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  • The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

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    Newton, Samantha
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    Ian Angell, in the New Barbarian Manifesto, said “A ‘brave new world’ is being forced upon unsuspecting societies by advances in information technology.” It would seem then, that technological advances happen automatically and have a life of their own. There is a logic to technological advancements that is outside human...
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    methods from Science and Technology Studies (STS), Environmental History, Critical Theory, and Creative

  • Queering Science Writing: Bringing Marginalized Perspectives to the Mainstream

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    Goodfriend, Olivia F.
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    Within the field of science communication, the voices, perspectives, and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community have long been kept at the margins. This has led to a gap in material that recognizes queer individuals and communities as audiences, communicators, and stakeholders in STEM. I address this gap by generating a...
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    and Humanities presented on May 31, 2023. Title: Queering Science Writing: Bringing Marginalized

  • Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

    Creator:
    Schefke, Brian R.
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    Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
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    Master of Arts in History of Science presented on August 11, 2000. Title: Morality and Materialism

  • Public Proof : Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational

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    Snyder, Wesley M.
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    A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over environmental and biomedical issues (Funk and Rainie). Similarly, a number of recent popular books have described a growing public mistrust in scientific expertise (Mooney; Storr; Specter). Why is it, then, that so much of the...
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    A Note on Key Terms, Scope, and Audience……………………………………16 Science Communication and the Public

  • Falling Into Place: Relational Perspectives on the US Creative Residency Field

    Creator:
    Baker, Jay A.
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    Falling Into Place: Relational Perspectives on the US Creative Residency Field is an Environmental Arts & Humanities thesis built around a research project called Creative Residencies and Expanded Senses of Community: Interviews With Artists & Residency Leaders. It’s an extended meditation on arts residencies via research, interviews, and experiential learning,...
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    based on a scientific understanding of Earth’s environmental and ecological systems, and grounded in a

  • Steps and Strikes

    Creator:
    Scopatz, Shane
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    Steps and Stikes is an Environmental Arts and Humanities capstone thesis project taking the shape of an art film. The video layers contemporary dance with natural and industrial imagery on a foundation of personal narrative. It engages with contemporary environmental discourse as a choreographed essay, questioning why the environmental movement...
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    in environmental and climate justice while working toward livable futures for all that is alive on

  • Net Values: Social and Economic Impacts of the Oregon Marine Reserves on the Fishing Communities of Garibaldi, Depoe Bay, and Port Orford

    Creator:
    Robison, Frederick Vaughn
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    Net Values is an Environmental Arts & Humanities thesis that centers around a research project of the same name. The research examines individual fishers’ perceptions of adverse economic and social impacts resulting from shifted fishing effort caused by the Oregon Marine Reserves, and looks to understand how fishers use their...
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    Environmental Arts & Humanities presented on February 14, 2022. Title: Net Values: Social and Economic

  • Analyzing National Geographic as a Case Study for Identifying and Utilizing Narrative Strategies in Environmental Communication

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    Chang, Kei Lin N.
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    National Geographic’s June 2018 magazine titled “Planet or Plastic?” drew attention to a growing problem throughout the world: ocean plastic. The eight plastic-related articles in the magazine are an example of science communication as a critical method of not only disseminating information but also raising awareness of the marine debris...
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    for the degree of Master of Arts in Environmental Arts and Humanities presented on September 10

  • Public perceptions of wave energy on the Oregon coast

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    Hunter, Daniel A.
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    Oregon’s coastal communities grew from the booming logging and fishing industries of the 19th century, but in recent decades have faced not only major declines in both timber and fish resources but also an increasing reliance on tourists and retirees and the resultant glut of seasonal service-sector jobs. As a...
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    understanding of wave energy technology, and 3) the perceived potential impacts of wave energy technology on

  • Solidarity’s Last Stand: Rudi Nussbaum and the Hanford Downwinders

    Creator:
    Vitale, Anthony
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    The Hanford Nuclear Reservation drew public ire during the 1980s and 1990s when activist groups forced the declassification of 19,000 documents and discovered proof of accidental and intentional releases of radioactive materials into the environment. These releases had been kept from the public. Although many locals had for decades wondered...
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    experience, and environmental history. The study of contested science, particularly through a historical