This thesis addresses the costs of implementation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
in the particular case of Snake River chinook salmon. Unlike most previous listings under
the act, restoration of Snake River salmon will have impacts on a very broad array of
industries and user groups over a region...
Ecosystem management has become an increasingly mainstream paradigm for natural
resource management. Nowhere is this more evident than on the public and private forestland
of the Pacific Northwest. While ecosystem management has become a widely
accepted principle of resource management, substantial questions remain about its
implementation. A case in point...
In the fall of 2005, the NOAA Fisheries implemented a share-based management program in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Island crab fisheries. Allocations of harvest and processing quota were issued to vessel and plant owners based on historical landings, with a share matching requirement applied to 90% of harvest quota....
Management actions considered by regional fishery management councils
can generate significant impacts on the magnitude and distribution of the
economic and sociocultural well-being of stakeholders. It is therefore
important that policy analysts be able to account for the relevant parties
whose economic well-being is affected by fisheries and derive estimates...
Objectives: To identify the perceptions of community hospital physicians on computerized physician order entry. Design: Multi-method approach consisting of a mail survey of 659 community hospital physicians with active admitting privileges at three PeaceHealth, Inc., along with follow-up personal interviews with stratified random selection from completed survey. Measurements: Perceptions were...
Strategies for simulation and measurement of substrate noise have been analyzed using various digital and analog circuits fabricated in the TSMC 0.35um heavily doped CMOS process. The measurements validate a substrate noise coupling macromodel that has been used to obtain the simulation results. The simulations and measurements also substantiate the...
Asymbiotic N fixation in leaf litter in the Northwest was assayed by acetylene reduction. Annual N input measured by periodic sampling in a young Willamette Valley Douglas-fir plantation at Adair, Oregon was 1.08 +_.13 kg/ha. Using different calculating methods, six other annual
estimates at the Adair site ranged from 0...
Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) has a long history of digitizing, creating, and curating digital objects. These objects include digital representations of unique items from the Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) such as the photographs, maps, manuscripts, audio, and video housed in Oregon Digital. The ScholarsArchive@OSU...
Floods are the most frequent natural disaster, causing more loss of life and property than any other in the USA. Floods also strongly influence the structure and function of watersheds, stream channels, and aquatic ecosystems. The Pacific Northwest is particularly vulnerable to climatically driven changes in flood frequency and magnitude,...
The collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet over Hudson Bay ∼8.47 ka allowed the rapid drainage of glacial Lake Agassiz into the Labrador Sea, an event identified as causing a reduction in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and the 8.2 ka cold event. Atmosphere‐ocean models simulations based on this forcing,...
