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  • Water, energy, and ecosystem services : a study of businesses in Oregon's Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Hunter, Maria Lewis
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    This study uses interviews with 18 businesses in Oregon's Willamette Valley to explore business investment in the environment, and how this relates to ecosystem services, payment for ecosystem services programs, and the water-energy nexus. Our research led us to outline 5 factors that influence business investment in the environment, those...
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    willingness to take me under their wing. I would also like to thank my thesis committee, Dr. Mark Edwards

  • Did the Great Recession change SNAP participation behavior? A panel analysis of two Oregon SNAP participant cohorts

    Creator:
    Carroll, Joanna M.
    Abstract:
    This analysis explores potential changes in the behavior of Oregon's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants after the 2008 recession. I examine this using individual-level administrative data from the State of Oregon in a linear probability model and a duration model. After controlling for a standard set of factors known...
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    gratitude to my committee members Bruce Weber, Christian Langpap, and Mark Edwards for their hard work

  • Response of marine stratus to successive polluting events by ships

    Creator:
    Sechrist, B.
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    Ship tracks have proven to be an ideal laboratory for studying the response of marine stratocumulus to an increase in aerosol pollution. Here the response of already polluted marine stratocumulus to further pollution was examined by studying the clouds where two ship tracks cross. 78 crossings of ship tracks were...
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    follow it. I would like to thank my committee members – Karen Shell, Eric Skyllingstad, and Mark

  • A review of the social component of ecosystem assessments with recommendations for Oregon

    Creator:
    Armstrong, Catriona M. M.
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    Large-scale ecosystem assessments aim to assist ecosystem management by synthesizing current scientific knowledge on an area, and by providing a foundation for policy discussions and decisions on land management. These assessments go beyond traditional research efforts by moving away from narrow scope, system, and institutional boundaries, and by attempting to...
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    this field. Mark Edwards went beyond the call of duty in the careful attention he paid to early