C 14 dating ; Climatic variation ; Lateglacial ; Oregon ; Palaeo-environment ; Palynology ; Pollen diagram ; Quaternary ; United States of America
The AA. describe 2 detailed pollen records of the late-glacial period from western Oregon. They provide information on late-glacial variations in vegetation and climate and on the extent and character of Younger Dryas cooling in the Pacific
Northwest. They compare them with published data from the the Pacific Northwest and northeast Pacific. A synchronous response at both sites would suggest a regional climatic change. Asynchrony would reflect variations in local climate conditions
New Zealand in the 1980s. Market forces in the welfare state
The decade 1980s has seen the rise in New Zealand's involvement in environmental issues that affect the Pacific. New Zealand is a member of the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme which was established in 1982. While beginning
Thinking through scale : the role of state governance in globalizing North Pacific fisheries
Coastal waters ; Fishing ; Globalization ; International cooperation ; North Pacific Ocean ; Regional development ; Scale ; Space ; State control ; United States of America
Sea surface temperature changes in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean during the past 20,000 years and their relationship to climate change in Northwestern North America
Atmospheric circulation ; C 14 dating ; Chronostratigraphy ; Climatic variation ; Marine sediment ; North America ; North Pacific Ocean ; Ocean atmosphere interaction ; Oxygen 18 ; Pacific Region ; Palaeoclimatology ; Palynology ; Quaternary
This study presents radiolarian microfossil-based temperature reconstructions for the eastern North Pacific spanning the past 20,000 yr to examine possible correlations and linkages between continental climate change and changes in sea surface
temperature (SST) in the northeastern Pacific Ocean on millennial time scales. The AA. conclude that changes in the past latitudinal position of the North Pacific Drift played a significant role in controlling continental climate immediately to its east
[b1] College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, Etats-Unis
Historical changes in U.S. and Japanese foreign aid to the Asia-Pacific region
Asia ; Economic aid ; Foreign policy ; International relations ; Japan ; Pacific Region ; Public assistance ; Security ; Sustainable development ; United States of America
Using the Asia-Pacific region to assess changes in U.S. and Japanese aid policies, the analysis compares the rhetoric and discourses evident in policy documents with actual aid disbursements to the region before and after the Cold War. US refocused
Uranium-series ages of marine terrace corals from the Pacific coast of North America and implications for Last-Interglacial sea level history
Baja California ; California ; Coral reef ; Geochemistry ; Isotope analysis ; Marine quaternary ; Marine terrace ; Mexico ; North Pacific Ocean ; Oregon ; Sea level ; United States of America ; Uranium
Corals from marine terrace deposits of the Pacific coast of North America show some open-system effects with respect to U isotopes. Secondary addition of 234U is observed and implies that some apparent ages are probably minima. Some variability
Characterizing the north pacific jet stream for understanding historical variability in western United States winter precipitation
Atmospheric circulation ; Climate oscillation ; Climatic variability ; ENSO ; Ocean atmosphere interaction ; Precipitation ; Teleconnection ; United States of America ; Weather type ; Western United States ; Winter
The AA. examined historical winter-season relationships among precipitation across the western United States, the northern Pacific jet stream (NPJ) across the northern Pacific Ocean basin, and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon
States than the ENSO signal. For areas where the ENSO signal is significantly related to precipitation, there generally exists a stronger or more consistent NPJ-precipitation relationship. The results indicate that there is value in considering seasonal
The predictions from four hypotheses of the origin of Mima type earth mounds were tested by sampling the small rock composition and analyzing moundfield geometry at four locations in the PacificStates. The results are consistent with the fossorial
Bois ; Commerce international ; Embargo ; Etats-Unis ; Exportation ; Géographie humaine ; Industrie de transformation ; Industrie du bois ; Matières premières ; Modèle d'équilibre ; Modèle néoclassique ; PacificStates ; Politique commerciale
secteur sur les prix et les revenus d'un embargo sur les exportations du bois en grume des PacificStates aux USA.
Administration ; Colonialism ; Island ; Land ; Legislation ; Nation-state ; Pacific Region ; Western Samoa
The application of European conceptions of the sovereign state modified the politics of land in ways that changed the expression of social relations on the land. This aspect of human territoriality (control over natural resource access and use
) is commonly overlooked in analyses of state formation. Indirect rule also created the state's dependence on the character of custom and reinforced a basic tension undermining state authority : by protecting the local control of land, it limited state
A review of amino acid racemization studies in Quaternary mollusks: stratigraphic and chronologic applications in coastal and interglacial sites, Pacific and Atlantic coasts, United States, United Kingdom, Baffin Island, and Tropical islands
Amino acid racemization (AAR) studies of Quaternary mollusks (mostly marine mollusks from coastal deposits) are reviewed. Data obtained in regional studies from the US Atlantic and Pacific coasts, Baffin Island, the United Kingdom, and tropical