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Author:

Hunter, Mitchell Clayton

Title:

Sustainable Intensification and Climate Resilience: Cover Crops, Soil Improvement, and Drought

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

sustainable intensification
cover crops
drought
climate change
food demand
soil health
reduced tillage
climate resilience
cover crop mixtures
agriculture
agronomy
greenhouse gas emissions
Mississippi River Phosphorus
maize
soybean
wheat
cereal rye
red clover
no-till
soil improvement
plant-available water
infiltration rate
available water capacity

File:

Download Hunter_-_Dissertation_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. David Mortensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. David Mortensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Dr. Armen Kemanian, Committee Member
Dr. Jason Kaye, Outside Member
Dr. Meagan Schipanski, Special Member

Author:

Whitehead, Shelley Alexandra

Title:

Nature Nurtures: How environmental variation influences Anopheles stephensi vectorial capacity

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
malaria
climate change
Anopheles
vector ecology
environmental variation
life history
Plasmodium

File:

Download Whitehead_Dissertation_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew Brian Thomas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Outside Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Special Member

Author:

Chen, Hans Weiteng

Title:

Toward improved regional estimates of carbon dioxide sources and sinks through coupled carbon–atmospheric data assimilation

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

carbon cycle
data assimilation
atmospheric inversion
climate
climate change
ensemble kalman filter
Bayesian inference
act-america
co2
carbon dioxide

File:

Download chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Fuqing Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Lauvaux, Committee Member
Steven B. Feldstein, Committee Member
Richard B. Alley, Outside Member
David W. Titley, Outside Member

Author:

Amburgey, Staci

Title:

COARSE AND FINE-SCALE DETERMINANTS OF SPECIES RANGE BOUNDARIES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

species distribution modeling
range dynamics
bioclimatic envelope model
species occupancy model
amphibian
reptile
mammal
climate change
interspecific competition
multispecies
habitat fragmentation

File:

Download AmburgeyDissertation2019Jan.pdf

Committee Members:

David Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Andrew Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew R. Marshall, Committee Member
Tyler Wagner, Committee Member
Tracy Langkilde, Outside Member
Evan Grant, Special Member

Author:

Chan, Andrea

Title:

Climate Change Effects on Coral Symbioses

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

coral reef
population genetics
climate change
Symbiodiniaceae
gene expession
symbiosis
bioerosion
physiology

File:

Download AChan_Thesis_Final_Complete.pdf

Committee Members:

Iliana Brigitta Baums, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Iliana Brigitta Baums, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd C LaJeunesse, Committee Member
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Outside Member

Author:

Eissler, Sarah Elizabeth

Title:

CHOCOLATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE: INVESTIGATING GENDER DYNAMICS OF SMALL-SCALE CACAO PRODUCERS IN LAMPUNG AND SOUTH SULAWESI INDONESIA

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

gender
climate change
small-scale agriculture
cocoa
Indonesia

File:

Download Eissler_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Brennan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Azzara, Committee Member
Ann Rachel Tickamyer, Committee Member
Siela N. Maximova, Outside Member
Carolyn Sachs, Committee Member

Author:

Keller, Joseph

Title:

Timing matters: Climate change, phenology, demography, and management of the invasive weed Carduus nutans

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Carduus nutans
climate change
weed management
integral projection model
phenology
biological control

File:

Download Keller_Joseph_ecology_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Katriona Shea, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katriona Shea, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Michael Saunders, Committee Member
James Rosenberger, Outside Member

Author:

Arora, Rashmit

Title:

Assessing the Viability of Meat Alternatives to Mitigate the Societal Concerns Associated with Animal Agriculture in India

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

meat alternatives
meat substitutes
meat substitution
clean meat
lab grown meat
plant based meat
vegetarian
vegan
India
developing country
animal agriculture
climate change
agriculture
Beyond Meat
Impossible Foods
GoodDot India
nutrient pollution
cows
dietary change
food policy
cultured meat
cell-based meat
in-vitro meat
in vitro meat
future of meat
future protein
Mumbai
choice experiment
discrete choice experiment
latent class model
latent class analysis
market segmentation

File:

Download Arora_MSThesis_Final_7-12.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward C Jaenicke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Brent, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amit Sharma, Committee Member
Robert Magneson Chiles, Committee Member

Author:

Paudel, Sulav

Title:

INSECT-PLANT INTERACTIONS IN A WARMING WORLD: EFFECTS OF ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ON TOMATOES AND THEIR INSECT HERBIVORES

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

climate change
elevation
insect-plant interactions
global warming
glucose oxidase
salivary defense elicitors
polyphenol oxidase
trypsin protease inhibitors
induced plant defense
leaf trichomes
domestication
inducibility

File:

Download Sulav_Paudel_2019_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Edwin George Rajotte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edwin George Rajotte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Majid R Foolad, Outside Member
Gary Felton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dinsmore, Carli

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF FOOD AVAILABILITY ON LIFE-HISTORY TRAJECTORIES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Cohort
condition
body size
growth
reptiles
von Bertalanffy
Thamnophis sirtalis
survival
reproduction
garter snake
climate change
environmental variation

File:

Download MS_Dinsmore_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

David Andrew Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julian D Avery, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tracy Langkilde, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Program Head/Chair