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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"U.S. West"”.
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Sanitizing History: Environmental Cleanup and Historic Preservation in U.S. West Mining Communities
Residents in mining towns of the U.S. West face a troubling quandary in their attempts to preserve historical evidence of their town’s industrial past, because that evidence threatens their health. The 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA, or …
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Multi-scale features of atmospheric rivers and the linkages with local-scale hydrological impacts on the U.S. West Coast
… many regions of the world including the U.S. West Coast in the winter season. The goal of this dissertation is to examine the multi-scale features associated with ARs. The links to local-scale hydrological impacts are of particular interest because they are the key in estimating local …
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Regional variation in work absence cultures in the United States
… state-level work absenteeism (i.e., in the U.S. West). Third, I assess whether observed regional differences in state-level absence cultures in the West are attributable to (mediated by) regional differences in state-level social disorganization/anomie, while controlling for state-level variance …
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Classification of summertime West Coast fog and stratus events and the development of fog and stratus forecast techniques
The fog and stratus that frequently plagues the West Coast in the summer months is responsible for a variety of impacts on everyday life, the greatest impact on aviation. Many flight delays and cancellations that are experienced around the Pacific Rim are attributed to the development and evolution …
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Improving wind-based upwelling estimates off the west coasts of North and South America
… at 25 sites off the North and South American west coasts from August 1999 to December 2001 using geostrophically derived winds, model-derived winds from the U.S. Navy's global atmospheric (NOGAPS) model, and QuikSCAT satellite-measured winds. Satellite-measured winds, verified with 15 U.S. …
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Tiny Octopuses: The Successes, Struggles, and Failures of Short Lines and Branch Lines in Rural Nevada, California, and Oregon Between 1869 and 1920
… to the Eastern United States and throughout the West. These railroads, and the communities that they connected, have often been overlooked by historians who focus on the major transcontinental railroads. This dissertation examines the stories of the rural U.S. West which remain untold. These …
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Climate impacts and adaptation in the Dungeness crab fishery: a social-ecological systems perspective
… magister Dana) is an iconic species on the U.S. West Coast, where it supports one of the largest and most valuable commercial fisheries, as well as culturally important recreational and subsistence harvests. Yet over the past decade, Dungeness crab fisheries have faced numerous closures from the …
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Risk Mitigation in the West Coast Commercial Fishing Fleet
… In the following thesis, I examine how West Coast harvesters manage both physical and financial risk by utilizing data from two surveys of over 1400 U.S. West Coast fishing vessel owners. I explore what drives health insurance uptake by individual harvesters and how health insurance is …
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The Racialization of Relationships Between Higher Education Institutions and Cities: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Changing North Denver
… sustainability, and water in the U.S. West will be built. This research study uses Critical Discourse Analysis to explore how the town/gown relationship is unfolding between the university and the community and to learn what will be gained and lost. By examining the meeting transcripts …
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The face of empire: the cultural production of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and California, 1904–1916
… its fair to exert control over the U.S. Southwest in an effort to forge an inland empire that would position the city as an imperial hub. The PCE employed scientific racism to justify white supremacy, Indian removal, and imperial expansion, both ""at home"" in the U.S. West and ""abroad"" in …