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Author:: Anders, Angela Dawn
Title:: EFFECTS OF LARGE-SCALE CLIMATE ON AVIAN POPULATION DYNAMICS ACROSS SPECIES' NORTH AMERICAN BREEDING DISTRIBUTIONS
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: North Atlantic Oscillation
climate change
Breeding Bird Survey
population dynamics
landbird
El Nino Southern Oscillation
File:: Download Anders_Formatted_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Christopher Barry Goguen, Committee Member
Matthew Marshall, Committee Member

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Author:: Chadwick, Amy Elaine
Title:: PERSUASIVE HOPE THEORY AND HOPE APPEALS IN MESSAGES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND SEASONAL INFLUENZA PREVENTION
Graduate Program:: Communication Arts and Sciences
Keywords:: theory development
affect
hope
flu
seasonal influenza
global warming
climate change
message development
environmental communication
health communication
social influence
message design
persuasion
emotion
persuasive hope theory
focus groups
online survey
college students
File:: Download Chadwick_-_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Roxanne Louise Parrott, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roxanne Louise Parrott, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael L Hecht, Committee Member
James Hogan, Committee Member
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member

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Author:: Bee, Beth Anne
Title:: Women weathering the climate: Gendered knowledge and adaptive capacities in central Mexico
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: food secuirty
feminist theory
adaptive capacity
climate change
risk perception
Mexico
File:: Download Bee_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Melissa Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lorraine Dowler, Committee Member
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member

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Author:: Lamptey, Benjamin Lantei
Title:: The Role of Land Cover Change in Long-Term Climate Change
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: urbanization
global and regional climate modeling
climate change
vegetation
land-use/land-cover change
File:: Download Lamptey-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric James Barron, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member
Toby Nahum Carlson, Committee Member
Paul Plassmann, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Pedersen, Christian
Title:: THE RESPONSE OF ARCTIC VEGETATION TO CLIMATE WARMING IN AN UNGULATE GRAZING SYSTEM
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: climate change
herbivory
phenology
ungulates
arctic
vegetation
grazing
reproduction
flowering
File:: Download Chr_Pedersen_PhD_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Christopher Uhl, Committee Member

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Author:: Sedorovich, Dawn
Title:: GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM AGROECOSYSTEMS: SIMULATING MANAGEMENT EFFECTS ON DAIRY FARM EMISSIONS
Graduate Program:: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Keywords:: simulation
agriculture
greenhouse gas
climate change
File:: Download SedorovichThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Clarence Alan Rotz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Lehman Richard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Nord, Eric A
Title:: Patience is a virtue: Delayed phenology is an adaptive response for plants in soils with low phosphorus availability.
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: phosphorus
phenology
climate change
Arabidopsis
File:: Download Eric_Nord_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member

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Author:: Whitehead, Jessica Chenault
Title:: Building Scenarios of Adaptive Capacity: A Case Study of Community Water Systems in Central Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:: Geography
Keywords:: mediated modeling
drinking water management
adaptive capacity
community water systems
climate change
system dynamics
File:: Download Whitehead_dissertation_06-21-09.pdf
Committee Members:: Brenton Yarnal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Gregory Knight, Committee Member
Robert George Crane, Committee Member
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Member

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