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Author:

Goldstein, Joshua Randall

Title:

Compartmental, Spatial, and Point Process Models for Infectious Diseases

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

infectious disease models
SIR models
spatial point processes
Gaussian processes
Markov chain Monte Carlo

File:

Download Goldstein_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Fricks, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Le Bao, Committee Member
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Committee Member

Author:

Thawley, Christopher Jesse

Title:

The causes and consequences of adaptation to a novel invader in the Eastern fence lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

invasive species
lizard
evolutionary ecology
fire ant
herpetology
gradient
cline
solenopsis invicta
antipredator

File:

Download CThawley_Thesis_FinalSubmission.pdf

Committee Members:

Tracy Lee Langkilde, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Lee Langkilde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Committee Member

Author:

Bernstein, Jason

Title:

Inference of Biophysical Diffusion With Transient Binding Using Particle Filters and Stochastic Em

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Particle filter
Stochastic EM
State Space Model
Motor Protein

File:

Download PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John Fricks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Russell, James Caleb

Title:

Stochastic Models for Individual and Collective Animal Movement

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Animal Movement
Collective Motion
Correlated Random Walk
MCMC algorithm
Bayesian Statistics
Potential Surface
Camponotus Pennsylvanicus

File:

Download Russell_James_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ephraim Mont Hanks, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Murali Haran, Committee Member
John Fricks, Committee Member
David Peter Hughes, Outside Member

Author:

Manlove, Kezia Ruth

Title:

Pneumonia Dynamics In Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis)

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

bighorn sheep
pneumonia
mycoplasma ovipneumonaie
disease ecology
social network
behavioral ecology
chronic carriage
population dynamics

File:

Download Manlove-Dissertation_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter John Hudson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Fraser Read, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Paul Cross, Outside Member

Author:

Weathers, Thomas Casey

Title:

CONSERVATION GENETICS OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BROOK TROUT (Salvelinus fontinalis)

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

Population genetics
Genetic differentiation
Isolation
Fragmentation
Riverscape genetics
Conservation

File:

Download Weathers_PhD_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

John Edward Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Edward Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Lee King, Committee Member
Jesse R Lasky, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member
Matthew A Kulp, Special Member

Author:

Sola Gracia, Emilia

Title:

SOCIAL INSECTS AS SOLITARY VEHICLES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis sensus lato
Beauveria bassiana
Camponotus castaneus
Camponotus pennsylvanicus
social dynamics
cadaver managment
disease dynamics
fungal morphology
group defense
movement
trophallaxis
semi-natural arenas

File:

Download Social_insects_as_solitary_vehicles-final.pdf

Committee Members:

David Peter Hughes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Peter Hughes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nina Ellen Jenkins, Committee Member
Victoria Anne Braithwaite-Read, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member

Author:

Guan, Yawen

Title:

Reduced-dimensional Non-Gaussian Spatial Models and Statistical Methods for Studying the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Spatial Model
Non-Gaussian Spatial Data
Markov chain Monte Carlo Expectation Maximization
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Glacier Dynamics
Bayesian Hierarchical Model
Gaussian Process
Latent Gaussian Process Model

File:

Download YawenGuan-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesca Chiaromonte, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member

Author:

Ensley, John Robert

Title:

Bayesian Semiparametric Covariance Function Estimation for Stationary Gaussian Processes by Overwhelming Force

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Gaussian process
bayesian
covariance function
mcmc
parallel computing
penalized splines
spectral density
monte carlo integration
semiparametric

File:

Download Ensley-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin Adam Shaby, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member

Author:

Aiello, Christina Marie

Title:

A multi-level study of disease dynamics in desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) with implications for translocation risk assessments

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

wildlife epidemiology
wildlife translocation
behavioral ecology
contact networks
applied ecology
wildlife management

File:

Download Aiello.dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter John Hudson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Lee Langkilde, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter John Hudson, Committee Member
David Andrew Miller, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Outside Member