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OIMB Theses
This collection contains some of the theses and dissertations produced by students in the University of Oregon OIMB Graduate Program. Paper copies of these and other dissertations and theses are available through the UO Libraries.
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Stenn, Erik Stricker
(1996-04)
With rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere it becomes increasingly more important to understand the nature of the oceans as a sink for CO2 as well as the mechanisms that transport carbon from the atmosphere to the oceans. ...
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Stark, Kimberle Ann
(1988-06)
The Dall porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli True) is a small, deep-bodied and easily identifiable cetacean found in the northern North Pacific Ocean and adjacent waters including the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, ...
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Shotwell, Kalei
(1998-06)
Investigations regarding interdecadal climate cycles have surged in the past several years providing alternative perspectives into the forcings on climate change. The possible couplings between the various patterns of these ...
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Seymour, John Patrick
(1987-06)
This was the first diet study on the shiner surfperch and the staghorn sculpin in the Umpqua River Estuary, Oregon. Gammarid amphipods, teleosts, and ghost shrimp were the most important food items of the staghorn sculpin ...
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Selby, Richard S.
(1980-12)
As a commercially exploited species the Dungeness Crab, Cancer magister, has generated a fairly large, unconsolidated body of literature. Initial research undertaken in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California ...
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Schmit, Valerie M.
(1989-12)
The current literature covering certain models for the selection of hermaphroditism was reviewed. The purpose of the review was to assess the models' ability to determine if there are constraints present that pressure a ...
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Rowell, David
(2022-07-06)
The role of an estuary or bay in the life cycle of Cancer magister is not well understood. I believe Coos Bay, as well as other bays, is an important "nursery" ground for young crabs, its recruits are necessary for sustaining ...
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Tsuneyoshi, Kunio
(1971-09)
The chances of us being exposed to mercury and its compounds are significant. During the past, farmers, miners, and manufacturers have used millions of pounds of mercury annually. Mercury containing agricultural chemicals ...
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Trainer, James
(2007-03)
Barnacles are popular study organisms for a variety of reasons. As adults, they are sessile, and they are often small and numerous, making them easy to manipulate in ecological experiments. A researcher can be sure that ...
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Pisciotto, Ronald Joseph
(1978-05)
When I first arrived in the Hawaiian Islands on a teaching assignment in 1970 I naively expected to be greeted by a landscape clothed in the native flora. Instead, what I saw as I left the airport was a collage of introduced ...
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Heide, Allen
(1971-08)
Adaptation to land from a water environment is a common topic in many textbooks. Most of the organisms discussed, though, have already adapted themselves to solve the most vital problems of water retention and temperature ...
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Haury, David L.
(1978-05)
Hemoglobin (Hb), one of the most abundant vertebrate proteins, distributes oxygen among body tissues following oxygenation at the respiratory interface between organism and environment. During the course of natural selection, ...
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Hartke, Monica Kathleen
(1988-06)
The three families of pinnipeds include the Phocidae, "true seals", the Otariidae, sea lions and fur seals, and the Odobenidae, or of polygyny similarities in walruses. It is remarkable that the evolution in pinnipeds has ...
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Gibson, Steven Charles
(1977-05)
An estuary is an interface where mixing of river and sea water occurs, often within the confines of an embayment. The abrupt environmental changes between these two environments pose a multiplicity of stresses to the ...
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Freeman, Peter C.
(1979-06)
This study is concerned with the early winter (October, November, December) dynamics of phytoplankton populations in the South Slough of the Coos Bay estuary. A student study, conducted at the Oregon Institute of Marine ...
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Feichtinger, John Rudolph
(1950-06)
The city of Coos Bay is a sea port located on the upper reaches of Coos Bay, mid-way on the Pacific Coast of the State of Oregon. With a valuable virgin timber supply which stretches east of it across the Coast Range to ...
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Petersen, Kristine K.
(1989-03)
This paper reviews the current knowledge of aggressive behavior in sea anemones (Anthozoa), considering the type of organs used in aggression and the lifestyles of the sea anemones involved. The mechanisms involved in the ...
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Morgan, Erin
(2009-07-30)
Over the past 250 years, the composition of Earth's atmosphere has changed as a result of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. For example, activities such as deforestation, agriculture, and the burning of fossil ...
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McLean, April G.
(1974)
Estuaries are individually unique ecosystems, each with specific environmental characteristics. There are, however, some generalizations that can be made describing estuaries overall. Caspers (1967) gives four features ...
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Mahony, Daniel Lewis
(1975-12)
Two genera of fishes in the family Salmonidae have stimulated considerable biological interest on the Pacific coast of North America. The anadromous life histories of both the Pacific salmons (Oncorhynchus spp.) and the ...
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