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  • A Deep Dive into Ocean Acidification: Policy Priorities in Oregon and California

    Creator:
    Hasert, Ryan
    Abstract:
    A product of global climate change, ocean acidification (OA) and other stressors increasingly put pressure on the economic, social, and cultural systems of Western U.S. coastal communities. In the face of increasing OA and local reports that OA is negatively impacting local communities’ socioeconomic structures, there is a clear need...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    : Erika Wolters, representing Political Science Ana Spalding, representing Sociology

  • Narratives Surrounding Dam Removal Along the Lower Snake River

    Creator:
    Wai, Megan
    Abstract:
    In September 2016, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and Bonneville Power Administration initiated an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to re-evaluate the long-term strategies for managing the Columbia River System Operations (CRSO). Most notably, these strategies included an option to remove four dams along the Lower Snake...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    : ___________________________________________________________ Erika A. Wolters In September 2016, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of

  • Non-lethal Wolf Management Perceptions Impact on the Willingness to Ranch Alongside the Presence of Wolves in Washington State

    Creator:
    Symmes, Melissa
    Abstract:
    The management of the Northern Rocky Mountains (NRM) gray wolf population is a longstanding controversy that has fueled generations of political and cultural turmoil in the American West. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, wolves were eradicated from the West for the threat...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    : ______________________________________________________ Erika Wolters The management of the Northern Rocky Mountains (NRM) gray wolf population is

  • A Closer Look into the Development of State Healthy Soils Policies: Network Building, Information Sharing, Policy Diffusion, and Innovation

    Creator:
    Beck, Sabrina
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of policy diffusion in the policy development process of state healthy soil policies. Within the last decade state legislation on soil health has increased exponentially. In general, these policies are efforts by state governments to mitigate or adapt to climate...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • Religion and Climate Change Views in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    James, Alexis R.
    Abstract:
    Anthropogenic climate change is an escalating environmental and humanitarian emergency, but American public opinion varies on the issue, particularly in terms of whether climate change is natural or human caused. Belief that climate change is human caused has been shown to be critical in terms of support for policy action....
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Erika Wolters, Representing Political Science Alexis James, Author

  • Developing a Climate Resilience Scorecard for Marin County, California

    Creator:
    Orr, Ariel N. V.
    Abstract:
    Marin County, located in the northern San Francisco Bay Area in California, faces significant threats due to climate change, including more frequent wildfires, flooding, and increased temperatures. Adaptation and mitigation efforts are necessary in order to promote resilience amidst these changing conditions. Scorecards and similar evaluation tools have previously been...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    course of this research project: Hilary Boudet, Lori Cramer, and Erika Allen Wolters of my capstone

  • New Metrics, Modeling Applications, and Observational Strategies for Snowpacks in Remote, Data-Limited, Mountain Environments

    Creator:
    Crumley, Ryan L.
    Abstract:
    The topics in this dissertation center on the snow processes that dominate mountain environments in the Western U.S. and Alaska, particularly in locations lacking long-term observational datasets or locales that are difficult to access in-person. Some are currently glacierized or have been glaciated in the recent past. Each of the...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    -05_Submission.docx AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Ryan L. Crumley for the degree of Doctor of

  • A Culture of Resilience: Social Capital and Climate Adaptation in Post-Flood Boulder County

    Creator:
    Shepard, Stephanie
    Abstract:
    Scientists say that climate change is very likely to cause more frequent and more severe weather events. In order to understand how communities respond to changing weather patterns, an exploration of the connection between extreme weather events and climate change awareness, collective action, and policy is warranted. This case study...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    felt more personal, more salient, or “more real.” Erika Archer, Flood Project Manager of Jamestown

  • Meander scars : reflections on healing a river

    Creator:
    Metzger, Abby P.
    Abstract:
    As Europeans settled the Willamette Valley in the 1800s, they began to simplify Oregon's largest river contained wholly within state boarders—the Willamette. The river lost miles of channels from dikes, dams, and development. Some channels vanished under concrete. Others became meander scars, or shallow, dry depression in the land where...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    .                                                                                                                           4 McArthur, L. A. (2003). Oregon geographic names (7th ed.). Seattle, WA: University of Washington

  • 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