Degree Recipients
| Name | Year | Quarter | Degree | Dissertation / Thesis | Chair | Committee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baik, Jiwon | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Enhancing fire resilience through advanced decision-making and risk management |
Murray | Church, Dodge, Roberts |
| Begin, Renee | 2025 | Winter | MA | Evaluating Drought Impacts on Perennial Crops Using Hyperspectral Vegetation Indices in Southern Santa Barbara County |
McFadden | Frazier, Roberts |
| Brokaw, Richard | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Physical processes driving biological and ecological patterns in the Santa Barbara Channel, California |
Siegel | Washburn, Nidzieko |
| Das,Debsmita | 2025 | Fall | PhD | From Sandwaves to Strata: Dynamics and Preservation of Multiscale Bedforms in Variable Fluvial Environments |
Ganti | Li, Walker |
| Noi, Evgeny | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Mapping Mobility Disruptions: Understanding Human Movement in Crisis Contexts |
Murray | Dodge, Meiring |
| Reid, Sean | 2025 | Winter | PhD | Geosocial Determinants and the Spatial Dynamics of HIV in the United States: Advancing Spatial Approaches to HIV Research |
Cassels | Ackert, Sweeney |
| Rowlett, Jake | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Ireland’s Skellig Michael and Star Wars: A Tour of Filming Sites, Fandoms, Festivals, and Futures |
Aitken | Gardner, Bosco, Sweeney |
| Salami, Mary | 2025 | Spring | MA | Trajectory Segmentation for Behavioral Mode Detection in Animal Movement |
Dodge | Frazier, Nelson |
| Shi, Hui | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Spatial, Emotional, and Temporal Aspects of Activity and Travel Behaviors |
Goulias | Baylis, Dodge |
| Silva, Germán | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Investigating Inferential Relationships Between Soil Salinity and Plant Traits for Coastal Wetland Monitoring Applications |
King & Roberts | Walker, Byrd |
| Turner, William | 2025 | Fall | PhD | From Climate to Food Security: Advancing climate-based tools for agricultural assessments and advisories in food insecure areas of Africa |
Jones | Funk, Husak, Baylis |
| Van Den Abbeele, Sigrid | 2025 | Spring | PhD | Exploring the Role of Population Dynamics and Policy Context on Access to Healthcare in the U.S. |
Cassels | Ackert, Kedron |
| Varga, Kevin | 2025 | Spring | PhD | Connecting Fire, Fuels, and Climate through an Investigation of Live Fuel Moisture |
Jones | Carvalho, Trugman |
| Wang, Zhangyu | 2025 | Fall | PhD | Spatial Dependency in GeoAI: Curse or Blessing? |
Janowicz | Mai, Caylor |
| Arabadjis, Sophia | 2024 | Spring | PhD | Statistical Applications in Population, Health and Geography: At Home in the Twilight Zone |
Sweeney | Baylis, Cassels |
| Cho, Seonga | 2024 | Summer | PhD | Challenges and Solutions in Multi-objective Spatial Optimization Involving Continuous Space Siting |
Murray | Dodge, Church |
| Dixon, Amy | 2024 | Winter | MA | Sensitivity of Urban Tree Phenology to Precipitation and Temperature in a Mediterranean Climate City |
McFadden | Frazier, Roberts |
| Eyelade, Damilola | 2024 | Summer | PhD | Multiscale Analysis of Watershed Modeling Inputs: Ona River Basin, Nigeria |
Loaiciga | Funk, Clarke |
| Green, Rachel | 2024 | Spring | PhD | In Search of Greener Pastures: Advancements in Modeling for Vegetation Dynamics, Climate-Driven Human Migration, and Disaster Classification |
Caylor | Baylis, Funk |
| Greenberg, Evan | 2024 | Spring | PhD | Remote sensing of river mobility: Quantifying the Controls, Timescales, and Stratigraphic Record of River Movement |
Ganti | Macdonald, Roberts |
| Kaloper, Sofia | 2024 | Fall | MA | Exploring Spatial Uncertainty in HIV Risk Locations: Individual Characteristics and Geographic Reporting Accuracy |
Cassels | Murray, Sweeney |
| Landesman, Jesse | 2024 | Summer | MA | Spatial Dynamics of Sediment Accumulation and Soil Carbon Storage in a Restored Wetland |
King | Ganti, Chadwick |
| Morgan, Bryn | 2024 | Spring | PhD | Detection and Dynamics of Vegetation Water Use in a Changing Climate |
Caylor | Roberts, Singer, Trugman |
| Solgi, Ryan | 2024 | Summer | PhD | Machine Learning Applications in Computational Geoscience, Remote Sensing, and Hydroinformatics |
Loaiciga | Bozorg-Haddad, Zhang |
| Yamamoto, Kana | 2024 | Fall | PhD | Leveraging Ocean Circulation Inverse Models to Quantify Carbon Biogeochemical Processes in the Global Ocean |
DeVries, Siegel | Nelson, Carlson |