MS THESES AND PhD DISSERTATIONS COMPLETED IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT (formerly Earth, Ecological and Environmental Sciences) FROM 2000 TO PRESENT
BENEDICT,
MICHAEL (MS Ecology, 2000)
Thesis: “Successional
development of cambará (Vochysia divergens)-dominated forest stands in
the Northern Pantanal of Brazil.” [adviser:
J.F. Gottgens]
Burnett,
Laura (MS Ecology, 2000)
Thesis: "Dynamics of the deep chlorophyll maximum in lakes of the McMurdo
Dry Valleys, Antarctica" [adviser: D.L. Moorhead]
HATFIELD,
NANCY (PhD Ecology, 2000)
Dissertation: "Tracking
diverse sources of recreational beach contamination by fatty acid methyl ester
(FAME) analysis and monitoring beaches for public safety" [adviser: R.L.
Sinsabaugh]
Homsher,
Michael
(PhD Ecology, 2000)
Dissertation:
"Time-integrated contaminant monitoring in an aquatic ecosystem
using semi-permeable membrane devices and dreissena polymorpha" [co-advisers:
J.F. Gottgens and A.L. Spongberg]
MCKENNA
, KERRY (MS Ecology, 2000)
Thesis: "Behavior interactions betwen the introduced Red-eared Slider (Trachemys
Scripta Elegans) and the Native Midland Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta
marginata)" [adviser: E.J. Tramer]
MINAROVIC,
RAY (MS Geology, 2000)
Thesis: "The characterization of the hydrogeological functionality of an
engineered wetland within the Maumee River watershed of northwest Ohio"
[adviser: J.M. Martin-Hayden]
ELLIOT,
JEFFREY (MS Geology, 2001)
Thesis: "Filtering and analysis of the gravity signature of the Kentland
dome structure, Indiana" [adviser: Dr. D.J. Stierman]
IANEV,
ROMAN (MS Geology, 2001)
Thesis: "Origin of Opal Cement in the Pennsylvania minnelusa sandstone,
northern Blackhills, South Dakota" [co-advisers: J.A. Harrell and V.M.
Brown)
LAUBER,
CHRISTIAN (MS Ecology, 2001)
Thesis: "Characterization of diffuse sources of fecal pollution and
pathogenic constituents of Escherichia coli populations in Maumee Bay
State Park" [adviser: R.L. Sinsabaugh]
BUHOVECKEY,
GREG (MS Geology, 2001)
Thesis: “A wellhead protection
plan for the Village of Montpelier, OH” [adviser:
J.M. Martin-Hayden]
SAIYA-CORK,
KELLYANNE (MS Ecology, 2001)
Thesis: "The
effects of long term nitrogen deposition on soil microbial communities in a
sugar maple (Acer saccharum) forest in northern Michigan" [adviser:
R.L. Sinsabaugh]
Schmeling,
Jamie (MS Ecology, 2001)
Thesis: "Sensitivity of carbon
dynamics to changing light availability of benthic microbial mats in Lake Hoare,
Antarctica" [adviser: D.L. Moorhead]
TAYLOR
GREGORY (MS Geology, 2001)
Thesis: "Environmental impacts on soils within two northwest Ohio
Cemeteries" [adviser: Dr. A.L. Spongberg]
GALLO, MARCY (MS
Ecology, 2002)
Thesis: "Short-term effects of N amendment on oxidative enzyme activity and
microbial community compositon in three northern hardwood forest,"
[adviser: R.L. Sinsabaugh]
CONRAD,
FRANK (MS Geology, 2002)
Thesis: "Crinoid deformation and regional structural geology in
northeastern West Virginia, northwestern Virginia, western Maryland, and south
central Rennsylvania" [adviser: S. L. Dean]
FERGUSON,
MARK (MS Geology, 2002)
Thesis: “A paleo-stratigraphic
correlation of the Greenland Gap Group (Upper Devonian) in Town Hill Syncline,
Whip Cove Syncline, and Whip Cove Anticline, Hampshire and Hardy counties,
northeastern West Virginia” [co-advisers:
M.J. Camp and S.L. Dean]
OROS,
DAN (MS Geology, 2002)
Thesis: "The occurrence and impact of fractures within glacial deposits
near a hazardous waste landfill, Oregon, Ohio" [adviser: A.L. Spongberg]
VELUCI,
ROBERTA (MS Ecology, 2002)
Thesis: "Microbiotic crusts:
ecological roles in an Oak Savanna of northwest Ohio" [adviser: D.A.
Neher]
AMONETTE,
RACHEL (MS Ecology, 2002)
"Diversity, redundancy, and efficiency in microbial decompostion of Typha
litter" [adviser: R.L. Sinsabaugh]
VAGEN,
JENNIFER (MS Geology, 2003)
Thesis: "The influences of groundwater on bluff erosion at Bill Stanton
Community Park, Lake County, OH" [adviser: A.L. Spongberg]
COMES,
MANDY (MS Ecology, 2003)
Thesis: "Changing avian diversity in the Maumee Watershed" [adviser:
D.L. Moorhead]
WALTERS, TIMOTHY (PhD Ecology, 2004)
Dissertation: "The effects of controlled burning and mowing on vegetation
in an Oak Openings sand prairie" [adviser: E. Tramer]
BRESEE, MARY (MS Ecology, 2004)
Thesis: "Photosynthesis characteristics of two climatically different
landscapes" [adviser: J. Chen]
RADEMACHER, JOHN (MS Ecology, 2004)
Thesis: " Forest structure and carbon allocation within and between two
northern-mixed hardwood edges" [co-advisers: J. Chen and K. Brosofske]
DARBY, BRIAN (MS Ecology, 2004)
Thesis: "Effects of biological soil crusts on nematode and protozoan communities
in Colorado Plateau and Chihuahuan Desert soils" [adviser: D. Neher]
MYSOREKAR, KAUSHIK (MS Ecology, 2004)
Thesis: "Lidar remote sensing as a tool for ecosystem management of the Oak
Opening region, Ohio" [adviser: J. Gottgens]
MULLER, BARRY (PhD Ecology, 2004)
Dissertation: "The effect of long-term nonpoint-source agricultural runoff on
assimilative capacity of freshwater marshes – a paleoecological approach"
[adviser: J. Gottgens]
HARTLEY, LINDY
(MS Geology, 2004)
Thesis: “Characterization of a heavy metal contaminated soil in Ohio for a
phytoremediation project” [adviser: A.L. Spongberg]
LEMOINE, JAMES
(MS Ecology, 2004)
Thesis: “Soil respiration of three chronosequences in Chequamegon National
Forest” [adviser: J. Chen]
MCLAUGHLIN,
MELANIE (MS Ecology, 2004)
Thesis: “Effects of the Toledo Ohio Metroparks on stream quality and fish
community structure” [adviser: E.J. Tramer]
SPERA, SHELLEY
(MS Geology, 2004)
Thesis: “Metal and pesticide preservation in the Winous Point Marshes, Sandusky,
Ohio” [adviser: A.L. Spongberg]
TRAN, SUSAN (MS
Ecology, 2004)
Thesis: “Habitat selection by two native turtle species in a Lake Erie wetland”
[adviser: D.L. Moorhead]
ARCEO, AMANDA
(MS Ecology, 2005)
Thesis: “The impact of a small dam on fish community composition and structure
in the Ottawa River, Ohio” [adviser: J.F. Gottgens]
BARNSWELL, KRIS
(MS Ecology, 2005)
Thesis: “Survey of naturally developing vegetation on an inactive landfill in
northwest Ohio” [adviser: D.F. Dwyer]
CONCILIO, AMY
(MS Ecology, 2005)
Thesis: “Interannual variability in soil respiration and response to
experimental burning and thinning in an old growth mixed-conifer forest”
[adviser: J. Chen]
HERMAN, JOHN
(MS Ecology, 2005)
Thesis: “Herpetofaunal communities in agro-ecosystems: the effect of farm
management style” [adviser: E.J. Tramer]
LAHNERS, AMBER (MS Geology
2005)
Thesis: “Constraining the
Nipissing transgression in the Central Lake Michigan Basin” [adviser: T.G.
Fisher]
MITCHELL, BRIAN
(MS Geology, 2005)
Thesis: “Identification and mapping of Greenland Gap (Upper Devonian) units on
the eastern limb of Sideling Hill syncline, Hampshire, Hardy and Morgan
Counties, West Virginia” [co-advisers: S.L. Dean and M.J. Camp]
ROFKAR, JORDAN
(MS Ecology, 2005)
Thesis: “Arsenic accumulation by plant species selected for growth in northwest
Ohio” [adviser: D.F. Dwyer]
RYU,
SOUNG-RYOUL (PhD Ecology, 2005)
Dissertation: “Effect of disturbances on fuel loading, fire-mosaic, and
interactions in managed forest lanscape” [adviser: J. Chen]
SOKOLOSKI,
PETER (MS Geology, 2005)
Thesis: “Sedimentology and ichnology of Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician
Skolithos Sandstone in the Deadwood Formation, northern Black Hills, South
Dakota, and southeastern Bear Lodge Mountains, Wyoming” [co-advisers: J.A.
Harrell and V.M. Brown]
WEYER, KELLY (MS Geology, 2005)
Thesis: “Eolian sand in
lacustrine sediment: a proxy for water levels in the Lake Michigan Basin” [adviser:
T.G. Fisher]
ARGO, DAVID (MS Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: “Habitat use by two
native turtle species in the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge” [adviser: D.L.
Moorhead]
CHEN, MEI (MS Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: "Protein profile changes of Arabidopsis leaves in response to boron
stress" [adviser: S.A. Heckathorn]
ELKINGTON, BRIAN (MS Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: “The effects of
turbidity quality and quantity on zooplankton consumption by young of year
yellow perch (Perca flavescens)” [adviser: C.M. Mayer]
LACROIX, JACOB (PhD Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: "Interactions between fire and landscape structure: applications of the
FARSITE model" [Adviser: J. Chen]
LAWHORN, NICOLE (MS Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: “Impact of Coleoptran-active
Bt corn on extracellular enzyme activities and decomposition processes of
non-target microbial communities in soil and litter” [adviser: D. Neher]
LI, QINGLIN (PhD Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: "Carbon storage and fluxes in a managed oak forest landscape" [Adviser:
J. Chen]
LOOPE, HENRY (MS Geology, 2006)
Thesis: “Deglacial chronology
and glacial stratigraphy of the western Thunder Bay lowland, northwest Ontario,
Canada” [adviser: T.G. Fisher]
MCKENNA, KERRY (PhD Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: "Comparing carbon dynamics of pelagic food webs in two Antarctic lakes:
a practical application of ecological network analysis to an ecological network"
[adviser: D.L. Moorhead]
MEINHART, JAMES (MS Geology, 2006)
Thesis: “Building stones of
Toledo, Ohio: a survey of dimension stone use in significant structures
including history and walking tours of the downtown area and the Old West End” [adviser:
M.J. Camp]
MIERZWIAK, SARA (MS Geology, 2006)
Thesis: “Enhanced in situ
bioremediation of a trichloroethylene groundwater plume using a dilute vegetable
oil emulsion” [adviser: A.L. Spongberg]
MURBI, HARRISON (MS Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: “Use of geospatial
technology to map Great Lakes invasive species” [adviser: D.F. Dwyer]
SCARBRO, JONA (MS Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: “Microbial transport
through the vadose zone of a biosolid amended cropland: implications for land
application of Class B biosolids and surface water quality” [adviser: D.F.
Dwyer]
DEVANNA, KRISTEN (MS Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: "Role of Dreissena as ecosystem engineers -- effects to native
bioturbators and benthic community structure and function" [adviser: C.M. Mayer]
JOSHI, PUNEET (MS Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: "Investigations
into Interactive Effects of Global-Climate-Change Factors on Plant Function"
[adviser: S.A. Heckathorn]
KOLINSKI, CAINE (MSE
Ecology, 2006)
Thesis: "Integrating wetlands ecology in secondary science education" [adviser:
J.F. Gottgens]
STEARNS, ANNE (MS Ecology,
2006)
Thesis: "The management status of southwestern coastal Lake Erie marshes:
challenges and opportunities to maximize natural wetland functions" [adviser:
J.F. Gottgens]
BENEDICT, MICHAEL (PhD
Ecology, 2006)
Dissertation: "Riparian forests in NW Ohio watersheds -- relations among
landscape structure, land use/land cover, and water quality in streams"
[adviser: J.F. Gottgens]
AUSTIN (FUSSELL), BRITTANY (MS Geology,
2007)
Thesis: "Holocene paleoecology and climate change in Silver and Stony Lakes,
Oceana County, MI, USA" [adviser: T.G. Fisher]
BODAMER, BETSY (MS Ecology, 2007)
Thesis: "Wetlands as barriers -- effects of vegetated waterways on downstream
dispersal of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha)" [adviser: J.M.
Bossenbroek]
CRAIL, TODD (MS Ecology,
2007)
Thesis: "Testing the impact of plant colonization on fish communities in
agricultural ditches of the Ottawa River, northwest Ohio" [adviser: J.F.
Gottgens]
HENDERSON, RACHEL (MS
Ecology, 2007)
Thesis: "Partitioning soil respiration through vertical profiles of experimental
forests in MOFEP" [adviser: J. Chen]
HUANG, XIXI (MS Ecology, 2007)
Thesis: "Identification of putative geographic sources of bacterial pollution in
Lake Erie by molecular fingerprinting" [adviser: W.V. Sigler]
MAINALI, KUMAR (MS Ecology, 2007)
Thesis: "Impact of
heat waves on plant-soil links in tall-grass prairie" [adviser: S.A. Heckathorn]
STRUFFOLINO, PAMELA (MS Ecology, 2007)
Thesis: "Identifying sources of Escherichia coli to Maumee Bay, Oregon, Ohio"
[adviser: D.F. Dwyer]
TENNEY, GWENDOLYN (MS
Ecology, 2007)
Thesis: "Quantifying the impact of prescribed burning on Ohio oak woodland"
[adviser: J. Chen]
ABU-ALAIWA, WISSAM (PhD
Ecology, 2007)
Dissertation: "Advances in biotechnology for the enhancement of medicinal plants
pharmacology" [adviser: S.L. Goldman]
AL-ABED, DIAA (PhD
Ecology, 2007)
Dissertation: "Genetic engineering of maize (Zea mays L.) using a novel
explant 'split-seed'" [adviser: S.L. Goldman]
BRANDEBERRY, JESSICA (MS Geology,
2007)
Thesis: “A Passive Seismic Investigation of the Crustal Structure Under
Ohio” [adviser: D.J. Stierman]