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Montana Kaimin, March 15, 2007, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

University Of Montana Events Monday, March 12, Through Monday, March 19, 2007, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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University Of Montana Events Monday, March 5, Through Monday, March 12, 2007, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Evaluating Water Stress Controls On Primary Production In Biogeochemical And Remote Sensing Based Models, Qiaozhen Mu, Maosheng Zhao, Faith Ann Heinsch, Mingliang Liu, Hanqin Tian, Steven W. Running

Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group Publications

Water stress is one of the most important limiting factors controlling terrestrial primary production, and the performance of a primary production model is largely determined by its capacity to capture environmental water stress. The algorithm that generates the global near-real-time MODIS GPP/NPP products (MOD17) uses VPD (vapor pressure deficit) alone to estimate the environmental water stress. This paper compares the water stress calculation in the MOD17 algorithm with results simulated using a process-based biogeochemical model (Biome-BGC) to evaluate the performance of the water stress determined using the MOD17 algorithm. The investigation study areas include China and the conterminous United States …

Um Celebrates International Week, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Montana Kaimin, February 22, 2007, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Film 'Gobi Women's Song' To Be Shown At Um, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Montana Kaimin, February 14, 2007, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Art 495h.01: Spanish Art, H. Rafael Chacon

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 1990-2010

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Psc 130e.01: International Relations, Louis Hayes

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Montana Kaimin, January 30, 2007, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

University Of Montana Events Monday, Jan. 29, Through Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Access To Safe Drinking Water Subject Of Lecture At Law School, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

From Kyrgyzstan To The Rockies: Overcoming The Challenges Of Rural Journalism, University Of Montana--Missoula. School Of Journalism

Montana Journalism Review

Jailhouse Journalism -- Tke World from the Hill -- Gringo Gazettes -- The Role of Manhood in Media -- The Ugly American -- The Art of Criticism -- So Long, Friend -- Feedback -- News Never Sleeps -- The Truth and Other Howlers -- Cowflops and Cowtowns -- Peaks and Valleys -- Kids, Cattle, Grain, Minerals and Journalism -- The Nonprofit Newspaper Hybrid -- Creating a News Network -- I’ve Read Every Sheet

Faunal Analysis Of The Tongue River Bison Kill Site (24rb2135) In Southeastern Montana, Hilleary Allison Sutton

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The University of Montana excavated the Tongue River bison kill site (24RB2135) in 2005 on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. This was the site of a prehistoric bison hunt. Over 20,000 bone fragments and over 1,000 stone tools were recovered during the excavation. This study focuses on the bone material in order to understand past hunting practices at this site. In order to complete the analyses required to understand the faunal material, specific data was gathered for each bone element. These data points include: the taxon, skeletal element, side, body orientation, portion, color, size, weathering, age, and any natural or cultural …

Investigation Of A Triangle Zone Structure Between Augusta And Bowman’S Corners, Lewis And Clark County, Montana, Heather Marie Henry

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Henry, Heather, M.S., May 2007 Geosciences Investigation of a triangle zone structure between Augusta and Bowman’s Corners, Lewis and Clark County, Montana Chairperson: James Sears Productive hydrocarbon reservoirs along Canada’s Rocky Mountain thrust belt are contained by a triangle zone, which is comprised of complex antiformal wedge structures that commonly form along the leading edges of foreland fold-thrust systems world-wide. Duplex imbrication within triangle zones create stacked structural traps for hydrocarbons driven toward the surface by the propagation of thrust belts. This geometry is well documented in a series of en echelon structures that stretch approximately 900 kilometers, from northeast …

Assessing The Effectiveness Of A Place-Based Conservation Education Program By Applying Utilization-Focused Evaluation, Alice B. Flowers

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Lack of personal connection to the natural world by most American youth builds reason for assessing effectiveness of conservation education programs. Place-based learning is important in helping youth understand how their personal and societal well-being are linked and dependent upon their local habitats. Across Montana 2277 students in grades 3 - 10 participate in an interactive year long fishing education program with their teachers called Hooked on Fishing (HOF).

The purpose of my study was to assess the effectiveness of HOF, a place-based conservation education program established in 1996, and modeled after the national Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs …

Habitat Use And The Effects Of Disturbance On Wintering Birds Using Riparian Habitats In Sonora, Mexico, Jose Fernando Villasenor

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Riparian systems are important for breeding bird communities and are highly used as migratory corridors; however, their importance for wintering birds has not been assessed systematically. In order to assess the value of riparian areas for birds wintering in Sonora, data from 1,816 standard point counts were collected from 87 locations during January and February 2004-2006. A total of 253 species were detected across 14 vegetation types, including nine categories of riparian vegetation. The mean number of species and individuals detected per count was significantly higher in riparian vegetation than in non-riparian vegetation for migratory species, but not for residents. …

The Diaspora Of Korean Children: A Cross-Cultural Study Of The Educational Crisis In Contemporary South Korea, Young-Ee Cho

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The diaspora of Korean children first started after the Korean War in the 1950s. Abandoned by their impoverished mothers and shunned by society, many orphan children were sent abroad for adoption, which was the best, if not the only, available solution at the time. Half a century later, South Korea today is no longer a desperately poor country, and yet an increasing number of young children are still being sent abroad. The exodus of children, termed as the diaspora of Korean children in this study, is an out-of-country solution chosen by both students and parents in response to an educational …

Rebuttal To Irons, David Dewolf, John G. West, Casey Luskin

Montana Law Review

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Racial Inequality In The Distribution Of Hazardous Waste: A National-Level Reassessment, Paul Mohai, Robin Saha

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

National-level studies examining racial disparities around hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities have been very influential in defining the academic and political debates about the existence and importance of "environmental injustice." However, these studies tend to employ methods that fail to adequately control for proximity between environmentally hazardous sites and nearby residential populations. By using GIS and applying methods increasingly used in environmental inequality research that better control for proximity, we conduct a comprehensive reassessment of racial inequality in the distribution of the nation 's hazardous waste facilities. We compare the magnitude of racial disparities found with those of …

Assessing The Carbon Balance Of Circumpolar Arctic Tundra Using Remote Sensing And Process Modeling, Stephen Sitch, A. D. Mcguire, John S. Kimball, Nicola Gedney, J. A. Gamon, Ryan Engstrom, Annett Wolf, Q. Zhuang, J. Clein, Kyle C. Mcdonald

Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group Publications

This paper reviews the current status of using remote sensing and process-based modeling approaches to assess the contemporary and future circumpolar carbon balance of Arctic tundra, including the exchange of both carbon dioxide and methane with the atmosphere. Analyses based on remote sensing approaches that use a 20-year data record of satellite data indicate that tundra is greening in the Arctic, suggesting an increase in photosynthetic activity and net primary production. Modeling studies generally simulate a small net carbon sink for the distribution of Arctic tundra, a result that is within the uncertainty range of field-based estimates of net carbon …

Predicting Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea Maculosa) Range Expansion Near Missoula Montana Using Localized Climate And Elevation Data, William Frank Preston Cumming

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Since the 1920s spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) has adapted to a variety of habitats, including pastureland, rangeland, hay land, open forests, road sides, and ditches. In 2003 this plant species dominated more than five million acres in Montana, half of the total infestation of noxious weeds in the state. This project demonstrates the utility of using downscaled Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) data for predicting vegetation movement within a 2°×2° geographical area surrounding Missoula County, Montana. This localized climate change data was correlated against current knapweed range using validation data from the Volunteer for Wilderness Program at the …

Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing Of Boreal-Arctic Land Surface State And Meteorology From Amsr-E, Lucas Alan Jones

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

High latitude regions are undergoing significant climate-related change and represent an integral component of the Earth’s climate system. Near-surface vapor pressure deficit, soil temperature, and soil moisture are essential state variables for monitoring high latitude climate and estimating the response of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change. Methods are developed and evaluated to retrieve surface soil temperature, daily maximum/minimum air temperature, and land surface wetness information from the EOS Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on the Aqua satellite for eight Boreal forest and Arctic tundra biophysical monitoring sites across Alaska and northern Canada. Daily vapor pressure deficit is determined by employing …

Development Of The Rocky Mountain Foreland Basin: Combined Structural, Mineralogical, And Geochemical Analysis Of Basin Evolution, Rocky Mountain Thrust Front, Northwest Montana, Emily Geraghty Ward

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The sub-Middle Jurassic unconformity exhumed at Swift Reservoir, in the Rocky Mountain thrust belt of Montana, exposes structures that call for a re-evaluation of the deformation history at this locale. The unconformity separates Late Mississippian Madison Group carbonate (~340 Ma) from the transgressive basal sandstone of the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian-Bathonian) Sawtooth Formation (~170 Ma). Fieldwork established that northwest-trending, karst-widened fractures (grikes) are filled with cherty, phosphatic sandstone and conglomerate of the Sawtooth Formation and penetrate the Madison Group for 4 meters below the unconformity. Clam borings, filled with Sawtooth sandstone, pierce the unconformity surface, some of the fracture walls, and …

Small-Hydroelectricity And Landscape Change In The Bitterroot Mountains: Public Perceptions And Attitudes, Chad E. Newman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Newman, Chad, M.A. December 2007 Geography Small-Hydroelectricity and Landscape Change in the Bitterroot Mountains: Public Perceptions and Attitudes Chairperson: Dr. David D. Shively The development and use of renewable energy resources within America has made significant progress over the last two decades. Many state governments have adopted legislation requiring the development of their local renewable resources for generating electricity. In 2005, Montana’s State Legislature passed Senate Bill 415, The Montana Renewable Power Production and Rural Economic Development Act. This piece of legislation mandates the development and use of renewable energy resources by energy producers and requires that fifteen percent of …

Small Robe Band Of Blackfeet: Ethnogenesis By Social And Religious Transformation, Linda Matt Juneau

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

One of the most significant challenges facing Native Americans and their indigenous identity is a greater understanding of the historical complexity of relationships that interconnected ethnically diverse populations across geographic landscapes. This thesis examines the range of Blackfoot political, social, economic structures, spiritual beliefs, and practices that were in place at the time of Euro-American contact. I use historically documented evidence of transformations that took place from the beginning of the fur trade era through the reservation era. Through the theoretical lens of ethnogenesis I use a case study of the Small Robe (Inuck’siks) band of the South Piegan of …

Dam Regulations Effects On Sand Bar Migration On The Missouri River: Southeastern South Dakota, John Perkins Sanford

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Integrated Modeling Of Long-Term Vegetation And Hydrologic Dynamics In Rocky Mountain Watersheds, Robert Steven Ahl

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Changes in forest structure resulting from natural disturbances, or managed treatments, can have negative and long lasting impacts on water resources. To facilitate integrated management of forest and water resources, a System for Long-Term Integrated Management Modeling (SLIMM) was developed.

By combining two spatially explicit, continuous time models, vegetation patterns can be simulated forward in time based on management criteria. Output from the SIMPPLLE vegetation simulator are converted into landcover maps at every time-step and used to predict hydrologic watershed responses to time-series landcover change with the SWAT model. Long-term watershed responses to vegetation management scenarios can therefore be evaluated …

Predicting Northern Goshawk Dynamics Using An Individual-Based Spatial Model, Melanie A. Smith

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) is a US Forest Service Region 2 Sensitive Species, requiring the Black Hills National Forest to manage for its viability. Previous studies have suggested that a model integrating goshawk population demographics, habitat availability, and territoriality would have the ability to predict population dynamics including goshawk locations, population size, and population viability. An individual-based spatial model was created for the Black Hills goshawk population. This project focused on evaluating our current understanding of goshawk dynamics, and making individual- and population-level predictions as appropriate following model validation. The model simulated demographics and behavior of individuals and usage …