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“We All Live Downriver”: Environmental Justice and Community Resistance to the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove Export Terminal in Southern Oregon

Creator:: Halleran, Patricia C.
Abstract:: Native America tribes and community members throughout Oregon have asserted a strong opposition to the fossil fuel industry’s attempt to expand railways, build pipelines, and construct refineries, holding facilities, and export terminals. Despite the limited presence of fossil fuel infrastructure in the state, however, the industry is actively pursuing permits...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Looking for Fish of the Right Age : Developing Predictive Modeling for Submerged Sites Using GIS, Salmon Genetics, and the Human Ecology of Salmon

Creator:: Krier, Jon C.
Abstract:: A major challenge to the study of the peopling of the Americas is that much of the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia), the geographic area that people migrating from Northeast Asia into North America would presumably have passed through, is now submerged due to sea-level rise since the last glacial maximum....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Andrew Gerkey Abstract A major challenge to the study of the peopling of the

Degree and scale of interactions among chiefdoms during the pre-Hispanic late period in northern Highland Ecuador (AD 1250-1525)

Creator:: Yanchar, Kaitlin C.
Abstract:: During the Late Pre-Hispanic period, settlements in Northern Highland Ecuador were organized under a number of chiefdoms. While a basic hierarchical political system is described in the ethnohistoric literature, the nature of the interactions between specific settlements has remained unknown. This study utilizes two methods for describing the degree and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: - Hispanic Late Period in Northern Highland Ecuador (AD 1250-1525) Abstract approved: Leah D

A study of the wave equation for the dipole

Creator:: Andrews, Alfred W.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: differential equa- tions for which the space integrai J 4J1dY expressed in spherical coordinates as d de

The electrification of Mexico

Creator:: Gill, Andrew Douglas
Abstract:: This research paper is an analysis of the electric energy industry in Mexico since its inception in 1879. The research is based entirely on library sources plus documents secured from the Federal Electricity Commission of Mexico. Only minimal documentary evidence is available in English, consequently the Oregon State University library...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: The Electrification of Mexico by ANDREW DOUGLAS GILL A

Counterfeit arcadias : Nathaniel Hawthorne's materialist response to the culture of reform

Creator:: White, Andrew
Abstract:: Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and wrote in an age of reform efforts, and the progressive movement with which he was most familiar was Transcendentalism. However, he was not sympathetic with Emerson's idealism, a sentiment which comes out in his fiction in way of critique. Throughout Hawthorne's work there is an emphasis...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: response to the culture of reform AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Andrew White for the degree of Master

Features of boardrooms and conference rooms in Pacific Northwest organizations

Creator:: Foltz, Andrew L.
Abstract:: This study examines selected cultural elements of the negotiating environment in seventeen organizations having home or branch offices in the Northwest United States. Conference room and boardroom design, intentional placement of meaningful artifacts, arrangement of seating, and providing of refreshments are compared. Observations and interviews of organizational representatives in nine...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Andrew L

Lattice point on the boundary of convex bodies

Creator:: Andrews, George E., 1938-
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 5 D = n-1 = D i i 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 s 0 O O I S o -1 0 0 1 2 1 1

The influence of tree cover and shade pattern upon the distribution of understory plants in ponderosa pine stands of central Oregon

Creator:: Robinson, Andrew Frederick, Jr.
Abstract:: Seven sites of uniform topography and soil were selected within a self perpetuating ponderosa pine forest found on the eastern flank of the central Oregon Cascades. These plots were located along a vegetational gradient caused mainly by an orographic rain shadow. Data gathered included density, frequency, and cover for all...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Distribution of Understory Plants in Ponderosa Pine Stands of Central Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF Andrew Frederick

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Farms in the Willamette Valley

Creator:: Loewenstern, Eli
Abstract:: This thesis examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on farms in the Willamette Valley. Using semi-structured interviews, this study analyzes the economic and social challenges created by the pandemic and the adaptation strategies farmers employed to build resilience within the food system. This study found that the farmers experienced...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Rural ceramic production, consumption, and exchange in late classic Oaxaca, Mexico : a view from Yaasuchi

Creator:: Pink, Jeremias
Abstract:: The Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico was home to one of the most intensively-studied archaic states in the New World. Centered at the hilltop city of Monte Albán, the Zapotec State first arose around 500 BC and eventually encompassed much of the present-day state of Oaxaca. But by the Late Classic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Leah D. Minc The Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico was home to one of the most intensively-studied

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

Creator:: Newton, Samantha
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Nadasdy, and Matt (Matthew D. ) Turner, Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political

Socio-ecological vulnerability in a Tibetan village on the Lancang River, China

Creator:: Galipeau, Brendan A.
Abstract:: This ethnographic research examines socioeconomic vulnerabilities to resettlement from a large hydropower dam and agricultural commodification in a Tibetan village in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After providing an initial background on the dynamics of the research region and hydrodevelopment on its rivers, the research framework of examining vulnerability through a...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Bryan D. Tilt This

Commodification in an Ersu Tibetan village of Sichuan, China

Creator:: Schmitt, Edwin Anton
Abstract:: This ethnographic research aims to discover the implications of the commodification of production processes amongst the Ersu Tibetans of Sichuan, China. This thesis examines the commodification of Ersu agriculture and ethnic identity in the historical context of both China and the world-system. Ethnohistorical and ethnoecological methodologies are utilized to answer...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: ____________________________________________________________________ Bryan D

A Practical, Ethical Critique of Hydraulic Fracturing and the Shale Gas Extraction Process

Creator:: Bullock, Claude George, III
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes the emerging technology of hydraulic fracturing and shale gas extraction process through a pluralistic philosophical approach. Rather than defending traditional values in nature, such as intrinsic value, I defend a metaphilosophical pragmatism centered on policy implications. I argue that different philosophical positions will, most of the time,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ecosphere broadly; no matter the philosophical position a person defends. Andrew Light refers to this

Rethinking autonomy in group home policy

Creator:: Gaddis, Matthew A.
Abstract:: In this thesis I argue that in contemporary Oregon, the policies and design of group homes for individuals with developmental disabilities emphasizes an ineffective conception of autonomy, and this emphasis should be shifted to provide better opportunities for the growth of individuals both within the homes and in their communities....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: this possible. I would also like to thank the other members of my committee, Andrew Valls and Marisa

Literacy politics and literacy education : thematic perspectives in contemporary Chicana/o narrative

Creator:: Bowman, Christine D.
Abstract:: Literacy is often considered to be a basic set of skills to be mastered by the student; the conventional wisdom maintains that the individual who has mastered these skills is then literate. Scholars in the field of literacy studies, however, argue that such assumptions about literacy fail to take into...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christine D. Bowman for the

Water, fire, and stone : images and meaning in Melville

Creator:: Martin, Brian D.
Abstract:: This thesis is a study of Herman Melville’s symbolism. I have chosen to investigate the elemental images of water, fire, and stone in Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities (1852), and Clarel; A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876). This work is a semiotic study, insofar as the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , AND STONE: IMAGES AND MEANING IN MELVILLE Brian D. Martin

Who's afraid of a little nitrate? : discovering impediments and incentives in following best management practices related to water quality within the southern Willamette Valley groundwater management area

Creator:: Rolston, Irene
Abstract:: Thesis summarizes interviews with growers residing within the Groundwater Management Area (GWMA) in the Southern Willamette Valley of Oregon. Informal and semi-structured interviews were used to identify perceived impediments and incentives perceived by local farmers in following best management practices related to water quality. Results from the interviews were coded...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Oregon Agriculture: Facts and Figures ...................................107 Appendix D: Fertilizers and

Dark Yolk: Decolonial Two-Spirit Storytelling

Creator:: Hall, Tiramisu D.
Abstract:: This work examines the decolonial potential of queer and Two-Spirit Indigenous storytelling by telling stories using graphic novel chapters, literary analysis, and graphic analysis. I explore the importance of stories in defining us as individuals, as peoples, and as humans. As a mixed-race Indigenous (unregistered Cherokee) transwoman, I engage with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: from the violence of some human societies. Andrew Jolivette contends “that colonial haunting is a

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