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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 ...
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 ...
Effective Disasters: Disasters as a Driver of International Climate Policy Change
(2018-05)
At the recent UNFCCC COP23 meetings, many diplomats and political leaders at all levels would start their proposals for policy goals and action on climate change by citing a disaster their country or region had experiences, ...
SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF DROUGHT AND ITS IMPACTS IN THE CHICKASAW NATION
(2018-08-01)
In the south central United States, drought is a prevalent natural disaster, and its impacts extend much farther than its drain on the region’s natural resources. Unfortunately, local impacts of drought may differ spatially ...
Optimizing a Pedestrian Level of Service Analysis in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
(2018-05-12)
Urban areas across the United States have seen an increase in transportation methods beyond the private automobile. Cities such as Minneapolis, Denver, and Charlotte have added or expanded light rail transit, bike lanes, ...
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 ...