Degrees Awarded Dissertations, thesis, and non-thesis MAs completed during the 2001-02 period are as follows (advisor in parenthesis): Ryan Boyce, MA "A Landscape Ecology Study of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus Pallidinctus) in Kansas Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery" (Kevin Price) David Chipman, MA, Non-thesis (Bob Nunley) Jeremy Dillon, PhD, "Soils and Soil-Forming Processes in a Cool-Dry Environment: The Upper Green River Basin, Western Wyoming, U.S.A." (Curt Sorenson) Lucius Hallett, MA "The Production of Jam in Southern Coastal Maine: A Sense-of-Place Study" (Pete Shortridge) Soren Larsen, PhD, "Modernization and Sense of Place in a Rural Region of North British Columbia" (Pete Shortridge) Jack Livingston, PhD, "Conservation and Deforestion in the British West Indies: The Case of St. Vincent" (Garth Myers) Enrique Martinez-Meyer, PhD, "Evolutionary Trends in Ecological Niches of Species" (Kevin Price) Peter Sam, PhD, "Indoor Air Pollution Assessment within Selected Residential Areas in the Great Accra-Tema Metropolitan Region, Ghana, West Africa" (Garth Myers) James (Jed) Schneider, MA, Non-thesis (Curt Sorenson) David Schul, PhD, "Community Pride in American Small Towns" (Pete Shortridge) Langdon Smith, PhD, "The Democratization of Nature: State Park Development During the New Deal" (Pete Shortridge) Fangfang Yu, PhD, "Climate-Ecosystem Interactions on East-Asian Steppes: An Analysis of Vegetation Responses to Climate Variability with Remote Sensing Data" (Kevin Price) Return to Table of Contents