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Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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(The American Journal of Physics, 2021-06-05)This resource letter provides an overview of the literature in biological physics, a vast, active, and expanding field that links the phenomena of the living world to the tools and perspectives of physics. While no survey ...
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(2021-06-13)In recent decades, dam removals on American rivers have accelerated due to environmental concerns for stream ecology coinciding with the obsolescence of dam infrastructure built in the early 20th century. In some ...
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(2021-06-13)In a time of environmental uncertainties, restoration efforts are charged with the complicated task of creating environmental resilience in the wake of issues like climate change, sea-level rise, and the loss of species ...
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(2021-06-13)The Columbia River Gorge separates Oregon and Washington along a 75 mile stretch of poignant beauty became a drivable destination in the 1920’s [Willis]. There are key view areas on this route of elevated aesthetic ...
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(2021-06-13)With the closest port of call approximately 2,400 miles away, the Hawaiian Islands are one of the most geographically isolated and food-import dependent populations in the world. The Hawaiian Islands imports approximately ...
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(2021-06-13)As a means of understanding landscape phenomenon, responsive modeling establishes a place to concurrently hinge between generating and testing hypotheses while incorporating the expanding agency of computational modeling ...
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(2021-06-13)The benefit of both urban agriculture and therapeutic gardens are historically acknowledged and legitimized in landscape architecture. In their own ways they seek to address issues of resiliency and quality of life. ...
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(2021-06-13)Disc golf is a rapidly growing sport all over the world; it is played like traditional golf, throwing a small frisbee, or disc, instead of hitting a ball, and playing a course which weaves through forested and other ...
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(2021-06-13)This project develops design strategies for landscape architects, planners, city officials, and public space designers that improve the provision of public space resources. Productive public landscapes that combine ...
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(2021-06-13)In the United States, women often perceive traveling to be an inconvenient and uncomfortable experience. This experience is the result of the disproportionate role men have historically played in transportation system ...
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(2021-06-13)This project explores the potential between the ecological services of mosses and designed ceramic substrate for creating ecologically enhanced landscapes. Communities and environments are negatively affected by areas ...
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(2021-06-13)The United States currently faces a range crisis on it’s public lands. Federally protected mustangs (Equus caballus) share a degraded range with millions of grazing livestock. Mustangs’ contentious status as an alleged ...
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(2021-06-13)Effects of climate change in Oregon are evident in multiple ways. Dwindling snowpack, hotter longer summers, and larger, more frequent forest fires are among the most visible impacts of the climate crisis. in Oregon. ...
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(2021-06-13)Portland, Oregon does not have an urban climate change mitigation program to protect ecology, capture carbon, build resilience, and develop social equity in a single strategy. Local programs are siloed into one or two ...
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(2021-06-13)In an urgent call for climate actions and a Green New Deal, policy such as the “Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act of 2020” looks to offshore renewable energy to aid in the goal of a clean electricity system while also ...
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(2021-06-13)Black, Indigenous, and Latinx folx face many barriers when trying to access public natural areas. Park managers, designers, city staff, and community organizations can build a more equitable future for our public natural ...
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(2021-06-13)Homelessness is a racial justice issue, as well as a social justice issue, and finding solutions to house the unhoused needs to be viewed through both lenses. Individuals experiencing homelessness are not one homogenous ...
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(2021-06-13)Between 60% and 80% of global energy is consumed in urban areas, and this will increase with urbanization and population growth. We must meet this new demand sustainably. By 2050, the Green New Deal calls for ...
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(Optical Society of America, 2021-06)Optical probing of glaciers has the potential for tremendous impact on environmental science. However, glacier ice is turbid, which prohibits the use of most established optical measurements for determining a glacier’s ...
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(Library of Congress, 2021)The Music Modernization Act is reviewed in detail, with a particular eye toward the implications for members of the community supported by the National Recording Preservation Board, including librarians, archivists, and ...
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