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Participative, Blended And Networked Learning: Meeting Educational Needs In Australia’S Rangelands, John A. Taylor, Patricia M. Andrews

Conference on University Education in Natural Resources

This paper reports on the key elements and outcomes of a national educational initiative designed to meet identified learner preferences and stakeholder expectations of the knowledge and skills needed by ranchers, extension officers, Landcare and Natural Resource Management facilitators/advisors for future success in Australia’s rangelands. At the outset, research into the market for learning in rural and remote Australia was conducted. This led to the recognition that the existing courses available to this group did not meet the learning requirements of people living and working in the Rangelands in relation to current and emerging economic, environmental and social issues. This …

Factors Influencing Undergraduate Enrollment Trends In Natural Resources, Terry Sharik, Robert Lilieholm, William Richardson

Conference on University Education in Natural Resources

Our 30-year record of undergraduate enrollment trends in natural resources shows pronounced cyclical swings over time, well beyond those for enrollments across all disciplines in four-year U.S. institutions of higher learning. Despite large increases in overall student enrollments, current natural resources enrollments are at about the same level as historic highs in the early 1980s and mid 1990s, and are increasingly dominated by broad degrees in natural resources. The reasons for these cycles are many and complex, and appear to be influenced by the political climate, unemployment rates, changing public values towards forests, a perceived lack of jobs and low …

The Utah Statesman, March 5, 2012, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, March 1, 2012, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

• Prefix Changes

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology Education

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Animal, Diary and Veterinary Sciences School of Veterinary Medicine

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Applied Economics

• Delete Course

Department of Plants, Soils and Climate

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Art and Design

• University Studies Request

Department of Economics and Finance

• New Course
• Title Change, Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change, Multiple List Change
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Management

• New Course

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• Title Change, Prerequisite …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, March 1, 2012, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

• Prefix Changes

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology Education

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Animal, Diary and Veterinary Sciences School of Veterinary Medicine

• New Course
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Applied Economics

• Delete Course

Department of Plants, Soils and Climate

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Art and Design

• University Studies Request

Department of Economics and Finance

• New Course
• Title Change, Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change, Multiple List Change
• Prerequisite Change

Department of Management

• New Course

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• Title Change, Prerequisite …

The Utah Statesman, February 15, 2012, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, February 2, 2012, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

• New Course

Department of Theatre Arts

• Prerequisite Change

Huntsman School of Business

• Credit Hour Change

School of Accountancy

• Title Change

Department of Management

• Prerequisite Change
• Credit Hour Change, Add Repeatable for Credit

Department of Management Information Systems

• Course Number Change, Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

School of Teacher Education and Leadership

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education

• Course Number Change

Department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Prerequisite Change

Department of English

• Delete Course

Department of Languages, Philosophy and Speech Communication

• New …

Educational Policies Committee Agenda, February 2, 2012, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Course Approvals
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

A Cpted Bibliography: Publications Related To Urban Space, Planning, Architecture, And Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 1975-2010, Sean E. Michael, Gregory Saville, Joel W. Warren

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Faculty Publications

This compendium is the result of two different bibliographies. The first was completed by Sean Michael, Professor and Department Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planing at Utah State University. The second was completed by Gregory Saville, urban planner and Principal of AlterNation Consulting, started during graduate work at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Consolidation and expansion of the two works was overseen by Joel Warren, during his Masters of Landscape Architecture at Utah State University.

Our thanks go to the many students, colleagues, and friends who contributed to this work over the years. …

Liberalis, Winter 2012, Utah State University

Liberalis

Freedom to Think, Discover, and Create. The alumni magazine for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Utah State University.

Elusive Documents Master List, John W. Walters

Elusive Documents

Master list of elusive government documents, as identified by John Walters. These documents are important to the Utah State University community, the State of Utah, or the region in general. Please contact John to request the digitization of individual titles.

Effects Of Hikers And Boats On Tule Elk Behavior In A National Park Wilderness Area, Benjamin H. Becker, Christopher M. Moi, Thomas J. Maguire, Robert Atkinson, Natalie B. Gates

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Human disturbance of wildlife may cause disruption of normal feeding, resting, reproduction, or care for juveniles. Such disturbance may be particularly undesirable in federally managed wilderness areas designed to minimize human influences on natural resources. We recorded tule elk (Cervus elephus nannodes) responses (standing, walking away, running) to off-trail hikers, off-shore boats, and other natural and anthropogenic factors in Point Reyes National Seashore in northern California during 2002 to 2008. Most disturbance behaviors were related to other elk exhibiting rutting behaviors, but off-trail hikers still explained a 100% increase and off-shore boats a 15% increase in baseline disturbance …

Sustainability Cultural Indicators, J. Callewaert, Roslynn Brain, L. C. Malan

Environment and Society Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Fine Roots Of Aspen Clones In High Salt And Petroleum Hydrocarbon Pollution, Kim Yrjälä, Ivika Ostonen, Shinjini Mukherjee, Timo Sipila, Lu-Min Vaario, Pertti Pulkkinen

Aspen Bibliography

The quality of polluted soil can much be improved and the environmental risks reduced by use of phytoremediation. Harmful hydrocarbon compounds can be degraded through the activity of plant and its associated microbes. We previously showed that PAHs increase aromatic ring-cleavage gene diversity in rhizosphere of birch (Sipilä et al. 2008, Yrjälä et al. 2010a) and the rhizosphere of aspen harbors Burkholderia bacteria able to degrade aromatics (Yrjälä et al. 2010b). The results are promising for successful remediation of polluted soils with woody plants. The aim of our studies is to elucidate the response of the plant and the associated …

Environmental Sensor Anomaly Detection Using Learning Machines, Erick F. Conde

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The search for improvements in the quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) of real-time environmental measurements has been a field well exploited in recent years. These measurements describe actual environmental conditions and processes that provide relevant information upon which water quality management decisions are based. In situ sensors (located at the site of interest) are commonly used for such real-time measurement purposes. However, the performance of these types of sensors can be affected by such things as human factors, lack of necessary maintenance, flaws on the transmission line or any part of the sensor, and unexpected changes in the sensors surrounding conditions. …

Faculty Senate Agenda, October 3, 2011, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Educational Policies Committee Annual Report - Larry Smith
• Honors Program Report - Christie Fox
• Library Advisory Council Report - Jeff Smitten
• Parking Committee Report - James Nye
• EPC Items
• PRPC Section 405.7.2, 405.8.3, 405.11.4 and Section 403.3.2 dealing with the administrative title of the combined office of the Vice President for Research and the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies (First Reading) - Terry Peak
• Communication between Faculty Senate and the Faculty

Marginalia No. 30, Merrill-Cazier Library

Marginalia

Issue number 30 Autumn 2011

Feel the Magic: A Place for Physical Objects in the Modern Library … Brad Cole, Special Collections & Archives

Congratulations: USU Press receives national awards in 2011 for three new publications.

“How to Open a Book” Reprint of a long-ago primer on the proper way of opening a book.

We Welcome 3 New Librarians: Andrew Wesolek, Scholarly Communications and Institutional Repository Librarian; Clint Pumphrey, Manuscript Curator for Special Collections & Archives; Hannah Kim, Digital Services Librarian.

Graphic Novels: A Library Exhibit… Curated by Vicki Read; Andrea Hathaway, and Jennifer Duncan

Innovations & Scholarship: Contributions to …

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, September 19, 2011, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Educational Policies Committee Annual Report - Larry Smith
• Honors Program Report - Christie Fox
• Library Advisory Council Report - Joe Tainter
• Parking Committee Report - James Nye
• Ad Hoc Committee on Post-Tenure Review - Glenn McEvoy
• EPC Items
• PRPC Vacancies and New VP
• Communication between Faculty Senate and the Faculty

A Plus: Utah State University, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

A Closer look at the Services and Departments of Utah State University. All Information in this package provided by the highlights departments.

2011 Utah State University Student Orientation Guide, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

A special supplemental magazine provided by The Utah Statesman to take a closer look at some of the services and departments available at Utah State University.

From Hillslopes To Canyons, Studies Of Erosion At Differing Time And Spatial Scales Within The Colorado River Drainage, Christopher Tressler

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis includes two different studies in an attempt to investigate and better understand the key characteristics of landscape evolution. In the first study, the rate of surface particle creep was investigated through the use of Terrestrial lidar at an archaeological site in Grand Canyon National Park. The second study developed ways to quantify metrics of the Colorado River drainage and reports the role of bedrock strength in the irregular profile of the trunk Colorado River drainage.

Archaeological sites along the Colorado River corridor in Grand Canyon National Park are eroding due to a variety of surficial processes. The nature …

The Utah Statesman, April 4, 2011, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Utah Statesman, March 21, 2011, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Plant Species Vulnerability To Climate Change In Peninsular Thailand., Y. Trisuart, S. Fajendra, Roger K. Kjelgren

CWEL Publications

The objective of this research study was to evaluate the consequences of climate change on shifts in distributions of plant species and the vulnerability of the species in Peninsular Thailand. A sub-scene of the predicted climate in the year 2100, under the B2a scenario of the Hadley Centre Coupled Model, version 3 (HadCM3), was extracted and calibrated with topographic variables. A machine learning algorithm based on the maximum entropy theory (Maxent) was employed to generate ecological niche models of 66 forest plant species from 22 families. The results of the study showed that altitude was a significant factor for calibrating …

Conservation From The Bottom-Up: Human, Financial, And Natural Capital As Determinants Of Resilient Livelihoods In Kigoma Rural, Tanzania, Yared J. Fubusa

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Rhetoric of "community-based conservation" has gained prominence among development specialists and environmentalists, yet such projects are often implemented from the top-down in Africa. This dissertation contends that only a bottom-up approach can foster resilient livelihoods and environmental stewardship.

This study focused on determinants of household resilience within a poverty-stricken agricultural community near Gombe Stream National Park (GSNP) in western Tanzania. The research purpose was to explore: 1) relationships between villagers and GSNP management; 2) how groups and individuals view priority livelihood problems and solutions; 3) various attributes of households; and 4) perceived trends for household resilience and how these are …

The Usu Tree Inventory Website: A Case Study Of An Interactive Online Woody Plant Education Resource, Benjamin W. Harris

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The USU tree inventory website is an interactive, online tree education resource that I developed to allow students and community members to locate, identify and learn about trees on the USU campus. Students in two USU courses that teach woody plant material used the website during one semester and were surveyed about their experience. Less than half of the students accessed the website, but those that did found it useful as a supplement to traditional instruction. Most students were likely to recommend the website to another person and to use the website in the future.

The Utah Statesman, November 17, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Tomato, Sara Hunt, Crista Sorenson, Bethany Heineman, Ashley Walker Workman

USU Student Organic Farm Newsletter

The tomato is native to South America. Evidence shows that the modern tomatoes progenitors were herbaceous green plants with small green fruit found in the highlands of Peru. One species was then transported to Mexico where it was grown and consumed by Mesoamerican civilizations.

Broccoli, Brianne Sherwood, Sara Hunt, Crista Sorenson, Bethany Heineman, Blake Beyers, Ashley Walker Workman

USU Student Organic Farm Newsletter

For ages farmers have looked to the weather with hope or apprehension. A farmer's would revolves around the seasons and weather and much of what is accomplished depends on what the weather brings. On the student farm, we have gained a deep understanding of this dependency.

The Utah Statesman, April 7, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.