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Theses/Projects from 1979
Instream flow needs study, Kerckhoff Hydroelectric Project, San Joaquin River, California, James Michael Handley
Watershed condition inventory of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation utilizing Landsat digital data, Kenneth E. Mayer
Vegetation on quartz diorite in the Bear Lakes area, Trinity County, California, John S. Palmer
Eco-Mind: Nature, Humankind, and Mind, James S. Sharak
Professions and Society: A Sociological Inquiry Accountancy As A Case, Yoshiko Fukunishi Skelton
Group Reading: A Handbook for the English Teachers Training Course in Japan, Kazuko Takeda
Theses/Projects from 1978
A Survey of Birth Control Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice Among Adolescents, Susan Warner Andre
A flora of the old Gasquet toll road, Del Norte County, California, Linda M. Barker
An Exploratory Investigation into the Relationship Between Employee Perception of a Supervisor's People-Orientation and Task-Orientation and Upward Communication Frequency and Accessibility, Michael Patric Beery-Polglase
Habitat Utilization in a Tropical Heronry, Keith K. Leber
Society and Artistic Change, Alan Quincy
An Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Planned Instruction in Listening at the First Grade Level, Mary Elizabeth Robertshaw Umhofer
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action in Humboldt County Federal Contracting Private Sector Industries, Peter J. C. Veenhuyzen
Theses/Projects from 1977
Summer water temperature conditions in the Eel River system, with reference to trout and salmon, Paul F. Kubicek
Activity patterns and escape behavior of the slender salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus), Gary R. Meneghin
A Study of Linguistic Non-Immediacy in the Institutionalized World of the Juvenile Delinquent, Gail S. Schroers
An Investigation of Field-Generated Constructs for Intercollegiate Debater Credibility, John S. Turner Jr.
Theses/Projects from 1976
Biosystematic studies in the genus Piperia (Orchidaceae), James D. Ackerman
The Mystique and the Mass Persuasion: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Drake-Chenault Radio Programming 1965-1976, Elwood F. Goulart
Winter ecology of black brant at San Quintin Bay, Baja California, Mexico, Gary W. Kramer
Behavior and energetics of ospreys nesting in northern California, Howard Levenson
The New Feminism: A Social Movement in Process, Judith K. Little
A Network Analysis: Task Communication Structure and Information Quality in A Hospital, Brian Prows
Theses/Projects from 1975
A university student survey of sexual information, attitudes and concerns, Torun Almer
The rationalization for French involvement in North America : the role of seventeenth century eyewitnesses, G.T. Buckley
Zonation, species diversity, and redevelopment in the rocky intertidal near Trinidad, northern California, Robert Cimberg
Behavioral and predatory dynamics of American kestrels wintering in the Arcata bottoms, Michael W. Collopy
Habitat utilization and ecology of the black bear in northern California, David G. Kelleyhouse
Theses/Projects from 1974
Transcendence and Meaning in Sociological Theory: Emile Durkheim's Conscience Collective, The Social Reality of Berger and Luckman, and Karl Deutsch's Group Mind, David P. Armentrout
The Sociology of Women: A Symbolic Interaction Perspective on Development of Self, Laurel Armentrout
The Slumping Process: A Challenge to Free Schools, John F. Carpenter
The Mental Patient Returns Home: A Study of the Community Mental Health Care System in Humboldt Co., CA, Carol J. Harris
The Effects of Environmental Lighting on Self-Disclosure and Interpersonal Attraction in Structured Dyadic Interaction, Leilani Maureen Honsa
A Sociological Study of Native American Indians in Higher Education, Robert George Lake Jr.
Role Definition of California Campus Ministers, David A. Markwell
Symbolic Interactionism and Conflict Theory: Complementary Approaches to the Study of Social Structure, Guy W. Raymond
The Social Transformation of Nature: A Comparative Analysis of the Siberian and American Experiences, Robert L. Wisniewski
Theses/Projects from 1973
Primary production in Humboldt Bay, Lawrence W. Harding
Nesting ecology and feeding behavior of bald eagles on the Alaska peninsula, Merlin F. Hehnke
The breeding biology of the common egret on Humboldt Bay, California, Jonathan H. Ives
Personality Similarities Between Female Alcoholics and Wives of Alcoholics, Birgitta E. Qvistgaard-Welsh
Occupational Mobility and Distributive Processes: An Exploratory Study, Barry J. Savage
A Generational Myth: Counter Culture, Edmond Temple
Theses/Projects from 1972
Response of Band-Tailed Pigeons and English Sparrows to Colored and Chemically Treated Seed, Clinton L. Benjamin
Feasibility of artificial reefs in intertidal waters, Andre DeGeorges
Maternal Employment as a Positive Reaction to the Situation of Anomie, Betty Jean Sundberg
Theses/Projects from 1971
Summer fog drip in the coastal redwood forest, Gary J. Freeman
Roosevelt elk utilization of redwood forest cutovers in relation to regrowth and forest management, James C. Lemos
Interception of rainfall by a redwood canopy in the north coast of California, Michael T. Rains
Theses/Projects from 1970
Larval Fish Survey of Humboldt Bay, Maxwell B. Eldridge
Biota of near-shore waters off Humboldt Bay and Trinidad Head, 1960-1964, as shown by diet of Pacific Salmon, Alexander Jr. Petrovich
Theses/Projects from 1969
The effects of logging road construction on insect drop into a small coastal stream, Lloyd J. Hess
The origins of the Marshall Plan : March 1947 to April 1948., Linda L. Hutchins
Theses/Projects from 1968
A snow hydrology study of the Horse Mountain ski area in Humboldt County, Ross A. Jr. Carkeet
Theses/Projects from 1965
Young-growth redwood site quality : the influences of certain environmental factors upon site quality of young-growth coast redwood, Douglas J. Jager
Theses/Projects from 1964
Benthonic marine algae of Humboldt Bay, California, Warren Marchioni
Theses/Projects from 1962
The biology of the marine copepod, Tigriopus californicus (Baker), Bernard L. Hawkins
Theses/Projects from 1958
The Roosevelt elk, Cervus canadensis roosevelti (Merriam), at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Humboldt County, California, Joseph Harry Harn
Studies of Big Lagoon, Humboldt County, California, 1956-1958, James Joseph