Ph.D. Dissertations

Ph.D. Dissertations


Year
Name
Title
Chair
2009 Kirk M. Stueve Post-fire Tree Establishment Patterns at the Subalpine Forest-Alpine Tundra Ecotone: A Case Study in Mount Rainier National Park
2009 Daehyun Kim Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Salt Marsh Vegetation Across Scales David Cairns
2009 Bing-Sheng Wu Modeling the Dynamics of Desakota Regions: Global-Local Nexus in the Taipei Metropolitan Area
2009 Shujuan Li Self-Organizing Criticality Among Chinese Cities
2009 Jodicus W. Prosser Bigger Eyes in a Wider Universe: The American Understanding of Earth in Outer Space, 1893 - 1941
2007 Thomas Woodfin The Cartography of Capitalism: Cartographic Evidence for the Emergence of the Capitalist World-System in Early Modern Europe Peter Hugill
2007 Jose Gavinha Globalization and the Texas Metropolises: Competition and Complimentarity in the Texas Urban Triangle Daniel Sui
2007 Zengwang Xu Small-World Characteristics of Geographic, Epidemic, and Virtual Spaces: A Comparative Study Daniel Sui
2007 Windy Winborn Patzewitsch Changing Patterns and Perceptions of Water Use in East Central Texas Since the Time of Anglo Settlement Jonathan Smith
2006 Jean Taylor Ellis Coherent Structures and Aeolian Saltation Douglas Sherman
2006 Lei Wang Investigating Impacts of Natural and Human-Induced Environmental Changes on Hydrological Processes and Flood Hazards Using a GIS-Based Hyrdological/Hydraulic Model... Hongxing Liu
2006 Laura Richards Laurencio The Distribution of Dams in Costa Rica and their Hydrologic Impacts Anne Chin
2005 Timothy Lee Forrest Logistic Regression Models for Predicting Trip Reporting Accuracy in GPS-Enhanced Household Travel Surveys Andrew Klein
2005 Aldo Alvarez Chanel Planform Dynamics of an Alluvial Tropical River Anne Chin
2005 Jong Won Lee Effect of GIS Learning on Spatial Ability Robert Bednarz, Sarah Bednarz
2005 Jaehyung Yu Investigation of Glacial Dynamics in Lambert Glacial Basin Using Satellite Remote Sensing Techniquies Hongxing Liu
2004 Wei Tu Environmental Impacts of the Digital Economy: The Case of Austin, 1990-2008 Daniel Sui
2004 Paul Vincent Using Cognitive Measures to Predict the Achievement of Students Enrolled in an Introductiory Course of Geographic Robert Bednarz
2003 Gillian Acheson Teaching the Tool of the Trade: An Exploration of Teachers' Beliefs, Knowledge, and Practices about Maps Sarah Bednarz
2003 Maria Del Carmen Nunez Guzman Landscape Dynamics of a Coastal Lagoonal System: Southern Sonora, Mexico Daniel Sui
2003 Michael John Lynch III Textile Industrializtion in Ireland before the Famine Peter Hugill
2002 John David Waldron Modeling Vegetation Dispersal and Diffusion: Woody Species Responses to Landscape Fragmentation Daniel Sui
2002 John Jerome Degenhardt A Model for the Development of a Lobate Alpine Rock Glacier in Southewest Colorado J. Rick Giardino
2002 Susan J. Gilbertz A Qualitative Study of Place: Local Understandings of the Social and Physical Geography of San Antonio Bay, Texas Jonathan Smith
2002 John Drapier Mills A Geographical Model of Erosioin for Field Managers to Complement Existing Process Models John Giardino
2001 Michelle CalVarese The Diffusion of HIV/AIDS in Uganda and the Efficacy of the AIDS Support Organization (TASO) Bernard Bakama Nume, Sherry Bame
2001 Hary William Coutu Exploring the Effects of Observational Scale upon Non-point Source Pollution: Policy analysis and Modeling Daniel Sui
2001 Hyang Mee Lee The Effect of Collaborative Web-based Learning on High School Student's Attitudes, Epistemological Beliefs, and Achievement Robert Bednarz
2001 Chen-Ching Daniel Yang
Yang
An Exploratory Model for Sustaiable Urban Development: A GIS-Based Case Study on the Development of Austin, Texas Daniel Sui, Arthur Sullivan
1999 Jean Ann Bowman The Role of Continental Moisture Recycling in Climate Model Precipitation and Climate Change Impacts Research Jonathan Phillips
1999 Douglas John Claycomb Production on the Margin: How Everyday People Earn a Living in a Transforming Ecuadorian Barrio Clarissa Kimber
1999 Ridwan Djamaluddin Modeling Landslide Mechanics in a Tectonic and Volcanic Environment (Southern Cianjur, Indonesia): A Heuristic-Probalistic Approach J. Rick Giardino
1999 Linda Kay Murphy The Shifting Economic Relationships of the Cotton South: A Study of the Financial Relationships of the South During Its Industrial Development, 1864-1913 Peter Hugill
1999 Myles M. Mustoe The Effects of Topography and Lower Tropospheric Winds on Dryline Convective Initiation Robert Bednarz
1998 Patrick Philip Pease Aeolian Sediment Transport, Sultainate of Oman and the Arabian Sea Tindale Vatche Tchakerian
1997 George Francis Carter, Jr. China’s Southwest and Burma’s changing political geography Ronald Hatchett
1997 Barbara Gaye Jaquay The Caribbean Cotton Production: An Historical Geography of the Region's Mystery Crop Peter Hugill
1997 Augus Kristijono Modeling a Kowledge-Gased Geographic Information System for Landscape Stability: Sierut Island, Indonesia J. Rick Giardino
1997 Kevin Reilley Mulligan Aeolian Processes Controlling Dune Morphology, Salton Sea, California J. Rick Giardino
1997 Randy Joe Vaughan
1996 Richard Wayne Dixon Heat stress hazard in the southern united states: an evaluation using a climatological and demographic model Vatche Tchakerian
1995 Greg Charles Schlenker Reconstruction of Late-Pleistocene Equilibrium-Line Alitudes and Paleoenvironments: Uint Mountains Utah and Wyoming J. Rick Giardino
1994 Timothy Gene Anderson Immigrants in the world-system : domestic industry and industrialization in northwest Germany and the migration to Osage County, Missouri, 1835-1900 Peter Hugill
1994 Michael Anthony Camille Government initiative and resource exploitation in Belize Clarissa Kimber
1994 Jeffrey William Fitzgerald Morpho-dynamic modeling of rock glaciers : San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA J. Rick Giardino
1994 Iwan Gunawan A methodological approach to sustainable resources utilization in Indonesia : integrating geographic information systems, mathematical modeling, and expert systems J. Rick Giardino
1994 Robert Richard John Mohler Quantifying areal change of lacustrine environments through the enhancement and mensuration of space images : monitoring symptoms of regional climatic change J. Rick Giardino
1993 Gregory Scott Ridenour Comparative hydraulic geometry using compositional data analysis and stochastic modeling J. Rick Giardino
1992 Ben Marcus Gillespie The nature of channel planform change : Brazos River, Texas J. Rick Giardino
1992 Mary Ann Kniseley Highway diplomacy: interregional connections and international relations Peter Hugill
1991 Kenneth H. Beecher, Jr. Culturally persistent characteristics in rural houses of peripheral Europe Daniel Sui
1991 Li Liu Agricultural systems and development in Qian’an County, Jilin, China Clarissa Kimber
1991 Ke Zhang Building an expert system based on a geographic information system : an example of landuse management, Inner Mongolia, PRC J. Rick Giardino
1990 Darrel Lee McDonald The historical cultural plant geography of urbanized Galveston : implications of gardening on a sub-tropical barrier island Clarissa Kimber
1990 John Drapier Mills A geographical model of erosion for field managers to complement existing process models J. Rick Giardino
1988 Clifton Vaudy Dixon, Jr. Beekeeping in traditional agroecosystems of southern Mexico Clarissa Kimber
1987 Donald Hart Keith The Molasses Reef Wreck
1985 Marcos Manuel Pena Franjul Decision environment for cropland ecodevelopment in Peravia Province, Dominican Republic Kenneth White
1985 Margaret Rose Kress Soil spectral effects on reflectance factor data transformations James Heilman, Kenneth White
1982 William Council Holmes, Jr. Nineteenth century hemp culture in the Missouri River Valley
1977 Randy Joe Vaughan Disturbance in a stressed environment : bank vegetation of the Gulf Intercoastal Waterway at Cedar Lake, Texas
1976 Glenn Ross Whitley Utilization of certain tame birds in the New World in pre-Columbian times
1972 Mary Lee Nolan The towns of the volcano: a study of the human consequences of the eruption of paricutin volcano
1971 Eugene Joseph Wilhelm, Jr. Folk geography of the blue ridge mountains
 
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