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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

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