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Department Highlights
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Students | Undergraduate Students | Degrees
Awarded
Faculty Highlights :
- Prof. So-Min Cheong gave an invited talk entitled “Human-environment interactions in the Yellow Sea” at the Dept. of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill on Sept. 22, 2006. She was also an invited guest of the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont to participate in a week-long Ecosystem Services Conference funded by Moore Foundation from October 9-13, 2006.
- Profs. Shannon O’Lear and Steve Egbert presented an invited talk on Nov. 15, 2006 for Geography Awareness Week at the Department of Geography/Geology at Northwest Missouri State University. The talk was entitled, "Geography of Genocide: Preliminary thoughts".
- Prof. Terry Slocum attended the Association of Pacific Coast Geographer's Annual Meeting in Eugene, Oregon on Sept. 8, 2006. He was a participant in a Special Panel Session entitled "Teaching Quantitative Methods at the Dawn of the 21st Century."
- Prof. Bill Woods was a co-organizer of the Amazonian Dark Earth Soils (Terra Preta and Terra Preta Nova) session at the World Congress of Soil Science, on July 13 2006, in Philadelphia, PA. He also presented talks entitled: “A Tribute to Wim Sombroek”, and “Terra Preta Research: The pre Sombroek and Sombroek Periods”. Prof. Woods also presented a talk at the Seminário da Amazônia 2006, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, entitled “Human Influences to Soils at Occupation Sites” on August 9 2006 in Manaus, Brasil, and a talk entitled “Success or Collapse: Is It Still Our Choice?” presented at the ECM Center’s University Forum in Lawrence, KS on September 6 2006. He also conducted geoarchaeological fieldwork in Amazonas State, Brazil in August 2006.
- Prof. Garth Myers gave a talk at the conference on Maritime Heritage of the Indian Ocean in Comparative Perspective entitled “Stormy Geographies of Swahili Identity: Tumbatu Island and East Africa”. The conference was organized by the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and held in Zanzibar on July 11, 2006. He also gave a talk entitled “Representations of Mogadishu in Black Hawk Down and Nuruddin Farah’s novels,” at the Fall Faculty Colloquium on Representing the Middle East, sponsored by the KU Hall Center for the Humanities on September 18, 2006. He also conducted field research in Tanzania during June and July 2006 associated with his NSF-funded project entitled “Peri-Urban Land Reform and Political-Economic Reform in Zanzibar, Tanzania."
- Profs. William Johnson and Stephen Egbert received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct a project entitled "Mapping and Characterization of Playa Basins on the High Plains of Western Kansas and Development of a Regional Subclass-Specific Guidebook for Applying the Hydrogeomorphic (HGM) Approach to Assessing Wetland Function of Playa Basin Depressional Wetlands." The project is funded for 3 years for a total of $249,956.
- The Center for Russian, Eastern Europe and Eurasian Studies (CREES), presented Prof. Shannon O’Lear the Faculty Service Award on September 15, 2006.
- Prof. Garth Myers was recently named the co-editor of Historical Geography, an annual journal.
- Prof. David Braaten (along with Professor Gogineni of EECS) were
awarded a $19 million NSF Science & Technology Center grant to establish
the National Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets.
- Prof. Chris Brown was nominated for the H.O.P.E. award (he
is only the second from the department ever nominated for this prestigious
teaching award).
- Prof. Stephen Egbert received a second year of funding from the USGS
AmericaView program to build satellite image databases and promote remote
sensing in Kansas.
- Prof. Johan Feddema received a three-year National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) grant to work on the development of land cover change
datasets for use in GCMs.
- Prof. Peter Herlihy has co-edited a special edition of Human Organization
on Participatory Mapping of Indigenous Lands in Latin America (the edition
includes two papers by Peter).
- Prof. Bill Johnson was nominated and elected to be a Fellow in the
Geological Society of America.
- Rolfe Mandel, Courtesy Associate Professor, has received the
George "Rip" Rapp Archaeological Geology Award for his outstanding
contributions to archeological geology, and has been elected as a Fellow
of the Geological Society of America.
- Prof. Garth Myers received the Provost's International Leadership
Award.
- Prof. Kevin Price was the invited Keynote Speaker at the Grassland
Societies of Victoria and New South Wales Joint Conference in Albury,
Australia..
- Prof. Barbara Shortridge was the recipient of an Anne U. White
Fund Award (funded by the AAG) for her proposal on "Local Foodways
Knowledge in the Cutover Lands of the Upper Midwest."
- Prof. Pete Shortridge published his book entitled Cities on the Plains:
The Evolution of Urban Kansas, which has won the 2004 AAG Globe Book
award.
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Graduate Student Highlights :
- Roberto Castillo received a University of Costa Rica-KU
Exchange Grant; Roberto is now an Assistant Professor at the Univeristy
of Costa Rica.
- David Cochran was a Doktorand Fellow in Basel, Switzerland;
he is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi.
- Matt Dunbar has made three international trips: one to present
a paper on "Visualization for the Analysis of Forest Cover Change" at
an ISPRS workshop in Stuttgart, Germany, and two to assist Jerry
Dobson in creating his LandScan population base (trips to the Balkans
region and East Asia).
- Angela Gray received a Fulbright
scholorship and an AAG Dissertation Grant to support
her research trip to Eastern Province, Zambia, looking at the landscapes
and perceptions of refugee camps.
- Matt Koeppe received a major grant from the National Security
Education Program to complete his dissertation work on the growth of
mechanized soybean production in the Brazilian Amazon.
- Monika Moskal received several grants and awards, including
an AAG Dissertation Research Grant, a Grant-in-Aid from Sigma
XI (National Research Society), and the International Geographic
Information Foundation Best Student Research Proposal Award.
- Sun Park, who received a NASA Earth System Science Fellowship
and was one of our 2003 graduates, had a paper accepted in Remote Sensing
of Environment; Sun is currently an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii.
- Joel Plummer recieved a 2005 NASA Earth Systems
Science Fellowship to support his research with David Braaten
on Ice Sheet Mapping and Mass Balance Analysis.
- Sarah Smiley recieved a Fulbright
schlorship to support her Ph.D. research on "Urban Landscape Representations
in Tanzanian Popular Culture."
- Ratna Radhakrishna recently returned from field research in
Honduras, where she was funded by Fulbright and Tinker Foundation
grants.
- Matt Ramspott took second place in the Student Honors Paper
Competition at the annual AAG meeting in New Orleans in March, 2003.
- Brian Wardlow received a second year of funding on his NASA
Earth System Science Fellowship "The Development of a Near Real-Time
Mapping and Monitoring Protocol for the U.S. Great Plains Agro-Ecosystem
UsingTime-Series MODIS 250-Meter Data."
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Undergraduate Student Highlights :
- James Dietrich, was awarded a University
Honors Undergraduate Research Award to support research in
North Carolina.
- Julie Robinson, was awarded the Nelson Award, which
is awarded to our best BA student.
- Jessica Drees (BS), Matthew Stratton (BS), Peter
Gogol (BS), Sharla Lair (BA) and Adam Fisher (BA),
all shared the Starlin Award, which is open to all Geography
majors in their junior year.
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Degrees Awarded
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2007
MA
Victoria S. Downey, B.A., 2005, University of Kansas
Title: Representations of Waikiki: An Analysis of Hawaiian Tourism
Through Hotel Brochures and Websites
Advisor: Garth Myers
Stephan R. Fuchs, B.A., 2004, FAU Erlagen-Nuremberg
Title: Migration Routes and Settlement Patterns of German Immigrants in
Douglas County, Kansas, 1860-1880
Advisor: James Shortridge
Jakob A. Goldman, B.A., 1997, Syracuse University
Non-thesis option
Advisor: George McCleary
Hilary B. Hungerford, B.A., 2001, University of Northern Colorado
Title: Onitsha Market Literature and Negotiations of Modernity in Nigeria
Advisor: Garth Myers
Trisha L. Jackson, B.S., 2004, Texas State University
Title: Developing a Dataset for Simulating Urban Climate Impacts
on a Global Scale
Advisor: Johannes Feddema
R. Ryan Lash, B.A., 2003, University of Kansas
Title: Managing Malaria: Selected Maps of the 20th Century
Advisor: Garth Myers
Heather R. Putnam, B.A., 2002, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Meaning and Progress in the Fair Trade Movement
Advisor: J. Christopher Brown
Simeon Kohlman Rabbani, B.S., 1997, Graceland College
Title: Counting Populations-at-Risk: Co-Verification of Landscan
Database and Building Occupance Coefficients
Advisor: Jerome Dobson
PhD
Jared M. Beeton
B.S., 2000, Kansas State University
M.A., 2003, University of Northern Colorado
Title: Late-Quaternary Landscape Evolution and Geoarchaeology
of the Cottonwood River Basin, Flint Hills, Kansas
Advisor: Curtis Sorenson/Rolfe Mandel
Lucius F. Hallett, IV
B.A., 1999, University of New Hampshire
M.A., 2001, University of Kansas
Title: Kansas City, Modernity, and the Geographies of Food
Advisor: James Shortridge
Sarah L. Smiley
B.A., 2000, University of Cincinnati
M.A., 2003, University of Kansas
Title: Patterns of Urban Life and Urban Segregation in
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Advisor: Garth Myers
2006
MA
Mohammad Alsahli, B.A., 2003, Kuwait University
Title: Estimating Chlorophyll Concentrations of Kuwait's Coastal Environment
Using Sea WiFS and MODIS Satellite Data
Advisor: Kevin Price
Nathan W. Brinson, B.A., 2000, University of Kansas
Title: Political, Economic, and Cultural Revival in Kansas City, Kansas
Advisor: James Shortridge
Timothy J. Brock, B.A., 2004, Georgia Southern University
Title: The Brazilian Demarcation Movement: Examining the Assumptions of Indigeneity and Scale
Advisor: J. Christopher Brown
Cristin A. Burke, B.S., 2003, Bridgewater State College
Title: Territorial Cohesion in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
Advisor: Leslie Dienes
Joshua S. Campbell, B.G.S., 1999, University of Kansas
Title: Archaeological Predictive Model of Southwestern Kansas
Advisor: William C. Johnson
Amy E. Potter, B.S., 2004, University of Kansas
Title: Haiti's Identity Crisis: Representation in U.S. Newspaper Coverage
Advisor: Garth Myers
Jason M. Woods, B.A., 2004, Oklahoma State University
Title: A Historical Geography of Kansas City's Jazz District
Advisor: James Shortridge
PhD
John Thomas Bauer
B.S., 1998, Southwest Missouri State University
M.A., 2001, University of Kansas (Geography)
Title: Stability and Change in United States Religious Regions, 1980-2000
Advisor: James Shortridge
John C. Kostelnick
B.A., 1998, Iowa State University
M.A., 2000, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Title: An Interactive Mapping System for Exploring the Geography of American Religion
Advisor: Terry Slocum
Christopher W. Post
B.S., 2000, University of Oklahoma-Norman
M.A., 2003, University of Kansas (Geography)
Title: In Memory: Landscape Memorialization of the Guerilla Warfare on the Kansas-Missouri Frontier
Advisor: James Shortridge
Matthew E. Ramspott
B.S., 1995, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.A., 2000, Southwest Texas State University
Title: Remote Sensing-Based Characterization of Land Management and Biophysical Factors in Grassland: Implications for Understanding Carbon Stocks in the Plant/Soil Interface
Advisor: Kevin Price
2005
MA
Naeema Al-Hosani, B.A., 2001, United Arab Emirates University
Title: Arab Wayfinding on Land and at Sea: An Historical Comparison of Traditional Navigation Techniques
Advisor: George McCleary
C. Drew Bednasek; B.S., 2002, Northwest Missouri State
Title: British Colonial Geographies of Africa in the Early Twentieth Century
Advisor: Garth Myers
Shawna Wright Brinson, B.A., 2000, University of Kansas
Title: The Development and Preservation of Character in Downtown Lawrence, Kansas
Advisor: James Shortridge
Benjamin Coles; B.S., 2002, University of Kansas
Title: (Re)placing the Alternative Coffee Commodity Chain
Advisor: J. Christopher Brown
Matthew D. Dunbar; B.S., 2000, University of Kansas
Title: Mapping, Analyzing, and Visualizing 60 Years of Forest Cover Change
in
Northeast Kansas
Advisors: Mark Jakubauskas and Steven Egbert
Matthew S. Harman; B.S., 2002, Frostburg State University
Non-thesis option
Advisor: Xingong Li
David T. McDermott, B.A., 1979, Haverford College;
B.S., 1992, State University of New York at Albany
Title: Political Economics and the Location of Domestic Coal Mining
Advisor: J. Christopher Brown
Casey J. McLaughlin; B.S., 1999, Minnesota State University
Title: Up-scaling Local Nutrient Budgets Using Global Typology: Linking
Local
Budgets with Global Data Sets
Advisor: Robert McColl
Rex J. Rowley; B.S., 2002, Brigham Young University
Title: Insuring the Range: Toward a Crop Insurance Program for Rangeland
and
Pasture
Advisor: Kevin Price
Abigail R. Varner; B.S., 2000, Michigan State University
Title: Soil Signatures of the Santa Fe Trail in Douglas County and Morton
County,
Kansas
Advisor: Bill Johnson
Ph.D.
David M. Cochran, Jr.
B.A., 1990, University of Texas at Austin
M.A., 1995, George Washington University
Title: The Sustainability of Shifting Cultivation in Rain Forest Conservation: Participatory Mapping the Cultural Geography of Native Peoples in the Rio Plantano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras
Advisor: Peter Herlihy
Matthew T. Koeppe
B.A., 1998, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
M.A., 2000, University of Kansas (Latin American Studies)
Title: Environment, Urbanization, and the Rise of Mechanized Agriculture in Southeastern Rondonia, Brazil
Advisor: J. Christopher Brown
Ludmila Monika Moskal
B.S., 1996, University of Waterloo
M.S., 2000, University of Calgary
Title: Spatiotemporal Modeling of Post-Disturbance Forest Regeneration
in the Yellowstone National Park Region
Advisors: Mark Jakubauskas and Kevin Price
Brian D. Wardlow
B.S., 1994, Northwest Missouri State University
M.A., 1996, Kansas State University
Title: An Evaluation of Time-Series MODIS 250-Meter Vegetation Index Data for Crop Mapping in the U.S. Central Great Plains
Advisor: Stephen Egbert
2004
MA
Gabriella Noelle Blair
Title: Soil Erosion on Chained and Unchained
Slopes in the Garden Park Valley of South Central Colorado: A Comparative
Analysis
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Bill Johnson, Chris Brown
Jennifer Ann Claybrook
Title: Evolution of an Urban Fringe Landscape:
The Case of Piper, Kansas
Committee: Barbara Shortridge (Chair), Pete Shortridge, Garth Myers
Patrick C. Taylor
Non-thesis option
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Xingong Li, Terry Slocum
Julie S. Morris
Title: Colonial Ambivalence and Women's Negotiated
Moralities on the Zambian Copperbelt
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Johan Feddema, Steve Egbert
Ph.D.
Clayton Friedrich Blodgett
Title: Geostatistical Modeling of Lodgepole
Pine Basal Area in Grand Teton National Park with Geostatistical Techniques
and Satellite Imagery
Committee: Kevin Price (Co-Chair), Chris Lauber (Co-Chair); Steve Egbert,
Terry Slocum, Doug Walker
Mark Daniel Lynn Carper
Title: Household Energy Management Strategies
in Bulgaria's Transitioning Energy Sector
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Leslie Dienes, Barbara Shortridge, Paul
D'Anieri, Eric Hanley
Cameron K. McCormick
Title: Geography of Rural Water Development
in Northern Cameroon
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Chris Brown, Johan Feddema, Curt Sorenson,
Peter Ukopokodu
Laura Moley McClain
Title: The Look of Overland Park: Landscape
Creation and Meaning in an American Suburban Environment
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Terry Slocum, Curt Sorenson, Barbara
Shortridge, Mike Swann
Roberto Castillo Vasquez
Title: An Ethnogeography of
the Maleku Indigenous Peoples in Northern Costa Rica
Committee: Peter Herlihy (Chair), Bob McColl, Bob Nunley, Charles Stansifer,
Anita Herzfeld
2003
MA
Kurt Davis
Title: Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer Water Reserves in Western
Kansas
Committee: George McCleary (Chair), Bill Johnson, Bob Nunley
Angela M. Gray
Title: Critical Geopolitics of African Displacement
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Pete Shortridge, Chris Brown
Willem Hans Aemstel Helms
Title: Identification and Mapping of Senicea
Lespedeza (Lespedeza Cuenata) Using Spectral and Textural Analysis
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Kevin Price, Mark Jakubauskas
Brianna N. (Mercier) Mosiman
Title: Exploring Multi-Temporal and Transformation
Methods for Improved Cropland Classification Using Landsat Thematic Mapper
Imagery
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Kevin Price, Terry Slocum
Christopher W. Post
Title: Company Town on the Plains: Sunflower
Village, Kansas, from 1942 to 1959
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Garth Myers, Barbara Shortridge
Carleen A. Roberts
Non-thesis option
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Terry Slocum, Garth Myers
Rachel M. Saifullah
Non-thesis option
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Johan Feddema, Bob McColl, Surendra Bhana
Peder Thomas Sandhei
Title: Effects of Land Use on the
Concentration of Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Global Stream
Systems
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Bob Buddemeier, John Dunham
Sarah Leanne Smiley
Title: Differences Between International Financial
Institution, Non-Governmental Organization, and Ugandan Perspectives Toward
the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Relief Initiative
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Chris Brown, Pete Shortridge
Min Yang Teh
Non-thesis option
Committee: George McCleary (Chair), Bob McColl, Bob Nunley
Ph.D.
Hugh H. Howard
Title: Development of an Expert System for Cartographic Design Education
Committee: Terry Slocum (Chair), Jerry Dobson, Johan Feddema, Curt Sorenson,
Jim Miller
Mohamed A. Mohamed
Title: Urban Growth Through
Time and Space: A Comparison Study of the Role of Planners in Dealing with
Sprawl in Lawrence, Kansas, and Zanzibar, Tanzania
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Terry Slocum, Pete Shortridge, Barbara Shortridge,
Peter Ukopokodu
Sun-Yurp Park
Title: Determination of
Modis Thermal Response Patterns from Land Surfaces and Their Relationship
with Climatic Factors for Drought Monitoring in the Central Great Plains
Committee: Steve Egbert (Co-Chair), Johan Feddema (Co-Chair), Kevin Price,
Mark Jakubauskas, Ed Martinko
Derek A. Smith
Title:
Hunting, Habitat, and Indigenous Settlement Patterns: A Geographic Analysis
of Bugle Wildlife Use in Western Panama
Committee: Peter Herlihy (Chair), Garth Myers, Bob Nunley, Bart Dean, Robert
Timm
2002
MA
Peter J. DeVincentis
Title: The Perception of Irregularly
Textured Patterns on Maps: Mezzotint
Committee: George McCleary (Chair), Terry Slocum, Bob McColl
Bruce C. Evans
Non-thesis option
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Bill Johnson, Rolfe Mandel
James A. Schneider, III
Non-thesis option
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Rolfe Mandel, Bill Johnson
Ph.D.
Jeremy S. Dillon
Title: Soils and Soil-Forming Processes in a Cool-Dry Environment: The Upper
Green River Basin, Western Wyoming, U.S.A.
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Rolfe Mandel, Terry Slocum, Michel Ransom,
Elizabeth McClellan
Soren C. Larsen
Title: Modernization
and Sense of Place in a Rural Region of Northern British Columbia
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Peter Herlihy, Garth Myers, Barbara
Shortridge, Rita Napier
Enrique Martinez-Meyer
Title:
Evolutionary Trends in Ecological Niches of Species
Committee: Kevin Price (Co-Chair), Town Peterson (Co-Chair), Steve Egbert,
Bob Timm, Leonard Krishtalka
Miguel A. Ortega-Huerta
Title: Analyzing Spatial Patterns of Biodiversity, Landscape Fragmentation,
and Land Ownership Regimes in Northeastern Mexico
Committee: Kevin Price (Co-Chair), Town Peterson (Co-Chair), Steve Egbert,
Bob Nunley, Ed Martinko
Peter A. Sam, Jr.
Title: Indoor
Air Pollution Assessment within Selected Residential Areas in the Great
Accra-Tema Metropolitan Region, Ghana, West Africa
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Terry Slocum, Johan Feddema, Val Smith,
Stacy Swearingen-White
David E. Schul
Title: Community
Pride in American Small Towns
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Barbara Shortridge, Garth Myers, Jim
Mayo, Mike Swann
Langdon Smith, Jr.
Title: The Democratization
of Nature: State Park Development During the New Deal
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Barbara Shortridge, Garth Myers, Peter
Herlihy, Don Worster
Fangfang Yu
Title: Climate-Ecosystem
Interactions on East-Asian Steppes: An Analysis of Vegetation Responses
to Climate Variability with Remote Sensing Data
Committee: Kevin Price (Chair), Steve Egbert, Mark Jakubauskas, Ed Martinko,
Hanqin Tian
2001
MA
Craig
A. Davis
Title: Export Processing Zones in the Dominican Republic and
Jamaica
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Pete Shortridge, Peter Herlihy
John T. Bauer
Title: Settlement of Illinois
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Terry Slocum, Johan Feddema
Ryan P. Boyce
Title: A Landscape Ecology Study of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken
(Tympanuchus Pallidicinctus) in Kansas Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery
Committee: Kevin Price (Chair), Ed Martinko, Chris Lauver
David
A. Chipman
Nonthesis option
Committee: Bob Nunley (Chair), Bob McColl, George McCleary
Lucius F. Hallett, IV
Title: The Production of Jam in Southern Coastal
Maine: A Sense-of-Place Study
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Barbara Shortridge, Garth Myers
Blaine Ray
Title: Journey to Crime Analysis of Phoenix, Arizona
Committee: Dave Bennett (Chair), Terry Slocum, Barbara Shortridge
Jason P. Shields
Title: Simulating the Migration and Development
of the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus Plexippus)
Committee: Johan Feddema (Chair), Dave Bennett, Kevin Price
Ph.D.
Robert John (Jack)
Livingston
Title: Conservation and Deforestation in the British West
Indies: The Case of St. Vincent
Committee: Garth Myers (Chair), Curt Sorenson, Bill Johnson, Pete Shortridge,
Charles Stansifer
Richard O. Sleezer
Title: Groundwater
Vulnerability to Nitrate Pollution From Non-Point Sources in Harvey County,
Kansas
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Bill Johnson, Bob Buddemeier, Gerard Kluitenberg,
Ross Black, Marios Sophocleous
2000
MA
Joshua
C. Artman
Title: A Predictive Vegetation Model for Mexico Using Globally
Available Climatic and Terrestrial Data Sets
Committee: Bob Buddemeier (Chair), Steve Egbert, Bob Nunley
Mary R. Gage
Title: Agri-Tainment in the United States: A Case Study
of the Pendelton=s Corn Maze
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Barbara Shortridge, Curt Sorenson
Dietrich Kastens
Title: Forecasting Winter Wheat Yields in
Kansas Using Time-Series Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data
Committee: Kevin Price (Chair), Steve Egbert, Terry Slocum, Terry Kastens
Michael E. Houts
Title: Modeling Gray Wolf Habitat in
the Northern Rocky Mountains
Committee: Steve Egbert (Chair), Dave Bennett, Kevin Price
Elizabeth Jacoby Kelley
Title: Comparing Readability of Cartograms
and Graduated Circle Maps
Committee: George McCleary (Chair), Leslie Dienes, Bob Nunley
Robert A. Ore
Non-thesis option
Committee: George McCleary (Chair), Bob Nunley, Bob McColl
Jill C. Riffer
Title: Assessing the Relationship in Eastern Kansas
Between Quail and Cottontail Population Trends and Vegetation Phenology
Metrics Derived from Time-Series AVHRR Satellite Imagery
Committee: Kevin Price (Chair), Terry Slocum, Steve Egbert, Roger Applegate
Matthew R. Sampson
Title: Stream Response to Channelization;
The Case History of the West Nishnabotna River, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Committee: Curt Sorenson (Chair), Bill Johnson, John Gosse
Kevin L. Spradlin
Title: An Evaluation of User Attitudes Toward Classed
and Unclassed Choropleth Maps
Committee: Terry Slocum (Chair), Pete Shortridge, Barbara Shortridge
John H. Teeple
Title: Cognitive Geography: Meaning and Metaphor
in the Making of Geographical Knowledge
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Garth Myers, Curt Sorenson
Ph.D.
Phil J. Englehart
Title: Postwar Changes in the Urban Midwest: Different Views of Familiar
Territory
Committee: Bob Nunley (Chair), Bob Wiseman, Alan Black, Dennis Wallace,
Mike Swann
Pinde Fu
Title: A Geometric Solar Radiation
Model with Applications in Landscape Ecology
Committee: Kevin Price (Co-Chair), Paul Rich (Co-Chair), Bob McColl, Steve
Egbert, Robert Holt
Jerry A. Griffith
Title: Interrelationships
Among Landscapes, NDVI, and Stream Water Quality in the U.S. Central Plains
Committee: Kevin Price (Co-Chair), Ed Martinko (Co-Chair), Steve Egbert,
Don Huggins, Jerry Denoyelles
Xulin Guo
Title: Spectral
and Biophysical Characteristics of Cool Versus Warm Season Grasslands under
Various Management Practices in Eastern Kansas
Committee: Kevin Price (Chair), Steve Egbert, Dave Bennett, Paul Rich, Ed
Martinko
Michael G. Noll
Title: Prince Maximilian's
America: The Narrated Landscapes of a German Explorer and Naturalist
Committee: Pete Shortridge (Chair), Garth Myers, Peter Herlihy, Curt Sorenson,
Don Worster, David Wishart
Jue Wang
Title: Relations
Between Productivity, Climate, and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
in the Central Great Plains
Committee: Kevin Price (Co-Chair), Paul Rich (Co-Chair), Bob Nunley, Dean
Kettle, Robert Holt
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