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A Multivariate Analysis of Pacific Arctic Surface Waters

Creator:: Bryant, Aleesa
Abstract:: The Pacific Arctic is undergoing rapid biogeochemical changes in response to warming air temperatures caused by climate forcing. This is manifesting as changes in seasonal sea ice thickness and sea ice extent, as well as changes in primary production within surface waters. The data and samples analyzed here were collected...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Buffering Estuarine Sediments Against Acidification

Creator:: Myers, Tristen J.
Abstract:: Globally rising anthropogenic CO₂ emissions have resulted in the increased prevalence of ocean acidification (OA) which has the potential to impact shell-forming organisms. On geologic timescales, the largest contributor to atmospheric CO₂ was volcanoes, counterbalanced by weathering and erosion, but due to increased anthropogenic emissions, these processes alone can no...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Coupling of Boundary Layer Dynamics, Turbulence, and Moisture Transport to Cloud Characteristics and Aerosol Concentrations

Creator:: Henze, Dean C.
Abstract:: Uncertainties in general circulation model (GCM) representations of marine boundary layer (MBL) shallow cloud cover contribute substantially to the spread in model predictions of future climate. Further uncertainties in GCM output arise from an incomplete understanding of cloud-aerosol interactions. For example, the Fifth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Vertical Structure of the Lower Troposphere in a Changing Arctic

Creator:: Watkins, Daniel M.
Abstract:: The Arctic climate system is changing dramatically as a response to rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Key indicators of Arctic change include thinning and retreating of Arctic pack ice, thawing permafrost, greening tundra, and rising surface temperatures. The structure of the atmospheric boundary layer influences and is influenced by processes...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

New Foraminifera-Based Proxies to Trace Changes to the Organic and Inorganic Carbon System Since the Last Glacial Maximum

Creator:: Fritz-Endres, Theresa
Abstract:: The production of carbon and export to deep ocean sediments is linked to carbon partitioning between the ocean and atmosphere and is a key driver of climate change over the glacial-interglacial transition. Yet conflicting reconstructions create barriers to understanding changes to the carbon system over this important climate transition. Production...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Role of Sea Surface Physical Processes in Mixed-layer Temperature Changes During Summer Marine Heat Waves in the Chile-Peru Current System

Creator:: Cooley, Kylene M.
Abstract:: Development of marine heat waves (MHWs) in the Chile-Peru Current System (CPCS) is influenced by multiple physical processes at the air-sea interface whose individual role in these destructive events is difficult to infer. We identified MHW events from sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies from time periods of extreme ocean warming...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Insights into Centennial-Scale Salt Marsh Morphodynamics from the Oregon Coast

Creator:: Peck, Erin K.
Abstract:: Quantification and comparison of morphological changes over the last ~300 y in Oregon salt marshes provide valuable insights into the tectonic, hydroclimatic, and anthropogenic processes shaping this important intertidal zone. Understanding of the rates and drivers of salt marsh change contextualizes intertidal habitats within the sediment routing system (i.e., source...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

High-resolution Biological Net Community Production in the Pacific-influenced Arctic: A Multi-method Comparison

Creator:: Cynar, Haley
Abstract:: Patterns of primary productivity in the Arctic are expected to change with continued warming, yet productivity measurements are historically limited, both spatially and temporally. An established method of measuring net biological oxygen production, which can be used to estimate net community production (NCP) rates, is with an equilibrated inlet mass...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Investigating the Paleoseismic Potential of Small, Southern Cascadia Lakes

Creator:: Ross, Ann Elizabeth Morey
Abstract:: Marine and coastal sedimentary archives show that the Cascadia Subduction Zone can generate great earthquakes of ~M9, most recently in 1700 CE, yet we still know little of the impacts of these events inland of the Pacific coast. Inland lakes have recently been exploited for their use as paleoseismic records...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Coastal Dune Ecomorphodynamics

Creator:: Fee, Dakota
Abstract:: An account of a dune nourishment and observation project in Pacific City, Oregon as well as field work done by Dakota Fee in the 2020 summer.
Resource Type:: Presentation

ScholarsArchive@OSU

A Multivariate Analysis of Pacific Arctic Surface Waters

Buffering Estuarine Sediments Against Acidification

Coupling of Boundary Layer Dynamics, Turbulence, and Moisture Transport to Cloud Characteristics and Aerosol Concentrations

Vertical Structure of the Lower Troposphere in a Changing Arctic

New Foraminifera-Based Proxies to Trace Changes to the Organic and Inorganic Carbon System Since the Last Glacial Maximum

Role of Sea Surface Physical Processes in Mixed-layer Temperature Changes During Summer Marine Heat Waves in the Chile-Peru Current System

Insights into Centennial-Scale Salt Marsh Morphodynamics from the Oregon Coast

High-resolution Biological Net Community Production in the Pacific-influenced Arctic: A Multi-method Comparison

Investigating the Paleoseismic Potential of Small, Southern Cascadia Lakes

Coastal Dune Ecomorphodynamics

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