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Community-Level Impacts of Wind Power in Oklahoma
(2017-08)
Wind power development in Oklahoma has expanded rapidly in the past decade, going from no installed capacity to producing over 20 percent of the state’s energy. Given the industry’s rapid development, there has been mixed ...
Methods for Mapping Land Cover Change in Shrinking Cities in the United States
(2017-05-12)
Urbanization is generally understood as the process of growth in both population and developed areas. However, this perception is not entirely reflective of the types of change that are occurring in the heart of the United ...
The Intersection of Wind Energy and Wildlife management: A Case Study of Prairie-Chickens and Wind Turbine Site Selection in Oklahoma
(2018-12)
The demand for alternatives to fossil fuels has increased over the past couple of years, so it is becoming increasingly important to find alternative energy sources. While wind energy represents one potential alternative ...
“MY CHOICE?”: AN ANALYSIS OF A CONTROVERSIAL WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT VIDEO FROM INDIA
(2017-05-12)
In March 2015, Vogue India released the video “My Choice,” as part of a series of videos for the magazine’s women’s empowerment initiative. However, “My Choice” sparked outrage in India and abroad for controversial content ...
In the middle : mediators of faith-based transborder development in Oaxaca, Mexico
(2014)
In this thesis I ask how transborder migration from the Oaxacan Mixteca has connected Indigenous communities with faith-based sustainable development organizations in the U.S. I focus on Guadalupe Miramar Yucuhiti, a ...
Exploring Future Hydrologic Extremes of the Red River Basin
(2017-08)
Hydrologic extremes of drought and flooding stress water resources and damage communities in the Red River Basin, located in the south-central U.S. For example, the summer of 2011 was the third driest summer in Oklahoma ...
CONSUMER PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIORS TOWARDS FOOD WASTE REDUCTION - A TWO STUDY ANALYSIS IN OKLAHOMA
(2018-12-14)
Almost 30% of food is wasted annually across the world from farm to fork. As a result, food waste has become a major sustainability challenge due to both direct and indirect impacts and implications related to food security, ...
Climate Change Drives Divergent Outcomes for Stream Fishes in the Red River
(2018-12-14)
Climate change is expected to alter the distributions of stream fishes in ecosystems around the world, but climate projections vary widely among competing climate models. Conservation practitioners face the challenge of ...
Evaluating the Long-Term Effectiveness of Coyote Management in Oklahoma: Human Perceptions and Techniques
(2017-12-15)
This study examines coyote management policy in the state of Oklahoma, comparing human perceptions within the state to nationwide coyote management policies. This research affords insight into how Oklahoma’s coyote management ...
An intercomparison of Landsat land surface temperature retrieval methods under variable atmospheric conditions using in situ skin temperature
(2016)
Land surface temperature (LST) retrieved from Landsat is a valuable resource for understanding land cover change, monitoring the urban heat island effect, and modeling hydrological and carbon cycles, among other applications. ...