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| Degree Date | Name | Title | Chair | Committee | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2020 | Romich, Trevor | Photodegradation Stimulates Microbial Activity Through Enhanced Water Solubility of Grass Litter Carbon | King | Chadwick & Oono | |
| Summer 2020 | Turner, William | An improved climatological forecast method for projecting end-of-season Water Requirement Satisfaction Index (WRSI) | Jones | Funk, Husak & Roberts | |
| Summer 2019 | Cheng,You | Telling Right from Right: The Influence of Handedness in the Mental Rotation of Hands | Chrastil | Montello & Hegarty | |
| Spring 2020 | Avery, Ryan | Convolutional Neural Network Based Approaches for Instance Segmentation of Irrigated Agriculture in Satellite Imagery | Caylor | McFadden & Roberts | |
| Spring 2019 | Pludow,Bryce,Amelia | Evaluating Service System Coverage of Wireless Internet Access | Murray | Sweeney & Church | |
| Spring 2019 | Kibler,Christopher,Linscott | Multi-temporal Remote Sensing of Vegetation Regrowth After a Large Wildfire | Roberts | Sweeney & D'Antonio | |
| Fall 2019 | Xiao, Jingyi | What Questions Do Users Ask about GIS: an Analysis of Posts on GIS Stack Exchange | Werner | Janowicz & Kemp | |
| Fall 2019 | Baxter, Ian | How tropical Pacific surface cooling contributed to accelerated sea ice melt from 2007 to 2012 as ice is thinned by anthropogenic forcing | Ding | Carvalho & Jones | |
| Fall 2018 | Schumacher,Britta,Lee | Farmer Perceptions of Climate Change and Variability in Villages Adjacent to the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania | Cassels | Cleveland, Sweeney & Gorenflo | |
| Spring 2018 | Hervey, Thomas | What are We Locating? The Application of a Provenance Ontology to Disambiguate Locational References in Social Network Posts | Kuhn | Janowicz & Montello | |
| Winter 2018 | Xu, Jing | Spatial Variability in Retail Gasoline Pricing Behavior | Murray | Church & Sweeney | |
| Fall 2017 | Wang, Frank | Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions from a California Salt Marsh | King | Chadwick & Melack | |
| Fall 2017 | Mcbride, Elizabeth | Enhancing Population Synthesis using Land Use Indicators | Goulias | Cassels & Janowicz | |
| Fall 2017 | Mai, Gengchen | ADCN: An Anisotropic Density-Based Clustering Algorithm for Discovering Spatial Point Patterns with Noise | Janowicz | Goulias & Kuhn | |
| Fall 2017 | Ju, Yiting | Things and Strings and More: Improving Place Name Disambiguation from Short Texts by Combining Entity Co-Occurrence, Topic Modeling, and Word Embedding | Janowicz | Goulias & Kuhn | |
| Fall 2017 | Baez, Carlos | Emergency Medical Service Ambulance System Planning: History and Models | Church | Murray & Sweeney | |
| Spring 2017 | Miller, David | Estimating Urban Gross Primary Productivity at High Spatial Resolution | McFadden | Clark & Roberts | |
| Winter 2017 | Lafia, Sara | Spatial Discovery and the Research Library: Linking Research Datasets and Documents | Janowicz / Kuhn | Seltmann | |
| Winter 2017 | Chen, Mingquan | Reconstructing Fire Severity and Post-Fire Recovery in a Southern California Watershed Using Hyperspectral Imagery and LiDAR | Roberts | Sweeney & Clarke | |
| Fall 2016 | Ye, Haiyun | Spatial, Temporal, and Thematic Structure of Volunteered Geographic Information in Social Media Following Different Catastrophic Events | Clarke | Cassels & Janowicz | |
| Summer 2016 | Tuholske, Cascade, Philip | Climate Change versus Human Population and Development: Hurricanes, Urbanization, and Tourism Impacts on Land change in the Tropical Island Ecosystems of Roatán, Honduras | Lopez-Carr | Cassels & Roberts | |
| Summer 2016 | Stiefel, Maximilian, Salvador | Fertility Behavior in Azerbaijan: On the Demographic-Economic Paradox | Sweeney | Cassels & Davenport | |
| Summer 2016 | Phillips, Daniel, Wesley | Defining the Community of Interest as a Criterion for Boundary Drawing of Electoral Districts | Montello | Sweeney & Stoll | |
| Spring 2016 | Yan, Bo | A Data-Driven Framework for Assisting Geo-Ontology Engineering Using a Discrepancy Index | Janowicz | Kuhn & Couclelis | |
| Spring 2016 | Oyewole, Michelle, Tokunbo Oluw | Effect of Organic Amendment Application Rate on Nitrous Oxide, Methane,and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Field Study and Regional Farmer Survey | King / Cleveland | ||
| Spring 2016 | Newkirk, Andrew, Maurice | Scaling and the "New Science of Cities": An Exploration Under Varying Assumptions | Couclelis | ||
| Fall 2015 | Davis, Adam, Wilkinson | Investigating Place Attitudes in Santa Barbara, CA | Goulias | ||
| Fall 2015 | Bingham, Nina, Lynn | Strontium Isotopes Fingerprint Base Cation Sources During Early-Stage Soil Formation on Hawaiian Basalt Flows | Chadwick | ||
| Summer 2015 | KIM, Jeong-Hyun | Harvesting Geospatial Intelligence from Geotagged Social Media Data: A New Type of Early Warning System against North Korea | Clarke | Kyriakidis, Janowicz | |
| Spring 2015 | BAE, Crystal | Representations of an Urban Neighborhood: Residents’ Cognitive Boundaries of Koreatown, Los Angeles | Montello | Couclelis, Goulias | |
| Winter 2015 | FOURNIER, Eric Daniel | By examination | Frew | Clarke, Kyriakidis | |
| Winter 2015 | BOUNDS, Bonnie | Cultural Amenities and the Consumer City Hypothesis | Couclelis | Sweeney, Montello | |
| Winter 2015 | POTAPENKO, John | High-Resolution LiDAR Pointcloud Data Processing, Computation, and Visualization with Application to Erosion Analysis of the California Channel Islands | Frew | Bookhagen, Clarke | |
| Winter 2015 | TAN, Ann | Microscale Topographic Influence on Grassland Primary Productivity on Semiarid Hillslopes | Chadwick | Roberts, Bookhagen, D'Antonio | |
| Fall 2014 | MEERDINK, Susan Kay | Linking Seasonal Foliar Chemistry to VSWIR-TIR Spectroscopy | Roberts | King, Kyriakidis | |
| Summer 2014 | GRIGSBY, Erik Shane | Improved surface temperature estimates with MASTER / AVIRIS sensor fusion | Roberts | Bookhagen, Frew | |
| Summer 2014 | SMITH, Taylor | Glacial Response to Climate Change in the Tien Shan Mountain Range of Central Asia | Bookhagen | Roberts, Carvalho | |
| Fall 2013 | RASTOGI, Bharat | Kyriakidis | Still, Carvalho | ||
| Summer 2013 | PRENTICE, Samuel | Soil-Landscape Modeling of Coastal California Hillslopes Using Terrestrial Lidar | Chadwick | Bookhagen, Kyriakidis | |
| Summer 2013 | KERSHAW, Timothy | Degree by exam | Loaiciga | Clarke, Keller | |
| Summer 2013 | JENSEN, Thomas | Degree by exam | Church | Sweeney, Clarke | |
| Summer 2013 | CANNON, Forest | Himalayan Wintertime Climate Variability: Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Regional Precipitation | Carvalho | Bookhagen, Jones, Gautier | |
| Spring 2013 | HARRIS, Sarah May | A Comprehensive Analysis of Precipitation in Santa Barbara, California, on Hourly to Interannual Timescales | Carvalho | Bookhagen, Michaelsen, Jones | |
| Winter 2013 | NIBLETT, Timothy | The Maximal Covering/Shortest Path Problem Revisited: An Examination and Reformulation of the Problem to Allow the Elimination or Attachment of Sub-Tours | Church | Sweeney, Janowicz | |
| Winter 2013 | HANSHAW, Maiana | Glacial Areas, Lakes Areas, and Snowlines from 1975-2012: Status of the Cordillera Vilcanota, Including the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Northern Central Andes, Peru | Bookhagen | Roberts, Carvalho | |
| Winter 2013 | VITALE, Matthew | Regional Wind Power Development and System Integration; A Model for Optimal Site Selection | Church | Couclelis, Sweeney | |
| Summer 2012 | GREER, Burke | Biogeography of Aspen (Populus tremuloides) in North America: Inferring Climatic Niche Differentiation | Still | Roberts, Chris Funk, Naomi Tague | |
| Summer 2012 | DE MOOR, Emily | The Impact of Household HIV/AIDS on Fuel, Water and Subsistence Livelihoods: Evidence from the 2008-2009 Kenyan Demographic Health Survey | Chadwick | Simone Pulver (ES), Goulias | |
| Summer 2012 | BELYEA, Bree Anna | (Degree by examination) | Roberts | McFadden,Clarke | |
| Fall 2011 | CURRIER, Katharine | Auditory Representation in Spatial Applications | Goodchild | Clarke, Raubal | |
| Fall 2011 | BADER, Josh | (Degree by examination) | Goodchild | Clarke, Kyriakidis | |
| Summer 2011 | LANDGREN, Kristin | The Effect of Distance Offshore on Ocean Color and Light Quality in the Santa Barbara Channel, California | Siegel | Washburn, Brzezinski | |
| Spring 2011 | TRAN, Susan | Geographic Determinants of Intrastate Armed Conflict Duration | Clarke | Lopez-Carr, Sweeney | |
| Winter 2011 | BURTE, Heather | Individual Differences in Spatial Knowledge Acquisition: The Interaction Between Sense of Direction and Attention While Learning Real-World Environments | Montello | Raubal, Hagerty |