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PAFAH1B1 and NDEL1 in the Cetartiodactyla superorder: Investigating adaptive evolution in two cerebral gyrification genes in Orcinus orca and Tursiops truncatus
(Friday Harbor Laboratories, 2013-06)Cerebral gyrencephaly, distinguished by the convoluted folds and grooves in the cerebral cortex, occurs in many animals in Class Mammalia. The highest rates of cerebral gyrification occur in Order Cetacea within the ... -
Paleowind Direction and the Regional Pattern of Grain Size and Atterberg Limits of Loess in Adams and Lincoln Counties, WA
(2020-03)Loess is a fine-grained floury material carried by wind. The properties of loess are important for infrastructure, agriculture, and construction planning in areas where it is abundant. Eastern Washington is one such ... -
Pandalus platyceros, a native shrimp from San Juan Island
(2021)With the fascination in immunology and the marine life in San Juan Island, I set to investigate Pandalus platyceros, a native shrimp from San Juan Island. By looking at its hemocytes, and the vascular system of Pandalus ... -
PaperSpace:An Experience To Take Home
(2023-06)The purpose of this project was to create a pop-up paper arts-based makerspace that encourages the learning of new skills in a communal setting. The makerspace entitled “PaperSpace: An Experience to Take Home” focused on ... -
Partner and Strategic Competitor: Evaluating the EU’s Shifting Relationship with China
(5/15/2020)China has risen to become both a prominent competitor and collaborator to the European Union (EU). The EU’s predominant concern in this relationship centers around China’s increasing economic engagement through investment ... -
Past, Present, and Politics: A Look at the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement
(2005-12)Since the overthrow and subsequent annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii in the late 1800’s, there has been a movement, both subtle and direct, to regain sovereignty for the native Hawaiian people. In the early 1970’s, this ... -
Pathways to Security: Closing Gaps in Protection for Forced Migrants
(2014)This report focuses on three primary themes within the international refugee regime and identifies gaps in protection for Convention as well as non-Convention forced migrants. The first, solidarity, refers to the uneven ... -
Patterns in Nature: Integrating Art and Science in Adult Programming at University of Washington Botanic Gardens
(2022-06)Art and science integration in public programming has many benefits for science learners, but adult programming in science museums doesn't often use this framework for teaching science concepts. The purpose of this project ... -
Patterns of apparent oxygen utilization and circulation in Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island B.C.
(2010-05)In this study, dissolved oxygen was measured in Barkley Sound and Effingham Inlet with the use of a CTD and Winkler titrations. Oxygen minimum zones or "dead zones" in the world's oceans can be strongly influenced by ... -
Patterns of Growth and Erosion of blades of the kelp Saccharina latissima
(2020-06)Kelp, large seaweeds of the Phylum Ochrophyta (or Phaeophyta), Order Laminariales provide many essential functions to intertidal habitats all over the world, yet the factors that govern their productivity are understudied. ... -
Peace for Apartheid: The Oslo Accords and Orientalism in Liberal American Foreign Policy, 1991-1996
(University of Washington Libraries, 3/15/2019)My paper looks at the Oslo Accords, the "peace process" between the Palestinians and Israel. However, I argue that Oslo was never a peace process, and this is largely because the United States was never the neutral arbiter ... -
Pelagic Seabirds of San Juan Channel
(Friday Harbor Labs, 2012-12)Seabirds play important ecological roles and are indicators of ecosystem health and change. They are thought to be in decline in the Salish Sea. Seabirds were counted in San Juan Channel during fall 2012. This study focuses ... -
A People’s Martial Art: Filipino Martial Arts and Decolonial Praxis
(University of Washington Undergraduate Research Program, 2014)Beginning in April of 2013 I began apprenticing and collecting ethnographic data about a topic of deep personal significance, the indigenous martial arts of the Philippines as practiced by Filipino Americans in Seattle. ... -
Perception and Uncertainty
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Performance characterization and relative dispersion of drogued drifters deployed in the fjords of Nootka Sound
(2016-06)[author abstract] Current velocities and dispersion were analyzed in Muchalat inlet using drifters as a Lagrangian sensor. The recorded velocity measurements were compared to two moored ADCP’s that were placed in the channel ... -
The Performance of Drifters for Oil Spill Tracking
(2018-05-27)Oil spills can be devastating to marine ecosystems so knowing how to track where the spills should go is a concern that could decide the fate of communities near spills. After contemplation on which design of drifter would ... -
Petroleum System Analysis: Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia, South America
(2014-12)The purpose of this study is to create a petroleum system model and to assess whether or not the La Luna Formation has potential for unconventional exploration and production in the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin (MMVB), ... -
pH Limitations in environmental geochemical monitoring
(2015-06)[author abstract] Development of methods for measuring in situ remineralization rates of carbon in the ocean is necessary to accurately model the ocean’s capacity to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide and the future ... -
A Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessment of Langus Riverfront Park, Everett, Washington
(2016-12)The smelting process in older smelters resulted in the release of heavy metals and oxides into the air. Remediation has begun at a former smelter site in Everett, Washington. The site has seen extremely high levels of ... -
Phenotypic and behavioral plasticity in the feeding of Balanus glandula
(Friday Harbor Labs, 2011-09)Phenotypic plasticity is one mechanism by intertidal organisms to change and survive in a variety of local flow environments. One such species is the barnacle Balanus glandula, which exhibits plasticity in both its feeding ...