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May 2007
MA       Daniel Cordalis               Hydrologic Characterization of the Mary Murphy Mine and
Vicinity, Chaffe County, Colorado Using Multiple Isotope Tracers and Dissolved Solutes.  
Advisor, Mark Williams

PhD      Eileen A. Hall-McKim    An Analysis of Anomalous Southwest United States Summer
Monsoon Precipitation.  Advisor, Roger Barry

PhD      Russell D. Huff               Melt Anomalies on the Greenland Ice Sheet and Large Scale
Modes of Atmospheric Circulation.  Advisor, Konrad Steffen 

MA       Kevin Krasnow              Forest Fuel Mapping and Strategic Wildfire Mitigation in
the Montane Zone of Boulder County, Colorado.  Advisor, Thomas Veblen

PhD      Frank D. W. Witmer       The Effects of War on Land-Use/Land-Cover Change:
An Analysis of Landsat Imagery for Northeast Bosnia.  Advisor, John O’Loughlin

August 2007

PhD        Marco Antonsich          Territory and Identity in the Age of Globalization:   The Case of Western Europe.  Advisor, John O'Loughlin

MA        Lisa Ballagh                   A first look at comparing ice thickness from two sources,
1996 – 1998.  Advisors, Roger Barry and Barbara Buttenfield

PhD        Kristina E. Gibson        Running off the Map:  Mobility, Street Kids and Street
Outreach in New York City.  Advisor, Lynn Staeheli

MA        Marjorie Holmberg       That Good Country Air:  The Emergence of Rural
Community Wireless Networks in the United States.  Advisor, Kenneth E. Foote

MA        Kristen Kazczynski        Invasive Species in Wilderness as a Function of Burn Severity:
A Case Study of Yosemite National Park, California.  Advisor, Susan Beatty

MA        Robin Keith                   Characterizing Fire Regimes from Understory Vegetation Composition in Ponderosa Pine Dominated Forests of the Northern Colorado Front Range.  Advisor, Thomas Veblen

MA        Mariam Medovaya        The Nature of a Nature Park:  Friction over a Protected Area in the Altai Republic, Russia.   Advisor, Emily Yeh

MA        Alisa Zlotoff                  Eating Like A Market.  Advisor, Elizabeth Dunn

December 2007

PhD         Vanessa Empinotti       Re-Framing Participation;  The Political Ecology of Water Management in the Lower Sao Francisco River Basin – Brazil.  Advison, Rachel Silvey

MA          Edward C. Holland     Nationalism Framed?  Homelands, Institutionalism, and the Political Geography of Territoriality in Dagestan.  Advisor, John O'Loughlin

MA          J. Travis Klingberg      The domestic tourist in post-Tiananmen China:  a conceptual framework.  Advisor, Tim Oakes

PhD         Eungul Lee                  Land Surface and Ocean Effects on the Variabilities of Three Asian Summer Monsoons.  Advisor, Thomas Chase

PhD         Clionadh Raleigh        The Political Geography of Civil War:  Insurgencies in Central Africa.   Advisor, John O'Loughlin

PhD         Donald O. Rosenberry    Influence of Fluvial Processes on Exchange Between Ground Water and Surface Water.  Advisor, John Pitlick

PhD         Rebecca Theobald       Foreign-Born Early-Career Faculty in American Higher     Education:  The Case of the Discipline of Geography.   Advisor, Kenneth E. Foote

MA         Yaffa Truelove             On the Verge of a Water Crisis?  State Discourses and the Production of Water Inequality in Delhi, India.  Advisor, Emily Yeh

PhD        Maria Tsukernik            Characteristics of the Winter Cyclone Activity in the Northern North Atlantic and its Impact on the Arctic Freshwater Budget.  Advisor, Roger Barry

May 2006

PhD       Lisa Marie Jordan           Religion and Demography  in the United States:  A Geographic Analysis.   Advisor, Andrei Rogers

MA        John Maurer                   Local-scale Snow Accumulation on the Greenland Ice Sheet from Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR).  Advisor, Konrad Steffen

MA        Andrew Meyer              The Impacts of Nutria on Vegetation and Erosion in Oregon.
Advisor, Susan Beatty

PhD        Monica Ogra                 Rural Livelihoods and Contested Spaces:  Gender, Vulnerability, and Human-Wildlife Conflict (HWC) in a National Park of India.  Advisor, Rachel Silvey

PhD        Daniel Trudeau             American Citizenship and State Devolution: Nonprofit Organizations and the Dominance of Liberal Citizenship in the Contact of the Shadow State.  Advisor, Lynn Staeheli

MA        Carla Vandervoort         Geographic Parthenogenesis:  A Case Study of Sexual and Apomictic Erigeron Strigosus Muhl. Ex Willd. (Prairie Fleabane) in the Southeastern United States.  
Advisor, Susan Beatty

August 2006

PhD        Stacy Drury            The Effects of Climate and Disturbance on Madrean Pine-Oak
Forests in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental.  Advisor, Thomas Veblen

MA        Aimee A. Kelly        Contexts of  Community Health Care Provision in
Northeast/Central Colorado 2005-2006.  Advisor, Lynn Staeheli 

MA        Geneva J. W. Mixon    The Morphology of Protected Area Boundaries in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.   Advisor, William Travis

MA        Monica Smith        Homo/Femina Sacer:  Maids in the Margins of the State.
Advisor, Rachel Silvey

December 2006

PhD        Ian Feinhandler       The Role of Context in the Electoral Geography of the
Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2004 Lok Sabha Election, India.   Advisor, John O'Loughlin

MA        David Kindig          Modeling the Effect of Greenland on Wintertime Cyclones
and Monthly Energy Transport in the North Atlantic Gateway.  Advisor, Thomas Chase

MA        Brandy Logan        Interactions Between Vegetation, Flow Dynamics, and
Channel Change on the Colorado River, Colorado.  Advisor, John Pitlick

MA        Benson Wilder        Making New Spaces:  ‘Communities,’ Chaos and
Conservation in Zimbabwe’s Southeast Lowveld.  Advisor, Gary Gaile

MA        Kristina Wynne       Effects of Sediment Transport on the New Zealand Mud
Snail in Boulder Creek, Colorado.  Advisor, John  Pitlick

May 2005

MA, Joseph Alfieri, "Effects of Temporal Variability in the Environmental Factors Driving Evapotranspiration Over Grazed Pasture During Extreme Drought." Advisor, Peter Blanken

MA, Sebastian Araya, "Impacts of Impervious Surfaces on Runoff Behavior, Santiago de Chile, 1973-2002." Advisor, T. Nelson Caine

MA, Kathleen Batalden, "Contesting Labels, Rebuilding Lives: Female African Refugees in the United States." Advisor, Rachel Silvey

MA, Neil Frakes, "A Case Study of Exotic Plant invasion into the Rawah Wilderness, Colorado: The Role of Propagule Introduction and Survivorship." Advisor, Susan Beatty

MA, Torrin Hultgren, "The Role of Resolution in Dasymetric Population Mapping." Advisor, Jeremy Mennis

PhD, Paul Lander "Urban Landscape Aesthetics and Water Use in the Western United States." Advisor, Kenneth Foote

PhD, Bronwyn Owen, "Environmental Variability and Biotic Interactions at Forest-Meadow Boundaries in Southern Sweden: The Influence of Forest Cover, Atmospheric Deposition, and Boundary Orientation." Advisor, Susan Beatty

MA, Keith Wardrip. "New Opportunities, or Just New Neighbors? An Evaluation of Affordable Housing Programs in Longmont, CO." Advisor, Gary Gaile

August 2005

PhD, Manoela Borges,  "Citizenship for the Urban Poor?  Inclusion Through Housing Programs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."  Advisor, Lynn Staeheli

PhD, Jordan Clayton, "Sediment Transport and Channel Form in Gravel-bed River Meander."  Advisor, John Pitlick

MA, Robert Kern, "Symbol Sets for Mapping Uncertainty:  A Case Study in Wildland Fire Response."  Advisor, Barbara Buttenfield

MA, Jessica Lage, "Coming into the Country:  New Owners of Ranches in the Sierra Valley, California."  Advisor, William Travis

MA        Jennifer Wolchansky     Effects of Simulated Grazing on Soil Temperature, Moisture, and Respiration on a Shortgrass Steppe in Northeastern Colorado."  Advisor, Peter Blanken

December 2005

MA, Craig Anderson, "Modeling Spatially-Distributed Snowpack Properties to Enhance Our Understanding of Snow-Elk Relationships in the Northern Elk Winter Range, Yellowstone National Park."  Advisor, Mark Williams

MA, Matthew Beedle, "Climatic Drivers of Glacier Mass Balance in Southeast Alaska in the Second Half of the 20th Century."  Advisor, Roger Barry

MA, Joseph Gartner, "Relations Between Wildfire Related Debris-Flow Volumes and Basin Morphology, Burn Severity, Material Properties and Triggering Storm Rainfall."  
Advisor, T. Nelson Caine

MA, Junwei  Liu, "Estimating Directional Migration Flows Indirectly Using Age-Specific Net Migration Data:  A Case Study of Mexico."  Advisor, Andrei Rogers

PhD, Elizabeth Olsen, "Landscapes of Faith and the Spirit of Development; Examining the Construction of Religious Community among Catholics and Evangelicals in the High Provinces of Cusco, Peru."  Advisor, Anthony Bebbington

MA, Jessica Sherman, "NGOs, Evaluation and Social Change:  A Case Study Approach,"
 Advisor, Gary Gaile

PhD, Jason Sibold, " Multi-scale Subalpine Forest Dynamics, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. " Advisor, Thomas Veblen

May 2004

MA, Vanessa Bauman, "A Positional Accuracy Assessment and Visualization of the Routed Roads Coverage, Mitkof Island, Alaska." Advisor, Kenneth Foote

PhD, Shari Fox Gearheard, "When the Weather is Uggianaqtuq: Linking Inuit and Scientific Observations of Recent Environmental Change in Nunavut, Canada." Advisor, Roger Barry

PhD, Jason Janke, "Rock Glaciers in the Front Range: An Analysis of Distribution, Topoclimatic Variables, Permafrost, and Flow." Advisor, T. Nelson Caine

PhD, Brian King, "In the Shadow of Kruger: Community Conservation and Environmental Resource Access in the Former Kangwane Homeland, South Africa." Advisor, Gary Gaile

MA, Brian Kurzel, "Regeneration Dynamics of Persistent Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) in Western Colorado." Advisor, Thomas Veblen

MA, Kevin League, "The Role of Recent Climatic Variability on Episodic Pinus Ponderosa Recruitment Patterns Along the Forest Grassland Ecotone of Northern Colorado." Advisor, Thomas Veblen

PhD, James Raymer, "The Estimation of Place-To-Place Migration Flows." Advisor, Andrei Rogers

PhD, Donna Rubinoff, "Campesina Leaders, Life Histories and ICT for Development: Cybernetworking and Rural Women in Central America." Advisor, Anthony Bebbington

PhD, Anton Seimon, "Climatic Variability and Environmental Response in an Andean Alpine Watershed, Cordillera Vilcanota, Peru." Advisor, Roger Barry

PhD, Rosemary Sherriff, "The Historic Range of Variability of Ponderosa Pine in the Northern Colorado Front Range: Past Fire Types and Fire Effects." Advisor, Thomas Veblen

PhD, Paul Talbot, "Post-Soviet Territory and the Geopolitical Visions of Russians." Advisor, John O’Loughlin

MA, Roland Viger, "GEOLEM: Improving the Integration of Geographic Information in Environmental Modeling Through Semantic Interoperability." Advisor, Jeremy Mennis

MA, Lucas Ward, " Livelihoods, Landscapes and Development in the Paraguayan Pantanal." Advisor, Elizabeth Dunn

PhD, Takashi Yamazaki, "Political Space of Okinawa: Geographical Perspectives on Ethno-Regional Integration and Protest." Advisor, John O’Loughlin

August 2004

PhD, Tyler Erickson, "Development and Application of Geostatistical Methods to Modeling Spatial Variation in Snowpack Properties, Front Range, Colorado." Advisor, Mark Williams

MA, Carlos Andres Holz, "Tree Regeneration After Bamboo Dieback in Temperate Forests." Advisor, Thomas Veblen


MA, Molly McAllister, "Cyclone Occurrence in the Arctic 1963-2002, Impacts on the Greenland Ice Sheet 1979-2002." Advisor, Konrad Steffen

MA, Brock McCarty, "Famine Early Warnings: The Catalysts that Make USAID Go."
Advisor, Gary Gaile

MA, Adina Racoviteanu, "Sacred Mountains and Glacial Archeology in the Andes."
Advisor, Mark Williams

MA, Clionadh Raleigh, "Neighbours and Neighbourhoods: Understanding the Role of Context in Civil War." Advisor, John O’Loughlin

Phd, Sandra Starkweather, "Cloud Occurrence and their Radiative Impacts over the High Plateau of the Greenland Ice Sheet." Advisor, Konrad Steffen

December 2004

MA, Ingrid Corson, "Shield’s Stress Patterns Through Adjacent Meandering and Braided Reaches of a Gravel-bed River: Implications for Sediment Transport." Advisor, John Pitlick

PhD, Karen Eisenhart, "Pinyon-juniper Woodlands through Thick and Thin: Natural Variability and Woodland Stand Development on the Uncompahgre Plateau in Western Colorado." Advisor, Thomas Veblen

PhD, Jonathan Godt, "Observed and Modeled Rainfall Conditions for Shallow Landsliding in the Seattle, Washington Area." Advisor, T. Nelson Caine

MA, Meredith Knauf, "Rock Glaciers as Contributors to Water Quality in Alpine Catchments: Green Lakes Valley, Colorado USA." Advisor, Mark Williams

PhD, Fengjing Liu, "Hydrological Controls on Streamflow Chemistry in Alpine Catchments, Colorado Front Range, USA." Advisor, Mark Williams

MA, Taryn Oakley, "The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Soil Moisture and Temperature in Response to Fire in a Montane Ponderosa Pine Forest, Bailey, Colorado." Advisor, Peter Blanken

PhD, Rutherford V. Platt, "Modeling Wildfire Mitigation and Ecological Restoration in the Wildland-Urban Interface." Advisor, Thomas Veblen

PhD, Andrea Ray, "Multi-purpose Reservoir Management in the Gunnison Basin, Colorado: Sustainability, Adaptive Capacity and Climate Variability." Advisor, William Travis

MA, Samuel J. Schueth, "Cosmopolitanism: A Sense of Belonging to the World in Theory and in Fact." Advisor, John O’Loughlin

May 2003

MA, Ian A.N. Feinhandler, "Hills and Plains: The Role of Context in the Electoral Geography of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh, India in the 1991 Lok Sabha Election." Advisor, John O’Loughlin

MA, John D. Gartner, "Erosion After Wildfire: The Effectiveness of Log Erosion Barrier Mitigation." Advisor, T. Nelson Caine

PhD, Mark McLean, "Spatial and Temporal Pattern in the Understory: Disturbance Legacy and Environmental Variation." Advisor, Susan Beatty

August 2003

PhD, Jason Erik Haugland, "Soil Development and Vegetation Establishment Within Patterned Ground on a Recently Deglaciated Terrain: Jotunheimen, Norway." Advisor, Susan Beatty

PhD, Lisa Headington, "The Other Tragedy of the Commons: Redevelopment of Denver’s South Platte River and the Homeless." Advisor, Kenneth Foote

MA, Rebecca B. Theobald, Parents, Schools, and Motivations for Educational Choice: A Study of Colorado Springs Elementary Schools." Advisor, Lynn Staeheli

MA, Frank Witmer, "Economic Decline and the Natural Environment in Post-Soviet European Russia: A Remote Sensing and Spatial Statistical Analysis." Advisor, John O’Loughlin

December 2003


PhD, Nicolas Cullen, "Characteristics of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer at Summit, Greenland." Advisor, Konrad Steffen

PhD, Betsy Forrest, "The Interannual Variability of Storms Associated with Extratropical and Tropical Climate Forcings in the Southeastern United States and a Loss Assessment, 1990-1998." Advisor, Roger Barry

PhD, Patricia Martin, "From the Polis to the Zocalo: Mexican Geographies of Democratic Transition." Advisor, Lynn Staeheli

PhD, Alice Mulder, "Privately Public: An Exploration of the ‘Public’ in Private Land Conservation, New York’s Hudson Valley." Advisor, Lynn Staeheli

PhD, Andrew Slater, "Snow Fractional Cover in Land Surface Schemes." Advisor, Konrad Steffen

MA, Maria Tsukernik, "Observational and Modeling Study of the Proposed Mechanism for the Regulation of Minimum mid-tropospheric Temperatures in the Arctic." Advisor, Thomas, Chase

May 2002
PhD, Luiza Bialasiewicz, "The Persistence of Memory? Historically-Based Regional Differentiation in Post-1989 Polish Politcal Behaviour." Advisor, John O’Loughlin

PhD, Jeffrey Bury, "The Political Ecology of Transnational Gold Mining Corporations and the Transformation of Livelihoods in Cajamarca, Peru." Advisor, Anthony Bebbington

MA, Katherine Daniels, "Climate Variability, Climate Change Theory, and Implications for Ice Caps in the Canadian Arctic." Advisor, Konrad Steffen

PhD, Kathleen Farley, "Effects of Exotic Pine on Paramo Grasslands in the Ecuadorian Andes." Advisor, Thomas Veblen

PhD, Dominik Kulakowski, "Interactions Among Natural Disturbances in Subalpine Forests in Northwestern Colorado." Advisor, Thomas Veblen

MA, Kevin Petrik, "Internet-Based Geographic Information Services In College Classrooms." Advisor, Barbara Buttenfield

MA, Andres Torizzo, "Relations between Surface Water Chemistry and Basin Characteristics in High-Elevation Systems, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado." Advisor, Mark Williams

August 2002
PhD, Jennifer Foster, "For Rent: Backyard Cape Town and the Changing Landscapes of the New South African City." Advisor, Gary Gaile

PhD, Hillary B. Hamann, "The Ionic Pulse, Snowmelt Flowpaths, and Surface Water
Chemistry in Two Alpine Basins, Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA." Advisor, T. Nelson Caine

MA, David Manthorne, "An Inventory of Atmospheric Mercury Enrichment to Alpine Lakes in Colorado." Advisor, Mark Williams

MA, Christopher McMorran, "Inventing Place in Kurokawa Onsen, Japan." Advisor, Tim Oakes

MA, Shenandoah Pearce-Anderson, "The Scale of Possibility: Local Organic Farming in Boulder County, Colorado." Advisor, Elizabeth Dunn

MA, Amy Sumpter, "Segregation of the Free People of Color in Antebellum NewOrleans in 1850 and the Changing Nature of the Construction of Race Between the Colonial and Antebellum
Periods, 1718-1860." Advisor, Lynn Staeheli

PhD, Alice Wondrak, "(Do Not) Feed the Bears: Policy, Culture, and the Historical Narrative of the Yellowstone Bear." Advisor, Tim Oakes

December 2002
MA, Heide Maria Baden, "Stomatal Conductance and Transpiration at High Creek Fen, Park County, Colorado." Advisor, Peter Blanken

MA, Jakob M. Gearheard, "Fresh Cut Flowers and Peasant Livelihoods in Santa Rosa de Cusubamba, Ecuador." Advisor, Anthony Bebbington

PhD, Mauro B. Gonzalez-Cangas, "Fire History of Araucaria-Nothofagus Forests in the Andean Cordillera of South-Central Chile." Advisor, Thomas Veblen

MA, Eileen A. Hall-McKim, "Variability of the North American Monsoon System: Analysis of Climate Dynamics and Frequency Modes." Advisor, Roger Barry

MA, Erin T. Heithoff, "National Atlas Design on the Internet." Advisor, Barbara Buttenfield

PhD, Laurel J. Hummel, "Alaska’s Militarized Landscape: The Unwritten Legacy of the Cold War." Advisor, Kenneth Foote

MA, Altinay Kuchukeeva, "The Political Geography of Civic Engagement in Kyrgyzstan: The NGO Sector." Advisor, John O’Loughlin

MA, Erich Mueller, "Downstream Changes in Channel Morphology Through a Network of Gravel-Bed." Advisor, John Pitlick


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