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The role of disaster subcultures in Spanish speaking Hispanic/Latino immigrants in the United States
(2022-12-16)
Having a diversity of climatic zones, the United States experiences different weather hazards and risks such as winter storms, tornados, droughts, hurricanes, among others depending on the geographic location. With Americans ...
Future Impact on the Low-Level Jet and its Effects on Wind Energy Generation in Oklahoma
(2019-05-11)
Future increases of wind energy density for the United States’ South-Central Plains region have been projected by several previous research examples. The Central Plains’ low-level jet has been projected to become faster ...
An Examination of the Impacts of Hurricane Harvey on Water Utility Operations and Planning
(2021)
Hurricane Harvey stalled over Southeast Texas for the better part of a week in August 2017. During that time, the Category 4 storm produced unprecedented amounts of rainfall throughout the region, causing extensive flooding ...
How Managers Apply Weather and Climate Information for Decision-Making in the United States
(2022-08)
As the climate continues to warm, precipitation events are projected to become more intense, leaving communities to prepare for potential increases in flooding. There is currently a wealth of weather and climate information ...
‘When the wind comes right behind the’ … sales pitch: alternative views to wind energy development in a rural Oklahoma host community
(2020-12)
Wind energy development has expanded across the prairie of northwest Oklahoma over the past 17 years. Several factors contributed to the success of wind energy in the state including a volatile economy history spurring a ...
Designated Market Areas (DMAs) and Severe Weather Coverage: Oklahoma-Based Broadcast Meteorologists and Their Decisions for Providing Live, On-Air Coverage of Tornado Warned Storms
(2020)
After the devastating severe weather outbreak in Oklahoma and surrounding states on 20-22 May 2019, it seemed appropriate to study the way broadcast meteorologists communicate severe weather risks to various communities, ...
A review of the application of databases in freshwater fisheries management and the effect of water quality on the mean relative weight of largemouth bass, crappie, and channel catfish in Oklahoma lakes.
(2018-05-12)
The subject of this thesis is the development and use of databases for use in fisheries management. The thesis consists of two chapters. The first is a literature review of fisheries databases and an overview of my work ...
Our squirrels will have elephant ears : indigenous perspectives on climate change in the south central United States
(2015)
As climate change impacts areas around the world Indigenous communities are being impacted disproportionately. In the US a number of tribes are in differing levels of response and adaptation. In the south central U.S. there ...