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Author:

Moosa, Christina Shaheen

Title:

Care and Responsibility in a Global Context

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

care ethics
global responsibility
climate change

File:

Download MOOSA_Final_Dissertation_Draft_022216.pdf

Committee Members:

John Philip Christman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Jonathan Harold Marks, Special Member

Author:

Watts, David Ami

Title:

ARCTIC VEGETATION RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHANGE: REPRODUCTION, GROWTH, AND CONSEQUENCES FOR BIODIVERSITY

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

climate change
global change
seed ecology
biodiversity
ecosystem function
clonal plants
genotyping
plant herbivore interactions
Greenland
Arctic
tundra

File:

Download DAW_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric S Post, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tomas A Carlo-Joglar, Committee Member
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Outside Member
Tracy Lee Langkilde, Committee Member

Author:

Shapiro, Lillian Lee

Title:

Know your enemy: Environmental variation significantly affects mosquito biology and malaria transmission risk

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

malaria
mosquito
climate change
disease ecology
Anopheles
Plasmodium

File:

Download ShapiroDissertation2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew B. Thomas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew B. Thomas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew F. Read, Committee Member
Jason L. Rasgon, Committee Member
James H. Marden, Outside Member

Author:

Radville, Laura

Title:

Root phenology in a changing world

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

root phenology
climate change
phenology
roots
carbon exchange
root turnover

File:

Download Dissertation_Radville.pdf

Committee Members:

David Eissenstat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Post, Committee Member
Margot Kaye, Committee Member
Kathleen Brown, Outside Member

Author:

Liang, Shuang

Title:

SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WILDFIRE AND FUEL TREATMENT ON SIERRA NEVADA FORESTS

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Sierra Nevada
Forest
Carbon
climate change
wildfire
modeling
LANDIS-II

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Ecology_Shuang_Liang_2017Spring_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew D. Hurteau, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew D. Hurteau, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot W. Kaye, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan H. Taylor, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Outside Member

Author:

Clay, Nathan Jared

Title:

Adaptive livelihoods? Climate change, agrodiversity, and food security amid development transitions in Rwanda

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

food security
climate change
agroecology
sustainable intensification
adaptive capacity
environmental governance sub-Saharan Africa
development geography
political ecology
climate change
food security
agroecology
sustainable intensification
adaptive capacity
environmental governance
sub-Saharan Africa
development geography
political ecology

File:

Download Nathan_CLAY_PhD.Diss.final.pdf

Committee Members:

Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brian Hastings King, Committee Member
Heather D Karsten, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Outside Member

Author:

Hunter, Mitchell Clayton

Title:

Sustainable Intensification and Climate Resilience: Cover Crops, Soil Improvement, and Drought

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

sustainable intensification
cover crops
drought
climate change
food demand
soil health
reduced tillage
climate resilience
cover crop mixtures
agriculture
agronomy
greenhouse gas emissions
Mississippi River Phosphorus
maize
soybean
wheat
cereal rye
red clover
no-till
soil improvement
plant-available water
infiltration rate
available water capacity

File:

Download Hunter_-_Dissertation_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. David Mortensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. David Mortensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Dr. Armen Kemanian, Committee Member
Dr. Jason Kaye, Outside Member
Dr. Meagan Schipanski, Special Member

Author:

Whitehead, Shelley Alexandra

Title:

Nature Nurtures: How environmental variation influences Anopheles stephensi vectorial capacity

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
malaria
climate change
Anopheles
vector ecology
environmental variation
life history
Plasmodium

File:

Download Whitehead_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Brian Thomas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Outside Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Special Member

Author:

Chen, Hans Weiteng

Title:

Toward improved regional estimates of carbon dioxide sources and sinks through coupled carbon–atmospheric data assimilation

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

carbon cycle
data assimilation
atmospheric inversion
climate
climate change
ensemble kalman filter
Bayesian inference
act-america
co2
carbon dioxide

File:

Download chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Fuqing Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Lauvaux, Committee Member
Steven B. Feldstein, Committee Member
Richard B. Alley, Outside Member
David W. Titley, Outside Member

Author:

Amburgey, Staci

Title:

COARSE AND FINE-SCALE DETERMINANTS OF SPECIES RANGE BOUNDARIES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

species distribution modeling
range dynamics
bioclimatic envelope model
species occupancy model
amphibian
reptile
mammal
climate change
interspecific competition
multispecies
habitat fragmentation

File:

Download AmburgeyDissertation2019Jan.pdf

Committee Members:

David Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Andrew Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew R. Marshall, Committee Member
Tyler Wagner, Committee Member
Tracy Langkilde, Outside Member
Evan Grant, Special Member