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Author:

Edson, Adam Robert

Title:

The Atmospheric Circulations of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Low Mass Stars

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

climate
planetary atmospheres
astrobiology

File:

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Committee Members:

James Kasting, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sukyoung Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter R Bannon, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Diane Marie Henderson, Committee Member

Author:

Fegyveresi, John Michael

Title:

Reconstructing Paleoclimates on West Antarctic Ice Sheet Using Ice Core Bubble Number-Density

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

climate
paleoclimate
ice core
bubble number-density
reconstruction
West Antarctica
modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard B Alley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Arcelus, Victor John

Title:

In Search of a Break in the Clouds: An Ethnographic Study of Academic and Student Affairs Cultures

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

higher education
college
university
academic affairs
student affairs
collaboration
partnership
enthnography
learning-centered
intragroup dialogue
intergroup dialogue
case study
culture
climate
leadership

File:

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Committee Members:

Patrick T Terenzini, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lisa Lattuca, Committee Member
James Fredericks Volkwein, Committee Member
Edward Paul Durrenberger, Committee Member
Peter Magolda, Committee Member

Author:

Sahin, Dagistan

Title:

Tracing footprints of Environmental events in tree ring chemistry using Neutron Activation Analysis

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

neutron activation analysis
NAA
kzero
k0
Westcott formalism
Geant4
MCNP
Monte Carlo
tree ring
Dendrochemistry
climate

File:

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Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Peter Ian Kuniholm, Special Member
Charlotte Pearson, Special Member

Author:

Amador, Nathan S

Title:

Mapping Greenland Supraglacial Melt Lakes and the Role of Local- and Synoptic- scale Climates in Their Variations

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

Greenland
supraglacial melt lake
climate
atmospheric circulation

File:

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Committee Members:

Andrew Mark Carleton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
Dr Rudy Slingerland, Committee Member
Byron Richard Parizek, Special Member

Author:

Rollinson, Christine

Title:

Influences Of Climate And Biotic Interactions On Realized Niches And Tree Species Distribution In The Central Appalachians

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

species distribution
climate
competition
realized niche
Appalachian Mountains
scale
temperature model
distribution model

File:

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Committee Members:

Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Eric S Post, Committee Member
Laura P Leites, Committee Member

Author:

Bouma, Christopher Lee

Title:

Tree ring responses to climate and disturbance across a topographic gradient in the Ridge and Valley of Central Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Forest Resources

Keywords:

dendrochronology
climate
gradient
aspect
temperature

File:

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Committee Members:

Marc David Abrams, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Brouillette, Daniel Joseph

Title:

Toward Multi-proxy Reconstructions of Hydroclimate over the Contiguous United States from A.D. 500 to Present

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

drought
climate variability
hydroclimate
climate
reconstruction
United States
Holocene
PDSI
proxy

File:

Download DanielJBrouillette_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Mann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Parker, Robert Graveson

Title:

Hysteresis and History Effects of Organic Aerosol Particles Containing phenylglyoxylic acid and 3,4-dimethoxyphenylacetic acid

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

liquid-liquid phase separation
Aqueous 2-phase system
organic aerosol
atmospheric chemistry
climate

File:

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Committee Members:

Miriam Arak Freedman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ai, Qi

Title:

THE IMPACT OF OVERHANG LENGTH, WINDOW ORIENTATION, AND CLIMATE ON SPATIAL DAYLIGHT AUTONOMY (SDA) AND ANNUAL SUNLIGHT EXPOSURE (ASE) FOR A CLASSROOM

Graduate Program:

Architectural Engineering

Keywords:

Daylighting
Annual Sunlight Exposure
Spatial Daylight Autonomy
overhang
Window orientation
climate

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard George Mistrick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zaidi, Syed

Title:

Evolutionary Inference of the Human Facial Form: Insights from the Genotype-Phenotype Interface

Graduate Program:

Genetics

Keywords:

face
facial shape
nose
population genetics
selection
evolution
admixture mapping
climate
quantitative genetics
geometric morphometrics
3D
Fst
facial asymmetry
facial masculinity
sexual selection
heterozygosity
MHC

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Shriver, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hoffman, Alexis Lee

Title:

Detecting the effect of dust and other climate variables on crop yields using diagnostic statistical crop models

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

climate
dust
crop yields
statistical crop modeling
food security
agrometeorology
random forest

File:

Download Hoffman-Dissertation_FINAL_VERSION_SUBMISSION2.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Eliot Forest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marcelo Chamecki, Committee Member
Gregory S Jenkins, Committee Member
Armen R. Kemanian, Outside Member
Natalie Mahowald, Special Member

Author:

Tsai, Chii-yun

Title:

Assessing the uncertainties of future changes in ice sheets and polar climate related to internal climate variability and climate model structural uncertainties

Graduate Program:

Meteorology

Keywords:

ice sheet
climate modeling
ice sheet modeling
uncertainty
internal climate variability
atmospheric science
statistical model
model structural uncertainty
climate
future climate change
polar climate

File:

Download Tsai_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Eliot Forest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Pollard, Committee Member
Steven J Greybush, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Outside Member

Author:

Heinen, Rachel Lee

Title:

An Extension of the Work on the Dimensionality of Creative Climate

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

creativity
climate
innovation

File:

Download HeinenThesisforSubmission.7.10.18.pdf

Committee Members:

Samuel Todd Hunter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rustin David Meyer, Committee Member
Karen Gasper, 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:

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:

Payne, Rebecca

Title:

CO2, O2, and the History of the Greenhouse Effect: Select Problems in the Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere and Climate

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

geoscience
climate
paleoclimate
astrobiology
photochemistry
climate modeling
Archean
Phanerozoic
Earth history
Earth climate
geology

File:

Download RCPayne_PhDdissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

James Kasting, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Kasting, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Julie Genevieve Cosmidis, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar, Jr., Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cleveland, Claire

Title:

Oreodont adaptation, evolution, and extinction in Oligocene-Miocene North America

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

oreodonts
grassland expansion
North America
Cenozoic
Oligocene
Miocene
morphology
ecometrics
browsers
grazers
hypsodonty
cursoriality
Principal Component Analysis
Procrustes Analysis
evolutionary paleoecology
Artiodactyls
Merycoidodonts
Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodontinae
evolution
ecology
paleobiology
trilateration
3D models
adaptation
extinction
extirpation
flora
grass
mammals
Central High Plains
High Plains
climate
seasonality
deciduous
evergreen
frost

File:

Download C_Cleveland_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Timothy Bralower, Major Field Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sarah Ivory, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Russell Graham, Major Field Member & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Burton, Amanda

Title:

Thwarting climate change using simple practices in complex and adaptive agricultural systems

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

climate change
silage
corn
maize
soy
sorghum
dairy
Pennsylvania
United States
agriculture
grain
climate
sunflower
abiotic
stress
production

File:

Download Burton_Dissertation_2021.pdf

Committee Members:

Armen R. Kemanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Armen R. Kemanian, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Heather D Karsten, Committee Member
Carolyn Lowry, Committee Member
John Tooker, Outside Member
Gregory Wayne Roth, Special Member
Erin L Connolly, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jones, Laura

Title:

Climate Variation and Pathogen Pressure Impact the Ecology and Evolution of Bees in Agroecosystems

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

solitary bee
pollinator
agroecosystem
thermal tolerance
climate
pathogen

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Committee Members:

Margarita Lopez-Uribe, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Kennedy, Major Field Member
Rudolf Schilder, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tracy Langkilde, Major Field Member
Jared Ali, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Douglas Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Kammerer, Melanie Anne

Title:

Enabling conservation: unraveling spatio-temporal drivers of wild-bee communities

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

wild bees
climate
landscape
herbicide
land use
conservation

File:

Download Kammerer_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christina M Grozinger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christina M Grozinger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David A Mortensen, Committee Member
Harland Martin Patch, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Outside Member
John Frazier Tooker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Philip Kaye, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Robinson, Abbie

Title:

Risk of child marriage: An investigation of climate effects on child marriage in Mali

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology (MS)

Keywords:

Child marriage
climate
Mali
Family Code

File:

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Committee Members:

Brian Clemens Thiede, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather F Randell, Committee Member
Elizabeth Ransom, Committee Member
Brian Clemens Thiede, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Graap, Skyler

Title:

Using EUREC4A Field Campaign Data to Improve Shallow Cumulus Regimes in the Community Atmosphere Model

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (MS)

Keywords:

climate
modelling
planetary boundary layer
turbulence
momentum flux
higher order closure
turbulence closure

File:

Download SkylerGraapThesis20230622.pdf

Committee Members:

Colin M. Zarzycki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerry Y Harrington, Committee Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair
Ying Pan, Committee Member

Author:

Taylor, Kaitlin

Title:

EARLY TRIASSIC WEATHERING INTENSITY AND CLIMATE RECOVERY AFTER THE END-PERMIAN EXTINCTION

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

global warming
weathering
permian triassic extinction
lithium
isotopes
modeling
diagenesis
climate
climate stability

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Committee Members:

Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Kimberly Lau, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew S Fantle, Committee Member
Max Lloyd, Committee Member