| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77793 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| dcterms.abstract | Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) from oceanic islands has been estimated to contribute over a third of the global SGD due to orographic precipitation, short aquifer pathways and poorly developed surface drainage. This seepage of groundwater across the sea floor connects land and coastal ocean resources, and is hereby proposed as a parameter to evaluate the interconnections between coastal environmental quality and coastal populations and development. Relatively few islands have been studied, but SGD is typically found to be an important, and often the only, source of nutrients to coastal waters. Freshwater and its pollutant load are delivered to the coastal zone <italic>via</italic> SGD with consequent impacts on tourism and fisheries thus linking the land-based and marine economic sectors. The characteristics of SGD were investigated on Barbados, Guam and Bimini, islands all of, at least partly, carbonate origin, This study evaluates the similarities and differences between these islands and assesses the applicability of using SGD as a parameter within a population– development– environment model. Model scenarios can be used to explore the integrated coastal impacts of wastewater treatment practices and changes in seasonal rainfall due to climate change. This study also presents novel analytical methods for SGD field data. | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:53:36Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Swanson, Robert | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Bokuniewicz, Henry | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Sanderson, Warren | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Rapaglia, John | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Nurse, Leonard. | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Coffey, Ruth | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:53:36Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:53:36Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of Marine and Atmospheric Science. | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 217 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77793 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2014-12-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | coastal geology, submarine groundwater discharge, tourism | |
| dcterms.subject | Marine geology | |
| dcterms.title | Submarine groundwater discharge as an integral environmental " currency" limiting population and development within the ecosphere of small islands. | |
| dcterms.type | Dissertation | |
