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Author:: Amsden, Benoni Lee
Title:: Understanding Sense Of Place Among Community Residents and Volunteers in Alaska
Graduate Program:: Rural Sociology
Keywords:: volunteering
community
sense of place
photographic methods
Alaska
File:: Download Final_Amsden_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Richard Stedman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Albert E Luloff, Committee Member
Cynthia Clare Hinrichs, Committee Member
Alan R Graefe, Committee Member

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Author:: Garneau, Danielle Elaine
Title:: Spatio-temporal Dynamics of a Multiple Predator-Single Prey System
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: black bears
moose calves
brown bears
gray wolves
movements
habitat use
parturition synchrony
Alaska
File:: Download DanielleElaineGarneauThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
Alan Taylor, Committee Member
Richard Tucker Yahner, Committee Member

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Author:: Oyler, Jared Wesley
Title:: The Effect of Burn Severity on Short-Term Boreal Vegetation Recovery in Interior Alaska
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: boreal
Alaska
fire
burn severity
MODIS
NDVI
NBR
File:: Download JaredOylerThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Erica A H Smithwick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica A H Smithwick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan Maceachren, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Palso, Nicholas Terence
Title:: Serious Road-Tripping: A Study of Serious and Project-Based Leisure in Self-Drive Recreationists in Alaska
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Keywords:: Self-drive recreation
road-trip
Alaska
serious leisure
project-based leisure
File:: Download Dissertation_of_Nicholas_Palso.pdf
Committee Members:: Alan R Graefe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Lee Kerstetter, Committee Member
Andrew Justin Mowen, Committee Member
Deryck William Holdsworth, Committee Member

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Author:: Wlostowsk, Adam Nicholas
Title:: Solute Transport Dynamics in Alaskan Arctic Tundra Streams
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: hydrology
Alaska
solute transport
sensitivity analysis
numerical modeling
surface water groundwater interaction
File:: Download Wlostowski_MS_thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Michael N Gooseff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Isaacs, Rachel Elizabeth
Title:: Climate change and the biophysical landscape: the influence of top-down and bottom-up controls on spatiotemporal patterns of forest expansion and tree growth in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: Biogeography
Denali
Alaska
Treeline
Boreal
Climate Change
Dendroecology
Regime Shift
Land Cover Change
White Spruce
Picea Glauca
File:: Download Rachel_Isaacs_-_Dissertation_-_Spatiotemporal_patterns_of_tree_change_in_Denali_-_Final_Draft.pdf
Committee Members:: Alan H. Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan H. Taylor, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Eric Post, Outside Member

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Author:: Naylor, Ryan
Title:: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Impacts of Tourism on Social Capital and Adaptive Capacity: Integrating Resilience and Development Theories
Graduate Program:: Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Keywords:: Social Capital
Adaptive Capacity
Resilience
Tourism
Alaska
Ethnographic
File:: Download Naylor_Thesis_Graduate_School_Version.pdf
Committee Members:: Carter A Hunt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derrick Taff, Committee Member
Karl Zimmerer, Committee Member
Peter Newman, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Del Vecchio, Joanmarie
Title:: Appalachian pasts, Arctic futures: permafrost landscape response to warming
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: geomorphology
permafrost
periglacial
cosmogenic
radiocarbon
morphometry
Arctic
Alaska
Appalachia
Last Glacial Maximum
File:: Download DelVecchio_dissertation_2021.pdf
Committee Members:: Sarah Ivory, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Elizabeth Hajek, Major Field Member
Roman DiBiase, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Graham, Emily
Title:: Identifying Primary Drivers of Streamflow Quantity Changes in the Alaska Southern Cordillera Region
Graduate Program:: Spatial Data Science
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

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