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Mapping disturbance interactions from earth and space : insect effects on tree mortality, fuels, and wildfires across forests of the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Meigs, Garrett W.
Abstract:: Given the vital role of forest ecosystems in landscape pattern and process, it is important to quantify the effects, feedbacks, and uncertainties associated with forest disturbance dynamics. In western North America, insects and wildfires are both native disturbances that have influenced forests for millennia, and both are projected to increase...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ; fuel, insect disturbance; Landsat time series; mountain pine beetle; Pacific Northwest; spectral

The late spring secondary precipitation maximum in the interior Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Quinn, Robert
Abstract:: The Late Spring Secondary Precipitation Maximum in the Interior Pacific Northwest results from a complex system of climatic controls. The Secondary Maximum is most strongly developed over the high plateau of Oregon immediately in the lee of the Cascade Mountains. Local topographic organization exerts strong control over the magnitude and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: interior Pacific Northwest AN ABSTRACT THESIS OF ROBERT RUSSELL QUINN for the degree of DOCTOR OF

Community leaders' perspectives of a rural community college's impact on community development

Creator:: Thomas, Reine M.
Abstract:: The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine the role a rural community college plays in the development of its community, using a holistic, community-based lens that considered college and community context, interactions and results to answer the question: How does the rural community college impact the development...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Northwest community and the community college within it. The community college was classified as a

Topothermal climatic zones on the surface of the Pacific Northwest in Oregon and Washington

Creator:: Alsop, Ted J.
Abstract:: An investigation of the 28-year climatic record of the Pacific Northwest in Oregon and Washington reveals the natural seasons, subseasons, and singularities evident in the record. So much emphasis is placed on the topography and temperature of each station site that the term topothermal is introduced and defended. Statistical analyses...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The effects of multiple pathogens on amphibians in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Romansic, John M.
Abstract:: The earth is undergoing a “biodiversity crisis” characterized by loss of populations, species, genetic diversity, and ecosystem services. Part of this crisis consists of population declines, extinctions, and increased incidence of deformities in amphibians. It is unknown whether deformities contribute to these declines. Many cases of population declines in amphibians...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: in the Pacific Northwest. Abstract approved

Vulnerability of port and harbor communities to earthquake and tsunami hazards in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Wood, Nathan J.
Abstract:: Earthquakes a . tsunamis pose significant threats to port and harbor communities in the Pacific Northwest. Developing effective mitigation and preparedness plans requires a comprehensive understanding of community vulnerability. Research presented here focuses on the vulnerability of ports and harbors to earthquake and tsunami hazards and includes a regional study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Potential carbon storage at the landscape scale in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A.

Creator:: Smithwick, Erica Ann Hoffa
Abstract:: Estimates of potential carbon (C) storage can be used to constrain predictions of future carbon sequestration and to understand the degree to which disturbances, both natural aid anthropogenic, affect C storage. An upper bound on C storage in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) of the United States was estimated using field...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Potential Carbon Storage at the Landscape Scale in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. Abstract approved

Stream classification in the Pacific Northwest : methodologies, regional analyses, and applications

Creator:: Castro, Janine M.
Abstract:: Stream management and design recommendations related to the Salmon Habitat Recovery Program in the Pacific Northwest require area specific information concerning appropriate methods of stream classification, bankfull discharge recurrence intervals, and hydraulic geometry relationships. New region specific information, based on field measurements, is presented here. The Rosgen Classification of Natural...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Applications of Soil Science in Forest Landscape Planning : Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century

Creator:: Craigg, Terry Lee
Abstract:: Soils and other resource programs in both public land management agencies and private industry are continually being adapted to the challenges of evolving knowledge and experience in the field of forestry. This dissertation explores new ways of thinking about and using soils information in forest planning and management, with a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Pacific Northwest lands. At the core of this work are the concepts of soil quality, in particular, the

Oceanographic effects on the dynamics of food habits and growth condition of some groundfish species of the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Lee, Yong Woo
Abstract:: Marine fish are subject to direct and indirect oceanographic variations operating at short and long time scales. In this study feeding habits and long-term growth condition of several groundfish species of the Pacific Northwest are examined to understand the relationship between variations in the fish's biological and life history components...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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Mapping disturbance interactions from earth and space : insect effects on tree mortality, fuels, and wildfires across forests of the Pacific Northwest

The late spring secondary precipitation maximum in the interior Pacific Northwest

Community leaders' perspectives of a rural community college's impact on community development

Topothermal climatic zones on the surface of the Pacific Northwest in Oregon and Washington

The effects of multiple pathogens on amphibians in the Pacific Northwest

Vulnerability of port and harbor communities to earthquake and tsunami hazards in the Pacific Northwest

Potential carbon storage at the landscape scale in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A.

Stream classification in the Pacific Northwest : methodologies, regional analyses, and applications

Applications of Soil Science in Forest Landscape Planning : Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century

Oceanographic effects on the dynamics of food habits and growth condition of some groundfish species of the Pacific Northwest

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