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  • Risky business : evaluating the vulnerability and impacts from simulated oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico

    Creator:
    Nelson, Jake R.
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    Exploration and production of oil in the Gulf of Mexico has seen an astonishing increase since the first well was drilled in 1936. Much of the current exploration is occurring in waters greater than 5000 feet. The largest and most unprecedented oil spill in the United States occurred on April...
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    Masters Thesis
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    central role in oil and gas research in the United States. With the occurrence of both anthropogenic and

  • Latinos, loggers and old hippies : rural revitalization in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Kubein, Adele
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    This ethnography looks at the processes a rural Oregon community is undergoing as some members attempt to re-animate the community by creating a community center after the loss of its school and market, two vital services that provided venues for social interaction and engagement. The methodology for this research includes...
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    Masters Thesis
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    research will bring the hopes and needs of the community to the attention of other caring eyes. Thank you

  • Continuity & Change: Commercial Fishing & Community Resilience on the Oregon Coast

    Creator:
    Flathers, Courtney
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    Commercial fishing is deeply embedded in the economy and culture of many coastal communities. Recent ecological, economic, and regulatory changes impacting fisheries are likely to have important consequences for this industry and the communities it supports. The objective of this study is to improve understanding of coastal community resilience through...
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    Capstone Project
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    your research work while in graduate school. I must also thank the people of Newport and Port

  • Food Safety Issues in the Vegetable Trade between China and Japan: What is Required to Establish Effective Food Safety System in Their Bilateral Food Trade?

    Creator:
    Matsuda, Akane
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    In the context of expanding global food trade in which we import and consume a variety of foods from across the world, insuring food safety, an essential public health issue, has become a major concern in our food supply system. Over the past several years, food related scandals of Chinese...
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    Capstone Project
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  • Female Genital Cutting in the Gambia: A Case for Tostan

    Creator:
    Kopper, Sarah
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    The World Health Organization (WHO) defines female genital cutting (FGC) as “all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons” (WHO, 2010). This practice has existed in Africa for thousands of years, but over the...
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    Capstone Project
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    . Throughout my stay I received numerous insights from the Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and

  • Vaccine beliefs of complementary and alternative medical (CAM) providers in Oregon

    Creator:
    Bean, Sandra J.
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    Health care providers, including complementary and alternative medical (CAM) practitioners, exert a significant influence on parental pediatric vaccination decisions. Use of CAM therapies is increasing in Oregon. Concomitantly, there has been a decade-long increase in parental vaccine refusal in Oregon, rising from 1 to 5 percent from 2000-2009. For example,...
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    Dissertation
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    whether a CAM provider promoted or opposed pediatric vaccination. The results of this research suggest

  • Methods for Engaging Leaders in Climate Science and Providing Local Decision Support

    Creator:
    Winters, Kirsten
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    Oregon Sea Grant and its partner states have received a Sectoral Applications Research Project (SARP) grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to refine outreach methods for coastal communities with specific attention to climate change. This paper will focus on the SARP project and a related case study...
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    Capstone Project
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     2:  Presentations  of  Social  Science  Research……     8     Figure  3:  The

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

    Creator:
    Shepard, Stephanie
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    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...
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    opportunity to pursue this topic as part of the Community Reactions to Extreme Weather Events NSF research

  • The poetics of water governance : differential language use in relation to water in El Salvador

    Creator:
    Ogden, Stephanie
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    The language of water policy both suggests and enforces the relationship that the public should have with water. Differences in language use between policy institutions and the public suggest that the understanding of water promoted through policy may be incongruent with the understanding of water held by the public. Semi-structured...
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    Capstone Project
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  • Blood, bondage and chains : a legacy of kinship between black-red people

    Creator:
    Bertha, Clarissa
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    My research is looking at the cultural and kinship ties of African and Native peoples and how our worlds were forged together by colonization, bonded during the institutionalize state of shackles and slavery and how the legacy of these tools of genocide are now tearing us apart. Being of mixed...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : _______________________________________________________________ Sunil Khanna My research is looking at the cultural and kinship ties of African and Native