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Marine Science Lesson Plans about the Pacific Marine National Monuments: Options for Enhancing Ocean Literacy in the 7th through 12th Grade Classroom
The ocean is one of the Earth's defining features; it provides our world with variety of beneficial services like regulating climate, providing food, and is a source of wonder and inspiration. However, despite its size and ... -
Marine Science Lesson Plans about the Pacific Marine National Monuments: Options for Enhancing Ocean Literacy in the 7th through 12th Grade Classroom
The ocean is one of the Earth's defining features; it provides our world with variety of beneficial services like regulating climate, providing food, and is a source of wonder and inspiration. However, despite its size and ... -
Marine Spatial Planning for Offshore Wind Energy Projects in the North Sea: Lessons for the United States
(2013-07-23)Addressing spatial conflicts among offshore wind energy (OWE) projects and other resource users is a new issue in the United States as proposals for renewable energy projects transition from theoretical to actual installations ... -
Marine Spatial Planning in Washington: A Spatial and Temporal Assessment of Current Uses and Potential Conflict
As humanity’s capacity for developing new ways to extract and use resources proliferates, so does its use of ocean space and demand for ocean resources by an ever-growing pool of users. Anticipating disputes from this ... -
Measuring Women’s Participation in Environmental Decision-Making: An Analysis of National Reports to the Ramsar Convention
Gender inequities in marine and environmental management restrict women’s access to benefits at all levels, perpetuating poverty and undermining sustainable resource use. However, gender equity in this field is neither ... -
Merging Paradigms: A framework for meeting the goals of sustainable development and corporate sustainability for cruise industry firms
The sustainable development paradigm has emerged in response to the impact of human activities on nature and society. Governments seek to balance economic development, environmental protection, and social concerns in their ... -
Natural Resource Based Campaigns: The Coalition to Protect Bristol Bay from Pebble Mine
Public policies are created through an intricate network of advocacy coalitions and policy brokers within public and private networks who seek to change or enhance current policy. The focus of this thesis research is a ... -
Natural Resource Based Campaigns: The Coalition to Protect Bristol Bay from Pebble Mine
Public policies are created through an intricate network of advocacy coalitions and policy brokers within public and private networks who seek to change or enhance current policy. The focus of this thesis research is a ... -
On the Edge: Redevelopment Projects at the Urban-Marine Interface in Vancouver, BC
(2013-04-17)This thesis looks at three urban waterfront redevelopment projects along Vancouver, British Columbia's False Creek that were developed beginning in the 1970s. It seeks to determine to what degree such projects have actually ... -
Pacific Fishery Management Council Implementation of Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management
(2013-07-25)Eight Regional Fishery Management Councils, together with the National Marine Fisheries Service, are responsible for Federal fisheries management in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. They do so in accordance with many ... -
Pacific halibut bycatch in the Alaskan groundfish fisheries : criteria for determining limits
(1992)Most fisheries, marine or freshwater, commercial or recreational, catch other species in addition to the desired, or target, species. The catch of these additional species is termed incidental catch, or bycatch. Fishery ... -
Policy Priorities in Puget Sound: An Analysis of MPA Implementation
Currently there are 110 officially recognized marine protected areas (MPAs) in Puget Sound that cover approximately 15% of the marine environment. This analysis focuses on how the natural resource management agencies of ... -
Potential for Unintended Consequences in an Ecuadorian Hook Exchange Program
(2013-02-25)The central question of this case study asks if circle hook use in Ecuador is motivated by a desire to catch more sharks. Circle hooks are a conservation technology that limits the by-catch of sea turtles. In 2004, the ... -
Potential Transgenerational Effects of Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia on the Olympia Oyster Ostrea lurida: A three-part experimental study
Ocean acidification (OA) is decreasing the pH of surface waters in Puget Sound, Washington, an area already prone to low pH from natural processes such as upwelling, freshwater inputs, and high respiration/decomposition ... -
Public Perceptions and Pesticides - A Case Study of the Willapa Bay Oyster Bed Spraying Permit of 2015
Aquaculture has been identified as a way to meet increasing global seafood demands while wild-catch fishery production has been stagnant in recent years. In the United States, it may also be seen as a tool to balance the ... -
Public Willingness to Pay and Policy Preferences for Tidal Energy Research and Development: A Study of Households in Washington State
Puget Sound in Washington State (WA) has significant tidal energy resources, but the industry is at a nascent stage of development. At this stage, the availability of research and development (R&D) funding plays a critical ... -
Rail Congestion Impacts on Puget Sound Intermodal Port Operations
This work determined if the apparent rail congestion problem actually existed to the extreme it was impacting intermodal operations at Puget Sound ports. Observations were made of rail traffic in the Puget Sound basin on ... -
Reversing Shoreline Armoring: Quantifying the Effectiveness of Restoration on Coastal Biota of Puget Sound
Shoreline armoring is prevalent around the world with unprecedented human population growth and urbanization along coastal habitats. While armoring structures, such as riprap and bulkheads, are built to prevent beach erosion ... -
The Role of Expert-based Information in Maritime Oil Spill Prevention Policy in the Puget Sound: How Risk Assessments Reflect the Larger Political Context
(2014-02-24)Oil spills and their prevention have been political issues in Washington State and the Puget Sound area since the Prudhoe Bay oil discoveries on Alaska's North Slope. In an attempt to improve both the process and outcome ... -
The Role of Prioritization in Funding Habitat Restoration Projects for Salmon Recovery in the Puget Sound Basin
(2013-04-17)Salmon populations in Washington have suffered severe declines in numbers leading to the listing of many as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Populations in Puget Sound are especially ...