Dissertations from 2024
Studying Lake Surface Temperature Variabilities at Regional and Global Scales Using Remote Sensing and In-situ Observations, Abdou Rachid Bah
Learning from Their Flocks: Analyses of Power on Hudson River Valley Livestock Farms, Mark D. D'Alessandro
The Core of it All: From the Forest to the Concrete Jungle, Ayo Andra J. Deas
Race, Rebellion, and Counterinsurgency: California's Supermax Prisons, Stephen Jones
The Early Late Miocene Cessation of Deep and Intermediate Water Circulation through the Central American Seaway, Benjamin Stanley Kwiatkowski
Integration of Field- and Space-Based Observations Toward Assessing Drivers of Biogeochemical Variability Across Vulnerable Coastal Ecosystems, Alana B. Menendez
"A Spirit of Disobedience": Black Women Freedom Runners and the Collective Practice of Abolition, Delice Mugabo
Understanding Climate Change Adaptation and Gentrification through the Framework of Uneven Coastal Development in Keansburg, New Jersey, Zachary Paganini
Trees in Urban Environments: How Soil Quality Impacts Tree Performance, Saidan Qi
Towards Sociobiogeochemistry: Critical Perspectives on Anthropogenic Alterations to Soil Nitrogen Chemistry via U.S. Urban and Suburban Development, Christopher D. Ryan
Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Population Social Vulnerability and Risk: A Spatial Analysis Based on the 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) of India, Paradorn Wongchanapai
Dissertations from 2023
Uncertainties in Retrieval of Remote Sensing Reflectance from Ocean Color Satellite Observations, Eder I. Herrera Estrella
Untangling the Nature and Timescales of Magmatic Processes Driving Eruptions at Quiescent Volcanoes: Examples from Momotombo, Nicaragua, and Cumbre Vieja, Canary Islands, Samantha Tramontano
Dissertations from 2022
Unraveling the Geographies of the U.S. Public Education System: An Analysis of Scale, Segregation, and Hegemony, Olivia Ildefonso
Expulsive Greening: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Green Gentrification in The Resilience Paradigm, Brooklyn 2010–2020, Rose Jimenez
A Labor of Livingness: Oral Histories of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women, Robin McGinty
Nutrient Dynamics and Ecosystem Development of Urban Forests, Gisselle A. Mejía
The Interaction of Different Primary Producers and Physical and Chemical Dynamics of an Urban Shallow Lake, Majid Sahin
Understanding Coastal and Inland Hydrometeorological Hazards Produced by Extratropical and Tropical Cyclones along the East Coast of the United States, Katherine Towey
Dissertations from 2021
Frozen in Time: A Numerical Modeling Approach to the Study of Ice Bearing Planetesimals through Carbonaceous Chondrites, Jasmine M. Bayron
A Geospatial Habitat Suitability Model to Determine the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ulva Blooms in Jamaica Bay, New York, Kristine T. Erskine John
Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics of a Lagoon Salt Marsh in Davenport, California, Mark D. Gormley
Plotting on the Plot in Hispaniola: A 16th Century (Dis)continuous Black Land Story and the Insistent Unsettling Crisis of the New World, Allison Marie Guess
Producing Movement Space in New York City's Solidarity Economy, Lauren Taylor Hudson
Hybrid EthnoBotanical Practices: Afro and Indigenous Place-Making in the Contemporary Colombia Andean Pacific, Rafael A. Mutis Garcia
Displacing the Border: Refugees, Law, and Geography in Turkey, Mert Peksen
A Discursive Geography of Repair: Exploring Regional and National Claims for Reparative Justice in the Caribbean, Zaira S. Simone
Microstructural Characteristics of Deformed Quartz Under Non-Steady-State Conditions, Hamidreza Soleymani
Dissertations from 2020
Informing on Crop Water-Use, Stress, and Growth with Integrated Satellite Remote Sensing and Modeling, Aaron Davitt
Applying a Systems Approach to the Legacy of Lead in Soil, Sara Perl Egendorf
Evaluating Satellite-Based Sea Surface Temperatures, In Situ Observations, and Coral Symbioses in Southwestern Puerto Rico, Andrea Michelle Gomez
Characterizing Surface Water from Space with Microwave Remote Sensing: Advancing Conventional and Emerging Approaches, Katherine Jensen
The Emergence of Ecosystems-Based Fisheries Management from the Groundfish Crisis in New England: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis, Catherine King
A Defense and Expansion of the Theory of Capitalist Ground Rent: Speculation, Securitization, and Struggles Over Land and Housing, Francesca Manning
Oceanic Groundings: Maritime Geographies and Black Internationalism in the Early Twentieth Century, Maegan A. Miller
How to Break an Addiction: A Case for Planetary Post-Capitalist Recovery, Ann Marie (Annie) Spencer
Labor, Land Use, and the Luxury City, Samuel Stein
Dissertations from 2019
Rails to Revolution: Railroads, Railroad Workers and the Geographies of the Mexican Revolution, Hector Agredano
Wind Flow Dynamics over Complex Terrain, Eric Kutter
The Water/Energy Nexus: Climate, Consumption and Ecosystem Services, Hildegaard D. Link
The Role of Fluids in Ore Remobilization at the Balmat Zinc Deposit, NY, Peter D. Matt
Little Siberia, Star of the North: Prisons, Crisis, and Development in Rural New York, 1968–1994, Jack Norton
Lead and Arsenic Contamination in Urban Soils in New York City, Anna Paltseva
The Contested Terrain of the Louisiana Carceral State: Dialectics of Southern Penal Expansion, 1971–2016, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Abrupt Climate Transitions, Christine J. Ramadhin
Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form, Shemon Salam
Market Making: Crises and the Global Production of Shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Elizabeth A. Sibilia
“How to Lose the Hounds”: Tracing the Relevance of Marronage for Contemporary Anti-Police Struggles, Celeste Winston
Dissertations from 2018
Aluminum-26: A Canonized Cosmochemical Conundrum, John Anton
Investigation of Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Greenhouse Gas Production in the Urban Hudson River Estuary, Brian Alan Brigham
The Production of Space: Indigenous Resistance Movements in the Peruvian Amazon, Christian Calienes
Ulva spp. Bloom Dynamics in a Hyper-Eutrophic Estuary: Jamaica Bay, New York, Annesia Lamb
Taxonomy, Taphonomy, and Bioerosion of Lamniform and Carcharhiniform Shark Teeth from Onslow Bay, North Carolina and an Example Extension from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the U.S.A., Harry M. Maisch IV
Evidence of the 1762 Arakan and Prior Earthquakes in the Northern Sunda Subduction, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal
Seasonal Characterization of New York City Urban Thermal Environment, Spiridon Papanikolaou
Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon, Deen S. Sharp
From Prison to Homeless Shelter: Camp LaGuardia and the Political Economy of an Urban Infrastructure, Christian D. Siener
Impacts of Climate Extremes on Terrestrial Productivity, Suhua Wei
Dissertations from 2017
The Formation of Fine-Grained Chondrule Rims in Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrites, John Bigolski
Beyond the Obvious: Emerging Contaminants and Biogeochemistry as a Cause and Solution for Nitrogen Pollution, Stephanie L. DeVries
Removal of Organic Micro-Pollutants from Water Using Sewage Sludge Based Composite Adsorbents, Rui Ding
Capture and Abandon: Social Reproduction and Informal Land Tenure in Jamaica, Rachel Goffe
Impact of Urbanization on Temperature Variation in Big Cities: Measuring Health Risk While Targeting Vulnerable Population, Maryam E. Karimi
The Role of Dietary Highly Unsaturated n-3 Fatty Acids in Northern Quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria, Through Decreasing Temperature, Sixto E. Portilla
Land Change History of Oil Palm Plantations in Northern Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island, Reconstructed from Landsat Satellite Archives, Atsushi Tomita
Dissertations from 2016
Guidance Index for Shallow Landslide Hazard Analysis, Cheila Cullen
Increasing Accessibility for Map Readers with Acquired and Inherited Color Vision Deficiencies: A Re-Coloring Algorithm for Maps, Gretchen M. Culp
Lessons from the Past: Unfolding the Dynamics among Climate, Balkan Landscapes, and Humans over the Past Millennium, Charuta J. Kulkarni
Geographies of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, and the Militarization of Hawai'i, Laurel Turbin Mei-Singh
Institutionalizing Environmental Justice: Race, Place, and the National Environmental Policy Act, Keith K. Miyake
Exploring Sewage Sludge/Fish Waste-Based Materials As Adsorbents Of Pharmaceuticals From Water Phase, Lilja Nielsen
Re-framing Informal Family Caregiving, Magdalena T. Ornstein-Sloan
Living Infrastructure: Being, Time, and Government in New York City, Stephanie Diane Wakefield
Comprehensive Mass Balance Isotope Schematics for Determining the Provenance of the Moon Forming Impactor., John C. Wolbeck
Dissertations from 2015
Assessing Greenland Ice Sheet Albedo and Mass Balance Variability Using In-Situ Data, Spaceborne Observations and Regional Model Outputs, Patrick Michael Alexander
American Dreamer: First-Time Homeownership and the Affective Geographies of Dwelling, Stephen Boatright
Carbon Emission Policy In The United States: State Patchwork Vs. National Policy, Samuel T. Frank
Aerosol and Urban Heat Island Effects on Warm Cloud-Top Shortwave Infrared Reflectance and Visible Albedo, Heather Glickman-Eliezer
Microfossils as proxies for Holocene climate in semi-enclosed basins: the Hudson River estuary, New York, USA and the Marmara Sea, Turkey, Damayanti Gurung
The State of the Oligocene Icehouse World: Sedimentology, Provenance, and Stable Isotopes of Marine Sediments from the Antarctic Continental Margin, Daniel William Hauptvogel
Super Fun Superfund: Polluted Protection Along the Gowanus Canal, Jessica Ty Miller
Health Exposure, Socio-Economic Vulnerability, and Infrastructure at Risk to Current and Projected Coastal Flooding in New York City, Lesley Patrick
Eastern Tropical Pacific Climate And El Niño Variability During The Past Millennium, Gerald Thomas Rustic
Effects of Aerosol on Cloud Water Path: Statistical Method a Potential Source for Divergence in Observation-based Correlative Studies, Ousmane Sy Savane
Resettling the City? Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Land in Winnipeg, Canada, Owen Toews
Dissertations from 2014
The Amphibious Public: A historical geography of municipal swimming and bathing New York City, 1870 - 2013, Naomi Miriam Adiv
Historical Relationships between Land Elevation and Socioeconomic Status in New York City: A Mixed Methods GIS Approach, Jennifer Brisbane