On a global scale, illicit economies have dramatic impacts on the physical environment. Cocaine trafficking has been recognized as a major driver of deforestation inside Central American protected areas. A key problem in studying and managing the environmental impacts of illicit economic activity is the difficulty in obtaining reliable data....
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Kaplan Yalcin, Committee Member, representing the Department of Geology and Geophysics
Native America tribes and community members throughout Oregon have asserted a strong opposition to the fossil fuel industry’s attempt to expand railways, build pipelines, and construct refineries, holding facilities, and export terminals. Despite the limited presence of fossil fuel infrastructure in the state, however, the industry is actively pursuing permits...
Similar to other spectacular scenic areas in the American West, Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains have been a contested landscape since the beginning of the 20th century. Although, legislation was introduced in Congress as early as 1913 to protect the towering mountains of south-central Idaho as a national park, the issue...
This thesis is a rhetorical analysis of American newspaper coverage of Hồ Chí Minh from 1954-1969. My method is the Pragmatic Attitude, created by Elizabeth and Jay Mechling. My foci of study are the polls and letters to the editor from this same period. These foci of study are used...
Although there is a substantial body of work on the inclusion of women in traditionally male-dominated processes of water management and water governance (Earle & Bazilli, 2013), these efforts have mostly been concentrated in the Global South and women are still lacking in positions with decision-making power, making water governance...
The Oregon Wave Energy Trust (OWET) commissioned this study to develop protocols and
methods to achieve affordable, reliable, and repeatable electromagnetic (EM) measurements in
the near-shore environment. The study was conducted in several stages, with a number of
technical reports provided at each stage to document and describe findings. The...
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in-situ at two different near-shore marine environments, and acquired EM field data
near an
Plant wax lipids and lignin phenols are the two most common classes of molecular markers that are used to trace vascular plant-derived OM in the marine environment. However, their ¹³C and ¹⁴C compositions have not been directly compared, which can be used to constrain the flux and attenuation of terrestrial...
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1963 and 1964, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.
This document contains a summary of changes in administrations and actions taken by the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission in 1965, as well as an update for the status of various fisheries.