world's oceans, Sylvia Earle is
an extraordinary woman--the former chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, a distinguished marine biologist, a veteran of more than 6,000 hours …

A study was made of the taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the Phaeophyta of the
eastern Gulf of Mexico, a region defined as the coastline and adjacent continental shelf from
the Mississippi Delta at Barataria Pass, Louisiana, to Dry Tortugas, Florida. This coast, more …

Comparisons between historical and recent ecological datasets indicate that shallow reef
habitats across the central Galapagos Archipelago underwent major transformation at the
time of the severe 1982/1983 El Niño warming event. Heavily grazed reefs with crustose …

The Sargasso Sea is a fundamentally important part of the world's ocean, located within the
North Atlantic sub-tropical gyre with its boundaries defined by the surrounding currents. It is
the only sea without land boundaries with water depths ranging from the surface coral reefs …

A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years
of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth.
Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of …

The use of fluid lensing technology on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) is
presented as a novel means for 3D imaging of aquatic ecosystems from above the water's
surface at the centimetre scale. Preliminary results are presented from airborne fluid lensing …

The marine macroalgae, or seaweeds, are a heterogenous group historically lumped
together as “Protists,” an assemblage of taxa whose members typically lack true roots,
shoots, leaves, seeds, or water-conducting tissues. They comprise the multicellular green …

Objective This study was done to determine the benefit of undergoing liver resection for
noncolorectal metastasis. Methods A single-institution retrospective review of all patients (n=
95) who underwent hepatic resection for a noncolorectal liver metastasis from 1990 to 2005 …

Background: Civilian and military mass casualty incidents (MCI) are an unfortunate reality in
the 21st century, but there are few situational training exercises (STX) to prepare for them.
To fill this gap, we developed a MCI STX for US Army Forward Surgical Teams (FST) in …

Background Open wounds around the knee joint can often be managed with local flaps;
however, free tissue transfer may be required when local tissue options are unavailable or
inadequate. Free tissue transfer around the knee can be challenging due to unique …