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Author:

Lutz, Clayton Lee

Title:

Dispersal Behavior in Female White-tailed Deer

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

barriers
chronic wasting disease
disease spread
dispersal
foray
movement
Odocoileus virginianus
Pennsylvania
proximate causes
ultimate causes
white-tailed deer

File:

Download Lutz_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Paola Ferreri, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Sheriff, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher S Rosenberry, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Gerard Messina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Forman, Nicholas Sean

Title:

River otter population monitoring in northeastern Pennsylvania using non-invasive genetic sampling and spatial capture-recapture models

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

River otter
non-invasive genetic sampling
spatial capture-recapture
population size
population density
Pennsylvania

File:

Download ThesisFinalSubmission_12092015.pdf

Committee Members:

William David Walter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cassandra Michaela Miller Butterworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Homman, Kyle A

Title:

Seismicity in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

seismic
seismicity
induced seismicity
earthquakes
Pennsylvania
mining
cross correlation

File:

Download HommanThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Capasso, Sarah Jane

Title:

Antibiotic Resistance in Pennsylvania Stone Fruit Orchards

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

antibiotic resistance
tetracycline
antibiotics
oxytetracycline
peach
nectarine
orchard
Pennsylvania
tree fruit

File:

Download Capasso2016DissF.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Beth Krueger Gugino, Committee Member
Gary William Moorman, Committee Member
Kari Anne Peter, Committee Member
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member

Author:

Gigliotti, Laura Christine

Title:

Ecology, habitat use, and winter thermal dynamics of snowshoe hares in Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

snowshoe hare
Pennsylvania
body condition
survival
home range
habitat use
adaptation
movement

File:

Download Gigliotti_thesis_final_format.pdf

Committee Members:

Duane R Diefenbach, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Boleman, Patrick James

Title:

Nitrogen Credit Trading as a Mechanism for Riparian Buffer Establishment on Pennsylvania Farmland

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

Riparian Buffer
Nitrogen
Nutrient Credit Trading
Agroforestry
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Payment for Ecosystem Services
Pennsylvania

File:

Download Thesis_Patrick_J_Boleman.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Gregory Jacobson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Worthington, Stephen Staley

Title:

Gaps in the Armor: Predictors of Civil Rights Complaints in Pennsylvania's Elementary & Secondary Schools

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

civil rights
education
discrimination
Pennsylvania
Office for Civil Rights
public schools
Title VI
Title IX
Section 504
race
disability
charter schools
educational equity
binary logistic regression
special education funding
special education disputes
dispute resolution

File:

Download Worthington_Thesis_-_Gaps_in_the_Armor.pdf

Committee Members:

Maria M Lewis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Xueyi

Title:

BARRIERS TO IMPROVING IMPLEMENTATION OF PENNSYLVANIA’S UNDERGROUND INJECTION WELL PROGRAM

Graduate Program:

Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics

Keywords:

shale gas
wastewater
underground injection well
Pennsylvania

File:

Download Xueyi_Ms_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Edward Jaenicke, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Abdalla, Committee Member
Edward Jaenicke, Committee Member

Author:

Mazzone, Jennie Diehl

Title:

Responding to growers' needs: Evaluation of management strategies for onion center rot, caused by Pantoea ananatis and Pantoea agglomerans

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

onion
Pantoea ananatis
Pantoea agglomerans
center rot
cultivar
nitrogen
transplant
bactericide
management
integrated pest management
Allium cepa
bacteria
disease
Honduras
horticultural production guide
Rhizoctonia solani
tomato
tomato foliar blight
Pennsylvania

File:

Download Thesis-_MAZZONE_J.D..pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Beth K. Gugino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. María del Mar Jiménez Gasco, Committee Member
Dr. Kari A. Peter, Committee Member
Dr. William Lamont, Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Meness, Joy Noelle

Title:

THE CURRICULUM OF THE CARLISLE INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL: AN AMERICAN EDUCATION

Graduate Program:

Curriculum and Instruction

Keywords:

Carlisle Indian Industrial School
curriculum
Haudenosaunee
Richard Pratt
United States Army
books
texts
colonization
children
military
students
residential boarding school
Indian
Pennsylvania
Penn State University
Cumberland County Historical Society
NARA
reader
pedagogy
archive
precedent
historical
library
American education

File:

Download Meness_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Daniel Hade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Daniel Hade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Committee Member
Dr. Jamie M. Myers, Committee Member
Dr. Christine Marme Thompson, Outside Member