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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Puget Sound"”.
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Secondary compression behaviour of a remolded Puget Sound clay
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, 1960.
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Collaboration within the Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Scientific Community
… social network analysis describes the network of Puget Sound researchers studying Puget Sound marine and nearshore ecosystems in order to inform recovery. The collaboration network structure, derived from 253 online surveys, is explained and contextualized using 20 qualitative key-informant …
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Mapping and Modeling the Seattle Fault Tsunami Inundation in Puget Sound
<p>Coastal communities of Puget Sound are susceptible to tsunami inundation from multiple sources. Two sources of potential tsunami hazard that threaten the region are earthquakes on crustal faults in the Puget Lowlands, or earthquakes originating on the Cascadia subduction zone. This study …
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A Constant Element of Architecture: A Path Through the Puget Sound
… 50 miles from Seattle, WA to the edge of the Puget Sound, Protection island. It is a pilgrimage, a journey, a structure situated within a suspended time and space.
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A Resource Management Analysis of Olympia and Pacific Oysters in Puget Sound
… decimated by overharvest and water pollution in Puget Sound. To fill the market demand for oysters, Pacific oysters (<em>Crassostrea gigas</em>) were introduced from Japan in the early 1900s. Since then, Pacific oysters have become the most common species sold by shellfish growers in the Pacific …
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Ecological Effects of Overwater Structures on Subtidal Kelp, Northern Puget Sound, Washington
… are more than 9,000 overwater structures in the Puget Sound casting an estimated 9 km<sup>2</sup> of anthropogenic created shade to the seafloor. Subtidal kelp, over 20 species in total, are abundant in the Sound but little data exists on how they are impacted by these overwater structures. The …
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Alternatives to Charcoal for Improving Chronometric Dating of Puget Sound Archaeological Sites
Radiocarbon dating of archaeological sites in the Puget Lowlands can be problematic. Dating specific cultural events associated with features and sites is difficult due to the ubiquity of charcoal in forest soils and poor preservation of bone in acidic soils. These conditions have impeded the …
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Sea Star Wasting Disease in Pisaster Ochraceus on the Washington Coast and in Puget Sound
… State (northern coast, southern coast, northern Puget Sound, and southern Puget Sound) were surveyed for Shannon biodiversity, species richness, abundance of <em>P. ochraceus, </em>percentage of <em>P. ochraceus </em>infected with sea star wasting disease, total dissolved solids, pH, alkalinity, …
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Learning from Early Commercial Tidal Energy Projects in the Puget Sound, Washington and the Pentland Firth, Scotland
… District’s Admiralty Inlet pilot project in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, and MeyGen Ltd.’s Phase 1A project in Pentland Firth, Scotland, United Kingdom. With a focus on stakeholder learning, the research draws upon scholarly literature on innovation systems and technical …
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A Survey of the Effectiveness of the Various Sizes of Elementary School Teaching Teams in the Puget Sound Area
The purpose of the study is to discover and analyze the various sizes of teaching teams, on the elementary school level, to determine their relative effectiveness with respect to the following, as perceived by teachers: 1. What team size lends itself to the greatest number of individual teacher …
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Spatial Variability and Seasonal Patterns of Co-Occurrence between two Marine Biotoxins in the Puget Sound and Implications for Public Health Management
… Washington but are now widespread throughout the Puget Sound and neighboring marine basins. This study investigates the frequency, intensity, and variability of PSTs, DSTs, and their co-occurrence across various marine basins in Washington State's Puget Sound during the first decade of …
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Angling for Insight: Examining the Recreational Fishing Community's Knowledge, Perceptions, Practices, and Preferences to Inform Rockfish Recovery Planning in Puget Sound, Washington
… end with respect to rockfish (Sebastes spp.) in Puget Sound, Washington. Survey results discuss anglers' relative knowledge of rockfish life history, regulations, and species familiarity; perceptions about threats to rockfish; fishing practices; and preferences for recovery measures. Findings …
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The use of negotiation in coastal zone management : an analysis of the Fraser Estuary Management Program and the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority
… areas of the Fraser River Estuary and the Puget Sound are comparable in that both are located in the Pacific Northwest of North America with similar climates and natural resources, and are experiencing growing population and development pressures. The management processes differ in the …
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The Role of Expert-based Information in Maritime Oil Spill Prevention Policy in the Puget Sound: How Risk Assessments Reflect the Larger Political Context
… political issues in Washington State and the Puget Sound area since the Prudhoe Bay oil discoveries on Alaska's North Slope. In an attempt to improve both the process and outcome of oil spill prevention debates, risk assessment-based approaches have been used as a tool to inform spill …
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Comparing a Surface Collection to an Excavated Collection in the Lower Skagit River Delta at 45SK51
In the Puget Sound Lowland of the Pacific Northwest, archaeologists have investigated a shift in settlement and subsistence patterns occurring in the mid-Holocene Epoch. The artifacts used as the evidence of this shift are interpreted with a concept known as resource intensification. This shift in …
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Determination of Site Functionality and Subsistence Patterns at the Bray Archaeological Site (45PI1276) in Edgewood, Washington
… early intensification of plant use in the Puget Sound during the LBP. Test excavations conducted as part of a damage assessment of the Bray Site indicated that the site may contain the earliest known evidence for intensive plant processing in the lower Puget Sound (ca. 3,000 BP). This …
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Transient Detection and Modeling of Continuous Geodetic Data
… Global Positioning System stations in the Puget Sound area during the past decade. This surface deformation is associated with processes occurring on or near the subducting plate boundary between the Juan de Fuca and North American plates. This thesis is composed of two studies of transient …
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I see men like trees, walking
<p>Content: All along the Puget Sound -- Batter up -- Everything in its right place -- Stone mason grey -- I see men like trees, walking -- The buzz and the hum -- Semi-sonic -- Car parts -- Tiny investigations -- The sorcerer's robe. </p>
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