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Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

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Schweickert, Tina K.

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Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...

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Masters Thesis

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improvements will likely succeed only if society at large shares a fundamental belief in the value of healthy
Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

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Ellis, Erik

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This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...

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is a deeply embedded aspect of Western culture. To understand American science and society in the
Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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Jolly, J. Christopher

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The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...

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Dissertation

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debated whether or not they were witnessing a pika-don. A compound of the Japanese words for thunder and

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Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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