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Quinn, Chloe | The impact of the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River: options for the future | The Grand Canyon and the Colorado River at its base are iconic natural features of the western United States that are revered by many. This landscape may be well known for its resplendent red canyon walls and beautiful river with huge whitewater, but it is also famous for the monstrous dams that con... | 2023 | |
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Fairchild, Dylan | Climate change, extreme weather fluctuations and future of inhabitance and use in the Wasatch Mountain Range | Anthropogenic climate warming is occurring on a scale of exponential frequency. This climate change is a problem in and of itself as it permanently adjusts worldwide weather patterns and damages ecosystems essential to the function of our contemporary lives. This analysis will focus on the Wasatch M... | 2024 | |
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Parnell, Alycia M. | Finding home: discovering place in a changing world | In spring of 2010, I took a class called Global Environmental Issues from a professor in the biology department named Fred Montague, who had achieved a somewhat legendary status as a lecturer. He taught us science, the grim outlook of the environment, and the convoluted policies working against chan... | 2012-08 | |
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Cheek, Isaac | Rights of nature for the Colorado River | The Colorado River is the backbone of civilization in the Western United States, and it is facing an unprecedented environmental crisis. As drought tightens its grip on the Basin, a diverse array of stakeholders and policymakers are postured to negotiate a new policy regime for the Colorado River. T... | 2022 | |
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Quackenbush, Cameron | The Great Salt Dustbowl: the Impacts of a Drying Ecosystem | The Salt Lake Valley faces a dire environmental situation: the drying of the Great Salt Lake (GSL). As state and local water authorities push forward with plans to further dam and divert the single largest input to the GSL, it is crucial to acknowledge the implications of a drying lake bed for the W... | 2019 | |
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Case, Julia | On the bicycle and humility: making sanctuary at the nexus of capitalism and climate change | The Anthropocene, or perhaps better referred to as the Capitalocene, has been marked by human activity that is intense both in depth and breadth. Human interactions with the greater ecology of the planet have, since the Industrial Revolution, been markedly onesided, with a misguided perception of hu... | 2021 | |
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Bashir, Mahreen Hamid | Where there are still animals: A poetic study on the earth as woman | They would like to feel they might be something better than animals. That's understandable: other animals might feel they are something different than "just animals" too. But we must contemplate the shared ground of our common biological being before emphasizing the difference" | American poetry - 21st century | 2015-12 |
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Christian, Lauren Piper | Utilizing feedback from Utah families with asthmatic children to mitigate air pollution health consequences | Air pollution is an ongoing public health threat in the US and in Utah. While air pollution triggers asthma, we know little about what parents of asthmatic children think about what schools, health care providers and policymakers should do to improve air quality and their children's health. Data to ... | 2022 |
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