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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Terror and Time: Analyzing Homegrown Terrorism in the United States , Kyser Daniels-Baessler

Exploring Heat Variations in Columbia, South Carolina , Michael Graeme Hohlfeld

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

HF Radar: Shining a Light on Ocean Currents , Douglas Cahl

Sentiment Analysis of Swedish and Finnish Twitter Users’ Views Toward NATO Pre- And Post- 2022 2nd Russian Invasion of Ukraine , Alexander Scott Fulham

Projecting the Effects of Climate Change and Urbanization on Longleaf Pine Stands in the Florida Flatwoods , Lilian Grace Hutchens

The Role of Geographic Context in Tornado Risk, Risk Perception, and Protective Action Behavior , Sarah L. Jackson

Adapting Deep Learning Techniques for Geologic Investigations of Hydrothermal Venting at Seafloor Spreading Ridges Using AUV Surveys , Isaac Keohane

A Flood of Information: Assessing the Effectiveness of an Enhanced Flash Flood Warning Social Media Graphic , Christopher John Long

Groundwater Flow and Salt Marsh Migration: The Forest/Marsh Boundary , Camille Rossiello

Dust Production and Transport in a Long-Lived Fluvial-Eolian System in the Pampas of South America , Blake Marcus Stubbins

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Neighborhood Change on the Mississippi Coast After Hurricane Katrina (2006 – 2019) , Margot Habets

Spatial and Age Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes , Qian Huang

Quantifying Human Mobility Patterns During Disruptive Events With Geospatial Big Data , Yuqin Jiang

Urban Forest Dynamics: Untangling Ecosystem Patterns at Harbison State Forest , Derek Matchette

Life in the Time of COVID-19: The Everyday Impacts of the Pandemic in Amman, Jordan , Patrick McKenzie

sUAS and Deep Learning for High-Resolution Monitoring of Tidal Marshes in Coastal South Carolina , Grayson R. Morgan

An Analysis of Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Estimation Methods and Microclimate Heat Variability in Columbia, South Carolina , Stafford Mullin

GIS Analysis of Housing Delinquency After Repeated Flooding In Horry County, South Carolina , Andrew White

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Using Aeolian Depositional Lag Times to Relate Dune Vegetation And Topographic Change , Jacquelyn Brianna Ferguson

Carbon Storage via Mineral Bonding in Subsoils A Review of Soil Processes , Kiele Goins

Taking the Pulse of Undergraduate Introductory Geographic Information Systems Courses , Christopher Krause

Military Communities and Natural Hazards in the United States , Logan Lee

Satellite Observations and Spatiotemporal Assessment of Salt Marsh /Dieback Along Coastal South Carolina (1990-2019) , Huixuan Li

Politics of Belonging: Identity, Integration, and Spatial Practices of Algerian Immigrants and Their Descendants in Paris, France , Elizabeth Nelson

Groundwater Discharge From Passive Continental Margins: Rethinking Marine Chemical Budgets , Andrew William Osborne

Groundwater Flow and Transport at the Forest-Marsh Boundary: A Modeling Study , Sophia Chason Sanders

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Earthquake Recovery , Sahar Derakhshan

Remote Sensing and Social Sensing for Improved Flood Awareness and Exposure Analysis in the Big Data Era , Xiao Huang

Flooding and Industrial Swine Farming in North Carolina: Implications of Natech Hazards on the Assessment of Environmental Justice , Jacob Ramthun

A GIS-Based Risk Assessment for Fire Departments: Case Study of Richland County, SC , Tracy Whelen

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Don't Rock the Boat: An Analysis of Boat Mitigation Prior to Hurricane Landfall , Jessica M. Brugh

Urban Greenway Vegetative Communities and Environmental Drivers in the Southeastern United States , Erika Y. Chin

Leveraging Geotagged Social Media to Monitor Spatial Behavior During Population Movements Triggered by Hurricanes , Yago Martín González

Evaluating the Efficacy of Sand Fences on Dunes Impacted by Hurricanes , Michelle Harris

Prototyping a Social Media Flooding Photo Screening System Based on Deep Learning and Crowdsourcing , Huan Ning

Innovative Approaches Using Multispectral Imagery to Detect Nearshore Bars and Elucidate Beach-Dune System Dynamics , Mayra A. Román-Rivera

Ammani Youth- Paradoxical Citizens on the Margins , Holly L. Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

From Rhetoric To Response: Climate Change, Conflict, And Development In Karamoja, Uganda , Daniel Abrahams

Everyday Occupations: Traffic, Hazards, And Mobility In The West Bank , Alice Arnold

Urban Social Landscapes And Urban Places: Processes Of Making And Informing Maronite Identity In Beirut , Divin Boutros

Investigation Of Hydrologic Change In The South Fork Edisto Basin 1981-2016 , Alexander Preston Butler

Tweets About Tornado Warnings: A Spatiotemporal And Content Analysis , Raelene C. Campbell

Comparison Of Sentinel-2 And Landsat 8 OLI In The Mapping Of Soil Salinity In Hyde County, North Carolina , Eleanor Davis

Anthropogenic Influences On Sedimentation In The Chicken Creek Watershed Of South Carolina , Tyler L. Dearman

Catchment Hydrology In The Anthropocene: Impacts Of Land-Use And Climate Change On Stormwater Runoff , Chen-Ling Jenny Hung

Measuring Agricultural Drought And Uncertainty In Future Drought Projections , Junyu Lu

Velocity Model for CO2 Sequestration in the Southeastern United States Atlantic Continental Margin , John Ollmann

Analysis Of Evacuation Behaviors And Departure Timing For October 2016’s Hurricane Matthew , Erika O. Pham

Internal Gravity Wave Detection During The 21 August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse , Michael J.W. Stewart

Why Is No One Getting A Weave Of An Afro: Examining Culture, Economy, And Domestic Human Hair Consumption By African American Women , Brittani Young

Multi-Scale Flow Mapping And Spatiotemporal Analysis Of Origin-Destination Mobility Data , Xi Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Cocoa and Carbon: Remedying Forest Governance through Community Participation in a Redd+Pilot in Ghana , Manali Baruah

Urban Accessibility Measurement and Visualization — A Big Data Approach , Yuqin Jiang

Spatial Optimization Methods And System For Redistricting Problems , Hai Jin

The Community Rating System: Assessing Indicators of Community Participation, A Dasymetric and Sovi Approach , Zachary P. Landis

Representing the Relationships Between Field Collected Carbon Exchanges and Surface Reflectance Using Geospatial and Satellite-Based Techniques , Alexandria G. McCombs

Climate Change (Mal)Adaptation as Governmentality: The Case of the Ada Sea Defense System in the Volta River Delta of Ghana , Kwame Ntiri Owusu-Daaku

The Role of Weather in the Social and Economic Lives of Plantation Owners in Antebellum Beaufort District, South Carolina , Jennifer A. Simmons

Contesting The Generic Refugee: SIV Identity, Community, And Agency During Resettlement , Benjamin J. Sylvester

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Barriers To Success: Refugee Mobility In The New South Immigrant Gateway City of Columbia, SC, USA , Alysha V. Baratta

Synoptic Climatology Of Extreme Snow And Avalanche Events In Southern Alaska , Kristy C. Carter

Multivariate Analysis and Geographic Modeling of Archaeological Landscapes , J. Christopher Gillam

Lebanon's Shouf Biosphere Reserve: A Protected Area And Sport Hunting , Robert Watkins Bowdoin Greeley

Satellite-Assisted Assessment Of The Effects Of Human Development On Coral Reefs, Roatan Honduras , Clayton A. Helm

Hydrologic Modeling Scenarios in a South Carolina Piedmont Drainage Basin , Parker Douglas Leslie

Neuro-Fuzzy Classification of Felsic Lava Geomorphology at Alarcon Rise, Mexico , Christina Hefron Maschmeyer

Assessing individual transit vulnerability to nuisance flooding in the Charleston, SC area , Sumathee Selvaraj

Geospatial Modeling And Assessment Of The Environmentally Sensitive Lands In The Midwestern U.S. , William M. SooHoo

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Mobile Home Resident Perspectives on Preparedness, Protective Action, and Evacuation for Tornado Hazards , Kevin D. Ash

A Tale of Two Landscapes: Examining Alienation and Non-Visitation Among Local African American Fishers at Congaree National Park , Janae Davis

Tree-Sway Frequency And The Turbulent Co-Spectral Gap In A Dense Canopy Environment , Katherine L. Ertell

Institutional Adaptation and Drought Management in the Carolinas , Kirsten Lackstrom

Institutional Resilience Along The Mississippi Gulf Coast in The Context of Pre- And Post-Hurricane Katrina , Khai Hoan Nguyen

Economic Losses and Extreme Tornado Events , Rachel Reeves

The Meaning of Place Recovery on The Mississippi Gulf Coast , Ronald L. Schumann, III

Ammonium Concentrations Above a Louisiana Sugarcane Field , Wesley Robert Skeeter

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Situating Belonging Through Multi-Sited Identities: Community Building Among Middle Eastern Christians in Upstate South Carolina , Amelia Ayoob

Geographic Disparities in Cancer Mortality to Incidence Ratios , Kyle Buck

TRADITION OR TECHNOLOGY?: THE IMPACT OF PAPER VERSUS DIGITAL MAP TECHNOLOGY ON STUDENTS’ SPATIAL THINKING SKILL ACQUISITION , Larianne Collins

Birds and Beaches: The Affective Geographies and Sense of Place of Participants in the Coasst Citizen Science Program , Benjamin Kent Haywood

Understanding Geo-Social Network Patterns: Computation, Visualization, and Usability , Caglar Koylu

Remote Sensing Satellite Image Acquisition Planning: Framework, Methods and Application , Shufan Liu

Comparison of Ground-to-Air Visibility Analysis Methods , Erica Pfister-Altschul

A COMPREHENSIVE DISASTER RISK INDEX FOR THE UNITED STATES , Michael E. Senn

TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF ESRI STORY MAPS AS EFFECTIVE TEACHING TOOLS , Caitlin Strachan

Pattern Extraction From Spatial Data - Statistical and Modeling Approches , Hu Wang

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Geomorphic Variation of A Transitional River: Blue Ridge to Piedmont, South Carolina , Tanner Arrington

Determining the Differences In Hurricane Perception and Evacuation Behavior In the Elderly of South Carolina , Gregg C. Bowser

Youth Citizenship, Civic Education, and Spaces of Belonging In Tallinn, Estonia , Catherine Michelle Cottrell

Complexity and Salience: Evaluating the Inter-Scene Variability of Animated Choropleth Maps , Michael DuBois

An Assessment of Technology Adoptability in Sugarcane Burning Smoke Plume Mitigation , Sara Flecher

Uncovering the Structures In Ecological Networks: Multiple Techniques For Multiple Purposes , Peng Gao

Contested Identities and Language Education: Inculcating Nationalist Ideologies In the Basque Region , William Joseph Hogan

Spatial and Temporal Characterization of A Cold Seep-Hydrate System (Woolsey Mound, Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico) , Antonello Simonetti

A Geographic Modeling Framework for Assessing Critical Infrastructure Vulnerability: Energy Infrastructure Case Study , Leanne Sulewski

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

The Impact of Optimism On Evacuation Behavior In South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Zones , Dara Elizabeth Angelo

Sediment Transport and Wind Flow Around Hummocks , Clifton Patrick Barrineau

The Development of Metrics For Community Resilience to Natural Disasters , Christopher George Burton

Negotiating Belonging in a Divided City: Palestinian Experiences in Nicosia, Cyprus , Brittany Eleanor Cook

NARCCAP Model Assessment and Future Projections For the Southeast United States , Erik David Kabela

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Geography, Environment and Planning Theses and Dissertations

Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

“Urban Renewal” Surrounding Florida Solar Plants: A Study on Low-Carbon Gentrification , Megan Amber Grove

Spatial Patterns of Building Damages and associated Socio-Economic Factors by Hurricane Ian , Md Zakaria Salim

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Travel and Migration Behaviors of Migrants from Puerto Rico During Disasters , Lauren C. Carter

Spatial Pattern and Environmental and Social Factors of Monkeypox in the Contiguous United States , Linbo Han

Predicting Groundwater Spring Locations from Topographic and Climatic Data Using Maxent Modeling , Ayten Ece Koc

Coastal Cities in the Southern US Floodplains: An Evaluation of Environmental Equity of Flood Hazards and Social Vulnerabilities , Lubana Tasnim Mazumder

Prepare for, Respond to, Recover, and Learn from Disasters: Using Data-Driven Methods to Model and Understand Disaster Resilience , Jinwen Xu

Quantifying the Effectiveness of Night Vision Detection: A Comparative Study of Visible Light, Night Vision, and Thermal Images , Feng Yeh

Spatial Mismatch between Electric Vehicles (EVs) and EV charging stations in Florida , Chuang Yin

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Measuring Sustainable Development through Tax Increment Financed Brownfield Redevelopment Statutes: A Florida Case Study , Jeff Burton

Using GIS-Based Land Use Strategies to Minimize the Impacts of Urbanization on Agricultural Land and Forest Cover: Case Study of the City of Limbe, Cameroon , Lucy Ebude Deba Enomah

Climate Action and Indigenous Land Relations: A Case Study in Nagaland, Northeastern India , Osensang Pongen

“Fast Policy” and “Rule By Aesthetics”: A Preliminary Study of Water Street Tampa –The “Worlding” of an Aspiring “Icon Project” , Nousheen Rahman

Geothermal Development in Kenya: Gender Based Socio-Cultural and Socio-Economic Implications , Faye N. Ricker

Assessing Changes in Actual Air Quality and Public Perceptions of Air Quality in Kathmandu Valley Nepal pre and post COVID-19 Lockdown , Robin Margherita Rives

A Statistical Method for Quantifying Animal Interaction; Combining Time Geography and Simulation , Zachary J. Smith

Isotopic Study of the Waters from the Sulphur Springs Catchment, Tampa, Florida , Esra Zengin

Inland Tropical Cyclone Intensity Decay in the Continental United States , Yijie Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Soil Accretion and Mass Accumulation in a Scrub and Fringe Mangrove Forest in Biscayne Bay, Florida , Jessica A. Jacobs

Machine Learning for Species Habitat Analysis , Abigail Lavallin

Remote Sensing and GIS Integration for Amazon Rainforest Wildfires Applications , Cong Ma

The Little Things That Count: Mapping Diversity of West Florida’s Shelf , Nicole L. Seiden

Evacuation Decision Making and the Role of Social Connections across Evacuation Statuses during Hurricane Irma , Nathan D. Shull

Examining the Effects of Hydrology and Reclaimed Water Application on Nutrient Retention in Wetlaculture Mesocosms in Southwest Florida , Andrew Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

The Use of Spanish Moss as a Biological Indicator to Examine Relationships Between Metal Air Pollution, Vegetation Cover, and Environmental Equity in Tampa, Florida , Yousif Abdullah

Rainfall, Precipitation, and Drought Patterns Associated with Wintertime Transmission of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus (EEEV) in Florida , Bestami Cevher

Soil Characteristics Associated with Horse Cases of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus in Florida , Fulya Guzelkucuk

Exploring the Potential of Nutrient Retention and Recycling with Wetlaculture Systems in Ohio with Physical and Landscape Models , Bingbing Jiang

Optimal Strategies for Grassland Restoration to Increase Spatial Carrying Capacity of Florida Sandhill Cranes in Pasco County, Florida , Ibrahim Kaya

A Sustainability Machine: The Incineration-based Waste Regime in Tampa, FL, USA , Kevin P. Martyn

Climate Change and Sustainable Development within the Tourism Sector of Small Island Developing States: A Case Study for the Bahamas , Arsum Pathak

The Perceived Usefulness of a Weather Radar Display by Tampa Bay Residents , Michelle E. Saunders

The Short-Term Effects of Different Removal Methods of Urochloa Maxima, Guinea Grass, on Acoustic Complexity , Connor D. Wagner

Assessment of Land Cover Change in St. Martin’s Marsh Aquatic Preserve, Florida, USA , Katie Wagner

Current and Projected Sustainability of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Caribbean Small Island Developing States , Zachary S. Winters

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Food Policy Coalitions in Strengthening Community Food Security in the United States. , Joseph G. England III

Measuring and Understanding Food Accessibility in the Tampa Bay Area , Bailey I. Glover

Assessing palm decline in Florida by using advanced remote sensing with machine learning technologies and algorithms. , Christopher B. Hanni

Measurement of Changes in Forest Fragmentation Caused by Road Construction Between 2000 and 2014 Using GIS in St. Johns County, Florida , Ahmet Karatas

Desertification Risk Analysis Based on Soils and Climate in Olive Cultivated Areas in Tulare County, California , Zehra Kavakli Karatas

Storm Surge and Evacuations in Pinellas County , Christianne Pearce

Water Scarcity in the Face of Hurricanes: Improving the Resilience of Potable Water Supplies in Selected Florida Counties , Fautemeh Sajadi Bami

A Method to Analyze Similarities of Eye Movements: a GIScience Based Spatiotemporal Approach , Mehrdad Vaziri

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Assessing the Impacts of Ghana’s Oil and Gas Industry on Ecosystem Services and Smallholder Livelihoods , Michael Acheampong

Policing the Riverfront: Urban Revanchism as Sustainability , Jared J. Austin

Remote Sensing and Spatial Metrics for Quantifying Seagrass Landscape Changes: A Study on the 2011 Indian River Lagoon Florida Seagrass Die-off Event , René Dieter Baumstark

Reconstructing Historical Hurricane Tracks in the Atlantic Basin: Three Case Studies from the 1840s , Emily L. Cerrito

Access to Safe Water Supply: Management of Catchment for the Protection of Source Water in Ghana , Michael K. Eduful

A Comparative Study on Coastal Zone Changes and Anthropogenic Impacts between Tampa Bay, USA, and Xiangshan Harbor, China, during the Last 30 Years , Qiandong Guo

A Behavioral Analysis of Households Using Reclaimed Water in Irrigation: Case of Pinellas County, Florida , Natalie Kuraya-Ziyadeh

Understanding Agricultural-Land Conservation from the Perspective of Landowners in Franklin County, Massachusetts , Rocio Lalanda

An Investigation of Habitat Suitability Factors and their Interactions for Predicting Gopher Tortoise Habitat , Abigail V. Lavallin

Operationalizing the Pressure and Release Theoretical Framework Using Risk Ratio Analysis to Measure Vulnerability and Predict Risk from Natural Hazards in the Tampa, FL Metropolitan Area , Jessica A. Wilder

Assessing the Cooling Effects of Urban Vegetation on Urban Heat Mitigation in Selected U.S. Cities , Qiuyan Yu

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Forging Blockchains: Spatial Production and Political Economy of Decentralized Cryptocurrency Code/Spaces , Joe Blankenship

What Makes Water Policy Sustainable? An Analysis of Water Policy in US Cities , Rebecca Brady David

Longitudinal Awareness: A Study of Vulnerability to Flooding in Polk County, Iowa , Kerri A. Dickey

Using Remote Sensing to Evaluate Wetland Recovery in the Northern Tampa Bay Area Following Reduction in Groundwater Withdrawals , Amor Elder

Stormwater Infiltration and Groundwater Integrity: An Analysis of BMP Siting Tools and Groundwater Vulnerability , Kristopher Craig Gallagher

Pollen Forecasting in Sarasota, Florida , Daniel J. Gessman

Potential Impacts of Accelerated Sea-Level Rise and Hurricane-Induced Storm Surge in Western Pasco County, Florida , Kittiya Harris

The Ability of an Aquatic Invader to Uptake Nutrients in an Upstream Estuarine Environment: Implications for Reducing the Intensity and Frequency of Massive Fish Kills in Florida , Melissa L. Kerr

An Assessment of Constructed Wetland Treatment System Cells: Removal of Excess Nutrients and Pollutants from Municipal Wastewater in Lakeland, Florida , Molly Klinepeter

Identifying Nodes of Transmission in Disease Diffusion Through Social Media , David Sebastian Lamb

The Role of High-Elevation Headwater Runoff in Streamflow Generation and Water Supply in the Northern Andes, Colombia , Laura Lotero Lozano

A Landscape of Thermal Inequity: Social Vulnerability to Urban Heat in U.S. Cities , Bruce Coffyn Mitchell

Effects of Anthropogenic Activity on the Green Swamp Preserve Ecosystem , Barbara Ann Nordheim-Shelt

Abundance and Habitat Preferences of Introduced Muscovy Ducks (Cairina moschata) , Jacqueline Marie Perry Cahanin

Multi-scale Approaches for Evaluating the Success of Habitat Restoration in Tampa Bay, Florida , Stephanie Thompson Powers

How Lessons from a Past Disaster Can Influence Resilience and Climate Adaptation in Broward County, Florida , Hannah Rose Torres

Reappropriating Public Space in Nanchang, China: A Study of Informal Street Vendors , Bryan C. Winter

Perceptions Affecting Tree Valuation: An Analysis of Recently Sold and Leased Properties in Tampa, Florida , Cody R. Winter

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Locally Optimized Mapping of Slum Conditions in a Sub-Saharan Context: A Case Study of Bamenda, Cameroon , Julius Anchang

Analysis of Managerial Decision-Making within Florida’s Total Maximum Daily Load Program , Justin Barthle

Environmental and Community Health in South San Diego County: A Behavior Analysis of Recreational Ocean Users Along Imperial Beach, California , Trista Brophy

Population Dynamics and Vulnerability Reduction: The Role of Non-Profit Organizations Following the 2011 Earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand , Nicole Suzanne Hutton

Media Representations of Abortion Politics in Florida: Feminist Geographic Analysis of Newspaper Articles, 2011-2013 , Jennifer Iceton

Situating Migrants in Contemporary Japan: From Public Spaces to Personal Experiences , Milena Urszula Janiec Grygo

How Mature Capitalism Turns Pollution into Diamonds: Malagnogenesis and the Reverse-Engineering of Harm into Risk , Kevin P. Martyn

Constituting Agricultural and Food Policy in Malawi: The Role of the State and International Donors in the Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) , Peter Rock Nkhoma

Development of a Forecast Process for Meteotsunami Events in the Gulf of Mexico , Leilani D. Paxton

The Effect of Home Range Estimation Techniques on Habitat Use Analysis , Brendon Quinton

A Review of Reclaimed Water for Irrigation Use in an Urban Watershed , Anamarie Elizabeth Rivera

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

The Role of Community Participation in Water Production and Management: Lessons From Sustainable Aid in Africa International Sponsored Water Schemes in Kisumu, Kenya , Erick Oniango Ananga

An Investigation of the Effects of Chemical and Physical Weathering on Submerged Karst Surfaces , Bryan Charles Booth

Saharan Air Layer Dust Loading: Effects on Convective Strength in Tropical Cloud Clusters , Randall J. Hergert

Tornado Fatalities: An In-Depth Look at Physical and Societal Influences , Heather Joann Key

A Composite Spatial Model Incorporating Groundwater Vulnerability and Environmental Disturbance to Guide Land Management , Johanna L. Kovarik

Quantifying the Interaction of Wildlife and Roads: a Habitat and Movement Approach , Rebecca Whitehead Loraamm

Land-use & Water Quality in the Headwaters of the Alafia River Watershed , Jaime Alison Swindasz

The Impact of Bus Rapid Transit Implementation on Residential Property Values: A Case Study in Reno, NV , Steven Thomas Ulloa

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Determining What Factors Affect Peoples' Perceptions of the Use of Reclaimed Water as a Source for Potable Water: A Study within Hillsborough County, Florida , Susana Rebecca Alvarado Tricoche

The Influence of the Projected Coordinate System on Animal Home Range Estimation Area , Michael Barr

Managing Regional Water Resources Amidst Rapid Urbanization in Southwest Florida: A Case Study , Nicole Owusua Caesar

An Evaluation of Florida Gulf Coast University's Residence Life Staff Member's Hurricane Preparedness , Erin Floto

Greenhouse gas emissions and climate policy in Florida's state and local governments (2000 to 2010) , Sandra Jo Garren

Risk Perception and Beliefs about Volcanic Hazards: A Comparative Study of Puna District Residents , Melanie Marie Leathers

An Investigation of Methodologies for Determining Walkability and its Association with Socio-Demographics: An Application to the Tampa - St. Petersburg Urbanized Area , Oana A. McKinney

Connecting Institutional Discourses and Everyday Understandings of Climate Change: Viewpoints from a Suburban Neighborhood in Tampa, Florida , Christopher Metzger

Assessing the Environmental Justice Implications of Flood Hazards in Miami, Florida , Marilyn Christina Montgomery

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Opportunities for Urban Resilience to Climate Change: Understanding Local Climate Perceptions, Motivations, and Barriers to Green Infrastructure Use , Emmilene Berski

Women’s Communities and Landscapes in Deadwood, South Dakota in the 1870s–1880s , Jessica Kaye Long

The Spatial Organization of Pre-Colonial African Kingdoms: The Empires of Ethiopia & Mali , Victoria O. Alapo

Commemorating the Past: Nebraska Museum Practices in Interpreting, Memorializing, and Mythologizing History , Carissa Dowden

Film and the Making of a Modern Nebraska (1895-1920): A Historical Geography , William Helmer

Reexamining the Desert: A Study of Place-Based Food Insecurity , Morgan Ryan

Votes and Voters in Time and Space: The Changing Landscape of Political Party Support in Kentucky, 1974-2020 , Glenn Humphress

Federal Land-Use Policy and Resettlement in the Great Plains: An Experiment in Community Development During the New Deal Years, 1933-1941 , Theresa Glanz

Population Sustainability in Rural Nebraska Towns , Andrew Husa

Timing and Formation of Linear Dunes South of the Niobrara River Valley, North-Central Nebraska Sand Hills , Ashley K. Larsen

ASSESSING LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY WITH GIS USING QUALITATIVE & QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN KNOX COUNTY, NEBRASKA , Christian J. Cruz

A Historical Geography of Six and Eight-Man Football in Nebraska , Andrew Husa

Utilizing a Consumer-Grade Camera System to Quantify Surface Reflectance , Joseph J. Lehnert

Modeling Gross Primary Production of Midwest Maize and Soybean Croplands with Satellite and Gridded Weather Data , Gunnar Malek-Madani

Spatial Analysis of Ethnic and Racial Segregation in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, 2000 - 2014 , Roy Yao

Dating Late Quaternary Alluvial Fills in the Platte River Valley using Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating , Jacob C. Bruihler

A Research Framework for the Geographic Study of Exotic Pet Mammals in the USA , Gabrielle C. Tegeder

Using GIS to Assess Firearm Thefts, Recoveries and Crimes in Lincoln, Nebraska , David A. Grosso

A STUDY OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH DWELLING STRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENT BASED ON AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA , Jeehoon Kim

Geographic Variation of Health Care Spending on Heart Failure in Metropolitan Areas , Kevin McMillan

"We Shall Meet Beyond the River": An Analysis of the Deathscape of Brownville, Nebraska , Ashley J. Barnett

Building a GIS Model to Assess Agritourism Potential , Brian G. Baskerville

Exploring the Nature of Space for Human Behavior in Ordinary Structured Environments , Molly Boeka Cannon

A Historical Geography of Sand Island 1870 - 1944 , Lucas P. Johnson

Proximal Sensing as a Means of Characterizing Phragmites australis , Travis Yeik

Multi-Temporal Analysis of Crop Biomass Using Selected Environmental Variables and Remote Sensing Derived Indices , Nwakaku M. Ajaere

Evaluating Vegetation Response to Water Stress Using Close-Range and Satellite Remote Sensing , Sharmistha Swain

ASSESSING SEASONAL FEATURES OF TROPICAL FORESTS USING REMOTE SENSING , Roberto Bonifaz-Alfonzo

USING A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM TO DEFINE REGIONS OF GRAPE-CULTIVAR SUITABILITY IN NEBRASKA , Ting Chen

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Malaria in Paraguay , Nicole M. Wayant

Levels of Response In Experiential Conceptualizations of Neighborhood: The Potential For Multiple Versions of This Place Construct , Cynthia M. Williams

PRESERVATION ETHICS IN THE CASE OF NEBRASKA’S NATIONALLY REGISTERED HISTORIC PROPERTIES , Darren Michael Adams

Intersections of Place, Time, and Entertainment in Rural Nebraska in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries , Rebecca A. Buller

The Changing Landscape of a Rural Region: The effect of the Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir in the Osage River Basin of Missouri , Melvin Arthur Johnson

Detection and Measurement of Water Stress in Vegetation Using Visible Spectrum Reflectance , Arthur Zygielbaum

Patterns and Consequences of Segregation: An Analysis of Ethnic Residential Patterns at Two Geographic Scales , Kenneth N. French

Geographies of Indigenous-based Team Name and Mascot Use in American Secondary Schools , Ezra J. Zeitler

A WATERSHED-BASED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR LAKES IN AGRICULTURALLY-DOMINATED ECOSYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY OF NEBRASKA RESERVOIRS , Henry N. N. Bulley

MODELING BIGHORN SHEEP HABITAT IN NORTHWEST NEBRASKA , Kyle M. Forbes

CLOSE-RANGE AND SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING OF ALGAL BIOMASS IN THE IOWA GREAT LAKES , Eric A. Wilson

Visualizing Uncertainty of the Great Plains Boundary , Sonja Lynn Rossum

EFFECTS OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION AND LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE ON LAND COVER CHARACTERIZATION , Wenli Yang

Spatial Structure and Decision-Making Aspects of Pedestrian Route Selection through an Urban Environment , Michael R. Hill

VACANCY CHAINS AND INTRA-URBAN MIGRATION , Donald Rundquist

Water Power Development on the Lower Loup River: A Study in Economic Geography , Ralph Eugene Olson

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Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses

Aaron Adams , (Ph.D.)  Spatial Perspectives on COVID-19: Lessons for Future Pandemic Preparedness.  Advisor: Cindy Zhang

Yunhe Cue , (Ph.D.)  Bike-sharing: Towards Equitable Urban Transportation .  Advisors: Cindy Zhang & Peter Chen .

Quinn Malloy , (Ph.D.)  Auto-dependency, Equity, and Place: A comprehensive assessment of household spending on transportation in the United States.   Advisors:  Carol Atkinson-Palombo & Norman Garrick .

Jake Layburn , (M.A.)  Health Geographic Perspective on Mpox Outbreak in the United States .  Advisor:  Debarchana Ghosh .

Adam Gallaher , (Ph.D.)  Sustainable Energy Transitions: Exploring Low Carbon Solutions for Transportation and Electricity Production.   Advisor: Cindy Zhang .

Moataz Kilany , (Ph.D.)  Land Use / Land Cover Classification Optimization Using Swarm Algorithms.   Advisor: Cindy Zhang .

Junya Wu (Ph.D.)  Using Excess Heat Factor (EHF) to deepen understanding of heatwaves in the U.S.   Advisor: Anji Seth.

Shamayeta Bhattacharya , (Ph.D.)  SHAKTHI: Studying Healthcare Accessibility among Kothi, Transgender and Hijra Individuals .  Advisor:  Debarchana Ghosh .

Sungmin Jang , (Ph.D.)  The Evolution of American Media Perceptions and Portrayal of Geopolitics on the Korean Peninsula .  Advisor: Nathaniel Trumbull .

Ji Won Suh , (Ph.D.)  Reconstructing and Identifying Historic Land Use Land Cover in Northeastern U.S. .  Advisor: William Ouimet .

Zhijie “JJ” Zhang , (Ph.D.)  Efficient Recognition of Potential Landslides using Open Access Multi-Source Remotely Sensed Images with Deep Learning Approaches .  Advisor: Cindy Zhang .

Jon Leonard , (M.A.)  User Interpretation associated with Manual Digitization of Stone Walls and Relict Charcoal Hearths using airborne LiDAR .  Advisor: William Ouimet .

Benbella, Diane , (Ph.D.)  A Geospatial Analysis of Uganda’s Progress and Challenges Towards the Target of “90-90-90” for Ending the HIV Epidemic .  Advisor:  Debarchana Ghosh .

Buchanan, Mary , (Ph.D.)  Exploring Landscape Futures for Local Food Production in Northeastern Connecticut .  Advisor:  Carol Atkinson-Palombo .

Wang, Wenjie , (Ph. D.)  Some Studies on Land Cover Change in Connecticut and Land Cover Data Quality Improvement .  Advisor: Cindy Zhang .

Zhang, Bo , (Ph.D.)  Predictive Mapping of Spatial Categorical Variables by Markov Chain Random Fields .  Advisor:  Cindy Zhang .

Acharya, Awanti , (Ph.D.)  A Spatial-Hedonic Regression and Difference-in-Differences Based Study of the Impact of Curb Appeal, Cell Towers, and Flipping on House Prices .  Advisor:  Dean Hanink .

Barocci, Antonio , (Ph.D.)  A Geography of Repression. The Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the First Years of the Fascist Special Tribunal 1926-1928 .  Advisor:  Ken Foote

Mkami, Adelina ,  (Ph.D.)  Democracy and Place in Practice: Exploring a Community Food Network .  Advisor:  Ken Foote .

Terbeck, Fabian , (Ph.D.)  Rising Poverty and Diversity in Suburbs: A Decomposition Analysis of Poverty Trends in the Chicago-Joliet-Naperville Metropolitan Area in the 2000s .  Advisor:  Ken Foote .

Zhai, Ruiting , (Ph.D.)  Modeling Land Use/Cover Change and Its Effect on Invasive Species in Long Island Sound Watersheds.   Advisor:  Cindy Zhang .

Li, Xueke ,  (Ph.D.) Improved Understanding of Trends, Variations, and Causes of Atmospheric Aerosols Using Ground Measurements, Satellite Observations, and Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling .  Advisor:  Cindy Zhang .

Megan McCusker Hill, (Ph.D.)  Gully Erosion and Holocene-Anthropocene Environmental Change in southern New England .  Advisor: William Ouimet .

Hui Wang, (Ph.D.)  Investigating the Relationship between Hydrological Variation, Land Use/Cover Change and Climate Change at Regional and Local Scales under Future Scenarios .  Advisor: Cindy Zhang .

Eli Egan-Anderson, (M.A.)  Mapping Relict Charcoal Hearths in the Northeast US Using Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Networks and LIDAR Data .  Advisor: William Ouimet .

Neil Oculi, (Ph.D.)  Vulnerability of Small Island Developing States across Multiple Scales .  Advisor: Scott Stephenson .

Shuowei Zhang , (Ph.D.)  Computing Local Fractal Dimension Using Geographical Weighting Scheme .  Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Weixing Zhang , (Ph.D.)  A Markov Chain Random Field Cosimulation-Based Approach for Land Cover Post-classification and Urban Growth Detection .  Advisor: Cindy Zhang .

Joseph Danko , (Ph.D.)  The Local Socioeconomic Impact of Destination Redevelopments in Detroit and Las Vegas (1990-2010): A Novel Geographically-Weighted Shift-Share Analysis Approach .  Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Eric Hoffman , (Ph.D.)  Developing a Flexible Disaster Relief Supply Chain Model .  Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Qinglin Hu , (Ph.D.)  An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Unionization in Variations in Income Inequality Across Selected U.S. Metropolitan Areas in 1990, 2000 and 2010 .  Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Kevin Nebiolo , (Ph.D.)  Anticipating the Effects of Economic Displacement in Marine Space with Agent Based Models .  Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Mengyao Zhang , (Ph.D.)  A Geographical Analysis of Food Access in the Greater Hartford Area of Connecticut .  Advisor: Debarchana Ghosh .

Andrew Huddy , (Ph.D.)  Farming Alone: Factors Influencing Farmland Conversion Along the Rural Urban Fringe .  Advisor: Jeffrey Osleeb .

Katharine Johnson , (Ph.D.) Investigating Historic Human-Land Use Dynamics in Southern New England Using LiDAR and Geospatial Analysis .  Advisor: Will Ouimet .

Xiaojiang Li , (Ph.D.), Investigating Environmental Inequities in Terms of Street Greenery using Google Street View .  Advisor:  Cindy Zhang .

Natalia Vorotyntseva , (Ph.D.)  Measuring Segregation Patterns and Change: a Co-Location Quotient Approach .  Advisor:  Robert Cromley .

Karen Johnson , (M.A.)  Prejudice and Discrimination in U.S. Graduate Geography Programs: Reports from Domestic and International Students .  Advisor: Ken Foote .

Carissa Rutkauskas , (M.A.)  Latinos College Access: Effect of Cultural, Social, and Human Capital on Enrollment within the Metropolitan Area .  Advisor: Thomas Cooke .

Dmitriy Tarasov , (M.A.)  With a National Park Next to Its Downtown:  Forecasting the Distribution of the Economic Impacts of the Coltsville National Historical Park within Hartford, Connecticut.  Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Kevin Evringham , (Ph.D.) United States Security Alliances in the Asian Pacific: A Pivot from Bi-Lateral to Multi-Lateral in the 21st Century.   Advisor: Nathaniel Trumbull .

Timothy Garceau , (Ph.D.)  A Multi-Scalar Model to Identify the Causes of Decreased Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) in the United States.   Advisor: Carol Atkinson-Palombo.

Jose Torres , (Ph.D.) Tourist and Recreational Legacies of World's Fairs .  Advisor: Nathaniel Trumbull .

Shaolu Yu , (Ph.D.) Transnationalism, Mobility and Identity: the Making of Place in Flushing, New York City.   Advisor: Priscilla McCutcheon.

Marcello Graziano , (Ph.D.) Adoption of diffused Renewal Energy Technologies:  Patterns and Drivers of Residential Photovoltaic (PV) Systems in Connecticut, 2005-2013 . Advisor: Carol Atkinson-Palombo .

Kristen Keegan , (Ph.D.) Economic Diversity, Growth and Development in Early Nineteenth Century Connecticut . Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Naomi Lazarus , (Ph.D.) Evaluating Community Resilience under Conditions of an Environmental Disaster: The Case of the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill . Advisor: Jeffrey Osleeb .

George Bentley , (Ph.D.) Analyzing Land Covers in the context of Kuznets Curves . Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Benjamin Franek (Ph.D). On Stream Assessment: Human Perception and Spatiotemporal Delineation of Geomorphic Units . Advisor:  Nathaniel Trumbull.

Jie Lin , (Ph.D.) Intelligent Isopleth Mapping . Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Zhiqiang Liu , (Ph.D.) Geographical Concentration of Manufacturing Industries in China -- Measurements and Determinants . Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Cary Lynch , (Ph.D.) Observed and Projected Climate Variability in the Northeast United States from CMIP5 . Advisor: Anji Seth .

Allison Bradshaw (M.A.)  A Spatial Analysis of West Nile Virus in Texas, 2012 .  Advisor:  Debarchana Ghosh .

Dean Chauvin (M.A.)  Advanced Techniques in Emergency Preparedness and Geoprocessing .  Advisor:  Jeffrey Osleeb .

Logan Thomas , (M.A.)  The Status of Economic and Social Rights in Appalachia .  Advisor: William Berentsen .

Kevin Evringham , (M.A.) The United States Military Realignment on Okinawa . Advisor: Nathaniel Trumbull .

Patrick Gallagher , (M.A.) Creating a Pedestrian Level-of-Service Index for Transit Stops : Evidence from Denver’s Light Rail System . Advisor: Carol Atkinson-Palombo .

Jonathan Pollak , (M.A.) An Integrated Approach for Developing Adaptation Strategies in Climate Planning: A Case Study of Vulnerability in Dukes County, Massachusetts . Advisor:  Carol Atkinson-Palombo .

Christopher Rappa , (M.A.) New England's Retail Landscape: An Analysis of the County-level Restructuring: 1988-2008 . Advisor: Jeffrey Osleeb .

Jebediah Stevens , (M.A.) Exploring Symbolic Aspects of Human-Environment Interaction in a Socially Constructed Coastscape:  Sense of Place in Coastal Maine . Advisor: Nathaniel Trumbull .

Paul Fernald , (Ph.D) Asian Americans in New England: Settlement and Business Patterns, 1980-2002 . Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Benjamin Spaulding , (Ph.D) A Game Theoretic Approach to the Maximal Covering Prevention Location Problem . Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Jeanne Thibeault , (Ph.D) Changing Climate in the Bolivian Altiplano . Advisor: Anji Seth .

Jie Lin , (M.A.) Using Geographically Weighted Regression to Solve the Areal Interpolation Problem. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Marshall Rivers , (M.A.) A Spatial Analysis of Votor Turnout in Windham, Connecticut from 2005 Through 2008. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Daxiang Zhang , (M.A.) Contrail Detection Using Object-oriented Based Classification and Interpolation Based on Geostatistics. Advisor: Chuanrong Zhang .

Peter Hayward , (Ph.D) The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP) and Health Disparities . Advisor: Jeffrey Osleeb .

Akito Michimi , (Ph.D) Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Cardiovascular Disease in the United States and England:  A Comparison of Data from National Health Surveillance Databases . Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Melanie Rapino , (Ph.D) Gender Roles and Spatial Entrapment . Advisor: Thomas Cooke .

Graham Boardman , (M.A.) Science to support dam removal decisions: the geomorphic impacts of Poliak Pond Dam on Umpawaug Pond Brook, Connecticut and recommendations for dam removal. Advisor: Melinda Daniels .

Brandon Cramer , (M.A.) Spatial Analysis of Alcohol-Related Mortality in Connecticut, 1985-2004. Advisor: Jeffrey Osleeb .

Stephanie Derrick , (M.A.) Solving the location set covering problem in a bounded plane. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Thomas Fischetti , (M.A.) Economic Restructuring in the United States: 1988-1999. Advisor: Alexander Vias .

Natalie Vibert , (M.A.) Regeneration of Woody Vegetation in the Southern Connecticut River Floodplain. Advisor: Melinda Daniels .

Paul Woodworth , (M.A.) Assessment of Changes in Hydraulic Habitat from the Removal of Poliak Pond Dam on Umpawaug Pond Brook in Redding, Connecticut. Advisor: Melinda Daniels .

C. Patrick Heidkamp , (Ph.D) Credence Attributes and Land Use: Eco-labeled Coffee . Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Kei Man (Betty) Chau , (M.A.) Second Generation Chinese Immigrants’ Degree of Assimilation in the United States. Advisor: Thomas Cooke .

Jason Miller , (M.A.) Interpreting Tectonics From Geomorphic Metrics in the Hsuehshan Range, Taiwan. Advisor: Melinda Daniels .

Nicholas McNamara , (M.A.) Siting Commodities Distribution Points for Emergency Preparedness in Western Connecticut Coastal Towns Using a Loosely-Coupled GIS-SAS Model. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

F. Tyler Huffman , (Ph.D.) Assessing the Impact of Uncertainties and Errors on Multi-Criteria Evaluation Procedures when using Remote Sensing Derived Land Cover Input Data . Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Grant Gritzmacher , (M.A.) A Comparison of Four Methods of Estimating Bed Shear Stress Using Three-Dimensional Velocity Data From Natural Meandering Channels With and Without Large Woody Debris. Advisor: Melinda Daniels .

Bryan Jones , (M.A.) Estimating Age-Specific Inter-Regional Migration Using Infant Migration Propensity: The Case of Iceland. Advisor: William Berentsen .

Heather Pierce , (M.A.) A Planform Analysis of Channel Change on the Housatonic River in Southwestern Massachusetts. Advisor: Melinda Daniels .

Benjamin Spaulding , (M.A.) Integrating the Maximum Capture Location Problem Into a GIS Framework. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Elizabeth Spencer , (M.A.) Riffle Microhabitats: Linking Geomorphology to Aquatic Macoinvertibrate Community Compositions within Riffle Systems. Advisor: Melinda Daniels .

Tatiana Serebriakova , (Ph.D.) Mapping Radiation from External and Internal Sources in Belarus from the Chernobyl Disaster: Implications for Epidemiological Analysis . Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Gregory Cutrera , (M.A.) Analyzing the Accessibility of Grocery Stores to Low-Income Neighborhoods. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Mara Kaminowitz , (M.A.) A Geographic Information System for Assessing Physical and Environmental Risks to Historic Sites in Northeastern Connecticut. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Sarah Marchant , (M.A.) The Shifting Landscape of Concentrated Metropolitan Poverty 1980-2000. Advisor: Thomas Cooke .

Megan McCusker , (M.A.) The Geomorphic Effects of Low-Head Dams upon the Sediment Regime of Connecticut Fluvial Systems. Advisor: Melinda Daniels .

Cathyann Yellen , (M.A.) Examining the ‘Brain Drain': A Temporal and Spatial Pattern Analysis of the Emigration of University of Connecticut Graduates From the State of Connecticut. Advisor: Alexander Vias .

David Merwin , (Ph.D.) A Neural Network Approach to Solving Areal Interpolation Problems . Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Edmund Zolnik , (Ph.D.) A Multilevel Model of U.S. Internal Migration . Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Daniel Grossman , (M.A.) Relieving Congestion Along the I-95 Corridor Through Entrance Ramp Closures: A Shortest Path Approach. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

David Humphreys , (M.A.) Siting of Wireless Network Antennae: A Location Set-Covering Approach Using Three Dimensional Viewshed Analyses. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Martyn Smith (M.A.) A Comparison of Quantitative Methods Used to Measure Coastal Change Using GIS. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Kristopher White , (Ph.D.) Regional Economic Change in the Northern Forest: An Empirical Examination . Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Katherine Blankley , (M.A.) Examining Boundary and Scale Effects in Multi-criteria Evaluation Perfomed Within a Raster Based Geographic Information System. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Kevin Fleming , (M.A.) The Regulation of Public Space in Hartford Connecticut: The Criminalization of the Homeless. Advisor: William Berentsen .

John Hangen , (M.A.) Fallout: The Aftermath of a Nuclear Power Plant Decommissioning on a Rural Municipality. Advisor: William Berentsen .

C. Patrick Heidkamp , (M.A.) Waterfront Revitalization, Gentrification and Capital on the Waterfront – An Analysis of Waterfront Revitalization in Two Small Port Cities: Portsmouth, NH and Newport, RI. Advisor: William Berentsen .

Chinekwu Obidoa , (M.A.) Geographical Analysis of HIV/AIDS Infection in Nigeria. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Stephen Scobie , (M.A.) Geographic Contingency and Commuting Time. Advisor: Thomas Cooke .

Julie Annino , (Ph.D.) Travel Behavior and Intelligent Transportation Systems . Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Mary Melson , (M.A.) Changes in the Spatial Distribution of Women in Connecticut Between 1940 and 2000. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Amie Tillmann , (M.A.) Screams from the Quiet Corner? A Regression Analysis of Crime in Windham County, Connecticut. Advisor: Thomas Cooke .

April Forsman , (M.A.) An Assessment of Satisfaction Among Residents of New Urbanist Communities. Advisor: Thomas Cooke .

Xiaojing Wei , (M.A.) Analyzing the Relationship Between Motor Vehicle Crash Locations, Ambulance Dispatch Sites and Emergency Room Locations Using Data on Motor Vehicle Crash Occurring on State or Local Roads in Northeastern Connecticut. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Stephen Baker , (M.A.) Geographic Dimensions of Poverty and Affluence within the Bridgeport-Milford PMSA. Advisor: Peter Halvorson .

Paul Fernald , (M.A.) New Gold Mountain: Contrasts in Chinese Migration and Settlement Patterns in Australia. Advisor: Wei Li .

F. Tyler Huffman , (M.A.) Automated Label Point Annotation as a Location Set Covering Problem. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

David Merwin , (M.A.) Applying Artificial Neural Networks for Spatial Interpolation of Digital Elevation Models. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Adam Winters , (M.A.) Analyzing Coverage Areas for Emergency Medical Services in the North Central Connecticut Region. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Edmund Zolnik , (M.A.) Urban Social Indicators: Canada and the USA. Advisor: Thomas Cooke.

Stewart Crone , (M.A.) An Analysis of Redistricting Connecticut Congressional Districts Following the 2000 Census. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Kevin Nolan , (M.A.) Facility Location in a Competitive Environment. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Brian Pop e, (M.A.) Creating a Campus Accessibility Map for the Disabled. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Stephen Martin , (M.A.) The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and Its Effect on Environmental Equity Studies. Advisor: Dean Hanink.

Paul Samara , (M.A.) Urban Change Detection Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Data During Different Real Estate Market Cycles in Connecticut. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Christine Seidel , (M.A.) A Watershed Analysis Method to Predict Base Flow Water Quality Using GIS and Landscape Spatial Pattern Analysis: Tolland County , Connecticut - Winter Season. Advisor: Robert Andrle .

Matthew Stutts , (M.A.) Evaluating the Spatial Demands for U.S. National Battleground Parks. Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Stacey Barron , (M.A.) Journey-to-work Patterns Among University of Connecticut Employees: An Empirical Examination of Commuting Distances and Times Using Survey Methodology. Advisor: Peter Halvorson .

Jeffrey Crocker , (M.A.) Regional Accessibility Between the European Union and East-Central Europe: An Analysis and Application of the Market Potential and Aggregate Travel Models. Advisor: William Berentsen .

William Kida , (M.A.) Using Delphi to Couple an External Linear Programming Model to ArcView. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Alexander Mavrides , (M.A.) Siting a Municipal Composting Facility in Mansfield, Connecticut and Developing and Efficient Yard Waste Collection Routing Scheme Using Geographic Information Systems. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Jennifer Roberts (M.A.) An Analysis of Availability and Accessibility of Mammography Facilities in Connecticut Using a Singly Constrained Spatial Interaction Model. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Richard Mrozinski , (M.A.) A Methodology for the Spatial Interpolation of Area Units. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Thomas Mueller , (M.A.) Spatial Variation of Mortgage Lending in the Capitol Planning Region. Advisor: Peter Halvorson .

Kristine Noviello , (M.A.) A Comparison of the Air Passenger Industry and the Air Cargo Industry with Respect to Hub Locations. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Michael Olkin , (M.A.) Assessment of Geographical Skills Acquired by Gifted Middle School Students Using GIS in a Constructive Learning Environment. Advisor: Judith Meyer .

Gerald Palmer , (M.A.) A Market Area Analysis of Corporate and Franchise Networks in the Real Estate Brokerage Industry. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Kristopher White , (M.A.) Atlantic Salmon Restoration: A Geographic Analysis. Advisor: Dean Hanink.

Christina Cullen , (M.A.) Public Housing Concentration: Assessment of a New Policy to Change This Pattern. Advisor: Peter Halvorson .

Elizabeth Frederic , (M.A.) Barn Preservation in Maine. Advisor: John Allen .

Michael Jurmu , (M.A.) Morphology of a Wetland Stream. Advisor: Robert Andrle .

Thomas Kolb e, (M.A.) Circum-Pacific Trade and APEC: An Empirical Analysis. Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Ronald Trotta , (M.A.) Religious Participation and Demographic Change: A Study of the Unchurched in America. Advisor: Peter Halvorson .

Jane Evancie , (M.A.) A Methodology for Determining Regional High Technology Agglomeration Potential. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Kevin Joy , (M.A.) Estimating Child Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields Associated with Transmission Lines in Hartford County, Connecticut. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Jacqueline MacInnis , (M.A.) Spatial Patterns and Determining Factors in the Adoption of Curbside versus Drop-off Recycling. Advisor: John Allen .

Scott November , (M.A.) Multi-objective Analysis of School District Regionalization Alternatives in Connecticut. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Jeffrey Sanders , (M.A.) An Economic Assessment of the Trade and Investment Patterns of U.S. and Mexico with Implications for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Advisor: Dean Hanink .

Paul Davis , (M.A.) Historical Geography of Land Preservation in the Joshua's Tract Area of Connecticut. Advisor: John Allen .

Russell Gaulin , (M.A.) Remote Sensing and GIS Analysis of Land Use Sustainability in Hill Forests of Southeast Asia 's Golden Triangle Region. Advisor: John Allen .

Ted Milligan , (M.A.) Changing Spatial Patterns of Urban Poverty. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Stephen Pritchard , (M.A.) A Method for Highway Corridor Selection using Network Modelling. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Tracy Smith , (M.A.) Institutional Responses to Demographic Change: A Case Study of Religious Denominations in America. Advisor: Peter Halvorson .

Valerie Kier , (M.A.) The Economic Impacts of Ukrainian Independence as Evaluated by Input-Output Analysis and Trade Theory. Advisor: William Berentsen .

Paul O'Packi , (M.A.) A Spatial Decision Support System for Managing a Home-delivered Meals Service. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Danny Stewart , (M.A.) Income as a Measure of Social and Economic Patters Within Various Regional Configurations. Advisor: Peter Halvorson .

Barbara Hackney , (M.A.) Measuring Diversity in Connecticut's Housing Stock. Advisor: Ellen Cromley .

Jennifer Young , (M.A.) Human Manipulation of the Historical Hudson Shoreline. Advisor: John Allen .

Amy Hoyt , (M.A.) An Historical Risk Identification System. Advisor: John Allen .

Stephen Morse , (M.S.) A Multi-objective Approach to Evaluating Line Generalization. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Richard Annitto , (M.S.) MARKMAP: A Geographic Information System For Market Area Analysis. Advisor: Robert Cromley .

Dissertations

Adera, Saalem. "Use-inspired hydrology in landscapes experiencing rapid anthropogenic change: deforestation-rainfall associations in Brazil and streamflow prediction in California."

Arroyo, Alexander. "Designs for an Ocean: Transoceanic Imaginaries and Geographic Techniques of American Empire in the North Pacific and Bering Sea, 1867-1973."

Elrick, John. "Model City: Technologies of Government in the San Francisco Bay Area."

Heitz, Kaily. "Oakland is a Vibe: Blackness, Cultural Framings and Emancipations of The Town."

Jiao, Yi. "The Breathing of Halogenated Volatile Organic Compounds (HVOCs) from Human-impacted Ecosystems."

Martin, Bridget. "Land Power: Real Estate and the US Military in South Korea."

Beller, Erin. "Past Forward: Using History to Inform Multi-Benefit Ecosystem Management in Human-Dominated Landscapes."

Kong, Wenwen. "Westerly Jet and Seasonal Transitions of the East Asian Summer Monsoon."

Martin, Jeffrey Vance. "In the Shadow of the Wolf: Wildlife Conflict and Land Use Politics in the New West."

Meche, Brittany. "Securing the Sahel: Nature, Catastrophe, and the Empire of Expertise."

Palmer, Meredith. "Land, Family, Body: Measurement and the Racial Politics of US Colonialism in Haudenosaunee Country."

Payne, William. "Algorithmic Gentrification: Locating Value in Urban Information Systems."

Torkelson, Erin. "Taken for Granted: Geographies of Social Welfare in South Africa."

Tsai, Shu-Wei. "Heritage Modernity: Heritagization of the Grand Canal and Everyday Life in Hangzhou, China."

Ma, Hongxu. "Data-driven Approaches to Resolving Feedback Processes Driving the Earth System Over Multi-spatial and Temporal Scales."

Marston, Andrea. "Thieves of  Patria : Vertical Politics in Plurinational Bolivia."

Rodenbiker, Jesse. "Ecological States: Science, Nature, and Cities in Contemporary China."

Shattuck, Annie. "Risky Subjects: Vulnerability and Uncertainty in the Global Pesticide Boom."

Werth, Alex. "Racial Reverberations: Music, Dance, and Disturbance in Oakland After Black Power."

Williams, Morgan M. "Pedogenic Process in Engineered Soils for Radioactive Waste Containment."

Anton, Glenna. "The Cultural Politics of Water Privatization in an Arab Israeli Town."

Hawthorne, Camilla A. "There Are No Black Italians? Race and Citizenship in the Black Mediterranean."

Giglioli, Ilaria. "Unmaking the Mediterranean Border. Mediterraneanism, Colonial Mobilities, and Postcolonial Migration."

Tiberio, Alessandro. "Impossible Landings: Precarity, Populism, and Walling in a 'European' Refugee Crisis."

Van Gordon, Mollie M. "Land Cover, Climatology, and Hydrology in the West African Sahel: Inductive Data-driven Approaches in Data-sparse Environments."

List, Nicole C. "Land Grabs in Urban Frontiers: Producing Inequality in Senegal's Dakar Region."

Oliveira, Gustavo De Lima Torres. “The South-South Question: Transforming Brazil-China Agroindustrial Partnerships.”

Potts, Shaina S. "Displaced Sovereignty: US Law and the Transformation of International Financial Space."

Bhattacharya, Tripti. "Causes and Impacts of Rainfall Variability In Central Mexico on Multiple Timescales."

Courson, Elias E. "Spaces of Insurgency: Petro-Violence and the Geography of Conflict in Nigeria's Niger Delta."

Ekman, Peter. "Suburbs of Last Resort: Landscape, Life, and Ruin on the Edges of San Francisco Bay."

Owen, Lance. 

Baca, Jennifer. “Liberating Forestry: Forestry Workers, Participatory Politics, and the Chilean Nation.”

Ballve, Teo. “Territorial Masquerades: Frontier State Formations in Northwest Colombia.”

Carlisle, Liz. “Pulses and Populism: Diversified Farming on the Northern Great Plains.”

Collins, Erin E. “Reanimated City: A Spatial Analysis of State Rule, Rupture, and Repurposing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (1979-1993).”

Cram, Shannon. “Unmaking the Bomb: Waste Health, and the Politics of Impossibility at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.”

deGrassi, Aaron. “Provisional Reconstructions: Geo-Histories of Infrastructure and Agrarian Configuration in Malanje, Angola.”

Fontes, Anthony. “Violent Itineraries: Maras and the Military in Guatemala City.”

Greenburg, Jennifer. “We’re an NGO with guns”: Haitian geographies of US militarized development.” 

Klinger, Julie. “On the Rare Earth Frontier.”

Marchesi, Greta. “Conceiving Earths: Imagining Nature and Society in a Global Environment.”

Romero, Adam. “The Alchemy of Capital: Industrial Waste and Chemicalization of US Agriculture.”

Stehlin, John. “Business Cycles: Race, Gentrification, and Bicycle Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area.”

Tarr, Alexander. “Have Your City and Eat It Too: Los Angeles and the Urban Food Renaissance.”

Cowart, Alicia. “Paleoenvironmental Change in Central California in the late Pleistocene and Holocene: Impacts of Climate Change and Human Land Use on Vegetation and Fire Regimes.” 

Friedman, Andrew Ronald. “Changes in the interhemispheric temperature difference: forcings, feedbacks, and impacts.” 

Dillon, Lindsey. “Race, Waste, and Space: Brownfield Redevelopment, Environmental Justice, and the Transformation of San Francisco’s Southeastern Waterfront.” 

Knuth, Sarah Elizabeth. “Seeing Green: Speculative Urbanism in the Green Economy.” 

Liu, Yuwei. “Abrupt monsoon weakening and links to extratropical North Atlantic cooling.” 

Negrin, Diana. “Colores Mexicanos: Racial Alterity and the Right to the Mexican City.”

Singh, Raj Shekhar. “Hyper-resolution Global Land Surface Model at Regional-to-Local Scales with observed Groundwater data assimilation.” 

Arbona, Javier. “After the Blast: Building and Unbuilding Memories of Port Chicago.” 

Devine, Jennifer A. “Tourism and Territory in the Mayan World.”

Guimond, Katy. “Battle for The Bronx: Urban Revitalization In a Gentrifying City.” 

Kao, Shih-Yang. “The City Recycled: The Afterlives of Demolished Buildings in Postwar Beijing.”

Lunine, Seth. “Iron Oil, and Emeryville: Resource Industrialization and Metropolitan Expansion in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1850-1900.” 

Oh, Youjeong. “Spectacular Cities, Speculative Storytelling: Korean TV Dramas and the Selling of Place.” 

Reidy, Liam. “Lake Sediments as Evidence of Natural and Human-Induced Environmental Change from California and Nevada.”

Strange, Jason. “Seeking Higher Ground: Contemporary Back-to-the-Land Movements in Eastern Kentucky.” 

Woodworth, Max David. “Frontier Boomtown Urbanism: city buildings in Ordos Municipality, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 2001-2011.” 

Adachi, Yosuke. “A new model to construct ice stream surface elevation profiles and calculate contributions to sea-level rise.”

Brahinsky, Rachel. “The Making and Unmaking of Southeast San Francisco.” 

Brown, Sandra Lynn. “Fairness for whom? Regulating the socio-ecological relations of banana production through voluntary certification and labeling.”

Minkoff-Zern, Laura-Anne. “Migrations of Hunger and Knowledge: Food Insecurity and California’s Indigenous Farmworkers”

Sengupta, Dyuti. “Models of Five Climatically Sensitive Taxa in Central and Northwestern Mexico During the Present, the mid-Holocene and the Last Glacial Maximum.”

Thottathil, Sapna Elizabeth. “Incredible!India? The politics and possibilities of organic agriculture in Kerala.” 

Bliss, Andrew Knisely. “Ablation on Taylor Glacier, Antarctica”

Casolo, Jennifer Jean. “Unthinkable Rebellion and the Praxis of the Possible: Ch’orti’ Campesin@ Struggles in Guatemala’s Eastern Highlands”

Doshi, Sapana Lisa Dilipkumar. “The Right to the Slum? Redevelopment, Rule and the Politics of Difference in Mumbai”

Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua Ian. “The Caribbean in the World: Imaginative Geographies in the Independence Age”

Johnson, Leigh Taylor. “Insuring climate change? Science, fear, and value in reinsurance markets”

Kinder, Kimberley A. “CHANNELING POLITICS”

McClintock, Nathan Crane. “Cultivation, Capital, and Contamination: Urban Agriculture in Oakland, California” 

Stabrowski, Filip Akira. “Housing Polish Greenpoint: Property and Power in a Gentrifying Brooklyn Neighborhood” 

Park, Hyo Seok. “The Impact of the Central Asian Mountains on Downstream Storminess and Monsoon Onset”

De Lara, Juan. “Remapping Inland Southern California: Global Commodity Distribution, Land Speculation, and Politics in the Inland Empire”

Fredericks, Rosalind. “Doing the Dirty Work: The Cultural Politics of Garbage Collection in Dakar, Senegal”

Graham, Daniel. “Ghosts and Warriors: Cultural-Political Dynamics of Indigenous Resource Struggles in Western Honduras”

Guarin, Alejandro. “Old Links in a New Chain: The Unlikely Resilience of Corner Stores in Bogota, Colombia”

Han, Ju Hui Judy. “Contemporary Korean/American Evangelical Missions: Politics of Space, Gender, and Difference”

Lindenbaum, John. “The Industry, Geography, and Social Effects of Contemporary Christian Music” 

Van Ausdal, Shawn. “The Logic of Livestock: An Historical Geography of Cattle Ranching in Colombia, 1850-1950”

Chiang, Lifang. “Hidden Innovation: A Reconsideration of an “Old Economy” Industry in a “New Economy” Region” 

Johnstone, James Andrew. “Climate Variability of Northern California and its Global Connections”

Lave, Rebecca Anne. “The Rosgen Wars and the Shifting Political Economy of Expertise” 

Paglen, Trevor. “Blank Spots on a Map”

Schmidt, Daniel Paul. “A Palynological and Stratigraphic Analysis of Mangrove Sediments at Punta Galeta, Panama”

Anderson, Rebecca. “Stable Isotope and Pollen Evidence for Late Quaternary Climate Change in Southern Coastal California”

Bryan, Joseph Henry. “Map or be Mapped: Land, Race, and Property in Eastern Nicaragua” 

Carlisle, Heather Lynn. “Environment and Security in the Aral Sea Basin”

Gardner, Benjamin Richard. “Producing Pastoral Power: Territory, Identity and Rule in Tanzanian Maasailand” 

Krupar, Shiloh Renee. “Shanghai’s Super Vision: Spectacular Spaces and Urban Planning Exhibition” 

Moore, Jason W. “Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism” 

Niedt, Christopher William. “The Politics of Prosperity and Crisis in an Industrial Suburb: Dundalk, Maryland, 1920-2005” 

Rhee, Nari. “Searching for Working Class Politics: Labor, Community and Urban Power in Silicon Valley”

Schweikhardt, Peter. “Intra-annual to centennial-scale variability in San Francisco Bay during the Holocene: Inferences from geochemical analysis of biogenic carbonate fossils” 

Karacas, Cary Lee. “Tokyo From the Fire: War, Occupation, and the Remaking of a Metropolis” 

Bailey, Jodi L. “The Limits of Largess: International Environmental NGOs, Philanthropy, and Conservation”

Watson, Elizabeth Burke. “Environmental Change in San Francisco Estuary Tidal Marshes” 

Hunter, Mark. “Building a Home: Unemployment, Intimacy, and AIDS in South Africa” 

Park, Jungjae. “Holocene Climate Change and Human Environmental Impacts in Guanajuato, Mexico”

Roark, Erin Brendan. “Biogeochemical Proxies of Environmental Change in Surface and Deep-sea Corals from the Pacific” 

Wahl, David. “Climate Change and Human Impacts in the Southern Maya Lowlands: A Paleoenvironmental Perspective from the Northern Peten, Guatemala” 

Loyd, Jenna Morvren. “Freedom’s Body: Radical Health Activism in Los Angeles, 1963 to 1978” 

Guthey, Greig Tor. “Terroir and the Politics of Agro -Industry in Çalifornia’s North Coast Wine District” 

Howard, Jeanette Kay. “Freshwater Mussels in California’s North Coastal Streams:  Current Status and Geomorphic Controls” 

Leal, Claudia María. “Black Forests: The Pacific Lowlands of Colombia, 1850-1930” 

Rogers, Clinton Bryce. “The Re-Emergence of an Entrepreneurial Community in the Himalayan Highlands of Nepal:  Commercial Opportunity, Cooperative Venture Financing, and Competitive Private Enterprise in Manang (Nyishang)” 

Smith, Francis James. “Coastal Geography of Rip Currents:  Pacific Ocean Beaches and Public Safety, San Francisco Area, California”

Starratt, Scott William. “Late Holocene Diatom and Geochemical Evidence of Freshwater Flow Variation in Northern San Francisco Bay, California” 

Bobrow-Strain, Aaron. “Rethinking Thuggery: Landowners, Territory, and Violence in Chiapas, Mexico” 

Conserva, MariaElena. “Long-term Climate and Vegetation Change on the Northern Frontier of Mesoamerica, Guanajuato, Mexico”

DeRubertis, Diana. “Severe Convective Storms and U.S. Climate Change in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century” 

Dolhinow, Rebecca. “Borderlands Justice: Women’s Community Activism in the Colonias of Dona Ana County, New Mexico” 

Buck, Daniel. “Constructing China’s Capitalism, Connecting Shanghai’s Urban and Rural Industries” 

Davis, M. Kathryn. “Sardine Oil on Troubled Waters: The Boom and Bust of California’s Sardine Industry, 1905-1955” 

Kosek, Jon (Jake) Gregory. “The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico” 

Lamoureux, Elisabeth A. “‘I Can’t Participate and Do What I Want’: Female Labor Militancy in South Korea” 

Malamud-Roam, Frances. “A Late Holocene History of Vegetation Change in San Francisco Estuary Marshes Using Stable Carbon Isotopes and Pollen Analysis” 

Nichols, Sandra L. “Saints, Peaches, and Wine: Mexican Migrants and the Transformation of Los Haro, Zacatecas and Napa, California” 

Oglesby, Elizabeth Ann. “Politics at Work: Elites, Labor and Agrarian Modernization in Guatemala 1980-2000” 

Siegel, Stuart William. “Slough Channel Network and Marsh Plain Morphodynamics in a Rapidly Accreting Tidal Marsh Restoration on Diked, Subsided Baylands, San Francisco Estuary, California” 

Weber, Peter Kilian. “Geochemical Markers in the Otoliths of Chinook Salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River System, California” 

Freeman, James Patrick. “Face to Face but Worlds Apart: The Geography of Class in the Public Space of Rio de Janeiro” 

Johnson, Katherine. “Federalism and the Origins of the Urban Crisis:  The Geo-Politics of Housing and Highways, 1916-1956”  

Wanket, James. “Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate of the Klamath Mountains” 

Davis, Diana K. “Overgrazing the Range? A Political Ecology of Pastoralism in Southern Morocco” 

Dull, Robert Andrew. “El Bosque Perdido: A Cultural-Ecological History of Holocene Environmental Change in the Rio Paz Drainage Basin, Western El Salvador” 

Teisch, Jessica Beth. “Engineering Progress: Californians and the Making of a Global Economy” 

Wolford, Wendy Wei-Chen. “This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil” 

Acker, Robert. “The Geography of Political Fragmentation and Regional Integration in the Mekong River Valley” 

Churcher-Hoffmann, Tegan. “Reefs of Plenty to Reefs of Death: The Political Ecology of Coral Reef Health in Fiji and the Cook Islands” 

Mena, Luz Maria. “No Common Folk: Free Blacks and Race Relations in the Early Modernization of Havana (1830s-1840s)” 

Chari, Sharad. “The Agrarian Question Comes to Town: Making Knitwear Work in Tiruppur, South India” 

Malamud-Roam, Karl Patrick. “Muted Tidal Regimes in Marshes of the San Francisco Estuary: Theory and Implications for Ecological Restoration” 

Guthman, Julie Harriet. “Agrarian Dreams? The Paradox of Organic Farming in California“

Trist, Carolyn Rachel. “Changes in the Sea: The Political Ecology of Marine Management in Soufriere, St. Lucia”

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To what extent will future climate change influence the distribution of the red fox (vulpes vulpes) in australia using a climate stabilization scenario: a species distribution modelling study.

• George Denver
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How long will it take agricultural soils in Holbeach to recover from salinization, if no mitigation is put in place?

• Megan Alice Howard

Using multi-species distribution modelling to critically analyse causes of decline and potential recovery options of the Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus)

• Eva Philipa Waterfield

Using species distribution models for a data-rich keystone species, Pteropus poliocephalus, to inform conservation decisions for a data-poor keystone species, Eidolon helvum

• Bronwyn Leigh Isherwood

How is the microclimate of Lincoln affected by the urban heat island effect?

• Amy Atkinson

Pleistocene Rewilding in South America: Possibilities and pitfalls of megafauna rewilding with the example proxy species of Africa Elephants.

• Lauren Minshull

An Investigation into Anthropogenic Sources of Potentially Toxic Elements in Lincoln Cemetery Soils

• Ethan Gareth Umbo

Assessing the seasonal causes of Greenland blocking and the subsequent impacts on UK temperature, UK regional precipitation, and the North Atlantic Oscillation

• Alexander Robinson

Identification of the spatial epidemiology of child-health-related conditions: a spatial analysis of urban-rural populations

• Megan Valentine

UK temperature and precipitation changes and their relation to North Atlantic atmospheric circulation from 1950-2020

• Alexander Jacob Bilton

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As part of the third-year examination, students also submit a 10,000-word dissertation on a subject of their choice.

Starting in the second year, students work with a dissertation supervisor to develop their research topic, in an area of their interest; this is an opportunity to put into practice what has been taught in lectures, supervisions and practical classes. Data collection usually takes place in the summer vacation at the end of the second year.

The subjects and locations of dissertations vary widely, as a few titles from recent years indicate:

• A Lost Community? Migration and Community on St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly
• Saviour or Stealth Tax? Pay-by-use Domestic Waste Charging in Dublin, Ireland
• Food Access in Malawi: An Island Perspective
• Living in the Valley of the Shadow of Death? Management and Risk Perception of Volcanic Hazards near Mt Rainier, WA
• Sulphur Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulphide Emissions from Mutnovsky Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
• Recent Temporal Changes and Spatial Trends in the Dynamics of a Shrinking Valley Glacier: Haut Glacier D’Arolla, Switzerland

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Some students choose to do the research for their dissertations abroad, whilst others stay in the British Isles. Some funding is available via the Department and there are also University travel awards for which there is open competition. Many Colleges also provide generous financial support for travelling during the vacations.

For me the dissertation was the most meaningful component of the Geography course, because I learnt so much simply through working on a project of my own interest and design from start to finish. This independence means you have to organise everything effectively by yourself, but is also freeing in how you have lots of choice and control over your work. You can explore topics on the fringes of the Geography course in more detail, and even connect your work to interests outside Geography. My topic, for example, looked at the regulation of busking, which not only allowed me to connect my research to my love of music and interest in politics, but also allowed me to consider a niche subject area that had hardly been explored before in Geography.

My research was largely interview-based, which presented a fair few challenges but was also the most enjoyable part for me. Finding enough contacts for each group implicated in my research (buskers, councillors, and residents) – and getting them to reply to emails – was perhaps the hardest aspect of this! But once I was in good correspondence with a few individuals in each group they were happy to give me more contacts. It was especially heartening to see people’s interest in my research topic, and how willing they were to give their time and help me. Meeting such kind and engaging people from all walks of life, and having the privilege of hearing their stories and outlooks, is what gives me such fond memories of my dissertation fieldwork. Many of these people I’m still in touch with now, and they are helping me with new ventures post-Cambridge.

Jack Lowe, Girton College

Unlike some other departments where the student is allocated and assisted by a supervisor to guide through the dissertation process, the Geography Department takes a much more individualistic research approach. The department can assist financially and faculty members are able to provide some guidance, however, much of your dissertation is your own work. Whilst this may seem daunting at first, you get the full research experience from planning to execution and the write-up.

Benefiting from the extremely broad spectrum of fields that Geography covers, the choice of dissertation subject is infinite. Furthermore, topics are not limited to what is covered in lectures, in fact, most decide to conduct independent research on a topic that interests them, which is usually beyond what is taught in the department. My dissertation was in the field of urban climatology, something quite different from what is offered in lectures.

With the progression and acceleration of urbanisation on a global scale paralleled with on-going climate change, I investigated how urban environments played a role. My study was based in Tokyo and encompassed the Greater Tokyo area which covers a range of urban and rural areas. I received various grants from the Geography department, university and college which allowed me to fully fund the research. I conducted a time series analysis into trends and variability using JRA-55 reanalysis data and ground station temperature measurements across 29 stations in the Greater Tokyo region from 1958-2012 to show how urban environments influence local microclimates. The handling of >2,000,000 data points was certainly a challenge, however, exploring a topic of interest to such detail as part of an independent research is a highly rewarding experience and is certainly one of the most memorable component of my Geographical Tripos.

Tomohito Shibata, King’s College

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