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Geography Theses and Dissertations
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Casey, Alexandra
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Amidst the global rise of wildfire disasters and the complex human-environment interactions they (re)produce (Fischer, et al., 2016), Oregon’s Senate Bill 762 stands out as an ambitious policy initiative aiming to improve ...
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Ford, Sophia
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The political right is most often associated with defending statues and monuments honoring colonizers, confederates, and enslavers. An example is the 2017 'Unite the Right Rally' in Charlottesville, Virginia, where activists ...
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Abreu-Vigil, Gabriel
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Boreal forests, covering about 30 percent of Earth's forested area, are dominated by coniferous forests and deemed crucial reservoirs of permafrost and belowground carbon. Undergoing rapid ecological changes from a warming ...
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Mast, Colin
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Forests serve as critical reservoirs for carbon, provide habitat for a significant proportion of terrestrial species, and provision renewable building materials in the form of timber. However, forests are increasingly at ...
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Shapovalov, Maxim
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The Greenland Ice Sheet has been in a state of negative mass balance for the past several decades and is currently responsible for a substantial proportion of global sea-level rise. Accurate projections of ice sheet mass ...
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rutherford, devlin
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
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Pletcher, Addison
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The formation and breakup of lake ice plays a critical role in the hydrology, ecology, and subsistence activities of Arctic regions. However, little research has examined ice phenology in small water bodies and complex ...
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Sui, Zhaoxu
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
In this research, I aim to deconstruct and quantify the cartographic designs of maps of Sakhalin Island—a politically contested area between Russia, China, and Japan. This will enhance understanding of how the design of ...
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Macal Montenegro, Carla
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
My dissertation presented case studies of two GuateMaya feminist groups that are challenging state-dominant narratives of the Guatemalan 36-year- war (1960-1996) and foregrounding counter-memory with art, Maya cosmovision ...
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Shields, Katherine
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
The Aral “catastrophe” has resulted from ongoing diversion of water flowing into the Aral Sea for irrigation, largely cotton, primarily from the 1960s until present. The shrinking of the sea has resulted in loss of ...
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Song, Insang
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
Mental illness is a pressing global and national public health concern, necessitating the identification of risk factors to develop effective prevention measures. In this dissertation, I attempt to fill two research gaps ...
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Kuentz, Lily
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
Military sites have historically become major point sources for environmental contamination. With globally changing climate patterns there is even higher potential than before for certain of these waste sites to become ...
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Van Dusen, Ian
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
This study compares the accuracy of surface water maps from Sentinel-2 and Planet satellites with 43 shoreline observations on the Tanana and Willamette Rivers. High-precision GNSS rover provided the most precise results, ...
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Saban, Chantel
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
The Northern Great Basin of Oregon is an area of diverse ecologies organized along elevational gradients and variable water sources. At the lowest elevations are the remnants of Pleistocene pluvial lakes, now deflated ...
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Katz, Sydney
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Large-scale wildfires are increasing in frequency and are likely to become more severe under future Pacific Northwest climate scenarios. The effects of wildfires on soil organic carbon (SOC) remain difficult to estimate ...
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Limpisathian, P. William
(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)
Cartographers assert that, as a core tenet of effective design, effective implementation of visual contrast is crucial for map reading. It is theorized that without sufficient contrast, readers are hindered from efficiently ...
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Vent, Herbert James
(University of Oregon, 1942-06)
The main purpose of this study is to ascertain recent changes in the economic and human geography of the Upper Willamette Valley and interpreting these changes in the light of socio-geography. This study is important because ...
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Backes, G. Byron
(University of Oregon, 1959-06)
The Ashland Area, a well-settled agricultural subdistrict, is the
southeastern-most segment of the arable valley lands of the Medford District of Jackson County, Oregon. The city of Ashland and the
Ashland Area function ...
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Selim, Soad Hanem M. Gamal Eldin
(University of Oregon, 1963-06)
The fruit and vegetable canning industry in Eugene, Oregon, is represented in this thesis as a study in economic geography based upon filed methods. The Eugene Fruit Growers’ Association, one of the sizeable establishments ...
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Chen, Kaijing Janice
(University of Oregon, 2023-03-24)
Massage parlors in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District have experienced heightened police surveillance, mobilized by legislation that increasingly regulates massage labor performed by Asian migrant women. This wave ...
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