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Ward, Shannon Camlin. "Blood Creek." NCSU, 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-02252009-184954/.

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Haveman, Christopher D. Braund Kathryn E. Holland. "The removal of the Creek Indians from the Southeast, 1825-1838." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1878.

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Gray, Suzanne Fernandez. "To the Creek." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/88.

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“To the Creek” is a creative nonfiction work in which place and identity play integral roles. Following a series of family revelations, the narrator embarks on a rebuilding project both of herself and a 100-year-old corncrib, the only standing structure on a Kentucky farm she and her husband inherited a few years before. However, farm life isn’t a natural fit for a first generation Cuban American, so this work touches on identity as well. The corncrib’s new function as a retreat and writing space leads the writer to explore similar efforts by other writers to convert existing sheds into creative spaces, with particular emphasis on Virginia Woolf and Thomas Merton.
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Stoffle, Richard W., Vlack Kathleen A. Van, and Fletcher Chmara-Huff. "Quitchupah Creek Ethnographic Study For The Proposed Quitchupah Creek Coal Haul Road." Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293790.

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This study was designed to inform the third party Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) required for the Quitchupah Creek Road, UTU-57907, Fishlake National Forest and Bureau of Land Management, Richfield District, Sevier and Emery Counties, Utah. The road proposal involved upgrading a jeep trail located in Quitchupah Canyon. Modifications of this four-wheel drive dirt road would involve extensive environmental engineering, bridges culverts for side canyon intermittent streams and paving of approximately 9.2 miles. A team of ethnographers from the University of Arizona interviewed members of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah (PITU) to understand cultural meaning, traditional use, and potential impacts to Native American resources in the study area.
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Opheim, Mads. "CREEK and Description Logics." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for datateknikk og informasjonsvitenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-26768.

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Creek is a system for diagnosis and problem solving. It makes heavily use of general knowledge, and is intended for open and weak theory domains. The system uses this general knowledge in combination with experiences from previous cases to solve new problems.We have implemented the core parts of Creek inside the Colibri studio framework, and shown that it is both possible and realistic to create a thorough Creek implementation. This has resulted in a system named Colibreek.In this implementation, we have replaced the knowledge representation in Creek, switching from the original frames to description logics. This has proven successful, and promising for further development.We have tested our system on the turbine sensor domain, and shown how our system can be used for condition monitoring on sensor-monitored equipment such as turbines. By doing this, we have also shown how the system can solve real problems people, companies and organisations have.
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Korenic, Robert J. "Development of Watershed Action Plans for the Mill Creek and Yellow Creek Watersheds." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu997986507.

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Chapman, Genesis. "Bottom Creek, Bent Mountain, VA." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2163.

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The title of this thesis Bottom Creek, Bent Mountain, VA is the subject of my large ink drawings. Starting with the spring outside my window, this book describes the creeks as it flows across the mountain that I grew up on. My drawings document the experience of walking along the banks of Bottom Creek as it flows past farms fields and along the roadside. Described as a seemingly insignificant place, the creek is in fact it is one of the most basic, and important parts of this mountain’s landscape, because the creek’s natural process it is responsible for producing the landscape as we see it. Through drawing the water from direct observation, I find a deeper connection to the land and respect for its ever changing processes.
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Carter, Bryan. "Tidal Creek Equilibrium: Barataria Bay." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2303.

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Louisiana’s wetlands are losing land in response to sea level changes, anthropogenic influences and natural marine processes. Historical satellite image analysis reveals that between 2005 and 2015, fifteen tidal creeks in Barataria Bay, Louisiana eroded at the rate of 1.80 m/yr (± 1.98 m), and the open water area behind these creeks enlarged at the rate of 530.00 m2/yr (± 204.80 m2). This research revealed that selected tidal creeks within the estuary have cross-sectional areas larger (2639% larger) than established ocean-inlet equilibrium models would predict. This work suggests that tidal prism to tidal creek cross-sectional area relationships in Barataria Bay are most strongly shaped by creek exposure to waves and secondarily by tide range and currents. A trend of increased inlet erosion rates due to large fetch distances is evident, but impacts from storm driven subtidal variations also play an important role.
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Hawkins, Philip C. "Creek Schism: Seminole Genesis Revisited." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002851.

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Overby, Steven T., and Daniel G. Neary. "Travertine Geomorphology of Fossil Creek." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296999.

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Dean, Kyla. "Phosphorus runoff to Clear Creek." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/943.

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Phosphorus is a nutrient crucial to row crop production, but phosphorus runoff from fields to nearby surface waters is a persistent problem that threatens the quality of rivers and streams. This is especially true for Iowa with its abundance of agricultural practices. In order to better understand the phosphorus dynamics of a watershed with agricultural land use, Clear Creek in Iowa was studied. Total, dissolved, and suspended reactive phosphorus concentrations were measured and mass fluxes were calculated. Through this research it was determined that most of the mass of phosphorus in Clear Creek is transferred during high flow events and is attached to solids. The headwaters area of this stream was found to be a major source of phosphorus due to the abundance of row crops and steeply sloped land.
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Gabites, Janet Elizabeth. "Geology and geochronometry of the Cogburn creek-settler creek area, northwest of Harrison lake, B.C." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24668.

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Metamorphic supracrustal rocks in the Cogburn Creek area belong to the Cogburn Creek Group and the Settler Schist. These are separated by a melange zone, which has been correlated with the Shuksan thrust zone and contains Baird Metadiorite and ultramafic rocks, and intruded by the Spuzzum batholith and minor younger granodiorite. Three phases of folding are recognised in the schist units: f₁ is associated with contact metamorphism that preceded regional metamorphism, f₂ produced pervasive mica foliation and tight folds, and kinks and broad warps are associated with f₃, which was locally pervasive approaching pluton margins. Mineral assemblages indicate increasing metamorphic grade from west to east from garnet to garnet-staurolite, andesine-epidote amphibolite, staurolite-kyanite, fibrolite, and coarse sillimanite zones. Metamorphic conditions vary from 300 to 500 °C in Cogburn Creek Group rocks to 550 to 700 °C at 6 to 8 kbar for pelites in the Settler Schist. Conditions deduced for metamorphism of the ultramafic rocks are consistent with those for enclosing pelitic schists. Geochronometry indicates that the Baird Metadiorite is probably Precambrian and equivalent to the Yellow Aster Complex of the North Cascade Mountains, Washington. The Cogburn Creek Group was dated as Late Paleozoic (296 ± 58 Ma, Rb-Sr WR isochron), and is provisionally correlated with the Bridge River Group. The protolith of the Settler Schist was deposited around 210 ± 27 Ma (Rb-Sr WR isochron), and it contains 2450 ± 230 Ma detrital zircon indicating partial ultimate derivation from Precambrian basement rocks. The Spuzzum batholith was intruded at 95 to 110 Ma, before the culmination of regional metamorphism. Rb-Sr biotite dates from all units and K-Ar Hb isochron dates in the range 66 to 88 Ma are metamorphic cooling dates. The youngest intrusive rocks, granodiorite dated at 32 ± 2 Ma to 42 ± 14 Ma, postdate the regional metamorphic and intrusive event. Movement on the Shuksan Thrust is bracketed as Albian, after regional blueschist metamorphism of the Shuksan Suite in the North Cascade Mountains and before intrusion of Spuzzum batholith and regional metamorphism east of Harrison Lake.
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Wegener, Joanne E. "The relationship between sedimentation on Aldinga Reef, and Washpool Creek and Sellicks Creek catchments, Willunga Basin /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arw411.pdf.

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Gangadean, Devananda. "Storm response of Sonoita Creek Watershed." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1999. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu_etd_hy0048_m_sip1_w.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Kordenbrock, Brett Nathan. "Enhancement of Concretized Streams: Mill Creek." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366206697.

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Bennett, Jeff. "A descriptive history of Willow Creek." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p010-0072.

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Matthews, Elizabeth, Tom Cain, Grant Loomis, Jerome Stefferud, and Rich Martin. "Fossil Creek: Restoring a Unique Ecosystem." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296468.

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From the Proceedings of the 1995 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Association and the Hydrology Section - Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science - April 22, 1995, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
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Bidgood, Lee, and Andrew Finn Magill. "Performance at Live at Grassy Creek." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3257.

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Mackenzie, Andrew Ian. "Characterization of Drainage Chemistry in Fanny Creek Catchment and Optimal Passive AMD Treatment Options for Fanny Creek." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geological Sciences, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5078.

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Fanny Creek drains from Island Block opencast coal mine, near Reefton on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, and is impacted by acid mine drainage (AMD). The objectives of this study were to characterise drainage chemistry in Fanny Creek catchment, and to determine optimal passive treatment strategies for Fanny Creek AMD for future pilot or full-scale application. This was undertaken by monthly monitoring in Fanny Creek catchment between February 2008 and January 2009 to collect drainage chemistry and flow data. Laboratory trials of suitable passive AMD treatment systems were conducted and their treatment performance assessed to select and design optimal passive treatment strategies for Fanny Creek AMD. Oxidation of pyrite in Brunner Coal Measure sediments at Island Block mine generates AMD. Fanny Creek originates from a number of AMD seeps on the eastern waste rock slope of Island Block mine. Seeps have low pH (<3.23) and a single detailed metal analysis indicates drainage is enriched with aluminium and iron, and contains elevated concentrations of manganese, copper, nickel, zinc and cadmium relative to applicable water quality criteria such as ANZECC guidelines. Acidity and metal loadings of drainage in the catchment indicates AMD from the northern waste rock slope contributes most of the acidity (~70%) and metal (60%) in Fanny Creek, and acts to re-dissolve additional metals upon mixing with drainage from other slopes. The most suitable location for a passive AMD treatment system in Fanny Creek catchment is on the Waitahu Valley floor, near monitoring site R12, because this allows for sediment removal prior to a treatment system. Fanny Creek AMD at site R12 was characterized in detail because this data assists with selection and design of passive AMD treatment systems. Fanny Creek at site R12 contains on average 6.0 mg/L aluminium, 1.3 mg/L iron, 3.1 mg/L manganese, 0.49 mg/L zinc, 0.14 mg/L nickel, 0.0071 mg/L copper and 0.00048 mg/L cadmium. Average pH at site R12 was 3.95, calculated acidity averaged 42.7 mg CaCO₃/L, and flow rate ranged from 1.5 L/s to about 30 L/s. Acidity and metal generation from Island Block mine increases linearly with flow in the catchment, and therefore Fanny Creek drainage chemistry is not significantly affected by rainfall dilution. Natural attenuation of AMD occurs by addition of un-impacted alkaline drainage from Greenland Group basement rocks, wetland ecosystem processes, and geochemical reactions along Fanny Creek that decrease acidity and metal concentrations before AMD discharges into the Waitahu River. During low flow conditions (summer months), surface flow of AMD into the Waitahu River does not occur because of subsurface flow loss. Three suitable passive AMD treatment options for Fanny Creek AMD were selected and trialed at ‘bench top’ scale in a laboratory. These included a sulfate reducing bioreactor (SRBR), a limestone leaching bed (LLB), and an open limestone channel (OLC). The potential to mix Waitahu River water with Fanny Creek to neutralize AMD was also investigated. Fanny Creek AMD was employed for laboratory trials, and influent flow rates into SRBR, LLB and OLC systems were regulated to assess performance at different hydraulic retention times (HRT). Optimal HRTs for future treatment system designs were determined from effective AMD treatment thresholds, and include 51 hours, 5 hours and 15 hours for SRBR, LLB and OLC systems, respectively. To determine optimal treatment options for Fanny Creek AMD the effectiveness of each trial option was compared to applicable water quality criteria, and scale up implications of treatment options was assessed. The SRBR system had most effective AMD treatment, with water quality criteria achieved for metals, greatest alkalinity generation, and highest pH increase. However, a full scale SRBR system has significant size requirements, and long term treatment performance may be limited. The LLB system decreased metals to below, or just slightly above criteria for all metals, and has significantly smaller size requirements compared to a SRBR system. The OLC system was least effective, with effluent above water quality criteria for all metals except iron, and with lowest alkalinity generation. The Waitahu River is capable of neutralizing AMD because it is slightly alkaline. The flow volume of river water required for neutralization is between 65 L/s and 140L/s, which can be gravity fed to mix with Fanny Creek. These results indicate that either a LLB treatment system or the Waitahu River Mixing option are the optimal passive treatment strategies for Fanny Creek AMD. On site pilot scale testing of SRBR and LLB systems, and the Waitahu River Mixing option is recommended because of AMD treatment uncertainty, and to more accurately select and design full scale passive treatment strategies.
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Knobloch, Amanda. "Fluxes, drivers, and composition of carbon exchanged at the Taskinas Creek, VA coastal marsh creek-estuarine interface." W&M ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1582642587.

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Among the most valuable natural ecosystems, estuaries and marshes are areas of high productivity, have high economic value, and provide numerous ecosystem services. However, there is still uncertainty in marsh and estuarine carbon budgets and in our overall understanding of the drivers, composition, and fluxes of organic matter in these habitats. Part of this uncertainty is due to high spatial and temporal variability within these habitats and the range of methods used in previous studies. While the number of studies is increasing, there are still large gaps in our knowledge of marsh-estuarine interface dynamics. This study examined the concentrations, fluxes, and composition of particulate and dissolved organic carbon (POC, DOC) and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), with a focus on the temporal patterns and drivers of carbon pools at the marsh-estuarine interface. Taskinas Creek, a Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, was chosen for this study as it provides a near-pristine location to measure current baseline data and is equipped with long-term water quality and meteorological monitoring stations that provided valuable ancillary data. Water samples were collected from Taskinas Creek from 2013 to 2018 to measure POC, DOC, and DIC concentrations, stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen, colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), and lipid biomarker compounds. Linear mixed effects (LME) modeling identified that the total suspended sediments were the primary driver of POC concentrations and marsh sources were the primary drivers of both DOC and DIC. Measured carbon concentrations were then used calculate carbon fluxes based on parameters measured via continuous water quality monitoring at Taskinas Creek, allowing for a high-frequency, long-term carbon flux record. On an annual basis, the marsh acted as a source of carbon to the York River (53 g C m-2 y-1) but the fluxes of the different pools of carbon differed in direction and magnitude. On a net basis, the York River was a source organic matter to the marsh (58 to 77 g POC m-2 yr-1 and 3.9 to 18 g DOC m-2 yr-1) whereas DIC was exported from the marsh (114 to 193 g DIC m-2 yr-1). Stable isotopes, lipid biomarkers, and CDOM were used to determine the primary sources of organic matter at Taskinas Creek. Lipid biomarker and stable isotope analyses revealed that POC was primarily derived from algal sources, likely originating from the adjacent York River. In contrast, CDOM spectral measurements and stable isotopes of DOC and DIC indicated that dissolved carbon was primarily marsh-derived, and CDOM was primarily composed of humic-like and fulvic-like compounds. These results agree with previous studies conducted in similar habitats and within the York River estuary. The import of labile POC into the marsh and the export of DOC, DIC, and CDOM to the estuary can have important consequences for marsh and estuarine food webs, marsh surface stability, and the overall biogeochemistry of these habitats. The results found in this study can be used to improve carbon budget models by not only providing current baseline carbon concentrations, but also the primary drivers and sources of these carbon pools. As these drivers and sources may face changes in times of future anthropogenic and climate change, understanding how they affect carbon pools can enable better predictions of how these carbon pools will change in the future.
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Louen, Justin M. "Hydrologic Characteristics of Summer Stream Temperatures in Little Creek and Scotts Creek at the Swanton Pacific Ranch." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2016. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1659.

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Stream temperature impacts have resulted in increased restrictions on land management such as timber harvest and have created considerable uncertainty for future planning and management of redwood forestlands. Challenges remain in the assessment of downstream cumulative effects given the complexity of stream temperature dynamics. The goal of this research is to identify the risk of downstream temperature heating based on the summer low flow residence times, stream morphological characteristics, stream water storage, and heat budget exchanges. Stream temperature, hydrologic, climatic, and channel morphological data were collected on two, approximately 800 m stream reaches on Little Creek and Scotts Creek located in mixed coast redwood and Douglas-fir forests of Santa Cruz County, California. Spatially and temporally explicit stream temperature measurements were collected using distributed temperature sensing. A fluorescent dye tracer was used to gather information on summer streamflow including the quantification of residence time and hyporheic exchange. A heat budget approach was used to quantify individual heat flux components and to examine the processes of stream heating and cooling. Comparisons of observed and modeled temperatures between the two sites and the relative influences of individual heat budget components indicated that the magnitude and spatial frequency of subsurface-surface water interactions, along with incoming net radiation, played a substantial role in how heat was transferred through each system. Solar radiation exposure from stream shading and modeled groundwater inflows were important explanatory variables in the magnitude and spatial distribution of stream temperatures for the two streams located in the same watershed subjected to similar meteorological conditions. The measurement and evaluation of a stream’s hydrologic characteristics, stream shading, and aspect ratio were statistically significant measurements (α
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Damdinbal, Saruul. "Relationship between Aqueous and Sediment Chemistry and its Impact on Biological Recovery in Acid Mine Drainage-Impaired Streams: Monday Creek, Sunday Creek, Thomas Fork, Raccoon Creek, and Hewett Fork." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461589141.

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Innes, Pamela Joan. "From one to many, from many to one : speech communities in the Muskogee stompdance population /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1997.

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Stige, Martin. "Representing and reasoning with constraints in Creek." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-10052.

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This work studies constraint mechanisms in frame-based knowledge representation systems with the aim of improving the knowledge modelling abilities of the TrollCreek system. TrollCreek is an implementation of Creek, an architecture for case based reasoning (CBR) that uses an explicit frame-based knowledge model to guide the CBR process. The objective of this project is to develop a constraint mechanism for TrollCreek. In doing this the earlier Lisp implementation of Creek and four other frame-based systems are examined with emphasize on their constraint mechanisms. Based on these systems a constraint mechanism for TrollCreek is discussed and specified. The part of the mechanism considered most central is implemented and evaluated.

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Piatak, Nadine. "Geochemistry of Nettle Creek, Champaign County, Ohio /." Connect to resource, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/28568.

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Martin, Karla Susanne Noblit George W. "Poarch Creek Indian parents' perceptions of schools." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1587.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the School of Education." Discipline: Education; Department/School: Education.
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Sheinin, Aliette Karina. "Moontime in Eagle Creek : stories for sustainability." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15294.

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The most common and influential approaches to sustainability in contemporary western society have been science-based. Consequently, sustainable living is usually defined in generalized, universalized, and quantified terms. While science is important for sustainable living, science alone cannot incorporate critical, yet specific, places, times, and events. Sustainable living in one country may not be sustainable in another, sustainable living right now may not be so in the future, sustainable living for me may not be sustainable for you, for example. What’s more, science itself is embedded in and reproduces place-, time-, and event-specific dimensions. Negotiating these dimensions of life into our understanding and practice of sustainability is imperative. In contrast to science, narrative seeks to construct and reflect knowledge of place-, time-, and event-specific dimensions of life; narrative as a mode of knowing is concrete, contextualized, specific, personally convincing, circular, imaginistic, interpersonal and emotive. Narrative, as well, is a process of knowledge construction, a way of coming to know place(s), time(s), and event(s). The goal of this dissertation is to negotiate, humbly, both science and narrative. My hope is that this work, as arts-based research, can expand our possibility(ies) for new ways of knowing and living sustainably. My negotiation between science and narrative takes place in Eagle Creek, a 2.21km long creek in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Eagle Creek begins from a reservoir and flows through forested municipal land, undeveloped private land, and developed residential land before discharging into the Pacific Ocean. Originally, I set out to investigate sustainability issues surrounding Eagle Creek’s role in drinking water and power generation, recreation, and salmon spawning. What I discovered in my research was far from what I expected. This is a story about those surprises. My hope is that in this story is an opportunity for you to negotiate, for yourself, new ways of knowing sustainability and living it, wherever, whenever, and however it may be for you. To the lives of our dreams!
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CLIFFORD, SARS. "BUTTE CREEK TRAILS PROJECT: A MASTER PLAN." The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555252.

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Lowell, Julie C. "Prehistoric Households at Turkey Creek Pueblo, Arizona." University of Arizona Press (Tucson, AZ), 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595506.

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Bisagno, Eugene J. "The aquatic insects of Mill Creek, California." Scholarly Commons, 1987. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2138.

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The study of insects has been a hobby for me for more than twenty years. Their diversity and adaptation to many habitats has been of particular interest. Ever since the removal of my first aquatic nymph from the crashing waters of the American River, I have been especially fascinated, with these insects. Since I had access to a relatively undisturbed year round stream, I chose to study the aquatic insects of this stream. The purpose of this study was to survey the aquatic insect fauna of Mill Creek during the course of a year and relate these findings to the River Continuum Concept.
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Castern, Maureen P. "Stormwater quality management strategy: Peters Creek watershed." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50033.

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The effect of stormwater runoff on the water quality of Peters Creek was investigated. Creek water was sampled at rural, suburban and urban sites. Background and runoff samples were analyzed for sediment, nutrient and heavy metal concentrations. The area upstream of the suburban site was found to contribute the greatest contamination to the creek but the heavy metal contributions were accumulated throughout the watershed. The creek water contained sufficient nutrients to potentially contribute to the eutrophication of Smith Mountain Lake downstream. As the watershed has been developed, flooding has increased in frequency. The detrimental effects of runoff can be reduced in the watershed by clearing the trash from the creek bed, enforcing construction erosion control and creek bed alteration ordinances and by building a series of detention basins in the creek upstream from common sites of flooding.
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Trop, Michael. "A Water Quality Investigation of Kimages Creek." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2845.

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Analysis of continuous monitoring water quality data (temperature, specific conductivity, depth, pH, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity) at two locations in a tidal freshwater creek (Kimages Creek) characterized seasonal variation and responses to short-term events. Supplemental water quality measurements were collected to describe longitudinal variations in the creek. There were significant differences in water quality between the two continuous monitoring stations (one tidal and unforested, the other non-tidal and forested) over varying time scales. Rain events showed increases in turbidity, depth and dissolved oxygen, and reductions in temperature, conductivity, and pH at both stations. Tides influenced the water quality at the downstream monitoring station, but there were also influences at the upstream site despite the presence of beaver impoundments. At the downstream station, changes in conductivity and pH were linked to the tidal cycle while temperature and dissolved oxygen were linked to a diel cycle but also responded to tidal influence.
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Ellison, Christopher A. "Water quality of the Muddy Creek basin." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594477291&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Dutson, Andrew S. "A Multifaceted Sedimentological Analysis on Hobble Creek." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2625.

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Due to the endangerment of the June sucker (Chasmistes liorus), the lower two miles of Hobble Creek, Utah has been the focus of several restoration efforts. The portion of the creek between Interstate 15 and Utah Lake has been moved into a more "natural" channel and efforts are now being made to expand restoration to the east side of the freeway. This thesis reports on three different parts of a sedimentological analysis performed on Hobble Creek. The first part is a data set that contains information about the particle size distribution on the bed of Hobble Creek between 400 W and Interstate 15 in Springville, Utah. Particle size distributions were obtained for eleven sub-reaches within the study section. Particle size parameters such as D50 were observed to decrease from an average of 72 mm to 24 mm downstream from the 1650 W crossing and Packard Dam. Streambed armoring was observed along most of the reach. This data set can be used as input for PHABSIM software to determine the location and availability of existing spawning material for June sucker during a range of flows. The second part of this thesis compares predictions from four bed-load transport models to bed-load transport data measured on Hobble Creek. In general, the Meyer-Peter, Muller and Bathurst models overpredicted sediment transport by several orders of magnitude while the Rosgen and Wilcock methods (both calibrated models) were fairly accurate. Design channel dimensions resulting from the bed-load transport predictions diverged as a function of discharge. Once validated, the models developed in this section can be used by design engineers to better understand sediment transport on Hobble Creek. The models may also be applied to other Utah Lake tributaries. The third section of the thesis introduces a detailed survey data set that covers the Hobble Creek floodplain on the shifted section between Interstate 15 and Utah Lake with an approximate 10 foot resolution grid. Water surface elevations at two flows, along with invert, fence, saddles, and other points, are labeled in the survey. A comparison with a survey completed last year did not reveal any significant lateral changes caused by the 2010 spring runoff. Due to the potential importance of the side ponds to June sucker survival, this data set can be used to monitor sedimentation in the side ponds. It may also be used in a GSSHA model to determine the magnitude of flow that is required before each side pond will be connected to the main channel.
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Flora, Jason. "Water Quality Assessment in Cypress Creek Nature Preserve." TopSCHOLAR®, 2003. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/591.

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Swamps are unique ecological communities that provide many valuable ecosystem services. In Kentucky, however, many swamps were altered by cypress removal and land development in their watersheds. Cypress Creek Swamp, which lies near Paducah in western Kentucky, is a good example of a swamp whose ecological integrity may be threatened by past and current nearby land use practices. This study was conducted to assess the water quality and macro- and microinvertebrate communities in the swamp. Three sites were monitored for temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, specific conductivity, depth, phosphorus measured as orthophosphate, nitrite (NO2") and nitrate (NO3", NOx collectively), and ammonia nitrogen (NH3). The temperature, dissolved oxygen, NH3 and NOx concentrations changed with the growing season, but pH demonstrated little variability among the sites. The specific conductivity and phosphorus levels were highly variable. Principal component analysis (PCA) indicated no significant difference in microinvertebrate taxa identified among locations or through time. A oneway analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated no significant difference in macroinvertebrate population total densities between locations (P = 0.847), and a oneway analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed no significant difference in microinvertebrate population total densities among locations (P = 0.153) or through time (P = 0.294). As development continues in the watershed, this work provides an important baseline for future water quality monitoring in the preserve.
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Schostak, Laura Elizabeth. "Dynamics of a high-macrotidal saltmarsh tidal creek." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0026/MQ33270.pdf.

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Taschereau, Denise M. "Urban social sustainability, opportunities for Southeast False Creek." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0028/MQ51484.pdf.

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Kleist, Andrea Margaret. "New Hope Creek Bridge as a Wildlife Underpass." NCSU, 2005. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11172005-224721/.

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Roads pose many threats to wildlife. One such threat, wildlife-vehicle collisions, is a danger to humans as well as wildlife. Bridges built to facilitate movement of wildlife under roads may reduce threats that exist when large mammals attempt to cross roadways. My study is the first phase of a two-stage investigation of whether a bridge designed to function as a wildlife underpass influences wildlife use of the U.S. Highway 15/501 bridge over New Hope Creek (NHC) near Durham, North Carolina. This underpass is important as a wildlife passage, particularly for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), because the forests associated with NHC create a corridor between two natural areas: Duke Forest to the north and B. Everett Jordan Lake to the south. Phase One involves monitoring wildlife use of the current bridge structure using video cameras. In 2007, a longer bridge will be constructed. Phase Two will be the replication of my study upon completion of the new bridge. Wildlife use of the current and future underpass will be compared to determine whether underpass dimensions influence wildlife use of the underpass. Wildlife use of the NHC underpass was recorded continuously from December 2003 through May 2005. During the study period, 126 crossings were observed in the sample of video data by the following species: white-tailed deer, woodchuck (Marmota monax), chipmunk (Tamias striatus), raccoon (Procyon lotor), red or gray fox (Vulpes vulpes or Urocyon cinereoargenteus), gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), domestic dog or coyote (Canis spp.), domestic cat (Felis catus), muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidis), and unidentifiable small and medium-sized mammals. Based on the sampling technique, 42.2% of wildlife crossings were observed. Thus, an estimated 299 wildlife crossings occurred throughout the study period. Seventy-five deer were observed in the sample of video data using the underpass, while 17 deer approached and retreated. Using the sampling technique, 40.5% of deer crossings and 92.1% of deer approaches were observed. Thus, an estimated 185 deer crossings and 18 approaches occurred during the study period. One-hundred forty-six people were observed near the underpass in the sample of video data. Based on the sample, 80.8% of human activity near the underpass was detected. Thus, an estimated 181 people were observed near the underpass during the study period. Five potential road crossings, including three by small mammals and two by deer, were observed in the sample of video footage. As an index of road mortality near the NHC underpass, weekly surveys of vehicle-killed animals were conducted while driving north and south on the 1.8 km section of Highway 15/501 containing the underpass from December 2003 through June 2005. The surveys revealed that five individuals were killed by vehicle collisions, including raccoon, opossum (Didelphus virginiana), woodchuck, wild turkey (Meleagris gallapavo), and one unidentifiable mammal. North Carolina Department of Transportation records of wildlife collisions occurring from January 1, 1990 through October 30, 2004 revealed that deer-vehicle collisions on the section of Highway 15/501 containing the NHC underpass were infrequent, with 16 deer-related vehicle collisions occurring. Because several years will separate the current study from the future study of the expanded NHC underpass, a deer abundance index was developed using counts of deer observed during a driving route along roads west and north of the NHC underpass. From March 23, 2004 through May 31, 2005, 205 deer were observed during 53 driving counts. These data suggest that the Highway 15/501 underpass provides landscape connectivity between habitats on opposite sides of the highway and likely increases motorist safety by providing deer and other wildlife with an alternate route for reaching habitat on the far side of the highway without crossing onto the road.
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Moore, Robert D. Jr. "A New Look at Hard Labor Creek Observatory." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/phy_astr_theses/15.

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This document presents a study of astronomical observing conditions of Hard Labor Creek Observatory. Analysis of factors such as sky brightness, astonomical seeing, and patterns in the level of cloudiness at the site are presented. Characteristics of the observatory's Apogee Alta U230 camera are also measured and calculated. These characteristics include loss of linearity in the CCD's response to light, read noise, gain, dark current, and stability in the camera's bias levels. The camera is also used in conjunction with the 20-inch RC Optics telescope to determine the system's pixel scale and a set of limiting magnitudes for the Johnson-Cousins photometric filters that are used with the camera. Observations of a transit of known transiting exoplanet Qatar-2 b as well as observations of the open cluster Messier 29 are also performed to demonstrate the ability of the equipment to perform precise photometric observations.
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Cornelia, Sussmann G. "Toward the sustainable city : Vancouver's Southeast False Creek." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43164.

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This dissertation takes an ecologically-based view of sustainability to investigate the planning process and analyse the outcomes of planning for Vancouver’s model sustainable community, Southeast False Creek (SeFC). SeFC has achieved LEED-ND Platinum rating for environmental design and received a UN Livability Award (2010). Following Rees (1995) and Lombardi, Porter, Barber and Rogers (2011), I examine how central actors in the Southeast False Creek planning process conceived of and approached urban ‘sustainability’. I identify their influence on policy making, plan implementation and sustainability outcomes. I also assess the community using scientifically determined metrics of sustainability: per capita greenhouse gas emissions levels and ecological footprints. Through in-depth interviews and detailed document analysis I found that central actors in the planning process approached urban sustainability from a perspective that resembled a ‘three pillars/status quo approach’, i.e., sustainability can be achieved through improvements to environmental performance and without significant changes to existing socio-economic systems, cultural beliefs or values. Southeast False Creek, rather than being a breakthrough response to global ecological change, was planned as an incremental improvement over existing local models of development. Southeast False Creek makes limited progress toward sustainability when sustainability is defined through scientific metrics such as ecological footprint and greenhouse gas emissions. I find that achievement of the published goals and standards for the project could yield per capita ecological footprint reductions of approximately 5% and per capita greenhouse gas emissions reductions of 8% from the Vancouver average. Scientifically determined requirements are in the range of 75 – 80% respectively (WWF, 2007; Weaver et al., 2007). Although Southeast False Creek does not model ecologically sustainable living, the City’s experience in planning this community may have yielded some bureaucratic, political, industry and public support for efforts toward that goal in future city developments.
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Charland, Marlene. "Tectonics in Blackman Creek area, Selwyn range, B.C." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61999.

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Mosher, Annie. "Detailed lithostratigraphic characterization of Chico Martinez Creek, California." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527400.

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A 6012-foot Monterey Formation succession at Chico Martinez Creek, San Joaquin basin, is characterized at high spatial resolution by spectral gamma-ray data in 2- foot increments, 5-foot lithologic descriptions, and qualitative XRD and FTIR analysis. Based on these data, the 4 Monterey members–the Gould, Devilwater, McDonald and Antelope shales–are subdivided into 7 distinctive lithofacies. New paleomagnetic data, combined with industry-provided biostratigraphy establishes a chronostratigraphic framework and allows determination of linear sediment accumulation rates. Condensed sedimentation at the onset of McDonald deposition (~14 Ma) is also observed in correlative members in the Pismo, Santa Maria and Santa Barbara basins. This regional event is associated with eustatic regression from the Mid-Miocene highstand related to formation of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and ongoing thermotectonic basin subsidence. A surge in linear sediment accumulation rates in the siliceous upper McDonald and Antelope (~10.4 Ma) is attributed to a regional increase in diatom productivity.

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Boomgarden, Shannon Arnold. "Experimental maize farming in Range Creek Canyon, Utah." Thesis, The University of Utah, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10001033.

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Water is arguably the most important resource for successful crop production in the Southwest. In this dissertation, I examine the economic tradeoffs involved in dry farming maize vs. maize farming using simple surface irrigation for the Fremont farmers who occupied Range Creek Canyon, east-central Utah from AD 900 to 1200. To understand the costs and benefits of irrigation in the past, maize farming experiments are conducted. The experiments focus on the differences in edible grain yield as the amount of irrigation water is varied between farm plots. The temperature and precipitation were tracked along with the growth stages of the experimental crop. The weight of experimental harvest increased in each plot as the number of irrigations increased. The benefits of irrigation are clear, higher yields. The modern environmental constraints on farming in the canyon (precipitation, temperature, soils, and amount of arable land) were reconstructed to empirically scale variability in current maize farming productivity along the valley floor based on the results of the experimental crop. The results of farming productivity under modern environmental constraints are compared to the past using a tree-ring sequence to reconstruct water availability during the Fremont occupation of Range Creek Canyon. The reconstruction of past precipitation using tree ring data show that dry farming would have been extremely difficult during the period AD 900-1200 in Range Creek Canyon. Archaeological evidence indicates that the Fremont people were farming during this period suggesting irrigation was used to supplement precipitation shortfalls. Large amounts of contiguous arable land, highly suitable for irrigation farming, are identified along the valley bottom. The distribution of residential sites and associated surface rock alignment features are analyzed to determine whether the Fremont located themselves in close proximity to these areas identified as highly suitable for irrigation farming. Seventy-five percent of the residential sites in Range Creek Canyon are located near the five loci identified as highly suitable for irrigation farming.

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Cook, Benjmain O. "Lower Scotts Creek Floodplain and Habitat Enhancement Project." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2016. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1647.

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Scotts Creek, located in northern Santa Cruz County, maintains the southernmost persistent population of Central California Coast (CCC) Coho Salmon (endangered) in addition to CCC steelhead (threatened). Fisheries biologists believe overwinter mortality due to lack of refuge habitat is the primary factor limiting salmonid production. Instream rearing habitat may also be limiting, especially during drought years. The legacy effects of historic land use practices, including dredging, wood removal, and the construction of levees, continued to limit refuge and rearing opportunities. A restoration project was implemented to improve refuge and rearing opportunities for salmonids along lower Scotts Creek by removing portions of the deteriorating levee, grading new connections with existing off-channel features, enhancing tributary confluences, constructing alcove habitat features at the margins of the stream channel, and constructing large wood complexes (LWCs) instream. Novel restoration techniques were employed on an experimental basis. Whole in-situ alder trees were pushed into the stream channel with their root systems left partially intact to establish living key pieces. Individual log, boulder, and rootwad LWC components were attached together with couplers that permitted some freedom of independent movement among the individual components. LWCs were braced against live, standing trees and stabilized with boulder ballasts placed on the streambed, which eliminated excavation of the streambed/banks and the need to dewater or divert the stream during construction. Project performance, changes to physical habitat characteristics, and changes to stream morphology associated with implementation were monitored using habitat assessment methods derived from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) salmonid habitat survey protocol (Flosi et al. 2010), and topographic survey techniques and data analysis adapted from Columbia Habitat Monitoring Protocol (Bouwes et al. 2011). Preliminary results indicated that LWCs remained stable and functional. In addition, implementation of the restoration project increased pool frequency, low-flow pool volume, instream cover, frequency of instream, alcove, and off-channel refuge habitat features, and frequency of points of connectivity with the floodplain. Long-term monitoring will be required to determine the survivorship, decay rates, and overall persistence of alder recruits.
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Desta, Assefa, and Aregai Tecle. "Restoration Capability of the Former Beaver Creek Watershed." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296610.

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Mead, Rachael Louise. "The Sixth Creek." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/101791.

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The thesis comprises a collection of poetry, The Sixth Creek, and an exegesis The home as habitat: writing and protecting the local. The components of the thesis are intended to explore the concept of ecopoetry and how place-based poetry might function as environmental advocacy. The poetry of The Sixth Creek is entirely located within the catchment area of the Sixth Creek in the Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia. This catchment area constitutes a local bioregion and is used as a framing device; a model inspired by nature writers such as Gilbert White and Edward Abbey, whose work focussed on their local landscape yet achieved intercontinental reach in terms of impact on environmental ethics. The intention is for the poems to fall within contemporary boundaries of ecopoetry with regard to recognition of ecological interconnectivity, emphasis of an ecocentric perspective and underlying advocacy for the natural world. My background as an environmental activist provided the context for the choice of the nature writers whose work shaped the philosophical perspective and advocacy objectives of The Sixth Creek. The exegesis analyses particular pieces by nature writers such as Edward Abbey, Mary Oliver, Judith Wright and Louise Crisp from an ecocritical perspective and illustrates how variously their writing practice, environmental preoccupations in their work, literary technique or advocacy objectives influenced the framework, compositional methodology and poetic style of The Sixth Creek. Edward Abbey’s exploration of the environmentally destructive consequences of anthropocentrism and his desire to erase anthropomorphism from his thinking in Desert Solitaire was instrumental to outlining the ecocentric perspective of The Sixth Creek and refining my thinking on the potential for anthropomorphism as a tool for expanding ethical concern for the non-human world. The poetry of Mary Oliver is examined in terms of its potential function as environmental advocacy. The effectiveness of Oliver’s poetry as a device to draw attention to ecological interconnectivity and her employment of an ecocentric perspective as a means of expanding empathy and ethical concern beyond the human is discussed with particular reference to bearing witness as an effective means of environmental advocacy. Australian poets Judith Wright and Louise Crisp are discussed in terms of activist poetics as both have written extensively about Australian landscapes and the environmental impact of human activity post-colonisation. Once again the common thread of ecocentrism is located and the effectiveness of didactic advocacy is explored with regard to the stated activist intentions in writing The Sixth Creek. The Sixth Creek and exegesis illuminate and contextualise each other; the dual result of an ecocritical examination of how nature writers can affect environmental ethics far beyond the scope of their subject landscapes. The writers examined endeavour to affect readers’ ethics through inspiring reconnection with the nonhuman world and reforging connections with local environments, with the desired result being the development of relationships that foster a sense of care and responsibility for home as habitat and habitat as home.
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2016.
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Quan-YiKuo and 郭權億. "Applicability Study of NETSTARS on Steep Mountainous Creeks–Case Study of Kaoshan Creek." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/38217894678922561249.

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In planning and assessing dam removal options, the ability to predict sediment dynamics following dam removal can inform management decisions. Thus, it is important to consider the strengths and limitations of models that are commonly used for such predictions. The most famous dam removal case in Taiwan was motivated by habitat restoration of the Formosan Landlocked Salmon in the Chichiawen Creek. Four check dams on one of its tributaries, Kaoshan Creek, were removed during 1999-2001. While the knowledge was still limited during the time the dams were removed, only studies on physical experiments were done. In order to understand the channel responses better for future dam removal cases this study used the quasi two-dimensional sediment transport model, NETSTARS, to simulate the riverbed form after dam removal on Kaoshan Creek, and investigated the limitations and applications of such model on steep mountainous creeks. This study focused on the sensitivity analysis of four main control parameters, i.e. sediment transport formula, number of stream tube, erodible thickness and simulation interval, by 15 numerical simulation cases with different values of these parameters. The results showed the Meyer-Peter and Muller formula was the most suitable to on the study area, Kaoshan Creek. Tests on different numbers of stream tubes didn’t vary significantly, while shorter simulation interval generated much more significant bed form changes. When the erodible thickness was adjusted to 0.1, the simulated results matched well with the actual situation. The best average error among the 15 cases was 1.97m, and the average error for verification was 3.95m. By using the four tuned parameters, the study further simulated the bed form condition of the December 2009. The results showed a stable river bed on Kaoshan Creek since April 2004. As the #1 dam on Chichiawan Creek is scheduled to be removed next year, the results found in this study can be a good reference for future application.
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"Salve Creek: a novel." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-09-2247.

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The novel Salve Creek tells the story of Xavier Creed, a young man murdered in a small industry town in contemporary Northern Alberta. When Xavier goes missing the night of a large bush party, no one notices his absence. Having spoken for months about leaving for Edmonton, his friends and even his own mother assume that he took the Greyhound. Told through the close-third person narration of three main characters—Penelope, Dean, and Westley—the novel takes place over the duration of a year. With the discovery of Xavier’s remains, the narrative moves forwards and backwards in time, pushing against perceptions, as well as both the reader and characters’ understanding of events. Salve Creek is a non-linear narrative told primarily in fragments to reflect the shattered status quo of both town and characters. Penelope, who felt a desire bordering on obsession for Xavier, is particularly affected by his death and finds herself unable to sleep. Her dreams bring her closer to Xavier and repeatedly to the neighbours’ empty field. Dean, who met Penelope the night of the bush party, struggles to communicate his attraction to her. As the novel progresses, his frustration takes increasingly violent shapes. Westley, ten years older than both Dean and Penelope, is a stranger to them both and his actions affect them in ways they cannot see or understand. Salve Creek is a rural noir, written in the new gothic style.
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Womack, Craig S. "A Creek national literature." 1995. http://books.google.com/books?id=S6FZAAAAMAAJ.

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Boothroyd, Gregory Stephen. "Still Creek interpretation facility." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5906.

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This thesis explores the notion of site as a generative basis for architecture. Site is conceived not only as a plot of land where a building is located, but also as something that is the result of agency: the architectural intervention. Site is thus constructed with architecture; it is as much a consequence as a thing. Still Creek was chosen as a provocative site in which to explore this idea. Once Vancouver's largest salmon-bearing stream. Still Creek now exists in a barren, degraded state — the result of a century of urbanization. In its fragmented course from its headwaters to Burnaby Lake, Still Creek flows above and below ground through a diversity of site conditions, ranging from a primeval ravine to a polluted industrial area. Recently, sensibilities about the stream have changed. There are presently a variety of groups interested in Still Creek, not only as a public amenity, but also as an urban ecosystem. In response, it was proposed that (1) an urban trail be located along the discontinuous course of the stream, and (2) a facility be located along the stream that addresses some of the needs of these interested groups. The Still Creek Interpretive Facility marks both the beginning of the stream and the start of the urban trail. Located at the edge of the Renfrew Ravine where the stream first emerges from a subterranean culvert, the building makes apparent the many forces present on the site. An initial gesture of excavation reveals the culvert and demarcates a constructed and a natural edge. The constructed edge of the excavation is heightened with a veil of translucent solar panels that diffuse sunlight and help power the building. A wood screen along the natural edge of the excavation acts as a foil to the alder forest, allowing the building to maintain a quiet presence in the ravine as well as creating shimmering views of colour and light. The stream fills the lowest part of the excavation, mitigating high runoff flows and making a reflective pool for light, precipitation, and sound. The excavation and screen walls form a vessel into which mute volumes are inserted, creating a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces, some relating more to site, others relating more to programme. Exterior building circulation winds through the whole assembly — an extension of the urban trail — forming a rich experiential descent from street...through building...to stream beyond...
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