Graduates Master’s Theses
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| Degree Date | Name | Title | Chair | Committee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2000 | BIGGS, Trent | Tropical Land Use Change Effects on Stream Flow Chemistry at the Regional Scale: A Deforestation Signal in the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon | Dunne | Chadwick, John Melack |
| Fall 2000 | COLEE, Michael | A High-Resolution Distributed Snowmelt Model in an Alpine Catchment | Jeff Dozier | Frank Davis, Roberts, Bert Davis |
| Fall 2000 | GOLDSTEIN, Noah | The Predictive Modeling of Endangered Plant Species in the Santa Monica Mountains Using a Knowledge Base Approach | Davis | Clarke, Goodchild |
| Fall 2000 | ZHOU, Jainyu | Analysis of Variability of Weekly Travel Behavior Using GPS-Recorded Data | Golledge | Clarke, Church |
| Spring 2000 | ALAGONA, Peter | Working Together, Thinking Apart: Collaborative Planning, Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Attitudes in Biodiversity Conservation | Montello | Davis, Sweeney, |
| Spring 2000 | CHAMRAN, Faraneh | An Explicit Treatment of Topography in Measurement and Modeling of Hydrological Processes on a Small Hillslope | Chadwick | Loaciga, Josh Schimel |
| Spring 2000 | KLINE, Karen | History of Global Mapping: Lessons, Issues and Challenges for National Mapping Organizations | Estes | Clarke, Goodchild |
| Winter 2000 | KELLY, Melissa | Image Interpretation Keys for Validation of Global Land Cover Data Sets | Estes | Clarke, Strahler, Tom Loveland |
| Fall 1999 | BIRCHLER, James | The Nature of Intervention: General Environmental Attitudes as Predictors of Attitudes in Specific Cases of Biodiversity Conservation Mangement | Proctor | Clarke, Bruce Bimber |
| Fall 1999 | DENNISON, Phil | An Examination of the Relationship Between Chaparral Biomass and Radar Backscatter | Roberts | Church, Clarke |
| Fall 1999 | HUSAK, Greg | The Impact of Landsat Thematic Mapper Positional Accuracy on the Validation of the DISCover Global Land Cover Database. | Estes | Roberts, Clarke |
| Fall 1999 | JONES, David R. | Landsat Commercialization and its Impact on Remote Sensing Research and Education at Colleges and Universities in the Unitd States | Estes | R. Smith, Couclelis |
| Fall 1999 | McFARLAND, Chris | Numerical Modeling of the Santa Barbara Sundowners of 27 June, 1990 | Michaelsen | Roberts, Charles Jones |
| Fall 1999 | WALLER, Eric | A Comparison of Landsat Multispectral Scanner Imagery and Aerial Photography for Identifying Land Cover Change in Coastal Southern California | Roberts | Davis, Michaelsen |
| Fall 1999 | ZEDLER, Sarah | Observations and Modeling of the Ocean's Response to Hurricane Felix at the Bermuda Testbed Mooring | Dickey | Siegel, Washburn, Scott Doney, Jim Price |
| Summer 1999 | COBB, Michelle | Mapping Gradients on Santa Cruz Island, California from Remotely Sensed and Ground Sample Data | Mertes | Davis, Goodchild |
| Spring 1999 | FUNK, Christopher | The VDELB Model of Orographic Rain | Michaelsen | Clarke, Roberts |
| Spring 1999 | HOLMES, Karen | Calculation of Error in a USGS 30-meter Digital Elevation Model and its Effects on Terrain Attributes and Environmental Modeling | Chadwick | Clarke, Michaelsen |
| Spring 1999 | MILLER, Aaron | Redox Control of Phosphorus Dynamics in Montane Forest Soils in Hawaii | Chadwick | Melack, Schimel |
| Spring 1999 | PYKE, Christopher | Floristic composition across a climatic gradient in a neotropical forest | Davis | Chadwick, Michaelsen |
| Winter 1999 | KIEDMAN, Charles | Assessment of Land Cover Change and Regeneration in a Northern California Forested Ecosystem using Historical Landsat and GIS | Roberts | Goodchild, Michaelsen |
| Winter 1999 | KEIGHTLEY, Keir | Mapping Productivity and Boundary Layer Conditions Using the Airborne Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer | Roberts | Gautier, Michaelsen |
| Winter 1999 | TOOLE, Dierdre | Remote Sensing Reflectance Determinations in Coastal Environments - Impacts of Instrumental Characteristics and Environmental Variability | Siegel | Dickey, Washburn |
| Fall 1998 | BENISON, Sean | Field GIS | Goodchild | Clarke, Chadwick |
| Fall 1998 | JOHNSON, Tammy | Climate Change and Sierra Nevada Snowpack | Dozier | Michaelsen, David Hinkley |
| Spring 1998 | FOHL, Peter | Simulating Nominal Fields | Goodchild | Clarke, Michaelsen |
| Winter 1998 | BRODY, Eric | Validation and Modeling of In Situ Inherent Optical Properties in the Sargasso Sea | Siegel | Dickey, R. Smith, Washburn |
| Summer 1997 | JOHNSON, Andrea | 20th Century Growth Trends in Pseudotsuga macrocarpa in Relation to Climate and Atmospheric CO2- Pine Mountain, CA | Michaelsen | Davis, Loaiciga |
| Summer 1997 | SHORTRIDGE, Ashton | Characterizing the Relationship between 7.5 and 1 Degree Digital Elevation Models | Goodchild | Clarke, Michaelsen |
| Fall 1997 | ALBRIGHT, Thomas | Mapping Snow and Ice on the North-Slope of Mt. Everest with DEM-Corrected SIR-C/X-SAR Imagery | Dozier | Estes, Roberts |
| Fall 1997 | NEWTON, Bradley | Rainfall-Discharge Relation of a Bedrock Aquifer in the Santa Ynez Mountains and a Model for its Interpretation | Loaiciga | Dunne, Chadwick |
| Fall 1997 | OKIN, William J. | The Biodiversity Management Area Selection Model: Constructing a Solution Approach | Church | Davis, Goodchild |
| Spring 1997 | GARDNER, Margaret | Mapping Chaparral with AVIRIS Using Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques | Roberts | Church, Gautier, Michaelsen |
| Spring 1997 | LOVELACE, Kristin | Comparing Spatial Knowledge from Two Sources and in Two Orders of Recall using Verbal Navigational Instructions | Montello | Golledge, Couclelis |
| Spring 1997 | MCGHIE, R. Gavin | Creation and Accuracy Assessment of a Comprehensive Managed Areas Spatial Database for the Conterminous United States | Estes | Goodchild, J. Michael Scott |
| Spring 1997 | NUNEZ, Alfonso | Mapping of Vertical Leakage in the Hueco Bolson Aquifer in El Paso County, Texas, using a Geographic Information System | Loaiciga | Chadwick, Arturo Keller |
| Spring 1997 | RENEHAN, Stephen | Analysis of Water Demand, Supply, and Pricing: 1987-1992 Drought in Santa Barbara, California | Loaiciga | Church, Chadwick |
| Spring 1997 | RICHARDSON, Anthony | Spatial Knowledge Acquisition from Maps and from Navigation in Real and Virtual Environments | Montello | Golledge, Mary Hegarty |
| Spring 1997 | THORNE, James | GAP Analysis: TheVegetation of Northwestern California | Davis | Goodchild, Roberts |
| Winter 1997 | VENEGAS, Juan | Place and Space Factors Affecting Employment Opportunities for Latinos within California Enterprise Zone | Couclelis | Golledge, Montello |
| Fall 1996 | FELKNER, JOHN | An Analysis of International Data Exchange Policy | Goodchild | Dozier, Estes |
| Fall 1996 | LAWLESS, MICHAEL | Potential Commercial Applications of EOS Science Data Products | Estes | Goodchild, Roberts |
| Fall 1996 | PAINTER, THOMAS | Improving Spectral Mixture Analysis of Snow-Covered Area from AVIRIS Data | Dozier | Roberts, Gautier |
| Fall 1996 | PATTERSON, KAREN | Calculation of Biologically Effective UV Dose Rates for Larval Anchovies in the Southern California Bight Using PUV Data in Combination with a Simple High-Spectral Resolution Model | R. Smith | Siegel, Gautier |
| Spring 1996 | FIGUEROA, MICHAEL | Construction of an Exploratory Modeling System for Public Sector Location-Allocation Planning | Church | Goodchild, Couclelis |
| Spring 1996 | SORENSEN, JENS | Variability and models of the effective quantum yield of carbon assimilation in the Sargasso Sea | Seigel | R. Smith, Washburn |
| Spring 1996 | TUCHBAND, DANA | Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Rainfall-Runoff Models in the Steep Mountain Catchments of Santa Barbara County, California | Loaiciga | Chadwick, Clark |
| Winter 1996 | GALINSKY, KEVIN | degree by examination | Washburn | Siegel, Michaelsen |
| Winter 1996 | MERCHANT, GEORGE | Conservation Principles and the Initiation of Channelized Surface Flows | T. Smith | Mertes, Siegel |
| Fall 1995 | CLOUD, JOHN | A Splendor Which is its Own: Realizing the Potential of Space Shuttle Earth Observations Photography | Couclelis | Dozier, Tobler |
| Fall 1995 | COVA, THOMAS | A Spatial Search for Neighborhoods that may be Difficult to Evacuate | Church | Couclelis, Goodchild |
| Fall 1995 | LOSCH, CLAUDINE | Vegetation Change from 1973 to 1987 in the Rora Habab Plateau, Northern Eritrea, Based on Landsat MSS Imagery | Jones | Estes, Mertes |
| Spring 1995 | AURAND, MICHELE | An Intelligent Assistant for Processing GIS Data | Lanter | Couclelis, Goodchild |
| Spring 1995 | HAWKSWORTH, JOHN | degree by examination | Loaiciga | Mertes, Ferren |
| Spring 1995 | SUTTON, PAUL | Public Opinion of Population Issues | Golledge | Montello, Tobler |
| Spring 1995 | VAN ZUYLE, PAUL | Modeling Schistosomiasis: Using new tools to explore the relationship between human behavior and water-borne disease | Couclelis | Golledge, Montello, Kloos |
| Winter 1995 | BELL, SCOTT | Cartographic Presentation as an Aid to Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in Unknown Environments | Golledge | Couclelis, Montello |
| Winter 1995 | CAETANO, MARIO | Burned Vegetation Mapping in Mountainous Areas with Satellite Remote Sensing | Mertes | Davis, Goodchild, Pereira |
| Winter 1995 | GIORDANO, ALBERTO | Understanding Cartographic Design: An Experientialist Approach | Tobler | Couclelis, Lanter |
| Winter 1995 | NOSSE, CRAIG | Variations of the Optical and Physical Structure of Rainwater Layers in the Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean | Washburn | Siegel, R. Smith |
| Winter 1995 | SALETA, JOSE | Stand Discrimination in a Western Coniferous Forest Using AIRSAR Dara | Davis | Melack, Michaelsen |
| Winter 1995 | WANG, NAXIN | Retrieving Temperature and Water Vapor Profiles of the Lower Part of the Atmosphere in Thermal Infrared | R. Smith | Dozier, Michaelsen, Wan |
| Fall 1994 | BYERS, MICHAEL | A Computation of Global Oceanic Net Primary Productivity from Satellite Derived Data | R. Smith | Gautier, Siegel |
| Fall 1994 | CAYOCCA, KELLY | Map-assisted Spectral Characterization of a Community Ecotone for Long Term Monitoring | Estes | Davis, Proctor |
| Fall 1994 | DOUGHERTY, VALERIE | Spatial Familiarity and Globalness of Spatial Reference Systems in Cognitive Maps of Large-Scale Environments | Golledge | Couclelis, Montello |
| Fall 1994 | GRAY, M. VIOLET | A Digital Multipurpose Vegetation Map for the Colorado Desert of California | Davis | Goodchild, Michaelsen |
| Fall 1994 | HICKE, JEFFREY | An Analysis of Surface Solar Radiation in the Southern Ocean Computed from ISCCP Data | Gautier | Michaelsen, R. Smith |
| Fall 1994 | LENAY, JEFFREY | A Preliminary Analysis of the Classification and Prediction of Regional Scale Vegetation Distribution Using Climatic Edaphic Data in a Decision Tree Model | Estes | Michaelsen, Roberts |
| Summer 1994 | PALLADINO, STEVE | A Role for Geographic Information Systems in the Secondary Schools: An Assessment of the Current Status and Future Possibilities | Goodchild | Golledge, Proctor |
| Summer 1994 | SVENSSON, BJORN | Cognitive Maps at Different Scales | Golledge | Montello, Lanter |
| Spring 1994 | PETERSON, PETER | degree by examination | R. Smith | Tobler, Couclelis |
| Spring 1994 | SCHULMAN, JOANNA | A Video Tour of Santa Juanita: How Viewing Angle and Perspective Affect the Salience Attributed to Landmarks | Golledge | Couclelis, Aitken |
| Spring 1994 | SORENSEN, PAUL | Analysis and Design of Heuristics for the P-Median Location-Allocation Problem | Church | Goodchild, T. Smith |
| Spring 1994 | VAN DEN BOSCH, J. | Atmospheric Corrections for Hyperspectral Airborne Imaging Spectrometer Data | Davis | Gautier, R. Smith |
| Spring 1994 | VAN KIRK, JOHN | An Assessment and Analysis of Air Pollution in the Czech Republic | Loaiciga | Michaelsen, Gautier |
| Spring 1994 | WHITE, LIONEL | A Non-relational Analysis of Buildings in the Environment and Rates of Suicide: San Diego County, California: 1990 | Golledge | Proctor, Hammond |
| Winter 1994 | BUYAN, BRETT | degree by examination | Davis | Michaelsen, Lanter |
| Winter 1994 | HE, GANG | Toward Understanding the Interactions Between the Atmospheric Radiation and Surface Vidirectional Reflectance: Snow Surface | Gautier | Michaelsen, R. Smith |
| Winter 1994 | VERNON, GREGORY | degree by examination | Goodchild | Michaelsen, Tobler |
| Winter 1994 | WANG, TAO | Satellite-Derived Long Term Net Solar Radiation Over the Global Ocean Surface: Its Relationship to Low Frequency SST Variation and El Nino | Gautier | Michaelsen, Siegel |
| Fall 1993 | BEARDSLEY, KAREN | Compiling a Digital Map of Managed Areas at the National and State Levels | Estes | Davis, Goodchild, Star |
| Fall 1993 | FAIRBANKS, DEAN | Relationship of GIS-based Environmental and Remotely Sensed Data to Floristic Gradients within California Vegetation Communities | Estes | Davis, Haller, McGwire |
| Fall 1993 | ROSENTHAL, C. WALTER | Mapping Montane Snow Cover at Subpixel Resolution from the Landsat Thematic Mapper | Dozier | Michaelsen, Mertes |
| Fall 1993 | SPRINGER, DAVID | Determining the Air Permeability of Porous Materials as a Function of a Variable Water Content under Controlled Laboratory Conditions | Loaiciga | Keller, Everett |
| Fall 1993 | STAMMERJOHN, SHARON | Spatial and Temporal Variability in Southern Ocean Sea Ice Coverage | R. Smith | Michaelsen, Siegel, Washburn |
| Summer 1993 | COGAN, CHRISTOPHER | Quantitative Analysis of Habitat Use by the California Condor | Davis | Goodchild, Estes |
| Summer 1993 | DODSON, RUSTIN | Integrating GIS and Spatial Analysis: An Implementation and Appraisal of Two Prototype Software Linkages | Goodchild | Anselin, Tobler |
| Spring 1993 | BURKE, LAURETTA | Environmental Equity in Los Angeles | Goodchild | Anselin, Michaelsen |
| Spring 1993 | DAY, JOHN | Imaging Coniferous Forest Gaps with Synthetic Aperture Radar | Davis | Michaelsen, Melack |
| Spring 1993 | FRICKE, LISA | degree by examination | Michaelsen | Loaiciga, Davis |
| Spring 1993 | HESS, LAURA | L-Band Radar Detection of Standing Water in Forested Wetlands of Coastal Georgia | Simonett | Davis, Melack |
| Spring 1993 | ROBINSON, TIMOTHY | Fate and Transport of Agricultural Contaminants from Rice Paddies; Impact Sampling Strategies and the Potential Environmental Degradation to Dry Tropical Coastal Wetlands - Guanacaste, Costa Rica | Loaiciga | Church, Jones |
| Winter 1993 | MOLLETT, MICHAEL | degree by examination | Couclelis | Goodchild, Ford |
| Fall 1992 | BUENO, MICHAEL | Quantification of Cartographic Generalization in Land Cover Maps Using Spatial Pattern Index Measurements Derived from Digital Satellite Imagery | Davis | Estes, Goodchild |
| Fall 1992 | HUDAK, SHERI | Spatial Econometrics in Practice | Anselin | Goodchild, Michaelsen |
| Fall 1992 | LOMBARD, KRISTI | Generating Alternatives in Corridor Location | Church | Couclelis, Goodchild |
| Fall 1992 | MAROTTI, ANDREA | A Bio-Optical Model of Primary Production for Application in the Antarctic Marginal Ice-Edge Zone | R. Smith | Siegel, Prezelin |
| Fall 1992 | RUGGLES, AMY | An Analysis of Late-Horizon Settlement Patterns in the Temascalapa-Teotihuacan Basins: The Creation of Idealized Settlement Patterns Through Location-Allocation Models and GIS | Church | Anselin, Goodchild |
| Fall 1992 | SCHWEIZER, DIANE | Data Quality and Choropleth Maps: An Experiment with the Use of Color | Goodchild | Lanter, Michaelsen |
| Spring 1992 | LOBAN, SCOTT | A Heuristic for an Interactive Decision Support Approach for Timber Harvest Scheduling | Church | Jones, Anselin |
| Winter 1992 | SHU, SHOURONG | Dynamic 3D Display of the Globe Using a Hierarchical Triangular Data Model | Goodchild | Tobler, Estes |
| Winter 1992 | WALKER, RICHARD | Community Models of Species Richness: Regional Variation of Plant Community Species Composition on the West Slope of the Sierra Nevada | Estes | Davis, Haller |
| Fall 1991 | BROWN, RODNEY | Historical Mortality of Valley Oak (Quercus lobata, Nee) in the Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County, California, 1938-1989 | Davis | Estes, Michaelsen |
| Fall 1991 | LEFEBVRE, PAUL | degree by examination | Davis | Estes, Michaelsen |
| Spring 1991 | DUNCAN, BREAN | Utilizing GIS Technology to Combine Regional Physiognomic and Floristic Vegetation Maps | Davis | Estes, Goodchild |
| Spring 1991 | MOODY, AARON | Spatial Variability of Soil Properties Beneath Quercus Agrifolia on Santa Cruz Island, California | Jones | Michaelsen, Davis |
| Winter 1991 | YANG, XIAO LI | Design and Implementation of a Spatial Data Base for a Blind and Visually Impaired Navigational System Using GIS: Components of a Visual Guidance System | Golledge | Goodchild, Couclelis |