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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

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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Geography, Environment and Planning Theses and Dissertations

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

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

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

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

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

Testing the Feasibility of Bioacoustic Localization in Urban Environments , Blaire O'neal

Agriculture, Environmental Restoration and Ecosystem Services: Assessing the Costs of Water Storage on Agricultural Lands in South Florida , Kayla Ouellette

Atmospheric and Ocean Conditions and Social Aspects Associated with Rip Current Drownings in the United States , Charles Hugh Paxton

Still Waters Run Deep: Landscaping Practices, Community Perceptions, and Social Indicators for Stormwater Nonpoint Source Pollution Management in Manatee County, Florida , Ann Rebecca Persaud

An Analysis of Public Perception and Response to Hurricane Sandy , Lindsay L. Rice

Federal Disaster Declarations and Denials: Analyzing Spatial Equity in the Implementation of the Stafford Act , Richard Salkowe

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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”

Past dissertations

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Doctoral dissertations and masters theses.

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 .

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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

Coastal Climate Change Adaptation: the Influence of Perceived Risk, Uncertainty, Trust, and Scale , Nathan P. Kettle

Relative Roles of Environmental Conditions and Riverscape Connectivity On Fish Metacommunity Structure , Joshua Robert Leisen

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A selection of dissertations from recent undergraduate students, and MPhil Conservation Leadership placement reports*, are now available for reading access online.

We regret to announce that paper copies of dissertations submitted prior to 2020 are not included in this service.

Paper copies of dissertations between 2015-2019 can only be viewed upon request in the Geography Library itself – please ask staff for access. Dissertations earlier than 2015 may be available to view in the Manuscripts Reading Room at the UL (again you need to request access in advance to view these). To find out about the availability of paper copies of earlier dissertations, you will need to search on iDiscover by searching using the words ‘Geography’, ‘Tripos’ and ‘Dissertation’. Check the holdings information to see whether they have a note to say ‘Transferred to UL’.

Please note down the file number (in the first column) before you proceed to the online request form , where you can request access to two dissertations per application. It is best to use this form from the Geography intranet.

You can also request a particular dissertation by clicking on the number in the first column of the table, which also takes you through to the request form.

Terms and conditions apply, and you must agree to these before you are given access.

Please note we can only process requests during our staffed hours. Please see the Library opening hours for further details.

*An index of the MPhil Conservation Leadership reports that are available to view are on the dedicated Moodle page for students.

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Geography and the Environment: Theses and Dissertations

Introduction.

Theses and dissertations are documents that present an author's research findings, which are submitted to the University in support of their academic degree. They are very useful to consult when carrying out your own research because they:

• provide a springboard to scope existing literature
• provide inspiration for the finished product
• show you the evolution of an author's ideas over time
• provide relevant and up-to-date research (for recent theses and dissertations)

On this page you will find guidance on how to search for and access theses and dissertations in the Bodleian Libraries and beyond.

Definitions

Terms you may encounter in your research.

Thesis: In the UK, a thesis is normally a document that presents an author's research findings as part of a doctoral or research programme.

Dissertation: In the UK, a dissertation is normally a document that presents an author's research findings as part of an undergraduate or master's programme.

DPhil: An abbreviation for Doctor of Philosophy, which is an advanced research qualification. You may also see it referred to as PhD.

ORA: The Oxford University Research Archive , an institutional repository for the University of Oxford's research output including digital theses.

Theses and dissertations

• Reading theses and dissertations in the Bodleian Libraries
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The Bodleian Libraries collection holds DPhil, MLitt and MPhil theses deposited at the University of Oxford, which you can consult. You may also be interested to read theses and dissertations beyond the University of Oxford, some of which can be read online, or you can request an inter-library loan.

Help with theses and dissertations

To find out more about how to find and access theses and dissertations in the Bodleian Libraries and beyond, we recommend the following:

• Bodleian Libraries theses and dissertations Links to information on accessing the Bodleian Libraries collections of Oxford, UK, US and other international theses.
• Oxford University Research Archive guide
• Help & guidance for digital theses Information on copyright, how to deposit your thesis in ORA and other important matters
• Guide to copyright The Bodleian Libraries' Quick guide to copyright and digital sources.

Prize winning undergraduate dissertations are available in print in the Social Science Library opposite the printing and photocopying room. These start from the year 2000 onwards. Prize winning dissertations from 1979 to 1999 are located offsite but can be ordered to the Social Science Library by searching for the title on SOLO. A full list of the titles is located with the dissertations in the library and is also  here .

Prize winning dissertations from 2019 are also available on the SOGE intranet  here .

There is also a a listing of all non-prize winning dissertations by year from 2003 which includes their abstracts, located by the dissertations. 

BCM, ECM, NSEG & WSPM MSc Dissertations

MSc dissertations with a Distinction are located in the Social Science Library opposite the printer and photocopier room. All dissertations with a Distinction are available in printed format for the years 1995 to 2017. Dissertations from 2018 onwards are only available electronically on the SOGE intranet  here .

DPhil theses in print format are kept off-site at the Bodleian Book Storage Facility. They can be found on SOLO by a keyword search including the word ‘thesis’. Alternatively there is a browseable list by year on the SOGE intranet with links to SOLO  here .

DPhil theses in print format can only be requested to the Weston Library for consultation.

Many of the more recent DPhil theses are also available to read online unless they have an embargo. These are on the university repository,  ORA . The SOGE intranet  browseable list  also includes links to the online full text in ORA where available.

Further information about finding theses, both in Oxford and in other universities can be found  here . 

Depositing your thesis

It is mandatory for students completing a research degree at the University of Oxford (registered to a programme of study on or after 1st October 2007) to deposit an electronic copy of their theses with the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) in order to meet the requirements of their award. To find out more, visit the Oxford University Research Archive guide.

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Doctoral Dissertations in Geography and Geography and Urban Regional Analysis

The PhD in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis program at UNC Charlotte was launched in Fall 2006 and graduated its first students in 2011. In 2016, Faculty in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences approved adjustment of the degree’s name to better reflect the breadth of student interest, faculty expertise and program specialization in three core areas of study: Urban Regional Analysis; Earth and Environmental Sciences and Geographic Informational Systems and Technology. Below is a listing of completed dissertations since the program’s inception in the following format: Student Name , “Dissertation Title.” (Faculty Advisor)

2021 – 2020 – 2019 – 2018 – 2017 – 2016 – 2015 – 2014 – 2013 – 2012 – 2011

Paul Jung , “Distance Friction and Spatial Interaction Dynamics of International Freight Transportation.” (Jean-Claude Thill)

Danny Yonto , “Gentrification in Charlotte: A Complex Tale of Urban Redevelopment Across Multiple Scales.” (Jean-Claude Thill)

Barbara Pinson Lash , “An Athletes Humble Beginnings: A place-based narrative in need of repair.” (Colleen Hammelman)

Elina Shepard (Sukaryavichute) , “Impacts of Light Rail Investment on Commercial Landscapes in Transit Neighborhoods.” (Elizabeth Delmelle)

Claudio Owusu, “Multilevel Geocoding and Spatial Modeling to Predict Risk of Water Contamination found in Private Wells across Gaston County, North Carolina.” (Eric Delmelle)

Brisa Urquieta de Hernandez , “The Influence of Urban Restructuring on the Social Determinants of Health in a Hispanic Immigrant Population in Charlotte, North Carolina.” (Heather Smith)

Minrui Zheng , “Spatially Explicit Hyperparameter Optimization for Neural Networks.” (Wenwu Tang)

Daidai Shen , “Study of High-Skill Manufacturing in the Space Economy: Understanding the Logic of Network and Knowledge Diffusion through its Cities.” (Jean-Claude Thill)

Jing Deng, “A GIS-Based Expert System to Improve the Accuracy of Wetland Classification.” (Eric Delmelle)

Michael Desjardins , “A Mixed-methods Approach for Vector-borne Disease Surveillance in Colombia.” (Eric Delmelle)

Cache Owens , “Demystifying the Charlotte Way: Towards an Understanding of Collective Action for Education in the Queens City.” (Janni Sorensen)

Yinan He , “Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Understanding the Interacting Environmental Disturbances of Forest Fire and Plant Disease” (Gang Chen)

Thomas J. Howarth , “Competing Rationalities: Capital, Power, Gentrification and Affordable Housing in Charlotte, North Carolina.” (Janni Sorensen)

Maryam Khabazi , “Quantifying Light Rail’s Effect on Intra-urban Distribution of Economic Activity and community Patterns.” (Isabelle Nilsson)

Elizabeth Shockey-Morrell , “Subprime Charlotte: Trajectories of Neighborhood Change in a Globalizing New South City.” (Heather Smith)

Tonya Farrow-Chestnut , “Defining Multimorbidity Space; Structural characteristics, spatial variation of inpatient multimorbidity networks (IMN), and coronary heart disease.” (Harrison Campbell)

Alex Hohl, “Accelerating the Detection of Space-Time Patterns Under Non-Stationary Background Population.” (Eric Delmelle)

Adam Griffith , “Planning for Coastal Resilience: the Intersection of Theory and Practice.” (Wei-Ning Xiang)

Ari Whiteman , “Socioeconomic Variation and Aedes Mosquitoes: An Examination of Vector-Borne Disease Transmission Risk in the Urban Environment.” (Eric Delmelle)

Tetianna Lysenko , “Labor Outcomes of Recent U.S. College Graduates in the STEM Disciplines: From the College Location Perspective.” (Qingfang Wang)

Wenpeng Feng , “Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Modeling of Urban Growth With Cyberinfrastrucre: A Surrogate-Based Approach.” (Wenwu Tang)

Angel Hjarding , “The Butterfly Highway: Connecting People and Nature.” (Janni Sorensen)

Ran Tao, “No Boundary for Spatial Interactions– Exploratory Spatial Flow Data Analysis.” (Jean-Claude Thill)

Coline Dony , “Better Access to Parks to Improve Population Health In Mecklenburg County, N.C.” (Eric Delmelle)

Johanna (Claire) Schuch , “Socio-Spatial Geographies of Hispanic Immigrant Youth Accessing the Urban Labor Market” (Heather Smith).

Yuhong Zhou , “Space-Time Dynamics of Single Family Residential Water Consumption in Charlotte, North Carolina” (Jean-Claude Thill).

Tara Bengle , “Learning and Understanding Empowerment Planning: An Emergent Model that Builds Community Capacity to Affect Neighborhood Planning Outcomes” (Janni Sorensen).

Melissa Currie , “Assessing Community Resilience at the Neighborhood Level in New Construction Starter-Homes in Charlotte, North Carolina” (Janni Sorensen).

Zhaoya (Amos) Gong , “Multiscaler Modeling of Polycentric Urban-Regional Systems: Economic Agglomeration, Scale Dependency and Agent Interactions” (Jean-Claude Thill).

Xuchu (Harry) Meng , “Environmental Impacts of Rapid Urbanization: Non-Point Source Pollution in Lingang New City, Shanghai, China”(Wei-Ning Xiang).

Kara Tiller , “Spatial Patterns of Landside Trade Impedance in Containerized South American Exports” (Jean-Claude Thill).

Kailas Venkitasubramanian , “Discovering Relationships between Material Consumption and Subjective Well-Being” (Jean-Claude Thill).

Robyn Byers-Stuber, “Planning for Sustainability on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: Linking Social Sustainability and Sea Level Rise” (Wei-Ning Xiang).

J. Thad Dixon, “Exploring Latino Healthcare Service Provision in a Pre-Emerging Immigrant Gateway State” (Heather Smith).

Monica Dorning, “ Landscape Change and Human-Environment Interactions: Implications for Natural Resource Management in Urbanizing Areas” (Ross Meentemeyer).

M. Greg Fields , “ The Correlates of Congestion: Investigating the Links between Congestion and Urban Area Characteristics” (Jean-Claude Thill).

Sara Gleave, “The Best Deal in Town? Associations Between Public Housing and Labor Market Inequality in the New Orleans- Metaiirie-Kenner MSA” (Qingfang Wang).

Mona Kashiha , “ Spatial Competition based on Customers’ Choice Histories: A Study of Trade Flows” (Jean-Claude Thill).

JaeSoen Son , “Hyperlink Network System and Image of Global Cities Webpages and their contents” (Jean-Claude Thill).

Amy Stephens-Davis ,“ Impacts of Urbanization and Landscape Change on Native Plant Diversity and the Distribution of Exotic Forest Invaders” (Jean-Claude Thill).

Diep Dao, “A Comprehensive Geospatial Knowledge Discovery Framework for the Spatial Association Rule Mining” (Jean-Claude Thill).

Paul McDaniel, “ Receptivity in a New Immigrant Gateway: Immigrant Settlement Geography, Public Education and Immigrant Integration in Charlotte, North Carolina” (Heather Smith).

Amr Ali, “The Influences of Urban Forms on ResidentialEnergy Consumption: A Demand-Side Forecasting Method for Energy Scenarios” (Jean-Claude Thill).

Elizabeth Delmelle, “ Spatial Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Quality of Life: Charlotte, N.C “(Jean-Claude Thill).

Ryan James, “The Effects of Space and Scale on Beta Convergence Testing in the United States, (1970-2004)” (Harry Campbell).

Jonathan Kozar, “Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Metropolitan Economic Growth: An Examination of the Computer Service Industry” (Bill Graves).

Thomas Ludden, “The Impacts of Mortgage Foreclosure on Housing Prices and Homeownership in Charlotte, North Carolina” (Owen Furuseth).

Tomas Vaclavik, “Frontiers in Invasive Species Distribution Modeling (iSDM): Assessing effects of Absence Data, Dispersal Constraints, Stage of Invasion and Spatial dependence” (Ross Meentemeyer).

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The Library Online Catalog will have a record for all MSU-produced theses and dissertations. We own very few theses and dissertations from other universities in paper format. The trick for finding theses in the catalog is to do a keyword search keyword and thesis . This will work for theses and dissertations.  MSU theses and dissertations are kept in the center part of the basement, part way between the oversized collection and the planning reports.

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geography

The Geography Ph.D. program offers concentrations in the following areas: cultural-regional geography of Africa, East Asia, Latin America, Russia/Eurasia, and the United States; geographic information science (including cartography and remote sensing); and physical/environmental geography.

Research Skills Requirement

Research skills are important elements of any graduate program and should complement the student's research topic. Coursework necessary to meet this requirement should commence early in the program. Selection of a particular Research Skills option must be approved by the student's advisor and student's committee members. A student's Research Skills requirement may be met by one of the following:

1. Demonstrate a reading, writing, and speaking capability in a single foreign language sufficient to enable the student to do field work without an interpreter. An examination for competence, including written and oral portions, will be conducted by the appropriate language department having expertise in that language.

2. Demonstrate a satisfactory capability in one research skill from the list below. The actual courses must be approved by the student's advisor and committee members.

 a. Computer Science - complete a computer-programming course in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (e.g., C++, Fortran, or Visual Basic) with a grade of B or higher and create a substantial computer program that illustrates a geographic application of that language. Both the course and computer program must be approved by the Computer Programming Committee of the Department of Geography.

 b. Mathematics - complete nine hours of courses at the 500 level or above with a grade of B or better.

 c. Statistics - complete nine hours of courses outside the Geography Department at the 500 level or above with a grade of B or higher.

 d. An outside discipline relevant to the student's field(s) of specialization within geography, e.g., anthropology, biology, economics, geology, history, psychology - complete nine hours of courses at the 500 level or above with a grade of B or higher. (Atmospheric science courses may be used for this option, but not courses listed or cross-listed as geography.) Students may petition the Graduate Affairs Committee to have nine hours of courses at the 500-level or above in multiple departments fulfill this requirement.

Students whose native language is not English may, in some cases, use their native language to fulfill the Research Skills requirement but only if the language is considered an adequate research tool for their program and is justified by the student's advisor and committee members. Using a native language to fulfill part of the Research Skills requirement must have GSC approval.

Responsible Scholarship Requirement

As part of the University requirement that all PhD students receive "training in responsible scholarship relative to the field of study," the Department of Geography will conduct a non-credit training seminar in responsible scholarship to be held at the beginning of spring semester each year. This requirement must be completed prior to taking the comprehensive exam. The seminar consists of eight (8) contact hours between seminar leaders and PhD students. Seminar leaders will include faculty members in the Geography Department who represent the broad range of research fields in Geography and who have expertise and experience in the topic(s) they cover. Topics to be addressed will include (but are not limited to): human subjects, data management, conflicts of interest, appropriate research conduct, collaborative research, authorship of research articles and grant applications, citation ethics, plagiarism, copyright, peer review, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, mentor/student responsibilities, classroom behavior and ethics, and professional liability. The format will consist of readings, policy reviews and resources, short presentations, case studies, and discussion.

Engagement and Enrollment in Doctoral Programs

Prior to the semester in which the comprehensive exam is held, all doctoral students must complete minimum program engagement equivalent to two full-time semesters. This may be accomplished through either of the following:

1. Two semesters (fall and/or spring) of full-time enrollment in KU coursework, as defined by University policy

2. At least 18 hours of enrollment in KU coursework spread out over several part-time semesters

Comprehensive Examination

The comprehensive examination is scheduled when the student and the advisor believe that competence in the specialty or specialties has been achieved. Normally the process occurs after the student has completed nearly all of his/her coursework, although Graduate School regulations stipulate that the testing can take place as soon as five months after enrollment in the Ph.D. program. Admittance to the examination is by approval of the GSC. In petitioning for admittance, the student must submit the following materials at least three weeks prior to the scheduled examination (forms are available for 1 and 2 in the departmental office).

1. a program sheet listing courses taken, grades received, etc.

2. demonstration that the Research Skills and Responsible Scholarship requirements have been satisfied (see description above).

3. demonstration that the Residency Requirement has been satisfied (see description above).

4. a written dissertation proposal approved by the advisor (see Theses and Dissertations tab on main menu).

5. a list of examination committee members. The Graduate School requires that the committee consist of at least five members of the graduate faculty. People outside the university can be appointed ad hoc members as necessary. At least one member must be from a KU department outside of geography and at least three members must represent the department. Members are chosen by the student in consultation with the advisor on the basis of expertise in the areas of specialization. They must also be approved by the GSC and recommended by the department to the Graduate School.

6. The date and time proposed for the oral portion of the examination.

The comprehensive examination normally focuses on the student's areas of specialization, including proposed dissertation research. It consists of two parts: written questions submitted by the committee members and then an oral examination. At least four members of the committee must submit written questions. The procedure is for each examiner to give his/her questions to the chair of the student's committee at least one week before the written examinations begin. The committee chair has the responsibility of screening these questions for overlap and clarity, and then administering them, one set per day. The questions may be open-book or closed at the discretion of the individual submitting the questions, and the student normally will have up to eight hours to complete each set of questions. At the conclusion of the written portion of the examination, the committee chair will poll the committee. A majority of the members must approve their individual written portions of the examination in order for the second (oral) portion to take place. Three grades are possible for the overall examination: "honors," "satisfactory," and "unsatisfactory." In the unsatisfactory case, the student may be allowed to repeat the process upon recommendation of the committee. Such repetition can be undertaken no sooner than ninety days after the last testing. The comprehensive examination may be taken no more than three times. Approval of the Graduate School must be secured for the scheduling of this procedure and the request must be submitted three weeks prior to the proposed date for the examination.

The doctoral program generally includes sixty hours of work beyond the M.A. of which eighteen to thirty hours will be satisfied by the dissertation. No specific credit-hour figure can be set for a doctoral degree because each program is designed on an individual basis. Of greater importance is the student's demonstrated competence in the selected area(s) of specialization. The program is comprised of formal courses, seminars, individual research and reading, and preparation of a dissertation. Although no "outside minor" is formally required of candidates, the department favors study in auxiliary departments.

Programs are planned with the advisor and then approved by the GSC. Such approval must be secured at latest by the second month of the second semester of study. Changes in the approved program can be initiated by the student at any time but must be approved by the advisor and the GSC. Program sheets are available in the department office and must be filed before the comprehensive examination can be scheduled. Required Courses.

Geog 805 (History of Geographic Thought). Geog 980 (Seminar in Geography: Colloquium) for 1 credit hour during each of the first two semesters of residence at KU. Non-credit 8-hour Responsible Scholarship session held just before classes start in the spring semester.

Hald-day (non-credit) orientation before classes begin the fall of your first semester.

Major Areas of Study.

The capabilities and interests of the department fall into four areas of study: geographic information science, physical, human, and regional geography. A student concentrating within one of these divisions will develop a program in consultation with professors in that area. This program usually will include work in other aspects of geography and related disciplines. A student also may develop a second concentration if he or she takes at least nine hours in that specialty and includes a professor from that second area on the committee for the comprehensive examination. This second area of concentration may lie outside of geography.

Major Areas of Study for the Ph.D. in Geography

The level of competence attained in the major study should be such that the graduate can teach upper-level seminars and conduct research in that area. If a second area of concentration is chosen, it is often complementary to the first.  Here the graduate is expected to have knowledge sufficient to teach undergraduate courses at the introductory and intermediate levels, even if teaching is not the ultimate career objective.

In addition to the area(s) of specialization, the candidate is expected to have a broad background in general geography as well as knowledge of those research skills most appropriate to the areas of specialization.  This background is primarily gained through coursework requirements in the bachelor's and master's degree programs, which are prerequisites for Ph.D. work.

PhD Comprehensive Exam Procedures

In order to give committee members sufficient time to read and discuss responses to the written comprehensive examination questions, at least seven (7) calendar days must elapse between the date of the last written exam question and the meeting for the oral examination. The gap between the last written exam question and the oral exam may be up to 30 calendar days. Any exceptions to these policies must be unanimously agreed upon by all examination committee members and the chair of the Graduate Studies Committee.

The Doctoral Dissertation

Serious work on the dissertation should begin no later than the third full-time semester of study for the Ph.D. and well before the scheduling of the comprehensive examination. When selecting a topic, the student first should make sure that an advisor exists who is able and willing to supervise on that subject. Then, usually in close consultation with this advisor, a proposal is developed to articulate the research idea for the rest of the examination committee. The advisor also serves as chair of this committee.

The dissertation committee, consisting of the advisor and at least four others, is designated immediately following the passing of the comprehensive examination and is usually comprised of members of the examination committee. This committee must include at least one member from a KU department outside of geography and must have at least two members from Geography. Committee members must be approved by the GSC and recommended to the Graduate School. After successful completion of the comprehensive examination, the student is officially admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree. By passing to the candidacy stage, the examination committee records its view that this person has a satisfactory dissertation proposal as well as the capability to complete the proposed task of research and writing. Although formal coursework is finished at this point, continued scholarly and professional development obligates the candidate to continue attendance at special-interest seminars and colloquia while still in residence.

After passing the comprehensive oral exam, every student must be continuously enrolled, including summer sessions, from the time of candidacy until the dissertation is deposited at the Graduate School office. The Graduate School further stipulates that a minimum enrollment of six hours is required each semester (plus three in summer) until a total of eighteen is achieved. Thereafter the enrollment may be dropped to one hour per semester, assuming that the dissertation is deposited in the Graduate School office within six months after the defense. Students who exceed this six-month limit must enroll in three hours per semester until the dissertation is so deposited.

When the dissertation committee has tentatively approved the dissertation, approval is sought from the Graduate Studies Committee to schedule the final oral defense. At least five months must elapse between the successful completion of the comprehensive examination and the date of this oral defense. The final oral defense committee has the same composition requirements as does the dissertation committee. Approval of the Graduate School must be secured for the scheduling of this exam and the request must be submitted to the GSC three weeks prior to the proposed date for the examination. Submission procedures for the dissertation are described on page two of this booklet.

When the final oral defense has been passed and the dissertation completed, both electronic and hardbound copies need to be prepared. Both should include an abstract of no more than 150 words. A hardbound copy is required for the department.The KU Libraries recommend the following binders that can bind paper copies of your thesis and additionally offer print-from-electronic file services: 1)  Heckman Bindery  or 2)  Acme Bookbinding . The student must turn in a receipt showing that arrangements have been made for such work prior to the deadline for graduation set by the Graduate School. It is also customary for the student to provide a bound copy for the advisor.

The dissertation must be submitted to the graduate school and UMI Dissertation Publishing electronically using Portable Document Format (PDF). Instructions for this process are available at the KU graduate school website. See also  UMI’s website . In addition to this electronic submittal, a student must submit a paper copy of the title page and an “acceptance page” with original signatures to the College Graduate Studies office in 108 Strong Hall. Formats for both of these are at the graduate school website. A copy of the title page should also be turned in to the Geography office.

The Graduate School has established a maximum time limit of eight years between initial enrollment in the doctoral program and completion of all degree requirements. For people earning both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from KU, the combined time limit is ten years.

Geography Degrees

• Geography BA
• Geography BGS
• Geography BS
• Geography Minor
• GIS Certificate
• Climate Change Certificate
• Geography MA
• Geography MS
• Geography PhD
• Dual Program: Geography MA & Master of Urban Planning
• Graduate GIS Certificate
• Geography NDS

Atmospheric Science Degrees

• Atmospheric Science BS
• Atmospheric Science Minor
• Atmospheric Science MS
• Atmospheric Science PhD
• Atmospheric Science NDS

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Geography and Environmental Studies Theses and Dissertations

This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of Wilfrid Laurier University students from 1982 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students can choose to withdraw their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via e-mail or by telephone at 519-884-0710 ext. 2073.

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

Rates and patterns of permafrost thaw induced landcover change at Scotty Creek, Canada , Mason Dominico

Advancing the Implementation of Connectivity Conservation in Canada: A Case Study of the Policy and Management Environment of the Chignecto Isthmus Region , Rachel Hodgson

Making the Pluriverse Visible: World-Making on the Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula , Lauren Judge

Investigating the mobility of arsenic in subarctic mining pollution-affected peatlands near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories , Jeremy Leathers

Mapping With the Land: Co-developing a Cumulative Impact Monitoring and Land Stewardship Framework with Sambaa K’e First Nation, Northwest Territories, Canada , Michael s. McPhee

Understanding the Dynamics of Food and Economic Development in the Community of Kakisa, Northwest Territories, Canada , Laura Rodriguez Reyes

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

The Vital Role of Dehcho Dene Knowledges in Climate Change & Permafrost Thaw Adaptation in Jean Marie River First Nation NWT , Mackenzie Bell

The dynamic relationship between permafrost and landcover in northwestern Canada’s discontinuous permafrost zone , Olivia Carpino

Water Stories: An exploration of human-water connectedness in Ontario and the implications for water sustainability , Tracey Ehl

Nitrogen: Both a potential stimulator and suppressor of cyanobacterial blooms in temperate lakes , Catherine Goltz

Contrasting seasonal cycling of arsenic in a series of subarctic shield lakes with different morphometric properties , Jeremy Harbinson

“Bright spots” and Effectively Communicating the Ecological and Social Outcomes of Protected and Conserved Areas in Canada , Jen Hoesen

Distributed Spatial Data Sharing: a new era in sharing spatial data , Majid Hojati

Comparison of permafrost thaw-related changes to hydrological response and land cover in subarctic peatland-dominated landscapes , Mikhail Mack

“ANYTHING FROM THE LAND IS GOOD”: UNDERSTANDING HOW COMMUNITY GARDENING IN KAKISA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CAN CONTRIBUTE TO INDIGENOUS FOOD SOVEREIGNTY , Michelle Malandra

A Machine Learning Approach to Classify Open Water and Ice Cover on Slave River Delta , Ida Moalemi

Exploring the Effectiveness of Ecological Momentary Assessment and Video at Eliciting the Impact of Park Features on Human Health and Well-being in a Protected Area Context , Katelyn O'Bright

Spatial and temporal characteristics of historical surface climate over the Northwest Territories, Canada , Bhaleka D. Persaud

Utilizing Ground-Penetrating Radar to Estimate the Spatial Distribution of Snow Depth over Lake Ice in Canada’s Sub-Arctic , Alicia Pouw

“To be involved in a meaningful way”: Mobilizing Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Monitoring Practices in Northern Ontario , Alanna Robbins

WILDLIFE VALUE ORIENTATIONS AND RECREATION CONFLICT: A FOCUS ON HUNTERS AND NON-HUNTERS IN ALBERTA, CANADA , Yuvana Sequeira

Controls on Thermokarst Lake Water Balances in the Inuvik - Tuktoyaktuk Region , Evan J. Wilcox

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Does air pollution cause residents of New Delhi, India to migrate internationally? , Snigdha Basu

Exploring Visitor Perceptions and Behaviours Related to Ticks and Lyme Disease Risk in an Ontario Protected Area , Ryan Brady

Adaptive capacity and mobility in the Bahamas: Examining the social costs of displacement in response to Hurricane Dorian , Kearney Coupland

Coastal Landform Change Influences on Endangered Five-Lined Skink Distribution at Northwest Beach, Point Pelee National Park, Canada , Evan Fortushniok

EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DROUGHT AND POPULATION CHANGE ON THE NORTH AMERICAN GREAT PLAINS, 1970-2010 , George Heath

Changes in lake drainage in the western Canadian Arctic , Dilshan Kariyawasam and Philip Marsh Dr

ALPINE SHRUB TUNDRA WATER STORAGE AND RUNOFF DYNAMICS IN THE MACKENZIE MOUNTAINS, SAHTÚ TERRITORY, NT , Geoffrey Kershaw

Walking in Both Worlds: Learning about Youth Priorities and Indigenous Food Sovereignty with Délįnę’s Youth Council , Neala MacLeod Farley

'Indirect Pathways Into Practice': Philippine Internationally Educated Nurses and Their Entry Into Ontario's Nursing Profession , Lualhati Marcelino

BEE CITIES AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN COMMUNITIES: PROTECTING POLLINATORS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE , Jennifer Marshman

Lake Huron Shoreline Analysis , Shubham Satish Nandanwar

Agent-based Modelling and Big Data: Applications for Maritime Traffic Analysis , Marc SIRIZZOTTI

Changing Snowmelt Conditions in the Western Canadian Arctic , Matthew Y. T. Tsui

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Characterizing Boreal Shield Lakes and Catchments to Predict Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentration and Composition in Relation to Safe Drinking Water Sources with Minimal Disinfection By-Products , Jordyn Atkins

Enhancing Harvester Safety and Traditional Food Access through Participatory Mapping with the Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation of Kakisa, Northwest Territories , Neomi Jayaratne

Evaluating employees’ experiences in implementing COVID-19 Safety Protocols in Ontario parks , Jessica Kaatz

Change detection and landscape similarity comparison using computer vision methods , Karim Malik Wilfrid Laurier University

Collaboration, Knowledge-Sharing and Natural Hazard Risk Management in the Greater Pinery Provincial Park Region , Madeline McFadden

Containment & COVID-19 in the Settler State: Indigenous Incarceration and Immigration Detention in Canada and Australia , Kate Motluk

Park Agency Social Media Communication During the COVID-19 Crisis , Raluca Oprean

The politics of the visible/invisible border: Canada's responses and (in)actions towards refugee claimants' protection , Monica Romero

Characterization of Micronutrient Dependent Growth by Several Temperate Freshwater Phytoplankton , Purnank Shah

Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gases from Liquid Dairy Manure , Vera Sokolov

Drivers and Consequences of Alnus Alnobetula (Green Alder) Distribution at the Taiga-Tundra Ecotone of the Northwest Territories , Cory Wallace

DEVELOPING POPULATION CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR WILD BOAR MANAGEMENT IN CANADA , Amanda Wong

A Spatial Perspective on Decarbonization Efforts: A Comparative Analysis of Japan and Singapore’s Decarbonization Strategies , Michelle Rio Yoshida

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Beyond a Mapping Exercise: Inclusion of Aboriginal Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Parks and Protected Areas Management , David Cook

PROJECTING SPATIAL CHANGES IN SUGAR MAPLE SAP FLOW REGIMES IN A CHANGING CLIMATE , Holly Crawford

Characterizing the hydrological function of treed bogs in the zone of discontinuous permafrost , Brenden Disher

Hydrogen peroxide: A grower’s best friend? , Mitchell Eicher-Sodo

Reconstructing Hydrologic Conditions and Metals Supplied by the Peace River to the Peace-Athabasca Delta , Jelle André Faber

Impact of seismic lines on the hydrology of wetlands in the discontinuous permafrost zone, southwestern Northwest Territories , Angela Hamilton

Investigating diel, seasonal, and interannual variability of dissolved and particulate stable carbon isotope values in a eutrophic boreal lake , Rachel Henderson

Monitoring Environmental Change Using a Participatory Modified Photovoice Approach with Indigenous Knowledge Holders in Kakisa, Northwest Territories , Kaitlin Kok

An Evaluation of Ground-Freezing Methods in the Zone of Discontinuous Permafrost, Northwest Territories , Elzbieta Mastej Ms

Navigating Islands’ Political Geographies: The Case of the 'Maduro Migrations' from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago , Shiva Mohan

Seeking a Path to Wellness and Flourishing: Exploring Ecological Citizenship, Systems Thinking, and Environmental Governance in Southwest Yukon , Amanda Solmes

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Biogeochemical and hydrological impacts of a low-severity wildfire in the wetland-dominated zone of discontinuous permafrost , Caren J. Ackley

Spatial Big Data Analytics: The New Boundaries of Retail Location Decision-Making , Joseph M. Aversa

Toward Using High-frequency Coastal Radars for Calibration of S-AIS Based Ocean Vessel Tracking Models , Ben Freidrich

Cosmic ray sensors for the continuous measurement of Arctic snow accumulation and melt , Anton Jitnikovitch

THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF A DISASTER TYPOLOGY TO ENHANCE OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY PLANNING FOR K-8 PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO , Patricia Martel

Use of pre-industrial baselines to assess sources and pathways of metals in surface sediment of floodplain lakes in the Peace-Athabasca Delta (Alberta, Canada) , Tanner Owca

Policy, plans and processes for developing and improving the use of hazard maps in climate change adaptation for Yukon communities , Stephanie Pike

The Geography of Crime: Placing Geographers in the Space of Criminologists , Anthony WV Piscitelli

BORDER DISORDER: 'Irregular Bangladeshis', Xenophobia and Crimmigration Control in India , Sujata Ramachandran

Does perceived ecological integrity affect restorative health outcomes? An examination of visitor experiences in diverse environments in an Ontario Protected Area , Catherine E. Reining

MAPLE SYRUP AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN ONTARIO: ASSESSING TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ACROSS MULTIPLE, RELATED PROJECTS , Kendra Serbinski

Using paleolimnology to establish baseline conditions for metal contaminants in advance of proposed mining to inform a northern community-led aquatic monitoring program, Tłı̨chǫ Lands, Northwest Territories, Canada. , James Telford

High resolution spatial variability in spring snowmelt for an Arctic shrub-tundra watershed , Branden J. Walker and Philip Marsh Dr

Understanding Motor Vehicle-Based Travel: Examining the Experiences of Yukon Tourists , Natalia Wegrzyn

Development and application of hydrological and limnological monitoring in lake-rich landscapes of Canada’s subarctic National Parks , Hilary Emma White

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Situating Community Resilience within the Political Landscape: An Investigation of Rural Livelihoods and Agency in Chile's Bíobío and Araucanía Regions , Julia Ercolani

LANDSCAPE SCALE SPECTRAL-TEMPORAL MODELLING OF BAMBOO-DOMINATED FOREST SUCCESSION WITHIN THE ATLANTIC FOREST OF SOUTHERN BRAZIL , Clara Greig

Permafrost thaw-induced forest to wetland conversion: potential impacts on snowmelt and basin runoff in northwestern Canada , Emily Haughton

Spatial and temporal variability of the snow environment in the Western Canadian Arctic , Philip Mann

The Effects of Fire on Snow Accumulation, Snowmelt and Ground Thaw on a Peat Plateau in Subarctic Canada , Elyse Mathieu

Factors limiting sand dune restoration in Northwest Beach, Point Pelee National Park, Canada , Pritichhanda Nayak and Pritichhanda Mohanty Nayak

“Inconvenient Neighbours, Whom It Was Desirable Ultimately Wholly to Remove”: Differing Factors in the Dispossessions of Studied Anishinaabe Groups of the Great Lakes Basin, 1820-1865 , Heather J. Sanguins

GROWTH DYNAMICS OF BLACK SPRUCE (PICEA MARIANA) ACROSS NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA , Anastasia E. Sniderhan

Capitals, climate change and food security: Building sustainable food systems in northern Canadian Indigenous communities , Andrew Spring

The role of channel fens in permafrost degradation induced changes in peatland discharge at Scotty Creek, NT , Lindsay Elena Stone

Arriving Somewhere, Not Here: Exploring and Mapping the Relationship between Border Enforcement and Migration by Boat in the Central Mediterranean Sea, 2006 to 2015 , Kira Williams

Spatial Modelling and Wildlife Health Surveillance: A case study of White Nose Syndrome in Ontario , Lauren Yee

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

FROM BRAIN DRAIN TO BRAIN TRAIN – A TRANSNATIONAL CASE ANALYSIS OF NIGERIAN MIGRANT HEALTH CARE WORKERS , Sheri Adekola

Impact of Linear Disturbances on a Discontinuous Permafrost Peatland Environment , Michael Braverman

Accountability, Conservation and Community: Measuring the Local Economic Impacts of Protected Areas , Catharine A.M. Brazeau

Permafrost thaw induced changes to runoff generation and hydrologic connectivity in low-relief, discontinuous permafrost terrains , Ryan Connon

First Nations and Adaptive Water Governance in Southern Ontario, Canada , Thomas Dyck

Newcomers, Welcome? Exploring the Connection Between Demographic Change, Immigration Legislation Design and Policy Mobilities in Ageing Japan , Héctor Goldar Perrote

MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN COLOMBIA: RE-CONNECTING SOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND POLICY ASPECTS THROUGH A GOVERNANCE PERSPECTIVE , Luisa Ramirez

Developing a hydrological monitoring program for ponds in Wapusk National Park, Manitoba, using water isotope tracers , Stephanie Roy

Capturing in-situ Feelings and Experiences of Public Transit Riders Using Smartphones , Rafik Said and Rafik Said

The Political Ecology of Water Justice: A Case Study of Tripoli, Lebanon , Fatima Sidaoui

"GOING THE DISTANCE SO OUR FOOD DOESN'T HAVE TO": CASE STUDIES OF CREATIVE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AT CANADIAN AND UK UNIVERSITIES , Lori Stahlbrand

Assessing Resilient Post-Disaster Recovery of A Flash-Flood-Prone Area: A Study of the City of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , Abdurazag Tammar

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Exploring Institutions, Governance and Collaboration for Regional Integration of Protected Areas in Québec , Windekind Buteau-Duitschaever Mr.

Partitioning Evapotranspiration in Forested Peatlands within the Western Boreal Plain, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada , Elise C. Gabrielli

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Ph.D. Degree Requirements

The Doctoral Degree Program enables students to complete a research project of notable scope and originality that will make a significant contribution to the discipline of geography and related fields. Advanced coursework provides an opportunity to gain familiarity with current knowledge in the student’s areas of specialization. Student expertise in their chosen sub-fields is ensured through the Preliminary Review and General Examination. Students may choose to write either a dissertation or three papers of publishable quality. All such research efforts are expected to meet high standards of research design and data analysis.

Students in this program are supervised by a committee throughout the course of their graduate work. At different points in the program, the committee has different roles. There are a  preliminary committee, a doctoral supervisory committee, and a reading committee . 

Current graduate students can find doctoral degree procedures and policies detailed on the  Department of Geography Graduate Student Resources Canvas page.

Find information about the transition from M.A. to Ph.D. for students who initially enter the M.A. program and intend to continue to the Ph.D.

Ph.D. Requirements

Completion of all work for the doctoral degree must occur within 10 years. This includes quarters spent On-Leave or Out of Status as well as applicable work from the master’s degree from the UW or a master’s degree from another institution, if applied toward one year of resident study.  A student must satisfy the requirements that are in force at the time the degree is to be awarded.

Current students may assess their progress towards these requirements by  conducting a degree audit in MyPlan .

1. Required Courses

• GEOG 500: Contemporary Geographic Thought.
• GEOG 511: Contemporary Research Design in Geography, or another approved social science research design course from another department–for more information, please consult the Graduate Program Coordinator.
• Satisfactory completion of one graduate level methods course in or outside the department. This course should be approved in advance, before enrollment, by the student’s faculty supervisor and communicated to the Graduate Program Coordinator. The course satisfaction will be entered in the student's record by Director of Academic Services. If methods is the Supporting Field of Concentration Outside Geography for Ph.D. students, this course can count as one of that concentration’s required number of courses.
• Satisfactory completion of at least three quarters of GEOG 598: Geography Colloquium.
• Submission of a publication to a scholarly journal or other outlet that requires professional review (in consultation with the doctoral committee). The publication may be jointly-authored with a faculty member or with another graduate student but the graduate student asking for the waiver must be the first author.
• Application for funding to an external agency, such as the National Science Foundation.
• Two departmental research seminars number 500 or above. These should be designated as “seminars” or “research seminars." GEOG 500, 502, 511 and 513 and the graduate level methods course do not count toward this requirement. In some cases, a “directed readings” course (GEOG 600) may count in lieu of this requirement. To petition for this substitution, the GEOG 600 faculty member should write an appeal to the Graduate Program Director.

2. Credit Requirements

• Completion of 90 credits.
• At least 60 of these credits should be at the University of Washington (including 27 GEOG 800 credits).
• With the approval of the degree-granting unit, an appropriate master’s degree from an accredited institution may substitute for 30 credits of enrollment. Contact your faculty adviser to request this approval.
• Student must achieve a grade of at least 3.0 in all departmental courses, and a grade of 2.7 in all related courses used to satisfy degree requirements. An overall grade point average of 3.0 must be maintained to remain in the program and is required for a graduate degree at the university.

3. Supporting Field of Concentration Outside Geography

This requires that PhD students should demonstrate a sound level of competence in a Supporting Field of Concentration Outside Geography, evidenced by successful completion of a minimum of two courses outside the department. The Supporting Field of Concentration Outside Geography and the specific courses shall be determined by the student in consultation with their Supervisory Committee. Students should consider that the Supporting Field of Concentration Outside Geography may be helpful in selecting additional Supervisory Committee members who are not Geography Graduate Faculty.

4. Successful Completion of the   Preliminary Review

5. creditable passage of the   general examination.

• Registration as a graduate student is required the quarter the exam is taken and candidacy is conferred.
• Numerical grades must be received in at least 18 quarter credits of course work taken at the UW prior to scheduling the General Examination. The Graduate School accepts numerical grades in approved 400-level courses accepted as part of the major, and in all 500-level courses. 

6. Dissertation Proposal 

• Outline a clear research question;
• Situate that question within relevant literature
• Outline a methodological strategy for collecting the necessary data
• Describe a process for analyzing that data; and
• Include a timeline for completion of the work.  
• The proposal is reviewed during a meeting, commonly termed the "proposal defense," with the student and their Supervisory Committee. The GSR is not required to attend the proposal defense.
• Failure of the student to obtain approval for the Ph.D. dissertation proposal within two years of advancement to candidacy will normally result in a recommendation to the Dean of the Graduate School that the student be terminated from the Ph.D. program in Geography.

7. Dissertation

• Each paper must be a meaningful original contribution to knowledge as determined by the student's Doctoral Supervisory Committee.
• The intended journals and audiences for each of the three papers must be included as a point of discussion during the dissertation proposal defense.
• So as to disseminate research broadly, each paper should be intended for a unique journal or other publication.
• Satisfaction of all other requirements and guidelines as established by the UW Graduate School . Some committees may further require an introduction and conclusion in addition to these requirements and guidelines.
• Credit for the dissertation ordinarily should be at least one-third of the total credit.
• At least one of these quarters must come after the student passes the General Examination.
• With the exception of summer quarter, students are limited to a maximum of 10 credits per quarter of GEOG 800 Doctoral Dissertation.

8. Creditable Passage of the   Final Examination

• This is also known as the Dissertation Defense. 
• The final examination is typically devoted to the defense of the dissertation and the field with which it is concerned.
• The General and Final Examinations cannot be scheduled during the same quarter.
• Registration as a graduate student, for at least 2 credits, is required the quarter the exam is taken and the degree is conferred.

Optional Social Statistics Concentration

The Social Statistics concentration in the Geography Ph.D. program enables students to develop expertise in applied statistical skills and tools for carrying out quantitative research. The concentration is largely built around a curriculum developed by the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS; course code: CS&SS). Students who complete the Social Statistics Concentration will have advanced training in statistics for social science research relevant to their own research needs. A Letter of Recognition is awarded by the CSSS to students who complete the concentration.

To complete this concentration, Ph.D. students should choose four courses from the following approved list:

• CS&SS 526 (SOC 529) Structural Equation Models for Social Sciences
• CS&SS 529 (BIOST 529/STAT 529) Sample Survey Techniques
• CS&SS 536 (SOC 536/STAT 536) Analysis of Categorical and Count Data
• CS&SS 544 Event History Analysis for the Social Sciences
• CS&SS 560 (STAT 560) Hierarchical Modeling for the Social Sciences
• CS&SS 564 (STAT 564) Bayesian Statistics for the Social Sciences
• CS&SS 566 (STAT 566) Causal Modeling
• CS&SS 567 (STAT 567) Statistical Analysis of Social Networks
• CS&SS 568 Statistical Analysis of Game-Theoretic Data
• CS&SS 569 Visualizing Data
• CS&SS 589 (SOC WL 589) Multivariate Data Analysis for the Social Sciences

After completing the course requirements, the student submits grades received in those courses to the Department of Geography Graduate Program Coordinator. A grade point average of 3.3 or above for the four approved courses is sufficient for a formal completion of the concentration.

Expected Ph.D. Timetable

• Determine appropriate class(es) to take in addition to GEOG 500 (5 credits) and 598 (1 credit).
• Consult with relevant faculty about possible research interests.
• At the end of the quarter, discuss first-term progress and next-term plans, including choosing a faculty advisor, with Graduate Program Coordinator.
• Determine faculty advisor, and confirm this with Graduate Program Coordinator.
• Begin discussions about areas of sub-disciplinary interest, possible dissertation topics, and format of   Preliminary Review   with faculty advisor and relevant other faculty.
• Discuss future coursework with faculty advisor, including appropriate methods courses.
• Continue coursework in consultation with faculty advisor.
• Schedule and complete   Preliminary Review .
• Research possible opportunities for acquiring   funding   for dissertation research.
• Formalize composition of the   Doctoral Supervisory Committee .
• Begin planning and preparation for   General Examination , including securing a GSR .
• Consider applying for   funding   for dissertation research.

Winter and Spring

• Schedule and complete General Examination .
• Begin preparation for dissertation proposal defense and IRB requirements.
• Continue coursework, as necessary. Enroll in GEOG 800 Doctoral Dissertation credits if advisable.

Years 3 and 4

• Schedule and complete dissertation proposal defense by end of winter quarter in year 3.
• Enroll in GEOG 800 Doctoral Dissertation credits, as necessary.
• As possible, submit paper(s) to academic journals for publication.
• Research and write dissertation and, if possible, defend dissertation .
• Finish research and writing and defend dissertation .
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At least 48 post-graduate course units (M.A. & Ph.D.) must be completed (exclusive of 299 and 396 units). The 48 units include the 38 units of core courses listed below and additional 200-level courses in appropriate elective courses.

GGG Core Courses – 16 units

• GEO 200AN – Geographical Concepts (4 unit, fall quarter)
• GEO 200BN – Theory and Practice of Geography (4 units, winter quarter)
• GEO 200CN – Computational Methods in Geography (4 units)
• GEO 200DN – Methods of Socio-Spatial Analysis in Geography (4 units)
• GEO 200E—Advanced Research Design in Geography (2 Units)

Students are encouraged to take the first four of these core courses in their first year in the program. The graduate adviser will not waive these core courses unless the student has transcript notation and a syllabus from a similar graduate-level course taken at another institution. The course GEO 200E is designed to help students in finalizing their dissertation research proposal, and should be taken during their second or third year of the program, depending on their level of preparation.

Geographic Depth Courses – 16 units

Every student is required to take at least 16 units of Geographic Depth Courses from a pre-approved selection of courses that cover a sub-disciplines of Geography. There is a list of pre-approved courses by four broad Areas of Geographic Depth; but students will make their own set of courses based on their interests and needs.

Seminar Requirement – 4 units

GEO 297 – Seminar in Geography

Electives – variable units

Elective courses may be required to reach the minimum number of units required.

Course Work Summary

There are total of 48 post-graduate units required. Of these, at least 36 units must be at the graduate level (200-level). A minimum course load per academic quarter is 12 units. Geography depth and elective coursework must be approved by the student’s Guidance Committee, then reviewed by the Graduate Adviser, and then approved by the Graduate Group Executive Committee. Ph.D. students must be in residence for at least six quarters and must complete 30 units of coursework at UCD. The Graduate Adviser can assist students who wish to transfer courses from other institutions or through UC Extension (via petition) into their program.

Dissertation Requirements

Before advancing to candidacy for a doctoral degree, a student must pass a Qualifying Examination before a committee appointed to administer that examination. All students will complete the course requirements before taking their Qualifying Examination. The qualifying exam should be taken by the 7th quarter in the program (end of Fall quarter, third year). The Qualifying Examination will consist of written and oral examinations. The Qualifying Examination will be both oral and written and cover general geography, the student’s Area of Emphasis and/or Concentration, and course preparation indicated in the student program of study, and the area of proposed research. The dissertation itself, including the proposal and final product, is developed by the student under the guidance of a Dissertation Committee. This committee must have at least three members, including at least two members (including the Chair) who are Geography Graduate Group members. Members of a Ph.D. student’s Dissertation Committee are recommended by the Graduate Adviser, in consultation with the student, and appointed by the Dean of Graduate Studies.

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Course requirements.

• GEOG 201: Seminar in Geography (Required every quarter until doctoral candidacy; S/U grading only)
• GEOG 200A, B, and C: Introduction to Geographic Research
• GEOG 210A, B, and C: Analytical Methods in Geography
• GEOG 500: T.A. Training (Required for all Teaching Assistants. Ph.D. students must enroll in GEOG 500 if they haven’t already taken it as a M.A. student)

  Students must earn a grade of B or higher in GEOG 200B, 200C, 210A, 210B, and 210C.

Teaching Requirement

All doctoral candidates must teach (usually in the capacity of a Teaching Assistant) a minimum of one quarter at some time before being granted the Ph.D. degree.

Graduate Council Regulations Regarding Committees

• The Doctoral committee must consist of at least three UC Academic Senate members, with a tenure-track faculty member from Geography serving as chair or co-chair.
• At least two members of every Doctoral committee must be tenure-track faculty.
• The majority of the three members shall be from Geography. Recommendation of additional members to the Doctoral committee is at the discretion of the Geography department.

Residency Requirement for the Ph.D. Degree

Students in doctoral programs must enroll for at least 6 regular academic quarters. Three consecutive quarters of residence must be completed prior to advancement to candidacy. If you were enrolled in the M.A./Ph.D. program and you were registered for 6 quarters as a Master’s student (including 3 consecutive quarters), you do not have to enroll for another 6 quarters to satisfy the residency requirement. Continuous registration is expected of all graduate students. Under special circumstances, students may request a leave of absence from the Dean. Students who are neither registered nor on an approved leave of absence lose all status and privileges as students, cannot hold fellowships or other forms of financial support, and must apply for reinstatement (and, when applicable, re-advancement to candidacy).

Normative Time-to-Degree Standards for the Ph.D. Degree

This is the length that the Department believes is a reasonable amount of time for a student to complete a Ph.D. In the Geography Department, students have a time limit of 4 years to advance to candidacy and 6 years to complete the Ph.D. degree. It is important to understand that the time-to-degree standards for the Ph.D. are measured from the time a student first begins graduate study at any level in any program at UCSB. This means that, if you did your Master’s degree at UCSB, the entire time used to complete the M.A. degree counts toward the time limits for the Ph.D.

If you exceed the Time-to-Degree limits for the Ph.D. program, you will enter the Graduate Division Time-to-Degree monitoring or probation process as described at www.graddiv.ucsb.edu. The Department will deliver written notification to students if the time standard for completing a master’s degree has been exceeded. The departmental Graduate Advisor and the student’s faculty advisor will consult with the student to develop an Academic Progress Plan (signed by the faculty advisor and the student). After Graduate Division receives a copy of the written notification and Academic Progress Plan, the student will be on departmental progress monitoring status for the remainder of the academic year or until the degree milestone is completed. For a student who has not advanced to doctoral candidacy or completed the degree after the period of probation, the Graduate Dean will ask the department to recommend and justify (a) continued academic probation, which must involve extenuating circumstances, or (b) academic disqualification. Students who are beyond the Time-to-Degree limits for advancement to doctoral candidacy or degree complete in are not eligible for central fellowship support.

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Requirements of the Ph.D. Program

Prior to advancement to candidacy, the Geography Department requires:

• A diagnostic interview
• A written comprehensive examination
• An approved dissertation proposal
• An oral qualifying examination

All incoming Ph.D. students will be required to take a diagnostic interview to assist in the preparation for undertaking a doctoral program in Geography. Graduate students who have completed the M.A. in our Department and are continuing to the Ph.D. are exempt from the Diagnostic Interview requirement. The interview will normally be oral and last about an hour. Two professors, appointed by the departmental Graduate Committee, will be responsible for administering it; however, any department faculty member may also participate, should he or she so elect. Although the student’s primary area of interest will be emphasized, students should anticipate questions which will probe their general knowledge of the entire field of geography; thus, a systematic review of geography coursework may be helpful in preparing for the interview. Within ten days of completion of the diagnostic interview, the student will receive an analysis of the results of the interview from the chair of the examining committee, assessing strengths and weaknesses, and suggesting coursework or independent study by which such weaknesses may be strengthened. A copy will also be lodged in the department files. The interview will normally be administered during the first year of the student’s residence.

Students must be registered during the quarter in which they take qualifying exams. Registration as a graduate student in the Spring Quarter maintains graduate status until the beginning of the next Fall Quarter. A student who registered in Spring Quarter may, therefore, take examinations or file a dissertation during Summer without additional fees. A student who did NOT register Spring Quarter, however, will have to use filing fee status to file a dissertation and may NOT take Ph.D. qualifying examinations in the summer unless he/she registers in summer session.

The student’s Ph.D. Committee will administer the written comprehensive examination. Ph.D. written exams conform to the following standards:

• The exam will span three days, with questions from at least three examiners. There will be 2-3 questions per day. Student will be given 24 hours to answer each day’s questions.
• The questions should be coordinated and reviewed by the Chair of the committee before being given to the student.
• The exam is open book, enabling the student to access internet resources as well as the Library/Melvyl.
• Questions will not be given in advance.

The exam should be structured to test the student’s knowledge, research skills, problem solving skills, and the student’s ability to do academic work. The content of the questions is a matter of suggestion, but, ideally, it should include general geography, techniques, and the student’s systematic area of study.

Past examination questions are maintained in a department file so that you may see the types (and relative difficulty) of questions asked. To aid in preparation for the examination, the Department will provide a reading list. The reading list is simply a guide for study and should not be interpreted as a catalogue of required knowledge. Consult with the chair of your committee for additional suggested reading. The written qualifying examination will normally be administered in the student’s fourth, fifth, or sixth quarters of his/her residence. Following administration of the examination, the faculty will evaluate the student’s performance in each section. Except in unusual circumstances, the chair of the student’s dissertation committee will provide the student with a written evaluation of the examination within 2 weeks and, in all cases, no longer than 6 weeks of finishing the exam. It is expected that all committee members will grade all questions, although a member may skip questions well outside his/her expertise. Each member will assign one of the following grades to each question: Excellent; Satisfactory; Unsatisfactory.

  If one or more committee members grades a question as Unsatisfactory, it must be rewritten according to feedback from the committee. An Unsatisfactory section may be rewritten once, in the same quarter or the quarter immediately following the receipt of the written evaluation.

Prior to the student’s oral qualifying examination, the student will prepare a dissertation proposal which describes the dissertation topic, summarizes the relevant background literature, and presents a comprehensive research plan for the student’s doctoral dissertation, including a timetable and budget which identifies any financial support essential to preparation of the dissertation. All members of the student’s Doctoral Committee must approve this proposal. Students should be aware that the first draft of the proposal is unlikely to be accepted as is. Several drafts are usually necessary. Proper and correct use of the English language is required for the proposal. A list of theses and dissertations is posted at the department’s website at http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/graduates/. Copies of most theses and dissertations are available for checkout in the department - those that are not available in the department can be found in the Special Collections Department of the main Library. Theses and dissertations are cataloged and searchable in Pegasus, the Library’s online catalog.

Having successfully completed the diagnostic interview and written comprehensive examination, the student’s doctoral committee will conduct an oral qualifying examination, based on a draft proposal for doctoral research. It is expected that the oral exam will take place soon after the written exam, normally within four months following the successful completion of the written exam. Graduate Division regulations require that three consecutive quarters of residence must be completed prior to taking the oral qualifying exam. Thus, the oral exam will normally be taken in the fourth, fifth, or sixth quarters of residence. The general objective of this examination is to ensure that the student has a satisfactory proposal for dissertation research, and that the student possesses the full knowledge and competence required to carry out his or her dissertation research. Upon successful completion of the oral exam, a student who carries out the program of research agreed upon by the committee will be entitled to the Ph.D. degree, assuming the research is carried out with demonstrated quality, is written up satisfactorily for the dissertation, and is defended satisfactorily at the doctoral defense. Thus, the examination will emphasize (but not necessarily be limited to) the systematic and technical areas relevant to the student’s proposed dissertation research and the viability and relevance of the specific elements of that research. Following the examination, the committee members shall vote “Pass” or “Fail” on the student’s level of preparation. A unanimous passing vote is required for advancement to candidacy. This examination is usually open only to voting committee members.

A student is advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. after completing all course requirements and residence requirements, passing the written comprehensive and oral qualifying exams, filing Ph.D. Form II, and paying the $50.00 advancement to candidacy fee. Students with Incompletes, NG, or NR grades on their record are ineligible to advance to candidacy until such grades have been removed. Following advancement, the student will normally devote a full-time effort during the academic year to carrying out the research for, and writing of, the doctoral dissertation. Graduate Division regulations require that the student be registered and enrolled continuously during this time.

Students are reminded that they have until the last working day before the next quarter officially begins (as indicated in the Graduate Division calendar) to officially advance to candidacy, including paying the $50.00 advancement fee. After advancing to doctoral candidacy, a student’s class level changes to P2 the next registered quarter, non-resident supplemental tuition is waived for three years (9 academic quarters), if applicable, and additional borrowing privileges are granted at the Davidson Library.

International Students: The non-resident supplemental tuition is reduced by 100% for graduate doctoral students who have advanced to doctoral candidacy, subject to the understanding that (a) a graduate student may receive the reduced nonresident fee rate for a maximum of three continuous years (9 academic quarters), and (b) any such student who continues to be enrolled or who re-enrolls after receiving the reduced fee for three continuous years will be charged the full nonresident tuition that is in effect at that time.

Graduate Council has set a four-year time limit for advancement to Ph.D. candidacy for all graduate students. Any exception to the policy must be requested by the home department on behalf of each graduate student.

Following the completion of doctoral research, each candidate for the Ph.D. degree must present a dissertation demonstrating the ability to contribute significantly and independently to the major field. The candidate’s Doctoral Committee guides the student in this work and judges the merit of the completed dissertation. Approval of this dissertation by each member of the Doctoral Committee is required for the degree (Academic Senate Reg. 355B). After receipt of the final draft of the dissertation, a formal oral defense will be scheduled and announced to the department as a whole. The purpose of the defense will be to clarify segments of the dissertation and/or acquaint the candidate with the nature of any further work that needs to be undertaken prior to approval of the dissertation. The Graduate Division cannot award a degree until a Doctoral Form III is received from the department indicating that the student has successfully defended the dissertation. All approved committee members must sign Form III. These signatures must be the same as the signatures appearing on the approval pages of the dissertation (it’s a good idea to circulate Form III at the same time that the approval pages are circulated for signatures). A public lecture (colloquium) is encouraged to present the results of the doctoral research to the entire University community. The defense may be waived only in unusual circumstances, with the unanimous consent of the candidate’s Doctoral Committee and the Department Chair, using Doctoral Form III-A (Senate Regulation 355C).

In the quarter when you plan to file your Ph.D. dissertation, you should meet with the Staff Graduate Program Advisor to get advice on the process of completing your degree and to obtain a copy of the current Ph.D. Dissertation Filing Checklist.

Optional Interdisciplinary Emphases

Students pursuing a doctoral degree in Geography may petition to add the following Optional Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Emphases: Climate Sciences and Climate Change, Cognitive Science, Demography, Environment and Society, Global Studies, Information Technology and Society, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences.

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Students are welcome to choose either from the open positions or formulate their own research proposal within the topics described below. In both cases contacting the supervisor in advance is highly recommended. 

Dissertation topics are focused on the issues of cultural and historical geography with interdisciplinary overlap into regional geography, history, sociology, religious studies, archaeology etc.

Development Studies

Dissertation topics are related to broadly-defined development studies and development geography. Interdisciplinary interests in various intersections and interactions between development, society, and environment are welcome.

Economic Geography and Regional Development

Dissertation topics related to broadly-defined economic geography and regional economic development based on various conceptual, theoretical, and methodological approaches as well as a focus on various geographic scales, from global developments to their regional and local manifestations.

Geographical and Environmental Education

Students are invited to conduct their own empirical research in the field of geographical and environmental education at all levels of education (primary, secondary, tertiary), investigating all of its aspects (learners, educators, curriculum and resources, school environment, pedagogy, policy makers, etc.).

Health Geography

The topics of PhD theses should be related to the field of health geography. Geography of health is a discipline applying geographical information, perspective, and methods to the study of health, disease, and healthcare. Students are invited to contact the prospective supervisor and discuss their potential dissertation topics.

Migration Studies

Dissertation topics can focus on various aspects of both international migration movements and migrants´ integration processes. Various innovative, theoretical/conceptual, and methodological approaches are appreciated. More specifically, research activities could tackle the underlying factors of international migration, and its mechanics and impacts, at various regional-geographic levels. 

Political Geography

PhD dissertation themes concerned with political geography are understood in terms of interdisciplinary perspectives. A key theme is to consider political geographical questions in relation to contextual effects, which arise from differentiations in local and regional contexts and also from differentiations across the contexts of nation states.

Tourism and Leisure Geography

Students are invited to conduct their own research in the field of tourism and leisure geography. A combination of analytical work based on quantitative methods as well as qualitative and field surveys are welcome. It is possible to connect PhD scholarship at the Geography of Leisure Research Center to partial employment within the projects of pure and applied research. 

Urban Studies

Students are invited to conduct their own empirical research in the field of urban geography. A combination of analytical work based on statistical methods, cartographic visualisation, and a case study approach is welcome. The main emphasis is put on team work and the production of scientific publications. Feel free to contact the prospective supervisor and discuss possible directions.

Urban and Regional Research

Doctoral dissertations contribute to the academic and societal knowledge and discussion about the developments and transformations in metropolitan areas and their dynamically changing neighborhoods through researching social and socio-spatial processes that are key drivers of urban spatial reorganization, such as revitalization, gentrification or suburbanization.

May 15, 2024

Tips and Resources for a Successful Summer of Dissertation Writing

By Yana Zlochistaya

Summer can be a strange time for graduate students. Gone are the seminars and workshops, the student clubs, and the working group, that structured the semester and provided us with a sense of community. Instead, we’re faced with a three-month expanse of time that can feel equal parts liberating and intimidating. This double-edged freedom is only exacerbated for those of us in the writing stage of our dissertation, when isolation and a lack of discipline can have a particularly big impact. For those hoping not to enter another summer with lofty plans, only to blink and find ourselves in August disappointed with our progress, we’ve compiled some tips and resources that can help.

According to Graduate Writing Center Director Sabrina Soracco, the most important thing you can do to set yourself up for writing success is to clarify your goals. She recommends starting this process by looking at departmental requirements for a completed dissertation. Consider when you would like to file and work backwards from that point, determining what you have to get done in order to hit that target. Next, check in with your dissertation committee members to set up an accountability structure. Would they prefer an end-of-summer update to the whole committee? A monthly check-in with your chair or one of your readers? Setting up explicit expectations that work for you and your committee can cut through the aimlessness that comes with a major writing project.

For those early on in their dissertation-writing process, a committee meeting is also a valuable opportunity to set parameters. “One of the problems with the excitement for the discipline that happens post-quals is that it results in too many ideas,” says Director. Soracco. Your committee members should give you input on productive research directions so that you can begin to hone in on your project. It is also important to remember that your dissertation does not have to be the end-all-and-be-all of your academic research. Ideas that do not fit into its scope can end up becoming conference papers or even book chapters.

Once you have a clear goal that you have discussed with your committee, the hard part begins: you have to actually write. The Graduate Writing Center offers several resources to make that process easier:

• The Graduate Writing Community. This is a totally remote, two-month program that is based on a model of “gentle accountability.” When you sign up, you are added to a bCourses site moderated by a Graduate Writing Consultant. At the beginning of the week, everyone sets their goals in a discussion post, and by the end of the week, everyone checks in with progress updates. During the week, the writing consultants offer nine hours of remote synchronous writing sessions. As a writing community member, you can attend whichever sessions work best for your schedule. All that’s required is that you show up, set a goal for that hour, and work towards that goal for the length of two 25-minute Pomodoro sessions . This year’s summer writing community will begin in June. Keep your eye on your email for the registration link!
• Writing Consultations : As a graduate student, you can sign up for an individual meeting with a Graduate Writing Consultant. They can give you feedback on your work, help you figure out the structure of a chapter, or just talk through how to get started on a writing project. 
• Independent Writing Groups: If you would prefer to write with specific friends or colleagues, you can contact Graduate Writing Center Director Sabrina Soracco at [email protected] so that she can help you set up your own writing group. The structure and length of these groups can differ; often, members will send each other one to five pages of writing weekly and meet the next day for two hours to provide feedback and get advice. Sometimes, groups will meet up not only to share writing, but to work in a common space before coming together to debrief. Regardless of what the groups look like, the important thing is to create a guilt-free space. Some weeks, you might submit an outline; other weeks, it might be the roughest of rough drafts; sometimes, you might come to a session without having submitted anything. As long as we continue to make progress (and show up even when we don’t), we’re doing what we need to. As Director Soracco puts it, “it often takes slogging through a lot of stuff to get to that great epiphany.”

Yana Zlochistaya is a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature and a Professional Development Liaison with the Graduate Division. She previously served as a co-director for Beyond Academia.

RIT graduate pursues Ph.D. across time zones

Nastaran Nagshineh, center, defended her Ph.D. thesis at RIT in April. Faculty from RIT’s Rochester and Dubai campuses served on her thesis committee and include, from left to right, Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard, Steven Weinstein, Nathaniel Barlow, and David Kofke (a professor at the University at Buffalo). Mohamed Samaha participated remotely and appears on the video screen behind the group and alongside Nagshineh’s picture.

Nastaran Nagshineh is one of the first Ph.D. candidates to bridge RIT’s Rochester and Dubai campuses. Her accomplishment creates a path for future students at the university’s international campuses.

Nagshineh completed her Ph.D. in mathematical modeling while working full time as a mathematics lecturer at RIT Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, teaching as many as five classes a semester. She described her Ph.D. journey as “an exercise in perseverance” due to competing demands and long days. Rochester is eight hours behind Dubai, and the time difference meant many late-night classes and meetings.

“I saw this collaboration as an opportunity, rather than as a challenge, because my primary adviser, Dr. Steven Weinstein (RIT professor of chemical engineering), and my co-adviser, Dr. Mohamed Samaha (RIT Dubai associate professor of mechanical engineering), both have the same area of research interest,” she said. “They both worked toward my success.”

Nagshineh is one of 67 RIT Ph.D. students who defended their thesis this academic year and who will earn their doctorate. RIT awarded 63 Ph.D. degrees in 2023.

In 2020-2021, RIT’s Graduate School met and surpassed the university’s goal of conferring 50 Ph.D. degrees during an academic year. That number will continue to grow as students cycle through the seven new Ph.D. programs that RIT has added since 2017, said Diane Slusarski , dean of RIT’s Graduate School.

Meeting these goals puts RIT on a path toward achieving an “R1,” or research-intensive designation, from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning. RIT is currently ranked as an R2 institution . Many factors go into changing a university’s status, including research investment and maintaining a three-year average of 70 Ph.D. degrees awarded per year, according to Slusarski.

“We have met the goals of the strategic plan, and now we look forward to contributing to the research innovation in the future,” Slusarski said. “We want to help the new programs thrive and win national research awards.”

RIT’s emphasis on high-level research is seen in Nagshineh’s Ph.D. work. She applies mathematical modeling to the field of fluid dynamics. Her research has been published in top-tier journals and has gained notice, said Weinstein, her thesis adviser.

Weinstein describes Nagshineh’s accomplishments as “a testament to a fantastic work ethic and commitment” and is inspirational to younger students at Rochester and Dubai.

“The collaboration between RIT Dubai/Rochester has continued,” he said. “Another paper was submitted a few weeks ago with Mohamed Samaha and Nate Barlow (RIT associate professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics) as co-authors, as well as Cade Reinberger, a younger Ph.D. student in my research group.”

Mathematical modeling is one of RIT’s newer Ph.D. degree programs, and Nagshineh is among its earliest graduates. The program has doubled in size since it began accepting students in 2017, Slusarski said. This past fall, the mathematical modeling program had 35 students, with two graduating this year.

Altogether, RIT has 13 Ph.D. degree programs currently enrolling 438 students, with computing and information sciences accounting for the largest with 117 students. RIT’s other Ph.D. programs include astrophysical sciences and technology , biomedical and chemical engineering , business administration , color science , electrical and computer engineering, imaging science , mechanical and industrial engineering , microsystems engineering , and sustainability .

New programs in cognitive science and physics will launch in the fall.

The growth in RIT graduate education—with more than 3,000 master’s and doctoral students—reflects a demographic change in the student population, Slusarski said. “We have a higher percentage of women in the graduate programs than we have for RIT undergraduate programs.”

RIT’s graduate programs enroll 42 percent women, according to Christie Leone , assistant dean for the Graduate School.

Nagshineh, who also holds an MS in electrical engineering from RIT Dubai, welcomes her role as a mentor to other women students on both campuses.

“As a young woman in an Arabic country, the power of women is often underestimated and undervalued, and I hope to serve as a role model to female students, especially those that question their path,” Nagshineh said.

She plans to continue in her career as a professor and a researcher. “I would like to pursue a research program where I can advise my own students and teach them more deeply.”

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