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  • Evaluating Oregon's beach sites and assessing twenty-six coastal beach areas for recreational water quality standards

    Creator:
    Benedict, Rae T.
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    With congressional passage of the BEACH Act in October of 2000, Coastal and Great Lakes states were mandated to assess coastal recreation waters for the application of ambient water quality standards. This research encompasses two components involved in applying the BEACH Act statues to Oregon. The first component was to...
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    . Abstract approved: Catherine M. Neumann With congressional passage of the BEACH Act in October of 2000

  • Asthma prevalence in school children in Lane County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Berry, Cheryl Anne
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    Asthma prevalence in children under age 18 has risen steadily in the U.S. since the mid-1970s. Most researchers attribute this increase to air pollutants, socioeconomic status or urban residence. This study examined asthma prevalence in Lane County, Oregon, using children's asthma hospital discharges (1990-1995), and data from 10 of 16...
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    , Oregon. Abstract approved: Catherine M. Neumann Asthma prevalence in children under age 18 has risen

  • Sub-regional detention siting : a methodology using GIS

    Creator:
    Murdock, Carol L.
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    The Mt. Scott watershed in northern Clackamas County, Oregon is an urban watershed that lies inside the Portland metropolitan urban growth boundary. Urbanization of the watershed began in the early 1970s and has recently accelerated. A landscape level analysis of the urbanization process was combined with the results of a...
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    . Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Catherine M. Neumann The Mt. Scott watershed in northern

  • A dose reconstruction of ⁶⁰Co contaminated window frames in a Taiwanese school

    Creator:
    Brock, Kathryn M.
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    In 1992, hundreds of buildings in Taiwan were discovered to have ⁶⁰Co contamination in the structural rebar. The contamination resulted from improper handling of ⁶⁰Co contaminated scrap metal in 1982 and 1983 that was subsequently recycled and used throughout Taiwan. One example was the Hsin-hsin Kindergarten (HHK) school which had...
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    Reconstruction of 60Co Contaminated Window Frames in a Taiwanese School. Abstract Approved: Catherine M

  • The US Department of Defense Environmental Assessment and Management (TEAM) Guide : critical review and case study

    Creator:
    Hepler, Jeffrey A.
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    In 1994, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) implemented a new audit tool developed by the US Department of Defense (DOD) called "The Environmental Assessment and Management Guide" (TEAM Guide). The TEAM Guide uses an extensive menu of checklists to determine compliance. In November 1994, the USACE Portland District...
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    Case Study Abstract Approved: Catherine M. Neumann In 1994, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE