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Author:

Zhi, Wei

Title:

Understanding hydrological and biogeochemical control on solute export pattern at watershed scale

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

watershed
watershed model
watershed biogeochemical reactive transport model
solute export
land use
soil carbon and nitrogen
climate change
water quality

File:

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Onofrio, Lauren

Title:

Adaptation to climate in Juglans nigra: exploring how home climate shapes growth patterns of natural populations

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

black walnut
Juglans nigra
tree populations
local adaptation
climate
climate change
spatial climate variability
temporal climate variability
early growth patterns
growth rates
natural selection
genetic differentiation
provenance test
dendrochronology
phenotypic plasticity
common garden

File:

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Committee Members:

Laura P Leites, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kim C Steiner, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member

Author:

Soares, Paulo

Title:

Measures and Values of Light: Changing the Energy Field and Adapting to Climates Changed

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar irradiance
Direct normal irradiance
multypiranometer array
Machine learning
Solar Radiometric Systems
GIS
LiDAR
3D view
low-resolution LiDAR
rooftop segmentation
photovoltaic systems
site suitability
GIS
LiDAR
rooftop segmentation
photovoltaic systems
site suitability
agrivoltaics
climate change
multi-objective decision-making
trade space exploration
Light
TMY
NSRDB
PV Generation

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Susan W Stewart, Committee Member
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Milcarek, Colton

Title:

Diagnosing Trends in Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures Using a Heuristic Atmospheric Longwave Emissivity Model

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

emissivity
radiative transfer
atmospheric dynamics
climate change
walker circulation
atmospheric thermodynamics

File:

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Committee Members:

Sukyoung Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member
David J. Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Nguyen, Hai

Title:

Data-driven assessment of climate change impacts on agriculture in the Southeast of the United States

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

climate change
maize
soybean
crop net irrigation requirement
crop yield
southeastern United States
agriculture
uncertainty

File:

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Committee Members:

Cibin Raj, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tom Richard, Major Field Member
Christine Costello, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suat Irmak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Allen Thompson, Special Member

Author:

Burton, Amanda

Title:

Thwarting climate change using simple practices in complex and adaptive agricultural systems

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

climate change
silage
corn
maize
soy
sorghum
dairy
Pennsylvania
United States
agriculture
grain
climate
sunflower
abiotic
stress
production

File:

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Committee Members:

Armen R. Kemanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Armen R. Kemanian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heather D Karsten, Committee Member
Carolyn Lowry, Committee Member
John Tooker, Outside Member
Gregory Wayne Roth, Special Member
Erin L Connolly, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Stewart, Bryn

Title:

From above and below: controls of external climate drivers and internal subsurface structure on catchment hydro-biogeochemistry

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

water quality
catchment
hydrology
biogeochemistry
reactive transport modeling
climate change
solute export
dissolved organic carbon
dissolved inorganic carbon

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Boyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Li Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Major Field Member
Nathaniel Warner, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Broyles, Lauren

Title:

Hydroclimatic Risks for Household Water Insecurity and the Household Water-Food Nexus

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

household water insecurity
environmental seasonality
climate change
Bangladesh
extreme weather events

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Outside Field Member
Emily Pakhtigian, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Asher Rosinger, Outside Field Member
Rachel Brennan, Co-Chair of Committee
Alfonso Mejia, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Clare Hinrichs, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Polasky, Andrew

Title:

Statistical Climate Model Downscaling: Methods and Application to the Midwest United States and West Africa Regions

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

climate change
downscaling
self-organizing maps
machine learning
statistical downscaling

File:

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Committee Members:

George Young, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jenni Evans, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Fuentes, Major Field Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Traore, Abdelmoumine

Title:

Essays on the Mitigation of Climate-Related Stochastic Losses through Investment and Insurance

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

Crops(Corn and Soybeans)
Crop Insurance
typical risk
short-term risk
weather
factors
heterogeneity
discrete choice
panel data
fixed effects
unit structure level
Investment
insurance
expected utility
robust optimization
long (short)-term risk vs. long (short)-term uncertainty
risk aversion
climate change
prosocial
green bond
conventional bond utility
optimization
risk aversion
environmental regulation
green default

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Committee Members:

Douglas Wrenn, Program Head/Chair
Robert Weaver, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katherine Zipp, Major Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Wrenn, Major Field Member

Author:

Ware-Gilmore, Fhallon

Title:

Exploring the role of thermal performance in shaping dengue virus transmission and its implication for human health under a changing climate

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

Thermal tolerance
evolution
aedes aegypti
heat waves
wolbachaia
thermal sensitivity
arboviruses
adaptation
climate change
flaviviruses
aedes albopictus
dengue virus
dengue fever
thermal tolerance
mosquitoes
insect physiology

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katriona Shea, Outside Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Rudolf Schilder, Major Field Member
Matthew Thomas, Special Member
Ganesh Anand, Outside Unit Member
Moriah Szpara, Outside Field Member

Author:

Fan, Yifei

Title:

The mechanisms of the North Atlantic Cold Blob in the past century

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

climate change
ocean circulation
global warming
AMOC
cloud radiative forcing

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Committee Members:

Laifang Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukyoung Lee, Committee Member
Paul Markowski, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Raymond Gabriel Najjar, Jr., Committee Member
Melissa Marie Gervais, Committee Member

Author:

Stagner, Forrest

Title:

Shifting smallholder livestock ownership for climate change resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

socio-ecological resilience
livestock
Sub-Saharan Africa
climate change
smallholder agriculture
Zambia

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Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Ransom, Major Field Member
Michael Jacobson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Clare Hinrichs, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian Thiede, Program Head/Chair
Brian Thiede, Major Field Member

Author:

Di Domenico, Nicolle

Title:

Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Inundation Patterns of Tundra Polygonal Ground and Its Relationship with Arctic Climate

Graduate Program:

Geography (MS)

Keywords:

geomorphology
Arctic
polygonal ground
geography
remote sensing
machine learning
climate change

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Committee Members:

Shujie Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manzhu Yu, Committee Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Elizabeth Herndon, Special Signatory

Author:

Graham, Emily

Title:

Identifying Primary Drivers of Streamflow Quantity Changes in the Alaska Southern Cordillera Region

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science (MS)

Keywords:

Alaska
surface hydrology
streamflow quantity change
climate change

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Committee Members:

Brandi Gaertner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Panagiotis Giannakis, Committee Member
Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Patton, B Wren

Title:

Changing minds: Fish behavior and cognition in human-altered habitats

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

ocean acidification
fish
coral reef
behavior
Lemon Damselfish
Pomacentrus moluccensis
climate change
Atlantic Cod
Gadus morhua
tool use
cognitive ecology
behavioral ecology
resilience
enrichment

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Committee Members:

James Marden, Major Field Member
David Hughes, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Paola Ferreri, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sonia Cavigelli, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Rodrigues Do Amaral, Bruna

Title:

Using big data to answer big questions: how are birds dealing with the challenges of living in the Anthropocene?

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

hemlock woolly adelgid
bird population decline
invasive species
regional decline
bird demography
population biology
climate change
human impact
migration speed
spring migration
bird
bird population
phenology
vegetation green-up

File:

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Committee Members:

Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
David Andrew Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frances E. Buderman, Committee Member
Matthew R. Marshall, Committee Member
Andy Wilson, Committee Member

Author:

Rolph, Kristina Alixis

Title:

Assessing the impact of model structural complexity of the methane cycle on the Earth system response

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

atmospheric science
calibration methods
climate change
climate models
ch4
Earth system
Earth system modeling
global warming
greenhouse gas
methane
methane cycle
meteorology
atmospheric science
atmospheric science
calibration methods
climate change
climate models
ch4
Earth system
Earth system modeling
global warming
greenhouse gas
methane
methane cycle
meteorology

File:

Download Rolph_Kristina_Alixis_Dissertation_PSU_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Eliot Forest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Member
Melissa Marie Gervais, Committee Member
Tom Richard, Outside Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Harris, Gabriella

Title:

Origins of Icehouse Vegetation in Southern South America: Climate Change and Turnover in Eocene and Oligocene Patagonian Fossil Floras

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Argentina
Patagonia
Río Pichileufú
Laguna del Hunco
fossil leaves
leaf architecture
Araucaria
Austrocedrus
Oligocene
Eocene
climate change
Araucariaceae
Cupressaceae
conifers
EECO
total evidence phylogeny
rainforest
Gondwana
South America
Adobe Bridge
diversity
turnover
mosaic evolution
paleoecology
morphology
vegetation
paleobotany
seasonality
Splendid Isolation

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Mark Patzkowsky, Major Field Member
Peter Wilf, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sarah Ivory, Major Field Member
Jesse Lasky, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Cheong, Rebecca

Title:

Software Ocean: New Media Aesthetics and Water in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

software studies
new media studies
user interface
oceanic studies
blue humanities
adobe illustrator
media studies
mapbox
google earth
mapping
cartography
literary cartography
spatiality studies
nineteenth-century american literature
american literature
US-American
literary studies
archipelagic studies
island studies
aesthetics
aesthesis
sea
terraqueous
planetarity
creative computing
technology
lidar
GIS
phenomenology
geocriticism
space and place
maritime
aquatic
critical ocean studies
environmental humanities
web mapping
vector graphics
software applications
mapping software
seafloor mapping
ocean mapping
bathymetry
hydrography
water
comparative literature
custom maps
literary maps
literary criticism
literary form
narrative
genre
novel
prose narrative
archipelago
reader-reception
reading practice
visuality
climate change
relationality
marine surveying
subsea imagery
ocean spatial data
narrative prose

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Committee Members:

Claire Colebrook, Major Field Member
Brian Lennon, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bryan Waterman, Special Member
Adam Thomas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hester Blum, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies