Past Dissertations and Theses

PhD:  Geography and Environmental Systems

  • Tabor, Karyn. Achieving Multiple Conservation Goals with Satellite-Based Monitoring and Alert Systems. (Holland, 2023). Currently: Agroclimatology Advisor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
  • Pitash, JH. Waste infrastructure as strategy: constructing capitalism through waste in Baltimore. (Biehler, 2023). Currently: Faculty at Howard Community College.
  • Paris, Ohad. Ecological And Behavioral Effects On The Reproductive Success Of Urban Northern Cardinals. (Studds, 2023). Currently: Visiting Faculty at Goucher College.
  • Argañaraz, Melisa. Care To Belong: Constructing, Negotiating, And Disrupting Latin American (Im)Migrant Youth (Un)Deservingness In A Welcoming City. Currently: Faculty at University of Connecticut.
  • Shcheglovitova, Mariya. Dead Wood: Growing, Wasting, and Harvesting Baltimore’s Urban Forest. (Biehler & Lansing, 2020). Currently: Researcher, US Housing and Urban Development.
  • Dixon, Adam. Linking avian diversity with farms in the Iowa Corn Belt using remote sensing, collaborative passive acoustic monitoring, and farmer-habitat relationships. (Ellis, 2020).
  • Dupre, Sam. Coffee Leaf Rust in Eastern Guatemala, small holder response following a climate driven disease outbreak. (Holland, 2018). Currently: Survey Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau.
  • Riddering, Laura. The Care Squeeze: An Institutional Ethnography of a Nonprofit to Investigate the Diverse Labors Undertaken “To Fight for Better” in Coffee Markets. (Lansing, 2020).
  • Diop, Moustapha. To Formalize or Not: Investigating Drivers of Landholders’ Decisions for Land Formalization in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa, The case of Senegal. (Holland, 2020).
  • Borowy, Dorothy Ann. Urban Metacommunities: The role of local and regional factors on plant community assembly and functional trait patterns in urban vacant land. (Swan, 2020).
  • Voelker, Nicole. The Role of Spatial Variation in Habitat Quality and Dispersal in Maintaining Diversity and Ecosystem Function Across Spatial Scales in the Urban Hydroscape of the Baltimore Metropolitan Region. (Swan, 2019).
  • Margulies, Jared. Unruly Animals: multispecies politics and the governing of wildlife space. (Ellis, 2017). Currently: Faculty at the University of Alabama.
  • St. Pe, Alexandra, Adjusting the Sails: Science and Policy Opportunities to Improve Offshore Wind Power Performance. (Halverson, 2017)
  • Van Appledorn, Molly. Evaluating the nature and strength of environmental control on floodplain forest communities. (Baker 2016)
  • Johnson, Anna. The ecology of urban vacant lands: human-mediated local versus regional control on plant community assembly. (Swan 2015)
  • Dandois, Jonathan. Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure Using Computer Vision. (Ellis, 2014). Currently: GIS Manager, Johns Hopkins University.
  • Lindner, Garth.  Controls on Reach Scale Hydrologic Response in Urban Streams and Implications for Restoration Design:  A Case Study (Miller, 2014)
  • Merner, L Delta.  Power and Knowledge: Flood Hazard in the Coalfields of Southern West Virginia. (Miller, 2014) Currently: Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation.
  • Voglozin, Nohemi. Eco-geographic Patterns of Genetic Diversity of African rice, Oryza glaberrima, in Benin (West Africa). (Parker and Lewis, 2013)
  • Williams, Yvette. The Socio-Ecological System of Vacant Lot Management for Southwestern Baltimore Neighborhoods. (Biehler, 2013)
  • Magliocca, Nicholas. Using Agent-based Models as Virtual Laboratories for Exploring Human-Environment Interactions in Land-Use Systems. (Ellis, 2012). Currently: Faculty at the University of Alabama.

PhD:  Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences (MEES)

  • Prosser, Diann, Wild Birds and Emerging Diseases: Modeling Avian Influenza Transmission Risk Between Domestic and Wild Birds in China. (Ellis, 2012).
  • Harrison, Melanie, Biogeochemical Hotspots of Nitrogen Removal in Urban Streams and Riparian Wetlands.  (Groffman and Miller, 2011)
  • Van Meter, Robin, Road Salt Runoff: The Relative Contribution of Direct and Indirect Effects in Pond Food Webs. (Swan, 2011)

Masters of Science: Geography and Environmental Systems

  • Chase, Jason. Assessing the role of culvert sediment storage an urbanized watershed. (Miller, 2023)
  • Plofkin, Rhonda. Warning Reception, Organizational Trust, and Risk Perception of Vulnerable Populations in the Midwest and Southeast During Tornado Warning Events. (Halverson, 2023).
  • Icaza, Gabriela. Interactive effects of consumer exclusion and leaf litter composition on patterns of litter decomposition in a stream ecosystem. (Swan, 2023)
  • Gilligan, Emma. Informing Policy: Baltimore City, MD Community Perspectives on Using Tree Shade to Reduce Neighborhood Heat. (Holland, 2023)
  • Sabatino, Alicia. Complex Collaborations: Situating the rise of nonprofit prison labor within Maryland’s institutional landscape. (Mahmoudi, 2023). Currently: Web GIS Specialist and Cartographer, Chesapeake Conservancy.
  • Figueredo, Natalia. Baltimore City?s Participation in the Zero Waste Movement: Who knows what about it and who has access to it? (Holland, 2023)
  • Rastegar, Nava. Using Spiderwebs to Detect Spatial Differences in Metal Air Pollution. (Mahmoudi & Hawn, 2021).
  • McDonald, Lauren. The Role Of Road Salt Deicer And Resource Biodiversity On Aquatic Consumer Feeding Dynamics. (Swan, 2021)
  • Torres Vargas, Laura. Gender structured representations of the migrant Venezuelan women in Colombian and Venezuelan Newspapers during 2015-2020. (Aufseeser, 2020)
  • Shobe, Beatriz. The Impact Of Urban Forest Corridors On The Richness Of Urban Bird Populations In Baltimore Forest Patches. (Studds, 2020)
  • Rowlands, DW. A Nation of Neighborhoods: A Quantitative Understanding of US Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas. (Mahmoudi, 2020)
  • Oakland, Hayley. Studying Water from the Air: Using new measures of aquatic habitat to assess stream restoration outcomes. (Baker, 2020)
  • Holman, Julian. Sentiment Analysis of Human-Arthropod Interactions. (Swan, 2020)
  • Everton, Erin. Photosynthetic Plant Stress in Urban Vacant Lots. (Swan, 2020)
  • Maffei, Clare. Relationships between vegetation and pollinator communities in established meadows in agricultural landscape. (Swan, 2019)
  • Metes, Marina. A lidar-based approach to measure channel incision in headwater streams in an urbanizing landscape. (Miller, 2018).
  • Jepsen, Rikke. Patterns of detrital biofilm metabolism in urban and nonurban stream environments when exposed to selected pharmaceuticals. (Swan, 2018)
  • Clifton, Zach. Using detailed topographic analysis to understand spatiotemporal patterns of floodplain hydraulics and sediment deposition. (Baker, 2018)
  • Binau, John Brooks. Urban Farms in Baltimore City: A foodshed and foodscape analysis.  (Holland, 2017)
  • Chang, Jason.  Spatial Relationships between Block Parks and Crime in Baltimore City (Ellis, 2017)
  • Connell, Eileen. Migratory Connectivity of a Songbird: Population Genetics Reveal the Wintering Locations of the American Redstart. (Studds, 2017)
  • Ralston, Katherine. Baltimore forest stewards and the urban forest. (Baker, 2017)
  • Miller, Katelyn. Latin@ Immigrant Influence on an Urban Foodscape. (Holland, 2015)
  • Mayo, Jennifer. An Analysis of the Housing Market Typology in Baltimore City. (Holland, 2015)
  • Gordon, Lindsey.  Globalizing a Classic Study of Agricultural Intensification: Turner et al. (1977) Revisited (Ellis 2015)
  • Branum, Tiffany. Bringing Public Back: Exploring Problems and Possibilities in Public Market Redevelopment at Union Terminal Market. (Biehler, 2014)
  • Donovan, Mitchell, Quantifying Remobilization of Legacy Sediment from Maryland Piedmont Floodplains. (Miller and Baker, 2014)
  • Schall, Daniel, The Chickens’ Grain: Understanding Contestations around Land-Use Best Practices on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. (Lansing, 2014)
  • Shamer, Sierra, The Outcomes of Translating Neoliberal Environmental Theory: A Critical Analysis of Payments for Ecosystem Services. (Holland and Lansing, 2014)
  • Bieberich, Joe,  The Independent and Interactive Roles of Spatial Variation and Dispersal on Zooplankton Metacommunity Structure. (Swan, 2013)
  • Jones, Dan, Examining Development Induced Geomorphic Change through time using Multi-temporal LIDAR-derived Digital Elevation Models. (Baker and Miller, 2013)
  • Newton, Meridel, Perceptions of Wind Power, Community, and Renewable Energy Landscapes. (Biehler and Lansing, 2013)
  • St. Pe, Alexandra, Examining Multidecadal Relationships between the Saharan Air Layer and Large Scale Atlantic Hurricane Environment (Halverson, 2013)
  • Martin, Haley. Effects of Disturbance and a Dominant Consumer on Stream Community Assembly: Experimental and Observational Evidence. (Baker and Swan, 2012)
  • Panunto, Matthew. Effects of River Valley Segment Sequencing on Floodplain Hydroperiods. (Baker, 2012)
  • Simini, Christina. (Baker 2012)
  • Thomas, Janel, A Multi-Scale Observational Analysis of Factors leading to Hurricane Earl’s Rapid Intensification. (Halverson, 2012)
  • Antill, Erica. A Biogeographical Study of the American Chestnut: An Evaluation of Intentional Introgression and a Spatial Analysis of Chestnut Habitat in Maryland. (Lewis, 2011)
  • Li, Jennifer.  The Role of Elevated Dissolved versus Foliar Nitrogen on Leaf Litter Processing in Stream Ecosystems. (Swan, 2011)
  • Krieg, Judith. M.S. in Geography & Environmental Systems, (Miller 2011)

Masters of Science:  Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences (MEES)

  • DePalma, Carrie. The Influence of Eastern Hemlock Decline on Organic Matter Processing, Invertebrate Community Structure and Consumer-Resource Interactions in Streams (Swan, 2008)
  • Jones, Josh. Interactions between Riparian Forest Restoration and Tree Biodiversity on Litter Breakdown in Stream Ecosystems (Swan, 2008).