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Creator:: Gleason, Kelly E.
Abstract:: As a result of a warming climate, subsequent declining snowpack, and a century of fire suppression, forest fires are increasing across the western United States. However, we still do not fully understand how forest fire effects snowpack energy balance, nor the volume and availability of snow melt and associated water...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: committee, Dr. John Bailey, Dr. Julia Jones, and Dr. Christoph Thomas, for adding breadth and depth to my

Creator:: Coons, Lexi
Abstract:: Forest canopy cover presents a major challenge for remote sensing of fractional snow-covered area (ƒSCA). Snow cover is systematically underestimated where satellites sensors cannot penetrate the forest canopy. Current canopy adjustments scale observable ƒSCA with the vegetation fraction, assuming that snow cover distributions are similar between sub-canopy and open locations....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thank my committee members Dr. Julia Jones, Dr. Thomas Hilker, and Dr. Skip Rochefort for contributing

Creator:: Brown, Aimee Lyn
Abstract:: Shifting climate patterns in the Columbia River basin are affecting snow pack, and, as a result, stream flow throughout the region. In the Oregon Cascades, ever growing populations, and their associated activities, place increasing stress on an already over allocated hydrologic system. Political pressures, including the possibility of renegotiation or...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , career and life pursuits. I am  thankful for my committee members, Aaron Wolf and Julia Jones, for their

Creator:: Medley, Brooke
Abstract:: An integrative method for monitoring glacier geometry change and mass balance is presented and applied to the Pacific Northwest, USA. Acting as a baseline for interpretation of future changes in glacier size and shape, we first derive a new inventory of regional glacier cover using remotely sensed data. To investigate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: acknowledge members of my graduate committee, Zanna Chase, Peter Clark, and Julia Jones, for their

Creator:: Tuladhar, Preeti
Abstract:: Satellite remote sensing is an effective tool for mapping snow covered area. However, complex terrain and heterogeneous land cover, due to vegetation and patchy snow cover, present challenges to snow cover mapping. This research compares two techniques for mapping snow covered area: binary and enhanced fractional snow cover mapping techniques....
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Creator:: Cosgrove, Christopher Liam
Abstract:: Arctic-boreal regions are exhibiting the symptoms of profound ecological shifts as they experience pronounced warming. Wildlife in high-latitudes are one such harbinger of change, and their populations are undergoing range-shifts, declines, and extinctions in response to their rapidly altering habitats. As the circumpolar and boreal north is snow-covered for up...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: members, Dr. Julia Jones, Dr Robert Kennedy, and Dr Bo Zhao. Julia – I always left your office feeling

Creator:: Roth, Travis R.
Abstract:: Rising global temperatures are having lasting effects on mountain snow environments in the form of diminishing snowpacks, shorter accumulation seasons, and shifts in meltwater timing. Seasonal snowpack is a vital source of water for natural and human systems. In the forested mountain landscapes of the Pacific Northwest seasonal snowmelt feeds...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . I would also like to thank my committee members, Dr. Julia Jones, Dr. Jessica Lundquist, Dr

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