MA/MS Theses and Research Projects

MA/MS Theses and Research Projects
Name Title Year Committee
Christina Grosso Mountain Lake: its function and compatibility as a recreational area and native habitat Barbara Holzman, Jerry Davis
Kelly Costa A Geographic Analysis of Socially Responsible Businesses in the United States Roger Crawford, Hans Meihoefer
Sean Micallef Grazing effects on the grassland vegetation of Mount Diablo State Park, California Barbara Holzman, Jerry Davis
Sylvie Amezcua Gaps and links: San Francisco Garter Snake habitat assessment priorities Jerry Davis, Barbara Holzman
Elspeth Keller Napa and its River Nancy Wilkinson, Jerry Davis
William Keene A geographic analysis of trail use conflicts associated with bicycling in Marin County, California Roger Crawford, Hans Meihoefer
James Campbell In harm's way : urban development in a deep floodplain Sacramento County, California Nancy Wilkinson, Roger Crawford, Hans Meihoefer
Karen Brewster Viticulture in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties, California Hans Meihoefer, John Westfall
Lauren Johnson The diffusion of organic farming in Yolo County, California: A question of culture Nancy Wilkinson, Hans Meihoefer
Kimra McAfee Post-Audit of New Melones Dam, Central Valley Project, Stanislaus River, California Nancy Wilkinson, Roger Crawford
Cary Karacas The Haight-Ashbury's Trial by Public Space: A Case Study in Locational Conflict Nancy Wilkinson, Qian Guo
Jeff Milliken Water Resource Issues Along the Lower Colorado River Nancy Wilkinson, Jerry Davis
Peter Dartnell Applying remote sensing techniques to map seafloor geology/habitat relationships. Jerry Davis, John Westfall
Mary Imandt Kaplan’s Informational Factory ‘Mystery’ Along Presidio of San Francisco Trails Roger Crawford, Nancy Wilkinson
David Hall Coyote recolonization and human perception in West Marin County, California Barbara Holzman, Nancy Wilkinson, Judd Howell
James Macrae GIS study to assess potential transit-oriented development in the Bay Area Roger Crawford, Jerry Davis
Lisa Owens Viani Restoring an urban stream: Baxter Creek case study. Jerry Davis, Nancy Wilkinson
Karyn Gear Developing Conservation Plans at the Local Level: A Useful Tool in the Preservation of California’s Landscapes Nancy Wilkinson, Jerry Davis
Brandon Jebens A Historical Geography of Disturbances Within the Redwood Creek Watershed, Marin County, California Nancy Wilkinson, Hans Meihoefer
Kristina Perry Local Agriculture and Farmers’ Market Salad Bars in Berkeley’s Public Schools Hans Meihoefer, Nancy Wilkinson
Elise Latedjou Geography of Regional Cuisine Nancy Wilkinson, Hans Meihoefer
Hili Kopilovich Using Natural Areas in Urban Landscapes: Lake Merced Curriculum for High Schools Barbara Holzman, Hans Meihoefer
Vivian Matuk Water quality of San Pedro Creek watershed, Pacifica, California Jerry Davis, Nancy Wilkinson, Hans Meihoefer
Ken Ahern Central Arizona Project: Water Policy Changes and Implications Nancy Wilkinson, Roger Crawford
Juan Ochoa Plant Diversity in Organic and Conventional Farms' Margins in Yolo County, California Barbara Holzman, Hans Meihoefer
Carole Garcia Lessons Learned: Effective Mitigation for Large Dams in SE Asia. Nancy Wilkinson, Jerry Davis
Douglas Johnson From Wasteland to Shrine: Wilderness Meanings in Southwest U.S. Canyon Country Parklands Nancy Wilkinson, Qian Guo
Kevin Jackson AIDS Induced Landscape Change: The Castro from 1980-2001 Nancy Wilkinson, Max Kirkeberg
David Kamil City on the Brink: An Atlas of San Francisco, 1940-1950 Max Kirkeberg, Hans Meihoefer
John Culp Shell mounds to cul-de-sacs: the cultural landscape of San Pedro Valley, Pacifica, California Nancy Wilkinson, Jerry Davis
David Freitag Lost in the Fog: An Environmental History of Lake Merced Barbara Holzman, Max Kirkeberg
John Wilson Geography of Earthquake Risk in the South of Market of San Francisco: People, Place, and Policy Nancy Wilkinson, Hans Meihoefer
Kathleen Marsh Conservation Easement Language Analysis: Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District Barbara Holzman, Roger Crawford
Paul Pribor Post-Fire Succession in Bishop Pine Forest at Point Reyes National Seashore, California (1995-2001) Barbara Holzman, Jerry Davis
Ian Signer Diverse Land, Diverse Peoples: Exploring Native California Nancy Wilkinson, Barbara Holzman
Alicia Mariscal The Environmental History of an Urban Wetland: Arrowhead Marsh in Oakland, California Barbara Holzman, Ellen Hines
Sara Marcellino Connecting A Heterolocal Ethnic Community: Berkeley's Asian Indian Shopping District Qian Guo, Nancy Wilkinson
Laurie Andrus Airport Ground Access in Boston, Minneapolis, Denver and San Francisco John Westfall, Nancy Wilkinson
Tim Reed Analyzing Seawifs Using GIS: Phytoplankton Blooms in the Bering Sea Jerry Davis, Patricia Foschi
Paul Amato Effects of Urbanization On Storm Response in the North Fork San Pedro Creek Jerry Davis, Nancy Wilkinson
Justin Witt Regulatory and Geographical Wastewater Disposal Constraints, Sonoma County Nancy Wilkinson, Jerry Davis
Elizabeth Proctor Reducing Variation in Georeferenced Locality Descriptions Jerry Davis, Barbara Holzman
Suzanne Holguin Contextual Conservation: Antillean Manatees (Trichechus Manatus Manatus) of Turneffe Atoll, Belize Ellen Hines, Barbara Holzman, Jeff Bury
Yukari Matsumoto The Spatial Patterns and Growth Rates of an Invasive Cordgrass (Spartina Alterniflora and Spartina Alterniflora X Foliosa) in Elsie Roemer Marsh and San Bruno Marsh, California Patricia Foschi, Ellen Hines
Stephanie Sims Hillslope Sediment Source Assessment of San Pedro Creek Watershed, California Jerry Davis, Andrew Oliphant
Kelsey McDonald San Pedro Creek Flood Control Project: Integrative Analysis of Natural Hazard Response Nancy Wilkinson, Qian Guo, Jerry Davis
Thomas Puleo Functional and Symbolic Aspects of Landscape and Construction of Place in SF Redeveloped Project Qian Guo, Nancy Wilkinson
Janet Dove Understanding Farmers' Continued Commitment to Apples in Sonoma County's Gold Ridge Region Qian Guo, Nancy Wilkinson
Mami Odaya Estimating Egeria Densa Biomass in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Using Remote Sensing Patricia Foschi, Jerry Davis
Matt Weintraub Giant Footprints: Building the New Ballpark Landscape in San Francisco Qian Guo, Nancy Wilkinson, Max Kirkeberg
Ka Man Chan Diffusion of the Chinese Evangelical Free Church in the United States Nancy Wilkinson, Max Kirkeberg
Annette Olson Fire in the Berkeley Hills: A Geographic Analysis Jerry Davis, Nancy Wilkinson
Jim Pettigrew Removal and Nutrient Analysis of Invasive Green Crabs in Tomales Bay, California Ellen Hines, Andrew Oliphant
David Collins A Day's Journey: Porters, Roads, and Towns in Prehispanic Mesoamerica Jeffrey Bury, Jerry Davis
Tiffany Meyer The Arctostaphylos Myrtifolia and Eriogonum Apricum Plant Community: Its Distribution, Abundance and Conservation Barbara Holzman, Jerry Davis
Anica Williams The Effectiveness of Environmental Education in Increasing Environmental Literacy and Responsible Behavior Barbara Holzman, Edna Wangui
Deborah Dwyer Integrating GIS and GPS to Manage Natural Resources in Local Environments: San Francisco Natural Areas Barbara Holzman, Jerry Davis
Andy Peri Habitat Assessment of Arroyo Corte Madera del Presidio, Mill Valley, California Jerry Davis, Nancy Wilkinson
Elizabeth Kanner Evaluating Conservation Easements as a Tool for Growth Management: Solano County, California Jason Mark Henderson, Nancy Wilkinson
Monique Nakagawa Socioeconomic Disparities in Passenger Experiences of Public Transit Qian Guo, XiaoHang Liu
Ruth Askevold Interpreting Historical Maps to Reconstruct Past Landscapes in the Santa Clara Valley Nancy Wilkinson, Jerry Davis, Robin Grossinger
Cynthia Comerford Scully The Use of Spatial Data to Improve Public Health Planning Ellen Hines, XiaoHang Liu
Julia Griswold Qualifying the Effects of the Built Environment on Pedestrian Activity in San Francisco XiaoHang Liu, Jason Mark Henderson
Jenny McIlvaine Balancing Ecological Restoration, Cultural Resource Preservation, and Recreation at San Francisco's Crissy Field Nancy Wilkinson, Jason Mark Henderson
Zetta Wells-Reicker Integrating Theory and Community Food System Assessments: A San Francisco Case Study XiaoHang Liu, Qian Guo, Ona
Christy Camp Golden Gate Heights Natural Areas, San Francisco: A Biogeographical Analysis Barbara Holzman, Jerry Davis
Nelia White Discrete Versus Continuous: A Comparison of Water Quality Monitoring Techniques Jerry Davis, Nancy Wilkinson
Catherine Huybrechts Mapping Egeria densa using satellite imagery and a computer-assisted algorithm Patricia Foschi, Ellen Hines, Cindy Schmidt
Dion Good Green Envy: A Gap Analysis of Greenspace in San Francisco Using GIS XiaoHang Liu, Jason Mark Henderson
Arnold Thompson Water Repellency, Soil Moisture Surface Runoff and Soil Erosion Under Eucalyptus Canopy vs. Oak Canopy in Coastal California Jerry Davis, Andrew Oliphant
Melanie Vanderhoof Distributional Patterns of Perennial Pepperweed, Lepidium Latifolium, in the San Francisco Bay Barbara Holzman, Patricia Foschi
Mary Brown Shifting Landscapes of Mobility: Reconfiguring Space in the Mission District for Automobiles Jason Mark Henderson, Nancy Wilkinson
Jennifer Jackson Sources of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Wastewater, Oakland, California Nancy Wilkinson, Jerry Davis, Smith
Josh Schnabel A Comparison of Methods for Assessing Hazardous Air Pollutant Risk in Communities Jerry Davis, Andrew Oliphant
Christine Carolan The Impact of Immigration Organization and Leadership on San Francisco's Land Use Qian Guo, Nancy Wilkinson
Kate Anderson Lines Through Time: A Historical Analysis of Property Boundaries in San Francisco, 1850-1931 Barbara Holzman, XiaoHang Liu
Miguel Fernandez Assessing the Effects of Locality Precision in Predictive Species of Distribution Models Barbara Holzman, Jerry Davis, Jason Mark Henderson
Becky Quinlan Individual Response to Flooding in the Trinity River Basin, Texas Nancy Wilkinson, Edna Wangui
Judy Lee Modeling Population Distribution in Urban Areas Using Remote Sensing Information: A Spatial Metrics Method XiaoHang Liu, Jerry Davis
Kimberly Durandet Live/Work Loft Development in San Francisco: A Case Study of Gentrification and Urban Regimes Qian Guo, Nancy Wilkinson
Reese Madrid Equitability in Acequia Water Delivery: An Analysis Using Remote Sensing Vegetation Indices Nancy Wilkinson, Patricia Foschi
Charles Brigham Structured and Dynamic Spatial Pattern of Rainfall in the City of San Francisco Andrew Oliphant, Jerry Davis
Anne Atkinson An Environmental History of Maunalua Bay and its Watershed Barbara Holzman, Nancy Wilkinson
Marshall Kunze Pure, Plentiful, Perpetual? The Edwards Aquifer: Conflict and Sustainability Nancy Wilkinson, Jerry Davis
Geordie Armstrong A case study of women and public space in Goleta, California Nancy Wilkinson, Jason Mark Henderson
Wendy Allison Urban and Rural Newspaper Reporting of the 2001 Klamath Basin Crisis. Nancy Wilkinson, Jason Mark Henderson
Casey Cleve Using GIS to Predict Potential Sierra Nevada Red Fox Habitat Barbara Holzman, Ellen Hines, John Perrine
Angie Yu The San Bruno Mountain Area Habitat Conservation Plan: A Comparative Case Study Ellen Hines, Qian Guo
Seth Hiatt Habitat Distribution Modeling of Arctostaphylos Myrtifolia in Amador County, California Barbara Holzman, Jerry Davis
Jon Bauer Potemkin Creek: I Can't Believe It's Not Nature Nancy Wilkinson, Qian Guo, Jerry Davis
Sadie Waddington Quantitative Study of Sediment Accumulation Due to Mangrove Removal at Turneffe Atoll, Belize Ellen Hines, Jerry Davis, Elise Granek
Jessica Miller Assessing Risk Perception: Mid-Ohio Valley Pollution Nancy Wilkinson, Qian Guo
Jeremy Bailey Agglomeration benefits of light rail transit stations and TOD planning in Los Angeles County Qian Guo, XiaoHang Liu, Nancy Wilkinson
Alan Wiig Producing Heritage: Presentations of the Gold Rush in Columbia, California Nancy Wilkinson, Courtney Donovan
Jason Zimmerman Transportation Regimes and Community Politics in West Oakland, California Jason Mark Henderson, Nancy Wilkinson
Noah Wasserman Vegetation Change Trends in Yosemite National Park Over the Last Century (1897-2008) Barbara Holzman, Andrew Oliphant
Dan Hermstad Tomato Seed Networks of CSA Farmers in the San Francisco Bay Area Nancy Wilkinson, Qian Guo, Bacon
Stefanie Egan Participatory GIS for Biosphere Reserve Designation, Turneffe Atoll, Belize: Lessons Learned Ellen Hines, Barbara Holzman
Kathryn Faulkner San Francisco's Public Golf Courses, 1996-2008: An Urban Regime Analysis Qian Guo, Nancy Wilkinson
Ingrid Overgard From empty space to global commons: perception and mitigation of ocean noise pollution Nancy Wilkinson, Andrew Oliphant