Dissertations: Recently Completed 

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2010 |2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 

2010

• Title: A Reduced Parameter Stream Temperature Model (RPSTM) for Fluvial Ecosystem Forecasting
  Student:Cheng, Su-Ting
  Advisors: Wiley, Diana
• Title: Integrating Science and Policy: Climate Change Assessments and Water Resources Management
  Student: Kirchhoff, Christine
  Advisors: Bulkley, Lemos
• Title: Pursuing Environmental Justice Through Collaboration: Insights from Experience
  Student: Lashley, Sarah
  Advisors: Wondolleck, Taylor
• Title: Adaptation to Extreme Droughts in Arizona, Georgia, and South Carolina: Evaluating Adaptive Capacity and Innovative Planning and Management Approaches for States and Their Community Water Systems
  Student: Engle, Nathan
  Advisors: Bierbaum, Lemos

2009

• Title: Intra-Specific Life History Variation of Great Lakes Fishes: Environmental and Fisheries-Induced Selection
  Student: Wang, Hui-Yu 
  Advisors: Hook, Low
• Title: The Effects of Turbulance on Habitat Selection and Swimming Kinematics of Fishes
  Student: Tritico, Hans
  Advisors: Webb, Cotel
• Title:  Secondary Students' us of Social and Natural World Information in a Land Use Decision Context
  Student: Kumler, Lori
  Advisor: Zint
• Title:  Impacts of Adfluvial Spawners on Ecology of Great Lakes Tributaries
  Student: Ivan, Lori
  Advisors: Allan, Rutherford
• Title:  Fish Communities and Conservation of Aquatic Landscapes in Northeastern Mesoamerica
  Student: Esselman, Peter
  Advisor: Allan
• Title: Oak Forests, Lopping, and the Transformation of Rural Society in Central Himalaya, India
  Student: Makino, Yuka
  Advisors: Barnes, Witter
• Title: "Our Battles Also Changed": Transformation and Black Empowerment in South African National Parks, 1991-2008
  Student: Maguranyanga, Brian
  Advisor: Lemos, Brechin
• Title: Sustainable Pavement Asset Mngmt based on Life Cycle Models and Optimization Models
  Student: Zhang, Han
  Advisor: Keoleian 

2008 

• Title: Greener Grass?  Factors Related to Reducing Environmental Impacts of Lawn Care Companies 
  Student: McDade, Keith 
  Advisors: Kaplan, R.,DeYoung, R.   
• Title: Avian Populations in Human Dominated landscapes: An Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics at the Rural-Urban Interface 
  Student: Taylor, Jason 
  Advisor: Brown  
• Title: Water, Economic Growth, and Conflict: Three Studies 
  Student: Katz, David 
  Advisors: Moore,Princen  
• Title: Hopes and Opportunities for Inner City Residents: Temporal and Spatial Assessment of Racial and Socioeconomic Conditions of Neighborhoods Adjacent to Brownfields in the Detroit Metro Area 
  Student: Lee, Sangyun 
  Advisor: Mohai
• Title: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Error in Land Cover Change Analyses: Identifying and Propagating Uncertainty for Ecological Monitering and Modeling 
  Student: Burnicki, Amy 
  Advisor: Brown  
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• Title: Planning for Open Space Conservation: Using GIS to match Cultural Values and Ecological Equality of Open Spaces 
  Student: Wang, Zhifang 
  Advisor: Nassauer
• Title: Effects of Natural Disturbances Caused by the Siberian Moth, Dendrolimus Superans Sibiricus (Tschetverikov), and Fire on the Dynamics of Boreal Forests in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia 
  Student: Buck, James 
  Advisors: Witter, Perfecto
• Title: Michigan Stream Fish: Distribution Models, Future Predictions, and Urban Impacts
  Student: Steen, Paul 
  Advisor: Wiley
• Title: Aligning Identity: Social Identity and Changing Context in Community-Based Environmental Conflict 
  Student: Bryan, Todd 
  Advisor: Wondolleck
• Title: Energy Emissions Mitigation Using Green Roofs: Probabalistic Analysis and Integration in Market-Based Clean Air Policies 
  Student: Clark, Corrie 
  Advisors: Adriens, P.,Talbot, B.
• Title: Carbon Dioxide Based Metal Working Fluids 
  Student: Clarens, Andres 
  Advisors: Keoleian, Hayes, K., Skerlos, S.  

2007

• Title: Adoption of Residential Green Building Practices: Understanding the Role of Familiarity. 
  Student: Scheuer,Christopher Wilkinson 
  Advisors: DeYoung, Kaplan  
• TItle: Effects of Predator Avoidance Behaviors and Preferred Shelter on Predation of Flamefish, Apogon Maculatus (Apogonidae). 
  Student: Minton,Scott T 
  Advisor: Webb  
• Title: Nutrient Loading to Lake Michigan:  A Mass Balance Assessment 
  Student: Han, Haejin 
  Advisor: Allan  
• Title: The Causes and Effects of the Alternative Motor Fuels Act. 
  Student: Liu,Yimin 
  Advisor: Helfand  
• Title: The Influence of Impoundments on the Transport and Fate of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in two Southeastern Michigan River Catchments. 
  Student: Bosch,Nathan S 
  Advisors: Allan, Johengen  
• Title: Changing Primary Production and Biomass in Heterogeneous
  Landscapes: Estimation and Uncertainty Based on Multi-scale Remote Sensing and GIS 
  Student: Zhao, Tingting 
  Advisor: D. Brown, Bergen  
• Title: Effects of Management Intensification on Coccids and Parasitic Hymenopterans in Coffee Agroecosystems in Mexico. 
  Student: Uno,Shinsuke 
  Advisor: Perfecto  
• Title: Predators of Aphids in Cacao Plantations in Brazil: Effectiveness inBiological Control and Mechanisms of Coexistence. 
  Student: Silva,Evandro do Nascimento 
  Advisor: Perfecto  
• Title: Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions: Northern Hardwood Seedling Responses to Anthropogenic Atmospheric Resource Alteration. 
  Student: Sefcik,Lesley Taylor 
  Advisors: Ellsworth, Zak  
• Title: BRIDGING JURISDICTIONAL DIVIDES:  Collective Action through A Joint Strategic Plan for Management of Great Lakes Fisheries. 
  Student: Gaden,Marc E 
  Advisor: Rabe  
• 
  Title: The Causes and Effects of the Alternative Motor Fuels Act. 
  Student: Liu,Yimin 
  Advisor: Helfand  
• Title: We're Here and We're Not Leaving: Framing, Politics, and Community Response to Gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area. 
  Student: Gin, June L. 
  Advisor: Taylor  

2006

• Title: Factors Influencing Diet and Prey Selection of the Sculpin Cottus cognatus and Myoxocephalus thompsonii. 
  Student: Hondorp,Darryl Wayne 
  Advisors: Rutherford, Brandt  
• Title: Mitigation of Microclimate Variation through Agroforestry: ProtectingCoffee Agriculture from the Impacts of Climate Change. 
  Student: Lin, Brenda 
  Advisor: Perfecto 
• Title: Carabid Beetle Activity-Density and Diversity in Northern Hardwood Forests of Michigan. 
  Student: Petrillo, Holly 
  Advisor: Witter  
• Title: Toward Regional- to Continental-Scale Estimates of Vegetation Canopy Height:  An Empirical Approach Based on Data from the Shuttle RadarTopography Mission. 
  Student: Walker,Wayne S 
  Advisor: Pierce, Barnes  
• Title: Population Genetics and Local Adaptation in a Cyclically ParthenogenticAquatic Invertebrate:  An Examination of the Population Response of Daphnia pulex to Contamination by De-icing Road Salt. 
  Student: Ladin,Loren Guerrero 
  Advisor: Burch
• Title: Continuity and Resistance:  Central Vermont Farmers' Motivations forCultivating Heirloom Vegetables. 
  Student: Nickerson,Virginia 
  Advisor: West, Perfecto  
• Title: Political-Economic Transitions and Environmental Change in Micronesian Island States:  A Case Study in the Republic of Palau. 
  Student: Piazza,Millicent Mei-Ling 
  Advisor: Mohai