Using fourier analysis, an inverse relationship between the size of cicadas and the frequency of their calls was observed for three species of cicadas in North Carolina.
This study of the chemical weathering of the limestone outcropping on the north shore of Lake Waccamaw indicates that the process plays an important role in neutralizing the relatively acidic source waters and maintaining the lake's high alkalinity.
Elevated levels of arsenic and lead were found downstream from a large textile plant. No apparent surface water pollution of heavy metals from either the city's wastewater treatment plant or landfill was found.
Using three marina collection sites and three open water collection sites, Byers provides evidence that significant zinc and copper bioaccumulation is occurring in certain marine invertebrates in marinas.
Wright shows that, by using existing technology, Elisha Mitchell could have accurately measured the height of the Black Mountains without exposing himself to the risks that killed him in 1857.
This Beaufort County study reveals that bobcats vary their diets seasonally, primarily eating rabbits in the summer and fall and cotton rats in the winter and spring.
The capture of a specimen of Octopus macropus off Cape Lookout, the second specimen collected off the North Carolina coast, leads the author to propose that the species range of O. macropus be increased to include this region.
Brown provides a list of thirty amphibians and forty-five reptiles observed in North Carolina's western Piedmont region, with notes on size, numbers, and habitat.