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  • Utilizing cooperative fisheries research to monitor and understand harmful algal blooms along the Oregon coast

    Creator:
    Gilliland, Raquel C.
    Abstract:
    Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are a problem for coastal communities, the fishing industry, and coastal organisms. Pseudo-nitzschia spp. is a regularly occurring diatom in Oregon’s coastal waters. At times, Pseudo-nitzschia spp. can facultatively produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin that can bioaccumulate in the food chain. While regular shore-based sampling provides...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Oregon Coast Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Maria T

  • Environmental justice and energy production : coal-fired power plants in Illinois

    Creator:
    Clark, Catherine
    Abstract:
    The environmental justice framework has been applied to many environmentally negative issues in the past such as toxic storage and disposal facilities, toxic release inventory sites, air quality, transportation, and global climate change. It has not yet been applied to energy production in a quantitative study. This study investigates the...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    constant variance matrix to produce reliable standard errors and t-ratios. The parameter estimates

  • Factors Influencing Streamflow Generation Processes in Rain-dominated, Coastal Watersheds in Oregon

    Creator:
    Pazdral, Rosemary
    Abstract:
    Relative to other systems in the PNW, the rain-dominated, coastal watersheds of western Oregon have shallow aquifers. Given the seasonality of streamflow and storage limitations in coastal, rain-dominated watersheds, changes in the temporal patterns of precipitation have the potential to magnify the risk of extreme streamflow conditions during both high-...
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    Dissertation
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    21st century (Brown, 1969; Isaak et al., 2017). Changes in streamflow timing and quantity is

  • Estimation and Sparse Selection of Conditional Probability Models for Vector Time Series

    Creator:
    Ruiz, Trevor D.
    Abstract:
    Diverse scientific fields collect multiple time series data to investigate the dynamical behavior of complex systems: atmospheric and climate science, geophysics, neuroscience, epidemiology, ecology, and environmental science. Identifying patterns of mutual dependence among such data generates valuable knowledge that can be applied either for inferential or forecasting purposes. Vector autoregressive...
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    Dissertation
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    length T on the horizontal axis. 35 2.2 S&P dataset analyzed in the example causal analysis application

  • Decomposition and nitrogen dynamics of red alder and Douglas-fir leaf litter in Oregon Coast Range riparian forests

    Creator:
    Matkins, Joselin
    Abstract:
    I examined factors regulating decomposition rates of red alder (Alnus rubra)) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) leaf litter in Coast Range riparian areas in western Oregon. Overall, this study was designed to examine the influence that leaf litter quality characteristics and decomposition site treatment have on decomposition rates, to provide a...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    , Amy Eckert, Carlos Sierra, Emily Sinkhon, Aaron Thiel, Tiffany Van Huysen, and Travis Wolley). You

  • Beliefs and attitudes influence willingness to pay recreation fees at an urban forest : incorporating attitudes in contingent valuation methods

    Creator:
    Moehrke, Caitlin
    Abstract:
    The current thesis presents contingent valuation research incorporating social psychological measures that investigates recreationists' willingness to pay recreation access fees at McDonald-Dunn Forest, Oregon. Context is provided through an extensive literature review of recreation fee management, issues and concerns related to recreation fees, recreationists' attitudes toward fees, relevant social psychological...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Using Chi-square analyses and t-tests to profile respondents. .................129 3.5.2.1 Daily fee

  • Stream Chemistry in the Oregon Coast Range: Spatial and Temporal Variation

    Creator:
    Carini, Lya
    Abstract:
    Hydrological and biogeochemical processes occurring throughout a watershed are typically reflected in stream water chemistry, including in coastal watersheds. While Oregon Coast Range streams have been studied in the past, there is a dearth of knowledge in terms of seasonal temporal trends and spatial variability that this study seeks to...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • Organizational Shifts Within the U.S. Forest Service: A Case Study of Senior Willamette National Forest Employees

    Creator:
    Bolick, Zachary L.
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    The U.S. Forest Service has been forced to adapt to numerous changes over the last three decades. These include a dramatic reduction in workforce, a declining budget, and controversial lawsuits. Moreover, recent agency wide studies suggest that within the Forest Service a new resource management paradigm has emerged that differs...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    stresses interdisciplinary collaboration and balanced resource use (Brown and Harris, 1992; 2000). They

  • The Role of the Urban Matters Community of Practice within the National Park Service

    Creator:
    O’Casey, Elizabeth
    Abstract:
    There is a growing movement in the U.S., and throughout the world, involving top down government bureaucracies or government agencies within the natural resources field, to develop new and innovative processes and structures for integrating societal viewpoints into agency decision-­making. This study examines Urban Matters, a community of practice within...
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    Capstone Project
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     practice  and  enhance  the  practice  through  innovations  and  creative  solutions  (Brown  and  Duguid

  • Retirement-age migration to and from Oregon : who is still on the Oregon Trail?

    Creator:
    Gagnier, Cliff R.
    Abstract:
    Oregon, much like the nation, has historically had a paradoxical relationship to migration. Oregon is famous for the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Oregon Trail. It is, and always has been, greatly affected and inspired by interstate migration yet each successive generation has been less than welcoming to further...
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    Capstone Project
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