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Author:

Polasky, Andrew

Title:

Statistical Climate Model Downscaling: Methods and Application to the Midwest United States and West Africa Regions

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

climate change
downscaling
self-organizing maps
machine learning
statistical downscaling

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Committee Members:

George Young, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jenni Evans, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Fuentes, Major Field Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Traore, Abdelmoumine

Title:

Essays on the Mitigation of Climate-Related Stochastic Losses through Investment and Insurance

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

Crops(Corn and Soybeans)
Crop Insurance
typical risk
short-term risk
weather
factors
heterogeneity
discrete choice
panel data
fixed effects
unit structure level
Investment
insurance
expected utility
robust optimization
long (short)-term risk vs. long (short)-term uncertainty
risk aversion
climate change
prosocial
green bond
conventional bond utility
optimization
risk aversion
environmental regulation
green default

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Committee Members:

Douglas Wrenn, Program Head/Chair
Robert Weaver, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katherine Zipp, Major Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Wrenn, Major Field Member

Author:

Ware-Gilmore, Fhallon

Title:

Exploring the role of thermal performance in shaping dengue virus transmission and its implication for human health under a changing climate

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

Thermal tolerance
evolution
aedes aegypti
heat waves
wolbachaia
thermal sensitivity
arboviruses
adaptation
climate change
flaviviruses
aedes albopictus
dengue virus
dengue fever
thermal tolerance
mosquitoes
insect physiology

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katriona Shea, Outside Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Rudolf Schilder, Major Field Member
Matthew Thomas, Special Member
Ganesh Anand, Outside Unit Member
Moriah Szpara, Outside Field Member

Author:

Stagner, Forrest

Title:

Shifting smallholder livestock ownership for climate change resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

socio-ecological resilience
livestock
Sub-Saharan Africa
climate change
smallholder agriculture
Zambia

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Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Ransom, Major Field Member
Michael Jacobson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Clare Hinrichs, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian Thiede, Program Head/Chair
Brian Thiede, Major Field Member

Author:

Patton, B Wren

Title:

Changing minds: Fish behavior and cognition in human-altered habitats

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

ocean acidification
fish
coral reef
behavior
Lemon Damselfish
Pomacentrus moluccensis
climate change
Atlantic Cod
Gadus morhua
tool use
cognitive ecology
behavioral ecology
resilience
enrichment

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Committee Members:

James Marden, Major Field Member
David Hughes, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Paola Ferreri, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sonia Cavigelli, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Rolph, Kristina Alixis

Title:

Assessing the impact of model structural complexity of the methane cycle on the Earth system response

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

atmospheric science
calibration methods
climate change
climate models
ch4
Earth system
Earth system modeling
global warming
greenhouse gas
methane
methane cycle
meteorology
atmospheric science
atmospheric science
calibration methods
climate change
climate models
ch4
Earth system
Earth system modeling
global warming
greenhouse gas
methane
methane cycle
meteorology

File:

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Committee Members:

Chris Eliot Forest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Member
Melissa Marie Gervais, Committee Member
Tom Richard, Outside Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Harris, Gabriella

Title:

Origins of Icehouse Vegetation in Southern South America: Climate Change and Turnover in Eocene and Oligocene Patagonian Fossil Floras

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Argentina
Patagonia
Río Pichileufú
Laguna del Hunco
fossil leaves
leaf architecture
Araucaria
Austrocedrus
Oligocene
Eocene
climate change
Araucariaceae
Cupressaceae
conifers
EECO
total evidence phylogeny
rainforest
Gondwana
South America
Adobe Bridge
diversity
turnover
mosaic evolution
paleoecology
morphology
vegetation
paleobotany
seasonality
Splendid Isolation

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Mark Patzkowsky, Major Field Member
Peter Wilf, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sarah Ivory, Major Field Member
Jesse Lasky, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Cheong, Rebecca

Title:

Software Ocean: New Media Aesthetics and Water in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

software studies
new media studies
user interface
oceanic studies
blue humanities
adobe illustrator
media studies
mapbox
google earth
mapping
cartography
literary cartography
spatiality studies
nineteenth-century american literature
american literature
US-American
literary studies
archipelagic studies
island studies
aesthetics
aesthesis
sea
terraqueous
planetarity
creative computing
technology
lidar
GIS
phenomenology
geocriticism
space and place
maritime
aquatic
critical ocean studies
environmental humanities
web mapping
vector graphics
software applications
mapping software
seafloor mapping
ocean mapping
bathymetry
hydrography
water
comparative literature
custom maps
literary maps
literary criticism
literary form
narrative
genre
novel
prose narrative
archipelago
reader-reception
reading practice
visuality
climate change
relationality
marine surveying
subsea imagery
ocean spatial data
narrative prose

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Committee Members:

Claire Colebrook, Major Field Member
Brian Lennon, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bryan Waterman, Special Member
Adam Thomas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hester Blum, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Schneider, Haley Elizabeth

Title:

Public Futures: The Rhetorics of Sustainability and Survival in Philadelphia, 2007 - 2021

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Publics
futurity
environment
urban planning
climate change
rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Rosa Eberly, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Allen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradford Vivian, Major Field Member
Stephen Browne, Major Field Member
Andrew High, Program Head/Chair
Joshua Barnett, Major Field Member

Author:

Horisk, Kaitlyn

Title:

Plants, Precipitation, and People in Dhofar, Oman: Dryland Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing World

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Paleoecology
climate change
vegetation
Arabia
pastoralism
taxonomic turnover
isotopes
pollen
Agent-based model

File:

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Erin DiMaggio, Major Field Member
Rebecca Bliege Bird, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarah Ivory, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joy McCorriston, Special Member
Kate Freeman, Major Field Member