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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:

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

Author:

Mohammadbagher, Mahda

Title:

Penetrative Thinking and Embodied Learning in VR: The Role of Embodied Affordances in Learning Geospatial Information

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Virtual Reality
Embodied Learning
3D visualization
Geospatial Learning
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
User Experience
Agency
User Performance
Embodiment
Penetrative Thinking

File:

Download Dissertation_Mahda_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Robinson, Major Field Member
Julia Plummer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lace Padilla, Special Member
Alexander Klippel, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Roger Downs, Major Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Malley, Grace

Title:

Exploring the Intersection Between Land Use Dynamics, Habitat Connectivity and Human-Elephant Interactions in Shared Landscapes

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Land Use/Land Cover Change
Land Use Dynamics
Land Change Modeling
Land Change Analysis
Social-Ecological Systems
Human-Wildlife Interactions
Human-Elephant Conflicts
Conflict-Coexistence Continuum
Habitat Connectivity
Wildlife Corridors
Least-Cost theory
Linkage MappingShared Landscapes
Subsistence Farmers; Livelihoods
Morogoro
Tanzania.
Linkage Mapping
Shared Landscapes
Subsistence Farmers
Livelihoods
Tanzania

File:

Download GRACE_MALLEY_FINAL_DISSERTATION-NOV7.pdf

Committee Members:

Larry Gorenflo, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Douglas Miller, Major Field Member
Douglas Bird, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Rob Crane, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Sanchez, Julie M

Title:

Investigating the Causes of Arctic Amplification: Interactions of the Atmosphere and Ocean

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

Arctic Amplification
local forcing
remote forcing

File:

Download Sanchez_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sukyoung Lee, Outside Unit & Field Member
Guido Cervone, Major Field Member
Andrew Carleton, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Luke Trusel, Major Field Member

Author:

Niziolek, Dani

Title:

Drivers of post-fire conifer regeneration in Lassen Volcanic National Park

Graduate Program:

Geography (MS)

Keywords:

Fire
Vegetation dynamics
Conifer regeneration

File:

Download Niziolek_Thesis_Fa2022__revised_.pdf

Committee Members:

Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Alan H Taylor, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member
Douglas Miller, Committee Member