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Author:

Ricciuto, Daniel Michael

Title:

Diagnosing uncertainty and improving predictions of terrestrial CO2 fluxes at multiple scales through data assimilation

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

land-atmosphere trace gas exchange
ecosystem modeling
data assimilation
carbon cycle

File:

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Committee Members:

Kenneth James Davis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Klaus Keller, Committee Member
John Corry Wyngaard, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Gordon, Katherine Dorothy

Title:

A Spatial Study of Soil Organic Matter in Two Central Pennsylvania Created Wetlands

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

soil organic matter
created wetlands
carbon cycle

File:

Download Final-KateGordonThesis_6.pdf

Committee Members:

Wayne Lawrence Myers, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Andrew Cole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Wayne Lawrence Myers, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Diaz Isaac, Liza Ivelisse

Title:

MODEL-DATA COMPARISON OF MID-CONTINENTAL INTENSIVE FIELD CAMPAIGN ATMOSPHERIC CO2 MIXING RATIOS

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

atmospheric inversion
carbon cycle
carbon dioxide
MCI field campaign

File:

Download LDiaz_Master_Thesis_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth James Davis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth James Davis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Natasha Lynn Miles, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mccormack, Michael Luke

Title:

Measuring and modeling fine root dynamics in temperate forests

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

root turnover lifespan
minirhizotron
ecosystem model
functional traits
scaling
carbon cycle
DISTRIB
MC1
CENTURY
ED2

File:

Download McCormack_dissertation-Measuring_and_modeling_fine_root_dynamics_in_temperate_forests.pdf

Committee Members:

David Eissenstat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Hans Weiteng

Title:

Toward improved regional estimates of carbon dioxide sources and sinks through coupled carbon–atmospheric data assimilation

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

carbon cycle
data assimilation
atmospheric inversion
climate
climate change
ensemble kalman filter
Bayesian inference
act-america
co2
carbon dioxide

File:

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Committee Members:

Fuqing Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Fuqing Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Lauvaux, Committee Member
Steven B. Feldstein, Committee Member
Richard B. Alley, Outside Member
David W. Titley, Outside Member

Author:

Hayworth, Benjamin

Title:

Atmosphere and Climate Evolution on Earth and Earth-like Planets

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

planetary habitability
habitability
early mars
mars
martian climate
limit cycling
carbon cycle
abiogenesis
origin of life
hadean
exoplanets
weathering
space weather

File:

Download Dissertation_wVita.pdf

Committee Members:

Bradford Foley, Major Field Member
William Brune, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christopher House, Major Field Member
Guillaume Gronoff, Special Member
James Kasting, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hodges, Caitlin Anne

Title:

Interactions between minerals, oxygen, and carbon dioxide in the critical zone

Graduate Program:

Soil Science (PHD)

Keywords:

weathering
anaerobic respiration
carbon cycle
dissolved inorganic carbon
pedology
soil respiration
mineral redox

File:

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Boyer, Major Field Member
Jay Regan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Brantley, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lyons, Shelby

Title:

The Role of Petrogenic Carbon in Cenozoic Climate Events

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

paleoclimate
paleoceanography
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
PETM
geochemistry
thermal maturity
carbon cycle
Cretaceous-Paleogene
K-Pg
mass extinction
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
PAH
hopanoids
biomarkers
organic geochemistry
stable isotopes
alkanes
petroleum
thermal maturation

File:

Download Lyons_Dissertation_2020_final_approval.pdf

Committee Members:

Katherine Haines Freeman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Kump, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar, Jr., Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair