Graduate Abstracts

PhD. Dissertation

Name Thesis Title Graduation Date
Ayoub Shaban Modeling Natural Resource Scarcity and Poverty Effects on Fertility in Honduras, Nepal, and Tanzania Fall 2008
Marcia Lynne Turner Evaluating the Use of System Dynamics for Improving Stakeholder Decision Making Fall 2008
Ilene Sue Ruhoy Examining Unused Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Summer 2008
Michael Francis Dwyer Assessing the effect of Group Model Building on stakeholder teams Developing Urban Growth Strategies May 2007
Carole Ann Rolins Valuing a Private Environmental Good: Revealed versus stated preferences Summer 2007
James P. O'Brien Valuing wildfire risk mitigation in Kyle Canyon, NV Summer 2005
April VanCamp Gil * Strategic minerals or angry rocks: an evaluation of U.S. Government Policy on Uranium Miners Spring 2005
Majed A. Khater Assessing the relationships between the spatial variation in land-use spatial patterns and surface water quality Winter 2005
Yixin Wei * Characterization of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Lake Mead Fall 2004
Lantis I. Osemwege * Levels of synthetic Musks in municipal wastewater for estimating Biota Exposure in Receiving waters Fall 2002
Vicki Tripoli * The Relationship Between Gestational PCB Exposure, thyroid Hormones and ADHD Fall 2000

* UNLV Outstanding Dissertation Award

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Master's Project

Name Project Title Graduation Date
Amy Miller Ansari Understanding the motivations of rock climbers A social worlds study Spring 2008
Megan Aline Hopper Proposing measures for assessing systems thinking interventions Winter 2007
Stephanie Fincher Evaluating the benefits of a systems approach to particulate matter air pollution management Summer 2007
Ted Greenhalgh Assessing DHS Messaging Spring 2007
Patrick Sawyer Atmospheric Dispersion Model Validation for Low Wind Speed Conditions Spring 2007
Rekha Saxena Relationship between soil characteristics and occurrence of Arctomecon california: Is A. californica restricted to gypsum soils? Winter 2005
Maria Kaseko Examining the basis for change in Clark county non-conforming zone change process. Was it needed? Spring 2005
Lisa Ortega Of trees and community: Do Community tree plantings build social capital? Spring 2005
Jeffrey Alan Geller Streamlining the National Environmental Policy Act Reporting Requirements: A Hard Look at the Healthy Forests Initiative Spring 2005
Tricia Mynster The Punctuated Equilibrium Model of Policy Evolution: an Explanation for US Federal Fire Policy Change 2005
Christine T. Herndon Vegetation Characteristics Associated with Small Mammal Populations in the Las Vegas Wash Summer 2004
Yuri V. Graves  -  Spring 2004
Andrea N. Golli The Effects of Environmentally Relevant Doses of Perchlorate (Clo4-) on Rana Pipiens Metamorphosis and Development Spring 2004
McClain L. Peterson A Benefit-Cost Analysis of an Interstate Seawater Desalination Plant Shared Between California and Nevada Fall 2003
Rosangela Gomes Brazao The distribution of phosphorous in the nature preserve at the Clark County wetlands Park, Las Vegas Summer 2003
Anne M. Rothweiler Factors Associated with the Bioaccumulation of Mercury in Human Hair Following Consumption of Fish from the Great Lakes Region Spring 2003
Sharee Lynn Bowdidge A Study of Obstacles to Use of Methane Gas Produced in Landfills for Energy Spring 2002
Stephen C. Twomey The Study and Optimization of the Enzyme Inhibition Bioassay 96 for the Detection of Organophosphate and Carbamate Compounds Spring 2002
Rebecca Pearson Electrochemical Techniques for Detection of TNT and Other Explosives Using Disposable Screen Printed Carbon Electrodes Fall 2001
Lesley Regina Argo Challenges for the New West: Economic Impacts of Wilderness on Nevada's Rural Counties Fall 2001
Glenna Lee Communicating the Risks and Hazards of Methylmercury to the Ojibwe Population Spring 2000

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