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- Creator:
- Powers, Monick Ya
- Description:
- GMA 400L - Senior Seminar Research Lab and Sea Level Refugees: Suitable Recognition and UNCLOS, is a thesis that seeks to expand multiple definitions, such as statelessness and the term refugee, delineated explicitly by by the United Nations. Furthermore, this thesis analyzes the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and its relevance in the contemporary world; it strongly advocates for the international community to acknowledge and recognize nations at risk of disappearing due to sea level rise, known in this work as "sea level refugees"
- Resource Type:
- Poster
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs
- Creator:
- Alfaro, Joshua
- Description:
- GMA 460L - Senior Seminar Research Lab and Despite the history of a strong and prosperous U.S. maritime industry, today’s U.S. merchant fleet is characterized by inadequacy. Through dwindling numbers as a result of mismanaged legislation as well as shifting global politics, U.S. maritime policy has failed to maintain adequate means of supporting a national fleet. Even with the obvious benefits to the national economy, international political power, and national security, the U.S. government is seemingly unable to overcome internal politics in order to provide the nation with a strong merchant marine. Ultimately, when the question about what became of the U.S. merchant marine is posed, the answer is that it was essentially turned over to rest of world. Without any meaningful change, the U.S. fleet will at best retain its current 2nd rate position in the international maritime community, while at worst it will be left to continue to slowly become irrelevantrate to the same international community that it once led.
- Resource Type:
- Poster
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs
- Creator:
- Schmidt, Harry
- Description:
- GMA 460L - Senior Seminar Research Lab and The IMO will be introducing new regulations in 2020 that will require ships to reduce emissions of certain greenhouse gases and combat climate change. A promising yet radical alternative to fossil fuels and other renewable energy is the use of nuclear-powered reactors in container ships and bulk carriers. Used by the U.S. Navy and other nuclear powered countries around the world, nuclear energy is an emission free energy source which provides sufficient power for shipping needs and is economically competitive with conventional shipping methods. The U.S. has the capital, technology, and other resources needed to develop a nuclear powered merchant shipping fleet. Though federal and international constraints will need to be resolved to achieve this bold idea, it is time for the U.S. to take the lead as a maritime nation for international shipping standards.
- Resource Type:
- Poster
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs
- Creator:
- Phillips, Jeremy D.
- Description:
- GMA 400L - Senior Seminar Research Lab and This thesis does an initial survey of Vietnam’s climate change related threats, Vietnam’s response to those threats, and how these threats might impact Vietnam in the future.
- Resource Type:
- Poster
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs
- Creator:
- Mullaney, C. Paige
- Description:
- GMA 400L - Senior Seminar Research Lab and The United States merchant fleet has responded to multiple natural disasters in the past twenty years. They have used their wide scope and available fleet along with strategic positioning for timely response and assistance. Departments such as Military Sealift Command (MSC), the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Maritime Administration (MARAD) have all played vital roles in the first days after domestic and international disasters. With the magnitude of meteorological events expected to increase in coming years, the resources of existing response programs will be strained. A more cohesive relationship between the current government lead as well as non-governmental organizations and the merchant fleet should be considered. The merchant fleet can provide unique resources that have proven valuable in the cases of past disasters. Looking beyond military lead organizations and into the commercial deep water and brown water merchant fleets may prove pivotal in future disaster scenarios.
- Resource Type:
- Poster
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs
- Creator:
- Garrard, Eric V. Jr
- Description:
- GMA 460L - Senior Seminar Research Lab and U.N. peacekeeping has a lot of failures such as Rwanda, Kosovo, and others. These failures can lead to in the loss of countless lives. They are also under trained as a fighting force, drawing from countries who have very low Per Capita GDPs.
- Resource Type:
- Poster
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs
- Creator:
- Flalkoff, Linda
- Description:
- GMA 400L - Senior Seminar Research Lab and Within this century, 2,400 miles of major roadway are projected to be inundated by sea level rise in the Gulf Coast Region. Roadways are at risk in the event of a sea level rise of about 4 ft, which is within range of projections for this region in this century. In total, 24% of interstate highway miles and 28% of secondary road miles in the Gulf Coast region are at elevations below 4 ft. A program to develop Gulf Coast port facilities will less the economic impact of this sea level rise
- Resource Type:
- Poster
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs
- Creator:
- Meyes, Jacob
- Description:
- GMA 460L - Senior Seminar Research Lab and The current drug laws in America are outdated. There are some illicit substances that have great medical potential. Some of these drugs that have medical potential could help to assist the current opioid crisis in America. Other European nations have already implemented more modern Laws to help treat drug addicts and reduce overall substance use. Policymakers in the U.S. must observe other nation’s laws and examine which laws worked and those that did not. Illicit drugs will always make their way into America so laws must be put in place that would help to decriminalize some medical beneficial drugs which in turn will help to fight the opioid crisis. And reduce overall substance use and abuse.
- Resource Type:
- Poster
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs
- Creator:
- Pinzon, Tristan
- Description:
- GMA 400L - Senior Seminar Research Lab and Ever since they were a British colony, the shipbuilding industry has been a part of the American manufacturing. However, today, the American shipbuilding industry has been slowly crumbling for a long time and no one has done a thing to stop it. There are several factors that have contributed to the are several factors that have contributed to the are several factors that have contributed to the collapsing shipbuilding industry. Foreign competition has made it difficult for the American shipbuilding to be internationally competitive because they have far surpassed the US. However, subsidies, or lack there of, is the largest contributing factor as to why US shipbuilding has gotten to the point where it is today. The United States did once subsidies the shipbuilding industry, but when President Reagan got rid of them without any similar action from other countries, the shipbuilding industry was finished.
- Resource Type:
- Poster
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs
- Creator:
- Sanford, Justin
- Description:
- GMA 400L - Senior Seminar Research Lab and The intention of this work is to synthesize and interpret the tenets of geopolitics within the expectation that the coming decades will present unique and unprecedented challenges for states and populations due to the symptoms resultant from a changing environment. The operant assumption is that modern quality of life may come under threat due to these developments by way of multiple environmental vectors such as drought, rising sea levels, and extreme weather. In addition, while a difficult characterization to make with any certainty, the depletion of resource wealth and the attainability of new, disputed deposits is also posited to be a possible impetus for more aggressive, unilateral behavior by newly empowered states around the globe. Ultimately, the ethic of cooperation rather than competition under these circumstances is advocated for by way of the deduction of hypothetical outcomes of state-to-state and state-to-population behaviors.
- Resource Type:
- Poster
- Campus Tesim:
- Maritime
- Department:
- Global Studies and Maritime Affairs