Earth and Environmental Sciences: Dissertations
2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992
2007 DISSERTATIONS
Cipriani, Anna (2007) Pulsating generation of the oceanic lithosphere and isotopic fingerprints of its mantle source
Herweijer, Celine (2007) North American droughts from medieval times to the modern day : characterization, causes and global context
Horton, Radley M. (2007) An observational and modeling study of the regional impacts of climate variability
LeGrande, Allegra N. (2007) The climate imprint on the oxygen isotopic composition of water : observations, proxies, and coupled isotopic model simulations
Wheeler, Kevin Thad (2007) Experimental studies of U, Pd, Ag & Pb : partitioning and phase stability
2006 DISSERTATIONS
Feakins, Sarah (2006) Geochemical constraints on Northeast African environmental variability during the late Neogene
Katz, Richard (2006) The deep roots of volcanoes : models of magna dynamics with applications to subduction zones
Liu, Xue-Feng (2006) Evidence of biodegradation of atmospheric carbon tetrachloride in soils : field and microcosm studies
Shapiro, Josslyn (2006) Watershed budgets of chloride and sulfade as integrators of ecosystem processes
Stammerjohn, Sharon (2006) Seasonal sea-ice advance and retreat in the Southern Ocean : sensitivity and response to climate variability
Tischer, Michael (2006) The sturcture and development of the continent-ocean transition zone of the Exmouth Plateau and Cuvier margin, Northwest Australia : implications for extensional strain partitioning
Wakeman, Thomas Herbert (2006) Effects of changes in sediment and contaminant loads in Newark Bay on future disposal of dredged sediments
Whiteside, Jessica Hope (2006) Catastrophic, climatic, and biotic modulation of ecosystem evolution/
Xu, Chengyuan (2006) Foliar dark respiration : scaling gas exchange characteristics and isotopic signals from leaf to canopy and ecosystem level
Zimmerman, Susan Herrgesell (2006) Chronology and paleoclimate records of the Late Pleistocene Wilson Creek Formation at Mono Lake, California
2005 DISSERTATIONS
Chen, Junye (2005) Understanding the observed tropical and midlatitude radiative energy budget in the context of long-term climate variations
Chiu, Tzu-Chien (2005) Atmospheric ¹⁴C record spanning the past 50,000 years via high-precision ²³⁰Th/²³⁴U/²³⁸U, ²³¹Pa/²³⁵U and ¹⁴C dating of pristine fossil corals
Czuchlewski, Kristina (2005) Synthetic aperture radar and natural disasters : hazard mapping using full polarimetry
Farmer, Emma (2005) Reconstructing tropital Atlantic climate from Mg?Ca and oxygen isotopes of planktonic foraminifera
Gier, Elizabeth (2005) The geological implications of the basalts and sediments of the Lucky Strike segment
Machlus, Malka (2005) Orbital forcing of continental eocene climate : detailed stratigraphy and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of the Green River Formation in Wyoming
Mihlbachler, Matthew (2005) Phylogenetic systematics of the Brontotheriidae (mammalia, perissodactyla)
Pederson, Neil (2005) Climatic sensitivity and growth of Southern temperate tress in the Eastern US : implicatins for the carbon cycle/
Piotrowski, Alexander (2005) A high resolution record of ocean circulation during the last glacial cycle from neodymium isotopes
Rainforth, Emma (2005) Ichnotaxonomy of the fossil footprints of the Connecticut Valley (Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup, Connecticut and Massachusetts)
Santella, Nicholas (2005) Measurement of SF₆ and CFCs in the environment : application to groundwater dating, soil air dynamics and atmospheric mixing
Wei, Shan (2005) Direct current resistivity method : data acquisition, forward modeling and inversion
2004 DISSERTATIONS
Boelman, Natalie (2004) Relating NDVI to ecosystem form and function at multiple spatial scales in Artic tundra lanscapes
Cottrell, Elizabeth (2004) Differentiation of the earth from the bottom up : core, lithoshere, and crust
Granville, John (2004) Understanding and resolving the systematic differences observed for teleseismic body-wave magnitude measurements
Liu, Li (2004) Optical characterization of complex aerosol and cloud particles : remote sensing and climatological implications
Thresher, Duane (2004) Multi-century simulations of LGM and Present Day climate using an accelerated coupled GCM carring water isotope tracers, with comparisons to ocean sediment/ice cores and observations.
Yeboah, Frank (2004) Valuation of clean energy investments : the case of the zero emission coal (ZEC) technology
2003 DISSERTATIONS
Kim, Daehyun (2003) Investigating the effects of micropores on subsurface contaminant transport with microscopic and macroscopic approaches
Koutavas, Athanasios (2003) Sea surface temperature variability in the eastern eqatorial Pacific during the last deglaciation : multiproxy geochemical reconstructions
Liu, Jiping (2003) Sea ice climatology, variations and teleconnections : observational and modeling studies
Luo, Zhengzhao (2003) Investigation of tropical cirrus, their variability, evolution, and relation to the upper tropospheric water vapor
Nagel, Jennifer (2003) The influence of energetic properties of plant success : comparative studies of species from various ecosystem types
Shaman, Jefferey (2003) Modeling and forecasting land surface wetness conditions, mosquito abundance, and mosquito-borne disease transmission
Vranes, Kevin (2003) The intraseasonal to interannual variability of the Indonesian throughflow and its regional implications
2002 DISSERTATIONS
Bohnenstiehl, DelWayne (2002) Patterns of faulting and seismicity in the mid-ocean ridge environment
Du, Wen-xuan (2002) Aseismic fault slip behavior, earthquake source parameter determination and seismiciy changes
Ma, Shubin (2002) Advection and diffusion of Indonesian throughflow water within the Indian Ocean South Equatorial Current
Makovicky, Peter (2002) Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic relationships of basal Neoceratopsia (Dinosauris : Ornitheschia)
Malinconico, Mary Ann (2002) Lacustrine organic sedimentation, organic metamorphism and thermal history of selected Early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup basins, eastern U. S. A.
Potosnak, Mark (2002) Effects of growth carbon dioxide concentration on isoprene emissions from plants
Rozendaal, Margaret (2002) Characterizing the influence of the general circulation on subtropical marine clouds and studying their interactions in an SCM
Su, Yong Jun (2002) Mid-ocean ridge basalt trace element systematics : constraints from database management, ICPMS analyses, global data compilation, and petrologic modeling
Takesue, Renee (2002) Variability in coastal upwelling environments along the western Americas from nearshore geochemical and paleo-tracers
2001 DISSERTATIONS
Chase, Zanna (2001) Trace elements as regulators (Fe) and recorders (U, Pa, Th, Be) of biological productivity in the ocean
Geisler, Jonathan (2001) Morphological and molecular evidence for the phylogeny of Cetacea and Artiodactyla : explaining incongruence between types of data
Giannini, Alessandra (2001) Climate variability between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans : observations and modeling of Caribbean rainfall
Newton, Robert C. (2001) River runoff into the Arctic Ocean : results from a high-resolution ocean General Circulation Model and model-data comparisons
Rothwell, Thomas (2001) Phylogenetic systematics of North American Pseudaelurus (Carnivora: Felidae)
Tenthorey, Eric (2001) Fluid flow, reaction and permeability evolution in granular media : experimental results
Yue, Dongyi (2001) An anisotropic and time-dependent bounding surface model for clays and its application to a containment system constructed over a soft foundation
2000 DISSERTATIONS
Bender, André (2000) Mechanisms of intracratonic and rift basin formation : insights from Canning basin, Northwest Asutralia
Chure, Daniel (2000) A new species of Allosaurus from the Morrison Formation of Dinosaur National Monumet (Ut-CO) and a revision of the theropod family Allosauridae
Corrêa, Gustavo (2000) The reflection seismic response of mid-ocean ridge magma chambers : modeling and observations
Cullen, Heidi (2000) The North Atlantic and the Middle East : investigating climate dynamics & variability in a water scarce region
Fang, Jia (2000) Styles and distribution of continental extention derived from the Rift Basins of Eastern Padua New Guinea
Guerin, Gilles (2000) Acoustic and thermal characterization of oil migration, gas hydrates formation and silica diagenesis
Kinkade, Christopher (2000) Bio-optical response to upper ocean monsoonal forcing in the Arabian Sea
Matsumoto, Katsumi (2000) The last glacial maximum global overturning circulation : a perspective from foraminiferal oxygen and carbon isotope composition
Rubin, Stephany (2000) Processes controlling the distribution of carbon dioxide and nutrients in the South Pacific and Southern Oceans
Rutberg, Randye (2000) The application of Sr and Nd radiogenic isotopes to South Atlantic paleoceanography
Tsai, Jack (2000) Dependence of transboundary current on facets along grain boundaries in YBCO thin films
1999 DISSERTATIONS
Contreras, Juan (1999) Tectonic and stratigraphic modeling of the evolution of continental rift basins
Evans, Michael (1999) Sea surface temperature field reconstruction from coral data ; methodology and application
Lavier, Luc Louis (1999) Modeling of lithosperic deformation : application to the evolution of rifting and passive margins
LeTourneau, Peter M. (1999) Depositional history and tectonic evolution of Late Triassic Age rifts of the U.S. Central Atlantic margin : results of an integrated stratigraphic, structural, and paleomagnetic analyssis of the Taylorsville and Richmond Basins
Sheth, Sukeshi (1999) Ocean circulation changes and greenhouse warming projected by coupled general circulation models
Wang, Yanhui (1999) High pressure study of perovskite-related low-dimensional compounds : SR-CU-O superconductors and one-dimensional alkaline-earth palladates
1998 DISSERTATIONS
Chen, Dawei (1998) Formation and transport of deep and bottom waters in the Western Weddell Sea : a numerical modeling study
Ekwurzel, Brenda (1998) Circulation and mean residence times in the Arctic Ocean derived from tritium, helium, and oxygen-18 tracers
Kohfeld, Karen (1998) Geochemistry and ecology of polar planktonic foraminifera, and applications to paleoceanographic reconstructions
Rogers, Keith (1998) A modeling study of Pacific thermocline circulation using [delta] ¹⁴C and idealized tracers
Shapiro, Stephanie (1998) Evaluation of the ³H-³He dating technique in complex hydrologic environments
1997 DISSERTATIONS
Gabbert, Sherri Lynne (1997) The auditory and posterior cranial anatomy of the Toxodontia (Oder Notoungulata) and its implications for higher level relationships
Gould, Gina C. (1997) Systematic revision of the Erinaceidae (Mammalia) : a comprehensive phylogeny based on the morphology of all known taxa
Guilderson, Thomas Paul (1997) Tropical Atlantic SSTS over the last 20,000 years : implications on the mechanism and synchroneity of interhemispheric climate change
McManus, Jerry F. (1997) The last interglacial in the North Atlantic : deep-sea records of climate variability and sediment flux.
Sanyal, Abhijit (1997) Boron isotopic composition of foraminifera as paleo-pH tool and its implications for the glacial ocean chemistry
Wang, Huajun (1997) Dynamics of neuronal terminal arbor formation : a study of neuronal self-recognition
Wang, Junhong (1997) Determination of cloud vertical structure from upper air observations and its effects on atmospheric circulation in a GCM
1996 DISSERTATIONS
Chillrud, Steven Norris (1996) Transport and fate of particle associated contaminants in the Hudson River basin
Holmes, Ann Elizabeth (1996) Paleozoic despositional and strucutral history of the Canning basin, Western Australia, and constraints on eustatic change
Kellner, Alexander Wilhelm Armin (1996) Description of new material of tapejaridae and anhangueridae (pterosauria, pterodactyloidea) and discussion of pterosaur phylogeny
Kneller, Margaret Lee (1996) Paleoclimate from the last glacial maximum to the present : pollen and plant macrofossil records from the U.S. Southwest accompanied by a Goddard Institute for Space Studies General Circulation Model simulation
Oxburgh, Rachel (1996) Indicators and tracers of ocean chemistry change over the Pleistocene : the carbonate record of the Equatorial Pacific and the osmium isotopic composition of marine sediments
Vermilye, Jan Meredith (1996) The growth of natural fracture systems : a fracture mechanics approach
Wang, Xuejin (1996) Mid-ocean ridge dynamics : gravity anomalies, isostasy, mantle flow and axil morphology
1995 DISSERTATIONS
Bryant, James Daniel (1995) Oxygen isotope systematics in mammalian body water and in modern and fossil equid tooth enamel phosphate
Clark, Jordan Frey (1995) Water quality trends and dissolved gas dynamics in the Hudson River estuary
DiVenere, Victor Joseph (1995) Paleomagnetic results from Marie Byrd Land, west Antartica : tectonic implicatons for west Antarctica and the Atlantic-Pacific plate circuit
Lynch-Stieglitz, Marc (1995) The development and validation of a new land surface model for regional and global climate modeling
Miller, Daniel McCoy (1995) Petrogenesis of adjacent calc-alkaline and tholeiitic volcanoes on Umnak Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Severinghaus, Jeffrey Peck (1995) Studies of the terrestrial O² and carbon cycles in sand dune gases and in biospere 2
1994 DISSERTATIONS
Caturvedī, Nīraja Kumāra (1994) Trace metals and natural radionuclides as tracers of ocean productivity
Fram, Miranda S. (1994) Petrogenesis of the early Tertiary flood basalts of the east Greenland continental margin
Harrison, Kevin Geyer (1994) The impact of CO₂ fertilization, changing land use, and N-deposition on soil carbon storage
Wang, Weibin (1994) Micromechanics of rock friction and wear processes : a theoretical and experimental study
1993 DISSERTATIONS
1992 DISSERTATIONS
Chandler, Mark Arnold (1992) The early Jurassic climate : general circulation model simulations and the paleoclimate record
Crusius, John Frederick (1992) Evaluating the mobility of ¹³⁷Cs, ²³⁹⁺²⁴⁰Pu and ²¹⁰Pb from their distributions in laminated sediments
Estabrook, Charles Hershey (1992) The rupture process of large earthquakes along convergent margins : case studies from Alaska and Armenia
Spangler, Susan Ellen (1992) Structure and Cenozoic evolution of the rifted northern margin of the South China Sea