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Construction, Degradation, and Restoration of Wet Meadow Ecosystems in Semi-arid Landscapes, Northern Great Basin, USA

Creator:: Nash, Caroline S.
Abstract:: Wet meadow ecosystems are a useful natural laboratory in which to explore feedbacks between biogenic and geologic controls on valley bottom landforms. Characterized by flat valley floors flanked by higher-gradient hillslopes, these meadows are singular both in that they represent depositional features in what is primarily an erosional environment, and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: DISSERTATION OF Caroline S. Nash for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Water Resources Engineering

Assessing the effectiveness of riparian restoration projects using Landsat and precipitation data from the cloud-computing application ClimateEngine.org

Creator:: Hausner, Mark B., Huntington, Justin L., Nash, Caroline, Morton, Charles, McEvoy, Daniel J., Pilliod, David S., Hegewisch, Katherine C., Daudert, Britta, Abatzoglou, John T., and Grant, Gordon
Abstract:: Riparian vegetation along streams provides a suite of ecosystem services in rangelands and thus is the target of restoration when degraded by over-grazing, erosion, incision, or other disturbances. Assessments of restoration effectiveness depend on defensible monitoring data, which can be both expensive and difficult to collect. We present a method...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: . Hausnera,⁎, Justin L. Huntingtona, Caroline Nashb, Charles Mortonc, Daniel J. McEvoyd, David S. Pilliode

Quantifying the effect of forest age in annual net forest carbon balance

Creator:: Besnard, Simon, Carvalhais, Nuno, Arain, M. Altaf, Black, Andrew, de Bruin, Sytze, Buchmann, Nina, Cescatti, Alessandro, Chen, Jiquan, Clevers, Jan G. P. W., Desai, Ankur R., Gough, Christopher M., Havrankova, Katerina, Herold, Martin, Hortnagl, Lukas, Jung, Martin, Knohl, Alexander, Kruijt, Bart, Krupkova, Lenka, Law, Beverly E., Lindroth, Anders, Noormets, Asko, Roupsard, Olivier, Steinbrecher, Rainer, Varlagin, Andrej, Vincke, Caroline, and Reichstein, Markus
Abstract:: Forests dominate carbon (C) exchanges between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere on land. In the long term, the net carbon flux between forests and the atmosphere has been significantly impacted by changes in forest cover area and structure due to ecological disturbances and management activities. Current empirical approaches for...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: used to analyze the results included the coef- ficient of determination (R2), Nash–Sutcliffe model

Reinscribing the Birthing Body: Homebirth as Ritual Performance

Creator:: Cheyney, Melissa
Abstract:: In this article, I examine the clinical practices engaged in by U.S. homebirth midwives and their clients from the beginning of pregnancy through to the immediate postpartum period, deconstructing them for their symbolic and ritual content. Using data collected from open-ended, semistructured interviews and intensive participant-observation, I describe the roles...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: , with their focus on ritualization as political praxis (Nash 2007; Paulson 2006; Robins 2006), have also

2018 Fall OSU Corvallis Campus schedule of classes

Creator:: Oregon State University
Resource Type:: Other

Runoff generation in a steep, tropical montane cloud forest catchment on permeable volcanic substrate

Creator:: Munoz-Villers, Lyssette E. and McDonnell, Jeffrey J.
Abstract:: Most studies to date in the humid tropics have described a similar pattern of rapid translation of rainfall to runoff via overland flow and shallow subsurface stormflow. However, study sites have been few overall, and one particular system has received very little attention so far: tropical montane cloud forests (TMCF)...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: consisted of 10,000 runs. The criterion used to assess model performance was the Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency E

Larval exposure to predator cues alters immune function and response to a fungal pathogen in post-metamorphic wood frogs

Creator:: Groner, Maya L., Buck, Julia C., Gervasi, Stephanie, Blaustein, Andrew R., Reinert, Laura K., Rollins-Smith, Louise A., Bier, Mark E., Hempel, John, and Relyea, Rick A.
Abstract:: For the past several decades, amphibian populations have been decreasing around the globe at an unprecedented rate. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), the fungal pathogen that causes chytridiomycosis in amphibians, is contributing to amphibian declines. Natural and anthropogenic environmental factors are hypothesized to contribute to these declines by reducing the immunocompetence of...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: , Heather Shaffery, and Caroline Scott helped in the execution of this experiment. David Wade and Dick

Beyond the paired-catchment approach : isotope tracing to illuminate stocks, flows, transit time, and scaling

Creator:: Hale, V. Cody
Abstract:: This dissertation integrates a process-based hydrological investigation with an ongoing paired-catchment study to better understand how forest harvest impacts catchment function at multiple scales. We do this by addressing fundamental questions related to the stocks, flows and transit times of water. Isotope tracers are used within a top-down catchment intercomparison...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of my wonderful wife, Caroline. In addition to her love and kindness, she has made many sacrifices

Soil Moisture Encodes Plant Water Use Strategies

Creator:: Bassiouni, Maoya
Abstract:: Resilient water, food, and energy management strategies for an ever-growing population and changing environment depends on our understanding of water and carbon cycles from local to global scales. Fluxes of water and carbon are coupled by photosynthesis and plant transpiration cycles the largest fraction of terrestrial water from the land...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: rainfall. The Nash-Sutcliffe efficiencies of the analytical model’s fit to soil observations ranged from

Sediment Pulse Behavior in Gravel-bedded Rivers

Creator:: Pace, Kylie M.
Abstract:: As dams approach the end of their useful life, there is need to predict where and how accumulated sediment will move following their removal to estimate impacts on aquatic habitat and infrastructure. Flume studies suggest that sediment pulses disperse in place for most dams, but it is hypothesized that a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: !Melinda! went! above! and! beyond! in! supporting!me! as! a! teaching!assistant.!Jon!Viducich,!Caroline

Ungulate activity classification : calibrating activity monitor GPS collars for Rocky Mountain elk, mule deer, and cattle

Creator:: Gaylord, Adam J.
Abstract:: Ungulate behavior has been studied extensively but direct observation of free-ranging animals over long periods of time and large geographic areas is often prohibitively difficult. Improved technology, such as GPS collars fitted with motion-sensitive activity monitors, provides researchers with a potential tool to remotely collect fine scale activity and location...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: collection and processing: Nathan Alexander, Michelle Barton, Jonah Belk, Jessica Buskirk, Caroline

Integrating functional trait frameworks into restoration : the role of seed and seedling traits in recruitment success

Creator:: Larson, Julie E.
Abstract:: Seeding is a vital tool to facilitate recovery of degraded ecosystems, but low seedling recruitment rates limit the utility of this practice in a range of ecosystems across the globe. Plant functional traits impact individual fitness through effects on growth, reproduction and survival. Consequently, seed and seedling trait variation among...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Kelly, Elsa, Kate, Brian, Noelia, Eli, Merilynn, Caroline, to my fellow GSC members, to Lindsay, and

Ecohydrological mediation of water budget partitioning and time scales of subsurface flow in a seasonally semi-arid grassland

Creator:: Pangle, Luke A.
Abstract:: Understanding how the interactions and feedbacks between plant function, climate, and soils ultimately affects the terrestrial water balance and subsurface flow processes is major challenge in scientific hydrology. This dissertation summarizes the findings of a manipulative climate warming experiment, an observational field study that utilized stable-isotope tracers, and associated modeling...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: members Cody Hale, Luisa Hopp, Julian Klaus, Tina Garland, Caroline Patrick, Chris Gabrielli, Jay

2019 Summer OSU Corvallis Campus schedule of classes

Creator:: Oregon State University
Resource Type:: Other

Variation in the timing of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) migration and spawning relative to river discharge and temperature

Creator:: LovellFord, Rachel M.
Abstract:: Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) migration and spawning are unique components of the salmon life cycle because they require synchrony of behavior with other individuals as well as with acceptable fluvial conditions. As with other organisms that exhibit group mating behavior, it is likely that environmental cues trigger coho salmon movement...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Caroline Nash, and Nick Legg, thank you for expanding my mind into the world of geology (is it a big

What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

Creator:: Anderson, Jessica
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Decentralized Multiagent Coordination for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Routing in Congested Networks

Creator:: Mostafizi, Alireza
Abstract:: In 2017, the cost of congestion in the United States was around 305 billion dollars, and city-dwellers, on average, lost 1400 dollars while sitting 42 hours in traffic jams. Aiming for better mobility and more efficient utilization of the transportation network, emerging connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies and their...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , late-night talks, dinners, movies, and parties. Mehdi, Mohammad, Mostafa, Caroline, Iria, Albetro

Professional Development Training in Ocean Acidification: A Case Study of Marine Resource Managers

Creator:: Moses, Michael L.
Abstract:: Ocean acidification (OA) is the result of increasing concentrations of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions, leading to a suite of alterations to specific parameters of ocean chemistry, which can negatively impact many marine organisms and ecosystems. Understanding how to measure and monitor the chemistry of OA will require specialized education...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Mueller and his lab members, and a special thanks to Fiona Tomas Nash for her steadfast support and

The Role of Submesoscale Features in Transporting Heat and Salt Across Ocean Fronts

Creator:: Sanchez-Rios, Alejandra
Abstract:: The focus of this dissertation is the analysis of submesoscale and finescale features measured at oceanic fronts and the role they play in the transport of heat and salt. Two different geographical areas were used to analyze this transport: one, an area on the western side of the North Atlantic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and Carlos, Carla, Bryn, Morgan, Caroline, Mostafa, Tala and Charlie. These people and many others

NAAFE 2017 Program and Abstract Booklet

Creator:: North American Association of Fisheries Economists
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding

Development and Application of Tools for Genetic Analysis of Clonal Populations

Creator:: Kamvar, Zhian N.
Abstract:: Research on the population genetics of microbial organisms requires the use of specialized analyses designed for clonal organisms to avoid violating the assumptions of traditional population genetic models. The tools necessary for performing these analyses existed as a set of unrelated software with non-overlapping capabilities and did not cover all...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: biology of Phytophthora. I also would like to thank Val Fieland, Meg Larsen, Caroline Press, and Karan

Precipitation-snowmelt timing and snowmelt augmentation of large peak flow events, western Cascades, Oregon

Creator:: Jennings, Keith S.
Abstract:: Despite advances in the understanding of rain-on-snow storms and their resulting peak flows, little is understood about the response of snowmelt to precipitation and the relative timing of the two at multiple temporal scales within such events. To address this issue, climate, snowmelt, and streamflow data were analyzed for 26...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and Caroline Nash) and Matt Cooper. You could always be counted on for honest, critical feedback

North American Association of Fisheries Economists 8th Biennial Forum : Economic Sustainability, Fishing Communities, and Working Waterfronts

Creator:: Criddle, Keith R., Fong, Quentin, and North American Association of Fisheries Economists
Abstract:: This document provides details of the Scientific and Social Programs at the NAAFE Forum 2015, Economic Sustainability, Fishing Communities, and Working Waterfronts, held in Ketchikan, Alaska, May 20-22, 2015. The conference was organized by Keith Criddle and Quentin Fong, University of Alaska Fairbanks, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, with...
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding

Restructuring of land and community in the remote rural west : the case of Wallowa County, Oregon

Creator:: Abrams, Jesse
Abstract:: Since at least the 1970s, rural areas in the western United States, as elsewhere across the country and world, have been subject to social, economic, and political forces that have resulted in novel demographic and land tenure trends when compared to previous decades. Collectively, these processes of restructuring have created...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Rural ceramic production, consumption, and exchange in late classic Oaxaca, Mexico : a view from Yaasuchi

Creator:: Pink, Jeremias
Abstract:: The Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico was home to one of the most intensively-studied archaic states in the New World. Centered at the hilltop city of Monte Albán, the Zapotec State first arose around 500 BC and eventually encompassed much of the present-day state of Oaxaca. But by the Late Classic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Controls on Process and Form in Alluvial and Bedrock Meandering Rivers

Creator:: Zunka, John P. P.
Abstract:: Bedrock meandering rivers are sinuous channels that pair steep bedrock outside banks with lower gradient slip-off slopes on the inside of bends. These rivers have the potential to record information on climatic and tectonic “external” forcings in their morphology (e.g., longitudinal profiles, strath terraces, channel and valley dimensions). However, geology...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Rosie Gradoville, Ale Sanchez, Lalo Guerrero, Desiree Tullos, Cristina Mateus, Caroline Nash, Laura

A stratigraphic approach to characterize the deposition and storage of organic matter in reservoir sediments

Creator:: Stratton Garvin, Laurel E.
Abstract:: The relationship between carbon burial and sedimentation in reservoirs is unknown, exposing gaps in our fundamental understanding of the transport, processing, and deposition of sediment and organic matter in fluvial and lacustrine systems and contributing to uncertainty in our understanding of the net impact of dams to the global carbon...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

IIFET 2016 Program and Abstract Booklet

Creator:: International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade
Abstract:: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, held July 11-15, 2016 at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Center (AECC), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Resource Type:: Conference Proceeding
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