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Graduate theses for students in the MS program in Environmental Sciences
and Policy at Northern Arizona University

Thesis Topic

Student

Advisor

GIS and ecological discourse: Science, decision-making and landscape-scale ecosystem restoration in the southwestern United States.

E. Aumack

T. Sisk

Wildland fire use on the Coconino National Forest, Arizona (In progress)

C. Brown

R. S. Anderson

Native American Tribes and Collaborative Watershed Management

A. Cronin

D. Ostergren

Biological and Cultural Sustainability of Petrophytum ea espitosum at Walnut Canyon National Monument, Arizona.

M. Hansen

T. D.  Sisk

Vegetation response to invasive tamarisk removal: Implications for riparian restoration.

R. Harms

R. Hiebert

Predicting cattail responses to re-watering of a travertine stream: decommissioning the fossil springs dam

C. Jones, Jr.

N. Johnson

Landuse and climate change effects on river morphology and riparian tree distribution in the Verde Valley, Arizona.

S. Masek-Lopez

D. Anderson

Mycorrhizal mediation of arsenic uptake by sunflowers: implications for bioremediation. (In progress)

M. Markley

R. Foust

Structure and function of arbuscular mycorrhizae within Native American and production agriculture on the Colorado Plateau

T. Martinez

N. Johnson

Guanacaste Conservation Area, Costa Rica: Biodiversity Protection and Community Involvement.

Z. Meier

P. Fule

Evaluating the ecological and social outcomes of collaborative management: Ecosystem health indicators for monitoring effectiveness.

T. Munoz-Erickson

T. D. Sisk

The mechanisms of arsenic toxicity and metabolism among different organisms and a TEM study of the leech Motobedella Montezuma.

O. Rabotyagova

D. Ostergren

Forest restoration effects on Western Bluebird home range size, habitat selection and nest success. (In progress)

S. Reed

T. D. Sisk

Effects of Wildlife Management Units on invasive species management in central Sonora, Mexico.

J.R. Romo Léon

T. D. Sisk

A restoration rapid assessment protocol for the National Park Service.

A. Richey

L. Dewald

Cougar policy preferences influenced by the valuation of nature

L. Ruther

D. Ostergren

Habitat selection by European badgers at multiple spatial scales:Implications for the conservation of the Montado.

M. Santos

P. Beier

Evaluation of an interdisciplinary scientific research program: Monitoring the restoration of a creek following dam decommissioning (In progress)

N. Schott

R. Parnell

Public participation in environmental assessment in the context of Russia as a transitional society.

A. Sulkhova

D. Ostergren

Evaluating the treatment costs of a lower arsenic drinking water standard for Verde Valley, Arizona.

E. Tucker

R. Foust

Sensitivity assessment of the Prescott National Forest, Arizona: Subwatershed delineation and its application for collaborative mgmt.

D. Vysotskyy

D. Ostergren

Landscape-scale modeling of vegetation land cover and songbird habitat, Pinalenos Mountains, Arizona.

J. Wynne

T. D. Sisk

Last updated July 8, 2006