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Author:: Barrett, Austin Gordon
Title:: Assessing the Effectiveness of Live Music Interpretive Programming
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Keywords:: Environmental Interpretation
Music
Climate Change
Experimental Design
File:: Download Austin_Barrett_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew Justin Mowen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Lee Kerstetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Richard Vahoviak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Munoz, David Jonathan
Title:: Using Quantitative Approaches to Estimate Space-use, Population Dynamics, Behavior, and Climate Change Adaptive Potential for the Red-backed Salamander Plethodon Cinereus
Graduate Program:: Wildlife and Fisheries Science
Keywords:: Population ecology
Capture mark-recapture
Study design
Adaptive Capacity
Climate Change
File:: Download Munoz_MS_Thesis_2015_FinalForma.pdf
Committee Members:: David Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Bernstein, Kevin Daniel
Title:: CLIMATE-GROWTH RATE RELATIONSHIPS IN CONIFERS AMONG SITES WITH SUBSTRATE MEDIATED VEGETATION HISTORIES IN THE KLAMATH MOUNTAIN FORESTS
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: Climate Change
Geology
Temperature
Precipitation
Growth
Dendrochronology
Klamath Mountains
Mountain Ecosystems
Forests
Adaptation
Refugia
Ultramafic
File:: Download KDBTHESISFINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Alan H Taylor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Mark Carleton, Committee Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Committee Member

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Author:: Barkley, Zachary Robert
Title:: Quantifying Upstream Emissions From Natural Gas Production In Northeastern Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Meteorology
Keywords:: Natural gas
Methane
Aircraft mass balance
CH4
Emission rate
Marcellus
fugitive emissions
Climate
Climate Change
Methane inventory
File:: Download Barkley_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Thomas Claude Yves Lauvaux, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Member
Chris E. Forest, Committee Member

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Author:: John, Christian Lee
Title:: Against the Spring Wave: Ungulate Migration Phenology in a Changing Arctic
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: Migration
Phenology
Arctic
Climate Change
Caribou
Remote Sensing
File:: Download Thesis_ChristianJohn_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric Post, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member

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Author:: Greenberg, Evan Bennett
Title:: Reconstructing river mobility from ancient deposits: an example from the Willwood Formation (Bighorn Basin, WY)
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Geology
Sedimentology
Fluvial
Climate Change
Stratigraphy
Rivers
File:: Download Greenberg_Thesis_full_10_2017.pdf
Committee Members:: Elizabeth Hajek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Roman DiBiase, Committee Member

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Author:: Rajendren, Krishnaswami
Title:: Integration of Random-Pore Model & Langmuir-Hinshelwood Kinetics To Study High Temperature Coal Gasification
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Heterogeneous Solid-Gas Reactions
Chemical Reaction Engineering
Coal Gasification
Carbon Gasification
Random Pore Model
Langmuir Adsorption
Langmuir-Hinshelwood Kinetics
Stefan-Maxwell Relations
Multi-component Diffusion
Reaction Diffusion PDE
Partial Differential Equations
Reaction Kinetics
Chemical Engineering
Energy Engineering
Clean Coal Technologies
Transport Phenomena
Mass Transfer
Fluid Mechanics
Diffusion
Crystallization
Crystal Growth Kinetics
Kinetics of Phase Change
MATLAB
Orthogonal Collocation
Legendre Polynomials
Gauss-Jacobi Iteration Scheme
Non-linear PDEs
Arrhenius Equation
Gasifier
Gasification Technologies
Fossil Fuels
Climate Change
Environmental Sustainability
Entrained Flow Reactor
High-Pressure Entrained Flow Reactor
HPEFR
File:: Download KrisRajendrenfinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. Sarma Pisupati, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Rizzo, Adriana
Title:: OCEAN ECOSYSTEM TRANSFORMATION CAUSED BY RAPID WARMING AND SEA LEVEL RISE IN THE PLEISTOCENE CARIACO BASIN (MIS 9-7)
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: paleoceanography
coccolithophores
phytoplankton
paleoecology
organic geochemistry
Pleistocene
Climate Change
harmful algae bloom
productivity
sea level
ITCZ
Cariaco Basin
micropaleontology
UK37
nutrients
Emiliania huxleyi
Florisphaera profunda
dinoflagellates
Margalef's Mandala
MIS 8
File:: Download Rizzo_Thesis_PostDefense_tosubmit2.pdf
Committee Members:: Timothy Bralower, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member

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Author:: Stauffer, Haley
Title:: Climate Resilience: Modeling the Impacts of Yield Variability on Switchgrass Supply Chains
Graduate Program:: Biorenewable Systems (MS)
Keywords:: Bioenergy
Biomass
Biomass Supply Chains
Resilience
Climate Change
Switchgrass
Iowa
Drought Tolerant
Varieties
Dry Matter Loss
Biomass Storage
Harvest
Transportation
Biomass Economics
Logistics
Feedstock
Feedstock Handling
Simulation
Modeling
Discrete Event Simulation
Biogeochemical Modeling
DayCent
ExtendSim
File:: Download ABE_Thesis_Stauffer.pdf
Committee Members:: Paul Heinemann, Program Head/Chair
Tom L. Richard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erin Webb, Committee Member
Saurabh Bansal, Committee Member
Christine Costello, Committee Member

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Author:: Melton, Sierra
Title:: Iceberg Calving and Meltwater Drainage at the Ice-Cliff Terminus of Helheim Glacier, Greenland
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Greenland
Glaciology
Iceberg
Glacier
Meltwater
Glacial Hydrology
Remote Sensing
Satellite Imagery
Climate Change
Iceberg Calving
Helheim Glacier
File:: Download SierraMelton_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Byron Richard Parizek, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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