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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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valley was blue with the bloom of his edible root, the sweet camas; from every grove came the love
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
Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

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Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)

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L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....

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Dissertation

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other examples of people asking Dunn for his recommendations on geneticists. Theodore Just, Professor