Doctoral dissertations are posted in chronological order. The list includes the graduate’s name, quarter of graduation, dissertation title, committee chair, and committee members.
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| Degree Date | Name | Title | Chair | Committee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2010 | YOON, Seo-Youn | Impact of time-space prism accessibility on time use behavior and its propagation through intra-household interaction | Goulias | Church, Raubal, Pendyala (external, Arizona State) |
| Fall 2010 | MARSHALL, Michael | Modeling Actual Evapotranspiration in sub-Saharan Africa with Implications for Food Security | Michaelsen | Still, Roberts, Funk, Williams |
| Fall 2010 | LEI, Ting | ![[PDF Document]](/img/pdf.gif){kind=small} Full Text PDFLocation Modeling Utilizing Closest and Generalized Closest Transport/Interaction Assignment Constructs | Church | Goulias, Clarke, Current (external) |
| Fall 2010 | GROSSNER, Karl | Representing Historical Knowledge in Geographic Information Systems | Goodchild | Couclelis, Clarke, Raubal, Mostern (UC Merced, History) |
| Summer 2010 | LI, Linna | Design of a Conceptual Framework and Approaches for Geo-Object Data Conflation | Goodchild | Clarke, Kyriakidis, Alan Saalfeld (School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University) |
| Spring 2010 | HAMADA, Yuki (SDSU) | Characterizing Conditions of California Sage Scrub Communities in Mediterranean Type Ecosystems Using Remote Sensing | Stow | Franklin, Roberts, kyriakidis |
| Spring 2010 | KUHN, William | Road Systems, Land Use, and Related Patterns of Valley Oak (Quercus lobata Nee) Populations, Seedling Recruitment, and Herbivory | Davis | Michaelsen, Kendall, Clarke |
| Winter 2010 | YE, Xinyue (SDSU) | Comparative Space Time Dynamics | Rey | Getis, An, Goodchild, Church |
| Winter 2010 | MORENO, Christopher (SDSU) | Geographies of Addiction and Recovery: Drugs, Space, and Body Politics | Aitken | Fernando Bosco, Colin Gardner, Couclelis, Carr |
| Winter 2010 | DAVIS, Jason | International Migration, Remittances, Fertility, and Development: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence from Central America | Carr | John Weeks, Eakin, Ronald Lee |
| Winter 2010 | PINGEL, Thomas | Strategic Elements of Route Choice | Clarke | Montello, Hegarty, Raubal |
| Fall 2009 | THOMAS, Matthew | Full Text PDF High Spectral-Resolution Infrared Remote Sensing of Saharan Mineral Dust: Ground and Satellite-Based Estimations of Dust Optical Thickness, Scattering, Mineralogy, Radius, Temperature and Climate Forcing | Gautier | Natalie Mahowald, Michaelsen, Jens Redemann, Roberts |
| Fall 2009 | MARSH, Meredith | Spatial Concepts: What Students Should Know? What Do They Know? How Can We Know What They Know? | Sweeney | Hegarty, Michael Gerber, Sarah Battersby |
| Summer 2009 | HASTINGS, Jordan | Automatic Conflation of Digital Gazetteer Data: Summary of Research and Demonstration | Goodchild | Clarke, Golledge, Linda Hill, Gary Raines |
| Summer 2009 | WILLIAMS, Park | Tree Rings, Climate Variability, and Coastal Summer Stratus Clouds in the Western United States | Still | Michaelsen, Gautier, Leavitt |
| Summer 2009 | PERROY, Ryan | Quantifying Land Degradation and Vegetation Recovery on Southwestern Santa Cruz Island, California | Chadwick | Bookhagen, Muhs, Roberts |
| Summer 2009 | LOPEZ, Annacarla (SDSU) | Spatial Patterns of Urban Food Security in Accra, Ghana: A Geographic Analysis of Household Hunger in an African City | Weeks | Stow, Eakin, Church |
| Summer 2009 | KILHAM, Nina | Floodplain Sedimentation on the Feather River, California: Combined Use of Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling to Analyze Contemporary Deposition Patterns in a Historically Mined Basin | Chadwick | Singer, Roberts, Dunne |
| Summer 2009 | ECKMANN, Ted | Measuring Subpixel Fire Properties to Improve Global Monitoring and Understanding of Fires | Roberts | Randerson, Still, Michaelsen |
| Winter 2009 | ROBINSON, Michael | Full Text PDF The Impacts of Heterogeneous Behavior on Fishing Fleet Location and Performance | Siegel | Sweeney, Costello, Montello, Goulias |
| Winter 2009 | NISHIMOTO, Mary | Effects of Coastal Circulation on the Distributional Patterns of Pelagic Juvenile Fishes and Otolith Chemistry, and on the Timing of Juvenile Reef Fish Settlement | Washburn | Warner, Carr, Love, Ralston |
| Fall 2008 | LEGLEITER, Carl | Alternative Representations of In-stream Habitar | Dunne | Roberts, Kyriakidis, Gressewell |
| Fall 2008 | DILLEMUTH, Julie | Map Use and Spatial Knowledge Acquisition with Small, Mobile Map Displays | Clarke, Montello | Golledge, Hegarty |
| Summer 2008 | SCHNEIDER, Phillip | Modeling Spatial Patterns of Wildfire Susceptibility in Southern California: Applications of MODIS Remote Sensing Data and Mesoscale Numerical Weather Models | Roberts | Kyriakidis, Goodchild, Burgan |
| Summer 2008 | NUERNBERGER, Andrea | Presenting Accessibility to Mobility-Impaired Travelers | Golledge | Church, Clarke, Gerber, Goulias |
| Summer 2008 | HOWARTH, Jeff | Landscape and Purpose: Modeling the Functional and Spatial Organization of the Land | Couclelis | Clarke, Goodchild, Knowles, Laughrin |
| Summer 2008 | GRACE, Kathryn | Three Essays on Fertility and Family Planning in Guatemala | Sweeney & Lopez-Carr | Jones, Tavrow |
| Summer 2008 | BALLANTINE, John | The Influence of Source Landforms, Antecedent Precipitation, and Winds on Dust Events in North Africa | Dunne | Roberts, Chadwick, Mahowald |
| Summer 2008 | ANTONINETTI, Maurizio (SDSU) | Peter Pan Will Not Live Here Anymore. A Multi-Approach Study of the Relation Between Neighborhood Design and the Ability to Age in Place | Ford | Aitken, Couclelis, Goodchild |
| Summer 2008 | ANTONINETTI, Maurizio (SDSU) | Peter Pan Will Not Live Here Anymore. A Multi-Approach Study of the Relation Between Neighborhood Design and the Ability to Age in Place | Ford | Aitken, Couclelis, Goodchild |
| Spring 2008 | GUAN, Qingfeng | Parallel algorithms for Geographic Processing | Clarke | Smith, Goodchild, Usery |
| Spring 2008 | FUGATE, Debbie (SDSU) | Geodemographic Modeling of Data-Poor Populations in a Security Context | Weeks | Stow , Clarke, Carr |
| Spring 2008 | BURBIDGE, Shaunna | Evaluating the Impact of Neighborhood Trail Development on Active Travel Behavior and Overall Physical Activity | Goulias | Church, Couclelis, Handy |
| Winter 2008 | LIGMANN-ZIELINSKA, Arika (SDSU) | Exploring Normative Scenarios of Land Use Development Decisions with an Agent-Based Simulation Laboratory | Jankowski | An Li, Couclelis, Church |
| Winter 2008 | CLAESSENS, Lodevicus (SDSU) | Hydro-Ecological Linkages in Urbanizing Watersheds: The Role of Small Streams in Controlling Nitrogen Export | Tague | Loaiciga, Melack, Stow |
| Fall 2007 | ZHANG, Tong (SDSU) | Developing Grid-enabled Internet GIService Portals to Support Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure: A Pilot Study in Accessibility | Tsou Ming-Hsiang | Jankowski, Clarke, Goulias |
| Summer 2007 | ONSTED, Jeff | Full Text PDF The Effectiveness of the Williamson Act: A Spatial Analysis | Clarke | Carr, Cleveland, Couclelis |
| Summer 2007 | HALLIGAN, Kerry | Mapping Forest Canopy Fuels in Yellowstone National Park Using Lidar and Hyperspectral Data | Roberts | Kyriakidis, Michaelsen, Jan Van Wagtendonk |
| Summer 2007 | GOLDSBERRY, Kirk | Real-Time Traffic Maps for the Internet | Clarke | Tobler, Goulias, Fabrikant |
| Spring 2007 | MIDDLETON, Erin | Toward a Behavioral Model of School Choice | Sweeney | Church, Yang, Yun |
| Winter 2007 | GALLO, John | Full Text PDF Engaged Conservation planning and uncertainty mapping as means towards effective implementation and monitoring | Goodchild | Davis, Couclelis, Church, Bojorquez-Tapia |
| Winter 2007 | FISCHER, Douglas | Ecological and Biogeographic Impacts of Fog and Stratus Clouds on Coastal Vegetation, Santa Cruz Island, CA | Christopher J. Still | Chadwick, Church, Tiffney |
| Fall 2006 | YOO, Eun-Hye (Enki) | A Geostatistical Framework for Downscaling Spatial Data | Kyriakidis | Clarke, Goodchild |
| Fall 2006 | KAYZAR, Brenda (SDSU) | Analyzing Revitalization Outcomes in Downtown San Diego | Ford | Weeks, Couclelis, Clarke |
| Fall 2006 | JANIKAS, Mark (SDSU) | Comparative Regional Income Dynamics: Clustering, Scale, and Geocomputation | Rey | Getis, Sweeney, Kyriakidis |
| Summer 2006 | ZHOU, Jianyu (Jack) | Full Text PDF Empirical Tracking and Analysis of the Dynamics in Activity Scheduling and Schedule Execution | Golledge | Clarke, Church, Loomis |
| Summer 2006 | CRAINE, James (SDSU) | Rethinking Geovisualization: New Geography for New Media | Aitken | Clarke, Fabrikant, Ford |
| Spring 2006 | RYAN, John (SDSU) | Using Spatial Updating Bias to Explore the Robustness of a Collaborative Geovisualization Model | Jankowski | Golledge, Clarke, Tsou |
| Spring 2006 | NUMATA, Izaya | Characterization and Analysis of Pasture Degradation in Rondonia Using Remote Sensing | Roberts | Chadwick, Schimel, Soares |
| Spring 2006 | BATTERSBY, Sarah | Distortion of Area in the Global-Scale Cognitive Map: A Geographic Perspective | Golledge & Montello | Clarke, Hegarty |
| Winter 2006 | POWELL, Rebecca | Long-Term Monitoring of Urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon Using Remote Sensing | Roberts | Clarke, Stonich, Hess |
| Winter 2006 | LULKA, David (SDSU) | Networks Affecting the Geographical Distribution and Position of Bison in Modern America | Aitken | Couclelis, Proctor, Friedrich |
| Winter 2006 | MIDDLETON, Richard | Geographical Distillation: Application of the p-Median, Traveling Salesman, and Regionalization Problems | Church | Goodchild, Kyriakidis, John Hodgson |
| Fall 2005 | SIFUENTES, Jorge | Full Text PDF Geographical Information Systems Data Implementation for Analyses of Settlement Patterns of an Early Agricultural Society | Goodchild | Clarke, Church, Anabel Ford |
| Fall 2005 | RICE, Matthew | Intellectual Property Control for Maps and Geographic Data | Goodchild | Clarke, Couclelis, B.S. Manjunath |
| Fall 2005 | GOLDSTEIN, Noah | The Computational Testing of Urban Growth Modeling | Clarke | Couclelis, Roberts, Steen Rasmussen |
| Summer 2005 | SYPHARD, Alexandra (SDSU) | Full Text PDF Simulating the Effects of Urban Growth and Frequent Fire on Southern California Shrublands | Janet Franklin | Clarke, Molly Pohl, Roberts |
| Summer 2005 | ROGAN, John (SDSU) | Operational Monitoring of Land-Cover Change Using Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data | Franklin | Frank Davis, Roberts, Douglas Stow |
| Summer 2005 | NAGLE, Nicholas | Continuous Field Statistical Methods for Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences | Kyriakidis, Sweeney | Church, Goodchild, Steigerwald |
| Summer 2005 | ENGSTROM, Ryan (SDSU) | Full Text PDF Effects of Spatial and Temporal Variability in Vegetation, Soil Moisture, and depth of Thaw on Modeled Evapotranspiration Estimates in Arctic Coastal Plain Ecosystems. | Hope | Stow, Tague, Chadwick, Michaelsen |
| Summer 2005 | DE SOUZA, Carlos | Mapping and Spatiotemporal Characterization of Degraded Forests in the Brazilian Amazon Through Remote Sensing | Roberts | Chadwick, Mark Cochrane, Kyriakidis |
| Summer 2005 | CORRIGAN, William | Travel Time Estimation for Emergency Medical Vehicles with Applications to Location Models | Church | Sweeney, Clarke,Rachev |
| Summer 2005 | CLARK, Matthew | An Assessment of Hyperspectral and Lidar Remote Sensing for the Monitoring of Tropical Rain Forest Trees | Roberts | Chadwick, David Clark, Kyriakidis |
| Spring 2005 | HUSAK, Greg | Methods for the Statistical Evaluation of African Precipitation | Michaelsen | Kyriakidis, Wendy Meiring, Jim Verdin |
| Spring 2005 | DIETZEL, Charles | From Parameters to Scenarios: Using the Behavior of Cellular Automata to Create New Futures | Clarke | Couclelis, Sweeney, Michael Teitz |
| Winter 2005 | KLINE, Karen | A Quantitative Analysis of the Users of Global Environmental Data Sets | Clarke | Goodchild, Mertes, Eric Anderson |
| Summer 2004 | TAYLOR, Robert | A natural history of coastal sage scrub in southern California: Regional floristic patterns and relations to physical geography, how it changes over time, and how well reserves represent its biodiversity | Davis | Michaelsen, Clarke, John O'Leary |
| Spring 2004 | WEST, Eric (SDSU) | Full Text PDF Imagined Transitions: The Geography of Reform in American Foreign Correspondence From Post-Soviet Russia | Stuart Aitken | Doreen Mattingly, John Pickles, Couclelis, Proctor |
| Spring 2004 | McMICHAEL, Christi (SDSU) | Full Text PDF Modeling the Effects of Fire on Streamflow in a Chaparral Watershed | Allen Hope | Janet Franklin, Roberts, Loaiciga |
| Spring 2004 | KEUPER, Alex | The Influence of Uncertainty Metadata on Decision-making Using Geographic Data Products | Montello | Fabrikant, Goodchild, Richard Mayer |
| Spring 2004 | HEROLD, Martin | Full Text PDF Remote Sensing and Spatial Metrics for Mapping and Modeling of Urban Structures and Growth Dynamics | Clarke | Couclelis, Roberts, Gunter Menz, Christiane C. Schmullius |
| Fall 2003 | HOLMES, Karen | Full Text PDF Regional Effects of Deforestation on Soil Biogeochemistry in the Southwestern Amazon | Chadwick | Kyriakidis, Roberts, Dunne, James Boles |
| Fall 2003 | BIGGS, Trent | Full Text PDF Regional Deforestation and Stream Biogeochemistry in the Southwestern Amazon Basin | Dunne | Chadwick, Melack |
| Summer 2003 | MILLER, Jennifer (SDSU) | Full Text PDF Incorporating Spatial Dependence in Predictive Vegetation Models | Franklin | Goodchild, Michaelsen, Sergio Rey |
| Summer 2003 | LIU, XiaoHang | Full Text PDF Estimation of the Spatial Distribution of Urban Population Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery | Goodchild | Clarke, Kyriakidis, Victor Mesev |
| Fall 2003 | DENNISON, Philip | Full Text PDF Measuring Vegetation Type, Biomass and Moisture for Integration into Fire Spread Models Using Hyperspectral and Radar Remote Sensing | Roberts | Michaelsen, Clarke, Susan Ustin |
| Spring 2003 | RASHED, Tarek (SDSU) | Full Text PDF Measuring the Environmental Context of Social Vulnerability to Urban Earthquake Hazards: An Integrative Remote Sensing and GIS Approach | Weeks | Clarke, Couclelis, Hope, Wright, Menoni |
| Spring 2003 | Payton, Allison | Radiative Forcing of Climate in the Western Antarctic Peninsula: Effects of Cloud, Surface, and Aerosol Properties | Gautier | Roberts, Ricchiazzi & Smith |
| Spring 2003 | GREEN, Robert | Full Text PDF Understanding the Three Phases of Water with Imaging Spectroscopy in the Solar Reflected Energy Spectrum | Dozier | Gautier, Roberts, Warren Wiscombe |
| Spring 2003 | CARTER, Christopher (SDSU) | Full Text PDF Neoliberal Economic Reforms and Urban Sociospatial Change in Latin America: The Case of La Serena-Coquimbo, Chile | Griffin | Weeks, Couclelis, Clarke |
| Fall 2002 | PYKE, Christopher | Full Text PDF Modeling Vernal Pool Hydrologic Regimes and Assessing Their Sensitivity to Climatic and Land-Use change | Davis | Goodchild, Chadwick, Cooper |
| Fall 2002 | FUNK, Christopher | Full Text PDF Modeling Patterns of Interannual Variability in Sub-Saharan African Rainfall to support Food Security. | Michaelsen | Gautier, Roberts, Verdin |
| Summer 2002 | MARSTON, James | Full Text PDF Towards an Accessible City: Empirical Measurement and Modeling of Access to Urban Opportunities for those with Vision Impairments, Using Remote Infrared Audible Signage | Golledge | Church, Montello, William Crandall |
| Summer 2002 | CURTIN, Kevin | Full Text PDF Models for Multiple-Type Discrete Dispersion | Church | Clarke, Goodchild, Samuel Ratick |
| Summer 2002 | ISHIKAWA, Toru | Full Text PDF Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in the Environment: The Integration of Separately Learned Places and the Development of Metric Knowledge | Montello | Golledge, Mary Hegarty, Jack Loomis |
| Spring 2002 | SCHWEIZER, Diane | Full Text PDF Heating Up the Science Classroom through Global Warming: An Investigation of Argument in Earth System Science Education | Gautier, Kelly | Michaelsen, Judith Green |
| Spring 2002 | SCULL, Peter (SDSU) | Full Text PDF "Predictive Soil Mapping in the Mojave Desert of California" | Franklin | Chadwick, McArthur, Clarke |
| Spring 2002 | PAINTER, Thomas | Full Text PDF "The Hyperspectral Bidirectional Reflectance of Snow: Modeling, Measurement and Instrumentation" | Dozier | Gautier, Roberts, Robert Davis, Bradley Paden |
| Winter 2002 | ALEXANDER, Nicole | Full Text PDF An Object-Oriented Approach to Spatial Data Capture | Clarke | Goodchild, Couclelis, Divyakant Agrawal |
| Winter 2002 | WARRICK, Jonathan (MSI) | Full Text PDF The Source and Fate of River Water and Sediment for the Santa Barbara Channel, California. | Mertes | Siegel, Washburn, John Milliman |
| Fall 2001 | DOW, David (SDSU) | Full Text PDF The Effects of Symbol Iconicity on the Integration of Spatial Knowledge Acquired from the Fly-through Navigation of Simulated Environments. | Wright | Nelson, Golledge, Montello |
| Fall 2001 | SORENSEN, Paul | Full Text PDF Locating Resources for the Provision of Emergency Medical Services | Church | Goodchild, Couclelis, Jerry Weaver |
| Fall 2001 | DIBBLE, Catherine | Full Text PDF Theory in a Complex World: GeoGraph Computational Laboratories | Goodchild | Clarke, Michaelsen, Stephen DeCanio |
| Spring 2001 | GEBELEIN, Jennifer | Full Text PDF Validation of Three Land Cover Maps Utilizing Space Shuttle Photography and Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery | Estes | Clarke, Mertes, Tim Foresman |
| Spring 2001 | WESTMORELAND, Sally (SDSU) | Full Text PDF Radiometric Correction of Multisensor Imagery | Stow | Davis, Hope, Michaelsen |
| Spring 2001 | CHEN, DongMei (SDSU) | Full Text PDF Multi-resolution Image Analysis and Classification for Improving Urban Land Use/Cover Mapping Using High Resolution Imagery | Stow | Getis, Church, Goodchild |
| Spring 2001 | WELLS, Michael (SDSU) | Full Text PDF Human-Altered Fire Regimes and the Development of Stand Structure in Macrocarpae Pines | O'Leary | Getis, Franklin, Michaelsen, Frank Davis |