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  • Chasing Tails: Stories for Refining Relationships Between Wolves & Humans

    Creator:
    Beggen, Kristina
    Abstract:
    As wolves return to their historic habitats both in Oregon and across the globe, emotions are running high between people either gladdened or disturbed by their homecoming. Prior to colonization, wolves occupied the entire Pacific Northwest alongside Indigenous peoples. However, European settlements that ultimately coalesced to form the state of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    text chronicles the dawn of Enlightenment thinking and the scientific revolution through the

  • Meeting the Night : The Science and Mystery of an Endangered Habitat

    Creator:
    Sisson, Jill
    Abstract:
    Night is an extraordinary resource. Unlike air, water, or soil, nighttime is a spatio-temporal phenomenon, which leads to many crucial roles. It provides refuge to wildlife species, triggers hormonal and behavioral responses among a wide variety of organisms, and serves as an essential migratory backdrop for species that navigate by...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    . 2017. Barber, Jesse R, Kevin R. Crooks, and Kurt M. Fristrup. “The Costs of Chronic Noise

  • Translating the Animal

    Creator:
    Owen, Melody
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    My thesis in Environmental Arts and Humanities concerned the idea of animal language, as well as other posthuman ideas around animality and indistinction. I also explored virtual space as it relates to human identity, our notions of reality and perception, and the way contemporary digital artists approach animal subjectivity in...
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    Capstone Project
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    piece called Dawn Chorus in which people perform their local birdsongs as he manipulates their speed

  • Seeing the Ocean For the Whales: How Whales Get Lost in the Sea of Human Perceptions

    Creator:
    McKinnon, Haley
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    Humans have always been fascinated with whales; from prominent features in mythology, to stories of terrifying monsters on the high seas, to globalized utility, to symbolic wildness and radical environmentalism, to figures and statistics, how have human relationships with whales been understood throughout time? Because humans have a need to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    (Ommaney, 1971; York, 2017). The dawn of the mechanized age was approaching, and man was indeed about to

  • A Mystical Metamorphosis: Conceptualizing the Extraordinary in the Mundane Through Land Art

    Creator:
    McClarence, Shoshana H.
    Abstract:
    Mystical experiences are ineffable, thus defining mysticism itself is a difficult feat. To aid in the construction of a definition of mysticism it is imperative to break down the unique elements of a mystical experience and try to give examples of where we can see all of these elements interacting....
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    Masters Thesis