Seasonal resolution of laminated sediments in Santa Barbara Basin: its significance in paleoclimatic studies

Sediments in Santa Barbara Basin contain microfossil and sedimentological information that allows reconstruction of major features of the California Current such as water temperature, strength of upwelling, and productivity. ... Until now, investigations of Santa Barbara Basin sediments have utilized analytical techniques that could not resolve seasonal laminae, permitting annual resolution of variations in sediment composition and structure only. ... Based on a successful technique for preparation of epoxy-embedded and highly polished thin-sections that permit economical optical and electron microscope evaluation of laminated sequences, it is our long-term goal to reconstruct, with unprecedented detail, the history of sedimentation processes in the Santa Barbara Basin by developing ultra-high-resolution time series of biotic and detrital proxies.

Sea surface temperature and paleo-El Niño events in Santa Barbara Basin, AD 1841-1941

Like pages of a "natural coastal diary", successive layers of anoxic varved sediment in the central Santa Barbara Basin have been used by paleoceanographers to reconstruct aspects of past coastal climate. This report focuses on the end of the "Little Ice Age" (15th to 19th century) and on the beginning of this century, a period known to encompass extreme climate excursions and weather events in the Santa Barbara Basin and other parts of Southern California. El Niño events are known to disrupt Southern California's coastal ecosystems and to cause anomalous weather conditions, but El Niño events in Southern California before 1990 have been largely undocumented.

Radiolarian flux in the Santa Barbara Basin as an index of climate variability

Annual radiolarian flux (1954-1986) extrapolated from varved Santa Barbara Basin sediments was compared to instrumental data to examine the effect of interannual climate variability. Paleo-reconstructions over large geographic areas or 10^3 years and longer typically rely on changes in species composition to signal environment or climate shifts. In the relatively short period studied, climate fluctuations were insufficient to significantly alter the assemblage, but there was considerable variability in the total flux of radiolarians. This variability, greatest on 5- to 25-year time scales, appears to be linked to regional climate variability. Total flux correlates to regional California sea surface temperature and the composite of sea level pressure over the Northern Hemisphere for years of high radiolarian flux resembles positive PNA circulation.

Decadal persistence of cycles in lava lake motion at Erebus volcano, Antarctica

Studies of Erebus volcano's active lava lake have shown that many of its observable properties (gas composition, surface motion and radiant heat output) exhibit cyclic behaviour with a period of ~10 min. We investigate the multi-year progression of the cycles in surface motion of the lake using an extended (but intermittent) dataset of thermal infrared images collected by the Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory between 2004 and 2011. Cycles with a period of ~5-18 min are found to be a persistent feature of the lake's behaviour and no obvious long-term change is observed despite variations in lake level and surface area. The times at which gas bubbles arrive at the lake's surface are found to be random with respect to the phase of the motion cycles, suggesting that the remarkable behaviour of the lake is governed by magma exchange rather than an intermittent flux of gases from the underlying magma reservoir. © 2014 The Authors.

Geochemistry of the lava and its implications in Musicians Seamounts

Chemical and isotopic data of the lava samples dredged in the southern Bach Ridge and the northern Italian Ridge of the Musicians Seamounts province, northeast of Hawaii. Although most of the samples analyzed are generally altered, a few are fresh. The latter exhibits similar geochemical and isotopic characteristics to normal MORB (Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts). There are systematic geochemical trends from hotspot to mid-ocean ridge in the province. Incompatible element and isotopic variations suggest that the flow field had at least two distinct parental magmas, one with higher and one with lower MgO concentrations. The two parental magmas could be related by a magma mixing model. The major and trace element modeling shows that the two parental magmas could not have been produced by different degrees of melting of a homogeneous mantle source, but they are consistent with melting of a generally depleted mantle containing variable volumes of embedded enriched heterogeneity enriched interbeds.

Produção do primeiro corte de pupunheira (Bactris gasipaes) para palmito plantada sob diferentes níveis de adubação no litoral de Santa Catarina.

2009

Rentabilidade econômica do cultivo da pupunheira (Bactris gasipaes Kunth), destinada à produção de palmito no Litoral de Santa Catarina.

2010

Métodos alternativos para o controle de ervas daninhas no cultivo da pupunheira para palmito no Estado de Santa Catarina.

2010

BOSQUE modelo de Caçador: uma proposta inovadora para a região da Floresta de Araucária em Santa Catarina.

2010

Análise de investimentos em suínos, aves e florestas no estado de Santa Catarina.

2005

Evolução nas características medidas em teste de desempenho de machos de pedigree no estado de Santa Catarina.

1984

Transação entre suinocultor e agroindústria em Santa Catarina.

2006

Estrutura dos contratos de integração na suinocultura de Santa Catarina.

2006

Estimativa de custo de produção e lucratividade da soja, safra 2008/09, para o Paraná e Santa Catarina.

Custo dos insumos. Custo das máquinas, equipamentos e operações. Custo de mão-de-obra, taxas e benfeitorias. Custos sem considerar o custo de utilização da terra. Preço da saca e número de sacas. Custos considerando o custo de utilização da terra. Preço da saca e número de sacas.

Avaliação econômica da produção de soja nos estados do Rio Grande do Sul e de Santa Catarina, para a safra 2009/10.

Metodologia para a estimativa de custos e lucros. Metodologia para a estimativa do custo de oportunidade. Resultados.