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Seasonal Impacts on the Breakage of Nereocystis Leutkeana: A Break in Time
(2016)Nereocystis luetkeana is an ecologically important species in the marine environment and when it washes up as drift it becomes ecologically important to the terrestrial environment, providing a crucial link between the ... -
A New Nuclear Era: The U.S. Role in the Shifting Global Energy Landscape
(2017)The U.S. has been the world’s leader in nuclear power since the first civilian reactors began to generate power. Its work in this role for a half-century has been extremely important to the safety and security of nuclear ... -
Maritime Security on the Asia-Pacific: A Navigational Map for the New U.S. Administration
(2017)Maritime security in the Asia-Pacific entails “traditional” security concerns such as naval power, and “non-traditional” security issues such as piracy, climate change and fisheries depletion. This task force evaluates ... -
Challenges to European Unity: Options for U.S. Policymakers
(2017)The United States and Europe have shared a long history of cooperation and mutual interests. They stand united in their commitment to the values such as liberty, democracy, and the preservation of human rights. They are ... -
Ippen Dron, All of Us Together: A collection of Tools to Address U.S. Nuclear Colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
(2017)We are a group of 19 students in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at The University of Washington. We have dedicated 10 weeks to looking at the many wrongs produced by the U.S. government's nuclear ... -
Syrian Women and Children: Identifying Gaps and Goals for Reconstruction
(2017)The Syrian civil war has grown to be the defining humanitarian crisis of the early 21st century. What began as peaceful protests in 2011 has since evolved into a protracted and bloody conflict, claiming over 400,000 lives1 ... -
Finding Common Ground in the Puget Sound: Tulalip Tribes, Millennials and the Environment
(2017)The Jackson School of International Studies Task Force has created a strategic communications plan tied with a digital story with the goal of communicating tribal treaty rights and Tulalip Tribes-led environmental recovery ... -
The Cycle of Violence: Migration From the Northern Triangle
(2017)This report documents the brutal and pervasive abuses suffered by Central American migrants in efforts to seek refuge from gang and state violence, government corruption, social exclusion, and endemic poverty. The cyclical ... -
Extremist Use of Social Media: Balancing Privacy and National Cybersecurity
(2017)Because the realm of cybersecurity is constantly changing, there is a disconnection today between government and industry on the issues of privacy and national security. Industry and government must balance social media ... -
Redefining American Leadership for an Internationalized Era
(2017)Not since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 has the international system been so upended. Waves of economic and political populism have threatened the bulwarks ... -
Zero-rating in emerging mobile markets: Free Basics and Wikipedia Zero in Ghana
(2016-10)Despite widespread controversy surrounding zero-rating—that is, the practice of subsidizing mobile data—the field suffers from a lack of inquiry into user understanding of and experience with zero-rated services. This paper ... -
Effects of ocean acidification on embryo development: Does encapsulation matter?
(2016-08)As the concentration of CO2 in surface seawaters increases (ocean acidification, or OA) the saturation of calcium carbonate decreases, preventing marine organisms from creating shells and other calcified structures. These ... -
The Failures of Consent: How the (En)gendering of Sexual Scripts and Desire within Consensual Sex Preserves Rape Culture within the University
(2016-08)The epidemic of sexual assault on American university campuses that was first acknowledged by Mary P. Koss in 1987 has resulted in the centering of consent as a key way of distinguishing between acceptable, normal sex and ... -
Variations in seafloor depth estimates under different swath-width characteristics of submarine structures in the California Borderlands
(2016-06)[author abstract] The California Continental Borderland region off the coast of Southern California is home to many types of geological features on the seafloor (aka. submarine structures) that have resulted from movement ... -
Establishing fluxes of carbon dioxide and a transect of pCO2 during the late fall of precipitation driven Northern fjord
(2016-06)[author abstract] As atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) continues to increase beyond 400 ppm, the concerns of how and where the anthropogenic CO2 will cause drastic effects is under intense scrutiny. While the effects on ... -
Near-shore wave power characterized with a remotely controlled surface vehicle in Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, WA
(206-06)[author abstract] Wave power availability in Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, WA (USA) was assessed using measurements from a surface wave characterization vehicle. The device was designed to analyze wind and wave power, with ... -
Variations of fin whale vocalizations in the Northeast Pacific and the effects of environmental parameters on acoustic sensitivity
(2016-06)[author abstract] Declines in fin whale populations have instigated significant interest regarding their life history, feeding patterns, mating habits, and migration. Our current lack of understanding could be remediated ... -
Simulation and public communication of ocean response to changing sea ice concentration
(2016-06)[author abstract] With only 50% of the general public agreeing with scientists concerning the extent of climate change and its possible causes, there is a need for scientists to help the public understand what is happening ... -
A comparison of bacterial community diversity between Tahsis Inlet and the open ocean
(2016-06)[author abstract] This study aimed to ascertain bacterial community diversity in the coastal North Pacific Ocean during the beginning of winter. The hypotheses were that the coastal ocean would be more diverse than the ... -
Linking surficial geomorphology with vertical structure in high and low energy marine environments
(2016-06)[author abstract] Puget Sound is a complex system of high energy river inputs to lower energy large basins with direct connection to the open ocean through the Straits of Juan de Fuca. Using a high resolution bathymetric ...
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