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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:

Zhu, Qing

Title:

HYDROPEDOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PRECISION AGRICULTURE

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

Pedology
Hydrology
Geostatistics
Soil property
Soil moisture
Soil Physics

File:

Download Final_disseration.pdf

Committee Members:

Hangsheng Lin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hangsheng Lin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
John Earl Watson, Committee Member
John Matthew Schmidt, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee Member

Author:

Narayanan, Udit

Title:

Investigation of Hydrologic Remote Sensing Techniques at Spring Creek, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Remote Sensing
Hydrology
Spring Creek
Thermal Imaging
Ground penetrating radar
Image processing
thermography.

File:

Download Thesis-UditNarayanan-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Williams, Mark Robert

Title:

Spatial and temporal variability of nitrogen transport in riparian zone seeps

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Nitrate
Fragipan
Seep
Groundwater flow
Hydrology
Riparian zone
Agriculture

File:

Download M.Williams_-_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Herschel Adams Elliott, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Curtis James Dell, Committee Member
James Michael Hamlett, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee Member
Anthony Buda, Special Member

Author:

Sawicz, Keith Alexander

Title:

Catchment classification - Understanding hydrologic similarity through catchment function

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Catchment Classification
Hydrology
Watershed
Hydrologic Function
Hydrologic Modeling
Hydrologic Signatures

File:

Download Sawicz_PhDDissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thorsten Wagener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Alfonso Ignacio Mejia, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
Murugesu Sivapalan, 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:

Kennedy, Curtis Ross

Title:

Near-Surface Geophysical Investigation of Karstic Controls on Localized Hillslope Hydrology

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Hydrogeophysics
Hydrogeology
Hydrology
Geology
Karst
Resistivity
Agronomy
Agriculture
Lysimetry
Carbonate

File:

Download Kennedy_Thesis_-_May_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Tess Russo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Buda, Committee Member
Andrew Nyblade, Committee Member
Casey Kennedy, Committee Member

Author:

Shu, Lele

Title:

Impacts of urbanization and climate change on the hydrological cycle: A case study in modern and ancient land use change

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrology
land use change
urbanization
climate chnge
hydrologic modeling
PIHM
water availability
Maya
Tikal
Conestoga
Lancaster

File:

Download Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Duffy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Duffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Alfonso Mejia, Committee Member
Kirk French, Outside Member

Author:

Richard, Zachary David

Title:

Anomalously Low δ18O Values of High-Latitude Permo-Triassic Paleosol Siderite: Implications for the Hydrologic Cycle during Warm Climate Intervals

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Siderite
Isotopes
Hydrology
Paleoclimate
Permian
Triassic
Paleosol

File:

Download FINAL_THESIS_.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Stapler White, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lee Kump, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Pollard, Committee Member

Author:

Fang, Kuai

Title:

Understanding Hydrologic Functions of Water Storage and Soil Moisture and Improving Predictive Capability using Big Data Machine Learning Methods

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrology
Watershed Functioning
Water Storage
Soil Moisture
Machine Learning
Deep Learning

File:

Download Kuai_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaopeng Shen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaofeng Liu, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
Daniel Kifer, Outside Member

Author:

Respess, Zachary

Title:

Assessing and Extending Geospatial Best Management Practice Placement Tools for Agricultural Watersheds

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

Water Quality
Agricultural Best Management Practices
Best Management Practices
BMPs
Watershed Planning
ACPF
Agricultural Conservation and Planning Framework
Hydrology

File:

Download Respess_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan M Duncan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anthony Robert Buda, Committee Member
Peter J A Kleinman, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
David Eissenstat, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Batista, Juan

Title:

Analysis and Robust Preconditioning for Numerical Implementations of Richards' Equations in Groundwater Flow

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Hydrology
Numerical Simulation
Porous Media
Nonlinear PDE
Applied Mathematics
Preconditioners
Auxiliary Space Method

File:

Download JB_Diss.pdf

Committee Members:

Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiantao Li, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Outside Member
Anna L Mazzucato, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Levi, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Clyne, Elisabeth

Title:

Geophysical Investigation of Basal and Hydrologic Conditions in Glaciers and Ice Shelves

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Glaciers
Thwaites Glacier
Ice Shelves
Geophysics
Rhone Glacier
Reflection Seismic
Radar
Ground Penetrating Radar
Basal Conditions
Hydrology
Glacial Hydrology

File:

Download Disstertation_draft3.pdf

Committee Members:

Luke Trusel, Outside Unit & Field Member
Byron Parizek, Major Field Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Richard Alley, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Li, Bing

Title:

Model development and application on coupled hyporheic exchange flux in river-hyporheic zones

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Hydrology
hyporheicFoam
Hyporheic exchange flux
OpenFOAM
Transient storage model
mass transfer coefficient
hyporheic zone
heterogeneous

File:

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Major Field Member
Xiaofeng Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ying Pan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren McPhillips, Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mechling, Russell

Title:

Streamflow Variation Over 30 Years at the Leading Ridge Watershed in the Appalachian Forest of Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources (MS)

Keywords:

Streamflow
Watershed
Hydrology
Experimental watershed
Headwater stream
Forested catchment

File:

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Committee Members:

Bradley Cardinale, Program Head/Chair
Beth Boyer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tyler A Groh, Committee Member
Jonathan M Duncan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Shaughnessy, Andrew

Title:

Weathering Dynamics in Watersheds: Connecting River Chemistry to Subsurface Mineral Distributions

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Weathering
Watersheds Science
Hydrology
Geochemistry
Pyrite
Data Science

File:

Download Shaughnessy_Dissertation_2022_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Susan Brantley, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Matthew Fantle, Major Field Member
James Kasting, Major Field Member
Shujie Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member