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Reflections On Setting Up The Cyber Range Intrusion Detection System, William Pearson
Reflections On Setting Up The Cyber Range Intrusion Detection System, William Pearson
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
A short reflection on the project to set up an Intrusion Detection System for the Cyber Range at Western Washington University Poulsbo.
A Neural Network Approach To Identifying Ysos And Exploring Solar Neighborhood Star-Forming History, Aidan Mcbride, Ryan Lingg, Marina Kounkel, Kevin Covey, Brian Hutchinson
A Neural Network Approach To Identifying Ysos And Exploring Solar Neighborhood Star-Forming History, Aidan Mcbride, Ryan Lingg, Marina Kounkel, Kevin Covey, Brian Hutchinson
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Stellar ages can act as a marker of birth cluster membership for young stellar objects (YSOs), which allows for an improved understanding of the history of star formation in the solar neighborhood. However, the ages of YSOs have historically been difficult to predict on a large scale. Here, we develop a system of convolution neural network models to differentiate between YSOs and their more-evolved counterparts and predict YSO ages using Gaia and 2MASS photometry. The full model and resulting catalog recovers the properties of well-studied young stellar populations to a distance of five kiloparsecs, with significantly higher sensitivity within one …
Mentoring Through Moss: Measuring Air Pollution With High School Youth In The Duwamish Valley, Nichole Vargas
Mentoring Through Moss: Measuring Air Pollution With High School Youth In The Duwamish Valley, Nichole Vargas
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This report is a reflection on my participation in the Duwamish Valley Moss and Air Quality Study. In this internship experience, I am mentoring South Seattle high schoolers participating in the Duwamish Valley Youth Corps to collect, prepare, and analyze moss samples from trees in the Duwamish Valley. This project is in collaboration with Seattle community organizations such as the Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, Dirt Corps, El Centro de La Raza, the South Park Area Redevelopment Committee; and Just Health Action. This is the second year that this study has been done. Last year, the study found hotspots of heavy …
Indium Oxide-Based Catalysts For Solar Fuel Generation, Ryan Hagmann
Indium Oxide-Based Catalysts For Solar Fuel Generation, Ryan Hagmann
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
The need to pursue renewable, carbon neutral forms of energy has led to a far reaching-research effort to generate and store solar energy. It has been shown that indium oxide-based catalysts have the potential to reduce carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide or even continue reduction to methanol. Recent advances and current challenges in further developing indium oxide catalysis as a means of producing a sustainable liquid fuel supply will be addressed. This project will give an overview of the research in indium oxide catalysts for solar fuels generation and the immediate relevance of recent work within the Bussell Research Group …
Wandering Whatcom Falls, Hailey Schmidt
Wandering Whatcom Falls, Hailey Schmidt
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Wandering Whatcom Falls is an interactive walking loop focused on connection and ecosystems. It takes place at Whatcom Falls and runs as a scavenger hunt with 7 different activities throughout the loop.
Lake Chelan Algae, Robin A. Matthews, Angela Strecker
Lake Chelan Algae, Robin A. Matthews, Angela Strecker
Lake Chelan
Lake Chelan is the longest (81 km) and deepest (>400 m) natural lake in Washington, formed by glacial retreat at the end of the last Ice Age. Based on water quality data collected in the 1980s, it is considered an oligotrophic lake (Rector and Hallock 1990) and has some of the clearest waters in the state. The Stehekin River is the primary tributary to the lake. Lake Chelan is used extensively for recreation and fisheries (Schoen and Beauchamp 2010). Lake Chelan’s water level is maintained by a dam operated by Chelan County PUD. Water withdrawals include municipal, drinking water, …
Lake Whatcom Monitoring Project 2019/2020 Report, Angela Strecker, Michael Hilles, Joan Pickens, Robert Mitchell, Robin Matthews, Geoffrey Matthews
Lake Whatcom Monitoring Project 2019/2020 Report, Angela Strecker, Michael Hilles, Joan Pickens, Robert Mitchell, Robin Matthews, Geoffrey Matthews
Lake Whatcom Annual Reports
This report describes the results from the 2019/2020 Lake Whatcom monitoring program conducted by the Institute for Watershed Studies at Western Washington University (www.wwu.edu/iws).
The major objectives in 2019/2020 were to continue long-term baseline water quality monitoring in Lake Whatcom and its major tributaries; collect storm runoff water quality data from representative streams in the watershed; and continue collection of hydrologic data from Austin and Smith Creeks.
Fatty Acid Stable Isotopes Add Clarity, But Also Complexity, To Tracing Energy Pathways In Aquatic Food Webs, Ariana M. Chiapella, Martin J. Kainz, Angela Strecker
Fatty Acid Stable Isotopes Add Clarity, But Also Complexity, To Tracing Energy Pathways In Aquatic Food Webs, Ariana M. Chiapella, Martin J. Kainz, Angela Strecker
Environmental Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications
Tracing the flow of dietary energy sources, especially in systems with a high degree of omnivory, is an ongoing challenge in ecology. In aquatic systems, one of the persistent challenges is in differentiating between autochthonous and allochthonous energy sources to top consumers. Bulk carbon stable isotope values of aquatic and terrestrial prey often overlap, making it difficult to delineate dietary energy pathways in food webs with high allochthonous prey subsidies, such as in many northern temperate waterbodies. We conducted a feeding experiment to explore how fatty acid stable isotopes may overcome the challenge of partitioning autochthonous and allochthonous energy pathways …
Salish Sea Circulation Diagram, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Circulation Diagram, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Maps
. Direction and relative magnitude (line width) of net water flow in the Salish Sea. Deep water flows represent primarily marine waters entering the Salish Sea from the Pacific Ocean. Intermediate depth and surface flows represent a mix of marine waters and freshwater from rivers in the Salish Sea. Actual circulation patterns are highly complex and seasonally variable, this diagram shows a simplified model of net exchanges. Labels indicate percent of the total water exchange that moves in and out of the Salish Sea through the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the south and through the northern boundary of …
Salish Sea Stream Discharge Diagram, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Stream Discharge Diagram, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Maps
Major rivers of the Salish Sea and average stream discharge (cubic meters per second). Data are based on annual averages from 1981 to 2010.
Figure 2.3 in the
Salish Sea Bioregion Reference Map, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Bioregion Reference Map, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Maps
Map of the Salish Sea, major waterways, and surrounding watersheds, which when combined form a distinct transboundary bioregion.
Figure 1.1 in the
Salish Sea Population Density, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Population Density, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Maps
Human population density in the Salish Sea. People per square kilometer mapped for each census block. Data from 2010 in the US and 2011 in Canada.
Figure 3.1 in the
Salish Sea Jurisdictions, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Jurisdictions, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Maps
US Counties, Canadian Regional Districts, and major cities in the Salish Sea Bioregion.
Figure 1.3 in the
Marine Basins, Aquila Flower
Marine Basins, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Maps
Subbasins and bathymetry of the Salish Sea. Basins are delineated based on water depth and circulation. Shallower areas associated with underwater sills separate many of the basins, creating distinct oceanography.
Figure 2.5 in the
Salish Sea Land Cover, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Land Cover, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Maps
Land cover in the Salish Sea bioregion. Land cover categories modeled using 30x30 meter resolution gridded satellite data from 2015.
Figure 3.2 in the
Salish Sea And Western North America Watersheds Contextual Landscape, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea And Western North America Watersheds Contextual Landscape, Aquila Flower
Salish Sea Maps
No abstract provided.
Populations Of Major Phases In Glacier Peak Lavas, Charlotte Wall
Populations Of Major Phases In Glacier Peak Lavas, Charlotte Wall
Geology Graduate and Undergraduate Student Scholarship
Volcanoes can be studied through minerals that are present in their eruption products. These minerals can be studied through optical microscopy and geochemistry to better understand their origins and provide insight into which processes took place prior to eruption (i.e., fractionation of crystals, assimilation of the surrounding crust, magma mixing). In this study I examine mineral populations in dacite (lava of intermediate composition) from Dahkobed/Glacier Peak volcano in the north Cascade Arc. The samples consist of a felsic (high SiO2) host component and a mafic (low SiO2) inclusion component. To establish base mineral populations, minerals from both the host and …
City Of Austin Nature And Science Internship, Finnick Hampton
City Of Austin Nature And Science Internship, Finnick Hampton
College of the Environment Internship Reports
Nestled between the western edge of Zilker Park and the beginning of Zilker Nature Preserve, sits the Austin Nature & Science Center (ANSC) where I worked as a Wildlife Keeper from the months of June to September 2021. Since the 1960s, the Nature Center has provided nature education through hands-on activities, exhibits and programs. Their goal has been to foster curiosity and appreciation for the natural world, especially the native flora and fauna that live in our very own backyards. The site accomplishes this by focusing on engagement. Guests are encouraged to touch, examine, and interact with various natural objects, …
The Graph Menagerie: An Exploration Of The Intersection Of Math, Biology, And Art, Maggie Barry
The Graph Menagerie: An Exploration Of The Intersection Of Math, Biology, And Art, Maggie Barry
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This project explores interdisciplinarity with a focus on how math and biology can interact with art. My main objective was to create art by graphing the silhouettes of animals. I selected ten animals from a variety of classes and habitats and used a collection of equation types such as linear, quadratic, trigonometric, and circular to draw an outline of each animal. I performed stretches, compressions, and shifts to control the size and position of each equation and set domains and ranges to determine how much of each line was visible on the graph. In the first section of this paper, …
Running Whidbey: The Physiological And Psychological Impacts Of A 60 Mile Ultramarathon, Bree Daigneault
Running Whidbey: The Physiological And Psychological Impacts Of A 60 Mile Ultramarathon, Bree Daigneault
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
No abstract provided.
Provenance Of Early Paleogene Strata In The Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, U.S.A.): Implications For Laramide Tectonism And Basin-Scale Stratigraphic Patterns, Jessica L. Welch
Provenance Of Early Paleogene Strata In The Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, U.S.A.): Implications For Laramide Tectonism And Basin-Scale Stratigraphic Patterns, Jessica L. Welch
WWU Graduate School Collection
The Bighorn Basin (Wyoming, U.S.A.) contains some of the best exposed and studied nonmarine early Paleogene strata. Over a century of research has produced a highly resolved record of early Paleogene terrestrial climatic and biotic change as well as extensive documentation of spatiotemporal variability in basin-scale stratigraphy. The basin also offers the opportunity to integrate these data with the uplift and erosional history of the Laramide uplifts that surround the Bighorn Basin. Herein we provide a comprehensive provenance analysis of the early Paleogene Fort Union and Willwood formations in the Bighorn Basin from paleocurrent measurements (n = 510 measurements), detrital …
Effects Of Environmental Weathering On The Acute Toxicity Of Tire Wear Particle Eluate To The Mysid Shrimp, Americamysis Bahia, P. Matt Roberts
Effects Of Environmental Weathering On The Acute Toxicity Of Tire Wear Particle Eluate To The Mysid Shrimp, Americamysis Bahia, P. Matt Roberts
WWU Graduate School Collection
For this study seven tire groups (six used-tire groups and one new-tire group) of the same brand and model tire spanning manufacture year 2013 to 2018 were used. Tire particles were artificially created and baseline toxicity was measured using the eluate from unweathered tire particle groups through 96-hour acute toxicity tests using Americamysis bahia. These results were then compared to toxicity results from a subset of the same tire groups that were deployed in a marine environment for weathering. Toxicity of unweathered tire particle groups had an LC50 range of 1.97 to 3.51 g/L and the toxicity of weathered …
The Origin, Development, Application, Lessons Learned, And Future Regarding The Bayesian Network Relative Risk Model For Ecological Risk Assessment, Wayne Landis
Institute of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry Publications
In 2012, a regional risk assessment was published that applied Bayesian networks (BN) to the structure of the relative risk model. The original structure of the relative risk model (RRM) was published in the late 1990s and developed during the next decade. The RRM coupled with a Monte Carlo analysis was applied to calculating risk to a number of sites and a variety of questions. The sites included watersheds, terrestrial systems, and marine environments and included stressors such as nonindigenous species, effluents, pesticides, nutrients, and management options. However, it became apparent that there were limits to the original approach. In …
Lidar-Based Riparian Forest Assessment Of The Nooksack River, Washington, Julia Tatum
Lidar-Based Riparian Forest Assessment Of The Nooksack River, Washington, Julia Tatum
WWU Graduate School Collection
This paper addresses two applications of lidar remote sensing: an area-based watershed-scale analysis of forest structure used to prioritize riparian restoration projects for salmon, and an individual-tree-based analysis for tree species classification. Salmon conservation is extremely important in the Pacific Northwest, but restoration efforts have been hampered by insufficient data on riparian stand conditions. I used lidar to map riparian stand structure and composition along the Nooksack River, Washington, and developed a restoration priority model based on six factors: riparian stand conditions, shade potential, cause of riparian impairment, susceptibility to climate change, position in the watershed, and proximity to intact …
Organic Crystal Nucleation In Ultrathin Liquid Films: Applications Of Computational And Experimental Methods For The Exploration Of Dynamic Spatial Relationships And Controlled Growth, Haley Doran
WWU Graduate School Collection
The advancement of semiconducting materials is paramount to the future of electronics. Organic semiconducting materials are of particular interest due to their significantly lower processing cost compared to traditional inorganic semiconducting materials, such as silicon. However, the present toolkit for solution-based controlled growth of polycrystalline thin films is lacking. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to build such a toolkit, wherein tunable parameter relationships of organic thin-film growth are evaluated and compared both experimentally and computationally. A multi-scale model has been developed, which combines mean field rate equations with a self-consistent treatment of the critical stable monomer cluster size, …
Martian Spectroscopy: Laboratory Calibration Of The Perseverance Rover’S Mastcam-Z And Photometric Investigation Of Mars-Analog Ferric-Coated Sand, Kristiana Lapo
WWU Graduate School Collection
The Mars 2020 rover Perseverance will search for signs of past habitability and biosignatures after landing in Jezero Crater in February 2021. Spectroscopy is a vital tool for planetary remote sensing and Perseverance is equipped with Mastcam-Z, a stereoscopic, zoom-enabled, multispectral imager that can acquire true color images with red, green, and blue (RGB) color filters, and visible- to near-infrared images with 12 narrowband science filters between 400 and 1100 nm. Mastcam-Z will provide operational support for the rover as well as directly contribute to Perseverance’s geologic investigations. Given the integral role of Mastcam-Z in the Mars 2020 mission, calibration …
Synthesis And Reactions Of Medium-Ring Silyl Ethers, Inna A. Fomina
Synthesis And Reactions Of Medium-Ring Silyl Ethers, Inna A. Fomina
WWU Graduate School Collection
Olefin metathesis is a reaction that creates new carbon-carbon double bonds by rearranging two alkenes. The reaction has undergone significant development since its discovery in the 1950s, from first reports to new catalysts and industrial uses, culminating in the 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Grubbs ruthenium-based catalysts are widely used for such reactions, including ring closing metathesis (RCM) that involves the rearrangement of two alkenes on a single molecule to form a ring. During the course of investigating RCM reactions to produce eight-membered ring silyl ethers, we observed double bond isomerization when using the second-generation Grubbs catalyst and the Hoveyda-Grubbs …
Exploring Biochemical Mechanisms With Hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics And Enhanced Sampling Methods, Edwin Enciso
Exploring Biochemical Mechanisms With Hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics And Enhanced Sampling Methods, Edwin Enciso
WWU Graduate School Collection
In the field of molecular dynamics (MD), a long-standing issue is the time frame required in order to fully observe a chemical reaction. Enhanced sampling methods have been the primary way of overcoming this issue for the past 40 years. In this experiment our goal was to combine new and existing sampling methods in order to create an efficient and accurate way of retrieving kinetics data from simulations. In order to do this, we examined two test cases: the enzymes chorismate mutase and cytosine deaminase. We did this using hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics simulations coupled with enhanced sampling methods. The …
The Effect Of Large Woody Debris, Direct Seeding, And Distance From The Forest Edge On Species Composition On Novel Terraces Following Dam Removal On The Elwha River, Wa., Sara J. Cendejas-Zarelli
The Effect Of Large Woody Debris, Direct Seeding, And Distance From The Forest Edge On Species Composition On Novel Terraces Following Dam Removal On The Elwha River, Wa., Sara J. Cendejas-Zarelli
WWU Graduate School Collection
The removal of two dams on the Elwha River, Washington, exposed over 300 hectares of reservoir sediments and created primary successional habitats that posed challenges to revegetation efforts. In order to meet Elwha restoration goals, coarse sediment deposits would require revegetation methods aimed at quickly restoring native vegetation while deterring exotic species invasions. I examined the effect of two restoration treatments—large woody debris translocations and native seed enhancements—on plant species composition on novel terraces in the former Lake Mills reservoir four years after dam removal. I sampled vegetation in seeded and unseeded treatment areas with and without large woody debris. …
Extension Of Restricted Open-Shell Kohn-Sham Methodology To A Density-Functional Tight-Binding Framework, Reuben Szabo
Extension Of Restricted Open-Shell Kohn-Sham Methodology To A Density-Functional Tight-Binding Framework, Reuben Szabo
WWU Graduate School Collection
The restricted open-shell Kohn-Sham (ROKS) approach for singlet excited states provides some advantages over the ∆-self-consistent-field (∆SCF) method, requiring only a single SCF procedure and avoiding the problem of variational collapse. While ROKS is a powerful tool for DFT, its application to density functional tight-binding (DFTB) could offer significant improvements in time complexity when compared to DFT, enabling excited-state simulations of extended molecular systems on longer timescales than ROKS. In this work we discuss the implementation of an RO-DFTB approach in the DFTB+ package, as well as its suitability for the study of organic dyes and photoactive compounds. For benchmarking, …