This combined collection includes dissertations and theses from the School of Earth, Environment and Society (SEES), which includes the departments of Anthropology, Environmental Science and Management, Geography, Geology and Complex Systems. Dissertations from the Ph.D. program in Earth, Environment and Society are also included in this collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Naturally Occurring Background Levels of Arsenic in the Soils of Southwestern Oregon, Heather Ann Hurtado
Quaternary Chronology and Stratigraphy of Mickey Springs, Oregon, Leslie Allen Mowbray
Glacier Change on the Three Sisters Volcanoes, Oregon: 1900-2010, Justin George Ohlschlager
The Right to Dream: Assessing the Spatiality of a Homeless Rest Site in Portland, Oregon, Stephen Przybylinski
Coyotes on the Web: Understanding Human-Coyote Interaction and Online Education Using Citizen Science, Zuriel Anne Rasmussen
Intersections of Critical Systems Thinking and Community Based Participatory Research in Developing a Web Site for Autistic Adults, Dora Madeline Raymaker
Study of Prestige and Resource Control Using Fish Remains from Cathlapotle, a Plankhouse Village on the Lower Columbia River, J. Shoshana Rosenberg
Assessing Unique Core Values with the Competing Values Framework: The CCVI Technique for Guiding Organizational Culture Change, Anthony John Santoriello
Combining Systems Methodologies to Reduce Allergen-Related Food Recalls, Jill Marie Sweney
Hydrogeologic Investigation of a Pumice Aquifer, Fremont/Winema National Forest, Oregon, Jonathan Michael Weatherford
Defining the Terroir of the Columbia Gorge Wine Region, Oregon and Washington, USA Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Hilary Whitney
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Chemical and Petrographic Survey of Large, Igneous-Textured Inclusions in Ordinary Chondrites, Katherine Armstrong
Household Water Demand and Land Use Context: A Multilevel Approach, Elizabeth Yancey Breyer
Ariège’s Development Conundrum, Alan Thomas Devenish
The Ground Slate Transition on the Northwest Coast: Establishing a Chronological Framework, Joshua Daniel Dinwiddie
Macroinvertebrates and Excessive Fine Sediment Conditions in Oregon Coastal Streams, Patrick M. Edwards
Safety in Maize: Subsistence Agriculture in a Zapotec Migrant Town, Fiona Joy Gladstone
Strontium, Lead, and Oxygen Isotopic Signatures of Mid-Miocene Silicic Volcanism in Eastern Oregon, Emily Nancy Hess
Agricultural Classification of Multi-Temporal MODIS Imagery in Northwest Argentina Using Kansas Crop Phenologies, Jarrett Alexander Keifer
Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) Ecological Knowledge of Piñon-Juniper Woodlands: Implications for Conservation and Sustainable Resource Use in Two Southern Nevada Protected Areas, Brian John Lefler
Cascades Island Lamprey Passage Structure: Evaluating Passage and Migration Following Structure Modifications, Siena Marie Lopez-Johnston
Revisiting Volcanology and Composition of Rhyolites and Associated REE Rich Mafic Clasts of the Three Fingers Caldera, SE Oregon, Phillip Ira Marcy
Global Resource Management of Response Surface Methodology, Michael Chad Miller
Learning General Features From Images and Audio With Stacked Denoising Autoencoders, Nathaniel H. Nifong
Investigating the Link Between Surface Water and Groundwater in the Tule Lake Subbasin, Oregon and California, Esther Maria Pischel
Assessing Hydrologic and Water Quality Sensitivities to Precipitation Changes, Urban Growth and Land Management Using SWAT, Alexander Michael Psaris
An Analysis of Vegetation Recovery following Dam Removal at Hemlock Recreation Site, Washington, Greer Stewart Ramsey
The West Tidewater Earthflow, Northern Oregon Coast Range, Barry A. Sanford
Complex Thermal Histories of L Melt Breccias NWA 5964 and NWA 6580, Kristy Lee Schepker
Building and Maintaining Plankhouses at Two Villages on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America, Emily Evelyn Shepard
Health and Well-being of Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy, Susan Elizabeth Sienko
Exploring Colonization and Ethnogenesis through an Analysis of the Flaked Glass Tools of the Lower Columbia Chinookans and Fur Traders, Stephanie Catherine Simmons
Controlling the Empire: Measuring Ethnic Residential Segregation in London, 2001-2011, Lindsay Joella Spell
Mapping Sociocultural Values of Visitors on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, Alexa North Todd
Informal Trails and the Spread of Invasive Species in Urban Natural Areas: Spatial Analysis of Informal Trails and their Effects on Understory Plant Communities in Forest Park, Portland, Oregon, Jill Elise Van Winkle
Lifeblood of the Earth: Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) Hydrological Knowledge and Perceptions of Restoration in Two Southern Nevada Protected Areas, Kendra Lesley Wendel
The Geology and Petrology of Enigmatic Rhyolites at Graveyard and Gordon Buttes, Mount Hood Quadrangle, Oregon, Elizabeth G. Westby
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Large Woody Debris Mobility Areas in a Coastal Old-Growth Forest Stream, Oregon, Beth Marie Bambrick
A Characterization of Lake Abert Tufa Mounds Lake Abert, Oregon, Anthony Lynn Bartruff
Characterization of the Shallow Subsurface Geohydrology of the Ni-les'tun Unit on the Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, Christopher Madison Beard
Preserving Nature through Film: Wilderness Alps of Stehekin and the North Cascades, 1956-1968, Nicolas Timothy Bergmann
Spatial Analysis of Climate and Winegrape Production in Winegrape Growing Regions of Oregon, United States of America, Willow Devin Campbell
Map-based Probabilistic Infinite Slope Analysis of the Stephens Creek Watershed, Portland, Oregon, Ryan Andrew Cole
Glacier Change in the North Cascades, Washington: 1900-2009, Kristina Amanda Dick
Effects of Increased Nitrogen Deposition on the Dominance of Hedera helix in the Pacific Northwest, Bianca Christine Dolan
Heritage and Health: A Political-Economic Analysis of the Foodways of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and the Bishop Paiute Tribe, April Hurst Eagan
Grounding Zone Processes: Ice Mechanics and Margin Lakes, Kamb Ice Stream and Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Mason Joseph Fried
Battery Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate the Variability of Photovoltaic Power Generation, Heath Alan Gurganus
Modeling the Distribution of Bobcats and Areas of Reintroduction for Fisher in the Southern Washington Cascades, Shiloh Michael Halsey
Natural Area Stewardship Volunteers: Motivations, Attitudes, Behaviors, Corinne Handelman
Investigations into the Regional and Local Timescale Variations of Subglacial Drainage Networks, Justin Hiester
An Archaeology of Capitalism: Exploring Ideology through Ceramics from the Fort Vancouver and Village Sites, Dana Lynn Holschuh
Scenario Development and Analysis of Freshwater Ecosystem Services under Land Cover and Climate Change in the Tualatin and Yamhill River Basins, Oregon, Robert Wesley Hoyer
Understory Diversity and Succession on Coarse Woody Debris in a Coastal, Old-growth Forest, Oregon, Shannon Lee Mcdonald
Tracking Fish and Human Response to Abrupt Environmental Change at Tse-whit-zen: A Large Native American Village on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, Kathryn Anne Mohlenhoff
The Production of Organic Nitrates in Portland Oregon and the Columbia River Gorge, Holly Ann Neill
Coordinating Job Release Dates with Workdays: a Job Shop Application to Utilities Field Service Scheduling, Ryan Lawrence Pelkey
Modeling Fecal Bacteria in Oregon Coastal Streams Using Spatially Explicit Watershed Characteristics, Paul Bryce Pettus
Arsenic in the Soils of Northwest Oregon, Tracy Ryan Ricker
Soil Development and Vegetation Response to Removal of a Small Dam, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, Stephanie Kay Rohdy
Arsenic Mobility and Compositional Variability in High-Silica Ash Flow Tuffs, Courtney Beth Young Savoie
Status of Nutria (Myocastor coypus) Populations in the Pacific Northwest and Development of Associated Control and Management Strategies, with an Emphasis on Metropolitan Habitats, Trevor Robert Sheffels
Effects of HRU Size on PRMS Performance in 30 Western U.S. Basins, Madeline Olena Steele
Taiwanese Language Medical School Curriculum: A Case Study of Symbolic Resistance Through The Promotion of Alternative Literacy and Language Domain Norms, Philip John Sweeney
Evaluating the Effects of Road Crossing Structures on Stream-Associated Amphibians in the Wilson River Watershed, Tillamook State Forest, Oregon, Sara Erin Twitchell
Hydrogeologic Characterization of Dutch Canyon, Scappoose, Oregon, Derrick Lee Wagner
Materialism, Personal Food Projects, and Satisfaction: A Phenomenological Study of Urban Gardening in Portland, Oregon, Robin René Wikoff
The Spatial Distribution of Tobacco Pipe Fragments at the Hudson's Bay Company Fort Vancouver Village Site: Smoking as a Shared and Social Practice, Katie Ann Wynia
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dynamics of Channel Complexity and Nitrate Retention in Upper Fanno Creek, Oregon, Robert Allen Bean
Where Is the Rain-on-Snow Zone in the West-Central Washington Cascades?: Monte Carlo Simulation of Large Storms in the Northwest, Matthew John Brunengo
Finding the Past in the Present: Modeling Prehistoric Occupation and Use of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Catherine Anne Clark
Stream-Associated Amphibian Habitat Assessment in the Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Region, Andrew Evans Dietrich
Groundwater Surface Trends in the North Florence Dunal Aquifer, Oregon Coast, USA, Sarah Rebecca Doliber
Long-term Responses of Phalaris arundinacea and Columbia River Bottomland Vegetation to Managed Flooding, Tina Schantz Farrelly
On the Effect of Heterogeneity on the Dynamics and Performance of Dynamical Networks, Alireza Goudarzi
Late-Holocene Flood History, Flood-Frequency, and Paleoclimate Analysis of the Central Black Hills, South Dakota, Tessa M. Harden
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Aged Glacial and Climatic Reconstructions in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, Washington, United States, Joshua Andrews Heard
Investigating the Holocene History of Eliot Glacier, Mount Hood, Oregon, Nadia Sittara Jones
Reservoir Evolution Following the Removal of Marmot Dam on the Sandy River, Oregon, Mackenzie Karli Keith
Ancient Cataclysmic Floods in the Pacific Northwest: Ancestors to the Missoula Floods, Erica Medley
Site Selection by Migratory Shorebirds in Oregon Estuaries Over Broad and Fine Spatial Scales, Aileen Kilpatrick Miller
Inventory and Initiation Zone Characterization of Debris Flows on Mount St. Helens, Washington Initiated during a Major Storm Event in November, 2006, Keith Vinton Olson
Characterization of the Red Bluff Landslide, Greater Cascade Landslide Complex, Columbia River Gorge, Washington, James Robert Randall
Origin of surface undulations at the Kamb Ice Stream grounding line, West Antarctica, Fiona Bronwyn Seifert
The Role of Habitat Restoration and Conservation in the Changing Socio-economic Conditions of Grant County, Oregon, Kristen Lauren Senkyr
Short-Term Plasticity at the Schaffer Collateral: A New Model with Implications for Hippocampal Processing, Andrew Hamilton Toland
A Systems Approach to Ecological Economic Models Developed Progressively in Three Interwoven Articles, Takuro Uehara
Apatite Crystal Populations of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption, Philippines: Implications for the Generation of High Sulfur Apatite in Silicic Melts, Ashley Elizabeth Van Hoose
Streamflow Analysis and a Comparison of Hydrologic Metrics in Urban Streams, Matthew Lawton Wood
An Investigation of Urban Mobile Source Aerosol Using Optical Properties Measured by CRDT/N: Diesel Particulate Matter and the Impact of Biodiesel, Monica Elizabeth Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Is Decoding Sufficient to Predict Reading Ability in Kindergarten Through 2nd Grade Students?, Deborah Adkins
A Computational Model of Adaptive Sensory Processing in the Electroreception of Mormyrid Electric Fish, Eran Agmon
Biological Erosion of Marine Habitats and Structures by Burrowing Crustaceans, Timothy Mathias Davidson