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Author:

Hiestand, Mikael

Title:

Relationships of Corn Belt Land Use/Land Cover with Surface Heat Fluxes, Synoptic Circulations and Convective Systems

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Corn Belt
Synoptic Climatology
Surface Heat Fluxes
Convective Systems
Self Organizing Maps

File:

Download Hiestand_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Miller, Major Field Member
Guido Cervone, Major Field Member
Andrew Carleton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Davis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tamariz, Gabriel

Title:

Illegal-crop cultivation and the emergence of nontraditional peasant livelihoods and agrobiodiversity-containing landscapes in Oaxaca, Mexico

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Illegal crops
Agrobiodiversity
Vulnerability
Collective action
Political ecology
Social-Ecological Systems
Land systems
Violent environments
New rurality

File:

Download GabrielTamariz_Dissertation_2022_0321.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Major Field Member
Karl Zimmerer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Guido Cervone, Major Field Member
Brian Thiede, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Huang, Jiawei

Title:

The Effects of Visual Realism on Cognitive Constructs, Spatial Memory and Learning in Virtual Reality

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

virtual reality
human computer interaction
spatial cognition
3d visualization
visual realism
visual fidelity
virtual geographic environments
presence
ivr
virtual environment

File:

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Committee Members:

Alan MacEachren, Major & Minor Field Member
Alexander Klippel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Cynthia Brewer, Program Head/Chair
John Messner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Roger Downs, Major Field Member

Author:

Young, Travis Michael

Title:

Publicly subsidized disasters: Disaster recovery and dispossession in Houston-Galveston

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Disaster recovery
Vulnerability
Dispossession

File:

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Committee Members:

Barrett Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jennifer Baka, Major Field Member
Stephen Matthews, Major & Minor Field Member
Christopher Fowler, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Brian King, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hu, Weiming

Title:

Uncertainty Quantification for Photovoltaic Energy Production Using Analog Ensemble

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Ensemble Forecast
Photovoltaic
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

File:

Download 2021_PSU_Dissertation_Hu.pdf

Committee Members:

George Young, Outside Unit Member
Guido Cervone, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Mann, Outside Field Member
Andrew Carleton, Major Field Member
Cynthia Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hong, Yooinn

Title:

Home gardens as agrobiodiversity sites amid agrarian transformations in Jeju, Korea (1960–2016)

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

home gardens
agrobiodiversity
smallholders
agricultural modernization
tourism development
agrarian transformations
rural changes
livelihood diversification
agricultural commercialization
cash crop
political ecology
ethnobotany
Korea
Jeju
green revolution
development
conservation

File:

Download Dissertation_Yooinn_Hong.pdf

Committee Members:

Leland Glenna, Outside Unit & Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Major Field Member
Karl Zimmerer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian King, Major Field Member
Cynthia Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Weier, Jacklyn

Title:

The Political Economies of U.S. Communes

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

intentional communities
diverse economies
commons
governance
property
geography

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Committee Members:

Melissa Wright, Major Field Member
Lorraine Dowler, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kathleen Sexsmith, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karl Zimmerer, Major Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tubbeh Sierralta, Ramzi Michel

Title:

Hydraulic infrastructure development, irrigation governance, and climate change adaptation in the engineered Colca-Siguas watershed, Peru

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Water governance
Political ecology
Environmental justice
Sociotechnical assemblages
Hydraulic mission
Actor-network theory
State construction
State as effect
Polycentric governance
Latin America
Customary water governance
Glacial retreat
Water rights formalization
Majes-Siguas Special Project
Proyecto Especial Majes-Siguas
Social-ecological systems

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Committee Members:

Larry Gorenflo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Karl Zimmerer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Helen Greatrex, Major Field Member
Trevor Birkenholtz, Major Field Member
Kimberley Anh Thomas, Special Member

Author:

Masrur, Arif

Title:

Spatio-temporally Interpretable Geo-AI Approaches for Predictive Modeling of Geographic Events

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Machine learning interpretability
Geographic artificial intelligence
Wildfire ecology

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Committee Members:

Alan Taylor, Major Field Member
Manzhu Yu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Prasenjit Mitra, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Anthony Robinson, Major Field Member

Author:

Cole, Harrison

Title:

Tactile Maps for Flood Mitigation Planning: Design and Evaluation

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

geography
cartography
accessibility
tactile
disability
flood

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Committee Members:

Anthony Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jack Carroll, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lorraine Dowler, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Major Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair