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Creator:: Law, Karen H.
Abstract:: The Olympia oyster is a foundation species that increases habitat structure for associate species in estuarine systems of the Pacific Coast of North America (Kimbro & Grosholz, 2006). This oyster provides ecosystem services in the form of water filtration (zu Ermgassen et al., 2013), habitat for commercially valuable species such...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 1900’s due to overharvesting and water pollution. Today, Olympia oysters are functionally extinct

Creator:: Hill, Cayla L.
Abstract:: The Champoeg townsite first developed due to its ideal settlement and trade location within the Willamette Valley, becoming the ‘legal birthplace of Oregon’ in 1843. However, by 1860 Champoeg’s significance had begun to decline, and in December of 1861 a devastating flood wiped out the townsite. Archaeological excavations took place...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Kellar, Brenda M.
Abstract:: The use of honey bees to pollinate apple orchards seems natural, even inevitable. This dissertation examines the relationship of beekeeping and apple growing in Hood River, Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, as a case study in the development of commercial pollination service. Within this time period the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: specialized equipment who were the performers. Roland Bal, Professor in Health Policy & Management, and his

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:: , Zuckerman traces six generations of chemists from the Nobel Laureate Hans Krebs (1900 – 1981) through four

Creator:: Zald, Harold S. J.
Abstract:: The forest alpine tundra ecotone (FTE, also known as alpine treeline or subalpine parkland), is a conspicuous feature of mountain landscapes throughout the world. Climate change-driven increases in temperature are believed to result in FTE movement and tree invasion of subalpine meadows, which have been documented throughout the Northern Hemisphere...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: species (Halloy and Mark 2003, Dirnböck et al. 2003, Cannone et al. 2007, Roland and Matter 2007). The

Creator:: Johnson, Kristin Renee
Abstract:: Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: -Environment Controversy, 1900 - 1941 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978); Peter J. Bowler

Creator:: Eichelberger, Justin E.
Abstract:: During the 19th century the United States Army was a military institution characterized by a hierarchical system of authoritative, social and economic inequality between members of its different military grades. Although necessary for insuring military discipline within the Army this system of inequality also influenced the non-military social lives of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Reeves-DeArmond, Genna F.
Abstract:: The sinking of the RMS Titanic has achieved a difficult feat – it has remained culturally relevant. The dedication of the general public to understanding Titanic is evident in many avenues of popular and consumer culture. For those individuals who did not get enough of the 1997 Titanic movie, there...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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