School of Earth & Sustainability
Completed theses for the MS in Environmental Sciences & Policy
Emphases = Science & Policy (S&P) and Paleoenvironmental Science (Paleo). Click on any heading to sort, and click on the arrow to expand.
| Name | Year | Title | Emphasis | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fankhauser, Kaci | 2021 | Considering herbivory in seed sourcing decisions for restoration materials | S&P | C. Aslan |
| Hansen, Lindsay | 2021 | Factors influencing growth in the Grand Canyon Colorado River population of flannelmouth sucker (Catostomus latippinis) | S&P | R. Best, B. Dickson |
| Lehnert, Savannah | 2021 | The social and ecological role of trees in fragmented tropical landscapes | S&P | C. Aslan, K. Grimm |
| Samuel, Ella | 2021 | Integrative methods to improve ecological restoration | S&P | R. Mitchell |
| Sutherlin, Catilyn | 2021 | Evaluating methods to account for soil organic carbon stock changes in agricultural lands | S&P | D. Huntzinger |
| Taber, Ethan | 2021 | Increased burn severity and simulated climate warming drive shifts in functions and plant traits one year post-fire in northern Arizona | S&P | R. Mitchell |
| Wrobleski, Emily | 2021 | Multi-proxy evidence for climatic and environmental change during the late glacial and early Holocene at Kelly Lake, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska | Paleo | D. Kaufman |
| Annetts, Tyler | 2020 | Direct effects of seasonal precipitation and temperature on the demography of two dominant bunchgrasses in northern Arizona | S&P | R. Mitchell |
| Bransky, Nathanial | 2020 | Monitoring Diorhabda carinulata impacts on Tamarix using satelline imagery in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona | S&P | T. Sankey |
| Cowan, Emery | 2020 | New hands in public lands management: The role and influence of non-agency partners in Forest Service stewardship agreements | S&P | K. Grimm |
| Guetz, Katherine | 2020 | Dam removal prioritization in the West: An optimization approach for river restoration and conservation | S&P | D. Perry |
| Haase, Kaitlin | 2020 | Hydroperiod effects on seasonal community assembly of aquatic macroinvertebrates in lentic systems of Northern Arizona | S&P | R. Best |
| Manak, Leah | 2020 | The effects of narcotrafficking on forest conservation initiatives and sustainable development in Honduras | S&P | E. Nielsen |
| Nez, Tasha | 2020 | Cove mutton consumption survey: Policy insights to address uranium contamination of Navajo traditional mutton | S&P | J. Ingram |
| Simpson, Ashlee | 2020 | Evidence for state change in an arid grassland-steppe: Limited recovery of vegetation after intermediate to long-term cattle exclusion in the Southwestern US | S&P | R. Mitchell |
| Sterner, Sarah | 2020 | The impact of historical fire suppression, logging, and reforestation on vegetation regeneration after a high-severity wildfire in northeastern California | S&P | C. Aslan, R. Best |
| Bath-Rosenfeld, Robyn | 2019 | Engaging citizen scientists to determine the importance of non-agricultural fruiting trees for seed-dispersing frugivores on working landscapes in southern Costa Rica | S&P | C. Aslan, K. Grimm |
| George, Robert | 2019 | Interpreting streamflow alteration using flow-ecology relationships for basins in the conterminous U.S. | S&P | B. Ruddell |
| Horne, Rene | 2019 | S&P | K. Grimm | |
| Jeplawy, Joann | 2019 | The impact of genotypic vs. environmental variation in leaf litter on aquatic community assemblage and decomposition | S&P | R. Best |
| Jones, Lindsey | 2019 | Temporal and spatial variability of dissolved uranium and arsenic in unregulated groundwater sources - western Navajo Nation | S&P | J. Ingram |
| Leary , John | 2019 | Farmer perceptions of ecosystem services in southern Costa Rica | S&P | C. Aslan, K. Grimm |
| Samar, Mary | 2019 | On the precipice of transition: water, crops and adaptation in Pinal County, Arizona | S&P | D. Stuart |
| Shaw, Natalia | 2019 | A hydrologic and cultural analysis of water resources in the Canyon de Chelley watershed, Navajo Nation, Arizona | S&P | E. Nielsen |
| Soder, Adrienne | 2019 | Interpreting nonmarket values of restoration with GIS to inform project prioritization in the Salt-Verde River watershed | S&P | A. Springer |
| Thomas, Richelle | 2019 | Quantification of uranium in traditional Navajo tobacco and soil on the Navajo Nation, Arizona | S&P | J. Ingram |
| Tiffany, Briana | 2019 | The impact of administrative partitioning on the regional effectiveness of forest pest management in protected area-centered ecosystems | S&P | C. Aslan |
| Wiman, Charlotte | 2019 | Late Holocene hydroclimate and productivity in varved sediment at Columbine Lake, Colorado | Paleo | N. McKay |
| Wong, Annie | 2019 | Timing and rate of glacially driven outwash plain aggradation, Pothole Lake, South-Central Alaska | Paleo | D. Kaufman |
| Deane McKenna, Megan | 2018 | Abiotic and biotic mediation of grazing impacts on soil carbon in northern Arizona | S&P | N. Johnson |
| Mogen, Charles | 2018 | The paleoecology and fire history from the Crater Lake, Colorado, watershed: the last 100 years | Paleo | R.S. Anderson |
| Perrone, Miranda | 2018 | Mapping land management agency resilience in the Sonoran desert | S&P | E. Nielsen |
| Romano, Emily | 2018 | Dissolved organic carbon released from thawing permafrost soils and detected in headwater streams | S&P | T. Schuur |
| Sanders, Renee | 2018 | Community valuations, perceptions, and judgements of eucalyptus plantation impacts in Ubajay and La Criolla, Entre Rios, Argentina | S&P | E. Nielsen |
| Shin, Patrick | 2018 | Unmanned aerial vehicles for estimating forest canopy fuels in Ponderosa pine forest | S&P | T. Sankey |
| Webster, Cole | 2018 | Late-Pleistocene and Holocene record of fire at Padul Peat Bog (Granada, Spain) | Paleo | R.S. Anderson |
| Winterbottom, Caitlin | 2018 | Informing Sonoran desert restoration practices through mutualism ecology | S&P | C. Aslan |
| Yurcich, Emily | 2018 | Prescribed fire effects on habitat components important to the critically endangered masked bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Elkind, Kaitlyn | 2017 | Buffelgrass detection and monitoring with Worldview-2 satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle images | S&P | T. Sankey |
| Ferguson, Michelle | 2017 | Management for resilience? Examining management implications of landscape resilience in southwestern National Forests | S&P | D. Huntzinger, K. Grimm |
| Jones, Casey | 2017 | Characterization of the Redwall-Muav Aquifer of the Grand Canyon and Kaibab Plateau, Arizona, based on Roaring Springs hydrograph analysis | S&P | A. Springer |
| Kolus, Hannah | 2017 | Assessing terrestrial biosphere model simulation of ecosystem drought response and recovery | S&P | D. Huntzinger |
| McCormick, Molly | 2017 | Experimental inquiry into "SLOSS" for pollinator restoration designs in arid lands | S&P | C. Aslan |
| Thurston, Lorna | 2017 | Physical processes driving suspended sediment transfer, Lake Peters, Brooks Range, arctic Alaska | Paleo | D. Kaufman |
| Weber, Jesse | 2017 | Collaboration for forest management: practitioner perceptions of organizational role specialization | S&P | K. Grimm |
| Yackulic, Ethan | 2017 | Productivity and temperature variability over the past 15,000 years at a small alpine lake in the southern San Juan Mountains, Colorado | Paleo | N. McKay |
| Roberts, Aradhana | 2016 | The influence of grazing management on soil carbon and mycorrhizae | S&P | N. Johnson |
| Sample, Martha | 2016 | Exotic conifer removal in Patagonia, Argentina: Ecological outcomes & management evaluation | S&P | R. Sanford |
| Silva, Chelsea | 2016 | Community perceptions of ecosystem services and human well-being from tree plantations in Argentina | S&P | E. Nielsen |
| Solazzo, Daniel | 2016 | 3-Dimensional estimates of sand dunes on the Paria Plateau, Arizona with unmanned aerial vehicle, Worldview 2, and Landsat 8 images | S&P | T. Sankey |
| Conboy (Swetish), Jessica | 2015 | Modeling and monitoring changes in the terrestrial cycle | S&P | D. Huntzinger |
| Haffey, Colin | 2014 | Patterns and predictors of crown fire induced type conversion in dry conifer forests | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Kruse, Audrey | 2014 | Employing citizen science to study defoliation impacts on arthropod communities on tamarisk | S&P | J. Vaughn |
| Miller, Roy | 2014 | Governance structures for the Flagstaff water projection project | S&P | E. Nielsen |
| Preteska, Laura | 2014 | The longevity of extracellular DNA in clay soils | S&P | E. Schwartz |
| Rivas, Cassandra | 2014 | Practical approaches for assessing local land use change and conservation priorities in the tropics | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Stortz, Sasha | 2014 | Participatory analysis in natural resource management: Legitimacy, learning, and the production of actionable science | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Bain, Dominique | 2013 | Wind energy: modeling implications and what influences policy decisions | S&P | D. Huntzinger |
| Boldt, Brandon | 2013 | A multi-proxy approach to reconstructing Holocene climate variability at Karupa River Valley, arctic Alaska | Paleo | D. Kaufman |
| Gray, Miranda | 2013 | Landscape-scale models and maps of fire risk and connectivity in the lower Sonoran desert | S&P | B. Dickson |
| Henderson, Tanya | 2013 | Integrating traditional ecological knowledge into watershed restoration at Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Chinle Arizona | S&P | E. Nielsen |
| Hoblitzel, William | 2013 | Characterization of hardrock mining impacts near Roco, Colorado: Testing a geochemical technique for citizen science | S&P | R. Parnell |
| Kenkel, Julie | 2013 | Identifying indicators of nitrogen pollution in vegetation and soils in the Grand Canyon region | S&P | N. Johnson |
| Rooney, Whitney | 2013 | Understanding the effects of environmental science courses on students' environmental values, hope and confidence | S&P | J. Downard |
| Sauerbrey, Katie | 2013 | Understanding dimensions of social acceptability for smoke impacts from prescribed fire | S&P | E. Nielsen |
| Truettner,  ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ | 2013 | Validating bioclimatic species distribution models for subalpine forest tree species on an elevational gradient in the southwestern USA | S&P | K. Cole    |
| Wilson, Amber | 2013 | Policy inadequacies in groundwater use: a case study in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming | S&P | Z. Smith |
| Giardina, Mariah | 2012 | Springs ecosystem management: a qualitative analysis of policy implementation within the US Forest Service in Arizona | S&P | Z. Smith |
| Hoglander, Cerissa | 2012 | Developed waters for wildlife conservation: Collaborative approaches and landscape models for desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) conservation | S&P | B. Dickson |
| Rubin, Spencer | 2012 | Wetlands, Euro-American disturbances, and policy implications on the southern Colorado Plateau: A paleoecological perspective | Paleo | R.S. Anderson |
| Skow, Dana | 2012 | Factors influencing the decline of native fishes in the upper Verde River watershed and management options for their conservation | S&P | A. Moline |
| Swaffar, Wes | 2012 | Linking forest restoration and watershed services: Investigating payment for watershed services in northern Arizona | S&P | E. Nielsen |
| Vaillencourt, Â David | 2012 | Five thousand years of hydroclimate variability on Adak Island, Alaska inferred from alkanoic acids | Paleo | D. Kaufman |
| Chang, Tony | 2011 | A quantitative review of the quality of environmental impact assessments for wind energy developments | S&P | B. Auberle |
| González-Maddux, Cristina | 2011 | Ecological and human health effects of current uranium mining regulations | S&P | M. Robinson |
| Maharjan, Rajani | 2011 | Irrigation diversions of the Verde River, Arizona: An assessment of impacts on water quality and riparian vegetation | S&P | R. Parnell |
| Plumb, Spencer | 2011 | Forest carbon management in indigenous territories: A case study of REDD+ opportunity costs and indigenous perspectives on governance in the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras | S&P | E. Nielsen |
| Quisenberry, Jamie | 2011 | Modeling the effects of climate change on reclaimed water quality | S&P | G. Koch |
| Ray, Christopher | 2011 | Predicting the effects of forest management policies on goshawk occurrence in northern Arizona Ponderosa pine | S&P | T. Sisk, B. Dickson |
| Reimondo, Evan | 2011 | Ecological impacts and management implications of introduced bison in the Grand Canyon region | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Cultra Eberly, Carrie | 2010 | The value and viability of collaborative monitoring: Evaluating integrated monitoring for sustainability | T. Sisk | |
| Drum, Ryan | 2010 | Beyond community wildfire protection: An integrated ecological approach to wildland-urban interface management | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Gist, Jessica | 2010 | Policy and management dynamics of Mexican wolf reintroduction to the American Southwest | J. Vaughn | |
| Henn, Abraham | 2010 | Tracking fluvial restoration: the San Juan River basin fluvial restoration projects database | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Henn, Moran | 2010 | A view of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) within western regions of the National Park Service | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Hermosillo, Edyth | 2010 | Variations in mercury bioaccumulation in fish along the river continuum of four Arizona freshwater ecosystems | S&P | P. Gremillion |
| Holcomb, Christopher | 2010 | Anthropogenic ecological boundaries in conservation and restoration | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Hudson, Hillary | 2010 | Predicting non-native plant invasions using the normalized difference vegetation index at Walnut Canyon National Monument | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Lawrence, Melanie | 2010 | Searching for social-ecological resilience: Adaptive management implementation on US Forest Service rangelands in the Southwest | S&P | J. Vaughn |
| Meinhardt (Malins), Kelley | 2010 | Disrupting mycorrhizal mutualisms: A potential mechanism by which exotic tamarisk outcompetes native cottonwoods | S&P | C. Gehring |
| Mork, Lauren | 2010 | Livestock grazing after wildfire: understory response, current management, and implications for conservation of Southwest forests | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Sommer, Larissa | 2010 | Climate change impacts on rural Alaska's natural resource harvesting practices | S&P | D. Anderson |
| Wadsack, Karin | 2010 | The economic and environmental impacts of large-scale wind power development in Arizona | S&P | T. Acker |
| Androwski, James | 2009 | A national and regional assessment of ground-water and wind-powered desalination opportunities | S&P | A. Springer |
| Brown (Youmans), Rachael | 2009 | Decision making and discourse : Interest group and government interaction in the Verde River watershed, Arizona | S&P | J. Vaughn |
| Novikau, Aliaksandr | 2009 | Transformation of the air pollution regulatory system in Poland and implications for Ukraine | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Soltow, Hanna | 2009 | A 14,000 year vegetation and fire history from Hermit Lake, Colorado | S&P | R.S. Anderson |
| Spang, Theresa | 2009 | Institutional change in the Russian Federation : Implications for protected area management | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Bernstein, Eli | 2008 | Restoration and stewardship on and arid public rangeland in northern Arizona: Ecological and political constraints | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Dela Cruz, Michelle | 2008 | Exotic brome control and revegetation trials in the xeric riparian corridor at Zion National Park | S&P | R. Hiebert |
| Dow, Talise | 2008 | Predicting invasive plant persistence and tracking trends following removal of livestock disturbances from Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands | S&P | R. Hiebert |
| Genina, Mariya | 2008 | A legacy of unsustainable water use: Adapting irrigation policies to climate change in Kazakhstan | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Masek Lopez, Sharon Rosa | 2008 | Geomorphic response to land use change, middle Verde River, Arizona | S&P | D. Anderson |
| Watt, Jennifer | 2008 | A late-Holocene reconstruction of spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) disturbance from Antler Pond, Colorado, USA | S&P | R.S. Anderson |
| Brown, Christine | 2007 | Wild land fire use on the Coconino National Forest, Arizona | S&P | R.S. Anderson |
| Holton, Brandon | 2007 | Upland free water availability and wildlife | S&P | D. Mattson |
| Hubert, Ronald | 2007 | Transforming sustainability: Identifying the critical success factors for sustainable cities | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Hurteau, Sarah | 2007 | Forest restoration effects on Western Bluebird home range size, habitat selection and nest success | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Routson, Kanin | 2007 | Genetic diversity of historic apple trees in the Colorado Plateau and implications for its preservation | S&P | G. Nabhan |
| Schott, Nathan | 2007 | Evaluation of an interdisciplinary scientific research program monitoring the restoration of a creek following dam decommissioning | S&P | R. Parnell |
| Timmons, Daniel | 2007 | Groundwater flow modeling and scenario development in the Prescott AMA | S&P | A. Springer |
| Fuller, A. Elizabeth | 2006 | A comparison of techniques for mapping the distribution of sediment on the bed of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon: Implications for resource managers | S&P | R. Parnell |
| Ironside, Kirsten | 2006 | Climate change research in National Parks: Paleoecology, policy, and modeling the future | S&P | K. Cole |
| Newell, Shawn | 2006 | Evaluation of permeability model approach to habitat lineage design | S&P | P. Beier |
| Romo Leon, Jose Raul | 2006 | Conservation and the changing pattern of land cover and land use in central Sonora, Mexico | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Salata, Tina | 2006 | Evaluating forestry camps: A case study of the Junior Forester Academy | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Vysotskyy, Dmytro | 2006 | Sensitivity analysis of the Prescott National Forest sixth code hydrological units and its application for collaborative management | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Cronin, Amanda | 2005 | Native American Tribes and collaborative watershed management | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Fisher, Jessica | 2005 | Using packrat middens to assess how grazing influences vegetation change in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah | S&P | R.S. Anderson |
| Meier, Zachary | 2005 | Guanacaste conservation area, Costa Rica: Biodiversity protection and community involvement | S&P | P. Fule |
| Richey, Amy | 2005 | A restoration rapid assessment protocol for the National Park Service | S&P | L. DeWald |
| Ruther, Elizabeth | 2005 | Cougar policy preferences as influenced by the valuation of nature | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Harms, Rebecca | 2004 | Vegetation response to invasive tamarisk removal: Implications for riparian restoration | S&P | R. Hiebert |
| Martinez, Theodore | 2004 | Structure and function of arbuscular mycorrhizae within Native American and production agriculture on the Colorado Plateau | S&P | N. Johnson |
| Mullen, Regina | 2004 | Impacts of prescribed burning on soil moisture | S&P | A. Springer |
| Munoz-Erickson, Tisha | 2004 | Evaluating the ecological and social outcomes of collaborative management: Ecosystem health indicators for monitoring effectiveness | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Rabotyagova, Olena | 2004 | The mechanisms of arsenic toxicity and metabolism among different organisms | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Toktarbekova, Zhanna | 2004 | How political conditions influence oil company behavior: A case study of Chevron Texaco in Kazakhstan | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Aumack, Ethan | 2003 | GIS and ecological discourse: Science, decision-making and landscape-scale ecosystem restoration in the southwestern United States | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Blankert, Erin | 2003 | Determining the cost of a lower arsenic drinking water standard for the Verde Valley, Arizona | S&P | R. Foust |
| Jones, Charles Jr. | 2003 | Predicting cattail responses to re-watering of a travertine stream: Decommissioning the Fossil Springs Dam | S&P | N. Johnson |
| Santos, Maria Joao Ferreira Dos | 2003 | Habitat selection by European badgers at multiple spatial scales: Implications for the conservation of the Montado | S&P | P. Beier |
| Soller, Ellie | 2003 | Using native seed for revegetation: Science and policy | S&P | L. DeWald |
| Sulkhova, Antonina | 2003 | Public participation in environmental assessment in the context of Russia as a transitional society | S&P | D. Ostergren |
| Wynne, J. Judson | 2003 | Landscape-scale modeling of vegetation land cover and songbird habitat, Pinalenos Mountains, Arizona | S&P | T. Sisk |
| Hansen, Monica | 2002 | Biological and cultural sustainability of Petrophytum caespitosum at Walnut Canyon National Monument, AZ | S&P | R. Hofstetter |
| Rutherford, Susannah | 2002 | Ecological and political factors that contribute to successful mangrove rehabilitation projects | S&P | D. Ostergren |