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Author:

Dorin, Joshua N

Title:

Detecting ENSO Period Changes in a Proxy Record Spanning the Last Millennium

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

anthropogenic climate change
ENSO
El Nino - Southern Oscillation
climate change detection

File:

Download Dorin_finalthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Panchuk, Karla Michelle

Title:

INVESTIGATING THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE CARBON CYCLE PERTURBATION: AN EARTH SYSTEM MODEL APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Earth system model
global warming

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Kump, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Olson, Roman

Title:

WHAT IS THE SKILL OF CLIMATE PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHODS? A CASE STUDY WITH GLOBAL AVERAGE OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS.

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Climate sensitivity
Bayesian methods
climate models
ocean diffusivity
climate change

File:

Download RT_Thesis_Form_Rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Olson, Roman

Title:

How Well Can Historical Temperature Observations Constrain Climate Sensitivity

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Climate sensitivity
internal climate variability
Gaussian Process
climate model
Markov chain Monte Carlo

File:

Download RO_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Klaus Keller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member

Author:

Schueth, Jonathan Douglas

Title:

Investigating the response of calcareous nannoplankton to significant environmental disturbance: Links between extinction and environmental change and the role of incumbency in recovery

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

nannoplankton
extinction
recovery
incumbency
datum

File:

Download Schueth_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Bralower, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
MARK E PATZKOWSKY, Committee Member
Eric S Post, Committee Member

Author:

Ruckert, Kelsey Leigh

Title:

Improving the statistical method can raise the upper tail of sea-level projections

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Sea-level rise
Autocorrelated projections
Calibration methods
Overconfidence

File:

Download RuckertEditedPSU_MS_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Kasting, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Oddo, Perry Charles

Title:

Accounting for deep uncertainties in sea-level rise and storm surge projections is critical to understanding risk trade-offs

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

storm surge
flood adaptation
global sensitivity analysis
decision-making
deep uncertainty

File:

Download Oddo_MS-thesis_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member

Author:

Fuller, Robert William

Title:

PROBABILISTIC INVERSION OF EXPERT ASSESSMENTS TO INFORM PROJECTIONS ABOUT ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET RESPONSES

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

ice sheet
sea ice
antarctica
paleooceanography
ice shelf
ocean temperature
melting
cliffs
sea-level rise
calibration methods
overconfidence
uncertainty
deep uncertainty
bayesian
probabilistic inversion
markov chain
monte carlo

File:

Download Fuller_Robert_William-MS_thesis-Probabilistic_Inversion.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James F. Kasting, Committee Member
Sridhar Anadakrishnan, Committee Member

Author:

Roop-Eckart, Kenneth Joel

Title:

Analysis of Mixed Distribution Statistical Flood Frequency Models and Implications for Dam Safety Assessments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

mixed distributions
dam
safety
risk analysis
flood frequency
two population

File:

Download kjr_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Committee Member
Tess Alethea Russo, Committee Member
Christopher Duffy, Committee Member