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Completed Theses

Markman, Bruce. Estimating residual dry matter across conservation grazing lands with field spectroscopy and UAV LiDAR. (Sousa, Franklin, Lipson)

Napoles Robledo, Osvaldo. Resilience and community building among street food vendors: A foodscape case study of the city of San Diego, CA. (Bosco, Marcelli,  Pérez)

Piazza, Elise H. Farmer perceptions of constraints on dairy production and adaptation in Rondônia, Brazil. (Biggs, Quandt, Lipson)

Reynolds, Dawn Eileen. An exploration of local adaptation to sea level rise in Southern California: The case in Imperial Beach and Del Mar. (Levine, Quandtr, Adams)

Reyna, Andres Peiialosa. Strategies, differences, and placemaking among urban forestiy experts in the Tijuana-San Diego border region. (Quandt, Bosco, Lauer)

Thompson, June. Exploring public park usage in San Diego: The influence of technological and societal changes, from social media to emerging trends. (Levine, Quandt, Lewison)

Walker, William Owen. Multitemporal analysis of riparian vegetation response following urbanization in Southern California. (Biggs, Sousa, Barber, Stow)

Wang, Jiachen. Using high resolution remote sensing images and deep learning algorithms for identifying homeless encampments distribution in San Diego. (Tsou, Nara, Liu)

Bartel, Gracie. Identifying producer perspectives on repurposed land strategies in Kern County, California. (Quandt, Biggs, Pérez)

Bross, Judith. Extreme weather impacts, adaptation strategies, and agroforestry in San Diego County agriculture: Insights from farmers. (Quandt, Levine, Flores Renteria)

Bushnell, Elizabeth Josephine. Shrinking coastlines: Use of uncrewed aerial systems to map and monitor rocky intertidal habitats. (Stow, Biggs, Almeida)

Endress, Reid Gregory Peterson. Documenting tradition marine fishery practices in Palau through rebuilding Indigenous fish traps. (Levine, Quandt, Lauer)

Fowler, Brenna Yunn. Mapping vegetation structure of management areas in Chitwan Valley, Nepal, based on UAS-SfM photogrammetry and Sentinel-2 SVIs. (Stow, Sousa, Lewison)

Garcia, Stephany. A turbid tale: Application of a global turbidity retrieval algorithm in Southern California’s Tijuana River Estuary. (Biggs, Sousa, Maloney)

Holt, Anne. New predictors for hydrologic signatures: Wetlands and geologic age across continental scales. (McMillan, Biggs, Weingarten)

Jack, Peaceibisia Benebo. Deep learning detection of anthropogenic debris in complex floodplain environment. (Biggs, Sousa, Zhang)

Nawar, Nowshin. Influences of tree mortality on fire intensity and burn severity for a Southern California forest using airborne and satellite imagery. (Stow, Sousa, Jennings, Riggan)

Palmer, Todd. Quantifying riverine debris: Applying a trash balance model in the San Diego River. (McMillan, Biggs, Davani)

Smith, Caleb M. Exploring multivariate and multitemporal water catchment data using a tri-space approach. (Skupin, Biggs, McIllwain)

Smith, Thomas Mario. Using repeat station imaging and shadow correction to improve vegetation height and growth estimates based on uncrewed aerial systems imaging and structure from motion photogrammetry. (Stow, Biggs, Almeida)

Weeden, Jacqueleen. Elders' perspectives on the environment: A collaborative exploration for brownfield revitalization in National City, CA. (Quandt, Barlow, Swayne)

Aguilar, Elena. Mapping plastic in an urban watershed using laboratory reflectance. (Biggs, Sousa, Frost, Uhrin)

Bolotin, Lauren Anna Marie. A hydrologic signature approach to analyzing wildfire impacts on overland flow. (McMillan, Biggs, Kinoshita)

Embury, Jessica. Independent data validation to detect biases in synthetic populations. (Nara, Rey, Ghanipoor Machiana, Tsou)

Garvey, Christine Maria. Identifying culturally significant marine species and habitats in San Diego, CA. (Levine, Quandt, Hovel)

Heberer, Liana N. Integration of geomorphic data in manual and semi-automated benthic habitat mapping of a Hawaiian fringing reef. (Levine, Stow, Maloney, Storlazzi)

Honey, Mallorie. Mapping tree and shrub cover on pastures in Rodônia, Brazil. (Biggs, Sousa, Lai)

Mattson, Margot M. Characterizing wetland change using multi-decadal landsat imagery: A comparison of linear temporal mixture analysis, nonlinear manifold machine learning, and joint characterization. (Biggs, Sousa, Quandt, Ganster)

McFadden, Alexander. Estimating fire radiative energy density with repetitive aerial thermal infrared imaging of actively progressing wildfires. (Stow, O'leary, Scharf, Riggan)

Ochoa, Daniel. Exploring smallholder farmers perceived climate-related risk, impact, and response in the dry corridor of El Salvador. (An, Quandt, Pérez)

Paderes, Phevee. Exploring participatory methods and surveys through a critical perspective in La Mesa's Child-Friendly Cities project. (Quandt, Aitken, Nair)

Ross, Chandler. Machine learning approach to burned area mapping for Southern California. (Stow, Nara, Jennings, Sousa)

Vadun-Lemp, Nicolas. Dis(placing) Airbnb: Neighborhood perspectives on short-term rentals and gentrification. (Bosco, Marcelli, Appleyard)

Deardorff, Emily. Benchmarking the performance of deep learning streamflow models and finetuning methods against the national water model in small, semi-arid watersheds using hydrologic signatures. (McMillan, Davani, Biggs)

Gorman, Kayla. The elephant in the room: Exploring visitor decision, experience, and satisfaction at elephant and community-based sanctuaries in Thailand. (Quandt, Leving, Ponting)

Liu, Yanjing (Tracy). Living in the animal/human borderland: Human-macaque relationships in Chitwan, Nepal. (An, Quandt, Riley)

Morales, Gabriela A. Agricultural responses to changing water supplies in Imperial Valley, California. (Biggs, Quandt, Abman)

Schempp, Timothy. A tri-space interface for exploring multispectral and multitemporal imagery. (Skupin, Stow, Kinoshita, Pottathil)

Tang, Justin. The role of narrow cold frontal rainbands on urban flooding in Southern California. (McMillan, Biggs, Davani)

Agenbroad, Joseph Cole. An analysis of eucalyptus: The culturally invasive species of San Diego. (Aitken, An, Lauer)

Araki, Ryoko. A signature-based approach to quantify soil moisture dynamics under contrasting land-uses. (McMillan, Biggs, Kinoshita)

Downing, Benjamin. Effects of land use and direct channel interventions on stream channel evolution in Los Laureles Canyon Watershed, Tijuana, Mexico.  (Biggs, Costello, Kinoshita)

Mejia, Christian. Virtual reality integration into geography education: A case study of physical geography. (Tsou, Nara, Wang, Costello)

Mu, Ye. Forests mitigate drought in an agricultural region of the Brazilian Amazon: Atmospheric moisture tracking to identify critical source areas. (Biggs, De Sales, Shen)

Shennan, Keaton. Geovisualization and descriptive analysis of landscape level wildfire behavior using repeat pass airborne thermal infrared imagery. (Stow, Kinoshita, Nara, Riggan)

Young, Noah Navin. Mapping environmentally sustainable urban development within six US cities through object-based image change analysis of aerial orthoimagery. (Stow, Nara, Swayne)

Holiday, Empress. Place-based environmental education and environmental justice in Imperial Beach, California. (Swanson, Aitken, Pérez)

Jones, Kyle A. Monitoring cropping systems in California's Imperial Valley using a tri-space approach. (Skupin, Biggs, McIllwain, Pottahil)

Konrad, Leilani Shizuko Rita. Exploring human perceptions and conflict surrounding human-seal use of beaches in California and Hawai’i. (Levine, Swanson, Lewison)

Mirka, Blair. Evaluation of thermal infrared imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles for arboreal wildlife surveillance. (Stow, An, Lewison)

Orndorff, Samuel Christopher. Indigenous social movement in Nayarit: Resistance to the Las Cruces hydroelectric dam. (Marcelli, Kamper, Swanson)

Patton, Jeanne. Seedling survivorship following the post-fire reforestation in a mixed conifer forest in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, Southern California. (O'Leary, An, Kinoshita)

Roberts, Sarah Ann. Hydrologic change along the All-American Canal in California’s Imperial Valley. (Biggs, McMillan, Mladenov)

Schag, Gavin M.  Evaluating Landscape-level Controls of Wildfire Spread Rates Using Repetitive Airborne Thermal Infrared (ATIR) Imagery. (Stow, Nara, Kinoshita)

Warkentin, Kelsey K. Multi-temporal fractional cover estimation of shrubs on San Clemente Island. (Stow, O'Leary, Uyeda, Zink)

Werner, Zackary. The effects of wildfires on tropical South America's surface climate. (De Sales, Stow, Davani)

Yost, Alexandra. A longitudinal study evaluating the effects of payments for ecosystem services on species richness. (An, Chen, Lewison, Nara)

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