Part of the Vital Tillamook Indicator Project.
This presentation summarizes a collaborative effort of the Tillamook County Futures Council and Oregon State University faculty members jointly affiliated with Extension Service and the Rural Studies Program developed 50 indicators of Tillamook County: 2020 Strategic Vision in order to gain insight into...
Fish production is a source of livelihood for millions of Nigerians both as primary and secondary income provider. The study examined the economics of fish harvesting in Yola, Nigeria with the objectives of examining the socioeconomic status of the fishers, determining the gross margin of fish harvesting , examining the...
Consumer-facing traceability systems are emerging in the global seafood sector as a way for companies to reduce their reputational risk, access certain markets, and to generally communicate production practices to downstream actors. What are the characteristics of these systems, what benefits do they bring to different value chain actors, and...
Along the southern Sicilian coast (Central Mediterranean Sea), Sciacca harbor is the most important landing port for small pelagic fish species (manly anchovies and sardines) [1, 2]. This landing side accounts for about 2/3 of total catch in GFCM-FAO Geographical Sub-Area 16 (South of Sicily), where two operational units (OU)...
This presentation was presented as part of a lighting talk session at the Northwest Archivists conference in Spokane, WA, in May 2014. It was also presented at the August 2014 Society of American Archivists conference in Washington D.C. at the Performing Arts Roundtable meeting.
Research Outline
•Amplify the coding region of the spike protein by PCR using primer flanking the S protein coding region
•Clone the coding region into PCR-TOPO 2.1 cloning vector
•Re-clone the coding region into PET6XHN-N vector
•Induce the spike protein expression in BL-21 cells
Firemaster 550 (FM550) is an additive flame retardant mixture used within polyurethane foam and is increasingly found in house dust and the environment due to leaching. In this study, we sought to investigate mono-substituted isopropylated triaryl phosphate (mITP), a major component of FM550, which has been shown to cause cardiotoxicity...
The Speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus) is the most widespread minnow in western North America (Gilbert and Williams, 2002). It has diversified widely across its range—both morphologically and genetically—and as such might rightly be called a species complex. Our ongoing work aims to determine where boundaries between potentially undescribed species lie...
Hypoxia is a naturally occurring phenomenon that happens seasonally off the Oregon coast. As a consequence, there has been a great deal of research focused around analyzing the strength and duration of the hypoxic event during the summer season. This paper, however, takes an innovative approach by looking at the...
Pactamycin, a complex aminocyclitol compound produced by Streptomyces pactum, has significant antibiotic, antitumor, and antiplasmodial activity. However, this natural product has not been developed for clinical use due to its high cytotoxicity. Modulation of its biological properties by chemical synthesis has been difficult due to its complex chemical structure. Therefore,...
The research revolves around membrane-assisted electrolysis to recover caustic soda from alkali processing. This research began with the lab having no experience in electrochemistry and thus conducting initial experiments to begin to understand electrochemical systems. The lab then looked at both gas production and anodic fouling behavior. The lab then...
In this study, we compared the behavior of bottle fed lambs verses mother fed lambs in three testing scenarios; the sociability test, the paired attachment test, and the mismatch attachment test. The tests sought to determine if a familiar human can serve as a secure base for lambs in a...
A better understanding of the distribution and spawning behavior of Crangon shrimp and their relationship with their predators, including the green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris, is an important step toward the larger goal to understand food webs of the nearshore continental shelf of the northeastern Pacific. Here, I examined how the...
Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge (HMNAR) established in 1936, is 101,000 ha in area. The refuge was grazed by domestic livestock from the 1870s until their exclusion in 1990. Just prior to removal of livestock, photopoints were taken at various riparian and wetland locations throughout the refuge to document riparian...
Family influence in the home environment has been linked to children’s nutrition and physical activity behaviors. However few tools exist to identify family level behaviors and families’ readiness to change those behaviors, particularly for populations at high risk for obesity such as Hispanics. This study summarizes the relationships of similar...
For US aquaculture industry, primary factors influencing their competitiveness are consumers' perceptions of long-term health risks related to domestic farmed seafood consumption. The public is often particularly sensitive to food risk scares, and can often dominate other considerations in food choice and lead to large impacts on consumption and the...
Shrimp is one of the largest traded commodities in the world and account for about 50 percent of total export of marine products (3.5 billion US $) from India in value term during 2012-13. The European Union (EU) is the second largest buyer of Indian marine products with a share...
Vulnerability assessments play an important role in the climate change adaptation process in that they link physical changes (either current or projected) with the ability of aquatic and human systems to cope or benefit from such change. In general, a vulnerability assessment helps to target adaptation actions by better understanding...
The paper puts forward a Bayesian Network model to study the optimal eutrophication control in coastal waters by reducing nutrient loads and removing fish biomass (bottom-up and top-down ecosystem mechanisms). The model combines an aquatic ecosystem model with an economic model and examines the economic and ecological consequences of nutrient...
There are a number of problems associated with urban expansion and as cities continue
to grow the integration of green roofs can help to ease and offset many of them. This study
uses a combination of moss and Sedum as vegetation for experimental green roof sections in
order to test...
Marine Team is a student effort to examine spatial and temporal variation of fish species within Yaquina Bay. Marine Team was developed at OSU as a seminar course with a field sampling component, to help students of marine ecology get “hands on” experience with data collection and analysis. We set...
Status (as of 2006):
The current weather station has been in operation at HMSC since 1996. The weather instrument sensors are mounted on and under the roof of the Guin Library. The sensors are made by Davis instruments, a leading manufacturer of home quality instruments.
Up to the minute current...
Scientists at EPA’s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Western Ecology Division (WED) have been studying seafloor (benthic) habitats in Yaquina estuary for several years. Those studies were conducted as parts of several research projects, including: effects of contaminated sediments on benthic invertebrates, effects of nutrient enrichment on estuarine...
The program started around high use beaches to monitor fecal bacteria contamination because people including Surfers were getting sick. This was really a problem of poor planning and overdevelopment in coastal communities and was eventually addressed in the Clean Water Act. All states were mandated to monitor water quality particularly...
Researchers from the Pacific Coastal Ecology Branch, Environmental Protection Agency in Newport presented results of multi-year cruises as will other time-series data.
A case history of ambient status and trends monitoring is presented for the South Slough estuary (southern Oregon). Datasets collected over the past decade by the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve / System-Wide Monitoring program (SWMP) include real-time measurements (every 5 min) of several meteorological parameters (air temperature, relative...
Presentation at the American Library Association Annual Conference, ACRL STS Research Forum, June 29, 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Libraries are currently challenged to design dynamic learning spaces that are attractive to students and support them in various forms of learning. STEM students, in particular, need spaces that allow them to...
This study evaluates existing market-based incentive mechanisms, such as Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification, Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs), and International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) associate membership, as innovative instruments for tuna fishers to improve sustainability of their fishing methods. There is little knowledge on ways these types of incentive mechanisms...
The lack of property rights in fisheries is a well-known source of undesirable outcomes in terms of sustainability and profitability for fisheries. Both Territorial User Fishing Rights (TURF) and Marine Protected Areas (MPA) have been proposed as a tool for managing coastal fisheries, recovering stocks and improving fishing yields; it...
Tuna management in the Western and Central Pacific (WCP) is complicated given the dynamic and sometimes conflicting interests of participating countries and actors exploiting the tuna resource in the region. Pacific Island Countries (PICs) through the Fisheries Forum Agency (FFA) and the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have developed a...
The Philippines is surrounded with many fishing grounds. In spite of this, most fishermen in the area live in poverty, and their plight is getting worse, not better. Current fisheries policies for the area have failed to improve the situation but no research has been done to find out why....
"Infrastructure facilities of landing sites, which are the core of the fishing industry in Sri Lanka, were severely damaged by the tsunami in December 2004.
Currently these facilities are being rebuilt in association with various non-governmental organisations. At present there are large numbers of small anchorages which require development of...
For many years, researchers have used the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in order to suggest that human behaviour is greatly influenced by people’s preferences and attitudes, social norms, perceived behavioural control and intentions to act (Ajzen, 1991; Armitage and Conner, 2001) [1], [2]. Over the last 20 years, this...
This paper aims to analyse and elucidate key conditions for the sustainability of community-based fisheries management (CBFM) on unrestricted fisheries in Japan. It re-examines more than 50 years’ worth of empirical evidence regarding the outcomes of the socio-economic rationality of the self-imposed management of common property, with particular reference to...
Catch share programs are emerging as a rights-based management tool capable of improving biological and economic performance in marine fisheries relative to traditional command and control regulation approaches. This paper examines the determinants of the transition from command and control regulation to rights-based management in marine fisheries. I develop a...
Anchovy fisheries in Indonesia faces a declining state in the next decade. This research investigates some factors contributing to a reduction of anchovy resources. It was carried out in Krueng Raya Bay-Aceh from September to October 2012. Survey and interviews were implemented to explore the state of anchovy. Primary and...
ITQ systems generate ITQ prices. For any given ITQ-managed species there are typically two prices. One is for the annual (or seasonal) quota, the other is for the longer lasting ITQ-share. In well-functioning ITQ markets, these prices reveal important information about the fishery. In the single species framework, prices of...
Two of the primary issues of the next Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform are maximum sustainable yield (MSY) and transferable fishing concessions (TFCs). The European Commission set the goal of achieving MSY for all European fisheries by 2015. Besides, the European Commission agreed on implementing TFCs under some major principles...
Despite to the high fishing pressure; use of illegal fishing methods; deforestation, manufacturing, tourism and even the dynamic market environment, an artisanal stake-net fishery, which operates for shrimps, has been able to survive since 1721 in Negombo lagoon in the western Sri Lanka. The key strength of the stake-net fishery...
To run the ITQ system as well as other components of the fisheries management system, the Icelandic government conducts a number of activities which may be regarded as fisheries management services. The most important of these are performed by (i) the Fisheries Directorate which maintains the quota registry and enforces...
The production and distribution of fish products in Vietnam have been faced with strict consumer requirements such as seafood quality, hygiene, safety standards, traceability, environmentally friendly manufacturing and fisheries resource conservation. These are compulsory requirements for sustainable business development in international markets. The research applies the Structure Conduct Performance (SCP)...
Can government regulations and company concerns to reduce their reputational and business risk lead to an increase in traceability programs? Are the drivers of traceability attributed to concerns over seafood sustainability, food provenance, quality and safety, fraud, and IUU fishing? These questions suggest there is a change in incentives and...