A method has been devised for the digital recording of mass
spectra and for reduction of the data by means of the CDC-3300 digital
computer. The computer program *MASSPEC was developed to reduce
the digital data obtained from a rare-gas mass spectrometer.
The author devised a method of determining peak...
This report presents data collected on six cruises made during the months May-October 1972 along the Oregon coast. Both complete data listings and sequential surface data contour charts are presented. The latter graphically display rapid changes in surface water characteristics on time scales as short as a few hours.
The...
Coleomyia (Diptera: Asilidae) is a small genus of robber flies found in western North America, totaling eight described species. The goal of this project was to sequence the transcriptome and genome of Coleomyia. In the most recent phylogenetic analysis, it could not be placed in a recognized subfamily. Furthermore, there...
Suicide is a leading cause of death amongst adolescents, and transgender and gender diverse youth are at especially high risk for suicidal ideation and attempt compared with cisgender peers. Using established ideation-to-action models of suicide and the Minority Stress Model, this project used the 2019 results of the Oregon Healthy...
Here the diversity and phylogeny of the genus, Sthereus Motschulsky, 1845, and its nearest associates in the large subfamily Molytinae are explored through molecular and morphological characters. Sanger sequencing of five genes determined that Sthereus is not monophyletic. Instead, the one species in the genus Gastrotaphrus Buchanan 1936, G. barberi...
The three-body heterogeneous and wall recombination coefficients for atomic oxygen were measured using an electron paramagnetic
resonance spectrometer to monitor the time dependence of the
atomic oxygen concentration. This measurement was made for a
pressure range of from .224 to 1.10 torr using pyrolysis of ozone as
a source of...
In this dissertation, I present the results from three studies: (1) a phylogeny of Tenebrionoidea (Coleoptera) inferred from a seven-gene dataset derived from PCR and Sanger sequencing; (2) a phylogeny of Tenebrionidae, the largest family in Tenebrionoidea, inferred from a four-gene dataset also derived from PCR and Sanger sequencing; (3)...
Species are one of the foundational units upon which entire fields of scientific inquiry are built. Discovering and documenting the planet’s biodiversity remains one of the grand challenges of science. A proper conceptualization of species provides a critical framework for diverse fields such as biophysics, biochemistry, agriculture and pharmacology, and...
In this dissertation, I investigate the evolution and genomes of carabid beetles, a worldwide family of over 38,000 species. I focus on two species-rich groups, the tribes Chlaeniini and Bembidiini, both of which are primarily found on the shores of bodies of water. The former are distinctive for their defensive...