INSTAAR MS and PhD Theses

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Fifty years of 'INSTAAR' theses (1951-2001)

2011

Crouch, Caitlin Marie. Impacts of hydrologic change on geochemistry in the Upper Snake River, a high mountain acid rock drainage stream. Thesis (MS) University of Colorado Boulder.

Cullis, James Duncan Sydney. Removal of benthic algae in swift-flowing streams: The significance of spatial and temporal variation in shear stress and bed disturbance. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado Boulder.

Daly, Ryan Woodfin. An investigation into seasonal trends of terpene emissions: A focus on monoterpene and sesquiterpene emissions of native Colorado tree species. Thesis (MS) University of Colorado Boulder.

Hannon, Mark Thomas. Exploring predictive relationships of fluvial morphology: Using shuttle radar topography mission data. Thesis (MS) University of Colorado Boulder.

Hayo, Kathryn Marie. Late Holocene climate variability in the Norwegian Sea. Thesis (MS) University of Colorado Boulder.

Knelman, Joseph E. The impact of colonizer plants on bacterial community structure and function in early successional soils of a glacial forefield. Thesis (MA) University of Colorado Boulder.

Kroepsch, Adrianne. Environmental conflict at the energy-water nexus. Thesis (MA) University of Colorado Boulder.

Jennifer Petrzelka. The effects of a climate manipulation experiment on snow properties, snow surface energy balance, and soil temperature and moisture along an elevational gradient on Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Thesis (MA) University of Colorado Boulder.

Refsnider, Kurt A. Reconstructing Quaternary ice sheet erosion and dynamics across Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado Boulder.

Adina Racoviteanu. Himalayan glaciers: Combining remote sensing, field techniques and indigenous knowledge to understand spatio-temporal patterns of glacier changes and their impact on water resources. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado Boulder.

Wieder, William. Interactions of climate, carbon, and nutrient cycling in wet tropical forest. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado Boulder.

Zakem, Emily Juliette. Oxygen-18 of atmospheric carbon dioxide: Interannual variability and the terrestrial carbon cycle. Thesis (MS) University of Colorado Boulder.

2010

Barnhart, Katherine Ruth. Deep crustal xenoliths from the Great Falls Tectonic Zone, Montana: Investigating the timing and mechanisms of high-velocity lower crust formation. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado Boulder.

Kevin Befus: Applied geophysical characterization of the shallow subsurface: Towards quantifying recent landscape evolution and current processes in the Boulder Creek watershed, CO. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado

Bryan, Sean: An investigation of the oceanic redistribution of carbon during the last deglaciation. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Cawley, Kaelin Marie: Microbial interactions with dissolved organic matter in saline natural waters. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Cowie, Rory: The hydrology of headwater catchments from the Plains to the Continental Divide, Boulder Creek Watershed, Colorado. Boulder: Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony: Landscape heterogeneity in the soil nitrogen cycle of an alpine-subalpine ecosystem. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Jones, Tyler Robert: Siple Dome ice cores: Implications for West Antarctic climate and ENSO events. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Koch, Joshua C.: Hydrologic and biogeochemical implications of flooding in two catchments underlain by continuous permafrost. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Lawton, William Charles: Global environmental change factors and noxious weed management shape a novel grassland ecosystem on the Colorado Front Range. Boulder: Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

Ólafsdóttir, Sædís: Holocene marine and lacustrine paleoclimate and paleomagnetic records from Iceland: Land-sea correlations. Reykjavik: Thesis (PhD) University of Iceland.

Parman, Jordan: Climatological and elevational controls on organic and inorganic nutrients in stream waters, Boulder Creek watershed, Colorado Front Range. Boulder: Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

Riggins, Susan Gardner: The production and evolution of mobile regolith: Modeled soil production and measured chemical weathering. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Schupack, Benjamin B.: Cryptotephra detection and geochemical analysis in distal, Arctic lacustrine archives. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Simone, Bailey: The role of dissolved organic matter in arsenic mobilization in groundwaters of Bangladesh. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Walton, Mariah E.: Holocene reconstruction of the West Greenland current and the Greenland Ice Sheet margin near Disko Bay using foraminiferal assemblages. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Ward, Dylan J.: The effects of lithology on glacial landscape evolution, paced using terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides: Examples from the Colorado Rocky Mountains and the Kichatna Mountains, Alaska Range, Alaska. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Writer, Jeffrey Hawkins: Effect of the epilithon on removal processes that govern steroidal hormone and alkylphenol fate and transport in surface waters. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

2009

Bell, Tisza Ann Szeremy: A shift in diatom composition due to increased weathering and nitrogen deposition. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Berlin, Maureen Mason: Knickpoint migration and landscape evolution on the Roan Plateau, Western Colorado. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Cozzetto, Karen Diane: Controls on stream and hyporheic temperatures, Taylor Valley, Antarctica and large-scale climate influences on interannual flow variation in the Onyx River, Antarctica. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Eisele, Adam Paul: Understanding air toxics and carbonyl pollutant sources in Boulder County, Colorado. Boulder: Thesis (ME) University of Colorado.

Knochel, David George: Interactions among herbivory, soil resources, and plant competition govern the recruitment and dominance of spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe) in North America. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Knowles, John F.: Meteorological controls on the seasonal exchange of water and carbon dioxide from high-elevation alpine tundra at Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Boulder: Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

Matell, Nora: Shoreline erosion and thermal impact of thaw lakes in a warming landscape, arctic coastal plain, Alaska. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

McLoughlin, Aimee: Investigating the growth of Didymosphenia geminata and the impact on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in Boulder Creek, a regulated mountain stream, in the summer of 2008. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

2008

Ascarrunz, Nataly Lorena: Topography, elemental ratios, and nutrient limitation in tropical montane ecosystems. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Black, Jessica L.: Holocene climate change in south-central Iceland: A multi-proxy lacustrine record from glacial lake Hvitarvatn. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Brodin, Molly: Understanding the relationship between ozone and elevation in Boulder County, Colorado. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Engel, Chandler: Defining basal geometry and force balance at Columbia Glacier, Alaska. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Evans, Candice: δ18O of atmospheric carbon dioxide: Towards the development of an artifact free database from the NOAA/ESRL Carbon Cycle Cooperative Global Air Sampling Network. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Hill, Kenneth Randall: Potential climate impacts on hydrochemistry, source waters, and flow paths in two alpine catchments, Green Lakes Valley, Colorado. Boulder: Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

Nanus, Leora: Regional assessment of the sources and effects of acidic deposition on lake chemistry in alpine and subalpine watersheds of national parks in the Rocky Mountains, United States. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Meier, Courtney L.: Effects of alpine plant species on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics and neighboring plant growth. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Miller, Matthew Paul: Interactions between hydrology, dissolved organic matter, and algal populations in the headwaters of Boulder Creek. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Reed, Sasha Carey. Scaling from molecules to ecosystems: Controls over free-living nitrogen fixation in terrestrial ecosystems. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Sattin, Sarah Rebecca: Microbial functional and phylogenetic succession in temperate, recently de-glaciated, unvegetated soils. Boulder: Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

2007

Anderson, Rebecca: Melting ice caps of northern Baffin Island: Providing a context for current Arctic warming. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Axford, Yarrow Larue: Interglacial temperature variability in the high-latitude North Atlantic region inferred from subfossil midges, Baffin Island (Arctic Canada) and Iceland. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Bartholomaus, Timothy Chester: Sliding of Kennicott Glacier, Alaska, in response to evolution of water storage on annual, diurnal and outburst flood timescales during the 2006 melt season. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Bocquet, Florence: Surface layer ozone dynamics and air-snow interactions at Summit, Greenland. Spring and summer ozone exchange velocity and snowpack ozone: The complex interactions. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Bryan, Sean Patrick: Calibration of trace element paleoceanographic proxies in benthic foraminifera. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Cordalis, Daniel: Hydrologic characterization of the Mary Murphy Mine and vicinity, Chaffe County, Colorado using multiple isotope tracers and dissolved solutes. Boulder: Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

Duhl, Tiffany Rae: Advancing air quality modeling through improved urban vegetation characterization and an enhanced understanding of biogenic sesquiterpene emissions. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Flanagan, Colleen Marie: Understanding alpine watersheds in the Colorado Front Range: Phytoplankton community analysis and watershed education. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Hutton, Eric W. H.: Modeling the processes that form and erode marine strata. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Kettner, Albert Jaap: Numerical modeling of fluvial sediment supply to marine basins. Delft: Thesis (PhD) Delft University of Technology.

Lee, Craig: Origin and function of Early Holocene microblade technology in southeast Alaska, USA. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado

Liptzin, Daniel: Soil nutrients and biogeochemical cycling in the forest-alpine tundra ecotone. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado..

Pollman, Jan: Quantifying the OH radical by global scale NMHC measurements from the NOAA-ESRL cooperative flask sampling network. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Schilla, Annalisa: The stable isotopes and deuterium excess from the Siple Dome Ice Core: Implications for the Late Quaternary climate and elevation history of the Ross Sea region, West Antarctica. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Sakulyanontvittaya, Tanarit: Secondary organic aerosol from sesquiterpenes and other biogenic emissions in the United States. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Wong, Jeffrey: Quantifying the effect of drought on transport processes controlling metal contamination in Peru Creek, an acid mine drainage stream. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

2006

Cohen, Lana D.. 2006: Boundary layer characteristics and ozone fluxes at Summit, Greenland. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Flanagan, Colleen. 2006: Understanding alpine watersheds in the Colorado Front Range: Phytoplankton community analysis and watershed education. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Hobson, Anne Carrie Hickey. 2006: Using remotely-sensed nearshore suspended sediment as an indicator of environmental change on the Alaskan North Slope. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

O’Neel, Shad. 2006: Understanding the mechanics of tidewater glacier retreat. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Ortega, John. 2006: Landscape fluxes of reactive biogenic volatile organic compounds from United States forests. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Tomaszewski, Timothy Edward. 2006: Atmospheric nitrogen deposition at a conifer forest: Canopy nitrogen uptake and photosynthesis. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Turnbull, Jocelyn Christine. 2006: Development of a high precision 14CO2 measurement capability and application to carbon cycle dynamics. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Vachon, Ryan W. 2006.: Using a new network of isotopes of precipitation within the United States (USNIP) to better understand mid-latitude isotope-climate relationships. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Yang, Chi. 2006: Effects of Acid Mine Drainage on Nesting Tree Swallows. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

2005

Breiter, Nehalem Clare. 2005: How selective are biological controls? Evaluating the potential for nontarget herbivory by Mecinus janthinus Germar [Coleoptera: Curculionidae], a biological control agent for Dalmatian (Linaria dalmatica L. P. Mill.) and yellow toadflax (Linaria vulgaris P. Mill.) [Scrophulariaceae]. Boulder: Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

Cory, Rose Merin. 2005: Redox and photochemical reactivity of dissolved organic matter in surface waters. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Dunhill, Gita. 2005: Iceland and Greenland margins: A comparison of depositional processes under different glaciologic and oceanographic settings. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Joslin, Justin Cale. 2005: Determining the role of chemical weathering reactions and hyporheic exchange on silicate concentrations in dry valley streams, Antarctica. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Kristjánsdóttir, Greta Bjork. 2005: Holocene changes in climate, environment, and ocean reservoir age on the Iceland Shelf: magnesium/calcium, delta-oxygen-18, and tephrochronology of core MD99-2269. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Marshall, Hans-Peter. 2005: FMCW radar and finite element modeling as tools for studying spatial variability in alpine snowpacks. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Olafsdottir, Saedis. 2005: Currents and climate on the northwest shelf of Iceland during the deglaciation : high-resolution foraminiferal research. Reykjavik: Thesis (MS) University of Iceland.

Raby, Kim Scarlet. 2005: Use of water quality data for land management decisions: A case study in San Juan County, Colorado. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Reed, Heather Elizabeth. 2005: Effects of fire and plant invasion on aspects of aboveground and belowground interactions in an eastern tallgrass prairie. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Tanner, David. 2005: Non-methane hydrocarbon measurements for long-range transport studies at Pico Mountain, Azores, Portugal. Boulder: Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Todd, Andrew Stuart. 2005: Mining legacies in the Snake River watershed: The interaction of biogeochemistry, stream ecology, and human use. Boulder: Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

2004

Appel, Marcella. 2004: Photochemical effects on the copper binding capacity of stream and wetland humic substances in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Boulder, 102 pp. Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Erickson, Tyler Allen. 2004: Development and application of geostatistical methods to modeling spatial variation in snowpack properties, Front Range, Colorado. Boulder, 190 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Knauf, Meredith Christine. 2004: Rock glaciers as contributors to water quality in alpine catchments: Green Lakes Valley, Colorado, USA. Boulder, 129 pp. Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

Lazar, Brian. 2004: Relationship between water storage and sliding in a temperate valley glacier. Boulder, 72 pp. Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Liu, Fengjing. 2004: Hydrological controls on stream water chemistry in Alpine catchments, Colorado Front Range, U.S.A. Boulder, 167 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Miller, Matthew. 2004: Effects of hyporheic zone interaction on the
biogeochemistry of a headwater stream, Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front
Range, United States. Boulder, 78 pp. Thesis (MS) University of Colorado.

Mujica-Crapanzano, Laura Rosa. 2004: Landscape analysis of vegetation and diversity patterns at Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Boulder, 192 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

2003

Briner, Jason Paul. 2003: The last glaciation of the Clyde Region, Northeastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Boulder, 282 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Coulthard, Roy Dennis. 2003: The glacial and sea level history of the Aston Lowlands, East-Central Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Boulder, 123 pp. Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

Gardner, Eileen Margaret. 2003: Effects of nutrient enrichment on phytoplankton in an alpine lake, Colorado, U.S.A. Boulder, 52 pp. Thesis (MA) University of Colorado.

Kinner, David Andrew. 2003: Multi-scale estimation of erosion and deposition in the Mississippi River Basin. Boulder, 201 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Quillman, Ursula. 2003: Late Holocene paleoceanographic variations of Isafjardardjup, NW-Iceland. Boulder, 126 pp. Thesis (MSc) University of Colorado.

Principato, Sarah Marie. 2003: The Late Quaternary history of EasternVestfirdir, NW Iceland. Boulder, 258 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

2002

Belanger, L. 2002: Source and effect of acid rock drainage in the Snake River Watershed, Summit County, Colorado. Boulder, 130 pp. Thesis (MSc) University of Colorado.

Forbis, T.A. 2002: Seedling establishment on alpine tundra: community patterns, population demography, and disturbance effects. Boulder, 96 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Hamann, H.B. 2002: The ionic pulse, snowmelt flowpaths, and surface water chemistry in two alpine basins, Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. Boulder, 142 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

LeJeune, K.D. 2002: An investigation of relationships between soil resource availability and the invasion and dominance of Colorado Front Range Prairies by the nonnative Centaurea diffusa Lam. Boulder, 135 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Mangan, J.M. 2002: An integrative study using Landsat TM data, CENTURY model output, and a digital elevation model to quantify climatic effects on High Plains vegetation related to sand dune stability. Boulder, 238 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Manthorne, D., 2002: An inventory of atmospheric mercury enrichment to alpine lakes in Colorado. Boulder, 76 pp. Thesis (M. Sc.) University of Colorado.

Miller, A.E. 2002: Uptake of organic and inorganic nitrogen by alpine tundra plants. Boulder, 104 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Mixon, D. 2002: Automatic watershed location and characterization with GIS for an analysis of reservoir sedimentation patterns. Boulder, 170 pp. Thesis (MSc) University of Colorado.

Rueger, B.F. 2002: Holocene environments of Bermuda. Boulder, 357 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Smith. F. 2002: The carbon isotope signal of fossil phytoliths: the dynamic of C3 and C4 grasses in the Neogene. 226 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Chicago.

Turner, P.L. 2002: Effects of augmented snow on phenology, reproduction, community structure and spatial distribution of alpine plants. Boulder. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Van Matre, E. 2002: Local climate influences on phytoplankton species distribution in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Boulder, 144 pp. Thesis (MSc) University of Colorado.

2001

Barber, D. 2001: Laurentide ice sheet dynamics from 35 to 7 KA: Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic provenance of NW North Atlantic Margin sediments. Boulder, 160 pp. Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Colorado.
Castañeda, I. 2001: Holocene paleoceanographic and climatic variations of the inner North Iceland continental shelf, Reykjarfjordur area. Boulder, 154 pp. Thesis (M.Sc.) University of Colorado.

Cleveland, C. 2001: Soil microbial dynamics and biogeochemical cycling in moist tropical forests. Boulder, 128 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Daniels, N. 2001: Diatom-inferred salinity changes and drought history of the last 3000 years from Round Lake, Nebraska. Boulder, 156 pp. Thesis (M. Sc.) University of Colorado.

Doner, L. 2001: Late Holocene paleolimnology and paleoclimatology from sub-arctic lakes in Nunavut, Canada and Iceland. Boulder, 333 pp. Thesis (Ph. D.) University of Colorado.

Gooseff, M.N. 2001: Modeling hyporheic exchange influences on biogeochemical processes in Dry Valley streams, Antarctica. Boulder, 137 pp. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Colorado.

Lewis, K.J. 2001: Solar-forced roughening of Antarctic glaciers and the Martian icecaps: How surficial debris and roughness affect glacial melting in Taylor Valley, Antarctica and how this can be applied to the Martian icecaps. Boulder, 182 pp. Thesis (Ph. D.) University of Colorado.

Hood, E.W. 2001: Ecological controls on the source and character of dissolved organic matter in an alpine/subalpine watershed, Green Lakes Valley, Colorado Front Range. Boulder, 188 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of
Colorado.

Huber, U. 2001: Linkages among climate, vegetation and fire in Fuego-Patagonia during the late-glacial and Holocene. Boulder, 258 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

Klapper, L. 2001: Humic substance redox detection using fluorescence spectroscopy. Boulder, 90 pp. Thesis (MSc) University of Colorado.

Lewis, K.J. 2001: Solar-forced roughening of Antarctic glaciers and the Martian icecaps: How surficial debris and roughness affect glacial melting in Taylor Valley, Antarctica and how this can be applied to the Martian icecaps. Boulder, 182 pp. Thesis (PhD) University of Colorado.

O'Grady, D.B. 2001: Sedimentary geomorphology of siliciclastic continental slopes. Boulder, 189 pp. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Colorado.

Rueger, B.F. 2001: Holocene environments of Bermuda. Boulder, 357 pp. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Colorado.

Scott, A.B., 2001: Effects of cattle grazing on diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) and other exotic plant species in Boulder County, Colorado grasslands. Boulder, 73 pp. Thesis (M.A.) University of Colorado.

Scott, D.T., IV. 2001: Redox sensitive metal cycling in mountain streams: manganese and iron transport. Boulder, 158 pp. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Colorado.

Smith, L.M. 2001: Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the continental shelves adjacent to the Denmark Strait. Boulder, 219 pp. + data separately bound. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Colorado.

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2000

August, E.E. 2000: Influence of a wetland on water quality in a Rocky Mountain Watershed impacted by acid mine drainage. 150 pp. MS. University of Colorado at Boulder.

Cohn, J.B. 2000: The surface strain rate field at the Columbia Glacier calving margin. 49 pp. MS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Costello, D.P. 2000: Seismic and geomorphic investigations of Galena Creek Rock Glacier. 102 pp. MS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Davinroy, T. 2000: Hydrologic and biogeochemical characteristics of alpine talus: Colorado Front Range. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Freeman, W.J. 2000: Use of lake ice records to detect climate variability in the eastern Canadian arctic. 260 pp. MS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Hazen, J.M. 2000: Acid mine drainage characterization and remediation using a combination of hydrometric measurements, isotopes and dissolved solutes. 120 pp. MA, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Kerwin, M.W. 2000: Quantifying and modeling Holocene climate variability based on modern and fossil pollen records from the eastern Canadian Arctic and subarctic. 307 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Loveland, A. 2000: An evaluation of the importance of dissolved nitrogen in snowmelt runoff and its qualitative characteristics, Como Creek, Front Range, Colorado. MA, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Pack, S.M. 2000: Drought in the northwest Australian outback: isotopic records of ecologic change from Lake Gregory, W.A. 233 pp. MS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Robertson, A. 2000: Simulated and observed climate variability of the last 500 years. 197 pp. MS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Schoolfield, S.C. 2000: Late Pleistocene sedimentation in the Denmark Strait region. 181 pp. MS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Wegmann, J. 2000: A modeling approach to the investigation of ice falls on the Worthington Glacier, Alaska. 105 pp. MS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

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1999

Gonzalez, G. 1999: Soil fauna, microbes and plant litter decomposition in tropical and subalpine forests. 78 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Hardardottir, J. 1999: Late Weichselian and Holocene environmental history of south and west Iceland as interpreted from studies of lake and terrestrial sediments. 332 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Inyan, B. 1999: High elevation watershed characterization and sensitivity analysis: science as a basis for watershed protection policy. 301 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Joynt, E.H., III. 1999: Calibration and application of lake diatoms as proxies for climate change on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. 98 pp. MS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Kaplan, M.R. 1999: The last glaciation of the Cumberland Sound region, Baffin Island, Canada, based on glacial geology, cosmogenic dating, and numerical modeling. 206 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Licht, K.J. 1999: Investigations into the Late Quaternary history of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. 216 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Miller, J.B. 1999: Application of gas chromatography isotope ratio mass spectrometry (G IRMS) to atmospheric budgets of C18OO and 13CH4. 163 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Morehead, M.D. 1999: Sediment supply to the ocean: the temporal and spatial variability of rivers and plumes. 263 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Niyogi, D. 1999: Effects of stress from mine drainage on ecosystem functions in Rocky Mountain streams. 181 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Sherrod, S. 1999: A multiscale analysis of the northern pocket gopher (Thomomys talpoides) at the alpine site of Niwot Ridge, Colorado. 142 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Steltzer, H. 1999: Plant species effects on spatial variation in nitrogen cycling in alpine tundra. 121 pp. PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Urban, F.E. 1999: Multiple modes of tropical Pacific climate variability recorded in the d18O of corals from the Gilbert Islands, Kiribati, West Central Pacific. 95 pp. MS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Waters, S.B. 1999: Responses of algal communities to environmental change in an alpine lake, Green Lakes Valley, Colorado. 132 pp. MS, University of Colorado at Boulder.

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1998

Anderson, L. 1998: Quantitative paleoclimatic reconstructions for the Late Quaternary of southern South America based on calibration of modern pollen and climate relationships, 219 pp. University of Colorado at Boulder.

Bomblies, A. 1998: Climatic controls on streamflow generation from Antarctic glaciers, 110 pp. M.Sc. University of Colorado at Boulder.

Gould, W.A. 1998: A multiple-scale analysis of plant species richness, vegetation, landscape heterogeneity, and spectral diversity along an Arctic river, 157 pp. Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder.

Hamann, H.B. 1998: Snowcover controls on alpine soil surface temperature patterns, Niwot Ridge, Colorado, U.S.A. 129 pp. M.Sc. University of Colorado at Boulder.

Hood, E.W. 1998: Turbulent energy fluxes in alpine terrain: Niwot Ridge, Colorado Front Range, 81 pp. M.A. University of Colorado at Boulder.

Lipson, D.A. 1998: Plant-microbe interactions and organic nitrogen availability in an alpine dry meadow, 170 pp. Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder.

Lubinski, D.J. 1998: Latest Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments of the Franz Josef Land region, Northern Barents Sea, Arctic Russia, 361 pp. Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder.

Sloan, V.F. 1998: The distribution, rheology, and origin of rock glaciers, Selwyn Mountains, Canada, 194 pp. Ph.D. University of Colorado at Boulder.

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