
UC Santa Barbara Geography / Graduates / Ph.D. Dissertations
2001-2010
| Name | Degree Date | Title | Chair | Committee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WELLS, Michael (SDSU) | Spring 2001 | Human-Altered Fire Regimes and the Development of Stand Structure in Macrocarpae Pines |
O'Leary | Getis, Franklin, Michaelsen, Frank Davis |
| CHEN, DongMei (SDSU) | Spring 2001 | Multi-resolution Image Analysis and Classification for Improving Urban Land Use/Cover Mapping Using High Resolution Imagery |
Stow | Getis, Church, Goodchild |
| WESTMORELAND, Sally (SDSU) | Spring 2001 | Radiometric Correction of Multisensor Imagery |
Stow | Davis, Hope, Michaelsen |
| SCHWEIZER, Diane | Spring 2001 | Heating Up the Science Classroom through Global Warming: An Investigation of Argument in Earth System Science Education |
Gautier | Michaelsen, Gregory Kelly, Judith Green |
| GEBELEIN, Jennifer | Spring 2001 | Validation of Three Land Cover Maps Utilizing Space Shuttle Photography and Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery |
Estes | Clarke, Mertes, Tim Foresman |
| DIBBLE, Catherine | Fall 2001 | Theory in a Complex World: GeoGraph Computational Laboratories |
Goodchild | Clarke, Michaelsen, Stephen DeCanio |
| SORENSEN, Paul | Fall 2001 | Locating Resources for the Provision of Emergency Medical Services |
Church | Goodchild, Couclelis, Jerry Weaver |
| DOW, David (SDSU) | Fall 2001 | The Effects of Symbol Iconicity on the Integration of Spatial Knowledge Acquired from the Fly-through Navigation of Simulated Environments. |
Wright | Nelson, Golledge, Montello |
| WARRICK, Jonathan (MSI) | Winter 2002 | The Source and Fate of River Water and Sediment for the Santa Barbara Channel, California. |
Mertes | Siegel, Washburn, John Milliman |
| ALEXANDER, Nicole | Winter 2002 | An Object-Oriented Approach to Spatial Data Capture |
Clarke | Goodchild, Couclelis, Divyakant Agrawal |
| PAINTER, Thomas | Spring 2002 | "The Hyperspectral Bidirectional Reflectance of Snow: Modeling, Measurement and Instrumentation" |
Dozier | Gautier, Roberts, Robert Davis, Bradley Paden |
| SCULL, Peter (SDSU) | Spring 2002 | "Predictive Soil Mapping in the Mojave Desert of California" |
Franklin | Chadwick, McArthur, Clarke |
| ISHIKAWA, Toru | Summer 2002 | Spatial Knowledge Acquisition in the Environment: The Integration of Separately Learned Places and the Development of Metric Knowledge |
Montello | Golledge, Mary Hegarty, Jack Loomis |
| CURTIN, Kevin | Summer 2002 | Models for Multiple-Type Discrete Dispersion |
Church | Clarke, Goodchild, Samuel Ratick |
| MARSTON, James | Summer 2002 | Towards an Accessible City: Empirical Measurement and Modeling of Access to Urban Opportunities for those with Vision Impairments, Using Remote Infrared Audible Signage |
Golledge | Church, Montello, William Crandall |
| FUNK, Christopher | Fall 2002 | Modeling Patterns of Interannual Variability in Sub-Saharan African Rainfall to support Food Security. |
Michaelsen | Gautier, Roberts, Verdin |
| PYKE, Christopher | Fall 2002 | Modeling Vernal Pool Hydrologic Regimes and Assessing Their Sensitivity to Climatic and Land-Use change |
Goodchild | Chadwick, Cooper |
| CARTER, Christopher | Spring 2003 | Neoliberal Economic Reforms and Urban Sociospatial Change in Latin America: The Case of La Serena-Coquimbo, Chile |
Griffin | Weeks, Couclelis, Clarke |
| GREEN, Robert | Spring 2003 | Understanding the Three Phases of Water with Imaging Spectroscopy in the Solar Relected Energy Spectrum |
Dozier | Gautier, Roberts, Warren Wiscombe |
| RASHED, Tarek | Spring 2003 | Measuring the Environment Context of Social Vulnerability to Urban Earthquake Hazards: An Integrative Remote Sensing and GIS Approach |
Weeks | Clarke, Couclelis, Hope, Wright, Menoni |
| DENNISON, Philip | Summer 2003 | Measuring Vegetation Type, Biomass and Moisture for Integration into Fire Spread Models Using Hyperspectral and Radar Remote Sensing |
Roberts | Michaelsen, Clarke, Susan Ustin |
| LIU, XiaoHang | Summer 2003 | Estimation of the Spatial Distribution of Urban Population Using High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery |
Goodchild | Clarke, Kyriakidis, Victor Mesev |
| MILLER, Jennifer (SDSU) | Summer 2003 | Incorporating Spatial Dependence in Predictive Vegetation Models |
Franklin | Goodchild, Michaelsen, Sergio Rey |
| BIGGS, Trent | Fall 2003 | Impact of Regional Deforestation on Stream Biogeochemistry in the Southwestern Brazilian Amazon Basin |
Dunne | Chadwick, Melack |
| HOLMES, Karen | Fall 2003 | Regional Effects of Deforestation on Soil Biogeochemistry in the Southwestern Amazon |
Chadwick | Kyriakidis, Roberts, Dunne, James Boles |
| HEROLD, Martin | Spring 2004 | Remote Sensing and Spatial Metrics for Mapping and Modeling of Urban Structures and Growth Dynamics |
Clarke | Couclelis, Roberts, Guter Menz, Christiane C. Schmullius |
| KEUPER, Alex | Spring 2004 | The Influence of Uncertainty Metadata on Decision-making Using Geographic Data Products |
Montello | Fabrikant, Goodchild, Richard Mayer |
| McMICHAEL, Christi (SDSU) | Spring 2004 | Modeling the Effects on Fire on Streamflow in a Chaparral Watershed |
Allen Hope | Janet Franklin, Roberts, Loaiciga |
| WEST, Eric (SDSU) | Spring 2004 | Imagined Transitions: The Geography of Reform in American Foreign Correspondence From Post-Soviet Russia |
Stuart Aitken | Doreen Mattingly, John Pickles, Couclelis, Proctor |
| TAYLOR, Robert | Summer 2004 | A natural history of coastal sage scrub in southern California: Regional floristic patterns and relations to physical geography, how it changes over time, and how well reserves represent its biodiversity |
Davis | Michaelsen, Clarke, John O'Leary |
| KLINE, Karen | Winter 2005 | A Quantitative Analysis of the Users of Global Environmental Data Sets |
Clarke | Goodchild, Mertes, Eric Anderson |
| DIETZEL, Charles | Spring 2005 | From Parameters to Scenarios: Using the Behavior of Cellular Automata to Create New Futures |
Clarke | Couclelis, Sweeney, Michael Teitz |
| HUSAK, Greg | Spring 2005 | Methods for the Statistical Evaluation of African Precipitation |
Michaelsen | Kyriakidis, Wendy Meiring, Jim Verdin |
| CLARK, Matthew | Summer 2005 | An Assessment of Hyperspectral and Lidar Remote Sensing for the Monitoring of Tropical Rain Forest Trees |
Roberts | Chadwick, David Clark, Kyriakidis |
| CORRIGAN, William | Summer 2005 | Travel Time Estimation for Emergency Medical Vehicles with Applications to Location Models |
Church | |
| DE SOUZA, Carlos | Summer 2005 | Mapping and Spatiotemporal Characterization of Degraded Forests in the Brazilian Amazon Through Remote Sensing |
Roberts | Chadwick, Mark Cochrane, Kyriakidis |
| ENGSTROM, Ryan | Summer 2005 | Effects of Spatial and Temporal Variability in Vegetation, Soil Moisture, and depth of Thaw on Modeled Evapotranspiration Estimates in Arctic Coastal Plain Ecosystems. |
Franklin | Clarke, Roberts, Molly Pohl |
| NAGLE, Nicholas | Summer 2005 | Geostatistical Methods for Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences |
Sweeney | |
| ROGAN, John (SDSU) | Summer 2005 | Operational Monitoring of Land-Cover Change Using Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data |
Franklin | Frank Davis, Roberts, Douglas Stow |
| SYPHARD, Alexandra (SDSU) | Summer 2005 | Long-term Impacts of Frequent Fire and Urban Growth on Southern California coastal shrublands: An Integrated Simulations Modeling Strategy |
Hope | Chadwick, Michaelsen, Douglas Stow, Christina Tague |
| GOLDSTEIN, Noah | Fall 2005 | The Computational Testing of Urban Growth Modeling |
Clarke | Couclelis, Roberts, Steen Rasmussen |
| RICE, Matthew | Fall 2005 | Intellectual Property Control for Maps and Geographic Data |
Goodchild | Clarke, Couclelis, B.S. Manjunath |
| SIFUENTES, Jorge | Fall 2005 | Geographical Information Systems Data Implementation for Analyses of Settlement Patterns of an Early Agricultural Society |
Goodchild | Clarke, Church, Anabel Ford |
| MIDDLETON, Richard | Winter 2006 | Geographical Distillation: Application of the p-Median, Traveling Salesman, and Regionalization Problems |
Church | Goodchild, Kyriakidis, John Hodgson |
| LULKA, David (SDSU) | Winter 2006 | Networks Affecting the Geographical Distribution and Position of Bison in Modern America |
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| POWELL, Rebecca | Winter 2006 | Long-Term Monitoring of Urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon Using Remote Sensing |
Roberts | Clarke, Stonich, Hess |
| BATTERSBY, Sarah | Spring 2006 | Distortion of Area in the Global-Scale Cognitive Map: A Geographic Perspective |
Golledge & Montello | Clarke, Hegarty |
| NUMATA, Izaya | Spring 2006 | Characterization and Analysis of Pasture Degradation |
Roberts | Chadwick, Schimel, Soares |
| Ryan, John (SDSU) | Spring 2006 | Using Spatial Updating Bias to Explore the Robustness of a Collaborative Geovisualization |
Clarke | Golledge, Tsou, Jankowski |
| Zhou, Jianyu (Jack) | Summer 2006 | Empirical Tracking and Analysis of the Dynamics in Activity Scheduling and Schedule Execution |
Golledge | Clarke, Church, Loomis |
| FISHER, Douglas | winter 2007 | Ecological and Biogeographic Impacts of Fog and Stratus Clouds on Coastal Vegetation, Santa Cruz Island, CA |
Christopher J. Still | Chadwick, Chirch, Tiffney |
| GALLO, John | Winter 2007 | Engaged Conservation planning and uncertainty mapping as means towards effective implementation and monitoring |
Goodchild | Davis, Couclelis, Church |
| Goldsberry, Kirk | Summer 2007 | Real-Time Traffic Maps for the Internet | Clarke | Tobler, Goulias, Fabrikant |
| ONSTED, Jeff | Summer 2007 | The Effectiveness of the Williamson Act: A Spatial Analysis |
Clarke | Carr, Cleveland, Couclelis |




