Extreme water levels generating flooding in estuarine and coastal environments are often driven by compound events, where many individual processes such as waves, storm surge, streamflow, and tides coincide. Despite this, extreme water levels are typically modeled in isolated open-coast or estuarine environments, potentially mischaracterizing the true risk of flooding...
The purpose of this project was to provide a tool for the Aerial Team of the Robotics Club with an application to control a UAV for automated missions - the Aerial Team's focus is automation of UAVs. This application lays out the foundations to allow future members of the Aerial...
Parking around Oregon State University campus can be severely limited, and for students looking to spend all day studying and going to classes it can be a pain to find parking that lasts for more than two hours. This thesis aims to resolve these issues by developing an application called...
We characterize how regional watersheds function as simple, dynamic systems through a series of hysteresis loops using measurements from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. These loops illustrate the temporal relationship between runoff and terrestrial water storage in three regional-scale watersheds (> 150 000 km²) of the Columbia...
Just as the structure of a protein determines its function, protein motions and lack-of-structure are also key to regulating protein behavior. The human eye lens is made up of high concentrations of extremely stable crystallin proteins, but even in this context, small motions over time can cause a loss of...
Apparel fashion is a daily component of society that transcends generations and cultures.
The purpose of my research was to analyze the garment structure and construction of two
separate but comparable garments in style, function, and content - one from the 1910s
and one from 2015. Using the New Brunswick...
Total US lumber production in 2011 was 77.9 million cubic meters. Its primary use was for housing and construction. There is a growing concern that the structural properties for wood are being reduced as trees are harvested at much younger ages as the wood supply shifts from older to younger...
Bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes by the augmentation of contaminated soils with microorganisms is a proposed method of reducing contaminant concentrations in groundwater. To determine the viability of using ELW-1 or R. rhodochrous for groundwater remediation, kinetic analyses of transformation rates must be performed. The focus of this research was to...