The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses and dissertations are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:
- Applied Natural Resource Economics
- Civil Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
- Forestry
- Geology
- Mathematical Sciences
- Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- Rhetoric and Technical Communication
Callie Bertsch
Master of Science in Forestry
Advisor: Blair D Orr
Thesis title: An Ethnobotanical Survey of the Economic and Cultural Significance of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Southwest Rhodope Mountain Region of Bulgaria
Marcella Campione
Master of Science in Forestry
Advisor: Linda Marie Nagel
Thesis title: The Effects of Forest Management and Time on Herbaceous Species Dynamics in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Paige Cox
Master of Science in Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
Co-Advisors: Victor B Busov and Hannele Tuominen
Thesis title: Characterisation of the Metacaspase Gene Family in Arabidopsis thaliana
Randall Fish
Master of Science in Geology
Advisor: John S Gierke
Thesis title: Using Water Balance Models to Approximate the Effects of Climate Change on Spring Catchment Discharge: Mt. Hanang, Tanzania
David Kamin
Master of Science in Mathematical Sciences
Co-Advisors: Melissa Sue Keranen and Sibel Ozkan
Thesis title: The Hamilton-Waterloo Problem with Triangle and C9 Factors
Petri Latva-Kayra
Master of Science in Forestry
Co-Advisors: Michael J Falkowski and Markus Holopainen
Thesis title: Estimation of Scots Pine Defoliation by the Common Pine Sawfly (Diprion pini L.) Using Multi-Temporal Radar Data
Fangming Liu
Master of Science in Applied Natural Resource Economics
Advisor: William S Breffle
Thesis title: The Public Preferences of the Great Lakes Environment: A Lake Michigan Pilot Study
Kevin Mears
Master of Science in Civil Engineering
Advisor: Devin K Harris
Thesis title: Structural Capacity of Steel Tubular Cast-in-Place Piling
Nils Stenvig
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
Advisor: Bruce Mork
Thesis title: Time Domain Modeling of High-Frequency Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Overhead Wires, and Earth
Diego Villegas-Bermudez
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Advisor: Tammy Lynn Haut Donahue
Dissertation title: Biomechanics of Meniscal Horn Attachments
Thomas Vosecky
Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric and Technical Communication
Advisor: Robert R Johnson
Dissertation title: Uncovering Poiesis: The Role of Production in Education, Work, and Public Life