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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:

Download Paulo_Soares_Penn_State_University_Dissertation_Final.pdf

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:

Download thesis_final_SU21.pdf

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:

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:

Download Burton_Dissertation_2021.pdf

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:

Torhan, Sarah

Title:

A Global Characterization of Adaptations Addressing Vulnerabilities Across the Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

climate change
adaptation
food-energy-water nexus
food security
water security
energy security

File:

Download Torhan_Masters_Thesis_Fall_2021.pdfDownload Table_B-1.xlsx

Committee Members:

Caitlin A Grady, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lauren Mc Phillips, Committee Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member

Author:

Ritchie, Michelle

Title:

A Novel Framework for the Development of a Spatial Social-Ecological Systems Model of Climate Change Adaptation: An Arctic Case Study Application in North Central Iceland

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

human-environment geography
social-ecological systems
Arctic
climate change
adaptation

File:

Download Ritchie_Dissertation_2021.pdf

Committee Members:

William Easterling, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erica Smithwick, Co-Chair of Committee
Karl Zimmerer, Major Field Member
Richard Alley, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair