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Author:

Ceres, Robert L

Title:

Understanding and quantifying storm surge risk and developing robust risk mitigation strategies

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

storm surge risk mitigation
hurricane
tropical cyclone
island city on a wedge
New York City
NYC
Manhattan
bias
Generalized Extreme Value distribution
GEV

File:

Download Ceres_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Eliot Forest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
David W Titley, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Outside Member

Author:

Roop-Eckart, Kenneth Joel

Title:

Analysis of Mixed Distribution Statistical Flood Frequency Models and Implications for Dam Safety Assessments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

mixed distributions
dam
safety
risk analysis
flood frequency
two population

File:

Download kjr_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Committee Member
Tess Alethea Russo, Committee Member
Christopher Duffy, Committee Member

Author:

Fang, Kuai

Title:

Understanding Hydrologic Functions of Water Storage and Soil Moisture and Improving Predictive Capability using Big Data Machine Learning Methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrology
Watershed Functioning
Water Storage
Soil Moisture
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

File:

Download Kuai_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

Author:

Wu, Kai

Title:

Joint Estimation of Fossil Fuel and Biogenic CO2 Fluxes in an Urban Environment

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

urban CO2 emissions
atmospheric inversion
eddy covariance measurements
flux partitioning
fossil fuel CO2 emissions
biogenic CO2 fluxes

File:

Download Wu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth James Davis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Lauvaux, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Henry Brune, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Outside Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Thomas Lauvaux, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Wesloh, Daniel Robert

Title:

Investigating covariances in and for carbon dioxide surface flux inversions

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

carbon dioxide
atmospheric trace gas flux inversions
data assimilation
covariance assumptions
temporal biogenic CO2 flux error correlations

File:

Download Wesloh-Daniel-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sha Feng, Major Field Member
Kenneth Davis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Steven Greybush, Major Field Member
Thomas Lauvaux, Special Member

Author:

Ye, Haochen

Title:

Application of uncertainty quantification, benchmarking, and model diagnostic tools to inform climate risk assessments

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Climate risk
Uncertainty analysis
Sensitivity analysis
Benchmark

File:

Download Dissertation_Haochen_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Murali Haran, Outside Unit & Field Member
Antonia Hadjimichael, Major Field Member
Klaus Keller, Special Member
James Kasting, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Nicholas, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Lee, Seiyon

Title:

Computational Methods for Hierarchical Spatial Models and Ice Sheet Model Calibration

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Spatial Statistics
Zero-inflated spatial data
Computer model calibration
sampling importance resampling
Basis Representation
computational statistics
uncertainty quantification

File:

Download SeiyonBenLee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ben Shaby, Committee Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Outside Member
Ephraim Mont Hanks, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Aquino, Carl Fredrick

Title:

Greenland Ice Sheet drives sea-level rise differences between model and expert projections

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

sea-level rise
sea level
probabilistic inversion
Bayesian inversion
Greenland Ice Sheet
Antarctic Ice Sheet
climate risk
climate risk management
coastal hazards

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Committee Members:

Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Richard B Alley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vivek Srikrishnan, Committee Member

Author:

Tebyanian, Nastaran

Title:

Green Infrastructure Placement under Deep Uncertainty

Graduate Program:

Architecture (PHD)

Keywords:

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty
Green Infrastructure
Spatial Planning
Climate Change

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Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Outside Unit Member
Lisa Iulo, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Guido Cervone, Outside Field Member
Hong Wu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Loukas Kalisperis, Major Field Member
Ute Poerschke, Program Head/Chair