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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

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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

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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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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