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Identification of mid-tropospheric patterns associated with tornado outbreaks in the United States.
(2019-12)
The identification of large-scale atmospheric patterns associated with tornado outbreaks poses a great challenge. It involves analysis of physical processes occurring at different time and space scales that, in the right ...
Road Culvert Impacts on Stream Fish Community Structure in Eastern Oklahoma
(2019-05)
Road culverts threaten the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains regions of Oklahoma with habitat fragmentation and loss of aquatic biodiversity. This region of Oklahoma is understudied when it comes to this issue. Fishes within ...
Natural Disaster Crisis Communication by FEMA and Red Cross Via Twitter During Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and Michael
(2019-08-01)
This thesis examined the way disaster relief agencies, FEMA and Red Cross, communicated during natural hazards at the national and regional levels. Using tweets from the weeks of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and ...
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 ...
CLOSING THE GAP: TINY HOMES, SOCIAL CAPITAL, IMPLEMENTATION, AND DISASTER RECOVERY
(2019)
Over the last fifteen years, the United States has experienced an exceedingly high number of devastating hurricanes; these storms have affected the nation in ways that are still being examined and dealt with years after ...
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 ...