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Evaluating The Impact Of Common Fertilizers On Soil Properties After Planting Tomatoes And Marigolds, Rachel Stuckey, Iin Handayani
Evaluating The Impact Of Common Fertilizers On Soil Properties After Planting Tomatoes And Marigolds, Rachel Stuckey, Iin Handayani
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There are many name brand fertilizers that are used today in gardening in the state of Kentucky. Due to the standardization of name brand fertilizer production in factories, this can cause the fertilizers to compromise the nutrients of soil, while all-natural fertilizers are seen as better quality for the consumers, plants and soils. Alaska, Miracle Grow, Monty’s, Pure Gold, Tiger Bloom are the top five fertilizers sold in the state of Kentucky. This study aims to determine the impact of five top commercial fertilizers on soil quality indicators including organic matter, acidity level and moisture content. These fertilizers were applied …
Implementation Of Music Therapy To Reduce Anxiety In Icu Patients, Calley Womack
Implementation Of Music Therapy To Reduce Anxiety In Icu Patients, Calley Womack
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Current practice in intensive care units regarding anxiety commonly results in administration of an anxiolytic, which can potentially increase patient’s time admitted, increase costs due to adverse effects, and decrease patient involvement in care. An analysis of multiple research studies was conducted to explore the best practice for management of anxiety, particularly the implementation of music therapy. Studies have been conducted on the implementation of music therapy to reduce levels of anxiety in patients on intensive care floors. Specifically, extensive research with music therapy has been conducted on patients receiving ventilation in the ICU. Consequentially, these studies have shown that …
Epa’S Meaningful Involvement In Ej: Mission Accomplished?, Dawn Weimer, Gail Sandlin
Epa’S Meaningful Involvement In Ej: Mission Accomplished?, Dawn Weimer, Gail Sandlin
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Forwarding research analyzing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Environmental Justice Small Grant (EJSG) program. According to the EPA, Environmental Justice is built around “the meaningful involvement of all people… with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies (EPA, 2014)”. The former research of Abel and Stephan analyzed grants years 1996-2002 and Sarver’s 2003-2011 analysis. Their analysis confirmed EPA’s EJSG program capacities have been granting civic capacity the least, which contradicts the EPA’s mission to EJSG program. This forwarding research hypothesizes is that EJSG’s will track the previous research’s trends given the historical data. In …
Two Decades Of Western Spruce Budworm Outbreaks In The Pacific Northwest, Nathan Roueche
Two Decades Of Western Spruce Budworm Outbreaks In The Pacific Northwest, Nathan Roueche
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Insect outbreaks are one of the important natural disturbance processes in forested ecosystems due to their tendency to periodically restructure stand composition and provide dynamic fluctuation via trophic interactions. Multiple agencies across various jurisdictions collect annual forest health inventory data via aerial detection survey (ADS) mapping, allowing trends in forest disease and pest prevalence to be explored across both space and time. While these data sets are a powerful tool for research and management, the data is often recorded and stored in regionally differing formats and is not easily accessible to researchers or the public. The lack of cohesive broad-scale …
Bees And Trees: The Ecological Ramifications Of Our "Honey-Nut" Agriculture, Becci Larreau
Bees And Trees: The Ecological Ramifications Of Our "Honey-Nut" Agriculture, Becci Larreau
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People love almonds and honey bees. The honey bee is the only agriculturally-reliable pollinator of almond trees. California produces the entire domestic supply of almonds, and ~80% of the international supply. In early spring, nearly all of the commercially-managed beehives in the nation travel by truck to California to pollinate the almond orchards. They remain for a mere few weeks and then move on to other areas to service other crops or to seek honey forage. Migratory beekeepers are the linchpin that keeps the wheels of this particular agricultural system in motion. Without the migratory beekeeping industry, California's multi-billion dollar …
Creating A Canadian-American Wildfire Atlas For Late 19th-21st Centuries, Kate Welch
Creating A Canadian-American Wildfire Atlas For Late 19th-21st Centuries, Kate Welch
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Wildfires are increasingly on the minds of people living in Western North America as climate change and long periods of anthropogenic fire exclusion shift the dominant fire regimes toward possibly higher severity, larger fires than we remember. We are still piecing together the history of wildfires and how they have changed since Europeans settled in North America and moved West, and we know very little about the fire history of the areas where a large portion of our population currently lives. Using available government resources and data, I synthesized and created a fire Atlas of wildland fires in the Western …
Finding Climatologically Teleconnected Sites With A Network Of Tree Ring Chronologies, Hannah Lagassey
Finding Climatologically Teleconnected Sites With A Network Of Tree Ring Chronologies, Hannah Lagassey
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We need information about the past to understand what is happening in the present and to predict what may happen in the future. Trees record climate conditions in their annual growth rings throughout their lives, providing us with centuries of valuable paleoclimate data. In addition to reconstructing climate records, dendrochronologists use tree rings to reconstruct the records of climate-driven phenomena, such as hydrological variables, prior to the start of instrumental records. Reconstruction models are improved with the inclusion of multiple tree species and multiple sites, which act as predictors of climatological and hydrological variables. I identified tree ring chronologies within …
Dependence Of Hydrological Modeling On Spatial Resolution In Lake Whatcom Watershed, Emily Mcginty
Dependence Of Hydrological Modeling On Spatial Resolution In Lake Whatcom Watershed, Emily Mcginty
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Remotely sensed digital elevation data can be utilized through geographic information science (GIS) techniques to model watershed and stream delineations. These techniques allow analysts to easily produce results that would otherwise require hours of intense field work, if possible at all. The accuracy of these watershed and stream models can be dependent on the resolution of the elevation data, and choosing an inappropriate resolution can result in further analyses producing inaccurate and/or misleading results. The purpose of my research is to quantify the differences between hydrological models developed from elevation data at varying resolutions. I chose the Lake Whatcom watershed …
Climate Implications On The Vulnerability Of Populated Areas Along The Chesapeake Bay, Stirling Scott
Climate Implications On The Vulnerability Of Populated Areas Along The Chesapeake Bay, Stirling Scott
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According to the latest federal report, released in the final days of Barack Obama’s administration, the global average sea level rise was predicted to reach 8.2 feet by 2100 in the “extreme” scenario—a much faster rate than previously thought. 8.2 feet of sea level rise would put much of America’s east coast underwater. NOAA released the report days before the inauguration of Donald Trump—an event which no doubt did not bode well for Earth’s climate. Since his inauguration, President Trump has thoroughly proven his disbelief in climate change by making his best attempt to undo all of Obama’s climate policies, …
Producing A ‘Walkability’ Index For Bellingham Neighborhoods Using Municipal Spatial Data, Anders Dowell
Producing A ‘Walkability’ Index For Bellingham Neighborhoods Using Municipal Spatial Data, Anders Dowell
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Pedestrians have been somewhat overlooked in the United States’ automobile dominant transportation paradigm. The ability to be able to walk anywhere in an urban setting is very important for accessibility, agency, and community health. One goal of Bellingham planning is to create a more bike friendly and walkable place. Producing an index, which rates one’s ability to navigate an area by foot, allows for smarter planning and directing of city planning resources to improve pedestrian agency in different parts of the city. In this study, I applied geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical methods to calculate a ‘walkability’ index using …
Gis Suitability Analysis To Identify Critical Habitat For The Cascades Frog (Rana Cascadae), Victoria Niewohner
Gis Suitability Analysis To Identify Critical Habitat For The Cascades Frog (Rana Cascadae), Victoria Niewohner
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The Cascades Frog (Rana cascadae) is listed as a near threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and is under review to be listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Species listed as endangered or threatened sometimes have critical habitat designated for them, which are areas that contain features essential to the conservation of the species. Typically, critical habitats are not designated until a species is listed under the ESA. However, it would be beneficial to know possible critical habitats beforehand in order to expedite the process should the Cascades Frog be listed. …
Animating The Temporal Progression Of Cordilleran Deglaciation And Vegetation Succession In The Pacific Northwest During The Late Quaternary Period, Henry Haro
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The topography of the Pacific Northwest, its fjords, inland waterways and islands, are a result of an extended period of glaciation and glacial retreat. This retreat influenced the physical features and the resulting succession of vegetation that led to the landscape we see today. Despite this importance of the Cordilleran ice sheet and the large volume of research on the topic, there lacks a good detailed animation of the movement of the entire ice sheet from the last glacial maximum to the present day. In this study, I used spatial data of the glacial extent at different periods of time …
Planning For Resilient Communities In The Pacific Northwest, Christopher Johnson
Planning For Resilient Communities In The Pacific Northwest, Christopher Johnson
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The Pacific Northwest region of North America is a diverse and beautiful landscape created by the active geological processes of this area. Earthquakes, tsunamis, glaciers, and volcanoes have shaped this environment and these forces continue to do so. Oregon and Washington combined are projected to grow by roughly 2.5 million residents by the year 2030, making those two states one of the fastest growing regions in the nation. Both states have been attracting significant foreign and domestic investment and economic activity over the past decade. The high level of geologic activity coupled with rapid growth of this area seems as …
Reclaimed Water Policy In Washington State: Unitary And Polycentric Opportunities And Challenges, Thomas Hunter
Reclaimed Water Policy In Washington State: Unitary And Polycentric Opportunities And Challenges, Thomas Hunter
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In May of 2014, all 39 counties in Washington State were declared to be in a state of drought. This has thrust the topic of reclaimed water to the forefront of our state's water vision, however traditional policy frameworks hinder the opportunity to realize a bright reclaimed future. The complex water resource problems of tomorrow can only be solved by a policy framework that can champion policy arenas which are more polycentralized and in turn, solve the complex problems that arouse during the lifespan of traditional policy frameworks.