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Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural

Creator:: Ellis, Erik
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor

Creator:: Zernel, John Joseph, 1945-
Abstract:: John Wesley Powell worked actively for public land system reform while a director of geographical and geological surveys in the West from 1869 to 1894. Although this has won him acclaim as a conservationist, the basis of Powell's linkage of reform with scientific work is poorly understood. A study of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Context by John Joseph Zernel A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Controversy By J. Christopher Jolly A DISSERTATION Submitted to Oregon State University In partial

Creator:: Jensen, Erica (Erica Lyn)
Abstract:: Similar to other spectacular scenic areas in the American West, Idaho’s White Cloud Mountains have been a contested landscape since the beginning of the 20th century. Although, legislation was introduced in Congress as early as 1913 to protect the towering mountains of south-central Idaho as a national park, the issue...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

Creator:: Williams, Thomas Herbert
Abstract:: Understanding how populations within a species interact across various geographic and temporal scales is fundamental to developing appropriate conservation strategies. I examined the geographic variation in genetic and meristic characters of coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki clarki) based on approximately 1,400 fish sampled from 54 populations spanning their distributional range...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: (Oncorhynchus clarki clarki) by Thomas H. Williams ifi A DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University

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