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Author:

Rollinson, Christine

Title:

SIMULATED CLIMATE CHANGE ALTERS PHENOLOGY, COMPOSITION, AND STRUCTURE OF POST-HARVEST VEGETATION COMMUNITIES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

phenology
climate change
forest harvest
community composition
climate experiment

File:

Download Rollinson_MS_Thesis-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Retchless, David Pahl

Title:

Public Perceptions of Spatial Analogs for Climate Change: A Survey of Centre Region, Pennsylvania Residents

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Pennsylvania
communication
spatial analogs
perceptions
climate change

File:

Download RetchlessThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Brenton Yarnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brenton Yarnal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yenerall, Jacqueline Nicole

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIOFUEL PRODUCTION ON AGRICULTURAL LAND USE AND BIOMASS PRODUCTION

Graduate Program:

Agricultural Economics

Keywords:

climate change
land use change
biofuel policy

File:

Download submittedthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Samuel Shortle, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard C Ready, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dietrich, Kathleen Ann

Title:

MANAGING WATER RESOURCES UNDER CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE: PERSPECTIVES OF COMMUNITIES IN THE AFRAM PLAINS, GHANA

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

adaptation
climate change
water resources
Afram Plains
Ghana
participatory methods

File:

Download whole.kad.final3re.pdf

Committee Members:

Petra Tschakert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Petra Tschakert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Biermann, Mary Maureen

Title:

Building Resilience: Integrating Climate Change into a Local NGO Agenda

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Africa
climate change
non-governmental organization
adaptive capacity
resilience
collective learning

File:

Download Biermann_Thesis_13Apr09.pdf

Committee Members:

Petra Tschakert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Petra Tschakert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Singh, Riddhi

Title:

A nonstationary uncertainty framework for climate change impact projections – trading space-for-time to understand streamflow elasticity

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

climate change
streamflow elasticity
uncertainty
hydrologic model

File:

Download thesis_Riddhi_Singh_edited.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Thorsten Wagener, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Thorsten Wagener, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Olson, Roman

Title:

WHAT IS THE SKILL OF CLIMATE PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHODS? A CASE STUDY WITH GLOBAL AVERAGE OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS.

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Climate sensitivity
Bayesian methods
climate models
ocean diffusivity
climate change

File:

Download RT_Thesis_Form_Rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Klaus Keller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sabbatelli, Thomas Andrew

Title:

The Influence of Climate State Variables on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

climate state
climate change
hurricanes
tropical cyclones
Atlantic Ocean
El Niño-Southern Oscillation

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Mann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Mann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ross, Andrew Charles

Title:

Influences on salinity variability and change in the Delaware Estuary

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

salinity
streamflow
climate change
sea level
estuaries
generalized additive mixed models

File:

Download Andrew_Ross_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sinclair, Kendra Heather

Title:

Barriers and bridges to adaptive capacity: A case study on water governance in the middle hills of south central Nepal

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

climate change
adaptive capacity
environmental governance
scalar mismatch
embodiment
access
water
Nepal

File:

Download thesis.draft.v06.pdf

Committee Members:

Petra Tschakert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Laflower, Danelle M

Title:

Projecting the effects of climate change and management in forests of the Puget Sound Lowlands

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

LANDIS-II
Pacific Northwest
forests
climate change
carbon sequestration
management
Oregon white oak

File:

Download DLaflowerThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew David Hurteau, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Geiger, Austin Nathaniel

Title:

Fostering Discussion: The Role of Knowledge and Perceived Agreement in Encouraging Discussions about Climate Change

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

climate change
discussion
pluralistic ignorance
education

File:

Download Geiger_Masters_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Janet Swim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melvin Michael Mark, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martha Ellen Wadsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Davis, Courtney Lynn

Title:

Dynamic approaches to modeling wetland community responses to changing water availability

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Amphibian communities
climate change
multispecies occupancy

File:

Download Davis_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David Andrew Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Thorn, Kaila Danielle

Title:

Pennsylvania Agricultural Producers' Perceptions, Barriers and Beliefs on Climate Change

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

climate change
Northeast
agricultural producers

File:

Download K.Thorn_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Rama B Radhakrishna, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Benjamin Tobin, Committee Member
Curits Dell, Committee 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:

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

Author:

Onofrio, Lauren

Title:

Adaptation to climate in Juglans nigra: exploring how home climate shapes growth patterns of natural populations

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

black walnut
Juglans nigra
tree populations
local adaptation
climate
climate change
spatial climate variability
temporal climate variability
early growth patterns
growth rates
natural selection
genetic differentiation
provenance test
dendrochronology
phenotypic plasticity
common garden

File:

Download OnofrioFinalMSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Laura P Leites, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kim C Steiner, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member

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:

Fan, Yifei

Title:

The mechanisms of the North Atlantic Cold Blob in the past century

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

climate change
ocean circulation
global warming
AMOC
cloud radiative forcing

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Committee Members:

Laifang Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sukyoung Lee, Committee Member
Paul Markowski, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Raymond Gabriel Najjar, Jr., Committee Member
Melissa Marie Gervais, Committee Member

Author:

Di Domenico, Nicolle

Title:

Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Inundation Patterns of Tundra Polygonal Ground and Its Relationship with Arctic Climate

Graduate Program:

Geography (MS)

Keywords:

geomorphology
Arctic
polygonal ground
geography
remote sensing
machine learning
climate change

File:

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Committee Members:

Shujie Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Manzhu Yu, Committee Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair
Elizabeth Herndon, Special Signatory