Naval Postgraduate School
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CAN AMERICA’S SHIPBUILDERS MEET THE U.S. NAVY’S LONG-RANGE VESSEL CONSTRUCTION PLAN?
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2020)
This thesis examined the current capacity of the defense shipbuilding industry in the United States and the need to expand the nation’s shipbuilding capabilities to fulfill the Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan. The authors ...
Compilation of Abstracts, June 2020
(Monterey, California; Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-06)
Cultivating Curriculum: How Investing in School Grounds, the Streetscape and Vacant Land as Urban Ecosystems can Address Food Security, the Community and Institutions of Public Education
(Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-07-31)
The 2014 Agricultural Act (Economic Research Division) (aka: The Farm Bill) was an important limelight shone on the issue of access to healthy foods, food education and the correlation between an increasingly unhealthy ...
City of Los Angeles Wildfire Mitigation Assessment
(Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-05)
California, along with much of the nation’s west, is experiencing a vast increase in the number and overall severity of wildfires. According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) there has ...
Efficacy of Military and Community Compatibility Planning in the Puget Sound Region
(Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-03)
Washington State’s Puget Sound region is home to three major military installations that work in partnership with neighboring communities to develop land use plans, policies, and regulations supportive of the U.S. Department ...
Stochastic Acoustic Ray Tracing Eighth Dynamically Orthogonal Equations
(Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-05)
Developing accurate and computationally efficient models for ocean acoustics is inherently challenging due to several factors including the complex physical processes and the need to provide results on a large range of ...
Longitudinal Trends of Bird Community Richness and Abundance over Fifteen Years in the Northern Reaches of the Sonoran Desert
(Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-08)
Although many studies have identified environmental factors as primary drivers of bird richness and abundance, there is still uncertainty about the extent to which climate, topography and vegetation influence richness and ...
In Defense of a "Third Place": How Reassembling the Boundaries of an Urban Military Installation can Maintain Security while Uniting the Community
(Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-07-31)
Throughout the history of human civilization, no man made structure has been used to defend territory more than the Wall. Walls have been used to delineate the edges of empires, separate communities, limit migration and ...
Unconventional Oil and Its Impact on the World Oil Market
(Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2020-05-05)
In this paper, I intend to discuss unconventional oil’s impact and overall contribution on the world oil market. By definition, unconventional oil is that oil which is extracted or produced by means not normally considered ...
An Analysis of Hydroacoustic Transmission Loss Associated with Marine Pile Driving
(Monterey California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2019-12)
There has been a growing concern in recent years about the effects of anthropogenic noise due to marine pile driving on underwater wildlife. Current guidelines for mitigating hydroacoustic effects associated with these ...