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Contamination In The Upper Columbia: Smelting And Its Impact To The Environment And Human Health, Brenden Murphy
Contamination In The Upper Columbia: Smelting And Its Impact To The Environment And Human Health, Brenden Murphy
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
The objectives of this project include discussing the historical context of the smelting that occurred in Washington and Canada over the past century and how political events shaped the geographies of the region(s). Another objective will be to assess the level of environmental impact to the Upper Columbia region and the potential health effects to organisms and humans from the pollution released from the smelters. We will also explore the interaction of different agencies and stakeholders and the political processes of environmental cleanup to which parties are held responsible. Explaining the different advocacy and conservation groups already involved in the …
Call Of The Chorus Frog: An Undergraduate Experience In Field Research In The Elwha River Basin, Nicole Vandeputte
Call Of The Chorus Frog: An Undergraduate Experience In Field Research In The Elwha River Basin, Nicole Vandeputte
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
In scientific disciplines, students are not often taught to write in a way that is easily understood by people outside of their field. It is my goal to learn to communicate scientific research to a broad audience in a way that is both understandable and interesting. In spring of 2019, I participated in Huxley’s environmental science field camp. We traveled to the Elwha River basin in Olympic National Park and conducted wildlife research projects of our own design. My group’s research assessed amphibian habitat in two areas of the park, one of which was recently exposed after the removal of …
Applications In Landscape Ecology: A Simple Rule-Based Simulation Approach To Modeling Windthrow Disturbance In Forests Of The Western Cascades In Oregon, Brendan C. (Brendan Charles) Ward
Applications In Landscape Ecology: A Simple Rule-Based Simulation Approach To Modeling Windthrow Disturbance In Forests Of The Western Cascades In Oregon, Brendan C. (Brendan Charles) Ward
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
The study of how biotic and abiotic processes function and interact within the biosphere is fundamental to the field of ecology. In particular, the field of landscape ecology focuses on the relationship between patterns and process at the landscape level. Windthrow is an important, though unfortunately under-studied agent of disturbance in the temperate coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. Along with wildfire, windthrow is a dominant force in shaping the structure of the region's forested landscapes, resulting in visible vegetation patterns at the landscape level. The present study involved the development of a windthrow simulation model for the Bull Run …