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Creator:: Matherne, Anne Marie
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Schrader served as my advisor and offered critical advise on my work. Nick Pisias, Art Boucot and Harold

Creator:: Styllas, Michael N.
Abstract:: Tillamook Bay is the second largest estuary on the Oregon coast, and concerns have been raised whether human induced impacts have been responsible for the perceived increase in sedimentation rates during the past century. Major land-use practices within the five watersheds of the Bay include logging, forest fires, the construction...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: initially had expected. I also want to thank my committee members Nick Pisias, James McManus and Peter

Creator:: Ortiz, Joseph D.
Abstract:: MOCNESS plankton tows, sediment traps and sedimentary material are used to determine the linkage between bio-physical forcing and foraminiferal response over a range of time scales from the event scale to the glacial interglacial cycle. The annually averaged planktic foraminiferal fauna of the modem California Current is a diverse community...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Benway, Heather M.
Abstract:: Westward transport of water vapor across the Panama Isthmus helps to maintain the salinity contrast between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, important in thermohaline circulation and global climate. Relatively low sea-surface salinities and a strong, shallow pycnocline in the eastern Pacific warm pool (EPWP) region near Central America reflect high...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: committee members Gary Klinkhammer, Nick Pisias, Eric Maloney, and Steve Hostetler, as well as my graduate

Creator:: Pitcher, Bradley W.
Abstract:: The eruptive history of the Quaternary Cascades arc has been relatively well characterized. However, much less is known about the frequency and sizes of explosive eruptions produced by earlier stages of the arc. The Late Neogene Deschutes Formation of Central Oregon preserves a remarkable record of heightened pyroclastic activity during...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: my committee. Finally, I want to thank Nick Pisias for being my GCR despite having recently retired

Creator:: Vance, Tiffany C.
Abstract:: The development of new technologies in science is a balance between existence and use. There are three versions of this duality – something is built and users come, something is built and users don’t come, and, finally, potential users show up but the ballpark has not yet been built. In...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: members: Dawn Wright, Ron Doel, Gordon Matzke, A. Jon Kimerling, Bruce D’Ambrosio and Nick Pisias

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