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Geography Graduate Theses
August 2010
Paul Weiser Performance Analysis of Vector Overlays in Online Mapping APIs
May 2010
Allison Sambol Regional Perspectives of the Republican River Transboundary Conflict
Timothy Stoebner Assessing the Loss of Wetlands Within the Prairie Pothole Region: A Land Use Perspective
December 2009
Kimberley Stuart The Potential of Wind Energy for the Operation of Reverse Osmosis Water Plants in the Bahamas
August 2009
Brandon Weihs Higher Order Loess Terracettes and Related Ungulate Activities in Western Pottawattamie County, Iowa
May 2009
Casey Christo Comparison of Point Symbol Display Methods in Animated Cartography
Paul Hunt Scattered-Site Public Housing Impact on Surrounding Neighborhood Land Values: Omaha, NE
Caleb Richter-Tate Tepic to San Blas: A Geographical Reconstruction of a Segment of the Camino Real of Colonial Mexico
Roy Zach Is it Windy Enough for You? The Potential for Wind Energy to Generate Electricity, Income, and Energy Security in Rural East-Central Nebraska
December 2008
Magdalena Bastova Foreign Direct Investment Effects on Urban Economy: A Case of the City of Pilsen, Czech Republic
Nicole Vanosdel Spatial Patterns of Thyroid Cancer in Nebraska: Exploring Possible Environmental Relationships
August 2008
Blake Mayberry Framing the ‘Fragile Giants’: Aestheticization of Landscape in the Loess Hills of Western Iowa
May 2008
Farrah Grant The Journey to Campus: Commute Mode Choice for University of Nebraska at Omaha Students
Justin Pence Measuring Omaha, Nebraska's Urban Sprawl from 1990-2000
December 2007
Navjot Kaur Comparing the Spatial Mobility of Faculty between a University in India and the US using GPS Tracking
August 2007
W. F. Schwertley Web Site Design for Interactive and Animated Geo-Spatial Information
May 2007
Lubica Cverckova Spatial Analysis of Topography for Glacier Mapping in the Western Himalaya
Theresa deBoer Relationships between the Newhall Simulation Model and Dryland Corn Yield in the Major Land Resource Areas of Nebraska
December 2006
Leigh Anne Opitz A Spatial Analysis of the Foreign-Born Population in Douglas/Sarpy County, Nebraska--2000
May 2006
Michelle Rerucha An examination of wetland change in Douglas and Sarpy Counties, Nebraska from 1981 to 2003
August 2005
Teresa Silence An Evaluation of Wetland No Net Loss and Mitigation under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act on the Santa Rosa Plain, Sonoma County, California
May 2005
Abbey McNair All About a Line: Impact on the Cultural Landscape of Western Nebraska and South Dakota
Tyler Van Meeteren Spatial Implications of Urban Functional Classification: A Study of Small Urban Places in the North-Central United States
August 2004
Mary Haftings Soil Nutrient Differences between an Agricultural Field and Restored Prairie in Eastern Nebraska
May 2004
Peter Pavlicko Interactive Topographic Web Mapping Using Scalable Vector Graphics
August 2003
Eric Kriener Determining the Effects of a Wet Detention Basin on Water Quality: A Comparison of Two Flood Control Lakes in Omaha, Nebraska
May 2003
Gabrielle Collins A Water Quality Evaluation of the Heron Haven Wetland in Omaha, Nebraska
Pavol Hurbanek Accessibility, Settlement Dispersion, and Unemployment in Slovakia
Kristie Raymond Effects of Different Magnitude Precipitation Events on the Water Quality of the Little Papillion Creek, Omaha, Nebraska
December 2002
Shelby Sack Acculturation and Geographic Mobility: The Sudanese Refugees in Omaha, Nebraska
Haifeng Zhang A Spatial Analysis of Crime for the City of Omaha
August 2002
Steven Bartosh Population Impacts on Surface Water Quality in the Little Papillion Creek Watershed
Kelly Niemeyer An Analysis of the Impacts of Land Use Change and Greenspace on Runoff Rates in an Urbanized Watershed
Lesli Rawlings The Impact of Apartment Complexes on Property Values of Single-Family Dwellings West of Interstate-680 in Omaha, Nebraska
Bradley Richardson The Relationship Between the Palmer Drought Severity Index and Non-Irrigated Soybean Yields in Clay County, Nebraska
May 2002
Radoslav Bonk Scale-Dependent Geomorphometric Analysis for Glacier Mapping at Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
Stephen Cacioppo Anisotropic-Reflectance Correction of Multispectral Satellite Imagery in Complex Mountain Terrain
Sung-Jun Kim Hyperspectral Reflectance from Restored Tallgrass Prairie Under Different Management
Heather Ramig Non-Meat Food Processing Industries and the Disposal of Their Organic Waste Within the City of Omaha, Nebraska
James West Environmental Classification Using Soil and Sediment Properties for the Western Beteiha Plain in Northern Israel
December 2001
Jaroslav Kling The Role of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Economy of Slovakia
May 2001
James George Pattern Recognition of Meteorological Drought on the Great Plains Using NCAR/NCEP Reanalysis Data: An Operational Approach
December 2000
Laura Banker Sedimentologic and Paleogeomorphologic Character of the Western Beteiha Plain, Israel
May 2000
Barbara Lynn Daniels A Geographic Model for Urban Parks and Recreation Facility Planning: A Case Study of Omaha, Nebraska
December 1999
Steven Dale Harmon The Spatial Distribution of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Flashes in Relation to an Overhead Transmission Line
Christina Diana Kerby Kessinger The Globalization of a Natural Resource: Examining the Upstream Impacts of Latex Gloves
August 1999
Maggie Latona Livingston Feedlot Impacts on Surface Water Quality in Sarpy County, Nebraska
Lauren B. Shapiro Lead Contamination of Soils in Belize City, Belize
Gary D. Shaw Evapotranspiration in Wetland Environments
James Mathew Swanson A Cartographic Appraisal of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language
August 1998
Larry J. Mastin Dehner Boot Company of Omaha, Nebraska: A Study in Manufacturing Geography
Jeanie M. Vincent Perceptions About the Environment From the Cayo District of Belize
May 1998
Frances Peck Biogeography of Fundulus Zebrinus, Plains Killifish, and its Relationship to Fundulus Sciadicus, Plains Topminnow, in Nebraska
Clifford Todd Promoting Economic Development of an Urban Area Using a Web-Based GIS
December 1997
Nozomi Kawabata Gender, Ethnicity and Space: The Case of Racial Ethnic Minority Women Telecommuters in Omaha, Nebraska
August 1997
April Whitten Roman Roads in the Upper Galilee and Lower Golan Regions: Relationships to Natural Migratory Routes
May 1997
Melissa Milner Post-Depositional Weathering of Cave Sediments in Berry Cave, Pulaski County, Missouri
Joseph Parsley Water Quality Survey of South Central Sarpy County, Nebraska
August 1996
Diana Reehoorn Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of a Submerged Macrophyte
Constance Watson The Geography and Geomorphic Development of Gifford Point Near Bellevue, Nebraska
May 1996
Charles St. Lucas A Study of UV-B Attenuation in the Omaha Metropolitan Area
August 1995
Rodney Fraser Change Detection of Wetlands in the Sandhills of Nebraska Using Landsat MSS Imagery
May 1995
Jeffrey Simon Impact of Federal Legislation on Natural Resource Management in the Santa Fe National Forest, 1988-1992
December 1994
Todd Noble Changes in Land Cover and Nesting Habitat for the Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Along the Missouri River: 1983-1991
December 1993
Kim Smulling A Dendrogeomorphologic Analysis of the Meadville Slope Failure
Robert Watrel Sectional Voting Cleavages in Nebraska Presidential Elections, 1892-1992
August 1993
Andrew Dinville Sandhill Wetlands Change Detection Based on Landsat Imagery
May 1993
Val Goodman Vinton Street: Evolution of An Ethnic Retail Ribbon, 1889 to 1989
December 1992
Iona Meyer Gully Evolution in the Upper Delaware River Basin Northeastern Kansas
August 1992
Jeremy Dillon Holocene Alluvial Stratigraphy and Landscape Development in Honey Creek Basin, Nemaha County, Nebraska
December 1991
James Krist Establishing Meteorological Correlations Between the North Omaha National Weather Service Station and the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station
May 1991
Raymond Latimer Holocene Climatic Change in the Central United States Inferred from Paleoecological Data
Michael McIntyre Golf Courses of Omaha: A Recreational Geography and Land Use Study
December 1990
Barbara Friskopp The Phytogeomorphology of the Niobrara Region Near Meadville, Nebraska
August 1990
Mahtab Lodhi The Quaternary Geomorphology of Meadville Slope Failure; Niobrara River Valley, Nebraska
May 1990
Thomas Schafer Impact of Prolonged Drought Upon Selected Great Plains Counties, 1890-1960
Yafei Lu The Improvement of Digital Image Classification over an Urban Area: A Probabilistic Relaxation Approach
December 1989
Mohammad Saqib Khan Digital Analysis of Selected Glaciers of Afghanistan and Pakistan
November 1989
Xinglai Ge A Factorial Ecology of Omaha: Using 1980 Census Data at Block Group Scale
August 1989
Xiaofang Chen Omaha Intrametropolitan Locational Changes in Manufacturing: 1969 to 1987
May 1989
Richard Benack An Improved Method of Assigning Spatial Characteristics in a Raster Environment
August 1988
Brian Soliday A Review and Comparison of Vegetation Indices: An Application of Landsat Spectral Reflectance Digital Data to the Northern Range, Yellowstone National Park
December 1987
Priscilla Kaufmann Urban Images of Nineteenth-Century London: The Literary Geography of Charles Dickens
Li Bin Texture Measures of Spatial Patterns on Thematic Mapper Imagery: An Experiment
August 1987
Andrew Baker The Adjustment of Agriculture to Its Environment: The Case of Antelope County, Nebraska
May 1987
Ken Maassen A Comparison of 1970 and 1985 Residential Patterns of Military Personnel at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska
August 1986
Kyle Juracek A Geographic Information System for Residential Development Plans: Generating Physical "Desirability” Surfaces
Rebecca Hawley Land Use Changes Through Time, Mapping the Hard Core of Omaha, Nebraska's CBD 1940-1980