Distribution Of Green Spaces In Omaha, Nebraska,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Distribution Of Green Spaces In Omaha, Nebraska, Sofia Gavia
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
The distribution of parks often depends on the races, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class of a community’s households. Parks and green spaces provides community residents recreational opportunities, economic benefits, and improves community public health. The unequal distribution of parks and green spaces in a city is a social issue found across the country. Limited research has been done on the relationship between green spaces and park access and social justice in Omaha, Nebraska. This study discusses whether there is a difference in how parks are distributed in Omaha, NE in terms of social justice and equitable distribution. Research is done using …
Temporal And Spatial Interactions Between Coyotes And Red Foxes Along The Urban–Rural Interface,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Temporal And Spatial Interactions Between Coyotes And Red Foxes Along The Urban–Rural Interface, Adam Mortensen
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
Intraguild competition between predators may cause one predator to alter their temporal activity patterns or occupancy to reduce competition or avoid aggressive encounters. I conducted a temporal activity pattern and occupancy study of coyotes (Canis latrans) and red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in and around Lincoln, Nebraska using camera traps deployed from September of 2020 to May of 2021. I evaluated the activity patterns of coyotes, red foxes, and humans in urban and rural settings along with the activity patterns of red foxes when sympatric or allopatric with coyotes and determined the coefficient of overlap (Δ) between …
Relationship Of Land Use Categories And Water Quality For Low Order Streams,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Relationship Of Land Use Categories And Water Quality For Low Order Streams, Jake Mcenaney
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
The relationship of land use categories and water quality was explored in three different streams in the tri-state area of Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. These streams included: a fourth order stream, Salt Creek, near Waverly, NE, a third order stream, Maple Creek, near Nickerson, NE, and a sixth order stream, Nodaway River, near Graham, MO. Stream order was to be kept relatively low due to the impact tributary rivers have on a given stream's nitrate concentration. Nearby land use is expected to impact nutrient concentrations to a greater extent for smaller rivers than on larger rivers with more tributaries. First, …
The Effect Of Urban Forests On Air Quality And Human Health,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Effect Of Urban Forests On Air Quality And Human Health, Chance Wilken
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
Following the industrial revolution, the impacts of climate change have been increasingly impactful on both rural and urban populations around the world. As population density and urbanization increase throughout the globe, the influences of climate change will continue to play a dangerous role in its influence on people's lives. Due to negative health impacts on humans and the economic costs in cities, climate change is one of the most important issues to understand in the 21st century. Air quality and human health are two components of climate change that are impacted most significantly. The bulk of this work is to …
The Effect Of Drought On The Bird Species Spiza Americana,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Effect Of Drought On The Bird Species Spiza Americana, Emily Nelson
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
Climate change is becoming an integral part of our environment. Recognizing its effects on ecosystems and species’ health is important for the future of the natural world. There is an influx of changes that are happening to species, specifically birds due to climate change, and these changes are largely negative. A variation that is happening from the changing climate is an increase in drought conditions, which may have effect on the avifauna community. Drought causes a significant difficulty for species survival in all parts of the globe that includes hardships finding food and unsuccessful nesting. The implications of this problem …
Investigating Predation Risk Experienced By Wintering Birds At A Supplied-Food Garden,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Investigating Predation Risk Experienced By Wintering Birds At A Supplied-Food Garden, Madison Smart
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
Wintering birds are particularly susceptible to predation while foraging at feeders. The ‘starvation vs. predation’ survival trade-off is felt most acutely in winter because energy demands are higher compared to milder seasons. This study investigated sense of predation risk experienced by members of a wintering mixed-species flock. The objective was to determine which species take on increased predation risk in order to forage at feeders, and if there was bias for one species over another. A raptor (experimental) and non-raptor (control) model were presented to a mixed-flock at feeders within Pioneers Park Nature Center. The first species to return to …
Impact Of Ethnic Markets On Food Accessibility In Lincoln, Ne,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Impact Of Ethnic Markets On Food Accessibility In Lincoln, Ne, Connor Mcfayden
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
This study used availability surveys and demographic mapping to analyze the impact of ethnic grocery stores on food accessibility in Lincoln, Nebraska. Access to fresh, healthy foods has been shown to be an important factor in public health, one in which low-income and minority populations are more likely to experience barriers such as long distances to the nearest grocery store. A growing body of research has described ethnic markets as important sources of fresh, healthy food for vulnerable populations, but on the whole the contributions of ethnic markets are overlooked in policy and research. In addition, ethnic markets may face …
Precipitation Impact On Crop Yield,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Precipitation Impact On Crop Yield, Ian Ritchie
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
Climate change is a massive force impacting and changing many weather trends, including precipitation rates. This thesis will study the relationship between crop yield and changes in precipitation. Understanding crop yield is important in determining overall crop supply every year as well as crop prices. Many factors can have either a negative or a positive impact on crop yields. One of these many factors is precipitation. This thesis looks directly at the impacts of changes in precipitation on corn yield in Iowa from 1991-2020. To do this, a regression analysis was performed to compare changes in yearly precipitation rates for …
Effects Of Land Use In Nebraska On Insect Biodiversity And Eastern Monarch Populations,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Effects Of Land Use In Nebraska On Insect Biodiversity And Eastern Monarch Populations, Carina Olivetti
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
How are Nebraska land use decisions affecting eastern monarch butterfly decline? What are the driving factors causing monarch decline? What are the challenges of insect monitoring and data organizing? The purpose of this exploratory research project was to investigate these questions and simultaneously illustrate the importance of insect biodiversity, focusing largely on the monarch butterfly. The eastern population of the monarch butterfly has declined 80% over the past two decades. The state of Nebraska lies within their migratory path and is therefore critical to their survival. The hypothesis is that monarch populations are declining because of the combined impacts of …
The Formatting Of Science Communication And How It Affects Attraction To And Understanding Of Scientific Information,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Formatting Of Science Communication And How It Affects Attraction To And Understanding Of Scientific Information, Connor Nichols
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
This observational study was performed to develop a better understanding of what kinds of communication formats were most preferred as well as which of those formats were most trusted. Studies have shown that many scientific research papers go largely unread by anyone other than their author and editors. With many issues such as global climate change becoming more important every day, it is important that scientists determine the most effective method of communicating their findings with not only world leaders, but average citizens as well. Using an online survey, participants were asked to review three different formats concerned with three …
A Karst Feature Prediction Model For Prince Of Wales Island, Alaska Based On High Resolution Lidar Imagery,
2021
Fort Hays State University
A Karst Feature Prediction Model For Prince Of Wales Island, Alaska Based On High Resolution Lidar Imagery, Alexander Lyles
Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice
Investigation into surface karst formation is significant to hazard prediction, hydrogeologic drainage, and land management. Southeast Alaska contains over 600,000 acres of mapped carbonate bedrock, and some of the fastest recorded karst dissolution in the world. The objectives of this study are to develop and compare multiple semi-automated models to map and delineate karst features from bare-earth LiDAR imagery using ArcGIS Desktop 10.7, and to apply a preliminary geostatistical analysis of sinkhole morphometric parameters to highlight potential spatial patterns of karst evolution on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. A semi-automated approach of mapping karst features provides a dataset that minimizes …
Policy And Collaborative Governance: Case Studies Of Three Wildlife Crossings,
2021
University of Montana
Policy And Collaborative Governance: Case Studies Of Three Wildlife Crossings, Nicholas Maya
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Over the last several decades, the number of wildlife-vehicle collisions in North America has significantly increased, driving substantial loss of human life and wildlife and economic costs. The most effective wildlife-vehicle collision mitigation is wildlife crossing structures (undercrossings and overcrossings), with some studies suggesting they can reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions by 97% when paired with wildlife exclusion fencing. However, cost, funding, jurisdiction, land ownership, and local support are limiting factors in constructing these crossing structures. This paper presents case studies of three crossing projects in Snoqualmie, Washington, Teton County, Wyoming, and Summit County, Colorado, to illustrate the similarities and differences in …
Recent Flooding Events On The Chagrin And Cuyahoga Rivers, Ohio,
2021
The University of Akron
Recent Flooding Events On The Chagrin And Cuyahoga Rivers, Ohio, Kayley Martin
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
From the 1910s through the 1980s, the number of intense daily precipitation events in the United States remained constant, however, since the 1980s there has been an increasing trend in intense single-day precipitation events (U.S Environmental Protection Agency, 2016). One outcome of intense precipitation events is river flooding, particularly in the upper Midwest region where floods have increased in magnitude and frequency (U.S Environmental Protection Agency, 2016). In this thesis project, recent flooding history on the Chagrin and Cuyahoga Rivers in Ohio was studied to expand on previous research that observed an abrupt increase in high magnitude flood events on …
Secularism, The Oxford Movement, And Religious Aesthetics In John Keble, Christina Rossetti, Adelaide Anne Procter, And Gerard Manley Hopkins,
2021
Loyola University Chicago
Secularism, The Oxford Movement, And Religious Aesthetics In John Keble, Christina Rossetti, Adelaide Anne Procter, And Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary Harmon
Dissertations
This dissertation examines the relationship between secularism and the development of Oxford Movement poetry. The members of the movement sought to restore pre-Reformation religious practices in the Anglican Church while maintaining its distinctiveness from the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions, which led to the development of unique liturgy, architecture, hymns, and poetry, among other art forms. I argue that secularism simultaneously made the movement more possible while also making it more unstable. Secularism gave the theologians and poets of the movement enough freedom to borrow from older Christian traditions, yet the movement failed to revive the Anglican Church (several members …
Hemingway, Sartre, And Secularization: Finding Religion Without God,
2021
Loyola University Chicago
Hemingway, Sartre, And Secularization: Finding Religion Without God, Marcos Antonio Norris
Dissertations
This dissertation intervenes in the critical debate over Ernest Hemingway’s religious orientation. One camp of Hemingway scholars argues that he was a practicing Catholic, while the other camp argues that Hemingway was an existential atheist. Rather than side with either camp in this binary debate, my research offers a third option that bridges the gap between these opposing positions. Examining Hemingway’s life and works through the eyes of contemporary political philosopher Giorgio Agamben, I argue that Hemingway is, properly speaking, neither a secularist nor a theist, but a secularized theist, whose “religion” takes the form of masculine volition, or sovereign, …
Bow Lake (Station 3 - Bennett) 2021 Water Quality Highlight Report,
2021
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Bow Lake (Station 3 - Bennett) 2021 Water Quality Highlight Report, Amanda Mcquaid, Robert Craycraft
UNH Cooperative Extension
A Water Quality Highlight Report by UNH CE Lakes Lay Monitoring Program for Bow Lake, Station 3 Bennett (Barrington and Northwood, NH) for 2021.
Pine River Pond 2021 Water Quality Highlight Report,
2021
University of New Hampshire, Durham
Pine River Pond 2021 Water Quality Highlight Report, Amanda Mcquaid, Robert Craycraft
UNH Cooperative Extension
No abstract provided.
Adaptation Of The Medical Ethics Teaching Questionnaire For The Use Of Taiwanese Medical Students: A Developmental Study,
2021
Universiti Malaya
Adaptation Of The Medical Ethics Teaching Questionnaire For The Use Of Taiwanese Medical Students: A Developmental Study, Lee Jing Ning
Student Works (2020-2029)
Medical ethics is among one of the most important competencies in medical education and formal physicians' training. In the past decades, medical ethics education has become a priority within medical education institutions worldwide. In Taiwan, medical ethics was included in the undergraduate medical curricula since 1995. However, students� view upon graduation revealed that they were still lacked confidence about beginning their residency program due to limited understanding of ethical values. Taiwan, as a country with unique cultural belief in the traditional Confucian principles that emphasizes the virtue of �filial piety� and family cohesion in medical decision-making is lacking Taiwanese studies …
Analysis Of Drinking Water Disinfection Options,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Analysis Of Drinking Water Disinfection Options, Bryce Carlen
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
This thesis utilizes existing research to provide a framework that can be used for community and disaster planning. It analyses the critical process of water disinfection for drinking water. It focuses on chemical, distillation, and ultraviolet treatments in both centralized and point-of-use treatment. This thesis aims to provide a method for communities to determine the optimal water treatment, utilizing a framework based on weighted criteria. The decision-making framework is an easy-to-use and flexible process that communities can tailor for their specific needs to find the optimal treatment relative to their needs. In this study’s generalized example, ultraviolet treatment and distillation …
Audit Of Waste Collected Over One Week From Superior Dental Health Of Lincoln,
2021
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Audit Of Waste Collected Over One Week From Superior Dental Health Of Lincoln, Bryclin Alstrom
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
A waste audit of Superior Dental Health of Lincoln was conducted in order to propagate the implementation of sustainable waste management practices within the company. Differentiating between hazardous waste and solid waste is necessary for environmentally friendly waste management and ceasing the spread of infectious pathogens. The audit identified nine different materials contributing to the biomedical waste stream of the company. Of which, personal protective equipment (PPE) is of major concern due to the financial commitment necessary to acquire / dispose of these products, as well as the strain in supply due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. The results of …
