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Browsing by Subject "GIS"
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Assessing the Intensity of Late Holocene Montane Settlement and Subsistence Strategies in the Northern Sierra Nevada, California
(2023)This thesis investigates the precontact settlement patterns of the Nisenan in the northern Sierra Nevada and compares these patterns to studies of Mono and Miwok settlement patterns in the central and southern Sierra Nevada. ... -
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DETERMINING WHERE INDIVIDUAL VEHICLES SHOULD NOT DRIVE IN SEMIARID TERRAIN IN VIRGINIA CITY, NV
(2009)This thesis explored elements involved in determining and mapping where a vehicle should not drive off-road in semiarid areas. Obstacles are anything which slows or obstructs progress (Meyer et al., 1977) or limits the ... -
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Fantastic Birds and Where to Find Them
(2023)I investigated avian-habitat relationships in three related study systems. In my first chapter I characterize the nonbreeding habitat of the western subspecies of Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii subspp.), including ... -
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Global Ensemble Streamflow and Flood Modeling with Application of Large Data Analytics, Deep learning and GIS
(2019)ABSTRACTFlooding is one of the most dangerous natural disasters that repeatedly occur globally, and flooding frequently leads to major urban, financial, anthropogenic, and environmental impacts in the subjected area. ... -
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Historical Local Knowledge and Cartography:Within GIS: Kaua`i, Hawai`i
(2009)There is no easy way to get historic data and maps into Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Maps remain an important and convenient source, snapshots in time that portray landscapes of the past, containing information ... -
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Honing the Edges: Redefining the Borders of Organized Fencing
(2009)Everything from a paper route to a world region has some form of a border. Those borders may be relatively well defined and stable, as in a country or a province, or they may be fluctuating and vaguely defined, as with an ... -
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Hunting in Nevada: An Analysis of Hunter Characteristics, Behaviors and Motivations
(2009)Hunting has played a significant role in the development of human societies and continues to play a significant role in defining culture in the present. While hunting is not now necessary to human survival as it was in the ... -
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Improving denitrification bioreactor efficacy on the microbial, property, and regional scales
(2019)The Santa Fe River watershed in North Central Florida has a significant nitrogencontamination problem that is causing eutrophication in both the river and the manysprings in the area. The watershed is dominated by agriculture, ... -
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Mining the Past: Using Arrastras as Evidence of Mexican Mining Activity in Early Nevada
(2015)Why are Mexican miners absent from Nevada’s historical record? Legends of lost Spanish mines abound, and Hispanic place names dapple the state, but the stories of Hispanic miners themselves are missing from Nevada histories. ... -
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Motels and crime: The effects of motel closures on crime rates
(2013)In recent years, police organizations and scholars have begun to study motel crimes and the ways that crimes at such lodgings might be reduced. Although studies have helped police and city officials to manage crime at ... -
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Quantifying the Pre-Archaic to Archaic Transition: A Study of Movement and Land-Use in the Old River Bed of Western Utah
(2014)Current models of prehistoric movement and land-use in the Old River Bed (ORB) of western Utah suggest that a wetland environment restricted Pre-archaic (pre-8,000 14C yr BP) occupants of the region to movement along a ... -
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The Road Beyond Early Adopters: An Analysis of the Experiences of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Drivers in California
(2020)This thesis focuses on hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV) drivers experiences with the refueling infrastructure and vehicle, after initial adoption, to provide insight into their potential continued use of the vehicles. The ...