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Author:

French, Kirk Dow

Title:

THE HYDROARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACH: UNDERSTANDING THE ANCIENT MAYA IMPACT ON THE PALENQUE WATERSHED

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Drought
Hydrology
Human Impact
Palenque
Maya

File:

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Committee Members:

David Lee Webster, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lee Webster, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Robert Milner, Committee Member
Kenneth Gale Hirth, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member

Author:

Mwangi, Margaret

Title:

Effects of Drought on Nomadic Pastoralism: Impacts and Adaptation among the Maasai of Kajiado District, Kenya

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Maasai
Kenya
Drought
Adaptations
Impacts
Climate Change
Africa

File:

Download Mwangi_N_Margaret_PhD_Dissertation_GradSch__Dept_Nov_16_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Alan H Taylor, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alan H Taylor & C Gregory Knight, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Committee Member
Michael Gregory Jacobson, Special Member

Author:

Schulte, Justin A

Title:

New Methods In Wavelet Analysis And Their Application To The Understanding Of Hydroclimate Variability In The Mid-atlantic Region Of The United States

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

Climate
Wavelet Analysis
Hydrology
Statistics
Time Series Analysis
Estuary
Drought
Pluvial

File:

Download thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sukyoung Lee, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
M Ing Li, Special Member

Author:

Baldwin, Douglas C

Title:

IMPROVING ESTIMATES OF ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURE TO UNDERSTAND ECOSYSTEM DROUGHT SENSITIVITY

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Soil moisture
Bayesian
MCMC
Root zone
Remote sensing
Kalman filter
Drought
Carbon

File:

Download Baldwin_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Erica A H Smithwick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan MacEachren, Committee Member
Kenneth Davis, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Outside Member

Author:

Klein, Stephanie

Title:

Functional implications and association mapping of root hydraulic traits for improved drought tolerance in maize (Zea mays L.)

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Root
Metaxylem
Drought
Maize
High-throughput Phenotyping
Genome-wide Association Study

File:

Download Klein_PhD_Dissertation_Final_edits.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Paul Lynch, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Jesse R Lasky, Committee Member
Charles T Anderson, Outside Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sidhu, Jagdeep Singh

Title:

SUBCELLULAR ROOT PHENES REGULATE ROOT METABOLIC COST

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science (PhD)

Keywords:

Abiotic stress tolerance
Root anatomy
Subcellular phenes
Cell size
Cell wall
Polyploidy
Root domestication syndrome
Drought
Climate change
Root metabolic cost
In silico biology

File:

Download Thesis_FINAL_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Erin Connolly, Major Field Member
Jonathan Lynch, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Roths, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Armen Kemanian, Major Field Member
Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Peterson, Hannah

Title:

WATER STRESS CAUSES CONTEXT DEPENDENT EFFECTS IN ENDOPHYTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN METARHIZIUM ROBERTSII AND MAIZE

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Endophyte
Climate Change
Drought
Flooding
Plant-Microbe Interactions
Metarhizium robertsii
Endophytic Fungi

File:

Download Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Mary Ellen Barbercheck, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Tooker, Committee Member
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Committee Member

Author:

Mattlin, Jacob

Title:

Assessing Nitrogen Removal Efficacy in Planted Bioretention Mesocosms Subjected to Variable Stormwater Inflow

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Bioswale
Green Infrastructure
Saturated Zone
Drought
Phytoremediation

File:

Download Thesis_JRM_PDF.pdf

Committee Members:

Margaret Crowley Hoffman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lauren Mc Phillips, Committee Member
Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
James C Sellmer, Committee Member
Hong Wu, Committee Member

Author:

Ma, Xinwei

Title:

Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling of Arabidopsis flower and leaf under sufficient or limited water conditions

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Drought
Proteomics
Transcriptomics
Plant reproduction

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Committee Members:

Michael Axtell, Chair of Committee
Hong Ma, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Jesse Lasky, Major Field Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Schaeffer, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Chisale, Virginia Kapachika

Title:

Common bean (phaseolus vulgaris l.) Root traits as a tool for developing bean genotypes with superior adaptCOMMON BEAN (PHASEOLUS VULGARIS L.) ROOT PHENOTYPES AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPING BEAN GENOTYPES WITH SUPERIOR ADAPTATION TO LOW PHOSPHORUS AVAILABILITY AND DROUGHT

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Phosphorus
Drought
common bean
Root phenotypes

File:

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Committee Members:

Jonathan Paul Lynch, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Program Head/Chair
David Robert Huff, Committee Member