Many people enjoy going to the beach, but few know how the tides work. People who earn their living on the sea have a special need to understand the tides; the rest of us need to understand the tides for different reasons. Knowing how tides work can help us avoid...
To become a 4-H Geologist, you must be interested in the earth, its rocks and land forms, and the natural things in the outdoors. You must agree to attend 4-H meetings, cooperate with your club leader and the other members of your club, and do your best to complete your...
This record will be your summary of 4-H work done in all projects for every year you are in 4-H. It will be useful to you to know how much you have accomplished. It could be helpful when you are filling out other forms for 4-H, school, other youth programs,...
Geology (Geo, Geos = the earth) is a science that deals with the history of the earth and its life as recorded in the rocks. Geology utilizes the principles of physics, chemistry, astronomy, zoology, botany, and others in its studies. There are many specialties or fields of study in geology,...
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"The MSC was created through the impetus of three needs. Wayne Burt of the newly formed Oceanography Department needed dock and ship support facilities for his NSF-funded research vessel on the coast. Roland Dimick of the Fisheries and Wildlife Department needed to expand his small bay research lab located at...
The OSU Perspective was developed to provide assessment and other information about our students and programs. We hope that by making this information available to OSU faculty and staff, we can stimulate conversation that helps to keep students and student learning at our core.
The Perspective is published quarterly both...
The connection of fish depending upon water quality, which depends on habitat, which in turn depends upon land use, is
accepted. This paper explores the land use to water quality part. Twenty years ago water quality was degraded largely by
point sources of pollutants coming out of pipes. Regulations, discharge...
We show that various procedures surrounding the administration of U.S. antidumping (AD) cases gives firms incentives to
pass-through AD duties as much as 200 percent and that exchange rate pass-through is likely altered when firms face AD
duties. While our predictions are general for any firms or products involved in...
The authors suggests that the problem with how political scientists approach their work stems from forcing the real-world to fit the requirements of their models rather than forcing their models to fit the
requirements of the real world.
A two stage game is analyzed in which citizens who own mobile factors of production also vote for domestic
environmental policies. It is shown that individuals have an incentive to cross-haul polluting factors across jurisdictions
when direct controls are used to regulate emissions, that this cross-hauling can induce a ratcheting...
I view the Columbia River Pastoral Letter as a guide to
God’s economy on the Columbia River. What is it that the
marine stories of the Bible tell us about what God views
as a healthy economy on the water? It is clear that the
fishermen’s encounters and stories of...