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Cross, Gene B., and Walter A. Skroch. "Quantification of Weed Seed Contamination and Weed Development in Container Nurseries." Journal of Environmental Horticulture 10, no. 3 (September 1, 1992): 159–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.24266/0738-2898-10.3.159.
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Abstract An investigation was conducted at seven North Carolina nurseries to evaluate the possibility that container substrates serve as weed infestation sources. Container substrate treatments consisted of sand/pasteurized bark, bark/pasteurized sand, pasteurized bark/pasteurized sand, and bark/sand. No differences were observed between numbers of weed seedlings found in the four substrate combinations. Differences were observed across nursery sites and the nursery by date interactions. Five weed species most frequently observed were yellow woodsorrel (Oxalis stricta L.), hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta L.), common groundsel (Senecio vulgaris L.), spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculata L.), and mouseear chickweed (Cerastium vulgatum L.).
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Marinho, Bárbara, Carlos Coelho, Magnus Larson, and Hans Hanson. "LONG-TERM COASTAL EVOLUTION MODELLING OF LONGSHORE BARS." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 36 (December 30, 2018): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v36.papers.97.
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An extended version of a numerical model introduced by Larson et al. (2013) to simulate long-term cross shore material exchange for the subaqueous portion of the profile has been developed. Efforts have focused on improving the model to better account for beach systems consisting of two bars (inner and outer bar), as well as simulating the feeder response over time of nearshore dredged material bars, intended to function as beach nourishment. The theory for the evolution of a single-bar to a two-bar system was modeled, considering an inner and an outer bar, where the outer bar is of primary interest with the purpose of predicting the behavior of placed dredged material. The cross-shore sediment transport rate is based on the evolution equation for the bar system response to the hydrodynamic forcing by reference to its equilibrium condition, where the change in the bar volume is based on a set of wave criteria, describing the onset of a new breaking zone when the outer bar forms. Empirical formulas are employed for the bar equilibrium volume and for coefficients determining the bar response rate. In this study, a description of the extended model and the results from the model component validation at two different sites in USA (Duck, North Carolina, and Cocoa Beach, Florida) are presented. Duck measurements have detected that some bars form in the nearshore and move all the way offshore (eventually deflating by non-breaking waves). At the same time, it was equally observed that a lot of inner bars formed in shallow water do not move offshore but remain as inner bars all the time. According to this, the developed model considers that the inner bar will not become the outer bar, but material previously dedicated to the inner bar will be available for the outer bar. Overall, the present study demonstrates the potential for using rather simple models, based on the definition of an equilibrium state that is compared to the current state and the magnitude of offshore wave forcing to drive the changes in the profile. The methodology employed here allowed to quantitatively reproduce the main trends in the subaqueous beach profile response in a long-term perspective as a function of the bar volumes disequilibrium, the magnitude of the incident wave height and the dimensionless fall velocity to move the sand with a time varying forcing.
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Parker, Michael L., and John R. Meyer. "COMPETITIVE VEGETATIVE ORCHARD COVERS REDUCE PEACH ROOTING." HortScience 27, no. 6 (June 1992): 589g—589. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.27.6.589g.
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Peach trees (`Biscoe'/Lovell) were planted in March, 1988 in ten different ground cover management systems. The trees were planted at the Sandhills Research Station in Southeastern North Carolina on a Candor sand and Eunola sandy loam. In December, 1991 the trench profile method was used to evaluate root distribution under the six orchard floor management systems of nimblewill, bare ground control, centipedegrass, brome, bahiagrass, and weedy control. Trenches were dug parallel to the tree row 60 cm from the center of the row on both sides of the tree. Grids 1 meter square, sectioned into 10 cm squares, were placed on the profile walls and root distribution (in three size categories) was recorded for 1 meter on each side of the tree in each trench. Root numbers were greatly reduced under the vegetative covers that provided the greatest suppression of vegetative tree growth. Total root densities under the trees in the vegetative covers were ranked into three size categories which were correlated with the amount of vegetative tree growth.
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Hanes, Daniel M., Vadim Alymov, Yeon S. Chang, and Chris Jette. "Wave-formed sand ripples at Duck, North Carolina." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 106, no. C10 (October 15, 2001): 22575–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2000jc000337.
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White, Allen B., Kelly M. Mahoney, Robert Cifelli, and Clark W. King. "Wind Profilers to Aid with Monitoring and Forecasting of High-Impact Weather in the Southeastern and Western United States." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 96, no. 12 (December 1, 2015): 2039–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-14-00170.1.
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Abstract With funding provided by the 2012 Disaster Relief Act (Sandy Supplemental), NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division has installed three Doppler wind-profiling radars and surface meteorology towers along the U.S. Gulf and southeast coasts to help detect and monitor landfalling tropical storms and other high-impact weather events. This same combination of instruments has been used to monitor landfalling atmospheric rivers on the U.S. West Coast. For this reason, we refer to the whole collection of instruments at each site as an Atmospheric River Observatory (ARO). These three new AROs supported by the Sandy Supplemental complement a fourth ARO deployed in coastal North Carolina as part of NOAA’s Hydrometeorology Testbed Southeast Pilot Study. These four AROs were installed in time to capture the 2014 hurricane season and will be operated through the 2015 hurricane season.
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Villarini, Gabriele, Radoslaw Goska, James A. Smith, and Gabriel A. Vecchi. "North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones and U.S. Flooding." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 95, no. 9 (September 1, 2014): 1381–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-13-00060.1.
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Riverine flooding associated with North Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) is responsible for large societal and economic impacts. The effects of TC flooding are not limited to the coastal regions, but affect large areas away from the coast, and often away from the center of the storm. Despite these important repercussions, inland TC flooding has received relatively little attention in the scientific literature, although there has been growing media attention following Hurricanes Irene (2011) and Sandy (2012). Based on discharge data from 1981 to 2011, the authors provide a climatological view of inland flooding associated with TCs, leveraging the wealth of discharge measurements collected, archived, and disseminated by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Florida and the eastern seaboard of the United States (from South Carolina to Maine and Vermont) are the areas that are the most susceptible to TC flooding, with typical TC flood peaks that are 2 to 6 times larger than the local 10-yr flood peak, causing major flooding. A secondary swath of extensive TC-induced flooding in the central United States is also identified. These results indicate that flooding from TCs is not solely a coastal phenomenon but affects much larger areas of the United States, as far inland as Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Moreover, the authors highlight the dependence of the frequency and magnitude of TC flood peaks on large-scale climate indices, and the role played by the North Atlantic Oscillation and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation phenomenon (ENSO), suggesting potential sources of extended-range predictability.
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Shafer, Paul. "Impact of US smoke-free air laws on restaurants and bars by employer size: a panel study." BMJ Open 7, no. 11 (November 2017): e018137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018137.
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ObjectivesThirty states have smoke-free air laws that ban smoking in restaurants and bars, covering nearly two-thirds of the US population. It is well established that these laws generally have a null or positive economic impact on restaurants and bars. However, all establishments in a geographic area are usually treated as a homogeneous group without considering the potential for differential effects by establishment characteristics. This study uses variation in smoke-free air laws over time to estimate their impact on employment in restaurants and bars with a focus on potential differences by employer size (number of employees). A two-pronged approach with a national-level and state-level analysis is used to take advantage of more granular data availability for a single state (North Carolina).DesignObservational study using panel data.Setting1) US, 2) North CarolinaInterventionsSmoke-free air laws.Outcome measuresState-level accommodation and food services employment for all 50 states and District of Columbia from 1990 through 2014 (Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages); county-level restaurant and bar employment in North Carolina from 2001 through 2014 (North Carolina Department of Commerce).ResultsThere is no evidence of a redistributive effect of smoke-free air laws on restaurant and bar employment by employer size.ConclusionThe lack of a redistributive effect is an important finding for policy-makers considering implementation or expansion of a smoke-free air law to protect employees and patrons from the dangers of exposure to secondhand smoke.
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Savage, Rudolph P. "EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DUNE BUILDING WITH SAND FENCES." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 8 (January 29, 2011): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v8.22.
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In 1957 the State of North Carolina, in cooperation with the Beach Erosion Board and the Wilmington District of the Corps of Engineers undertook an experimental dune building study on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The experimental study consists of the construction of various types and arrangements of sand fences to determine the fence type and arrangement most effective in building a dune by trapping windblown sand. Four miles of experimental fencing were constructed in 1960. During the following year, four sets of profiles were made to determine the sand accumulation of the fences and a rather intermittent wind record was made in the area. The performance of the various fence types and arrangements has been compared and some conclusions have been reached concerning the best fence type and arrangement.
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Mikami, Yasumitsu. "LONG-TERM SHORELINE CHANGES ON MARGINAL COAST OF TIDAL FLAT IN TOKYO BAY AND RAPID DEFORMATION OF SAND BARS OWING TO TSUNAMI." Coastal Engineering Proceedings, no. 35 (June 23, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v35.management.1.
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Long-term shoreline changes on the marginal coast of the Banzu tidal flat in Tokyo Bay were investigated using
aerial photographs. In the area immediately north of the Obitsu River mouth, the beach was eroded owing to the
decrease in sand supply from the river, resulting in the exposure of a layer composed of cohesive material in the
previous tidal flat, and sand was transported northward to form a sand spit at the mouth of the north tributary. In
2011, the giant tsunami generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake propagated deep into Tokyo Bay, and sand
bars were pushed landward by 7 m parallel to the shoreline owing to the tsunami overflow.
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Hoyt, Greg D. "405 No-till Vegetable Production in the Sand Hill Region of North Carolina." HortScience 35, no. 3 (June 2000): 462E—463. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.35.3.462e.
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An experiment was established to determine the effect of different winter cover crops residues on yields of no-till pumpkins, yellow summer squash, and sweet corn. Residue treatments of fallow, triticale, crimson clover, little barley, and crimson clover + little barley were fall established and killed before spring no-till planting in 1998 and 1999. All summer vegetables received recommended fertilizer rates and labeled pesticides. Spring cover crop growth and biomass measurements ranged from 1873 to 6362 kg/ha. No-till sweet corn yields among the various cover residue treatments were greater where crimson clover and crimson clover + little barley (mixture) were used as residue in 1999, but not significantly different in 1998. No-till pumpkins showed the beneficial affect cover crop residue had on vegetable yields when dry conditions exist. Triticale and crimson clover + little barley (mixture) residues reduced soil water evaporation and produced more numbers of fruit per hectare (5049 and 5214, respectively) and greater weights of fruit (20.8 and 20.9 Mg/ha) than the other residue treatments (3725 to 4221 fruit/ha and 11.8 to 16.1 Mg/ha, respectively). No-till summer squash harvest showed steady increases in yield through time by all treatments with crimson clover residue treatment with the greatest squash yields and triticale and little barley residue treatments with the lowest squash yields. We found that sweet corn and squash yields were greater where legume cover residues were used compared to grass cover residues, whereas, pumpkin yields were higher where the greatest quantity of mulch was present at harvest (grass residues).
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Mitasova, Helena, Margery Overton, and Russell S. Harmon. "Geospatial analysis of a coastal sand dune field evolution: Jockey's Ridge, North Carolina." Geomorphology 72, no. 1-4 (December 2005): 204–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.06.001.
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De Sonneville, Ben, and Ad Van der Spek. "SEDIMENT- AND MORPHODYNAMICS OF SHOREFACE NOURISHMENTS ALONG THE NORTH-HOLLAND COAST." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 33 (December 15, 2012): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v33.sediment.44.
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The Dutch coastal maintenance policy which was implemented in 1990 aims at fighting structural erosion by nourishing sand. Initially, the beaches were nourished. The lifetime of these beach nourishments turned out to be relatively short (~2 yrs), especially at identified erosion ‘hotspots’ along the North-Holland coast (e.g. Egmond aan Zee). Therefore, from 1999 on, an alternative approach was considered, in which beach nourishments were combined with large nourishments on the shoreface (seaward of the outer breaker bar). In recent years, the evolution of individual shoreface nourishments was analyzed on a spatial scale of kilometres and a temporal scale of years, with a focus on their cross-shore development (e.g., Van Duin et al., 2004). In these studies, their alongshore interaction received little attention. The main objective of the present study is to investigate the evolution and lifetime of five large (~1-2 million m3) shoreface nourishments applied between 1999 and 2005 on a spatial scale that includes the larger part of the North-Holland coast (~40km). The analysis of bathymetrical data shows that all five shoreface nourishments evolved into new outer bars with deep troughs on their landward side, that temporarily interrupted the ‘autonomous’ cyclic offshore migration of breaker bars (e.g. Wijnberg, 1995). Alongshore, the nourishment placed at Camperduin in 2002 connected to the existing outer bar, while the nourishments placed at Egmond aan Zee and Bergen in 1999 and 2000 respectively, remained isolated. The 2004 Egmond and 2005 Bergen nourishments interconnected into a long bar. At Camperduin, the newly formed outer bar remained quite stable in the years after its placement. The bars resulting from the 1999 Egmond aan Zee and 2000 Bergen nourishments, however, almost fully disintegrated within five years, while the interconnected bar of the 2004 and 2005 nourishments is still largely intact after 5 years. The results suggest that the effectiveness of shoreface nourishments is influenced by their shore-parallel length and their ability to connect to surrounding (natural or nourishment) bars. The observed morphodynamic patterns suggest that the ‘lost’ sand is mainly redistributed to the breaker zone, and further transported alongshore.
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Bartels, Paul J., Claudia J. Mormino, and Diane R. Nelson. "Aquatic Tardigrades of North Carolina with a New North American Record of a Lotic Tardigrade, Dactylobiotus haplonyx Maucci, 1980 (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae)." Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science 132, no. 1-2 (March 1, 2016): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.7572/ncas-132-01-06.1.
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Abstract We provide a comprehensive list of all records of freshwater aquatic tardigrades from North Carolina. In addition, 24 samples of medium and coarse sand were taken from the Davidson River, Transylvania County, NC near the Bobby N. Setzer State Fish Hatchery in the Pisgah National Forest on April 26 and May 3, 2016. Approximately 1900 interstitial microinvertebrates were found with nematodes, oligochaetes, and tardigrades being the most abundant. Tardigrades were individually mounted on slides and identified to species when possible. Ten species were identified among the 344 tardigrades isolated. Of these, two were “accidentals” that normally occur in terrestrial habitats, and seven were previously known from North Carolina. Dactylobiotus haplonyx was a new North American record. This is a rare species, and we compare our specimens with previously published accounts.
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Tyndall, R. Wayne, Alan H. Teramura, Charles L. Mulchi, and Larry W. Douglass. "Seed burial effect on species presence along a mid-Atlantic beach." Canadian Journal of Botany 64, no. 9 (September 1, 1986): 2168–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b86-287.
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The importance of seed burial to species presence on mid-Atlantic beaches was studied on Currituck Bank, North Carolina. Sand accretion and seed depth were measured and compared with potential shoot length and buried shoot length of dominant beach, foredune, and sand-flat species. Excessive seed burial plays an important role in the rarity of Uniola paniculata L. and Spartina patens (Aiton) Muhl. on the beach.
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Bruun, Per. "MIGRATING SAND WAVES OR SAND HUMPS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO INVESTIGATIONS CARRIED OUT ON THE DANISH NORTH SEA COAST." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 5 (January 29, 2011): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v5.21.
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The transport of sediment by flowing water commands great interest in connection with the control of floods, land reclamation, and the construction of harbours and coast protection works. A distinction can be drawn between littoral drift in rivers and in the sea.
The sediment transportation in rivers has been investigated by several authors, e.g. Shields, Meyer Peter, Kalinske, and Einstein, see (16) pp„ 769-83*+. Einstein's latest theories have given reliable results in practice (9).
As pointed out by Einstein (7), there cannot be much difference, physically, between transportation of sediment in rivers and longshore drift at sea shores, apart from the littoral zone with its extremely complex conditions.
In the attempt to understand the complex problem of sea shores the practice so far has been to split them up into several reaches and investigate them separately. This work has given a number of results of practical interest in connection with littoral drift and coastal protection technology, see (2), (3), (5)» (6), (11), (13), and (16).
According to Einstein, Johnson and Chien (8) there exist two types of sediment load, one that bears a certain relationship with the discharge (bed-material load), and the other which does not (wash load). The result of flume study indicates that the transport rate of wash load, just as that of the bed-material load, can be calculated according to the Einstein bed-load function (9), if the instantaneous bed composition is known. On the other hand, the bedmaterial load is equally available'in the entire bed, but only the surface bed layer contains any significant amount of wash-load material. Any change of flow or of sediment supply may immediately change the composition of the wash-load material in the bed. The bed composition as determined from the instantaneous condition of the channel has no lasting significance so far as the wash load is concerned, and this makes the prediction of the wash-load rate from.the bed-load function impossible.
The following deals with a mode of bed-load transportation which, as far as can be seen, takes place in large "waves" or humps.
Introductorily are mentioned investigations made in the United States on migrating sand bars and sand waves in rivers, and investigations in Holland on migrating sand bars on the bottom of the sea.
The major part of the paper deal with migrating sand humps along the North Sea coast of the peninsula of Jutland, Denmark, see Fig. 3.
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DeGuzmán, María. "Latinx: ¡Estamos aquí!, or being “Latinx” at UNC-Chapel Hill." Cultural Dynamics 29, no. 3 (August 2017): 214–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374017727852.
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This essay theorizes the specific use of the term “Latinx” at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during 2016–2017, which emanated in the context of the Tar Heel State’s election year politics and the transition from the Obama administration to the Trump one. “Latinx” gained currency at the University of North Carolina in the wake of House Bill 2: The Public Facilities, Privacy, and Security Act, or as it came to be commonly referenced, “HB2.” The bill enforces an oppressive binary sex-and-gender system as well as the potential exploitation of and discrimination against employees. HB2, signed into law, takes aim at transgender and transsexual people and bars employees from filing in state courts against their employers and limits them to bringing their grievance cases to a federal court, a far more expensive and cumbersome process. Latinx was adopted at the University of North Carolina especially but not exclusively by students to be gender-inclusive in the wake of HB2 and, furthermore, to be coalitional. A general consensus exists that discrimination runs along multiple vectors at once, not just gender but also ethno-racial and class vectors where “class” is understood to encompass a variety of factors, including citizenship status.
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Kingston. "VERTICAL MIGRATION OF EUGLENA SP. ON THE SAND BANKS OF A NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT STREAM." Journal of Phycology 36, s3 (December 2000): 36–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1529-8817.1999.00001-109.x.
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Croft, Alex L., Lynn A. Leonard, Troy D. Alphin, Lawrence B. Cahoon, and Martin H. Posey. "The effects of thin layer sand renourishment on tidal marsh processes: Masonboro Island, North Carolina." Estuaries and Coasts 29, no. 5 (October 2006): 737–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02786525.
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Vanderburgh, Sandy, and Derald G. Smith. "Slave River delta: geomorphology, sedimentology, and Holocene reconstruction." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 25, no. 12 (December 1, 1988): 1990–2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e88-186.
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The Holocene Slave River delta (8300 km2) is a long (170 km), narrow (42 km average width) alluvial sand body, which extends north from the Slave River rapids at Fort Smith to Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. The delta is flanked by the Talston and Tethul rivers and Canadian Shield to the east and by the Little Buffalo River to the west. Wave-associated sedimentary structures in lithostratigraphic logs from river cutbanks indicate that the sandy delta was wave influenced. Most of the logs (34) consist of three facies: basal laminated mud (unknown thickness), interbedded mud and sand (2.5 m), and planar-tabular ripple sets interbedded with cross-laminated to flat-bedded sand (3.0–14.5 m).Eleven radiocarbon-dated wood samples from river cutbanks were used to reconstruct the delta paleoshoreface and to calculate the rate of progradation, which averaged 20.7 m/year from 8070 BP to the present. In the same period isostatic rebound of the delta region relative to the Liard River delta averaged 12 cm/km (a total rebound of 48 m). The data were calculated normal to the retreating Laurentide ice front.From the surface to depths of 59 m, the subaerial and subaqueous delta front exhibits barrier islands, lagoons, offshore bars or sand waves, tensional cracks, slumps and pressure ridges. The barriers and offshore bars consist of medium grain-sized sand, whereas the slumps and pressure ridges are interpreted as mud.
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Teter, Shara M., Bradley M. Wetherbee, Dewayne A. Fox, Chi H. Lam, Dale A. Kiefer, and Mahmood Shivji. "Migratory patterns and habitat use of the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) in the western North Atlantic." Marine and Freshwater Research 66, no. 2 (2015): 158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf14129.
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Globally, population declines for the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) have resulted in calls for informed management of populations, including in the western North Atlantic, where they have been listed as a Species of Concern by NOAA Fisheries. However, information on movements and habitat use, critical for informed management of this sand tiger population, is limited. We investigated horizontal and vertical movements of sand tigers along the US east coast using pop-up archival satellite transmitters, supplemented by acoustic telemetry. Thirteen sand tiger sharks were tagged with satellite and acoustic transmitters in Delaware Bay in late August and early September 2008. Ten of these provided satellite data for horizontal tracks using a Kalman filter. Males left Delaware Bay in autumn and moved south along the continental shelf until reaching waters off North Carolina. Females moved east to waters near the edge of the continental slope. Average depth of males was positively correlated with shark size. All individuals spent at least 95% of their time in waters of 17–23°C. Sand tiger sharks appear most susceptible to fisheries in November and December. Slight expansion of the boundaries and timing of an existing shark-directed bottom longline area closure would likely reduce by-catch of sand tiger sharks and enhance recovery of the stock.
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Auerbach, M. H., G. W. Borden, and B. L. Edge. "DUNE STABILIZATION WITH A SAND/GEL COMPOSITE SYSTEM." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 21 (January 29, 1988): 118. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v21.118.
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The effectiveness of a novel sand/gel composite system for the temporary stabilization of coastal dunes was demonstrated in wavetank and field testing. The composite consists of 97% beach sand and water, with a few percent of a biodegradable aqueous polymeric gel made from nontoxic ingredients. The gel binds the sand into a firm but resilient composite that is natural in appearance and resists erosion from waves and tides. The composite is applied by pneumatic gun to the front face of a dune to a few feet below the berm level for toe protection. This paper describes the initial development and performance of the composite system in wavetank tests at the Oregon State University Wave Research Facility and field trials at Anastasia State Park, St. Augustine, Florida; Chuck's Steak House, Melbourne Beach, Florida; and Ocean Dunes Condominiums, Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
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Ransom, Joel K., Robert E. Eplee, Marion A. Langston, and Rebecca S. Norris. "Methodology for Establishing Witchweed (Striga asiatica) in Research Plots." Weed Technology 4, no. 3 (September 1990): 581–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0890037x00026014.
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Experiments were conducted in North Carolina and South Carolina, 1989, to evaluate methods of infesting research plots with witchweed. At both locations sowing witchweed (mixed with very fine sand) in or beneath the maize planting hole resulted in more rapid attachment of witchweed than other methods. Sowing witchweed only in the maize planting hole increased significantly witchweed attachment compared to the control late in the season at Evergreen, NC. At Dillon, SC, in fumigated soil, sowing witchweed seeds to the side of the maize row in a band or in planting holes or broadcasting and incorporating with a hoe increased witchweed attack. Broadcasting and raking was ineffective.
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Perschbacher, Peter W., and Frank J. Schwartz. "The Marked Goby (Ctenobgobius stigmaticus): A Rare North Carolina Fish Enigma." Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science 130, no. 1 (May 1, 2014): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.7572/2167-5880-130.1.1.
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Abstract The marked goby (Ctenogobius stigmaticus Poey, 1860) is a diminutive, uncommon, tropical-subtropical Atlantic fish. It is considered rare in North Carolina. It has been confused in the past with the similar darter goby (Ctenogobius boleosoma Jordan and Gilbert, 1882) and considered common in North Carolina. Recently, some of the confusion has been eliminated and characters to separate these two similar gobies identified. These characters were used to determine that six specimens were collected and cataloged from the state (one is missing, but a photograph has the marked goby coloration). Examining the remaining five, it became obvious that only one is C. stigmaticus. The four others are presumably the darter goby, as anal fin ray counts (which presumably was used to separate them) may overlap. Differences in head shape, maxillary length relative to eye, and the presence of tusks in C. stigmaticus compared to the darter goby could be considered in future keys. Color patterns are also strikingly different in specimens where color still exists. Unfortunately, the four specimens in question lack clear color patterns after preservation. Thus, only two specimens of the marked goby from North Carolina are known. Fortunately, these specimens were captured with substantial environmental data during the most intensive inshore aquatic survey of fishes and macroinvertebrates in the state: daily sampling from March to November 1968–1977 with varied gear in the lower Cape Fear River and adjacent ocean. The range of the marked goby thus extends from SE North Carolina to the border of Brazil and Uruguay, roughly 34 N to 34 S. All specimens have been taken in large lagoons or estuarine bays, in shallow to intertidal waters, on muddy-sand bottoms, and in moderate salinities. The difficulty in sampling these small (≤80 mm TL), slender fishes may also contribute to their scarcity and lack of knowledge.
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Robinson, Marci M., and Randolph A. McBride. "Anatomy of a shoreface sand ridge revisited using foraminifera: False Cape Shoals, Virginia/North Carolina inner shelf." Continental Shelf Research 28, no. 17 (October 2008): 2428–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2008.06.002.
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Bacheler, J. S., and D. W. Mott. "Control of Second Generation Tobacco Budworms on Cotton in Southern North Carolina, 1995." Arthropod Management Tests 21, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/amt/21.1.239a.
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Abstract Cotton was planted on 4 May in a Norfolk loamy sand on 38-inch rows near Laurel Hill in southeastern NC. Recommended practices for fertility and weed management were followed, and 0.75 lb (AI)/acre Temik 15G used at planting for thrips control. Plots were 40 ft X 6 rows, with 10-ft alleys and 4 replications arranged in a RCBD. The entire test was oversprayed with 1.0 lb (AI)/acre Orthene 75S on 7 Jun to encourage TBW establishment via destruction of beneficial arthropods. A single application was applied to all plots on 21 Jun. All applications were applied with a CO2-pressurized back pack sprayer calibrated to deliver 8 gpa at 50 psi with a single Spraying Systems TX-8 hollow cone nozzle per row. On 27 Jun, 25 terminals from each plot were examined for TBW eggs, terminal damage from TBW and live larvae. No squares were present at this relatively late date and thus were not sampled. On 31 Jul, the number of white blooms and bolls was counted for 15 ft for each plot per replicate (60 ft total per treatment). Plots were harvested with a 2-row John Deere mechanical harvester on 18 Oct.
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Cook, Alex G. "Fletcherviewia septata: a new high-spired, septate gastropod from the Devonian of North Queensland." Journal of Paleontology 67, no. 5 (September 1993): 816–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000037070.
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A high-spired septate gastropod, Fletcherviewia septata n. gen. and sp., occurs in a distinctive faunule at the base of the Middle Devonian Fanning River Group, within the Burdekin Subprovince, near Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. This species is one of four large, thick-shelled gastropods associated with sandstone and sandstone–limestone facies; the sediments are interpreted as shallow marine, nearshore, mobile sand bars on a moderate-energy carbonate–clastic shelf. Strategies for the algalgrazing snails on the turbulent substrate are rolling for compact robust forms and anchoring, using the wide carina, for forms such as Fletcherviewia. Septation in Fletcherviewia is rationalized in terms of the ability to vacate early whorls, thus reducing body volume and avoiding any detrimental effect as a result of loss of early-formed whorls.
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Broughton, Paul L. "Alignment of fluvio-tidal point bars in the middle McMurray Formation: implications for structural architecture of the Lower Cretaceous Athabasca Oil Sands Deposit, northern Alberta." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53, no. 9 (September 2016): 896–930. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2015-0137.
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The northern Athabasca Oil Sands Deposit accumulated on sub-Cretaceous structure partially configured by multistage pre-Cretaceous salt dissolutions in Prairie Evaporite (Middle Devonian) substrate that continued concurrent with deposition of McMurray Formation (Aptian) strata. Dissolution fronts only 250 m below advanced along NW- and NE-oriented fracture–fault lineaments that coalesced into larger salt removal areas. This structural grain was transmitted to the overlying dissected Upper Devonian karst topography draped by lower McMurray braided rivers along a lattice-like channel network. The dominant NW structural grain continued during middle McMurray deposition, with fluvial-estuarine point bars aligned along subparallel tidal channels. Regional salt removal fronts concurrent with middle McMurray deposition migrated north of the Bitumount Trough, resulting in the 200 km2 central collapse. The northern Athabasca Deposit area was configured as a funnel-shaped lower estuary structure consisting of aligned Upper Devonian – lower McMurray fault block terraces that stepped down northward into the central collapse. Sinuous river channels of the upper estuary, constrained along stable substrate of the main paleovalley, flowed northward onto the unstable floor of this funnel-form lower estuary. The main paleovalley fairway branched into multiple tens of kilometres long subparallel fluvio-estuarine tidal channels aligned parallel to the NW structural grain. Sand transport fairways cascaded over the step-down terraces and permitted aggradations of overlying fluvio-tidal point bars to accumulate into giant commercially attractive sand complexes. The internal architecture of these tens of metres thick sand deposits included deposit-wide erosion surfaces resulting from cycles of collapse–subsidence, stabilized substrate and erosion, and renewed subsidence and aggradation.
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Humphrey, C. P., M. A. O'Driscoll, and M. A. Zarate. "Controls on groundwater nitrogen contributions from on-site wastewater systems in coastal North Carolina." Water Science and Technology 62, no. 6 (September 1, 2010): 1448–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2010.417.
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The goal of this study was to evaluate the influence of soil type and separation distance to water table on dissolved inorganic nitrogen concentrations in groundwater adjacent to on-site wastewater systems. Groundwater nitrogen species (NO3−-N and NH4+-N) and groundwater levels adjacent to 16 on-site systems in three different soil groups (group I- sand, group II- coarse loams and group III -sandy clay loams) were monitored for 15 months (January 2007–March 2008) in coastal North Carolina. On-site systems in soil group I had the highest concentrations of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (median of 18.9 mg/L) in groundwater, and most frequently (mean 61%) exceeded 10 mg/L, followed by systems in soil group II (11.0 mg/L, 50%) and soil group III (2.6 mg/L, 9%), respectively. Groundwater NH4+-N concentrations near on-site systems in soil groups I and II that maintained a 60 + cm separation to the seasonal high water table were 4 mg/L lower in relation to systems that had <60 cm separation, but median NO3−-N concentrations were 6.5 mg/L higher. On-site systems in group I and II soils are prone to groundwater nitrogen loading with separation distance often controlling the nitrogen speciation in groundwater near on-site systems.
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Avery, G. Brooks, Robert J. Kieber, and Kelly J. Taylor. "Nitrogen release from surface sand of a high energy beach along the southeastern coast of North Carolina, USA." Biogeochemistry 89, no. 3 (July 2008): 357–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10533-008-9224-5.
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Seilacher, Adolf, and Friedrich Pflüger. "Trace fossils from the Late Proterozoic of North Carolina: early conquest of deep-sea bottoms." Paleontological Society Special Publications 6 (1992): 265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s247526220000825x.
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The trace fossil Oldhamia reflects systematic strip mining of an infaunal, worm-like sediment feeder. It is known from many parts of the world in Cambrian complexes, whose flysch-like and accreted character suggests deposition on a deep continental slope. In similar rocks of the North Carolina Slate Belt. Oldhamia is associated with rare specimens of the Ediacara-type body fossil Pteridinium, as well as tool marks of a problematic stiff organism reminiscent of graptolite stipes (Vendospica).This occurrence (1) extends the stratigraphic range of Oldhamia into the Late Proterozoic. It also reminds us that, by that time, worm-like, endobenthic bilaterians (2) had become behaviorally specialized and (3) had colonized shelf and deep-sea bottoms well before the Cambrian evolutionary explosion. (4) Since bioturbators were small and did burrow strictly along bedding planes, their mixing effect was as yet negligible. (5) The new tool-mark fossils tell us that complex, organic-walled and perhaps colonial organisms were around in addition to sand-corals (Psammocorallia), possibly sponges and the probably plasmodial Vendobionta.
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Fallaw, W., David Snipes, and Van Price. "Wandering With William Bartram: The Section At Silver Bluff, South Carolina." Earth Sciences History 13, no. 1 (January 1, 1994): 52–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.13.1.pw32124312286527.
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In his famous book, William Bartram (1791) described a stratigraphic section at Silver Bluff on the Savannah River in Aiken County, South Carolina, as dark, laminated clay containing belemnites, overlain by clays, sand, marl, and a shelly bed containing numerous oysters. There are now no known occurrences of marine megafossils in outcrops along the Savannah in Aiken County. The wording of Bartram's description of Cretaceous outcrops along the Cape Fear River in North Carolina indicates that the lower part of the Silver Bluff section was described from notes made on the Cape Fear and from his father's diary. The description of the upper beds at Silver Bluff may have been transferred from the Cape Fear, where fossiliferous Pliocene beds overlie the Cretaceous. It is probable, however, that it was from notes made at an Eocene locality in Georgia, most likely Shell Bluff on the Savannah River.
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Ye, W. M., S. R. Koenning, K. Zhuo, and J. L. Liao. "First Report of Meloidogyne enterolobii on Cotton and Soybean in North Carolina, United States." Plant Disease 97, no. 9 (September 2013): 1262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-03-13-0228-pdn.
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Stunted cotton plants (Gossypium hirsutum L. cvs. PHY 375 WR and PHY 565 WR) from two separate fields near Goldsboro in Wayne County, North Carolina were collected by the NCDA&CS Agronomic Division nematode lab for nematode assay and identification in December 2011. The galls on cotton plants were very large in comparison with those commonly associated with Meloidogyne incognita Kofoid and White (Chitwood) infected cotton. In August 2012, the lab also received heavily galled roots of soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr. cv. 7732) from Wayne and Johnston counties. Population densities of the 2nd-stage juveniles ranged from 150 to 3,800 per 500 cc soil. Female perineal patterns were similar to M. incognita, but PCR and DNA sequencing matched that of M. enterolobii Yang and Eisenback (4). DNA sequences of ribosomal DNA small subunit, internal transcribed spacer, large subunit domain 2 and 3, intergeneric spacer, RNA polymerase II large subunit, and histone gene H3, were found to be 100% homologous when comparing populations of M. enterolobii from North Carolina and China. Species identification was also confirmed using PCR by a species-specific SCAR primer set MK7-F/MK7-R (2). M. enterolobii Yang & Eisenback was described in 1983 from a population causing severe damage to pacara earpod tree (Enterolobium contortisiliquum (Vell.) Morong) in China (4). In 2004, M. mayaguensis Rammah & Hirschmann, a species described from Puerto Rico, was synonymized with M. enterolobii based on esterase phenotype and mitochondrial DNA sequence (3). M. enterolobii is considered to be a highly pathogenic species and has been reported from vegetables, ornamental plants, guava, and weeds in China, Africa, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Florida in the United States (1,3,4). Of particular concern is its ability to develop on crop genotypes carrying root-knot-nematode resistance genes (Mi-1, Mh, Mir1, N, Tabasco, and Rk) in tobacco, tomato, soybean, potato, cowpea, sweet potato, and cotton. Consequently, this species was added to the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization A2 Alert list in 2010. Two populations of M. enterolobii one from soybean and one from cotton were reared on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. var. lycopersicum) in a greenhouse setting. Eggs were extracted using NaOCl and inoculated, at a rate of 7,000 per 15-cm-diameter clay pot, into a sandy soil mixture (1:1 washed river sand and loamy sand). Tomato, peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), cotton, watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai), pepper (Capsicum annuum L.), and root-knot-susceptible and -resistant tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cvs. K326 and NC 70, respectively) were transplanted immediately into the infested soil with four replications. Root galls on the host differentials were evaluated after 90 days. Reproduction occurred on all hosts except for peanut, which is consistent with reports for M. enterolobii and M. incognita race 4 (4). Adult females from pepper plants used in the host differential test were sequenced on partial 18S and ITS1 region and confirmed to be M. enterlobii. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a natural infection of North Carolina field crops with M. enterolobii. References: (1) J. Brito et al. J. Nematol. 36:324, 2004. (2) M. S. Tigano et al. Plant Pathol. 59:1054, 2010. (3) J. Xu et al. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 110:309, 2004. (4) B. Yang and J. D. Eisenback. J. Nematol. 15:381, 1983.
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Grand Pre, Candace, Stephen J. Culver, David J. Mallinson, Kathleen M. Farrell, D. Reide Corbett, Benjamin P. Horton, Caroline Hillier, Stanley R. Riggs, Scott W. Snyder, and Martin A. Buzas. "Rapid Holocene coastal change revealed by high-resolution micropaleontological analysis, Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, USA." Quaternary Research 76, no. 3 (November 2011): 319–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2011.06.012.
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AbstractForaminiferal analyses of 404 contiguous samples, supported by diatom, lithologic, geochronologic and seismic data, reveal both rapid and gradual Holocene paleoenvironmental changes in an 8.21-m vibracore taken from southern Pamlico Sound, North Carolina. Data record initial flooding of a latest Pleistocene river drainage and the formation of an estuary 9000 yr ago. Estuarine conditions were punctuated by two intervals of marine influence from approximately 4100 to 3700 and 1150 to 500 cal yr BP. Foraminiferal assemblages in the muddy sand facies that accumulated during these intervals contain many well-preserved benthic foraminiferal species, which occur today in open marine settings as deep as the mid shelf, and significant numbers of well-preserved planktonic foraminifera, some typical of Gulf Stream waters. We postulate that these marine-influenced units resulted from temporary destruction of the southern Outer Banks barrier islands by hurricanes. The second increase in marine influence is coeval with increased rate of sea-level rise and a peak in Atlantic tropical cyclone activity during the Medieval Climate Anomaly. This high-resolution analysis demonstrates the range of environmental variability and the rapidity of coastal change that can result from the interplay of changing climate, sea level and geomorphology in an estuarine setting.
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Humphrey, C. P., M. A. O’Driscoll, and M. A. Zarate. "Evaluation of on-site wastewater system Escherichia coli contributions to shallow groundwater in coastal North Carolina." Water Science and Technology 63, no. 4 (February 1, 2011): 789–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2011.310.
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The study goal was to determine if on-site wastewater systems (OSWWS) installed in coastal areas were effective at reducing indicator bacteria densities before discharge to groundwater. Groundwater Escherichia coli (E. coli) densities and groundwater levels adjacent to 16 OSWWS in three different soil groups (sand, sandy loam, and sandy clay loam) were monitored and compared to background groundwater conditions on four occasions between March 2007 and February 2008 in coastal North Carolina. Groundwater beneath OSWWS had significantly (p≤0.05) lower densities of E. coli than septic tank effluent, but significantly higher densities of E. coli than background conditions for each soil type. Twenty three percent of all groundwater samples near OSWWS had E. coli densities that exceeded the EPA freshwater contact standards (single sample 235 cfu/100 mL) for surface waters. Groundwater E. coli densities near OSWWS were highest during shallow water table periods. The results indicate that increasing the required vertical separation distance from drainfield trenches to seasonal high water table could improve shallow groundwater quality.
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Sale, P. W. G., R. J. Gilkes, M. D. A. Bolland, P. G. Simpson, D. C. Lewis, D. A. Ratkowsky, M. A. Gilbert, D. L. Garden, J. W. D. Cayley, and D. Johnson. "The agronomic effectiveness of reactive phosphate rocks 1. Effect of the pasture environment." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 37, no. 8 (1997): 921. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea96108.
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Summary. The agronomic effectiveness of directly applied North Carolina reactive phosphate rock was determined for 4 years from annual dry matter responses at 26 permanent pasture sites across Australia as part of the National Reactive Phosphate Rock Project. Fertiliser comparisons were based on the substitution value of North Carolina reactive phosphate rock for triple superphosphate (the SV50). The SV50 was calculated from fitted response curves for both fertilisers at the 50% of maximum yield response level of triple superphosphate. The reactive phosphate rock was judged to be as effective as triple superphosphate in the 1st year (and every year thereafter) at 4 sites (SV50 >0.9), and was as effective by the 4th year at 5 sites. At another 9 sites the reactive phosphate rock was only moderately effective with SV50 values between 0.5 and 0.8 in the 4th year, and at the final 8 sites it performed poorly with the 4th year SV50 being less than 0.5. Pasture environments where the reactive phosphate rock was effective in the 1st year were: (i) those on sandy, humic or peaty podsols with an annual rainfall in excess of 850 mm; (ii) those on soils that experienced prolonged winter inundation and lateral surface flow; and (iii) tropical grass pastures in very high rainfall areas (>2300 mm) on the wet tropical coast on North Queensland. The highly reactive North Carolina phosphate rock became effective by the 4th year at sites in southern Australia where annual rainfall exceeded 700 mm, and where the surface soil was acidic [pH (CaCl2) <5.0] and not excessively sandy (sand fraction in the A1 horizon <67%) but had some phosphorus (P) sorption capacity. Sites that were unsuitable for reactive phosphate rock use in the medium term (up to 4 years at least) were on very high P-sorbing krasnozem soils or high P-sorbing lateritic or red earth soils supporting subterranean-clover-dominant pasture, or on lower rainfall (< 600 mm) pastures growing on soils with a sandy A1 horizon (sand component >84%). No single environmental feature adequately predicted reactive phosphate rock performance although the surface pH of the soil was most closely correlated with the year-4 SV50 (r = 0.67). Multiple linear regression analysis found that available soil P (0–10 cm) and the P sorption class of the surface soil (0–2 cm), together with annual rainfall and a measure of the surface soil"s ability to retain moisture, could explain about two-thirds of the variance in the year-4 SV50 . The results from this Project indicate that there are a number of specific pasture environments in the higher rainfall regions of Australia where North Carolina reactive phosphate rock can be considered as an effective substitute P fertiliser for improved pasture.
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Pan, Weinan, R. P. Boyles, J. G. White, and J. L. Heitman. "Characterizing Soil Physical Properties for Soil Moisture Monitoring with the North Carolina Environment and Climate Observing Network." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 29, no. 7 (July 1, 2012): 933–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-11-00104.1.
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Abstract Soil moisture has important implications for meteorology, climatology, hydrology, and agriculture. This has led to growing interest in development of in situ soil moisture monitoring networks. Measurement interpretation is severely limited without soil property data. In North Carolina, soil moisture has been monitored since 1999 as a routine parameter in the statewide Environment and Climate Observing Network (ECONet), but with little soils information available for ECONet sites. The objective of this paper is to provide soils data for ECONet development. The authors studied soil physical properties at 27 ECONet sites and generated a database with 13 soil physical parameters, including sand, silt, and clay contents; bulk density; total porosity; saturated hydraulic conductivity; air-dried water content; and water retention at six pressures. Soil properties were highly variable among individual ECONet sites [coefficients of variation (CVs) ranging from 12% to 80%]. This wide range of properties suggests very different behavior among sites with respect to soil moisture. A principal component analysis indicated parameter groupings associated primarily with soil texture, bulk density, and air-dried water content accounted for 80% of the total variance in the dataset. These results suggested that a few specific soil properties could be measured to provide an understanding of differences in sites with respect to major soil properties. The authors also illustrate how the measured soil properties have been used to develop new soil moisture products and data screening for the North Carolina ECONet. The methods, analysis, and results presented here have applications to North Carolina and for other regions with heterogeneous soils where soil moisture monitoring is valuable.
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Avery, G. Brooks, Robert J. Kieber, Kelly J. Taylor, and Jennifer L. Dixon. "Dissolved organic carbon release from surface sand of a high energy beach along the Southeastern Coast of North Carolina, USA." Marine Chemistry 132-133 (March 2012): 23–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2012.01.006.
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Kerns, J. P., and L. P. Tredway. "First Report of Pythium Root Dysfunction of Creeping Bentgrass Caused by Pythium volutum in North Carolina." Plant Disease 91, no. 5 (May 2007): 632. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-91-5-0632c.
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In July and August of 2002 and 2003, a disease of unknown etiology was observed in Charlotte, NC on ‘A-1’ creeping bentgrass (CRB; Agrostis stolonifera L.) putting greens that were constructed in 2000. Symptoms appeared in irregular patches ranging from 15 to 30 cm in diameter. Grass in the affected areas was initially wilted and chlorotic, but later exhibited a yellow-to-orange foliar decline. Similar symptoms were observed in Durham, NC in July and August of 2003 on CRB greens established in 2001 with a 1:1 blend of ‘A-1’ and ‘A-4’. The disease was initially diagnosed as take-all patch, but attempts to isolate Gaeumannomyces graminis var. avenae and other ectotrophic root pathogens were unsuccessful. Symptoms of the disease reappeared during periods of warm, dry weather in the fall of 2003 and spring of 2004. At that time, examination of affected root tissue revealed bulbous root tips, loose cortical structure, absence of root hairs, and abundant Pythium oospores and hyphae. These signs and symptoms are typical of Pythium root dysfunction (PRD) as described by Hodges and Coleman (2) in 1985 and Feng and Dernoeden (3) in 1999. Isolation of Pythium spp. was performed by plating directly on V8 agar (4) or baiting with ‘A-4’ CRB seedlings. Eleven Pythium isolates were obtained from Charlotte (seven via baiting) and 10 were obtained from Durham (all via baiting). All isolates were transferred to grass leaf-blade cultures (4) to induce development of sporangia, oospores, and antheridia for identification using the keys and descriptions of Dick (1). All isolates produced lobate sporangia, large oospores (27 to 33 ± 2.8 μm), and three to nine diclinous antheridia typical of Pythium volutum. Cone-Tainers (3.8 × 20 cm) containing sand meeting USGA specifications were seeded with ‘A-1’ CRB and grown for 6 weeks in the greenhouse. Each Cone-Tainer was inoculated by cutting the root system at a 5 cm depth, placing five to seven infested grass blades onto the surface of fresh sand, and then replacing the turf. Cone-Tainers inoculated with one of three P. volutum isolates and an uninoculated control (six reps each) were placed in a growth chamber with 12 h of light/dark periods at 24/16°C for 4 weeks to allow pathogen infection and disease development. After 4 weeks, the chamber temperature was raised to 32/26°C to induce symptom development. Two weeks after raising the temperature, all P. volutum isolates caused significant (P = <0.0001) foliar chlorosis and dieback (70 to 100% disease) and reduced root depth and mass by 25 to 65% compared with the uninoculated control. Roots of inoculated plants were colonized with Pythium hyphae, contained numerous oospores, and consistently yielded P. volutum in isolations. To our knowledge, this is the first reported occurrence of PRD in North Carolina and provides further support for the importance of P. volutum as a pathogen of creeping bentgrass. On the basis of our observations, the majority of pathogen activity and disease development occurs in the fall and spring, with foliar symptoms being induced by heat or other stresses. References: (1) M. W. Dick. Keys to Pythium. University of Reading Press, Reading, UK, 1990. (2) C. F. Hodges and L. W. Coleman. Plant Dis. 69:336, 1985. (3) Y. Feng and P. H. Dernoeden. Plant Dis. 83:516, 1999. (4) F. N. Martin. Pythium. Pages 39–49 in: Methods for Research on Soilborne Phytopathogenic Fungi. L. L. Singleton et al., eds. The American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, MN, 1992.
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Yoder, Jay A., Eric J. Rellinger, Kevin M. Gribbins, Justin L. Tank, and Brian E. Moore. "Differences in Body Size and Water Balance Strategies between North Carolina and Florida Populations of the Sand Fiddler Crab, Uca Pugilator." Journal of Crustacean Biology 27, no. 4 (January 1, 2007): 560–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1651/s-2795.1.
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Graham, R. C. "Weathering of Iron-Bearing Minerals in Soils and Saprolite on the North Carolina Blue Ridge Front: I. Sand-Size Primary Minerals." Clays and Clay Minerals 37, no. 1 (1989): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1346/ccmn.1989.0370103.
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Li, Xu Tao, and Chang Song Lin. "Delta Front Depositional System Study Based on Seismic Attributes and Well Logging Facies." Applied Mechanics and Materials 170-173 (May 2012): 1285–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.170-173.1285.
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Along with analysis of logging facies characteristics of drilled wells, isometric strata slicing technique for seismic attribute is applied to interpret the distribution of the depositional systems in the study area. It is understood that Nenjiang3 Formation in Xinbei area of Xinli field consists of water regressive and sand progressive delta front depositional system from bottom to top. Combined with analogue analysis of well logging facies and planar seismic attributes, it is learned that sediments generally came from the north area, and main sedimentary microfacies include underwater distributary channels, river mouth bars, sheet sands body and interdistributary bays of delta front. With isometric slicing for the extraction of seismic attributes and logging operation, the distribution rules for sedimentary systems could analyzed, thereby providing a feasible method that could be referenced by the study on sedimentary system distribution of other areas.
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Vepraskas, Michael J., Aziz Amoozegar, and Terrence Gardner. "Estimation of Saprolite Thickness Needed to Remove E. coli from Wastewater." Applied Sciences 11, no. 5 (February 26, 2021): 2066. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11052066.
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Saprolite, weathered bedrock, is being used to dispose of domestic sewage through septic system drainfields, but the thickness of saprolite needed to remove biological contaminants is unknown for most saprolites. This study developed and tested a simple method for estimating the thickness of saprolite needed below septic drainlines to filter E. coli from wastewater using estimates of the volume of pores that are smaller than the length of the coliform (≤10 μm). Particle size distribution (texture) and water retention data were obtained for 12 different saprolites from the Piedmont and Mountain regions of North Carolina (N.C.). Saprolite textures ranged from clay loam to coarse sand. The volume of pores with diameters ≤10 μm were determined by water retention measurements for each saprolite. The data were used in an equation to estimate the saprolite thickness needed to filter E. coli. The estimated saprolite thicknesses ranged from 36 cm in the clay loam to 113 cm for the coarse sand. The average thickness across all samples was 58 cm. Saprolite thickness estimates increased as silt percentage decreased and as sand percentage and in situ saturated hydraulic conductivity increased. Silt percentage may be most useful for estimating appropriate saprolite thicknesses in the field.
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Finkl, Charles W. "Lessons from the SandLessons from the Sand. By Pilkey, C.O. and Pilkey, O.H., 2016. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, A Southern Gateways Guide, 221p. ISBN: 978-1-4696-2737-3. US$13.58, paperback." Journal of Coastal Research 331 (January 2017): 226. http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/jcoastres-d-16a-00010.1.
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Burns, John M. "Speciation in an Insular Sand Dune Habitat:Atrytonopsis(Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae)—Mainly from the Southwestern United States and Mexico—Off the North Carolina Coast." Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 69, no. 4 (December 2015): 275–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.18473/lepi.69i4.a4.
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Koehler, A., and H. Shew. "First Report of Stem Rot of Stevia Caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in North Carolina." Plant Disease 98, no. 10 (October 2014): 1433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-03-14-0307-pdn.
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Stevia (Stevia rebaundiana Bertoni) is an emerging perennial crop in the United States. The crop is grown for 3 to 5 years with two harvests per growing season. Stevia contains numerous glycosides that are used as a natural noncaloric sweetener, and in 2008 was approved by the USDA as a sugar substitute. In commercial plantings of second-year stevia in North Carolina, diseased plants were observed in April and May of 2013. Diseased plants were observed in several counties in the state in fields that had been planted primarily in a corn-soybean rotation prior to stevia planting. Symptoms included wilting, chlorotic leaves, necrotic leaves at the base of the stem, bleached stem lesions, and dead plants. Symptomatic plants often also had tufts of white hyphae present on stems and large, irregularly shaped 2- to 8-mm black sclerotia frequently were present on the base of the stem. Isolations from infected stem tissue were made on potato dextrose agar amended with 50 μg/ml of streptomycin sulfate and penicillin G. Based on hyphal and sclerotial characteristics, isolates were tentatively identified as Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary (4). Koch's postulates were confirmed on 10-week-old Stevia plants cv. G3 grown in the greenhouse in 10-cm-diameter pots containing a sterile 1:1:1 sand, loam, media mix. Oat grains infested with one isolate obtained from diseased field plants served as the inoculum. Oats were sterilized on three consecutive days, inoculated with colonized agar plugs of S. sclerotiorum, and then incubated at room temperature until they were thoroughly colonized. Three infested oat grains were buried 1 cm deep approximately 2 cm from the base of the plant in each of the six test pots and plants were observed over a 3-week period for symptoms. Symptoms developed on all plants within 5 days of inoculation. Leaves began to wilt, then turned chlorotic and necrotic, with stem lesions and sclerotia present at the base of the plant. Isolations were taken from infected stem tissue and pure cultures were prepared for molecular identification. Uninoculated control plants did not develop symptoms. Pathogen identification was confirmed using universal primers ITS 4,5 and β-tubulin (2,3). Mycelium from the cultured greenhouse stem isolations were grown in potato dextrose broth. Mycelium samples were aspirated and lyophilized prior to DNA extraction. Extracted DNA was amplified through PCR with ITS and β-tubulin primers and sent for sequencing. Sequences were aligned using CLC Workbench. Sequences from ITS45 had 100% identity to S. sclerotiorum GenBank Accession No. KF859933.1, confirming S. sclerotiorum as the causal organism. The β-tubulin sequence was compared against the Broad Institute S. sclerotiorum whole genome shotgun sequence and was confirmed to have 100% identity to the beta tubulin chain (5). This is the first report of S. sclerotiorum on stevia in the United States. Chang et al. (2) reported a stem rot of stevia in Canada and confirmed S. sclerotiorum as the causal organism. References: (1) K. Chang et al. Plant Dis. 81:311, 1997. (2) J. Freeman et al. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 108:877, 2002. (3) N. L. Glass and G. C. Donaldson. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:1323, 1995. (4) J. E. M. Mordue and P. Holliday. CMI No. 513, 1976. (5) Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Sequencing Project, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Online: http://www.broadinstitute.org/ , accessed July 16, 2014.
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Hidden, Scott, and Nariman Abar. "Predesign Foundation Load Test Program for US-17 (Wilmington) Bypass over Northeast Cape Fear River." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1736, no. 1 (January 2000): 19–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1736-03.
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The North Carolina Department of Transportation is currently conducting a predesign foundation load test for a new bridge over the Northeast Cape Fear River near Wilmington, North Carolina. The primary purpose of the load test program is to determine whether concrete piles can penetrate a very dense and cemented sand layer and what side friction and tip bearing capacities should be used for the design of the drilled piers. Significant cost savings could be realized if pile foundations instead of drilled piers could support the approach spans of the bridge. For this determination, three concrete piles will be installed 30 m into the ground. Significant cost savings could also be realized by making a more accurate determination of the drilled pier capacities. For this determination, the side friction and tip bearing capacities of the dense Peedee sands and the underlying hard marine clays will be determined with Osterberg cell tests on two 2130-mm-diameter drilled piers. The different subsurface layers (muck, alluvial sands, and Peedee sands) will also be tested laterally with both static and statnamic testing to assist in the foundation design. The load test program incorporates an NCHRP research program on pile groups. The program includes testing a reusable instrumented steel pile group and frame at various sites in various soil conditions around the United States. The load test program results to date, the effect of the results on the foundation design, and the construction, testing, and instrumentation of the drilled piers are described.
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Coleman, Nicholas C., and Erin J. Burge. "Association behavior between sand tiger sharks and round scad is driven by mesopredators." PeerJ 9 (April 8, 2021): e11164. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11164.
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In marine systems, behaviorally-mediated indirect interactions between prey, mesopredators, and higher trophic-level, large predators are less commonly investigated than other ecologic interactions, likely because of inherent difficulties associated with making observations. Underwater videos (n = 216) from SharkCam, a camera installation sited beneath Frying Pan Tower, a decommissioned light house and platform, on a natural, hard bottom site approximately 50 km off Cape Fear, North Carolina, were used to investigate association behavior of round scad Decapterus punctatus around sand tiger sharks Carcharias taurus. Videos containing sand tiger sharks were analyzed for the simultaneous presence of round scad, and six species of scad mesopredators, with scad-shark interactions assigned to one of three categories of association: no visible interaction, loosely associated, or tightly associated. The likelihood of scad being loosely or tightly associated with sharks was significantly higher in the presence of scad mesopredators, suggesting that sharks provide a predation refuge for scad. This behaviorally-mediated indirect interaction has important implications for trophic energy transfer and mesopredator control on hard bottoms, as scad are one of the most abundant planktivorous fish on hard bottoms in the western Atlantic Ocean. Although we were not able to provide statistical evidence that sand tiger sharks also benefit from this association behavior, we have clear video evidence that round scad association conceals and attracts mesopredators, enhancing predation opportunities for sand tiger sharks. These interactions potentially yield additional trophic consequences to this unique association and highlight the value of exploring behaviorally-mediated interactions in marine communities.
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Humphrey, Charles, Brent Serozi, Guy Iverson, Jordan Jernigan, Sushama Pradhan, Michael O'Driscoll, and Eban Bean. "Phosphate treatment by onsite wastewater systems in nutrient-sensitive watersheds of North Carolina's Piedmont." Water Science and Technology 74, no. 7 (July 26, 2016): 1527–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2016.355.
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The goal of this study was to gain a better understanding of the PO4-P treatment efficiency of onsite wastewater systems (OWS) installed in nutrient-sensitive watersheds of the North Carolina Piedmont. Four OWS including two conventional and two single-pass sand filter (SF) systems were evaluated at sites with clay-rich soils. Piezometers were installed near all of the OWS, and down-gradient from the conventional OWS for groundwater collection and characterization. Septic tanks, groundwater, SF effluent, and surface waters were sampled each season during 2015 (five times) and analyzed for PO4-P and Cl concentrations and for various environmental parameters. The conventional and SF OWS reduced PO4-P concentrations by an average of 99% and 90%, respectively, before discharge to surface waters. Mass-load reductions of PO4-P were also greater for the conventional OWS (mean 95%), relative to SF (83%) systems. The effluents discharged by SF OWS were influencing surface water quality. Additional treatment of the effluent from single-pass SF with reactive media is suggested, along with monitoring of the final effluent for PO4-P concentrations. This research provides important information that is absent from the published literature concerning PO4-P contributions to water resources from OWS in clay soils.
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Koehler, A., and H. Shew. "First Report of Stem and Root Rot of Stevia Caused by Sclerotium rolfsii in North Carolina." Plant Disease 98, no. 7 (July 2014): 1005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pdis-12-13-1238-pdn.
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Stevia (Stevia rebaundia) is an emerging crop in the United States. Once established, the crop is grown for 3 to 5 years and is typically harvested twice per growing season. Stevia leaves contain multiple glycosides that are used as a natural noncaloric sweetener that was approved by the USDA in 2008 as a sugar substitute. In commercial plantings of Stevia in North Carolina, wilting and death of plants in first- and second-year plantings were observed in 2012 and 2013. Diseased plants were observed in multiple counties in the state, with first symptoms observed in May of each year and continuing through the summer months. Prior to Stevia, these fields had been planted primarily in a corn-soybean rotation. Symptoms began as moderate to severe wilting of young shoots and chlorosis of leaves, rapidly followed by death of stems and rotting of roots. White mycelial growth was frequently observed at the base of stem tissue. Theses characteristic hyphae of Sclerotium rolfsii were often accompanied by the presence of abundant white to brown sclerotia. Isolations from infected root and stem tissue were made on potato dextrose agar amended with 50 μg/ml of streptomycin sulfate and penicillin G. Isolations from diseased tissue yielded characteristic white hyphae of S. rolfsii (1,3). Numerous sclerotia 0.5 to 2 mm in diameter developed following 4 to 7 days of mycelial growth. Sclerotia were initially white and melanized turning brown with age. To verify pathogenicity, 10-week-old Stevia seedlings were transplanted in 10-cm diameter pots containing sterile 1:1:1 sand, loam, media mix. Inoculum consisted of oat grains infested with one isolate obtained from the field plants. Oats were sterilized on three consecutive days and then inoculated with colonized agar plugs of S. rolfsii. Oats were incubated at room temperature to allow the fungus to thoroughly colonize the oats. Three infested oat grains were added to each test pot and plants were then observed over a 3-week period. Symptoms were observed within 5 days on most plants and included chlorotic leaves, bleached stems, wilting, and necrotic roots. White mycelium and abundant sclerotia were found at the base of plants. Uninoculated plants did not develop any symptoms. This is the first report of S. rolfsii on Stevia in the United States. Kamalakannan et al. (2) reported a root rot disease of Stevia in India and confirmed S. rolfsii as the causal agent. References: (1) R. Aycock. N.C. Agr. Exp. St. Tech. Bull. No. 174, 1966. (2) A. Kamalakannan et al. Plant Pathol. 56:350, 2007. (3) J. E. M. Mordue. Corticium rolfsii. CMI Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria No. 410. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, 1974.
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Tredway, L. P. "First Report of Summer Patch of Creeping Bentgrass Caused by Magnaporthe poae in North Carolina." Plant Disease 89, no. 2 (February 2005): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/pd-89-0204a.
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An unknown disease was observed in June 2002 and 2003 on creeping bentgrass (CRB [Agrostis stolonifera L.]) putting greens at The Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, NC that were established in 2001 with a 1:1 blend of cvs. A-1 and A-4. Soil pH ranged from 7 to 8 at this location because of poor quality irrigation water. Symptoms appeared in circular patches of 0.3 to 1 m in diameter that exhibited signs of wilt followed by chlorosis and orange foliar dieback. The disease was initially diagnosed as take-all patch caused by Gaeumannomyces graminis (Sacc.) Arx & D. Olivier var. avenae (E.M. Turner) Dennis, based on the observation of necrotic roots and crowns that were colonized with dark, ectotrophic hyphae. However, the historical lack of take-all patch occurrence in this region led to the suspicion that G. graminis var. avenae was not involved. Sections of root and crown tissue were surface disinfested in 0.6% NaOCl for 5 min or 1% AgNO3 for 1 min and 5% NaCl for 30 s. Tissue was plated on SMGGT3 (2) or on potato dextrose agar containing 50 mg L-1 of tetracycline, streptomycin, and chloramphenicol. A fungus resembling Magnaporthe poae Landschoot & Jackson was consistently obtained regardless of isolation method. Teleomorph production was conducted on Sachs agar (4) overlaid with autoclaved wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) stem sections. Seven isolates were plated alone or paired with M. poae tester isolates 73-1 or 73-15 (3) and incubated at room temperature under continuous fluorescent illumination. Six isolates produced perithecia and ascospores typical of M. poae (3) when paired with 73-15 but not when plated alone or paired with 73-1; these isolates are, therefore, M. poae mating type ‘a’. Isolate TAP42 did not produce perithecia and remains unidentified. Cone-Tainers (3.8 × 20 cm) containing calcined clay were seeded with ‘A-4’ CRB (9.7 g cm-2) and inoculated 8 weeks later by placing four M. poae-infested rye (Secale cereale L.) grains below the soil surface. Inoculated Cone-Tainers were placed in growth chambers with 12-h day/night cycles at 30/25°C, 35/25°C, or 40/25°C. Field plots (1 m2) of ‘A-4’ CRB in Jackson Springs, NC were inoculated on 19 June 2003 by removing a soil core (1.9 × 10.3 cm) from the center of each plot, adding 25 cm3 of M. poae-infested rye grains, and then capping the hole with sand. Growth chamber and field inoculations were arranged in a randomized complete block with four replications. Eight weeks after inoculation in the growth chamber, isolates TAP35, TAP41, and SCR4 caused significant foliar chlorosis and dieback at 12-h day/night cycles of 30/25°C and 35/25°C, but only TAP41 induced symptoms at 40/25°C. Isolate TAP42 did not induce symptoms at any temperature regimen. Orange patches (10 to 15 cm in diameter) were observed in field plots inoculated with TAP41 on 27 August 2003. No other isolates induced aboveground symptoms. Roots and crowns of plants exhibiting foliar symptoms in the greenhouse and field were necrotic and colonized with ectotrophic hyphae, and M. poae was consistently isolated from this tissue. Although M. poae has been associated with CRB in Florida (1), to our knowledge, this is the first report of summer patch of CRB within the normal zone of adaptation for this turfgrass species. Observation of this disease highlights the need for accurate methods for diagnosis of diseases caused by ectotrophic root-infecting fungi. References: (1) M. L. Elliott. Plant Dis. 77:429, 1993. (2) M. E. Juhnke et al. Plant Dis. 68:233, 1984. (3) P. J. Landschoot and N. Jackson. Mycol. Res. 93:59, 1989. (4) E. S. Lutrell. Phytopathology 48:281, 1958.