Department Highlights

Faculty | Graduate 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