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Fifth Oregon climate assessment

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Dalton, Meghan M., Fleishman, Erica, and Oregon Climate Change Research Institute

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Consistent with its charge under Oregon House Bill 3543, the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI) conducts a biennial assessment of the state of climate change science, including biological, physical, and social science, as it relates to Oregon and the likely effects of climate change on Oregon. This fifth Oregon...

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Technical Report

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Introduction 9 State of Climate Science 11 Natural Hazards Extreme Heat 31 Drought 37 Wildfire 47 Floods 67
Shifting Rural Quantification Towards Study of Health Disparities: Applications in Statistical and Spatial Analysis of Rural Colorectal Cancer

Creator:

Buchalter, Robert Blake

Abstract:

Quantitative measurement of the urban-rural continuum for examination of U.S. rural health disparities is a relatively new research area, where only a handful of studies have investigated health disparities using quantitative rural measures and even fewer have attempted to integrate health variables within said measures. Most U.S. rural health disparity...

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Dissertation

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county-level rural disadvantage index with integrated health factors was constructed using principal
The Association Between Extreme Climate and Diarrheal Illness in North America

Creator:

Lyon-Colbert, Amber

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The etiology and transmission of bacterial diarrheal pathogens is complex, making evaluating the association between extreme climate and diarrheal illnesses in North America challenging. Changes in climate may impact the survival, reproduction, and distribution of pathogens that cause diarrheal illness. Evidence supports the hypothesis that reproduction, survival, and transmission ability...

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Dissertation

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Having the support of my family, committee members, colleagues, professors, and friends