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Cheat River
Cheat River is a novel about balancing family obligations against self-preservation. That is what's at stake for Allison and Andrew McKenna, a pair of siblings in rural Appalachia who must endure their father's abandonment and their pregnant mother's breakdown. At first, the two find solace from …
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RIVER HOUSE
River House is about a young woman facing opposing urges between land, family, familiarity, and liberation. At the heart of it is my lifetime in the central Oregon desert and my life as an international river guide. The framework of this book is the building of a log house with my father on our …
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RIVER HOUSE
River House is about a young woman facing opposing urges between land, family, familiarity, and liberation. At the heart of it is my lifetime in the central Oregon desert and my life as an international river guide. The framework of this book is the building of a log house with my father on our …
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River Run
'River Run’ was born of my desire to explore the water courses that I have grown up in and around. I wanted to look deeper than the obvious, to look at how the environment and my engagement with it has changed, though my affinity with the waters has not. ‘River Run’ is a flow of consciousness …
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City in the River: Regeneration of the Santa Catarina River as an Intermittent Urban River
Full of dichotomies, the Santa Catarina River is both dry and wet, present but forgotten, central yet disconnected, valued yet feared. How should an intermittent river in a dense urban context be regenerated? This thesis reimagines its ecological, hydrological, and public potential. Set in …
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Numerical Modeling of River Diversions in the Lower Mississippi River
… of man-made levees along the Lower Mississippi River (MR) has significantly reduced the River sediment input to the wetlands and much of the River's sediment is now lost to the Gulf of Mexico. The sediment load in the River has also been decreased by dams and river revetments along the Upper MR. …
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Meandering river dynamics
Meandering channels are dynamic landforms that arise as a result of fluid mechanic and sedimentary processes. Their evolution has been described by the meander morphodynamic equations, which dictate that channel curvature and bed topology give rise to local perturbations in streamwise fluid …
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Kat River revisited
There is a paucity of oral-history works on Kat River. Likewise, although various histories of Kat River/Stockenstrom exist, few have focused on the forced removals of Stockenstrom coloured people in the 1980s, the effects of displacement on them, and their involvement in current land claims …
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Merrimac River Bridge
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1876
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Mercury River Blues
Mercury River Blues is a collection of poems, both lyric and narrative, which explores contemporary Appalachian history, social issues, aesthetics, and politics.
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River Edge Retreat
… to seclusion and recharge. A retreat on a river's edge provides access to these attributes of nature. An effort to blur the boundary of the outdoors was made to encourage immersion into it. The choice of natural and relatively local material provides a relationship between the built and the …
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Rappahannock River Edge
Inherent in river is a dual nature: it is a dynamic, flooding entity which never moves but causes movement. This cord which ties the lands and towns along its edges also ties the individual town to the water. The river's character becomes apparent through the life of the town and the provision …
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Population and habitat ecology of the river cooter (Pseudemys concinna) in the New River Gorge National River, W.V.
… population ecology and habitat relationships of river cooters (Pseudemys concinna) in the New River Gorge National River (NRGNR), West Virginia. Cooter colonies occurred in 3 pool habitats characterized by slow current velocities (x=0.22m/s), shallow water (0-2m), aquatic macrophyte beds, and …
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Natural attenuation of organophosphates in river systems: Chattahoochee River case study
… acid triesters within the Chattahoochee River near Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Samples were collected during the month of January at various sites along the Chattahoochee River. They were subsequently analyzed for concentration of all three organophosphoric acid triesters. These concentrations …
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The Relative Contribution of Hudson River Tributaries to River Herring Spawning Dynamics
… Kill (Poughkeepsie, New York) to obtain spawning river herring egg counts for abundance modeling and subsequent population estimation. Geographic coordinates (NAD 1983 UTM Zone 18N) were recorded at sites of egg collection, and kernel density based functions in GIS were used to visualize the …
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