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

Grad Program:

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Roger Pielke, Jr.

The relation of scientific information and public and private sector decision making, technology policy in the atmospheric and related sciences