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Fifth Oregon climate assessment

Creator:: Dalton, Meghan M., Fleishman, Erica, and Oregon Climate Change Research Institute
Abstract:: Consistent with its charge under Oregon House Bill 3543, the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI) conducts a biennial assessment of the state of climate change science, including biological, physical, and social science, as it relates to Oregon and the likely effects of climate change on Oregon. This fifth Oregon...
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: University Caren Braby, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Heejun Chang, Portland State University

Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

Creator:: Ellis, Erik
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Creator:: Richards, Linda Marie
Abstract:: The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: THE DISSERTATION OF Linda Marie Richards for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of

Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

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:: associations, like the Oregon State Board of Horticulture (OSBH). Through an examination of the development

Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Submitted to Oregon State University In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

2000/2001 Annual Report

Creator:: Hatfield Marine Science Center
Abstract:: Report year ends June 30.
Resource Type:: Other
Full Text:: ANNUAL REPORT 2000-2001 Bruce Mate, Marine Mammals Using state-of-the-art satellite-monitored radio

2009/2010 Annual Report

Creator:: Hatfield Marine Science Center
Abstract:: Report year ends June 30
Resource Type:: Other
Full Text:: Software. For a comprehensive list of funded research projects, please see the CIMRS Annual Report

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: vessel was trolling for fish 80-90 miles east of the Bikini atoll, perhaps best known as a test site for

The Hanford Laboratories and the growth of environmental research in the Pacific Northwest, 1943 to 1965

Creator:: Ellis, D. Erik
Abstract:: The scientific endeavors that took place at Hanford Engineer Works, beginning in World War II and continuing thereafter, are often overlooked in the literature on the Manhattan Project, the Atomic Energy Commission, and in regional histories. To historians of science, Hanford is described as an industrial facility that illustrates the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

Creator:: Schweickert, Tina K.
Abstract:: Understanding the impact of humans on the environment has long been a topic of scholarly interest and debate. As environmental problems mount, accounts of historic ecological conditions and the factors of change become increasingly useful. This study considers competing schools of interpretation about human impacts on ecological landscapes and develops...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Tina K. Schweickert for the degree of Master of Science in History of Science presented on December 3

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Fifth Oregon climate assessment

Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

2000/2001 Annual Report

2009/2010 Annual Report

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

The Hanford Laboratories and the growth of environmental research in the Pacific Northwest, 1943 to 1965

Nature in chains : the effects of Thomas Jefferson’s rectangular survey on a Pacific Northwest landscape

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