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  • Application of Infrared Spectroscopy for Determination of Wood Natural Durability

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    Lipeh, Shahlinney
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    Natural durability remains one of the most attractive characteristics of wood, and helps wood obtain a premium price. A worldwide shift towards the use of younger trees from intensively managed forests has created greater concerns about wood quality, especially the wood’s resistance to fungi and insects. Wood durability is assessed...
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    guiding me in every step of my writing process.  Committee members Dr. Darrell W. Ross, Dr. Seri C

  • Swells, soundings, and sustainability, but... here be monsters

    Creator:
    Wright, Dawn J.
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    The Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture Series was created by the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies in honor of Roger Revelle to highlight the important links between ocean sciences and public policy. Dawn J. Wright, the eighteenth annual lecturer, spoke on April 28, 2017, at the Smithsonian National Museum...
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    Murton, 1997). The work of Sandwell et al. (2003) and Smith and Sandwell (1994; 1997) provided yet

  • A socio-technical study on the improved characterization of stakeholder behaviors and stream temperature in design of watershed conservation practices for climate change adaptation

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    Noa-Yarasca, Efrain
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    Characterizing stakeholder behavior when making decisions in watershed management is a great challenge for planners, not only because plans are associated with physical uncertainties but also because stakeholders’ behaviors are influenced by numerous factors. Since stakeholders’ decision-making is linked to multiple types of uncertainty, communication of uncertainty to stakeholders by...
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    Dissertation
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    E-W orientation, the contributions of each bank in reducing stream temperature are markedly

  • Efficacy of Empirical Seed Zones: Pseudoroegneria Spicata Reproductive Phenology & Seedling Stage Traits

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    Prive, Kathryn A.
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    Ecological restoration is needed to mitigate losses to biodiversity. Restoration success is enhanced through the use of native plant materials that are genetically diverse and locally adapted. Seed transfer zones have been developed to delineate geographic areas where native seed can be collected and distributed with reduced risk of maladaptation....
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    Masters Thesis
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    opportunity to pursue this degree. Without the unwavering confidence and support of my husband Sean Prive

  • A three-dimensional mapping of the ocean based on environmental data

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    Wright, Dawn J.
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    The existence, sources, distribution, circulation, and physicochemical nature of macroscale oceanic water bodies have long been a focus of oceanographic inquiry. Building on that work, this paper describes an objectively derived and globally comprehensive set of 37 distinct volumetric region units, called ecological marine units (EMUs). They are constructed on...
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    , Sean P. Breyer2, Kevin A. Butler2, Keith Van Graafeiland2, 4 Mark J. Costello3, Peter T. Harris4

  • Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

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    Devan-Song, E. Anne
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    Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
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    and computational tools (Pinter-Wollman et al. 2014; Smith & Pinter-Wollman 2021) and field data

  • Measuring Anti-Müllerian Hormone Concentrations to Determine Reproductive Status in Female Rabbits

    Creator:
    Meeker, Alissa R.
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    There are over two million pet rabbits in the United States. Many rabbits are obtained as adults from pet stores and humane societies. Pet rabbit owners may elect to perform ovariohysterectomy (spay) surgeries on female rabbits to prevent unwanted pregnancies as well as to eliminate the possibility of reproductive disorders...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    interpreting data within the 1.0-25 ng/mL range (personal communication with Sean Sullivan on 23 November

  • Effects of Secondary Salinization on Three Coastal Breeding Amphibians in Oregon: Taricha granulosa, Hyliola regilla, and Rana aurora

    Creator:
    Goddard, Amanda L.
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    Due to threats of secondary salinization caused by increased saltwater intrusion upstream associated with climate change, this thesis examines how salinity affects the development and oviposition site selection habits of three Oregon coastal breeding amphibians, the Roughskin Newt (Taricha granulosa), the Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora) and the Pacific Treefrog...
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    Masters Thesis
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    development, behavior and overall fitness (Smith et al. 2007; Hopkins & Brodie, 2015). Furthermore

  • A Panel of Histone H3 Mutations to Investigate Centromere Maintenance and Gene Silencing

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    Geisler, Mark S.
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    Histones, as part of nucleosomes, are responsible for DNA packaging in chromosomes. They also affect DNA expression by a multitude of post-translational modifications, especially prevalent on the amino terminus of histones. Co-activator protein complexes “write”, “read”, or “erase” histone modifications, and in balance determine which sections of DNA are free...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    (Lachner et al., 2001; Tamaru and Selker, 2001) (Lewis et al., 2009; Smith et al., 2011; Zhang et al

  • New Graphite Intercalation Chemistry with Alkaline Earth Metals

    Creator:
    Xu, Wei
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    Novel graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) and associated chemistry have been explored, specifically: (1) containing alkyl- substituted imidazolium cations; (2) a series containing alkaline earth metal (Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) cations with ethylenediamine (en) co-intercalates; (3) showing reversible intragallery M-M bonding and (4) via electrochemical intercalation of Mg cations with potential...
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    Dissertation