Theses from 2024
Major and Trace Element Analysis of Irazú Volcano’s Upper Holocene Magmatic Evolution, Costa Rica, Forrest Dabbs
The Early-Holocene East African Monsoon Precipitation: Insights from a High-Resolution δ18O Time Series, Mark Ajilit Elungat
Understanding the Intersection of Social Vulnerability, Land Cover Changes, and Heat Exposure in Reno, Nevada, USA, Consolata W. Macharia
Hydrologic Disturbances and Land Cover: A Study on Stream Metabolism Dynamics, Deandre Presswood
Community Science and Water-Based Advocacy Groups in Metro Atlanta, Zakia Riaz
Space-time Pattern of Underground Radon Emission and the Influence of Environmental Factors Using Sensor Networks, Sumya Tasnim
Evaluating the Water Cost Burden in Metro Atlanta: A Framework for Understanding Racial, Ethnic, and Economic Disparities in Water Quality, Angelique Willis
Theses from 2023
Using GIS Network Modeling to Evaluate Access Disruption to Critical Health Facilities During Flood Events, Sarah F. Akinola
Occurrences of Rare-Earth Elements in Heavy Mineral Sand Deposits, Coastal Plain, Georgia, Mustafa Al-Zehhawi
Using Mobility Data to Evaluate Changes in Outdoor Recreational Activity Across Major COVID-19 Variants, Basit Amuda
Thermal Maturity of the Late Devonian - Mississippian Woodford Shale Ardmore-Arbuckle Basin, Oklahoma, Opeyemi Victoria Aransiola
Habitat Suitability Assessment for Urban Beavers in Metro Atlanta, GA, and Charlotte, NC, Alisha Guglielmi
Assessing Urbanization Impacts on Surface Water Quality in the Atlanta Region, Oluwatosin I. Orimolade
Banks on a Plane: Disparities in Financial Access and Critiques of Geospatial Accessibility, Ryan Pardue
Transporting in Place: Locating Trans Care in Atlanta, Arin Yost
Theses from 2022
Characterization of the Surficial Aquifer System for Non-potable Use at the Wormsloe Historic Site, Chatham County, Georgia., Kolawole Arowoogun
Blocking Out the Sun: Restricting Rooftop Solar in Atlanta, Georgia, Carys Behnke
Effects of Urban Land Cover on Magnitude and Interannual Variability of Evapotranspiration, Dinah K. Carlton
Competing Spatial Imaginaries and Counterinsurgency in the "Black Mecca": A Case Study of the Ron Carter Patrol, Kayla Edgett
Characterizing Temporal Dynamics of Isotope and Ion Chemistry in Groundwater Across a Barrier Island as Influenced by Rainfall and Tidal Cycles, Galapitagedara Subhashi Karunarathne
Sinkhole Susceptibility Analysis using Machine Learning for West Central Florida, Olanrewaju Muili
Racial Residential Segregation and COVID-19 Mortality, Suresh Nath Neupane
Rare-Earth Element Occurrences in Heavy Mineral Sand, Southeast Georgia, Ibrahim Ajibola Oladeni
Theses from 2021
Delineating Optimal Solar Sites in Atlanta Using GIS and Remote Sensing, Sam Yaw Appiah
Examining Mycofiltration Efficacy in a First Order Stream, Lacey J. Davis
Distribution of Contamination Sources in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area along the Upper Chattahoochee River Basin: An Environmental Justice Focus, Ahmadou T. Deme
Evolution of Composite Heat Vulnerability Indices in Atlanta using Multiple Weighting Mechanics, Joseph Karanja
Clay Mineralogy And Geochemistry Of Pleistocene Sediments From Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania, Nabil Murshed
Clearing and Cultivating Carceral Space: A Historical Geography of Stewart Detention Center, Quinn Ouellette-Kray
The Timing of Smectite-To-Illite Transformation in Cretaceous Rocks of Powder River Basin, Benard O. Uruowhe
Characterizing Solute Transport and Processing Dynamics in the Headwaters of the South River (South Atlanta, GA, USA), Christopher Wheeler
Theses from 2020
Experimental And Theoretical Thermodynamic Studies Of Charging And Adsorption At The Solid-Aqueous Interface Of Aluminum-Bearing Ferrihydrites And Rutile, Faisal Torbu Adams
Stakeholder Perceptions of a Small-scale Wastewater Treatment Facility in DeKalb County, GA, Leesi B. Barinem
Experimental Reduction Of Fe-Oxyhydroxides In Simulated Carbonate and Sulfide/Sulfate Brine: Implications for Paleolake Deposits., Joshua M. Chidzugwe
Determining the Effects of Hydrothermal Alteration on the Sorption of Neptunium and Europium onto Bentonites, Dominique S. Kwong-Moses
Infiltration and Inflow as a Component of the Urban Water Cycle: Inter-Watershed Comparison of Magnitude and Correlative Watershed Attributes, Allison D. Murray
An Analysis of Climate Resilience Planning in Atlanta, Georgia, Nkosi Muse
A Paired-catchment Approach for Characterizing Hydrologic Response to Mountaintop Mining, Elinor A. Sattler
The Significance of the Informal Waste Sector in A Minority World Country: A Case-Study of Metropolitan Atlanta, Anamarie D. Shreeves
Palynology of an Extinct Barrier Island Wetland, Isle of Hope, GA, Matthew Toro
An Investigation of Recent Climate Change in Southern Ukraine, Liudmyla Zapukhliak
Sustainability Evaluation of Shallow Groundwater for Non-potable Use, GSU Downtown Campus, Atlanta, Georgia, Fabian J. Zowam
Theses from 2019
A Disparity Analysis of Health Determinants and Outcomes in 500 Cities in the United States, Margaret Boateng
A 23 Kyrs Record Of Environmental Change From Cherangani Hills, Kenya, Vicky Cheruiyot
Finding Identity through 'Place': African Retention in African American Poetry, Shelley S. Clopton
Clay Mineralogy and Porosity Estimates of the Lower Permian Wolfcamp Shale, Morgan Garner
Abundance and Distribution of Invasive Woody Shrub Mahonia bealei in the Metropolitan Atlanta Area, Adam W. Greim
A Methodology for Black Geographies, Karlyn Harris
Groundwater Inundation and Wastewater Treatment in the Coastal Plain of Georgia, Ben Hodges
Comparative Analysis of Water Storage Dynamics and Storage-Discharge Relations among Variably Urbanized Catchments within South River Watershed, DeKalb County, GA, Eimienwanlan Ibhagui
Investigating the Relationship Between Water Flow Path and Contaminant Risk from Georgia Coal Ash Ponds in the Piedmont, Claire C. Mathis
Examining The Density And Distribution Of Micro And Macroplastics As A Possible Contributor To Sea Turtle Nesting Sand Habitat Quality, Celine Mollet Saint Benoit
Diversifying Environmental Advocacy in Atlanta: A Case Study of Atlanta's African American-Led Community-Based Groups Working Against Environmental Injustices, Tamara Marie Spikes
Comparing the Hydrologic Performance of Intensive and Extensive Green Roofs in Atlanta, Ga USA, Hannah Stefanoff
Rainfall in an Equatorial Africa Transition Zone: Examining Rainy-Season Characteristics and Trends in Western Uganda, Hae Seung Sung
Characterization of a Shallow Urban Aquifer in Atlanta, Georgia, Jude Waguespack
Race, Place, and Politics: Urban Renewal, Redevelopment, and Stories of the Historic Buttermilk Bottom Neighborhood in Atlanta, John E. Williams
Controls on Saltwater Intrusion in a Shallow Coastal Aquifer: Wormsloe Historic Site, GA, Marshall D. Williams
Theses from 2018
Evaluation of Stable Isotope Ratios within Meteoric, Surface, and Groundwater within the Kathmandu Valley, upendra giri
Chronostratigraphy of Barva and Po s Volcanoes, Volcanic Central Cordillera, Costa Rica, Anjelica Guerrier
Surface Soil Metal and Metalloid Contamination Within the Urban Environment of Atlanta, Georgia, Lanier Henson
Spatiotemporal Variation of Land-Use and Land-Cover in the Nairobi River Watershed, and Its Effects on the Inorganic Geochemistry of Nairobi River, Francis Muchemi
The Volcanism Ontology (VO): Semantic Modeling of Volcanic Eruptions and Volcanoes, John Myer
Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Changes in Tropical East Africa Since the LGM: New Record from the Cherangani Hills Kenya., Benjamin Atieno Opiyo
Toward a Diffusive, Non-Destructive Approach to Measuring Stable Isotopes of Water within Tree Stems, Scott A. Raulerson
Spatiotemporal Variation in Emotional Responses to 2017 Terrorist Attacks in London Using Twitter Data, Ruixue Wang
Theses from 2017
Investigating the Effect of Aging and Time on the Fate and Transport of Lead in Artificially Contaminated Tropical soils., Fatai Balogun
Comagmatic Evolution of the Boulder and Pioneer Batholiths of Southwest Montana, John Bankhead
A Geospatial Analysis: Impacts of Hurricane Matthew, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, Steven Dobson
Geochemical Signatures of Stream Capture in the Retreating Blue Ridge Escarpment, Southern Appalachian Mountains, David DuBose
An Analysis of the Community Land Trust Model, Tara A. Franklin-Mitchell
Land Cover Change Impacts on Multidecadal Streamflow in Metropolitan Atlanta GA, USA, T. Chee Hill
Zeolite Facies and Environmental Change in the Plio-Pleistocene Baringo Basin, Kenya Rift, Karim Minkara
Assessing the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the coastal wetland of St. Bernard, Louisiana, Rukumani Rimal
Theses from 2016
Spatial Analysis of Environmental Factors Affecting Endangered and Invasive Fish Species on the Belize Barrier Reef, Adam S. Acker
Investigating the Effect of Aluminum Substitution on the Physical and Chemical Properties of Ferrihydrite, Richard Ajewole
The Evaluation of Measuring Stream Channel Morphology using Unmanned Aerial System-Based Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry, William Ballow
The use of in situ gamma radiation measurements as a method of determining radon potential in urban environments, Andrew S. Berens
Ontology of Geological Mapping, Tyler Boyd
A Study of Mineral Impurities within the Georgia Kaolins, Daniel J. Gardner
Surface Charge Characterization of Anatase and Rutile using Flow Adsorption Microcalorimetry, Tyler Hawkins
Land Management Controls on Hydraulic Conductivity of an Urban Farm in Atlanta, GA, Hayden Hinton
An Evaluation of Late Holocene Sea Level Rise and Anthropogenic Impacts; Jones Narrows Marsh, Chatham County, Georgia, Jessie Hughes
Effects of Urbanization on Stream Flashiness in the I-85 Corridor of the Southeastern Piedmont, Eli Koslofsky, Katie Price, and C. Rhett Jackson
Geographic Variation of Radon Gas Concentrations in Relationship to Housing Characteristics in Dekalb County, Georgia, Fredrick Neal
Authigenic Clay Formation and Diagenetic Reactions, Lake Magadi, Kenya, Elena L. Nikonova
Biodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Contaminated Coastal Environments, Nigeria, SAMSON ONIBIYO
Authigenic Clays used as Terrestrial Climate Proxies: Locality 80, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Alexandra M. Simpson
Deciphering Phosphorus and Aluminum Physiochemical Associations in Paleolake Sediments of Long Pond, GA, Christopher Tidwell
Theses from 2015
Cartography for Communities: An Examination of Participatory Action Mapping, Amber J. Boll
The Effects of Urbanization on Baseflow over Time: An Analysis of Changing Watersheds and Stream Flow Response in Georgia, Emily B. Furtsch
The Geochemical Trends of Major and Select Trace Elements through a Soil Profile Near Mt. Daisen, Japan, Cynthia Jackson
Lead Contamination: Environmental Geochemistry of Gold Mining Villages in Northwest Nigeria, Lucy Taylor Mejia