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 2001
The Impact of Fine Sediment on Stream Macroinvertebrates in Urban and Rural Oregon Streams, Raymond S. Hoy
The Neoglacial History of Mt. Thielsen, Southern Oregon Cascades, Martin Dietrich Lafrenz
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Asiatic Cholera and Dysentery on the Oregon Trail: A Historical Medical Geography Study, Brian Lee Altonen
Spatial Modeling in Emergency Medical Systems: Analysis of a Regional Trauma System With Two Centers, Christopher A. Bangs
An Examination of Commercial Medicinal Plant Harvests, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon, Shannon Michelle Campbell
An Examination of Commercial Medicinal Plant Harvests, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon, Shannon Michelle Campbell
The Long-Term Viability of a Zero-Valent Iron Permeable Reactive Barrier, Stuart Cowburn
A Model of Antecedents of Work-Family Conflict for Dual-Earner Couples in the Sandwiched Generation: A Longitudinal Study, Yueng-hsiang Emily Huang
Magmatic Processes Operating During the Middle to Late Pliocene and Pleistocene Along the Transition Zone Near 43º North, Christy L. Lee
Signs of Popular Ecology in the Ecotourism Landscape Near Tikal National Park, Guatemala, Michael Mooradian Lupro
Establishing the Inundation Distance and Overtopping Height of Paleotsunami from the Late-Holocene Geologic Record at Open-Coastal Wetland Sites, Central Cascadia Margin, Robert B. Schlichting
Tribal constructs and kinship realities : individual and family organization on the Grand Ronde Reservation from 1856, Aeron Teverbaugh
Cooking in Eden: Inventing Regional Cuisine in the Pacific Northwest, Amy Jo Woodruff
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Engineering Geology and Relative Stability of the Southern Half of Newell Creek Canyon, Oregon City, Oregon, William J. Burns
Hydrogeology and Paleohydrology in the Williamson River Basin, Klamath County, Oregon, Jeffrey Scott Conaway
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Enculturing Nature, William Lloyd Cornett
The Antiquities Act of 1906: The Public Response to the Use of Presidential Power in Managing Public Lands, Barbara L. Grover
High Resolution Seismic Reflection Interpretations of the Hood Canal-Discovery Bay Fault Zone, Puget Sound, Washington, Brian J. Haug
Soil Catenas on Glacial Moraines of the Central Oregon Cascades, Jason Erik Haugland
Patterns of Time, Place, and Culture : Land Use Zoning in Portland, Oregon, 1918-1924, Margrete Bernard Merrick
Patterns of Time, Place, and Culture: Land Use Zoning in Portland, Oregon, 1918-1924, Meg Merrick
Coffee in Nicaragua : Regional Development and Change in the Nineteenth Century, Craig Stephen Revels
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Potential for Coastal Flooding Due to Coseismic Subsidence in the Central Cascadia Margin, Elson T. Barnett
Geochemical Characteristics and Correlations Within the Triassic-Jurassic Age Gabbs and Sunrise Formations of West Central Nevada, Karen Elizabeth Boelling
The Summit Vegetation of Saddle Mountain, Oregon Coast Range, Charles Thomas Carlson
Early to Middle Pleistocene Catastrophic Flood Deposits, The Dalles, Oregon, David Irving Cordero
Gender, Power and Identity in an African-American Church, Catherine Douillet
Geologic Evidence of Historic and Prehistoric Tsunami Inundation at Seaside, Oregon, Brooke K. Fiedorowicz
Managing Oregon’s Aquatic Resources : A Dynamic Segmentation Application, Keith Andrew Hupperts
Distribution of Heavy Metals and Trace Elements in Soils of Southwest Oregon, Rafiqul Alam Khandoker
Geochemistry, Stratigraphy and Provenance of the Portland Hills Silt in the Tualatin Mountains, Portland, Oregon, John L. Lawes III
GIS Applications to Glaciology: Construction of the Mount Rainier Glacier Database, Jeremy Laurence Mennis
Satellite remote sensing for measuring the urban forest of Portland, Oregon, A. Paul Newman
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Alpine Soil Geomorphology: The Development and Characterization of Soil in the Alpine-Subalpine Zone of the Wallowa Mountains, Oregon, Charles Edward Allen
Groundwater Recharge of the Middle Deschutes Basin, Oregon, Thomas Gene Boyd
Mechanisms of pentachlorophenol induced charge transport in lipid membranes, William Charles Brown
Wapato for the People : An Ecological Approach to Understanding the Native American Use of Sagittaria Latifolia on the Lower Columbia River, Melissa Cole Darby
Determinants and Impacts of Demand-side Management Program Investment of Electric Utilities, Philipp Degens
Beach Response to Subsidence Following a Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake Along the Washington-Oregon Coast, Debra Lee Doyle
Correlation of the Upper Ellensburg Formation with the Old Scab Mountain Eruptive Center, East-Central Cascade Range, Washington, Christopher Charles Humphrey
A Methodology for Regional Seismic Damage Assessment and Retrofit Planning for Existing Buildings, Thomas C. McCormack
An Evolutionary Simulation of the Tragedy of the Commons, Gretchen Oosterhout
Wear Due to the Physical and Petrographic Properties of Rocks and their Dynamic Interactions with Mining Equipment, Christian Poppeliers
Oregon's Oil: A Geographic View of Petroleum Distribution and Associated Risks, Paul M. Slyman
Social Stratification within a Protohistoric Plankhouse of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Use-wear and Spatial Distribution Analysis of Chipped Lithic Artifacts, Cameron McPherson Smith
Captive Environmental Influences on Behavior in Zoo Drills and Mandrills (Mandrillus), a Threatened Genus of Primate, Erik Terdal
The Development and Evaluation of Aggregation Methods for Group Pairwise Comparison Judgments, Sida Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The Distribution of Naturally Occurring Soil Radionuclides and Radon Potential of Northwest Oregon, Stuart Graham Ashbaugh
Geochemistry of the Boring Lava along the West Side of the Tualatin Mountains and of Sediments from Drill Holes in the Portland and Tualatin Basins, Portland, Oregon, Michelle Lynn Barnes
A Hydrologic Analysis of Government Island, Oregon, Scott Gregory Bittinger
Application of a Geographical Information System to Estimate the Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in the Sandy and Clackamas River Basins, Oregon, Dorie Lynn Brownell
The Effect of the Ideology of Motherhood on Women, Shari A. Burke
Redefining the Suburban Ideal: An Analysis of Single-family Residential Densities in Washington County, Oregon, David Morgan Coughlan
An Analysis of Oregon Department of Transportation Planned Highway Construction Projects for Selected Years from 1978 to 1992, Glen A. Fleming
Monomeric and Polymeric Fluoroalkyl Sulfonyl Fluorides, Sulfonate Salts and Sulfonic Acids for Use as Electrolytes and Coatings, Nicolas Noel Hamel
A Non-decision-reaching Decision-making process, Wei Wei Lou
A Taxonomy of Types of Uncertainty, Byrne Elliot Lovell
A Swamp in the Desert: Theory, Water Policy, and Malheur Lake Basin, Cristin R. Mandaville
Tunnel One Generalized Satellite Knots, John Ralph Neil
Disequilibrium Transition of the Consumer Goods Market in China, 1954-1991, Hui Shu
Some Relationships Between Sedimentary Trace Metal Concentrations and Freshwater Phytoplankton and Sedimentary Diatom Species Composition, Allan Hayes Vogel
An Analysis of Socioeconomic Effects on Scrap Paper Recycling Participation, Sara Phyllis Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Coastal Crossing of the Elastic Strain Zero-Isobase, Cascadia Margin, South Central Oregon Coast, Gregory George Briggs
The Geology of Parrett Mountain, Oregon, and Its Influences on the Local Groundwater Systems, Brett Todd Brodersen
The Holocene Sedimentary Framework of the Lower Columbia River Gorge, Edward Breed Gates
Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility Mapping of the Upper Canyon Creek Basin, Cascade Range, Skamania County, Washington, Lawrence P. Growney
An Assessment of the Riparian-influenced Salmonid Habitat Features of Johnson Creek, Portland, Oregon, Andrew Greiff Gude
Sediment Yield Analysis of Reservoir #1, Bull Run Watershed, West Cascade Mountains, Oregon, Doann M. Hamilton
Technological Organization and Sedentism: Expedient Core Reduction, Stockpiling, and Tool Curation at the Meier Site (35CO5), Stephen Coursault Hamilton
Magmatic Evolution and Eruptive History of the Granitic Bumping Lake Pluton, Washington: Source of the Bumping River and Cash Prairie Tuffs, John Frederick King
Source rock geochemistry of the southern Tyee Basin, southwest Oregon, David E. Long
"I Don't Speak My Own Language": Ethnicity Among the Malayalees of Singapore, David L. Moore
Soil Properties and Behavior of Earthflows in the Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon, Douglas Andrew Smith
The Spatial Distribution of Ground Stone Tools as a Marker of Status Differentials in a Chinookan Plank House on the Lower Columbia River, John William Wolf
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Antigen-Antibody Complexes, Including Sequence Specific Assignments and Structural Analysis of Neurophysin as an Antigen Model, Elisar Jamil Barbar
Mechanism of Calcium Release from Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, Edmond Buck
Geochemistry, Alluvial Facies Distribution, Hydrogeology, and Groundwater Quality of the Dallas-Monmouth Area, Oregon, Rodney R. Caldwell
The Effects of Airline Deregulation on Airline Safety: An Econometric Analysis, William Charles De Jager
This Looks Like an Old Point: Time and Projectile Points in the Tualatin Valley, Oregon, Linda Lani Freidenburg
Central America: An Attempt at Modern Economic Growth, Richard Kibbey
Ethnic Identity Changes Among Hong Kong Chinese Americans, Pui-Lam Lo
Thermoregulation in Mice under the Influence of Ethanol, Candace Sharon O'Connor
Distributed Economic Systems with Agents that Learn, Stanley Foster Perry
Nucleation and Heat Transfer in Liquid Nitrogen, Eric Roth
Portland as a Divided City: Geographical Voting Patterns on Ballot Measures in the November 1990 Elections, Dmitry Sharkov
Hydrogeochemical Characterization of the Alvord Valley Known Geothermal Resources Area, Harney County, Oregon, Anna Maria St. John
A Location Analysis of Vandalism to the Rock Art of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Julia J. Wilt
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Probabilistic Determination of Failure Load Capacity Variations for Lattice Type Structures Based on Yield Strength Variations including Nonlinear Post-Buckling Member Performance, Leander Anton Bathon
Modeling Techniques for Water Supply Forecasting in the Western United States, David Charles Garen
Hawthorne Boulevard: Commercial Gentrification and the Creation of an Image, Rachel Ann Hardyman
The Tensile Strength of Liquid Nitrogen, Jian Huang
Seasonal Patterns of Melatonin, Cortisol, and Progesterone Secretion in Female Lambs Raised Beneath a 500-kV Transmission Line, Jack Monroe Lee Jr.