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Author:

Clemente-Harding, Laura

Title:

Extension of the Analog Ensemble Technique to the Spatial Domain

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Analog Ensemble
uncertainty quantification
Search Space Extension
Schaake Shuffle
ensemble prediction
spatio-temporal consistency
computationally efficient
spatial optimization
optimal predictor weighting

File:

Download 2019_PSU_Dissertation_LCH_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Guido Cervone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Guido Cervone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alexander Klippel, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
George Spencer Young, Outside Member
Sue Ellen Haupt, Outside Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Emard, Kelsey

Title:

Global lifestyle migration, racialized dispossession, and social-environmental change on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

lifestyle migration
amenity migration
equitable development
human-environment geography
feminist political ecology
postcolonial intersectionality
Black geographies
Latin America

File:

Download Final_and_complete_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Lise Nelson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lise Nelson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brian H. King, Committee Member
Melissa Wright, Committee Member
Courtney Morris, Outside Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cavallo, Sara

Title:

Biosecurity, farmer knowledge networks, and governance of plant disease "emergencies" in western Uganda

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Uganda
biosecurity
plant disease
banana xanthomonas wilt
political ecology
agricultural knowledge
knowledge networks

File:

Download Cavallo_Dissertation_2020-25.pdf

Committee Members:

Karl Zimmerer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Zimmerer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brian H. King, Committee Member
Bronwen Powell, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Outside Member
Jia-Ching Chen, Special Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Simpson, Mark

Title:

Scale and Space: Representations in Immersive Virtual Reality

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

virtual reality
spatial cognition
visualization
immersive
geography

File:

Download Simpson_Dissertation_Final_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander Klippel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Klippel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger Michael Downs, Committee Member
Alan M Mac Eachren, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Outside Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhao, Jiayan

Title:

Spatial Learning in Virtual Environments

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

spatial learning
virtual environments
immersive virtual reality
geographic scale
reference frames

File:

Download zhao_phd_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexander Klippel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Klippel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger Michael Downs, Committee Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Ping Li, Outside Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Boyle, Margaret

Title:

National Development Identities in the Self-Differentiated Paris Climate Agreement: Implications for Multi-scalar Climate Governance

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Climate Change
Governance
Paris Agreement
Sustainable Development Goals
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Food Security
South Africa
Development
Differentiation
Self-Differentiation

File:

Download Margaret_Boyle__Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Brian H. King, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brian H. King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Bronwen Powell, Committee Member
Nancy A Tuana, Outside Member
Jia-Ching Chen, Special Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xin, Yanan

Title:

Mobility-Based Anomaly Detection

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Mobility Analysis
Anomaly Detection
Spatial Data Mining
Deep Learning
Machine Learning

File:

Download Doctoral_Dissertation_Xin.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan M Mac Eachren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan M Mac Eachren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Manzhu Yu, Committee Member
Justine Blanford, Committee Member
Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang, Outside Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Savelyev, Alexander

Title:

Empirical Investigation of Typographic Overprinting Displays and Their Legibility in the Context of Information and Geographic Visualization of Text

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

cartography
typography
legibility
geovisualization
information visualization
overprinting

File:

Download diss.12.08.14.26.toKern.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan Maceachren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Maceachren, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donna Jean Peuquet, Committee Member
Alexander Klippel, Committee Member
Prasenjit Mitra, Committee Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Special Member

Author:

Mwangi, Margaret

Title:

Effects of Drought on Nomadic Pastoralism: Impacts and Adaptation among the Maasai of Kajiado District, Kenya

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Maasai
Kenya
Drought
Adaptations
Impacts
Climate Change
Africa

File:

Download Mwangi_N_Margaret_PhD_Dissertation_GradSch__Dept_Nov_16_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan H Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan H Taylor & C Gregory Knight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Committee Member
Michael Gregory Jacobson, Special Member