Theses

Some recent M.S. theses titles

Jennifer Ramp collects pollinators

Only a portion of our M.S. graduates are listed here because our M.S. degrees have a thesis and non-thesis option. To see a list of graduates, see our Grad Alumni page.

Year	Name	Thesis Title
2012	Alia Khan	Adapting to Longer Summers: Evaluation of the Relationship Between Dissolved Organic Material (DOM), Chlorophyll-A and Algal Species in Lakes and Drinking Water Reservoirs Throughout the State of Colorado as Precursors to the Formation of Disinfection By-Products (DBPs)
2011	Caitlin Crouch	Impacts of Hydrologic Change on Geochemistry in the Upper Snake River, a High Mountain Acid Rock Drainage Stream
2011	Ricardo Simmonds	Truth and Climate Change: Truth in Pragmatism Confronted by Habermas and Ratzinger in the Context of Climate Change
2011	Emily Zakem	A Study of Issues Surrounding Emissions Leakage Policies in the Electricity Sector Within Sub-National Cap and Trade Systems in the United States
2010	Christopher McGuire	Temperature Trends and Advancing Dates Of Emergence For Montane Grasshoppers Along An Elevational Transect In the Colorado Front Range (1953-2008)
2009	Tisza Bell	A Shift in Diatom Species Regime Due to Increased Phosphorous Associated With the Thaw of Alpine Permafrost
2009	Aimee McLaughlin	Impacts of Didymosphenia geminata Nuisance Blooms on the Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community in a Regulated Mountain Stream System
2009	Rachel McLoughlin	Characterization of Organic Biogeochemistry and Didymospheria geminata Abundance in Boulder Creek
2008	Candice Evans	Effects of water vapor on analyses of atmospheric carbon dioxide
2008	Laura Makar	Voluntary Transfers of Reclamation Water Rights: A Mechanism for Augmentation of Urban Supply Reliability
2007	Colleen Flanagan	Understanding alpine watersheds in the Colorado Front Range: phytoplankton community analysis and watershed education
2006	Cynthia Cacy	Chemical weathering fluxes of loess soils in the Matanuska Valley, Alaska.
2006	Hillary Rosner	Tropical rainforests: Carbon sink or carbon source?
2005	Kim Raby	Use of Water Quality Data for Land Management Decisions: A Case Study in San Juan County, CO
2004	Cindy Copeland	Facing Climate Change in New Mexico: Policy Approaches for State and Local Implementation
2004	Kimberly Kosmenko	Grasslands Conservation Programs on Private Lands: Integrating Sociocultural and Ecological Learning for Prairie Dog Ecosystem
2004	Jessica Lowrey	Connecting Science and Policy: Lessons Learned from 32 Science-Policy Assessments
2004	Desiree Pacheco	Product Service Systems: An Assessment of the Conditions for Optimal Goernance as a Function of Eco and Env Efficiency
2004	Edouard von Herberstein	Hurricane risk pricing, catastrophe models and data quality: Why it matters and what should be done about it.
2004	Alice Wood Conovitz	Characterization and prioritization of mining-related metal sources with metal loading tracer dilution tests