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Extreme value index estimation with applications to modeling extreme insurance losses and sea surface temperatures

Creator:: Henry, John B.
Abstract:: The extreme value index (EVI) links the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution and the generalized Pareto (GP) distribution. These two distributions are fundamental in extreme value theory (EVT), with the GEV distribution being the only possible non-degenerate limiting distribution of properly normalized maxima of iid random variables, and the GP...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: temperatures is discussed and is looked at from an extreme value theory point of view. In particular, the

How Behavior, Physiology, and Ontogeny of Klamath Redband Trout Shape the Functionality of Habitats in a Landscape of Temperature Extremes

Creator:: Hahlbeck, Nicholas J.
Abstract:: Climate change is a global phenomenon, but natural selection occurs within landscapes. A central tenet of landscape ecology is that mobile species depend on complementary habitats, which are insufficient in isolation, but combine to support animals through the full annual cycle. For coldwater fishes, it is widely assumed that maximum...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: in a Landscape of Temperature Extremes. Abstract approved

Quantifying Vulnerability of Agricultural Systems in India to Weather Extremes

Creator:: Kulkarni, Kedar
Abstract:: Extreme weather events are expected to increase globally due to climate change thereby posing substantial risks to agricultural communities. The implications are especially high for tropical countries like India as the heavy dependence of agricultural sector to uncertain monsoons makes its agriculture highly vulnerable to weather variability and extremes. In...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Vulnerability of Agricultural Systems in India to Weather Extremes Abstract approved: John M. Antle Extreme

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

Creator:: Canavan, Barbara C.
Abstract:: By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: research conducted at Qinghai is well documented in the scientific literature of both basic and applied

A statistical analysis of extreme chinooks in Montana as they relate to large scale circulation changes

Creator:: Grant, Roland Lester
Abstract:: A statistical analysis of extreme chinooks in Montana as they relate to large scale atmospheric circulation changes is the subject of this thesis. A mean chinook situation was identified which indicated that a critical pattern of the surface flow always contained a Polar or Arctic airmass which overspread the prairie...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Temperature Changes in Montana. 21 3. Dates With Extreme Temperature Changes in Montana. 23 4. Examples of

Investigating the Impact of Temperature and Air Quality on Human Health in At-Risk Populations

Creator:: Evoy, Richard E.
Abstract:: Climate change is causing people around the world to experience extreme temperature and air pollution events such as wildfires more frequently, and for longer periods of time. Extreme heat events have been widely associated with an increased risk of emergency room visits, occupational heat-related injuries and illnesses, and mortality overall...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Title: Investigating the Impact of Temperature and Air Quality on Human Health in At- Risk Populations

The Association Between Extreme Climate and Diarrheal Illness in North America

Creator:: Lyon-Colbert, Amber
Abstract:: The etiology and transmission of bacterial diarrheal pathogens is complex, making evaluating the association between extreme climate and diarrheal illnesses in North America challenging. Changes in climate may impact the survival, reproduction, and distribution of pathogens that cause diarrheal illness. Evidence supports the hypothesis that reproduction, survival, and transmission ability...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: presented on June 4, 2018 Title: The Association of Extreme Climate and Diarrheal Illness in North

Hydrodynamic and Morphologic Controls on Extreme Coastal Total Water Levels Across Regional and Local Scales

Creator:: Serafin, Katherine A.
Abstract:: Coastal and estuarine flooding and erosion events are usually driven by the cumulative effect of multiple individual processes like waves, streamflow, storm surge, and/or tides. This dissertation focuses on separating the influence of the regional and local-scale geomorphologic and hydrodynamic processes driving variability in the magnitude and impacts of extreme...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: topography on site-specific, extreme TWLs. Extreme TWLs at three study sites in the states of Washington

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the best thing I gained from my decision to attend graduate school at Oregon State. TABLE OF

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

Creator:: Christensen, Terry M.
Abstract:: This dissertation has two objectives. The first objective is to determine where best to situate the study of mentoring (i.e. the 'making of scientists') on the landscape of the history of science and science studies. This task is accomplished by establishing mentoring studies as a link between the robust body...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: mentor of theoretical physicists at Princeton University in the years 1938 – 1976. It includes

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Extreme value index estimation with applications to modeling extreme insurance losses and sea surface temperatures

How Behavior, Physiology, and Ontogeny of Klamath Redband Trout Shape the Functionality of Habitats in a Landscape of Temperature Extremes

Quantifying Vulnerability of Agricultural Systems in India to Weather Extremes

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

A statistical analysis of extreme chinooks in Montana as they relate to large scale circulation changes

Investigating the Impact of Temperature and Air Quality on Human Health in At-Risk Populations

The Association Between Extreme Climate and Diarrheal Illness in North America

Hydrodynamic and Morphologic Controls on Extreme Coastal Total Water Levels Across Regional and Local Scales

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

John Archibald Wheeler : a study of mentoring in modern physics

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