A collective noun is one that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things (e.g., “a faculty of academics”), and I’m sure that our Geography grads can empathize with such collective nouns as “a fortitude of graduate students,” “a doggedness of doctoral candidates,” “a dilation of pupils,” and, particularly, “an angst of dissertations.” Please join me in congratulating the following “slate of candidates” for overcoming the angst and successfully (and collectively!) completing their PhDs in Geography in 2008-2009:
- DILLEMUTH, Julie (Fall 2008; Clarke & Montello, Co-Chairs): “Map Use and Spatial Knowledge Acquisition with Small, Mobile Map Displays”
- LEGLEITER, Carl (Fall 2008; Dunne, Chair): “Alternative Representations of In-stream Habitat”
- NISHIMOTO, Mary (Winter 2009; Washburn, Chair): “Effects of Coastal Circulation on the Distributional Patterns of Pelagic Juvenile Fishes and Otolith Chemistry, and on the Timing of Juvenile Reef Fish Settlement”
- ROBINSON, Michael (Winter 2009; Siegel, Chair): “The Impacts of Heterogeneous Behavior on Fishing Fleet Location and Performance”
- ECKMANN, Ted (Summer 2009; Roberts, Chair): “Measuring Subpixel Fire Properties to Improve Global Monitoring and Understanding of Fires”
- KILHAM, Nina (Summer 2009; Chadwick, Chair): “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”
- LOPEZ, Annacarla (SDSU) (Summer 2009; Weeks, Chair): “Spatial Patterns of Urban Food Security in Accra, Ghana: A Geographic Analysis of Household Hunger in an African City”
- PERROY, Ryan (Summer 2009; Chadwick, Chair): “Quantifying Land Degradation and Vegetation Recovery on Southwestern Santa Cruz Island, California”
- WILLIAMS, Park (Summer 2009; Still, Chair): “Tree Rings, Climate Variability, and Coastal Summer Stratus Clouds in the Western United States”
For details of all dissertations from 1982 on, see our web site under Graduates/Ph.D. Dissertations.
