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Author:

Chadwick, Amy Elaine

Title:

PERSUASIVE HOPE THEORY AND HOPE APPEALS IN MESSAGES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND SEASONAL INFLUENZA PREVENTION

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

theory development
affect
hope
flu
seasonal influenza
global warming
climate change
message development
environmental communication
health communication
social influence
message design
persuasion
emotion
persuasive hope theory
focus groups
online survey
college students

File:

Download Chadwick_-_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Roxanne Louise Parrott, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roxanne Louise Parrott, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael L Hecht, Committee Member
James Hogan, Committee Member
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member

Author:

Desai, Ankur Rashmikant

Title:

Scaling Regional Land-Atmosphere Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide with Mesoscale Observation Networks: Impact of Land Cover, Management and Disturbance

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

eddy covariance
land-atmosphere trace gas exchange
regional carbon dioxide flux
bottom-up scaling
dynamic vegetation ecosystem modeling

File:

Download adesai-meteo-dissertation-052006.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth James Davis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Toby Nahum Carlson, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Member
John Corry Wyngaard, Committee Member
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member

Author:

Matyas, Corene J.

Title:

Geographical Techniques to Quantify the Spatial Patterns of Precipitation in U.S. Landfalling Tropical Cyclones

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

rainfall
hurricane
geographic information systems
tropical cyclone
precipitation
shape analysis

File:

Download matyasdiss.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member
Donna Jean Peuquet, Committee Member
Jenni Evans, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Chongming

Title:

TRAPPED IN PLACE: THE VULNERABILITY OF THE ELDERLY TO HURRICANE HAZARDS IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

HURRICANE HAZARDS
VULNERABILITY
THE ELDERLY
VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT
FLORIDA

File:

Download Wang_Thesis_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Brenton Yarnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brenton Yarnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yu, Chaoqing

Title:

GEOAGENT-BASED KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

geographic process
representation
GeoAgents
GIS
knowledge

File:

Download Dissertation_Geography_ChaoqingYu.pdf

Committee Members:

Donna Jean Peuquet, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member

Author:

Aman, Destiny Dawn

Title:

The Mystery of the Mobile Home: A Geographic Investigation of Mobile Homes in Rural Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Pennsylvania
mobile homes
tax assessment data
housing
hazards

File:

Download AmanThesis.9.pdf

Committee Members:

Brenton Yarnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Retchless, David Pahl

Title:

Public Perceptions of Spatial Analogs for Climate Change: A Survey of Centre Region, Pennsylvania Residents

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Pennsylvania
communication
spatial analogs
perceptions
climate change

File:

Download RetchlessThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Brenton Yarnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brenton Yarnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wei, Dan

Title:

INTERREGIONAL SHARING OF ENERGY CONSERVATION TARGETS IN CHINA: EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Equity
Efficiency
Quota Trading
Energy Conservation
China

File:

Download Dan_Wei_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Adam Zachary Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Gregory Knight, Committee Member
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Member

Author:

Brewer, Isaac

Title:

UNDERSTANDING WORK WITH GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: A COGNITIVE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH IN GISCIENCE

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

GIScience
cognitive systems engineering
emergency management
human computer interaction
geographic information systems
GIS
hurricanes
multimodal interfaces
scenarios

File:

Download BrewerETD_Submit.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Maceachren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Gahegan, Committee Member
Michael David Mcneese, Committee Member
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member

Author:

Ross, Jeremy David

Title:

Reexamining Analog Forecasting Using NCEP/NCAR Reanalyses

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

analog forecasting
ensemble forecasting
pattern recognition
medium to long range forecasting
statistical or empirical forecasting

File:

Download Ross_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul Markowski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Michael Fritsch, Committee Member
Robert Hart, Committee Member
Charles Luther Hosler Jr., Committee Member
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member