As of 2014, all newly submitted Graduate Center dissertations and theses appear in Academic Works shortly after graduation. Some works are immediately available to read and download, and some become available after an embargo period set by the author. Dissertations and theses from before 2014 are generally accessible only to the CUNY community, but some authors have chosen to make theirs open access.

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Dissertations from 2024

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Using a Novel Chain of Chemical, Crystallographic, and Isotopic Analytical Techniques to Examine the Formation Histories of Features in Chondritic Meteorites and Orbicular Granites, Samuel P. Alpert

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Studying Lake Surface Temperature Variabilities at Regional and Global Scales Using Remote Sensing and In-situ Observations, Abdou Rachid Bah

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Learning from Their Flocks: Analyses of Power on Hudson River Valley Livestock Farms, Mark D. D'Alessandro

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The Core of it All: From the Forest to the Concrete Jungle, Ayo Andra J. Deas

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Race, Rebellion, and Counterinsurgency: California's Supermax Prisons, Stephen Jones

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The Early Late Miocene Cessation of Deep and Intermediate Water Circulation through the Central American Seaway, Benjamin Stanley Kwiatkowski

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Integration of Field- and Space-Based Observations Toward Assessing Drivers of Biogeochemical Variability Across Vulnerable Coastal Ecosystems, Alana B. Menendez

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"A Spirit of Disobedience": Black Women Freedom Runners and the Collective Practice of Abolition, Delice Mugabo

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Understanding Climate Change Adaptation and Gentrification through the Framework of Uneven Coastal Development in Keansburg, New Jersey, Zachary Paganini

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Trees in Urban Environments: How Soil Quality Impacts Tree Performance, Saidan Qi

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Towards Sociobiogeochemistry: Critical Perspectives on Anthropogenic Alterations to Soil Nitrogen Chemistry via U.S. Urban and Suburban Development, Christopher D. Ryan

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Black Food Geographies and the Politics of Resistance in the Brick City. An Intersectional Analysis of Black Food Provisioning Practices, Food Access, and Racial Food Inequities in Newark, New Jersey from 1666 – 2020, Angelika Winner

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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

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Characterization of Boreal-Arctic Vegetation Growth Phases and Active Soil Layer Dynamics in the High-Latitudes of North America: A Study Combining Multi-Year In Situ and Satellite-Based Observations, Michael G. Brown

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Uncertainties in Retrieval of Remote Sensing Reflectance from Ocean Color Satellite Observations, Eder I. Herrera Estrella

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Remote Sensing Characterization of Ecosystem Structure and Functional Types to Inform on Biodiversity Conservation in the Lowland Chocó Rainforest, Derek Tesser

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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

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Unraveling the Geographies of the U.S. Public Education System: An Analysis of Scale, Segregation, and Hegemony, Olivia Ildefonso

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Expulsive Greening: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Green Gentrification in The Resilience Paradigm, Brooklyn 2010–2020, Rose Jimenez

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A Labor of Livingness: Oral Histories of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women, Robin McGinty

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Nutrient Dynamics and Ecosystem Development of Urban Forests, Gisselle A. Mejía

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The Interaction of Different Primary Producers and Physical and Chemical Dynamics of an Urban Shallow Lake, Majid Sahin

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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

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Frozen in Time: A Numerical Modeling Approach to the Study of Ice Bearing Planetesimals through Carbonaceous Chondrites, Jasmine M. Bayron

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A Geospatial Habitat Suitability Model to Determine the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Ulva Blooms in Jamaica Bay, New York, Kristine T. Erskine John

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Constructing the Adaptation Economy in Antigua, West Indies: A Grounded Analysis of Framing Climate Resilient Development Within A Post-Colonial Political Economy, Erin Friedman

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Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics of a Lagoon Salt Marsh in Davenport, California, Mark D. Gormley

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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

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Producing Movement Space in New York City's Solidarity Economy, Lauren Taylor Hudson

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The Legacy of Car-Share and Light-Rail Transit for Mobility and Accessibility Improvements in Economically Marginalized Neighborhoods in the New York Metro Area, Kyeongsu Kim

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Hybrid EthnoBotanical Practices: Afro and Indigenous Place-Making in the Contemporary Colombia Andean Pacific, Rafael A. Mutis Garcia

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Displacing the Border: Refugees, Law, and Geography in Turkey, Mert Peksen

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A Discursive Geography of Repair: Exploring Regional and National Claims for Reparative Justice in the Caribbean, Zaira S. Simone

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Microstructural Characteristics of Deformed Quartz Under Non-Steady-State Conditions, Hamidreza Soleymani

Dissertations from 2020

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Data and Information as Our New Transport Infrastructure: An Exploration into How the Modern Transport System Is Being Shaped by Information Communication Technology, Adam Davidson

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Informing on Crop Water-Use, Stress, and Growth with Integrated Satellite Remote Sensing and Modeling, Aaron Davitt

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Applying a Systems Approach to the Legacy of Lead in Soil, Sara Perl Egendorf

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Evaluating Satellite-Based Sea Surface Temperatures, In Situ Observations, and Coral Symbioses in Southwestern Puerto Rico, Andrea Michelle Gomez

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Characterizing Surface Water from Space with Microwave Remote Sensing: Advancing Conventional and Emerging Approaches, Katherine Jensen

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The Emergence of Ecosystems-Based Fisheries Management from the Groundfish Crisis in New England: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis, Catherine King

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Tidal Wetland Inundation and Vegetation Phenology from Space: A Synthesis of Approaches for Characterizing Ecological Status and Inundation Dynamics in Tidal Wetlands with Remote Sensing Observations, Brian T. Lamb

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A Defense and Expansion of the Theory of Capitalist Ground Rent: Speculation, Securitization, and Struggles Over Land and Housing, Francesca Manning

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Provenance of Tin in the Late Bronze Age Balkans: Preparation of Cassiterite for Sn Isotope Analysis and the Probabilistic and Spatial Analysis of Sn Isotopes, Andrea H. Mason

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Oceanic Groundings: Maritime Geographies and Black Internationalism in the Early Twentieth Century, Maegan A. Miller

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How to Break an Addiction: A Case for Planetary Post-Capitalist Recovery, Ann Marie (Annie) Spencer

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Labor, Land Use, and the Luxury City, Samuel Stein

Dissertations from 2019

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Rails to Revolution: Railroads, Railroad Workers and the Geographies of the Mexican Revolution, Hector Agredano

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Wind Flow Dynamics over Complex Terrain, Eric Kutter

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The Water/Energy Nexus: Climate, Consumption and Ecosystem Services, Hildegaard D. Link

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The Role of Fluids in Ore Remobilization at the Balmat Zinc Deposit, NY, Peter D. Matt

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Little Siberia, Star of the North: Prisons, Crisis, and Development in Rural New York, 1968–1994, Jack Norton

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Lead and Arsenic Contamination in Urban Soils in New York City, Anna Paltseva

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The Contested Terrain of the Louisiana Carceral State: Dialectics of Southern Penal Expansion, 1971–2016, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

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Abrupt Climate Transitions, Christine J. Ramadhin

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Limits of the Black Radical Tradition and the Value-form, Shemon Salam

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Market Making: Crises and the Global Production of Shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Elizabeth A. Sibilia

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The Distribution, Fractionation, and Application of the 210Po/210Pb System: Insights from Three GEOTRACES Transects, Yi Tang

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“How to Lose the Hounds”: Tracing the Relevance of Marronage for Contemporary Anti-Police Struggles, Celeste Winston

Dissertations from 2018

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Aluminum-26: A Canonized Cosmochemical Conundrum, John Anton

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Investigation of Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Greenhouse Gas Production in the Urban Hudson River Estuary, Brian Alan Brigham

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The Production of Space: Indigenous Resistance Movements in the Peruvian Amazon, Christian Calienes

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Quantifying the Effects of Wind Regimes and Temperature on Surface Melt over the Antarctic Peninsula (1982–2017) through Modeling, Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data, Rajashree Datta

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Ulva spp. Bloom Dynamics in a Hyper-Eutrophic Estuary: Jamaica Bay, New York, Annesia Lamb

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Regulation of Dissolved Arsenic Using Zero-Valent Iron with Gypsum and Sulfate Reducing Bacteria: Laboratory Microcosm and Column Studies, Ying Liu

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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

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Evidence of the 1762 Arakan and Prior Earthquakes in the Northern Sunda Subduction, Dhiman Ranjan Mondal

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Seasonal Characterization of New York City Urban Thermal Environment, Spiridon Papanikolaou

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Heat Stress Vulnerability: Analyzing the Socio-Environmental Factors Influencing Heat Stress Hospital Visits and Implementation of Green Infrastructure in New York City, Jose Pillich

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Corporate Urbanization: Between the Future and Survival in Lebanon, Deen S. Sharp

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From Prison to Homeless Shelter: Camp LaGuardia and the Political Economy of an Urban Infrastructure, Christian D. Siener

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Impacts of Climate Extremes on Terrestrial Productivity, Suhua Wei

Dissertations from 2017

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The Formation of Fine-Grained Chondrule Rims in Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrites, John Bigolski

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Beyond the Obvious: Emerging Contaminants and Biogeochemistry as a Cause and Solution for Nitrogen Pollution, Stephanie L. DeVries

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Removal of Organic Micro-Pollutants from Water Using Sewage Sludge Based Composite Adsorbents, Rui Ding

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Capture and Abandon: Social Reproduction and Informal Land Tenure in Jamaica, Rachel Goffe

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Impact of Urbanization on Temperature Variation in Big Cities: Measuring Health Risk While Targeting Vulnerable Population, Maryam E. Karimi

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The Role of Dietary Highly Unsaturated n-3 Fatty Acids in Northern Quahogs, Mercenaria mercenaria, Through Decreasing Temperature, Sixto E. Portilla

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Land Change History of Oil Palm Plantations in Northern Bengkulu Province, Sumatra Island, Reconstructed from Landsat Satellite Archives, Atsushi Tomita

Dissertations from 2016

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Guidance Index for Shallow Landslide Hazard Analysis, Cheila Cullen

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Increasing Accessibility for Map Readers with Acquired and Inherited Color Vision Deficiencies: A Re-Coloring Algorithm for Maps, Gretchen M. Culp

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Lessons from the Past: Unfolding the Dynamics among Climate, Balkan Landscapes, and Humans over the Past Millennium, Charuta J. Kulkarni

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Geographies of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, and the Militarization of Hawai'i, Laurel Turbin Mei-Singh

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Institutionalizing Environmental Justice: Race, Place, and the National Environmental Policy Act, Keith K. Miyake

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Exploring Sewage Sludge/Fish Waste-Based Materials As Adsorbents Of Pharmaceuticals From Water Phase, Lilja Nielsen

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Re-framing Informal Family Caregiving, Magdalena T. Ornstein-Sloan

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Living Infrastructure: Being, Time, and Government in New York City, Stephanie Diane Wakefield

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Comprehensive Mass Balance Isotope Schematics for Determining the Provenance of the Moon Forming Impactor., John C. Wolbeck

Dissertations from 2015

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Assessing Greenland Ice Sheet Albedo and Mass Balance Variability Using In-Situ Data, Spaceborne Observations and Regional Model Outputs, Patrick Michael Alexander

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American Dreamer: First-Time Homeownership and the Affective Geographies of Dwelling, Stephen Boatright

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Carbon Emission Policy In The United States: State Patchwork Vs. National Policy, Samuel T. Frank

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Aerosol and Urban Heat Island Effects on Warm Cloud-Top Shortwave Infrared Reflectance and Visible Albedo, Heather Glickman-Eliezer

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Microfossils as proxies for Holocene climate in semi-enclosed basins: the Hudson River estuary, New York, USA and the Marmara Sea, Turkey, Damayanti Gurung

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The State of the Oligocene Icehouse World: Sedimentology, Provenance, and Stable Isotopes of Marine Sediments from the Antarctic Continental Margin, Daniel William Hauptvogel

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Super Fun Superfund: Polluted Protection Along the Gowanus Canal, Jessica Ty Miller

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Health Exposure, Socio-Economic Vulnerability, and Infrastructure at Risk to Current and Projected Coastal Flooding in New York City, Lesley Patrick

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Eastern Tropical Pacific Climate And El Niño Variability During The Past Millennium, Gerald Thomas Rustic

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Effects of Aerosol on Cloud Water Path: Statistical Method a Potential Source for Divergence in Observation-based Correlative Studies, Ousmane Sy Savane

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Resettling the City? Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and Urban Land in Winnipeg, Canada, Owen Toews

Dissertations from 2014

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The Amphibious Public: A historical geography of municipal swimming and bathing New York City, 1870 - 2013, Naomi Miriam Adiv

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Historical Relationships between Land Elevation and Socioeconomic Status in New York City: A Mixed Methods GIS Approach, Jennifer Brisbane