Theses and Dissertations
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2017
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Gonzalez, Aleesandria - Evaluating the Cognitive Drivers and Deterrents of Adaptation in the Iowa-Cedar Watershed
2016
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Benbella, Diane - An Evaluation and Analysis of Urban Expansion of Kampala from 1995 to 2015
Deitz, Shiloh - A Spatial Analysis of the Relationship Between Obesity and the Built Environment in Southern Illinois
Fučík, Daniel - Effects of the Changing Climate on Hydropower Production in the Sacramento River Watershed and California's Electricity Prices
Lukancic, Khara - Sensitivity of Strong Extratropical Cyclones to Large-Scale Climate Variability in the Contiguous United States
Mohamed, Tarig - Monitoring and Analyzing of Desertification Trend in North Sudan Using MODIS Images from 2000 to 2014
Polk, Brandon - Modeling Naturally Occurring Wildfires Across the US Using Niche Modeling
2015
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Haldeman, Brooke - Influence of Synoptic Scale Circulation on Temperature and Equivalent Temperature Extremes in Chicago, IL (1948-2014)
Larimore, Ryan - Empirical Analysis of Descendant Insurance as a Driver of Demographic Transition
Rushing, Ann - The Potential for Reconnection on the Lower Illinois River
Schauwecker, Karen - Organized Garden Projects as Multifunctional Sites: A Case Study of Carbondale, IL
Stuurman, Andisiwe - An Assessment of Abandoned Mine Reclamation in South Africa Using a Survey of Environmental Experts
Suiter, Ashley - Remote Sensing Based Detection of Forested Wetlands: An Evaluation of LIDAR, Aerial Imagery, and Their Data Fusion
2014
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Bonney, Makayla J. - An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Geography in Sustainability Education (Duram)
Feng, Guanling - Monitoring Drought Intensity in Illinois with a Combined Index (Wang)
Klein, Sydney - The Role of University Food Gardens in Higher Education Sustainability (Duram)
Lampo, Miles - A Validation Study of the North Carolina Rapid Field-based Rating System for Discriminating Flow Permanence Classes of Headwater Streams in Agriculture Basins in Southern Illinois (Remo)
Lopeman, Brooke - Campus Recycling -- Influences and Decisions (Therrell)
Mahgoub, Mohamed - New Multiple-Scale Technique for the Assessment of Relative Flood Vulnerability
Shrestha, Samir - Sensitivity of Hazus-MH Flood Loss Estimates to Selection of Building Parameters: Two Illinois Case Studies
Turner, Christine - Planning an Agritourism Event in Southern Illinois: A Case Study of the Neighborhood Co-op Grocery Fall Farm Crawl (Duram)
Wang, Chen - Simulation and Evaluation of Stream Flow and Pesticide Prediction in Orestima Creek Watershed Using the AnnAGNPS Model (Oyana)
2013
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Berakhi, Robel - Implication of Human Activities on Land Use Land Cover Dynamics in Kagera Catchment, East Africa (Oyana)
Heern, Zachary - Investigating Trends in Lower Tropospheric Heat Content and Heat Waves Over the Central USA Using Equivalent Temperature(1951-2011) (Schoof)
Gaspard, Guetchine - Flood Loss Estimate Model: Recasting Flood Disaster Assessment and Mitigation for Haiti, the Case of Gonaives (Oyana)
Johnson, Andrew - A Regression Metamodel to Replace SWAT in Crop Yield Prediction for Big Creek Watershed (Lant)
Mack, Johannes - The Cryosphere and North Atlantic Tropial Cyclone Activity: Statistical Forecasting and Physical Mechanisms (Schoof)
McLeran, Kerry - Oxygen Isotope Analysis in Tree-Rings of Pterocarous Angolensis Growing in Zimbabwe (Therrell)
Murphy, Dana - Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Cumulative Disturbance Impacts Due to Military Training on Land Condition (Wang)
Remane, Ivan - Analysis of Annual Growth Patterns of Millettia Stuhlmannii, in Mozambique (Therrell)
Shah, Kushendra Narayan - Multi-Scale Mapping and Accuracy Assessment of Leaf Area Index for Vegetation Study in Southern Illinois (Wang)
Treviño-Peña, Melva - Analyzing Changes in the Beef Cattle Ranching Communities of Acatic and Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco, Mexico Related to Land Cover and Climate Variability (Duram)
VanPelt, Alex - Response to Flood Hazards: Assessing Community Factors that Affect the Decision to Relocate (Duram)
2012
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Barrett, William - Southern Illinois GIS Mapping for Next Generation 9-1-1 Based on NENA Standard Data Format (Wang)
Davis, Deidra D. - Access to Fresh Foods: Socio-Economic Characteristics of Illinois Farmers' Markets Participating in Government Funded Food Assistance Programs (Duram)
Dhungel, Ravi - Web Mapping and Application Towards a Cloud: Enabling a WebGIS Prototype in an Open Source Environment (Schoof)
Fisher, Samuel - Improving the Reliability of Wind Power Through Spatially Distributed Wind Generation (Schoof)
Oller, Adam - Automatic Mapping of Off-Road Vehicle Trails and Paths at Fort Riley Installation, Kansas (Wang)
Romano, Anthony - Spatial Distribution of Non-Native Invasive Plants Following Large-Scale Wind Damage at LaRue Pine Hills-Otter Pond Research Natural Area, Union County, Illinois (Therrell)
Weston, William C. - A Spatial Analysis of Invasive Breast Cancer Clusters in Association with Environmental Risk Factors: Illinois 1996 to 2000 (Oyana)
Williams, Laura L. - Evaluating the Long-Term Sustainability of L.O.G.I.C.: The Student Organic Garden at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Duram)
2011
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Barro, Alassane S. - Using Geographic Information Systems for Onchocerciasis Control in Africa: Case of Ghana and Burundi (Oyana)
Bedi, Carissa - Ecotourism in Bocas Del Toro, Panama: The Perceived Effects of Macro-Scale Laws and Programs on the Socio-Economic and Environmental Development of Micro-Scale Ecotourism Operations (Weinert)
Fleming, Andrew - Forest Carbon Mapping and Spatial Uncertainty Analysis: Combining National Forest Inventory Data and Landsat TM Images (Wang)
Jablonski, Daniel - An Assessment of CWA Section 303(d) Prioritization of Impaired Water Bodies in Illinois (Dziegielewski)
Kareddula, Sharon - Monitoring and Quantifying the Environmental Change Detection of Lake Kolleru and the Surrounding Mandals Using Remote Sensing Techniques (Dziegielewski)
Lewis, Patrici - Using a GIS-Based Approach and Wind Rose to Determine Runway Effectiveness and Study the Impacts of O'Hare Chicago International Airport (Oyana)
Mann, David - Determining Optimal Locations for New Wind Energy Development in Iowa (Lant)
Mead, Amber - Assessing the Integration of Domestic Fair Trade into Consumer Food Cooperatives in the United States (Duram)
Waggoner, Sarah - Effects of Repetitive, Small Magnitude Earthquakes on Groundwater Chemistry in Faulkner County, Arkansas (Dziegielewski)
Wagner, Audrey Romaine -Investigating Climatic Drivers of the Warming Hole Through Empirical Downscaling of Eastern US Summertime Maximum Temperatures(Schoof)
2010
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KC, Binita - Illinois Statewide Healthcare and Education Mapping (Wang)
Longbucco, Nicholas - Impacts of Small Water Bodies on the Hydrological Response of Small Agricultural Watersheds (Dziegielewski)
Mundia, Clara - Assessing the Reliability of Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting for Domestic Use in Western Kenya (Dziegielewski)
Singer, Steven - Assessment of Cumulative Training Impacts for Sustainable Military Land Carrying Capacity & Environment: Quantifying Quality of Environment & Landscape (Wang)
Wilke, Eric - The Influence of Geography and Physical Ecology on Economic Development (Oyana)
2009
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Ayala, Kristen - Regional Comparative Analysis of Per Capita Residential Water Use in Northeastern and East-Central Illinois (B. Dziegielewski)
Bialecki, Emma - A Dendrochronological Assessment of Overcup Oak (Quercus lyrata) and Oak Response to Flooding in a Bottomland Hardwood Forest (M. Therrell)
Burks, Tawane - A Critical Evaluation of GIS Enterprise Model for a Medium-Sized City: A Case of Louisville, Kentucky (T. Oyana)
Clauson, Karen - Measuring Trends in Riverbed Gradation: A Lower Mississippi River Case Study (C. Lant)
Johnson, Sara - An Evaluation of Land Change Modeler for ARCGIS for the Ecological Analysis of Landscape Composition (T. Oyana)
Jones, Adam - Geographic Analysis of Wireless Broadband Internet Access in Rural Communities: A GIS Case Study of Southern Illinois (T. Oyana)
Kozak, Justin - Geography of Ecosystem Service Value: The Case of the Des Plaines and Cache River Wetlands, Illinois (C. Lant)
Lemrise, Aimee - Geographical Assessment of Farmers Market Consumers in Southern Illinois (L. Duram)
Surprenant, Jeremy L. - A Synoptic Climatology of Wildfires in the Central Hardwood Region of the Midwestern United States (J. Schoof)
Van Matre, Randy - NRCS Program Activity in the TMDL Watershed of Butchers Branch Western Kentucky (B. Dziegielewski)
PhD
Thomas, Terri - Spatial & Temporal Land use Change in Southern Illinois' Clear Springs & Bald Knob Wilderness Areas (L. Duram)
2008
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Adeyemo, Adesola - Assessing Environmental Protection and Management Systems in West Africa: A Case Study of Nigeria (L. Duram)
Buchman, Monique - Land Use Modeling Using Higher Order Markov Chains (C. Lant)
Flaherty, Daniel K. - Assessing Barriers to the Implementation of GIS Technology in Precision Agriculture (L. Duram)
Guajardo, Olga - A Critical Assessment of Geographic Clusters of Breast and Lung Cancer Incidences Among Residents Living Near the Tittabawassee River, Michigan (T. Oyana)
Horrie, Mitchell G. - Stakeholder Collaboration in Suburban Prairie Restoration: Three Case Studies from Cook County, Illinois (L. Duram)
Malik, Yousif - Effectiveness of Urban & Rural Water Infrastructure Systems in Watershed (B. Dziegielewski)
Millar, Jack W. - Beer Fronts and Crime Waves: An Analysis of Weather, Alcohol and Violent Crimes (T. Oyana)
Nichols, Marcus C. - Land Use and Ownership Change Affecting Deer Hunting in Southern Illinois (L. Duram)
Paiboonvorachat, Chamaporn - Using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques to Assess Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Nan Watershed, Thailand (T. Oyana)
Spaulding, Janel - Fishermen's Evaluation of the Management of Fisheries in the Puget Sound, Washington (B. Dziegielewski)
PhD
Pease, Michael - Analysis of Constraints to Water Marketing and an Evaluation of Select Techniques to Facilitate Market-Based Reallocations (B. Hooper)
2007
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Bohn, Christiane - Welcoming the Wind: The Political Process for Geographic Siting of Wind Turbine Farms in the U.S. (C. Lant)
Fritsche, Jessica - Living on a Mississippi Floodplain: Rural Occupants' Perspective(B. Dziegielewski)
Murdock-Lewis, Andrea - Conservation Reserve and Enhancement Program: Lessons Learned on the Illinois River with Application to the Kaskaskia River Watershed (C. Lant)
Scott, Kara E. - Evaluating an Improved Algorithm for Segregating Large Geospatial Data (T. Oyana)
Weiand, Michael - An Evaluation of Interoperability Challenges in Location-Based Technologies & Related Web Services with Implications for GIScience (T. Oyana)
PhD
Dai, Dajun Exploring the Computational and Implementation Characteristics of an Improved Genetic Algorithm for Cluster Detection (T. Oyana)
2006
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Brookman, Andrew - The Investigation of Three Midwestern National Forests for Possible Habitat and Current Management Strategies of Mountain Lion (L. Duram)
Bhatt, Lalit - Investigating the Appropriateness of Gastner-Newman's Cartogram Versus Conventional Maps in Visual Representation and Modelling of Health Data(T. Oyana)
Blazevic, Antonio - Using Location-Allocation to optimize the Location of Fire Tanker Airbases in California (W. Sun)
Clark Gaffney, Jessica - Tracking Lyme Disease: A Hybrid Approach to Assess Potential Locations of Risk in Jackson County (T. Oyana)
McDonald, Patrick - Habitat Affiliations of Sympatric Carnivores in Southern Illinois(T. Oyana)
Nelson, Matthew S. - An Evaluation of Post-Flood Land Acquisition Programs in South Texas (L. Duram)
Singh, Payal - Accounting for Spatial Variations using Spatial Autocorrelation and Fuzzy Classifiers Algorithm (T. Oyana)
Sirikulchayanon, Poothip - Assessing the Impacts of the 2004 Tsunami on Mangroves Using GIS & Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of Phang Nga Thailand (T. Oyana)
Weekley, Sharon - Commodity Flows and Navigation Improvements on the Ohio River Inland Waterway System (B. Dziegielewski)
PhD
Jaber, Salahuddin - Monitoring Spatial Variations in Soil Organic Carbon Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (C. Lant)
Ruhl, John Benjamin - The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services (C. Lant)
Shcherbaniuk, Mykola - Modeling Land Use and Cover Change: Predicting Re-Enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program Using GIS and Data Mining Procedures (B. Dziegielewski)
2005
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Acord, Andrew - The Geography of the Illinois Viticulture Industry: A Survey of Information and Education (L. Duram)
Bloom, Shauna - State Support of Certified Organic Agriculture in Twelve Midwestern States (L. Duram)
Eidem, Nathan - Directors' Perceptions of Public Participation in Groundwater Management of the Tri-Basin Natural Resources District (B. Hooper)
Pande, Archana - Habitat Modeling to Assess the Risk of Invasion by Celastrus Orbiculatus on Public Lands in Southern Illinois (C. Lant)
Roark, Douglas - Heavy Snowfalls in the Southern Illinois Region: An Analysis of Causal Parameters (J. Underwood)
PhD
Heine, Reuben - Modeling incision of tributaries from Missouri River degradation: Gavins Point Dam to Platte River confluence (C. Lant)
Huang, Yong - A Comparative Study of Downstream Flows and Ecologic Impacts of Hydropower Dams (B. Dziegielewski
2004
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Byrne, Paul Patterns and Processes of Channel Incision in the Big Muddy River (C. Lant)
Kolappal, Anaz - Conceptual Improvements on the Isarithm and Prism Methods to Estimate Fractal Dimension of Surfaces from Remote Sensing Images (W. Sun)
Kordecki, Kristen - Occurrence of Celastrus Orbiculatus in Forest Ecosystems of Southern Illinois (W. Sun)
Schultz, Michael - Using Cloud to Ground Lightning as an Indicator of Debris Flow and Flash Flood Producing Storms in a Post Wildfire Environment (J. Underwood)
PhD
Bik, Thomas - Analysis of Costs, Affordability, Reliability and Regulatory Compliance in Small Community Water Systems in the Midwestern U.S. (B. Dziegielewski)
Coulibaly, Mamadou - Identification of Urban Flash Flood Areas: GIS Assessment vs. Perception by Residents (B. Dziegielewski
Kiefer, Jack - Evaluation of Water Ratemaking Practices in Rate Structure Complexity in Illinois Community Water Systems (B. Dziegielewski
Yang, Xiaoying Analysis of Thermoelectric Water Use in the United States (B. Dziegielewski)
2003
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Baron, Michael - A Study of Undergraduate Students' Enviromental Attitudes: The New Ecological Paradigm Scale (L. Duram)
Miehle, Christopher - Perceptions of Global Climate Change Among University Student Groups (L. Duram)
Misgna, Girmay - Spatial Decision Support System for Watershed Non Point Source Pollution (C. Lant)
Paluzzi, Michael - Testing a Heuristic Location-Allocation Model for Siting an Emergency Management Facility (R. Sengupta)
Yates, Emily D. - Recruitment of Three Non-native Invasive Plants into Fragmented Forests of Southern Illinois (D. Levia)
2002
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Broadnax, Tamara K. - Adoption of Water Conservation Programs by Small Community Water Systems (B. Dziegielewski)
Chen, Yan - Building of a Spatio-Temporal Data Model (R. Sengupta)
Christiansen, William - Identifying Barriers to Organic Agriculture in the Corn Belt: A Study of Conventional Farmers in Livingston County, Illinois (L. Duram)
Karimushan, Syeda Fareeza - Spatial Variability of North Atlantic Basin Hurricanes in Relation to El Nino Southern Oscillation (R. Sengupta)
Radhakrishnan, Prem - A Spatial Decision Support System for Evaluation of Agricultural Acreage in Well Head Protection Areas (R. Sengupta)
PhD
Lazdinis, Marius - Facilitating Sustainable Forest Development: Comparative Analysis of Post-Soviet Forest Politics in the Baltic States (J. Phelps, A. Carver)
Williams, Carol L. - Distribution of Migratory Land Birds Among Forest Patches in Southern Illinois During Spring Stopover (D. Sharpe)
2001
Heine, Reuben - Two New Automated Methods for Stream Channel Extraction Using Multivariate Channel Source Approximation (C. Lant)
Larson, Bradley D. - A Spatial Decision Support System Capable of Applying Species-Specific Viability Parameters to National Gap Analysis Program Datasets(R. Sengupta)
Luo, Cheng - Building of an Efficient Temporal Geographic Information System Data Model (R. Sengupta)
McGowan, Vincent - Analysis of Factors Impacting the Reclamation of Abandoned Mine Lands (C. Lant)
Ray, Christina - Land Use Change in the Cypress Quadrangle, Illinois: 1807, 1938, and 1993 (L. Duram)
Treasure, Allison - Analysis of Urban Consumer Water-Use Behavior Under Rationing Conditions in Kingston (B. Dziegielewski)
2000
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Bradshaw, Katherine R. - Factors Impacting the Effectiveness of Agricultural Zoning in Illinois Counties (L. Duram)
Dong, Zhiyuan - A Statistical Analysis of Factors Impacting Grain Production in P.R. China (B. Dziegielewski)
Gantt, Stephen D. - Perceptions of Wilderness Management Attributes: A Study of Wilderness Users (L. Duram)
Shockey, Rhett N. - The Potential of Pigouvian Taxes and Tradable Pollution Permits to Control Water Pollution from Agricultural Activities (C. Lant)
Weihn, John - Community Preparedness for Railroad Hazardous Materials Emergencies (D. Arey)
Weiss, Alfred W. - Operation and Maintenance of On-Site Wastewater Systems: An Assessment of Homeowner Knowledge and Behavior Within the Lake Kinkaid Watershed Region (B. Dziegielewski)
PhD
Loftus, Timothy - Predicting Land Use: The CRP and Environmental Resources in a Southern Illinois Watershed (C. Lant)
Sengupta, Raja - A Distributed Intelligent Geographical Modeling Environment for Spatial Decision Support (D. Sharpe)