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  • A marine resource management internship report

    Creator:
    Brunson, Ed
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    At the May 19, 1982 meeting of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Program, Kenya President Daniel Arap Moi summarized a growing international feeling that there is a need for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to get more involved in international conservation efforts with the following statement: "The issue before...
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    preparation of the presentation material. Even with our conscious efforts to the contrary, it still seems 26

  • A Program Evaluation of the BCC and CCCC at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Yaites, Regine
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    Persistence, the ability for institutions to help students matriculate from their first year to completion, has been a major concern for underrepresented racial minorities (URMs). Among URMs, Black and Hispanic students are the least likely to be retained, graduating at 38 percent and 45.8 percent respectively (Shapiro et al., 2017)....
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    ______________________________________________________________________________ Christopher Stout, representing Political Science

  • A Program Evaluation of the BCC and CCCC at OSU

    Creator:
    Yaites, Regine
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    Persistence, the ability for institutions to help students matriculate from their first year to completion, has been a major concern for underrepresented racial minorities (URMs). Among URMs, Black and Hispanic students are the least likely to be retained, graduating at 38 percent and 45.8 percent respectively (Shapiro et al., 2017)....
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    ______________________________________________________________________________ Christopher Stout, representing Political Science

  • A protocol for reconstructing historical wetland landscapes in Oregon estuaries

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    Gupta, Anuradha
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    Oregon's estuarine wetland landscapes have been changed, especially since the nineteenth century, by diking, dredging, fills, and other alterations. These alterations have removed wetlands from the estuaries, and with them, have removed wetland functions. Currently, efforts are being made to restore estuarine wetlands. The first step in selecting a site...
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    on humans, wetlands still have value, for they are part of a broader ecological framework. In

  • An Evaluation of Wallowa Stock Hatchery Residual Oncorhynchus mykiss Monitoring and Management Strategies

    Creator:
    Smith, Jorden D.
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    Hatchery O. mykiss that fail to emigrate to the ocean, referred to as residuals, present an ecological and genetic risk to naturally-produced species through resource competition, predation, and spawning interactions. The Lower Snake River Compensation Plan’s Wallowa stock steelhead program in northeast Oregon has established methods of reducing and quantifying...
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    reside in Deer Creek, or there are still a portion of smolts present at the end of the volitional

  • An Institutional Analysis of the Power Sector in Afghanistan –Barriers to Achieving Universal Access to Electricity

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    Amin, Mohsin
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    Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world with 35% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of Afghans have no access to electricity, and 90% of those without electricity live in the rural areas. Since 2002, more than $4 billion have been spent on Afghanistan’s...
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    recent years, development progress has been substantial but large challenges still persist. One-third

  • Analysis and review of policy, decision making and politics regarding finfish aquaculture in Alaska

    Creator:
    Paine, Brent Conrad
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    This paper focuses on the explosive and controversial growth in finfish farming in general and salmon aquaculture in particular, and the response of Alaska policy makers to this emerging industry. It seeks to define and analyze why Alaska policy makers chose to prohibit all commercial culture of finfish at a...
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    is illustrated in Figure 2.6. Although the market will still be dominated by Norway with a projected

  • Analysis of riparian vegetation age structure and forest land ownership in the Central Oregon Cascades

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    Purnell, Christopher S.
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    Vegetation along the banks of mountain streams in the western Oregon Cascades comprises an integral part of the transition zone between land and water based ecosystems, and as such, is a vitally important and unique natural resource. Forestry is a major land use in this region, and harvesting riparian vegetation...
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    OWNERSI-IIP IN THE CENTRAL OREGON CASCADES by Christopher S. Purnell A RESEARCH PAPER submitted to

  • Applications of Conditional Topic Models to Species Distribution Prediction

    Creator:
    Wilkins, Paul Christopher
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    The topic of species distribution modelling has been on of increasing interest in recent years. As climate change is becoming of even more interest to researchers, more tools are needed to better analyze and predict various climate change scenarios. One particular area of interest is that of species distribution modeling....
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    Distribution Prediction by Paul Christopher Wilkins A PROJECT submitted to Oregon State University in

  • Applications of multi-media cartography in Klamath Basin restoration

    Creator:
    Wayne, Christopher
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    The Klamath Basin of Oregon and California has been the scene of extensive ecosystem restoration activities in recent years. The need for restoration is based on changes in land use that have adversely affected water quality and wildlife habitat. Many different kinds of restoration projects are occurring at many different...
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    Restoration by Christopher Wayne A RESEARCH PAPER submitted to THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOSCIENCES OREGON STATE