Dr. Alexis F. Lange is living forever in this chosen field, not in a mosaic of marble, but in the lives and actions of men and women today, who came in personal contact with his warm congenial personality and the inspiration of his spirit and ideals. It was largely through his efforts in establishing the junior high schools and the junior colleges, that the school children of today are able to live in situations better adapted to their educational needs.

Desolation is Key: Essays is a collection of eight personal essays that revolve around the themes of the redemptive qualities of desolation in nature; the legacy of violence in the family and in the relationship between man and his environment; and the struggle of the speaker to reconcile her adult self to the burdens of inheritance and loss from her childhood. The content is a blending of exterior observation and interior meditation; it straddles the line between narrative journalism and memoir, which allows the narrator both to treat the exterior as an entry point for personal reflection, and to use the personal as a frame to connect with more universal human experience. In addition to thematic connections, the essays share a setting: Southern California, and in particular, the Colorado Desert region in the southeastern corner of the state. Circling back to this desert setting again and again works as a frame for the speaker to contemplate the death of her parents, and her relationship with her father, who died by suicide more than two decades ago. As the essays build upon each other, family lore and personal recollection aggregates and culminates in what eventually becomes a full picture of the situation surrounding the father's death, and the reasons behind its haunting legacy for the speaker.

In August 1959 Pacific Marine Station (P.M.S.) located at Dillon Beach, began a program of oceanographic study as a member of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (C.C.O.F.I.). The program continued throughout the summer of 1963 and consisted of a monthly hydrographic station and sampling the plankton at the head of Bodega Submarine Canyon, located twenty-five miles west of Bodega Bay. Two plankton tows were taken on each ocean run. One of the samples, along with collection and hydrographic data, was sent to Scripps Institute of Oceanography. The other sample was retained at P.M.S. and constitutes the material for the present study. Pelagic gastropods were present in every tow in varying numbers and species. Two groups, pteropods and heteropods, were found in the samples. One species of pteropod, Limacina helicina, was the dominant member in all of the tows and occurred during the entire year. Little work has been done on the pelagic gastropods of the North Pacific. The information available has been mainly compiled by Tesch in the Dana Reports and McGowan (1960). Taxonomically the group has been extensively studied, but little is known about the life cycles, size ranges, growth rates, physiology, behavior, distribution and abundance. No previous study on the pelagic gastropods collected by P.M.S. has been made. This paper is a discussion of the pelagic gastropods collected over a period of four years. It is the purpose of this study to identify, examine, and present information of the local specimens collected by Pacific Marine Station.

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A multi-regression analysis was performed utilizing the variables, age, ethnicity, criminal background, and facets of treatment, but differentiated between the rapist and pedophile, examining the variance of recidivism.

Evaporation ponds that dispose of agricultural drainwater provide attractive habitat for waterbirds but may result in contaminant exposure that impairs reproduction. I estimated post-hatching survival and evaluated productivity estimates for American avocets (Recurvirostra americana) nesting at evaporation ponds in the Tulare Basin, California from 1991 to 1993. Avocets and Black-necked stilts (Himantopus mexicanus) comprised the majority of 5,969 nests found. Nest success and embryo mortality varied among ponds and between species. Embryo deformity and mortality rates associated with selenium were higher in stilts. The majority of reproductive losses were attributed to predation, especially at ponds without islands. Post-hatch survival of radiomarked avocets after 5 weeks ranged from 0.375-0.729 and differed among ponds (log-rank X²=7.12, 2 df, P=0.028). Predation accounted for 55.4% (36/65) of known mortalities. Depredated chicks ranged from 1-30 days of age with a median age of 6 days. Arsenic concentrations in avocet livers were below detection limits while boron concentrations were below detection limits at Westlake-South (WLS) and Tulare Lake Drainage District-South (TLDD-S) in 1993. Mean boron concentration in livers was 3.7 ppm at TLDD-S in 1992 and 22.9 ppm at Lost Hills Water District (LHWD). Liver selenium concentrations increased with age and differed among ponds (P=0.0001). Mercury concentrations differed among ponds (P=0.0001), but were similar to background. Growth, survival and selenium exposure were consistent to support post-hatching effects of selenium. Mortality in avocet chicks was highest at LHWD, intermediate at TLDD-S and lowest at WLS, consistent with selenium exposures. I observed lower survival, histologic lesions, lower hatchling weights, slower growth, and elevated selenium and boron in tissue at LHWD. I used capture-recapture analysis also to estimate post-hatching survival and calculated avocet productivity. Survival estimates for the first 4 weeks post-hatching, based on model averaging, ranged from 0.572 to 0.751. Productivity at some ponds was insufficient to offset adult mortality. Estimates of average annual productivity were 0.49 and 0.45 in 1992 and 1993, respectively. Juvenile survival rates necessary for recruitment to offset 10% and 20% adult mortality ranged from 0.204 to 0.408 and 0.222 to 0.444, respectively. / Graduation date: 2004

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Work presented in this dissertation was performed in the salt-desert environment of the Owens Valley of California. The area experiences low-rainfall, hot summers, but has a high water table, seldom more than 5 meters from the surface. To test differences in plant species wateruse, a steady-state porometer was used for transpiration measurements while a 2-meter point-frame was used to estimate leaf area index on each species studied. The five species studied (Atriplex torreyi, Chrysothamnus nauseosus, Distichlis stricta, Sporobolus airoides, and Sarcobatus vermiculatus) varied with regard to photosynthetic pathways and leaf morphology. Water-use differences among species are hypothesized to be related to the differing physiological and morphological characteristics observed in the different species studied. This work focuses upon methods for integrating porometric transpiration rates and point-frame measured leaf area to estimate daily plant water-use. Daily water-use values are correlated with environmental growth conditions. A computer program was developed for scenario testing so that conclusions could be drawn concerning how given plants respond to different conditions of soil moisture and atmospheric evaporative demand. The computer-aided calculations led to conclusions that low water-use behavior characterizes A. torreyi, and high water-use behavior characterizes C. nauseosus. C4 photosynthesis and low leaf conductance may contribute to the success of A. torreyi on fine-textured soils when water transfer rates to roots are limiting to transpiration. Fine-textured soils may inhibit production in C. nauseosus because the species requires higher rates of transpiration to achieve optimal growth than soil hydraulic conductivity allows. These conclusions have implications for land managers who should recognize that climax plant communities in saltdesert regions are better at conserving water and stabilizing soil than is colonizing vegetation. Management should seek to maintain climax vegetation cover because restoration is difficult once vegetation disturbance occurs.

The purpose of this study is to determine the role of a military style counseling and vocational program in reducing recidivism.