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  • Effects of Anthropogenic Stressors on Seagrass and Coral Microbiomes

    Creator:
    Wang, Lu
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    Seagrasses and coral reefs play important roles in nutrient cycling, coastal protection, and maintaining marine biodiversity. However, these coastal marine organisms are declining globally due to anthropogenic stressors, such as rising ocean temperatures, ocean acidification, and eutrophication. These organisms live in close association with their microbiomes, which can be beneficial...
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    Gema Hernán: Sample collection Jorge Terrados: Sample collection Fiona Tomas: Study design and

  • Amphibian communities and climate change : Where ecological processes meet evolutionary interactions

    Creator:
    Thurman, Lindsey L.
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    Forecasts of the impacts of climate change have traditionally focused on individual species and their phenotypes, phenology, or distribution. However, shifts in species distributions and the resulting reorganization of community composition represent an important violation to the assumption of species acting in isolation. Whereas species may respond individualistically to climate...
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    . Thank you to my committee, Matt Betts, Fiona Tomas Nash, Mark Urban, and Bruce Menge for your guidance

  • Function of Oregon Estuaries to Juvenile Fishes, with Focus on Juvenile Rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) in Yaquina Bay, Oregon

    Creator:
    Schwartzkopf, Brittany D.
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    The role that anthropogenic and natural habitats in estuaries play in long-term population trends for Oregon’s nearshore marine fishes is poorly understood, in part due to limited temporal sampling. One important nearshore marine group is northeastern Pacific rockfishes (Sebastes spp.), which are highly diverse, with around 96 documented species, and...
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    Miller, Lorenzo Ciannelli, Fiona Tomas Nash, and my GCR Kim Bernard, thank you for the time you put in

  • Ecosystem Functions of Pacific Northwest Estuaries: The Role of Ocean and Watershed Drivers in Eelgrass and Coho Salmon Dynamics

    Creator:
    Magel, Caitlin L.
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    Interest is expanding for the potential role of estuaries, particularly seagrass and salt marsh habitats, to sequester carbon, mitigate ocean acidification, and support abundant fisheries. The important functions of estuaries are part of a broader set of ecosystem services, or benefits to humans, which are regulated by ocean and watershed...
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    McGuire, Cassandra Lozano, Fiona Hubbard, Mackenzie Hertford, Claudia Norman, and Jordan Moon. Also

  • Harnessing Heterogeneity in Human Gut Microbiome Data

    Creator:
    Tataru, Christine
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    The focus of this thesis is to design, characterize, and apply novel computational methods and molecular systems to interrogate heterogeneous human gut microbiome-related phenomena. In Chapter 2, I design, implement, and characterize a method for embedding co-occurrence patterns derived from massive 16s amplicon datasets. I use this method to 1....
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  • Privacy-Sensitive Robotics

    Creator:
    Rueben, Matthew R.
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    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...
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