Graduates Master’s Theses
2011-2020 | 2001-2010 | 1991-2000 | 1977-1990
Add your UCSB Geography Master Thesis or PhD Dissertation information
| Degree Date | Name | Title | Chair | Committee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2010 | ELWELL, Tammy | The Effects of Chile's Coastal Management on Artisanal Fisher Livelihoods: Three Cases from Ancud, Chiloe | Sweeney | McFadden, Peter Alagona |
| Fall 2010 | GARCIA, Elizabeth | Sea Level Rise and Urbanization in a Coastal City - Identifying Areas of Flood Vulnerability in San Diego, California | Loaiciga | Clarke, Washburn |
| Fall 2010 | SALES, Marcio | Estimating Interpolation Uncertainty of Forest Biomass Stocks and Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Using Inventory Data and Geostatistics | Kyriakidis | Roberts, Goodchild |
| Summer 2010 | KINASE-LEGGETT, Elizabeth | Degree by examination | Couclelis | Goodchild, Montello |
| Spring 2010 | McDANIEL, Michael | Agent-Based Modeling of Lost Person Wayfinding | Montello & Raubal (Co-Chairs) | T. Smith |
| Winter 2010 | GUEBELS, Caroline | Phosphorous Pool Distribution in Volcanic Soils Along an Arid to Humid Rainfall Gradient | Chadwick | King, Still |
| Winter 2010 | HIMDEN, Michelle | Degree by examination | Still | Sweeney, Carr |
| Fall 2009 | HARRISON, Laura | Historical and Future Temperature Impacts on Maize Phenology and Stress Risk in Mozambique | Michaelsen | Carvalho, King, Funk |
| Fall 2009 | PEDREROS, Diego | The Effects of El Niño in Agricultural Water Balance in Guatemala | Michaelsen | Carvalho, Kyriakidis, Funk, Eric Alfaro |
| Summer 2009 | DALAL, Pamela | Exploring the Relationships among Transportation, Accessibility, Education, and Equity in Sylhet, Bangladesh | Goulias | Sweeney, Lopez-Carr |
| Summer 2009 | FRANK, Elisa | Social Identity, Perception and Motivation in Adaptation to Climate Risk in the Coffee Sector of Chiapas, Mexico | Eakin & Lopez-Carr (Co-Chairs) | Cleveland |
| Summer 2009 | HICKMAN, Melodee | Perceptions and Understanding Elevation Themed Maps: Multi-media Development to Teach about Sea-Level Rise and Global Warming | Golledge | Roberts, Lopez-Carr |
| Summer 2009 | ROTH, Keely | A Combined Lidar and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Analysis for Mapping Forest Biomass | Roberts | Still, Kyriakidis |
| Winter 2009 | BRACHMAN, Micah | Remapping the Presidency: The Impact of Redistricting under the California Presidential Election Reform Act | Church | Glasgow, Sweeney |
| Winter 2009 | FOSS, Suzanne | Exploring the Spatiotemporal Context of ICT-Influenced Travel Behavior | Couclelis | Clarke, Goulias |
| Winter 2009 | ISBELL, Nathanael | Procedures to Identify "Low Hanging Fruit" Spoke-and-Hub Airline Routes Ripe for Conversion to Point-to-Point Operations | Goulias | Sweeney, Kyriakidis |
| Winter 2009 | NIBLETT, Matthew | Optimal Scheduling of Forest Treatments to Reduce Fire Intensity | Church | Sweeney, Goulias |
| Winter 2009 | ROSE, Kathleen | degree by examination | Clarke | Goodchild, Kyriakidis |
| Fall 2008 | BRADLEY, Eliza | A Comparison of Discrete and Large Footprint Waveform LiDAR for Assessing the Vertical Structure of a Mixed Deciduous Forest | Roberts | Clarke, Michaelsen |
| Fall 2008 | DAVENPORT, Frank | Household Supermarket Preferences and Child Malnutrition in Guatemala | Lopez-Carr & Sweeney (Co-Chairs) | Eakin |
| Fall 2008 | DEUTSCH, Kathleen | What's So Special About This Place? An Examination of Sense of Place and Its Correlation to Travel Behavior | Goulias | Sweeney, Golledge |
| Fall 2008 | MELTON, Christopher | Propagating Warm Poleward Flows Around Point Conception Following Wind Relaxations | Washburn | Dickey, Brzezinski |
| Fall 2007 | GASTON, Stefan | Forest Structure Classification of Moderate Resolution Satellite Imagery Using Spectral Mixture Analysis and Topographic Normalization | Roberts | Still, Michaelsen |
| Fall 2007 | HECHT, Brent | Utilizing Wikipedia as a Spatiotemporal Knowledge Repository | Clarke & Raubal (Co-Chairs) | Höllerer |
| Fall 2007 | RUMBLEY, James | An Analysis of Surfers' Risk Attitudes and Behavior in Santa Barbara County and Ventura County | Montello | Sweeney, Holden |
| Fall 2007 | SALUSTRO, Clare | Multisensor Comparison of Mineral Dust Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals | Gautier | Roberts, Siegel |
| Fall 2007 | TURNER, Benjamin | Attitudes and Knowledges about Climate Change | Montello | Gautier, E. Smith |
| Spring 2007 | HECHT, Jory | Influence of Basin Characteristics on Low Flows in the upper Lempa Watershed, Central America | Loaiciga | Schneider, Carr |
| Winter 2007 | GAINES, David | Developing a Model for Selecting Accessibility Improvement Projects | Church, Golledge | Goulias |
| Winter 2007 | MURAWSKI, Lisa | The maximal covering network improvement problem (MC.NIP): Designing rural transport networks for accessibility to health care facilities | Church | Sweeney, Goulias |
| Fall 2006 | MARCA, Anthony | On Surfari: An Investigation of Long-Distance Travel patterns of California Surfers | Sweeney | Goulias, Golledge |
| Spring 2006 | GAZULIS, Nicholas | Exploring the DNA of our Regions: Classification of Output from an Urban Growth Cellular Automation Model | Clarke | Couclelis, Schneider |
| Spring 2006 | IRMISCHER, Ian | An Examination of Line of Sight Algorithm Error | Clarke | Roberts, Church, Peter Guth |
| Winter 2006 | BOUGHMAN, Anthony | Realism and Connotations of Data Quality in Computer Displayed Maps | Fabrikant | Clarke, Montello, Mary Hegarty |
| Winter 2006 | SIM, Sunhui | degree by examination | Clarke | Goodchild, Schneider |
| Fall 2005 | BERNSTEIN, Jennifer | Buying Back the Environment: Supply and Demand in Contemporary Nature Advertising | Proctor | Montello, Roland Geyer |
| Fall 2005 | FREUND, Jeremy | Estimating Crop Production in Kenya: A Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Approach | Michaelsen | Carr, Roberts |
| Fall 2005 | O'DANIEL, Scott | Interactions between Regional-Scale Variation in Geomorphology and Potential for Hyporheic Exchange Along the Umatilla River, Oregon | Church | Smith, Still |
| Summer 2005 | REBICH. Stacy | Understanding What Students Know About Global Climate Change: Evaluating Student Learning, Conceptual Change and Curriculum Effectiveness Through Concept Mapping | Gautier | Montello, Fabrikant, Couclelis |
| Spring 2005 | DILLEMUTH, Julie | Human-map Interaction for Mobile Cartography | Clarke | Fabrikant, Montello |
| Spring 2005 | ECKMANN, Ted | Exploring AERONET's Potential to Improve Forecasts of Fog and Visibility | Still | Michaelsen, Roberts |
| Spring 2005 | KOSTADINOV, Tihomir | Assessment of Optical Variability and Closures in the Santa Barbara Channel, California using the Plumes and Blooms in-situ Dataset | Siegel | Dickey, Stephane Maritorena, Libe Washburn |
| Fall 2004 | AUBRY, Ryan | The Capacity for Urban Residential Infill: Estimation, Methodology and Application | Clarke | Couclelis, Goodchild |
| Fall 2004 | BURBIDGE, Shaunna | Factors Effecting Active Mode Choice in Transportation: A case study of Centre County, Pennsylvania | Goulias | Church, Couclelis |
| Fall 2004 | HAYWARD, Peter Martin | The Impact of Varying Spatial Concepts and Spatial Perspectives on Environmental Learning | Golledge | Couclelis, Hegarty |
| Fall 2004 | MIDDLETON, Erin J. | An Alternative Method for Projecting Enrollment in an Open Enrollment Setting | Sweeney | Church, Wong |
| Fall 2004 | PERROY, Ryan L. | Characterizing Post-grazing Land Cover Change Trajectories on Santa Cruz Island, CA, with Multitemporal Landsat Data and Spectral Mixture Analysis. | Chadwick | Roberts, Still |
| Spring 2004 | ARRIGONI, Alicia | The Role of Near-Channel Hyporheic Exchange on the Thermal Variation in a Semi-Arid Alluvial River | Mertes | Washburn, Still, Geoff Poole |
| Spring 2004 | GOLDSBERRY, Kirk | Stabilizing Rate of Change in Thematic Map Animations | Fabrikant | Clarke, Kyriakidis |
| Spring 2004 | LEGLEITER, Carl | Alternative Representation of In-stream Habitat | Roberts | Goodchild, Dunne |
| Spring 2004 | PINGEL, Thomas | The Military Metaphor in Computer Network Defenses | Fabrikant | Couclelis, Clarke, Giovanni Vigna |
| Spring 2004 | ROBINSON, Michael | The Effects of Lake Hydrology and Bootstrapping of Reservoir Inflow on Reservoir Capacity | Loaiciga | Kyriakidis, Michaelsen |
| Spring 2004 | RUOCCO, Marco | Human Psychological Response to Landscape Visual Filtering in Animation Design | Montello | Couclelis, Goodchild |
| Spring 2004 | VERGEER, Michael | degree by examination | Church | Clarke, Frank Davis |
| Winter 2004 | CORBETT, John | Geographic Images and the Middle East: The role of Geographic knowledge in foreign policy judgments | Couclelis | Montello, Fabrikant |
| Winter 2004 | GOLDSTEIN, Risa | Ion Mobility Patterns Across a Time-Climate Matrix in the Hawaiian Islands: A Mass Balance Approach | Chadwick | Still, Schimel |
| Fall 2003 | KNIGHT, Kevin | Associations of Riparian Bird Species Diversity and Landscape Metrics at Multiple Spatial Scales | Clarke | Michaelsen, Dieter Wilken |
| Fall 2003 | MATZKE, Nicholas | Remote Sensing and Geostatistical Analysis of Anthropogenic Biomass Burning and Forest Degredation in Madagascar | Roberts | Kyriakidis, Michaelsen |
| Spring 2003 | MARSH, Meredith | A Concept-Base Learning Module on Globalization for American High School Students | Golledge | Fabrikant, Sweeney |
| Spring 2003 | NUERNBERGER, Andrea | A Wearable Geographic Information System: General design principles and 2-D map display for navigation | Clarke | Golledge, Fabrikant |
| Spring 2003 | ST. CHARLES, Persephene | A Methodology for Creating Water Resource Management Plans: Theory and Application for Small Scale Projects | Loaiciga | Clarke, Michaelsen |
| Winter 2003 | HOOPER, Barry | Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Controls on Soil Carbon Dioxide Flux at the Hillslope Scale in California Oak Savanna | Chadwick | Kyriakidis, Susan Trumbore |
| Winter 2003 | HOWARTH, Jeff | Object Modeling of Adaptive Change in Late 19th Century Land Use on Santa Cruz Island, California | Mertes | Couclelis, Davis |
| Fall 2002 | HOUSTON, Kimberly | Field Measurements of Hydraulic Roughness on the Altamaha River Floodplain, Georgia | Mertes | Washburn, Keller |
| Fall 2002 | DOMAS, Adrienne | Teaching Scale in Introductory Geography Courses: Using Experiential Learning and Environmental Issues to Incorporate Scale Into the Curricula of Introductory Courses | Gautier | Golledge, Sweeney |
| Fall 2002 | SEXTON, Ryan | Neighborhood Evacuation Utilizing a Micro-Scale Traffic Simulation Tool | Church | Roberts, Sweeney |
| Summer 2002 | NORTON, Brian | degree by examination | Golledge | Fabrikant, Mary Hegarty |
| Summer 2002 | SMITH, Theresa | degree by examination | Gautier | Roberts, Natalie Mahowald |
| Summer 2002 | INLANDER, Ethan | An Integrated Methodology for the Mapping and Inventory of Riparian Areas in the Upper Santa Ynez Watershed, California | Mertes | Goodchild, David Stoms |
| Summer 2002 | HALLIGAN, Kerry | Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis of Vegetation in the Northeast Corner of Yellowstone National Park | Loaiciga | Roberts, Clarke |
| Summer 2002 | MAGADZIRE, Tamuka | An investigation into the effect of different water sources on inundation hydrology for selected floodplain reaches of the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, Africa. | Mertes | Dunne, Michaelsen, Jim Verdin |
| Spring 2002 | CANDAU, Jeannette | Temporal Calibration Sensitivity of the Sleuth Urban Growth Model | Clarke | Couclelis, Steen Rassmussen |
| Spring 2002 | CROSIER, Scott | Facilitating the Propagation of Environmental Computational Models | Goodchild | Clarke, T. Smith |
| Spring 2002 | JONES, David | A System to Calculate and Deliver EvapoTranspiration in California via the Internet Using CIMIS and GOES Sources | Golledge | Goodchild, Michaelsen |
| Winter 2001 | HEMPHILL, Jeff | On the Value of Coordinating Landsat Operations | Estes | Clarke, Roberts |
| Spring 2002 | NAGLE, Nicholas | A Point-based Regression Analysis of Industrial Location | Sweeney | Church, Kyriakidis |
| Spring 2002 | ONSTED, Jeffrey | SCOPE: A Modification and Application of the Forrester Model to the South Coast of Santa Barbara County | Clarke | Couclelis, Sweeney |
| Fall 2001 | BATTERSBY, Sarah | Measuring Quantity and Quality of Information in Geographic Datasets with the Coordinate Digit Density Function | Clarke | Golledge, Tobler |
| Fall 2001 | TAYLOR, Stephen | Variability of Evaporation and Precipitation Associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation: Implications for Deep Oceanic Convection in Labrador and Greenland Seas | Gautier | Michaelsen, Washburn |
| Spring 2001 | MORAIS, Marco | Comparing Spatially Explicit Models of Fire Spread Through Chaparral Fuels: A New Algorithm Based Upon the Rothermel Fire Spread Equation | Roberts | Church, Sweeney, David Weise |
| Spring 2001 | BALLANTINE, Andy | The Response of Groundwater Flow to Topography, Hydrogeology and Deforestation in Humid Tropical Regions | Dunne | Loaiciga, Chadwick |
| Spring 2001 | FISCHER, Doug | Clustering and Compactness in Reserve Site Selection: An Extension of the Biodiversity Management Area Selection Model | Church | Davis, Clarke |
| Spring 2001 | McCLURE, Kurt | Stormwater Plumes in Santa Monica Bay | Washburn | Dickey, Stephen McLean |
| Winter 2001 | DVORSKY, John | The Influence of Valley Morphology and Coarse Sediment Distribution on Rainbow Trout Populations in Sespe Creek, California, at the Landscape Scale | Mertes | Tom Dunne, Scott Cooper |
| Winter 2001 | HADLEY, Brian | European and Asian Satellite Remote Sensing Applications Evaluation | Estes | Clarke, Loveland |
| Winter 2001 | UNGERER, Matt | A New Coupling Strategy for Spatial Data Analysis and GIS | Goodchild | Clarke, Frew |