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2013

Stone Soup: Invasive Species Cartooning Teacher Lesson Plan

    Students will develop and apply reading, language arts, and science processes to analyze comics, and demonstrate writing skills in creating their own comic about a local invasive species.
    Authors: Siemens, Tania, et al.
    Price: NA

Structures of Life Extension: Learning about Invasive Species through Art and Science

    This newsletter article features a unique collaboration between Oregon Sea Grant and the Stone Soup comic strip about invasive species.
    Authors: Goodrich, D. et al.
    Price: NA

Temporal variability of near-bottom dissolved oxygen during upwelling off central Oregon

    This paper investigates the variability in dissolved oxygen concentrations along the inner and midshelf areas of the central Oregon coast and estimate the relative importance of physical and biological drivers.
    Authors: Adams, K.A., J. Barth, and F. Chan
    Price: NA

The Great Lakes: an overview of their formation, geology, physics, and chemistry

    Th is chapter includes three sections: Lake Formation and Geology, Overview of the Great Lakes’ Physical Characteristics, and Great Lakes Water Chemistry.
    Authors: Russell A. Moll et al
    Price: NA

The Influence of Release Strategy and Migration History on Capture Rate of Oncorhynchus mykiss in a Rotary Screw Trap

    This study examines the success of rotary screw traps for capturing fish in a variety of conditions.
    Authors: I. A. Tattam, et al.
    Price: NA

The U.S. Pacific Northwest coastal hazards: tectonic and climate controls

    The coast of the U.S. Pacific Northwest experience property impacts ranging from the erosion and flooding that occur during the hours to days of an extreme winter storm, on a decadal time scale with the erosion processes enhanced by strong El Niños, and w
    Authors: Paul D. Komar et al
    Price: NA

Tillamook Climate Views, from Interviews and Survey Research

    A survey of climate change concerns
    Authors: Winters, K.
    Price: Free

Tsunami inundation modeling in constructed environments: A physical and numerical comparison of free-surface elevation, velocity, and momentum flux

    This project presents a model study of tsunami flow over and around macro-roughness in the idealized physicalmodel of Seaside, Oregon, and provides a new data set of free surface elevation, velocity, and momentum to be used as a benchmark test.
    Authors: Park, H., D. Cox, P. Lynett, D. Wiebe, & S. Shin
    Price: NA

Tsunami inundation: estimating damage and predicting flow properties

    This thesis presents two manuscripts which pertain to estimating infrastructure damage and determining design loads of tsunami inundation.
    Authors: Dane Michael Wiebe
    Price: NA

Tsunami STEM Curriculum

    Coastal engineering design and Watershed and Invasive Species Education (WISE) education module
    Authors: Tania Siemens, Sam Chan and Jennifer Lam
    Price: NA

Understanding Variability to Anticipate Change [blog site]

    A blog devoted to a graduate student research project on emerging contaminants.
    Authors: Estefania Llaneza Garcia
    Price: NA

Wave Energy Engineer: Building a Model Wave-Energy Generator [guide]

    How to build a model wave-energy generator
    Authors: Hanshumaker, W., R. Moon, and A. Perrill.
    Price: Free

You're Excluded! An Activity Exploring Technology Changes in the Trawl Industry.

    Classroom curriculum on trawl fishing
    Authors: Jamie Doyle and Kaety Hildenbrand
    Price: NA

2012

A community-based approach for evaluating tradeoffs across marine ecosystem services in Oregon

    This study develops an operational approach to the problem of implementing marine spatial planning that is founded on community-based methods, ecological production theory, and multi-criteria decision analysis.
    Authors: Peter M. Freeman
    Price: NA

A cooperative effort to track Humboldt squid invasions in Oregon

    This study has two main objectives: (1) to document where and when Humboldt squid have been present in Oregon through cooperative fisheries research, and (2) to correlate the sightings with oceanographic conditions using a geographic information system (G
    Authors: Tanya A. Chesney
    Price: NA

A rapid survey method for native blue mud shrimp (Upogebia pugettensis) and its associated parasitic isopod, Orthione griffenis, in Alsea Bay, Oregon and alternative applications of this methodology

    This research was focused on developing: a new rapid-survey methodology to assess declining populations of an intertidal burrowing mud shrimp, and translating the methods used into a suitable 7th grade math and science curriculum.
    Authors: Cameron Smith Carter
    Price: NA

Adaptations of Estuarine Organisms

    Lesson plan outline
    Authors: NA
    Price: NA

Amplification of solitary waves along a veritical wall

    Reflection of an obliquely incident solitary wave at a vertical wall is studied experimentally in the laboratory wave tank.
    Authors: Wenwen Li
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An investigation of the distribution and abundance of ichthyoplankton and juvenile benthic fishes in relation to nearshore hypoxia within the Northern California Current system

    A study of the effects of hypoxia on the density, community structure, vertical and horizontal distribution of fish larvae and juveniles, as well as body condition of juveniles, along the central Oregon and Washington coasts during the summers of 2008 - 2
    Authors: Angela M. Johnson
    Price: NA

Analysis of koi herpesvirus latency in wild common carp and ornamental koi in Oregon, USA

    Koi herpesvirus (KHV) infection is associated with high mortalities in both common carp (Cyprinus carpio carpio) and koi carp (Cyprinus carpio koi) worldwide.
    Authors: Jia-Rong Xu et al
    Price: NA

Aquatic pesticide best management practices and relational database for the protection of NOAA Trust Species

    The goal of this project is to provide a set of resources and examples of aquatic pesticide toxicity to NOAA Trust Species and BMPs to NOAA Fisheries Service agents and private and public resource managers.
    Authors: Kelsey L. Gianou
    Price: NA

Assessment of the potential for conflict between existing ocean space use and renewable energy development off the coast of Oregon

    Oregon’s ocean waters are a potential source of wind, wave, and tidal energy; of interest to renewable energy entrepreneurs and to the U.S. government as it seeks to bolster energy security.
    Authors: Colleen M. Sullivan
    Price: NA

Biophysical feedback mediates effects of invasive grasses on coastal dune shape

    Authors investigate the species-specific ecological mechanisms influencing the geomorphology of U.S. Pacific Northwest coastal dunes.
    Authors: Phoebe L. Zarnetske et al
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Biota on Japanese tsunami marine debris [blog site]

    A blog devoted to biota on marine debris from the 3/11/2011 Japanese tsunami.
    Authors: Jessica Miller
    Price: NA

Chapter 19: Calapooia Watershed, Oregon: National Institute of Food and Agriculture–Conservation Effects Assessment Project

    The overall goals of this study were to quantify linkages between conservation practices and biophysical responses, including water quality and biological indicators, and to develop a model to assess tradeoffs between agricultural practices that maximize
    Authors: Hoag, D.LK. et al.
    Price: NA

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