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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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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:

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

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

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:

Bhat, Kabekode

Title:

Inference for Complex Computer Models and Large Multivariate Spatial Data with Applications to Climate Science

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

computer experiments
Gaussian process
multivariate spatial data
spatiotemporal data
hierarchical Bayesian modeling
climate change

File:

Download Bhat-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Murali Haran, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Murali Haran, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Klaus Keller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Richards, Committee Member
Rana Arnold, Committee Member
James Samuel Shortle, Committee Member

Author:

Ghosh, Koel

Title:

THREE ESSAYS ON ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY

Graduate Program:

Agricultural Economics

Keywords:

adaptation
climate change
expected value of information
spatial statistics

File:

Download Koel_Ghosh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James Samuel Shortle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann N Fisher, Committee Member
Stephan J Goetz, Committee Member
Stephen L Rathbun, Committee Member

Author:

McDaniel, Marshall Douglas

Title:

ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE IN A WARMER AND WETTER NORTHEASTERN US: HOW WILL SOIL C AND N LOSSES AND MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES RESPOND TO A FOREST HARVEST IN THE FUTURE?

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

soil microbial communities
gas flux
nitrogen
carbon
forest
soil
clear cutting
climate change
forest harvest

File:

Download McDaniel_M.D._Dissertation_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Jason Philip Kaye, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maryann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
Hangsheng Lin, Committee Member

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:

Chhetri, Netra Bahadur

Title:

UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF AGRICULTURAL ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE: ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE-INDUCED INNOVATION IN RICE BASED CROPPING SYSTEM OF NEPAL

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

agriculture
climate change
climate-technoligy interaction
adaptation
induced innovation
Nepal

File:

Download Netra_Chhetri_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

William Ewart Easterling Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brenton Yarnal, Committee Member
James Mc Carthy, Committee Member
David Gerard Abler, Committee Member

Author:

Jaramillo-Velastegui, Raul Ernesto

Title:

THE EDAPHIC CONTROL OF PLANT RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE: EXTENT, INTERACTIONS AND MECHANISMS OF PLANT ADAPTATION

Graduate Program:

Horticulture

Keywords:

Olsen P
available phosphorus
nutrient dilution
nutrient accumulation
soil orders
Festuca arundinacea
elevated CO2
root formation
drought
aerenchyma
Metabolic costs
Bray P
climate change
land cover land use
LULC
critical value

File:

Download JaramilloVelastegui_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Paul Lynch, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
Douglas Brian Beegle, Committee Member

Author:

Wagner, Rebekah

Title:

Phenology, morphology and physiology of eastern deciduous seedlings under increased temperature and precipitation treatments

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

climate change
deciduous
physiology

File:

Download Microsoft_Word_-_RWagner_formatted_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Philip Kaye, Committee Member
Marc David Abrams, Committee Member
David A Mortensen, Committee Member

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:

Zhang, Rui

Title:

Biological invasions in a changing world: responses of two invasive thistles to disturbance and climate change

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Carduus acanthoides
biological invasion
climate change
warming
disturbance
Carduus nutans

File:

Download Rui_Zhang_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Katriona Shea, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katriona Shea, Committee Member
Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
David A Mortensen, Committee Member

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:

Polborn, Sarah Elisabeth

Title:

Essays in Environmental Economics

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

environmental economics
global warming
lobbying
environmental policy
climate change

File:

Download diss_polborn_sarah.pdf

Committee Members:

Barry William Ickes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barry William Ickes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark John Roberts, Committee Member
Vijay Krishna, Committee Member
Michael Barth Berkman, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Shi

Title:

Projecting the influence of climate change and daily temperature range on insect phenology and risk period of vector borne diseases

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

vector borne diseases
insect phenology
daily temperature range
climate change
risk period

File:

Download Shi_Chen_Thesis_Final_Draft_June14.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelby Jay Fleischer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shelby Jay Fleischer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Craig Saunders, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Committee Member
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Member
John Fricks, Committee Member

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:

Terando, Adam James

Title:

Quantifying the effects of climate change on crop yields.

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

climate change
crop yields
agro-climate indices
uncertainty

File:

Download AJTerando_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

William Ewart Easterling Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member
Denice Heller Wardrop, Committee Member
Klaus Keller, Committee Member

Author:

Granger, Kristen Louise

Title:

Mitigation of drought-induced reductions in wild oat seed quality by elevated carbon dioxide

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

seed persistence
dormancy
microbial decay resistance
seed aging
climate change

File:

Download Granger_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Paul Gallagher Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Paul Gallagher Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Member

Author:

Badayos-jover, Mary Barby P.

Title:

Mainstreaming Gender in Philippine Institutional Responses to Climate Change

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

gender mainstreaming
climate change
adaptation
Philippines

File:

Download mpb234_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ann Rachel Tickamyer, Committee Member
Cynthia Clare Hinrichs, Committee Member
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member

Author:

Polato, Nicholas Renzo

Title:

Interactions between environmental stress and genetic diversity in reef building corals

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Coral
population structure
microsatellite
thremal stress
microarray
GxE interactions
climate change
gene expression

File:

Download PolatoDissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Iliana Brigitta Baums, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member
Francesca Chiaromonte, Special Member

Author:

Howe, Peter D.

Title:

Fingerprints of global warming on public perceptions and beliefs

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

human-environment geography
climate change
global warming
public perceptions
spatial analysis

File:

Download Howe_dissertation_2012-8-10.pdf

Committee Members:

Brenton Yarnal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Committee Member
Frank Hardisty, Committee Member
Janet Swim, Committee Member

Author:

Crisfield, Elizabeth Ann

Title:

Climate change impacts on forests: modeling relationships between static landscape patterns and dynamic vegetation responses

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

climate change
topography
migration networks
Appalachian forests
resilience

File:

Download Crisfield_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Erica A H Smithwick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erica A H Smithwick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan H Taylor, Committee Member
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member

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:

Read, Mark Robert

Title:

Embracing Uncertainty: Scenario Planning for Climate Change-security Challenges and Opportunities

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

scenario planning
environmental security
climate change
national security
foresight

File:

Download Read_Dissertation_Aug_2014.pdf

Committee Members:

William Ewart Easterling Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Ewart Easterling Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Committee Member
John Anthony Kelmelis, Committee Member
Petra Tschakert, Committee Member
Bryan Lee Mcdonald, Committee Member
Elizabeth Malone, Special Member

Author:

Parkinson, John Everett

Title:

The role of intraspecific diversity in coral-algal symbiosis ecology and evolution

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Acropora palmata
climate change
coral reef
molecular biology
stress response
Symbiodinium
symbiosis ecology
taxonomy

File:

Download parkinson_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Iliana Brigitta Baums, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd C La Jeunesse, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Alice Coffroth, Special Member
Istvan Albert, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Andrew Fraser Read, Committee Member

Author:

Deweber, Jefferson Tyrell

Title:

Potential Climate and Land Use Change Effects on Brook Trout in the Eastern United States

Graduate Program:

Wildlife and Fisheries Science

Keywords:

brook trout
river habitat
climate change
water temperature
thermal suitability

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_DeWeber.pdf

Committee Members:

Tyler Wagner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Paola Ferreri, Committee Member
Douglas Alan Miller, Committee Member
William David Walter, Committee Member

Author:

Cui, Ying

Title:

ASSESSMENT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE PERTURBATION DURING THE END-PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

end-Permian mass extinction
climate change
global warming
earth system model
carbon isotopes.

File:

Download Dissertation_CUI_Ying_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee Kump, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member
Raymond Gabriel Najjar Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Buckland, Peter Dawson

Title:

The Unsuspected Teachers: Environmental Identity and Sustainability Education in the Anthropocene

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

anthropocene
climate change
ecological literacy
sustainability
higher education
memoir
arts-based research

File:

Download UNSUSPECTED_TEACHERS_4.15.pdf

Committee Members:

Madhu Suri Prakash, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacqueline Edmondson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mindy L Kornhaber, Committee Member
Christopher Uhl, Special Member

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:

Diaz Almeyda, Erika

Title:

UNDERSTANDING TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATION IN SYMBIODINIUM: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Symbiodinium
temperature acclimation
transcriptomics
symbiosis
coral bleaching
global warming
climate change

File:

Download EDiaz_dissertation_final_07dec16.pdf

Committee Members:

Monica Medina, Dissertation 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:

Cahoon, Sean Michael

Title:

The biophysical and carbon-climate feedbacks of shrub expansion in the Arctic

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Arctic
Betula nana
climate change
CO2 exchange
Poa pratensis
shrub expansion

File:

Download Cahoon_dissertation_Nov19_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric S Post, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Armen Ricardo Kemanian, Committee Member
Matthew David Hurteau, Committee Member

Author:

Moosa, Christina Shaheen

Title:

Care and Responsibility in a Global Context

Graduate Program:

Philosophy

Keywords:

care ethics
global responsibility
climate change

File:

Download MOOSA_Final_Dissertation_Draft_022216.pdf

Committee Members:

John Philip Christman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
Sarah Clark Miller, Committee Member
Jonathan Harold Marks, Special Member

Author:

Watts, David Ami

Title:

ARCTIC VEGETATION RESPONSES TO GLOBAL CHANGE: REPRODUCTION, GROWTH, AND CONSEQUENCES FOR BIODIVERSITY

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

climate change
global change
seed ecology
biodiversity
ecosystem function
clonal plants
genotyping
plant herbivore interactions
Greenland
Arctic
tundra

File:

Download DAW_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric S Post, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tomas A Carlo-Joglar, Committee Member
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Erica A H Smithwick, Outside Member
Tracy Lee Langkilde, Committee Member

Author:

Shapiro, Lillian Lee

Title:

Know your enemy: Environmental variation significantly affects mosquito biology and malaria transmission risk

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

malaria
mosquito
climate change
disease ecology
Anopheles
Plasmodium

File:

Download ShapiroDissertation2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew B. Thomas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew B. Thomas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew F. Read, Committee Member
Jason L. Rasgon, Committee Member
James H. Marden, Outside Member

Author:

Radville, Laura

Title:

Root phenology in a changing world

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

root phenology
climate change
phenology
roots
carbon exchange
root turnover

File:

Download Dissertation_Radville.pdf

Committee Members:

David Eissenstat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Post, Committee Member
Margot Kaye, Committee Member
Kathleen Brown, Outside Member

Author:

Liang, Shuang

Title:

SIMULATING THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, WILDFIRE AND FUEL TREATMENT ON SIERRA NEVADA FORESTS

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Sierra Nevada
Forest
Carbon
climate change
wildfire
modeling
LANDIS-II

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Ecology_Shuang_Liang_2017Spring_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Matthew D. Hurteau, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew D. Hurteau, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot W. Kaye, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan H. Taylor, Committee Member
Katriona Shea, Outside Member

Author:

Clay, Nathan Jared

Title:

Adaptive livelihoods? Climate change, agrodiversity, and food security amid development transitions in Rwanda

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

food security
climate change
agroecology
sustainable intensification
adaptive capacity
environmental governance sub-Saharan Africa
development geography
political ecology
climate change
food security
agroecology
sustainable intensification
adaptive capacity
environmental governance
sub-Saharan Africa
development geography
political ecology

File:

Download Nathan_CLAY_PhD.Diss.final.pdf

Committee Members:

Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Stephen Zimmerer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brian Hastings King, Committee Member
Heather D Karsten, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Outside Member

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:

Hunter, Mitchell Clayton

Title:

Sustainable Intensification and Climate Resilience: Cover Crops, Soil Improvement, and Drought

Graduate Program:

Agronomy

Keywords:

sustainable intensification
cover crops
drought
climate change
food demand
soil health
reduced tillage
climate resilience
cover crop mixtures
agriculture
agronomy
greenhouse gas emissions
Mississippi River Phosphorus
maize
soybean
wheat
cereal rye
red clover
no-till
soil improvement
plant-available water
infiltration rate
available water capacity

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. David Mortensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. David Mortensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Dr. Armen Kemanian, Committee Member
Dr. Jason Kaye, Outside Member
Dr. Meagan Schipanski, Special Member

Author:

Whitehead, Shelley Alexandra

Title:

Nature Nurtures: How environmental variation influences Anopheles stephensi vectorial capacity

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
malaria
climate change
Anopheles
vector ecology
environmental variation
life history
Plasmodium

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Brian Thomas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Rudolf Johannes Schilder, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Outside Member
Diana Cox-Foster, Special 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:

Amburgey, Staci

Title:

COARSE AND FINE-SCALE DETERMINANTS OF SPECIES RANGE BOUNDARIES

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

species distribution modeling
range dynamics
bioclimatic envelope model
species occupancy model
amphibian
reptile
mammal
climate change
interspecific competition
multispecies
habitat fragmentation

File:

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Committee Members:

David Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Andrew Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew R. Marshall, Committee Member
Tyler Wagner, Committee Member
Tracy Langkilde, Outside Member
Evan Grant, Special Member

Author:

Chan, Andrea

Title:

Climate Change Effects on Coral Symbioses

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

coral reef
population genetics
climate change
Symbiodiniaceae
gene expession
symbiosis
bioerosion
physiology

File:

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Committee Members:

Iliana Brigitta Baums, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Iliana Brigitta Baums, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd C LaJeunesse, Committee Member
Roberto Iglesias-Prieto, Committee Member
Lee Kump, Outside Member

Author:

Eissler, Sarah Elizabeth

Title:

CHOCOLATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE: INVESTIGATING GENDER DYNAMICS OF SMALL-SCALE CACAO PRODUCERS IN LAMPUNG AND SOUTH SULAWESI INDONESIA

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology

Keywords:

gender
climate change
small-scale agriculture
cocoa
Indonesia

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Brennan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Azzara, Committee Member
Ann Rachel Tickamyer, Committee Member
Siela N. Maximova, Outside Member
Carolyn Sachs, Committee Member

Author:

Keller, Joseph

Title:

Timing matters: Climate change, phenology, demography, and management of the invasive weed Carduus nutans

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

Carduus nutans
climate change
weed management
integral projection model
phenology
biological control

File:

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Committee Members:

Katriona Shea, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Katriona Shea, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Michael Saunders, Committee Member
James Rosenberger, Outside 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:

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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:

Paudel, Sulav

Title:

INSECT-PLANT INTERACTIONS IN A WARMING WORLD: EFFECTS OF ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ON TOMATOES AND THEIR INSECT HERBIVORES

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

climate change
elevation
insect-plant interactions
global warming
glucose oxidase
salivary defense elicitors
polyphenol oxidase
trypsin protease inhibitors
induced plant defense
leaf trichomes
domestication
inducibility

File:

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Committee Members:

Edwin George Rajotte, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Edwin George Rajotte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Gary Felton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Majid R Foolad, Outside Member
Gary Felton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair

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:

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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:

Zhi, Wei

Title:

Understanding hydrological and biogeochemical control on solute export pattern at watershed scale

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

watershed
watershed model
watershed biogeochemical reactive transport model
solute export
land use
soil carbon and nitrogen
climate change
water quality

File:

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Committee Members:

Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Jason Philip Kaye, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, 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:

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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:

Soares, Paulo

Title:

Measures and Values of Light: Changing the Energy Field and Adapting to Climates Changed

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Solar irradiance
Direct normal irradiance
multypiranometer array
Machine learning
Solar Radiometric Systems
GIS
LiDAR
3D view
low-resolution LiDAR
rooftop segmentation
photovoltaic systems
site suitability
GIS
LiDAR
rooftop segmentation
photovoltaic systems
site suitability
agrivoltaics
climate change
multi-objective decision-making
trade space exploration
Light
TMY
NSRDB
PV Generation

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Member
Susan W Stewart, Committee Member
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

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:

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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:

Nguyen, Hai

Title:

Data-driven assessment of climate change impacts on agriculture in the Southeast of the United States

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

climate change
maize
soybean
crop net irrigation requirement
crop yield
southeastern United States
agriculture
uncertainty

File:

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Committee Members:

Cibin Raj, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tom Richard, Major Field Member
Christine Costello, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suat Irmak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Allen Thompson, Special Member

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:

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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:

Stewart, Bryn

Title:

From above and below: controls of external climate drivers and internal subsurface structure on catchment hydro-biogeochemistry

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

water quality
catchment
hydrology
biogeochemistry
reactive transport modeling
climate change
solute export
dissolved organic carbon
dissolved inorganic carbon

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Boyer, Outside Unit & Field Member
Li Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Xiaofeng Liu, Major Field Member
Nathaniel Warner, Co-Chair & Major Field Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Broyles, Lauren

Title:

Hydroclimatic Risks for Household Water Insecurity and the Household Water-Food Nexus

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

household water insecurity
environmental seasonality
climate change
Bangladesh
extreme weather events

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Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Outside Field Member
Emily Pakhtigian, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Asher Rosinger, Outside Field Member
Rachel Brennan, Co-Chair of Committee
Alfonso Mejia, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Clare Hinrichs, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Polasky, Andrew

Title:

Statistical Climate Model Downscaling: Methods and Application to the Midwest United States and West Africa Regions

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (PHD)

Keywords:

climate change
downscaling
self-organizing maps
machine learning
statistical downscaling

File:

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Committee Members:

George Young, Major Field Member
C Lee Giles, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jenni Evans, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jose Fuentes, Major Field Member
David Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Traore, Abdelmoumine

Title:

Essays on the Mitigation of Climate-Related Stochastic Losses through Investment and Insurance

Graduate Program:

Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics (PhD)

Keywords:

Crops(Corn and Soybeans)
Crop Insurance
typical risk
short-term risk
weather
factors
heterogeneity
discrete choice
panel data
fixed effects
unit structure level
Investment
insurance
expected utility
robust optimization
long (short)-term risk vs. long (short)-term uncertainty
risk aversion
climate change
prosocial
green bond
conventional bond utility
optimization
risk aversion
environmental regulation
green default

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Douglas Wrenn, Program Head/Chair
Robert Weaver, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katherine Zipp, Major Field Member
Uday Shanbhag, Outside Unit & Field Member
Douglas Wrenn, Major Field Member

Author:

Ware-Gilmore, Fhallon

Title:

Exploring the role of thermal performance in shaping dengue virus transmission and its implication for human health under a changing climate

Graduate Program:

Entomology (PHD)

Keywords:

Thermal tolerance
evolution
aedes aegypti
heat waves
wolbachaia
thermal sensitivity
arboviruses
adaptation
climate change
flaviviruses
aedes albopictus
dengue virus
dengue fever
thermal tolerance
mosquitoes
insect physiology

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Mcgraw, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Katriona Shea, Outside Field Member
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair
Rudolf Schilder, Major Field Member
Matthew Thomas, Special Member
Ganesh Anand, Outside Unit Member
Moriah Szpara, Outside Field Member

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:

Stagner, Forrest

Title:

Shifting smallholder livestock ownership for climate change resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

Graduate Program:

Rural Sociology (PHD)

Keywords:

socio-ecological resilience
livestock
Sub-Saharan Africa
climate change
smallholder agriculture
Zambia

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Committee Members:

Leif Jensen, Major Field Member
Elizabeth Ransom, Major Field Member
Michael Jacobson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Clare Hinrichs, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian Thiede, Program Head/Chair
Brian Thiede, Major Field 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

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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

Author:

Graham, Emily

Title:

Identifying Primary Drivers of Streamflow Quantity Changes in the Alaska Southern Cordillera Region

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science (MS)

Keywords:

Alaska
surface hydrology
streamflow quantity change
climate change

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Committee Members:

Brandi Gaertner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Panagiotis Giannakis, Committee Member
Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Patton, B Wren

Title:

Changing minds: Fish behavior and cognition in human-altered habitats

Graduate Program:

Ecology (PHD)

Keywords:

ocean acidification
fish
coral reef
behavior
Lemon Damselfish
Pomacentrus moluccensis
climate change
Atlantic Cod
Gadus morhua
tool use
cognitive ecology
behavioral ecology
resilience
enrichment

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Committee Members:

James Marden, Major Field Member
David Hughes, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Paola Ferreri, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sonia Cavigelli, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Rodrigues Do Amaral, Bruna

Title:

Using big data to answer big questions: how are birds dealing with the challenges of living in the Anthropocene?

Graduate Program:

Ecology (MS)

Keywords:

hemlock woolly adelgid
bird population decline
invasive species
regional decline
bird demography
population biology
climate change
human impact
migration speed
spring migration
bird
bird population
phenology
vegetation green-up

File:

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Committee Members:

Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
David Andrew Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Frances E. Buderman, Committee Member
Matthew R. Marshall, Committee Member
Andy Wilson, Committee Member

Author:

Rolph, Kristina Alixis

Title:

Assessing the impact of model structural complexity of the methane cycle on the Earth system response

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

atmospheric science
calibration methods
climate change
climate models
ch4
Earth system
Earth system modeling
global warming
greenhouse gas
methane
methane cycle
meteorology
atmospheric science
atmospheric science
calibration methods
climate change
climate models
ch4
Earth system
Earth system modeling
global warming
greenhouse gas
methane
methane cycle
meteorology

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Committee Members:

Chris Eliot Forest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Eliot Forest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Member
Melissa Marie Gervais, Committee Member
Tom Richard, Outside Member
David Jonathan Stensrud, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Harris, Gabriella

Title:

Origins of Icehouse Vegetation in Southern South America: Climate Change and Turnover in Eocene and Oligocene Patagonian Fossil Floras

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Argentina
Patagonia
Río Pichileufú
Laguna del Hunco
fossil leaves
leaf architecture
Araucaria
Austrocedrus
Oligocene
Eocene
climate change
Araucariaceae
Cupressaceae
conifers
EECO
total evidence phylogeny
rainforest
Gondwana
South America
Adobe Bridge
diversity
turnover
mosaic evolution
paleoecology
morphology
vegetation
paleobotany
seasonality
Splendid Isolation

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Mark Patzkowsky, Major Field Member
Peter Wilf, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Sarah Ivory, Major Field Member
Jesse Lasky, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Cheong, Rebecca

Title:

Software Ocean: New Media Aesthetics and Water in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

software studies
new media studies
user interface
oceanic studies
blue humanities
adobe illustrator
media studies
mapbox
google earth
mapping
cartography
literary cartography
spatiality studies
nineteenth-century american literature
american literature
US-American
literary studies
archipelagic studies
island studies
aesthetics
aesthesis
sea
terraqueous
planetarity
creative computing
technology
lidar
GIS
phenomenology
geocriticism
space and place
maritime
aquatic
critical ocean studies
environmental humanities
web mapping
vector graphics
software applications
mapping software
seafloor mapping
ocean mapping
bathymetry
hydrography
water
comparative literature
custom maps
literary maps
literary criticism
literary form
narrative
genre
novel
prose narrative
archipelago
reader-reception
reading practice
visuality
climate change
relationality
marine surveying
subsea imagery
ocean spatial data
narrative prose

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Claire Colebrook, Major Field Member
Brian Lennon, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Bryan Waterman, Special Member
Adam Thomas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hester Blum, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janet Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Mejia, Catalina

Title:

Erosion Protection Potential of Three Cover Crops Under High-Intensity Rain

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

Cover crops
Soil erosion
Phosphorus losses
climate change

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Committee Members:

Jason Philip Kaye, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charlie White, Committee Member
Peter J A Kleinman, Committee Member
David Eissenstat, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Guerriero, Joseph

Title:

Testing the differential effects of death anxiety and death reflection on pro-environmental outcomes

Graduate Program:

Psychology (MS)

Keywords:

Environmental psychology
Terror Management Theory
climate change
death reflection
sustainability
generativity

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Committee Members:

Janet Kay Swim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melvin Michael Mark, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (she/her), Program Head/Chair
Mary Katherine Shenk, Committee Member

Author:

Hartke, Emma

Title:

Lipid Biomarker Records of Environmental Conditions and Habitation During the Mid-Neolithic (Dalmatia Coast, Croatia)

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (MS)

Keywords:

geology
geoscience
paleoclimate
human history
archaeology
lipid biomarkers
biomarkers
alkanes
n-alkanes
pahs
isotopes
paleolake
human habitation
climate change
dalmatia coast
holocene
neolithic

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Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair
Kate Freeman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah J Ivory, Committee Member
Max Lloyd, Committee Member

Author:

Schneider, Haley Elizabeth

Title:

Public Futures: The Rhetorics of Sustainability and Survival in Philadelphia, 2007 - 2021

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Publics
futurity
environment
urban planning
climate change
rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Rosa Eberly, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amy Allen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradford Vivian, Major Field Member
Stephen Browne, Major Field Member
Andrew High, Program Head/Chair
Joshua Barnett, Major Field Member

Author:

Isaacson, Ashley

Title:

Warmer and more variable temperatures influence both crop yield and weed seedbank longevity in a perennial forage system

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Environmental Plant Science (MS)

Keywords:

open-top chambers
climate change
perennial forage
forage production
weed seedbank
seedbank longevity
increased temperatures
weed seed mortality
alfalfa productivity
temperature fluctuations
winter injury

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Committee Members:

Erin Connolly, Program Head/Chair
Carolyn Lowry, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John M Wallace, Committee Member
Richard Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Torhan, Sarah

Title:

A Global Characterization of Adaptations Addressing Vulnerabilities Across the Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

climate change
adaptation
food-energy-water nexus
food security
water security
energy security

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Committee Members:

Caitlin A Grady, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lauren Mc Phillips, Committee Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair
Nathaniel Richard Warner, Committee Member

Author:

Ritchie, Michelle

Title:

A Novel Framework for the Development of a Spatial Social-Ecological Systems Model of Climate Change Adaptation: An Arctic Case Study Application in North Central Iceland

Graduate Program:

Geography (PHD)

Keywords:

human-environment geography
social-ecological systems
Arctic
climate change
adaptation

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Committee Members:

William Easterling, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Erica Smithwick, Co-Chair of Committee
Karl Zimmerer, Major Field Member
Richard Alley, Outside Unit & Field Member
Brian King, Program Head/Chair