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Quantifying the spatio-temporal dynamics of woody plant encroachment using an integrative remote sensing, GIS, and spatial modeling approach.
(2007)
Despite a longstanding universal concern about and intensive research into woody plant encroachment (WPE)---the replacement of grasslands by shrub- and woodlands---our accumulated understanding of the process has either ...
Fragmentary worlds: Unnatural perceptions of and responses to severe weather by people with sensory/mobility impairments.
(2007)
This study is the first to investigate how people with disabilities perceive and respond to severe weather alerts. Their unfortunate experiences, underscored by the Indian Ocean monster tsunami in 2004 and hurricane Katrina ...
Cetaceousness and global warming among the Inupiat of Arctic Alaska.
(2007)
Based on my 2004-2007 ethnographic fieldwork in Barrow and Point Hope, Alaska, this dissertation reveals how collective uncertainty about the environmental future is expressed and managed in Inupiaq practices, and by ...
Warning reception, response, and risk behavior in the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City long-track violent tornado.
(2007)
On 03 May 1999, a long-track violent tornado killed 40 people and injured ∼ 800 in and near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Following the disaster, surveys were collected from persons residing or working within the damaged ...
Modeling the response of a shallow alluvial aquifer to impacts of climate variability and anthropogenic water withdrawal in northwestern Oklahoma.
(2007)
Alluvial aquifers are the most reliable sources of water for human consumptive uses and for sustaining riparian ecosystems in semiarid environments. Regardless, very little is known about their dynamics relative to bedrock ...