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Completed Dissertations

Asoni, Ettore. Territory, Personhood, and Immigration Law: Legal Geographies of Immigration and Border Control (Chair: Dr. Kate Swanson)

Jin, Chanwoo. Understanding Human Mobility and Urban Dynamics with Big Geospatial Data Analytics (Chair: Dr. Atsushi Nara)

Kennedy, Elizabeth. El Salvador in Motion: Socioeconomic Causes of Child Migration (Chair: Dr. John Weeks)

Loerch, Andy. Improving Disaster Response with Aerial Imagery Through Uas-Based Image Acquisition and Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, and Timeliness Assessment (Co-Chairs: Dr. Douglas Stow & Dr. David Siegel)

Arpagian, Jasmine. Squatting Historic Urban Landscapes: Analyzing Discourse and Lived Experiences of informal Housing in Bucharest (Chair: Dr. Stuart Aitken)

Crook, Steve. Ecosystem Service Assessment and Mapping with Pacific Northwest National Forest Stakeholders (Co-Chairs: Dr. Arielle Levine & Dr. David Carr)

Dai, Jie. The Tale of Western Chitwan Community Forests: Historical Vegetation Dynamics and the Challenges with the Invasion of Mikania micrantha (Chair: Dr. Li An)

Luo, Nana. A Model-based Evaluation of the Impacts of Human Mobility and Prevention Behavior on Vector-borne Disease Transmissions: Implications for Disease Prevention and Control (Co-Chairs: Dr. Atsushi Nara & Dr. Susan Cassels)

Shih, Hsiao-Chien. The Relative Timing of Human Migration and Land-Cover and Land- Use Change - An Evaluation of Northern Taiwan from 1990 to 2015 (Chair: Dr. Douglas Stow)

Quimby, Barbara. Participation and Power in the Gataifale: A Comparative Study of Samoan Coastal Marine Comanagement (Chair: Dr. Arielle Levine)

O’Neal, Blaire. Nature, Technology, and the Pursuit of Justice: Urban Agriculture Networks in San Diego County (Chair: Dr. Pascale Marcelli)

Storey, Emanuel. Assessing Patterns and Drivers of Structural and Compositional Change in Chaparral of Southern California Using Time Sequential Satellite Imagery (Chair: Dr. Doug Stow)

Beland, Michael. Salt Marsh Responses to Oil Contamination Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (Chair: Dr. Trent Biggs)

Salap-Ayca, Seda. Spatially Explicit Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Methods for Land-Use Models (Chair: Dr. Piotr Jankowski)

Seidl, Dara. Geoprivacy: Location Masking Strategies and Personal Identification Risk (Chair: Dr. Piotr Jankowski)

Taniguchi, Kristine. Stream Channel Erosion in a Rapidly Urbanizing Semi-arid Region: Channel Dynamics of Los Laureles Canyon Watershed in Tijuana, Mexico (Chair: Dr. Trent Biggs)

Tsai, Yu Hsin. Monitoring Forest Cover And Land Use Change In Forest Reserves: Connecting Satellite Imagery To Anthropogenic Impacts (Chair: Dr. Douglas Stow)

Toure, Sory. Urban Land Cover and Land Use Change in Ghana: Connections to Demography and Health. (Chair: Dr. John Weeks)

Yang, Jiue-An. Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Information Diffusion Patterns with User-Generated Geo-Social Contents from Social Media. (Chair: Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou)

Fouad, Geoffrey. Flow Duration Curve Prediction for Ungauged Basins: A Data-Driven Study of the Contiguous United States. (Chair: Dr. Allen Hope)

Han, Su. Discovering Spatial Relationships between Cyberspace and Real space and Re-examining Theories in Geography with Social Media and Big Data (Chair: Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou)

Messina, Alex. Terrigenous Sediment Dynamics in a Small, Tropical Fringing-Reef Embayment. (Chair: Dr. Trent Biggs)

Goode, Ryan. Río de Janeiro’s Emerging Sporting Mega-Event Geography: Unraveling the Carioca Pattern of Urban Development. (Chair: Dr. Stuart Aitken)

Uyeda, Kellie. Spatial and Temporal Variation in Fuel Accumulation in Southern California Chaparral. (Chair: Dr. Doug Stow)

View a complete list of dissertations for Geography on the SDSU library's site.