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Creator:: Savotkina, Alexandra A.
Abstract:: This PhD dissertation describes and evaluates a geographical analysis of candidate areas for siting nuclear plants utilizing a wet cooling tower in the Columbia River Basin (CRB). It focuses on the analysis of water availability for cooling and how it may be limited by climate change effects on river streamflow....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: streamflow, including extremes (floods and low-flows) for the 2050s in the Columbia River headwaters

Creator:: Hammond, John C.
Abstract:: Climate change, combined with population growth, is expected to exacerbate water scarcity globally. In the Columbia River basin (CRB), streamflow is managed for multiple objectives with a network of dams and reservoirs distributed throughout the basin that may mitigate climate change effects on water scarcity. This study quantified trends in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: exacerbate water scarcity globally. In the Columbia River basin (CRB), streamflow is managed for multiple

Creator:: Gifford-Miears, Christopher H.
Abstract:: This thesis presents a novel approach for propagation of uncertainty in river systems. Errors in data observations and predictions (e.g., stream inflows), in model parameters, and resulting from the discretization of continuous systems, all point to the need to accurately quantify the amount of uncertainty carried through the modeling process....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Fraser River in British Columbia. c©Copyright by Christopher H. Gifford-Miears December 4, 2013 All

Creator:: Davidson, James D.
Abstract:: Variable electrical generation (VG) sources such as wind farms are an increasing percentage of total electrical generation in the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) balancing area and are starting to impact the ability of the regional balancing authority to control the electric grid. Wind farms are not dispatchable and challenge historical...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: majority of power generation in the BPA control area consists of hydro dams on the Columbia River system

Creator:: Del Moro, Sarah K.
Abstract:: Ammonia (NH₃) volatilization and loss from nitrogen (N) fertilizer in agriculture negatively impacts crops, farm profitability, human health and surrounding ecosystems where it is deposited. A significant source of NH₃ volatilization occurs from surface application of urea on sandy soils with low pH buffering capacity such as those in the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of N use in agriculture. The Columbia River Basin is a semi-arid region of the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Louhaichi, Mounir
Abstract:: Numbers of wild Canada geese (Branta canadensis) have increased dramatically during the past 30 years in the lower Columbia and Willamette Valley systems. The damage they cause by grazing and trampling plants can be substantial. The objectives of this research were to: 1) Develop methods that provide reliable estimates of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the past 30 years in the lower Columbia and Willamette Valley systems. The damage they cause by

Creator:: Sierra, Carlos Alberto
Abstract:: Despite the importance of tropical forest ecosystems in the global carbon cycle, there have been few studies of carbon dynamics in this biome. The magnitude of carbon stocks in the tropics and their changes over time are poorly known since ground-based observations are lacking. In this study, total carbon stocks...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: David, Nicholas L.
Abstract:: Field trials were conducted during 2001 to 2003 to investigate soil population dynamics of Meloidogyne chitwoodi, tuber symptom suppression using oxamyl, and post-harvest tuber symptom development on short-season potato varieties Russet Norkotah and Russet Nugget (San Luis Valley only). The experiments were located in the San Luis Valley in Colorado,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: San Luis Valley in Colorado, Klamath Basin in Oregon, and southern Columbia Basin in Oregon to

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