Learn about the topics studied and research performed by former Northern Arizona University GPR graduate students (not a complete list).<\/p>\n
Cynthia Parker<\/strong> (MA Rural Geography, 2009) Thesis: Evaluating Juniper Cover Change From 1936-1997 in the Wupatki Area Using Repeat Aerial Photography. (Chairperson: Dr. Lenn Berlin)<\/p>\n Mark Manone<\/strong> (MA Rural Geography 2009) Thesis: A Comparative Assessment of Change on Sandbars in Grand Canyon Using Stereo Versus Planimetric Photogrammetry. (Chairperson: Dr. Lenn Berlin)<\/p>\n Donovan Sherratt<\/strong> (MS Applied GIS 2009) Practicum: The Spatial Relationship between the School and Student and its Effect on Student Academic Achievement. (Chairperson: Dr. Ruihong Huang)<\/p>\n Ryder Delaloye<\/strong> (MA Rural Geography 2008) Practicum: Buddhism and Community Development in Southeast Asia. (Chairperson: Dr. Jim Sell)<\/p>\n Brandon Haist<\/strong> (MS Applied GIS 2008) Practicum: Development of a Geographic Information System (GIS) of the Terapa, Mexico Paleontological Site. (Chairperson: Dr. Samantha Arundel)<\/p>\n Matthew Tuten<\/strong> (MS Applied GIS 2008) Thesis: Comparing Ecological Restoration and Northern Goshawk Management Guidelines Treatment in a Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forest. (Chairperson: Dr. Tina Kennedy)<\/p>\n Chaffin, Clara<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2008) Thesis: Socioeconomic Community Health in Arnold, Nebraska. (Chairperson: Dr. Carolyn Daugherty)<\/p>\n Manion-Farrar, Jill<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2008) Thesis: Water Conservation Policy in Northern Arizona: Community Successes and Limitations. (Chairperson: Dr. Dawn Hawley)<\/p>\n Mount, Andrew<\/strong> (MS Forestry 2008) Thesis: Differences Between Day Users and Overnight Users in Southwestern Wildland Recreation Environments. (Committee members: Dr. Pam Foti, Dr. Robert Mathiasen, Dr. Charles Hammersley)<\/p>\n Ratcliffe, Michael<\/strong> (MS, Applied GIS 2008) Thesis: Delineating Flood Hazard Areas Using HEC-RAS and HEC-GeoRAS in the ArcInfo Environment. (Chairperson: Dr. Ruihong Huang)<\/p>\n Rigg (Kramer), Natasha<\/strong> (MS, Applied GIS 2008) Practicum: Regional Mapping of Genetic Intervals in the Almond Formation, Greater Wamsutter Field, Southwest Wyoming: An Iterative Geostatistical Approach to High-Grading Well Locations. (Chairperson: Dr. Leland Dexter)<\/p>\n Schoepke, Sydney<\/strong> (MS, Applied GIS 2008) Thesis: Predicting Off Highway Use Areas on the Arizona Strip. (Chairperson: Dr. Pam Foti)<\/p>\n Wenker, Alisa<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2008) Thesis: Place Attachment as Represented by Textile Quilts: Yellowstone National Park Region. (Chairperson: Dr. Dawn Hawley)<\/p>\n Wilson, Stacie<\/strong> (MS, Applied GIS 2008) Thesis: GIS Spatial Analysis of Mountain Cahuilla Subsistence and Occupancy Patterns in Pre- and Post-Contact Periods. (Chairperson: Dr. Ruihong Huang)<\/p>\n Bunce, Gregory<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2007) Thesis: Gentrification and Neighborhood Change: A Case Study of the Maple Ash Neighborhood, Tempe, Arizona. (Chairperson: Dr. Tom Paradis)<\/p>\n Farmer, Monica<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2007) Thesis: A Geographic Study of the Portrayal of the American Southwest in Children\u2019s Literature, 1880-1999. (Chairperson: Dr. Tina Kennedy)<\/p>\n Hankens, Sarah<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2007) Thesis: An Exploratory Study of Human Impacts in the Wildland-Urban Interface on the Coconino National Forest. (Chairperson: Dr. Pam Foti)<\/p>\n Kerney, Owen<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2007) Thesis: Workforce Housing Programs and Policies in Three Western United States Amenity Communities. (Chairperson: Dr. Dawn Hawley)<\/p>\n McBride, Kathleen<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2007) Thesis: A Synoptic Climatology for Dust Deposition to the Snowpack in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, U.S.A. (Chairperson: Dr. Leland Dexter)<\/p>\n McNulty, Michelle<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2007) Thesis: The Mystique of Route 66 and the Image of Flagstaff, Arizona. (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n Park, Brian<\/strong> (MS, Applied GIS 2007) Practicum: City of Flagstaff Stormwater System Inventory and Condition Assessment Project: Creating a Stormwater Infrastructure Geodatabase. (Chairperson: Dr. Dawn Hawley)<\/p>\n Donnermeyer, Christopher<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2006) Thesis: Carnegiea Gigantea Population Density and Structure at Two Sonoran Desert Mountain Ranges. (Chairperson: Dr. Samantha Arundel)<\/p>\n Etter, Merrianne P.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2006) Thesis: Snow Sublimation and Energy Balance Along a Forest-Edge Transect in Northern Arizona. (Chairperson: Dr. Leland Dexter)<\/p>\n Brodehl, Grant<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2005) Thesis: Preliminary Observations on the Physical Impacts of Mountain Biking in the Southwestern United States.<\/p>\n Simeral, David Blair<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2005) Thesis: New Snow Density across an Elevational Gradient in the Park Range of Northwestern Colorado. (Chairperson: Dr. Leland Dexter)<\/p>\n Varnadore, Hilari Benson<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2005) Thesis: Place and Community Identity: Resilience and Planning in the Arizona-New Mexico Mountain Region. (Chairperson: Dr. Christina Kennedy)<\/p>\n Clum, Karen<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2004) Thesis: A Qualitative Model of Rural Economic Diversity: The Case of a Southwestern Mining Community. (Chairperson: Dr. Carolyn Daugherty)<\/p>\n Hughes, Tracie<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2004) Thesis: Youth Recreation and Education Groups in Outdoor Settings: An Analysis of Site Preferences. (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n Long, Joshua<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2004) Thesis: Corporate, Campus, and Counter-Culture: An Ethnographic Examination of Place Attachment and Culture in the Present-Day American Coffeehouse. (Chairperson: Dr. Dawn Hawley)<\/p>\n Marino, Angela M.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2004) Thesis: The Relationship between Flooding and Respiratory Health of Two Spatially Distributed Groups within the Ft. Totten Sioux Indian Tribe. (Chairperson: Dr. Carolyn Daugherty)<\/p>\n Wood, Lochen<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2004) Practicum: Attitudes toward Ranching Viability on U.S. Forest Service Allotments. (Chairperson: Dr. Tina Kennedy)<\/p>\n Feoktistov, Sergey V.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2003) Thesis: Wilderness Destinations: Ecotourism Supply in the Southern Part of the Russian Far East. (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n Girard, Robert M.<\/strong> (MA Rural Geography 2003) Practicum: The Subdivision of the Historic Homes at the Old Hassayampa Country Club in Prescott, Arizona (Chairperson: Dr. Tom Paradis)<\/p>\n McCabe, Jason Douglas<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2003) Thesis: Arizona Powwows and the Sense of Place of American Indian Individuals. (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n Soles, Ellen S.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2003) Thesis: Where the River Meets the Ditch: Human and Natural Impacts on the Gila River, New Mexico, 1880-2000. (Chairperson: Dr. Leland Dexter)<\/p>\n Wyse Mietz, Stephanie<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2003) Thesis: Evaluating Historical Electrofishing Distribution in the Colorado River, Arizona, Based on Shoreline Substrate. (Chairperson: Dr. Samantha Arundel)<\/p>\n Boussard, Elizabeth Ann<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2002) Thesis: Motorized River Ranger Patrols in the Grand Canyon: Are they the Minimum required for the Administration of Wilderness?” (Chairperson: Dr. Dawn Hawley)<\/p>\n Peters, Karen<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2002) “Visual and Verbal Preference and Perception in the Rural Residential Environment” (Chairperson: Dr. Dawn Hawley)<\/p>\n Adams, Darren<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2001) Thesis: A Foundation for Criteria to Improve City Geographic Information Systems. (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n Kempton, Alvin Brent<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2001) Thesis: A Conditional Computer Simulation Model to Construct Paleotopography Using the Afton, California Study Area. (Chairperson: Dr. Leland Dexter)<\/p>\n Kirk, David A.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2001) Thesis: Methodological Test of Using Density Slicing on Panchromatic Historical Aerial Photographs to Detect Changes in Woody Vegetation. (Chairperson: Dr. Joy Nystrom Mast)<\/p>\n Aldrich, Melissa<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2000) Thesis: Spatial Analysis of a 1900 Timber Inventory in Northern Arizona. (Chairperson: Dr. Joy Mast)<\/p>\n Arundel, Terence R.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2000) Thesis: Using General Land Office Survey Records to Determine Pre-Settlement Forest Conditions in North-Central Arizona, 1878-1879. (Chairperson: Dr. Stanley Swarts)<\/p>\n Ayers, Anthony<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2000) Thesis: Cluster Analysis of Weather Related General Aviation Accidents in Arizona. (Chairperson: Dr. Leland Dexter)<\/p>\n Davis, Jeffrey<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2000) Thesis: Corporate Tourism Enterprises and Rural Economic Development: Williams, Arizona and the Grand Canyon Railway. (Chairperson: Dr. Tom Paradis)<\/p>\n Frisch, Karl Erik<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2000) Thesis: Drownings at Glen Canyon National Recreational Area, 1969-1996: a Geographic Information System Based Evaluation. (Chairperson: Dr. Dawn Hawley)<\/p>\n Partl, Uwe-Markus<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 2000) Thesis: Changing Perceptions, Attitudes, and Expectations of International Exchange Students at Northern Arizona University. (Chairperson: Dr. Christina Kennedy)<\/p>\n Douglass, John<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1999) Thesis: Late Cenozoic Landscape Evolution Study of the Eastern Grand Canyon Region. (Chairperson: Dr. Leland Dexter)<\/p>\n Jacobs (Falzarano), Sarah R.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1999) Thesis: A Fuzzy Spatial View of Accuracy of a Northern Arizona Land Cover Map. (Chairperson: Dr. Joy Nystrom Mast)<\/p>\n Palermo, Joseph K.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1999) Thesis: From Production to Consumption: Transformation of Former Mining Towns in Arizona through Heritage Tourism. (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n Walton, Bentley\u00a0<\/strong>(MA, Rural Geography 1999) Practicum: (Chairperson: Dr. Joy Nystrom Mast)<\/p>\n Dunno, Glenn A.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1998) Thesis: Analysis of Lineament Reproducibility Derived from LANDSAT TM and SLAR Imagery Using Spearman\u2019s Rank Correlation and Cross-Association Statistics. (Chairperson: Dr. Leland Dexter)<\/p>\n Hampton, Haydee M.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1998) Thesis: Use of Multichannel Synthetic Aperture Radar to Predict Forest Structure for Mapping Bird Habitat. (Chairperson: Dr. Lenn Berlin)<\/p>\n Kennaway, Lisa F.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1998) Thesis: The Global Positioning System and Geographic Information System in recreation monitoring, Kanab Creek Wilderness, Arizona.<\/p>\n Kent, Barbara<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1998) Thesis: Landscape change analysis of San Dieguito Lagoon, Del Mar, California 1928-1994. (Chairperson: Dr. Joy Nystrom Mast)<\/p>\n Palmer, Mark H.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1998) Thesis: Land Tenure Changes on Kiowa Land Allotments in Caddo County, Oklahoma: 1933-1995. (Chairperson: Dr. Dawn Hawley)<\/p>\n Payton (McComisky), Allison<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1998) Thesis: Cloud detection and scale effects over Antarctica using Landsat TM data. (Chairperson: Dr. Lenn Berlin)<\/p>\n Martinez, Peter Alexander<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1997) Thesis: Implementing Geographic Information Systems in Local Government: Theoretical Models and the Experience of Flagstaff, Arizona. (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n Wolf, Joy<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1997) Thesis: Fire History of Mixed-Conifer Forests on the North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park. (Chairperson: Dr. Joy Nystrom Mast)<\/p>\n Yoder, Steve<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1997) Thesis: Navajo Value Orientations and Forest Policy Preferences. (Chairperson: Dr. George Van Otten)<\/p>\n Beltz, Jennifer<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1996) Thesis: Interpretation as a Management Tool at National Park Da Chapada dos Veadeiros, Goi\u00e1s, Brazi (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n Hatten, James R.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1996) Thesis: Evaluation of Panchromatic Imagery for Riparian Classification and Change Detection. (Chairperson: Dr. Joy Nystrom Mast)<\/p>\n List, Michael D.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1996) Thesis: A Test of Five Interpolation Methods for the Mapping of Hazardous Lead Waste in Soil. (Chairperson: Dr. Leland Dexter)<\/p>\n Walker, Crayton Scott<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1996) Thesis: GPS and GIS in Wilderness Recreation Monitoring: An Evaluation of Campsite Locations in the Weminuche Wilderness, Colorado. (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n Wilkerson, Jeffrey S.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1996) Thesis: Evaluation of the effectiveness of a geographical information system to model short-wave solar flux.<\/p>\n Davis, Megan K.<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1995) Thesis: Evaluation of the New Mexico Range Stewardship Incentive Program. (Co-Chairpersons: Dr. Dawn Hawley and Dr. Jon Souder)<\/p>\n McCormick, Peter J. III<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1995) Thesis: Comparative Assessments of Quality of Life in Eastern Arizona. (Chairperson: Dr. H.G. Salisbury)<\/p>\n Liao, Hui<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1994) Thesis: The Origins of Chinese Americans in Arizona and Their Current Settlement Patterns in Central Arizona. (Chairperson: Dr. George Van Otten)<\/p>\n Zhao, Kui<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1993) Thesis: Population Change in Arizona Counties, 1920-1990. (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n Mariahazy, Laszlo<\/strong> (MA, Rural Geography 1992) Thesis: Methodological Considerations of Three-Dimensional Perspective Surface Visualization in Geographic Information Systems. (Chairperson: Dr. Alan Lew)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Older works (pre-2010) Practicums and theses of NAU’s Geography, Planning, & Recreation graduate students Learn about the topics studied and research performed by former Northern Arizona University GPR graduate students (not a complete list). 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