Micronesians are in the process of becoming independent nation-states after nearly a
century of colonial rule, including four decades of U.S. administration as the Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands. Pressures to attain self-sufficiency have led many of these
island nations to embrace tourism as an economic development strategy. Meanwhile,...
Island systems and species are susceptible to extinction because of their small population size and an ecological naiveté from an evolutionary past lacking strong competition and predation. For example, only one-fifth of the world’s bird species occur on islands, yet more than 90% of the avian extinctions witnessed during historic...
Despite their inherent importance and utility as ecological examples, island species are among the most endangered and least studied groups. Guam Micronesian Kingfishers (Halcyon cinnamomina cinnamomina) exemplify the plight of insular biota as a critically endangered and understudied island bird that went extinct in the wild before they could be...
In summer 1992, I interned as a Technical Assistant with the Kosrae Bureau of
Planning and Statistics, Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia (F.S.M). The University
of Oregon Micronesia Program sponsored the internship, which proved to be a unique
professional and cross-cultural experience. The internship, initiated by Mr. Gerson
Jackson, Director...
This internship was supported and funded by the Yap State Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Territorial and
International Affairs, and the University of Oregon Micronesia and South Pacific Technical
Assistance Program. What follows in this report is a description of the internship...
The product of my internship was a working draft of a land use and master plan
for the SPC to review. The draft is to be used for creating a more comprehensive land use
and zoning master plan. Attempts were made to incorporate input from federal, state,
and local governments,...
Purposes and Method of Study
The purpose of this study was to find out if tenth grade girls
were aware of the probability that a majority of them would work at
some time during their lives, and if they planned to prepare for this
possibility. A questionnaire was designed and...
Raising the Tents tracks a woman's retrieval of her voice. In these poems we join a woman on her journey to find meaning and wholeness. Ms. Adler's personal mythology evolves from a belief in the possibility for change and a Jewish heritage emphasizing ancestry. She explores the silencing of women...
This thesis investigates how beginning, women farmers, within in a women farmers’ network in the Willamette Valley, Oregon are accessing land and farming information. Using ethnographic, community-based research methods, I ask how land access mediates their ability to care for their land and soil. Are these farmers interested in fostering...