Mental health services are vital during this time where mental health issues in college students have been increasing in prevalence and in severity around the world. However, mental health care is not always accessible to all. This project explores the needs of students at Oregon State University who identify as...
Ocean fronts represent productive regions of the ocean, but predator-prey interactions within these features are
poorly understood partially due to the coarse-scale and biases of net-based sampling methods. We used the In
Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System (ISIIS) to sample across a front near the Georges Bank shelf edge on two...
Documented and forecasted trends in rising sea levels and changes in storminess patterns have the potential to increase the frequency, magnitude, and spatial extent of coastal change hazards. To develop realistic adaptation strategies, coastal planners need information about coastal change hazards that recognizes the dynamic temporal and spatial scales of...
Numerous studies have linked individual nutrient loadings from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers to
the growth of the hypoxic, or oxygen depleted, zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico. However, in the
discussion of policy to remediate Gulf hypoxia, it is beneficial for stakeholders and policymakers to obtain
a single...
1. The evaluation of the age and growth of animal populations is essential for understanding and
predicting how populations will respond to changes in environmental conditions and anthropogenic
stressors.
2. We used a novel, von Bertalanffy hierarchical modelling approach to quantify relationships between
the growth of three freshwater mussel species...
Chronic heavy alcohol consumption is a risk factor for cortical bone fractures in males. The increase in fracture
risk may be due, in part, to reduced bone quality. Intracortical (osteonal) bone remodeling is the principle
mechanism for maintaining cortical bone quality. However, it is not clear how alcohol abuse impacts...
“Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis” is an opportunistic environmental pathogen that causes respiratory illness in immunocompromised patients, such as those with cystic fibrosis as well as other chronic respiratory diseases. Currently, there is no efficient approach to prevent or treat M. avium subsp. hominissuis infection in the lungs. During initial colonization...
This paper presents novel data fusion methods
that enable teams of vehicles to perform target search tasks
without guaranteed communication. Techniques are introduced
for merging estimates of a target’s position from vehicles that
regain contact after long periods of time, and a fully distributed
team planning algorithm is proposed that...