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Role of a grass riparian zone in controlling the fate of nitrogen in a poorly drained agricultural landscape

Creator:: Davis, Jennifer H.
Abstract:: Riparian ecosystems, through their unique positions in the agricultural landscape, have the potential to mitigate nutrient loading to streams. This study was conducted to gain a better understanding of N cycling in a poorly drained Grass Riparian Zone (GRZ) and adjacent Perennial Ryegrass seed Field (PRF) in the Willamette Valley,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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The development of an institutional and regulatory policy framework for offshore renewable energy

Creator:: Campbell, Holly Victoria Pink
Abstract:: Societies around the globe are concerned with climate change and supplementing the use of fossil fuels to create cleaner energy. The emergence of marine alternative energy is of scientific, historical, legal, and political interest. The purpose of the three manuscripts comprising this dissertation is to provide research and analysis of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Representative Debbie Boone and the Members of the State of Oregon Coastal Caucus, Jeremy Childress, Maria

Entrepreneur Well-Being and Organizational Decision Making Biases

Creator:: Kozlak, Scott
Abstract:: This dissertation consists of three essays that provide comprehensive insights into the complex dynamics shaping entrepreneurial and organizational outcomes. In the first essay I incorporate the Biophilia Hypothesis and the Challenge Hindrance Stressor framework to study entrepreneurial creativity. The findings emphasize the importance of more frequent nature visits for entrepreneurs...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

Creator:: Caulkins, Tamara L.
Abstract:: During the eighteenth century, diagrams increasingly became an important aspect of scientific inquiry. Diagrams employed simplification as a strategy for representing complex information, played a role in standardizing scientific language, and served as instruments of reason to think through and communicate problems and findings in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, natural...
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The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

Creator:: Crandall, Mindy S.
Abstract:: The development of a market for currently non-merchantable forest material, such as harvest residues of tops and limbs of trees or small diameter trees, has been suggested as a possible win-win solution that could: (i) provide a financial incentive to help motivate treatments to reduce wildfire risk or restore forest...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Late Cenozoic Climate, Ice-sheet and Earth-surface Evolution Derived from Terrestrial and Marine Sedimentary Archives

Creator:: Bill, Nicholas S.
Abstract:: The goals of this dissertation are centered on understanding changes in Earth surface and climate systems through the use of geologic proxies as records of past changes in these systems. Specifically, this dissertation (1) establishes a new chronology for retreat of the Ross Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Feng He, Andrea Balbas, Jeremy Hoffman, James Lee, Jon Edwards, and Dave Ullman for working through

How the animals found their places : pattern detection, experimentation, and epistemology in a high desert stream fish assemblage

Creator:: White, Seth Michael
Abstract:: I examined the relative roles of biotic and abiotic factors in structuring redband trout Oncorhynchus mykiss distributions in the South Fork John Day. I first examined the relationship between the biological traits of the fish assemblage and riparian-geomorphic features in context of prevailing theories of stream ecology stemming from the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Jeremy Monroe of Freshwaters Illustrated helped with figures and video clips for presentation. Near the

Habitat management for beneficial insects on Willamette Valley vegetable and berry farms

Creator:: Russell, Michael C.
Abstract:: Conservation biological control involves manipulating farm landscapes or management systems to enhance populations of beneficial predators of agricultural pests. Farmscaping is one aspect of conservation biological control where predators of important pests are identified, the availability on the farm landscape of resources and habitat components needed by the beneficials to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Records, and Jeremy Karby provided invaluable assistance with the fieldwork and labwork involved in the

Privacy-Sensitive Robotics

Creator:: Rueben, Matthew R.
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on personal privacy in human-robot interaction, which we call "privacy-sensitive robotics." Our understanding of "privacy" is very broad, including not just information privacy but also physical, psychological, and social privacy. We begin by surveying the scholarly literature on privacy and talking about why it applies to interactions...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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Role of a grass riparian zone in controlling the fate of nitrogen in a poorly drained agricultural landscape

The development of an institutional and regulatory policy framework for offshore renewable energy

Entrepreneur Well-Being and Organizational Decision Making Biases

The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

The effects of increased supply and emerging technologies in the forest products industry on rural communities in the northwest U.S.

Late Cenozoic Climate, Ice-sheet and Earth-surface Evolution Derived from Terrestrial and Marine Sedimentary Archives

How the animals found their places : pattern detection, experimentation, and epistemology in a high desert stream fish assemblage

Habitat management for beneficial insects on Willamette Valley vegetable and berry farms

Privacy-Sensitive Robotics

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