Graduate Student Theses
All links navigate to the thesis on the North Carolina Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (NCDocks), the shared institutional repository of the UNC System.
2019
Bailey, Elizabeth: Wearable Sensors For Personal Temperature Exposure Assessments: A Comparative Study
Bonevac, Abie: Key Informant Perceptions Of Flooding And Landslides In Western North Carolina, USA Following The 2018 Floods And Landslides
Ita Vargas, Tania: Synoptic Patterns Associated With Wet Season Onset In The Tropical High Andes Of Southern Peru And Bolivia
Kaiser, April: Dendroecological Investigation Of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Cavity Tree Selection In Endangered Longleaf Pine Forests
Kinlaw, Timothy: Warm Season Hydroclimatic Variability And Change In The Appalachian Region Of The Southeastern U.S. From 1950 To 2018
Piercy, Joshua: Life In Azeroth: Examining Place-Making In Virtual Environments
Wilson, Matthew: Internal And External Validation Of Vulnerability Indices: A Case Study Of The Multivariate Nursing Home Vulnerability Index
2018
Andersen, Lauren: An Assessment Of Wildfire Vulnerability In Western North Carolina, USA Following The 2016 Wildfires
Guy, Heather: Identification Of A Regionally Coherent Subseasonal Signal Of Stable Isotopes In Tropical Andean Precipitation
Jonaitis, Joseph: Spatiotemporal Patterns Of ENSO-Precipitation Relationships In The Tropical Andes Of Southern Peru And Bolivia
McDade, Burke: Impacts Of The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges Tsugae) On Headwater Stream Wood Loads In The Southern Appalachian Mountains
Montpellier, Evan: Reconstructing Summer Upper-Level Flow In The Northern Rocky Mountains Using An Alpine Larch (Larix Lyallii) Tree-Ring Chronology
Sanders, James: Chloride Toxicity In The Upper South Fork Of The New River: Implications For Watershed Health And Aquatic Life
Thompson, Laura: Adolescents In Crisis: A Geographic Exploration Of Help-Seeking Behavior Using Data From Crisis Text Line
Vines, David: The Media Frames The Discourse: De Facto State Development, Nagorno-Karabakh, And The Vardenis-Martakert Highway
2017
Andrews, Jesse: A Practium On Uncertainty: Creation Of An HGIS Database
Eck, Montana: Winter Climate Variability In The Southern Appalachian Mountains, 1910-2017
Ely, Christopher: A Geomorphic Characterization Of An Ecuadorian Páramo River
Endries, Jason: Radar-Observed Characteristics Of Precipitation In The Tropical High Andes Of Southern Peru And Bolivia
Maloney, Megan: A Comparison Of Methods For Scaling Field Data For Use In Mapping Dryland Ecosystem Vegetation With Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy
Raynor, Garry: Geographic Variations Of Clandestine Methamphetamine Laboratories In North Carolina
2016
Rose, Levi: Application Of ToxCast To Assess Potential Adverse Biological Effects In An Impacted Watershed
2015
Balcomb, James: Structure-from-Motion based Vegetation Modeling and Shade Estimation
Cooper, Courtney: Human Systems in Watershed Modeling: A Literature Review of Integrated Watershed Models in the United States
Davis, Monica: Flood Modeling and the Influence of Digital Terrain Models: A Case Study of the Swannanoa River in North Carolina
2014
Hutchins, Maya: The Finer Things in Life: Comparing High Resolution Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Emissions Inventories
Swinson, Bobbie Jo: To Restore or Not to Resore? Assessing Pre- Project Conditions of a Habitat Restoration Project on the New River, North Carolina
2013
Brown, Reese: Oak Regeneration Patterns and Stand Dynamics in Burned and Unburned Forest Stands in Shawnee State Forest, Ohio, USA
Carlyle, Cameron: The Influence of Impervious Surface Location on Water Quality in the Headwaters of the Southern Appalachian Mountains
French, Jeffrey: GIS Analysis of Impacts of TVA Dams on Upstream Residential Property Values in Eastern Tennessee
Hale, Robin: The Role of Perception on Water Allocation and Conservation Management in Western North Carolina
Martin, Daniel: Snowfall Event Characteristics From A High-Elevation Site in the Southern Appalachian Mountain
Sugg, Johnathan: Satellite Perspectives on the Spatial Extent of New Snowfall in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
2012
Anthony, Matthew: Energy Policy and Social Network Analysis of the Clean Energy Economy in Western North Carolina: A Geographic Perspective on Sustainable Economic Development
Austin, David: Vegetation Dynamics of a Carolina Hemlock Community at Bluff Mountain, North Carolina, USA
Bartlett, May: The Levee Boards of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta: A Fight to Control the River and Region
2011
Coffey, Christopher: Effects of Impervious Surfaces and Forests on Water Quality in a Southern Appalachian Headwater Catchment: A Geospatial Modeling Approach
Gray, Carla: Factors Influencing Restoration Successs of Abandoned Agricultural Fields on the Lower San Pedro River Terraces, Southeastern Arizona
Hagevik, Cheryl.: Mapping Bolivia's Socio-Political Climate: Evaluation of Multivariate Design Strategies
Kelly, Ginger: Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions in the Souther Appalachian Mountains
Roberts, Amanda: On the Road to Healthy Communities: Cyclists' Perceptions of the Environment
2010
Bowman, Lucas: Clifford Joel Sweeney's Role in the Northern Migration of the Traditional Southern Black Banjo: An HGIS Approach
Kaase, Christopher: The Effects of Stream Restoration on Woody Riparian Vegetation in the Northwestern North Carolina Mountain Region: A Comparative Study of Restored, Degraded, and Reference Sites.
Renwick, Kelly Ann: Indigenous Conservations: An Alternative to the Displacement of Forest Swelling Indigenous and Tribal Populations?"
Saunders, Brandon: Assessing Impacts of Rural Gentrification on an Appalachian Community in Watauga County, NC
Smith, Stephanie: Contribution of Rural Land Use to Biodiverrsity; a Multi-Scale Study of Organic Farms and Subdivisions in the Southern Appalachians
Turner, Jacob: A Geographic Ontology and GIS Model For Carolina Bays
Waywick, James: Spatial Analysis of Surveyed Perceptions of Safety, Crime, and Lighting: A College Campus Case Study
White, Philip: Decadel-Scale Trends in Forest Succesion and Climatic Sensativity in a Red Spruce-Fraser Fir Forest at Roan Mountain, Pisgah and Cherokee National Forests
Ziegler, Sandra Kathleen: The Development of Bridging and Bonding Social Capital Among Sudanese Refugees in Guilford County, North Carolina
