Geography ETDs
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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
The Role of Gender and Salient Social Identities in Producing Vulnerability and Maladptation to Flooding in Koraso, Berekum, Ghana, Kingsley Damoah Oppong
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Assessing Consequences and Relevant Thresholds of Seismic Events in Puerto Rico to Aid the Future Creation of Consequence-Driven Scenarios, Yahaira D. Alvarez-Gandia
Critical geospatial data science: Principles for curating, analyzing, and sharing geospatial data, Daniel Beene
POSITIONING DISABILITY IN WILDERNESS SPACE, Rebecca Hobart
Geospatial Analysis of Environmental, Tick, and Host Interactions with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the Southwestern United States, Al Ekram Elahee Hridoy
Agroecology and soil stewardship: values and techniques of smallholder farmers in Bernalillo County, Stephanie Olivas
A Weather Radar Analysis of the Effects of the Albuquerque Urban Area on Thunderstorms from 2001 to 2020, Alexandra Jane Vivier
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Estimating Potential Exposure from Abandoned Uranium Mine Sites through Machine Learning Classification of Animal Behavior: A Case Study in the Navajo Nation, Christopher Girlamo
The Impacts of Transfer Learning for Ungulate Recognition at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Michael Gurule
Projecting Vegetation Condition and Fire Risk in Southern California, Westin K. Guthrie
Impacts of Urban Renewal on Community Identity and Sense of Place in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Savannah Lorraine Quintana-Eddins
DRYLAND VEGETATION MAPPING USING HIGH SPATIAL-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY IN NEW MEXICO: A COMPARISON OF PHENOLOGICAL TIME-SERIES TRANSFORMATION METHODS, Pratistha Sharma
The affective landscapes of herbalism in New Mexico, Samantha Angelou Stroud
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Rock Climbing and Conservation in Land Management: Can they Coexist?, Marissa Heller
The Nature of Environmental Planning in the Carnué Land Grant, Desiree Loggins
Human-centered Avalanche Susceptibility Mapping, Lindsey L. Rotche
The Changing Urban Forest in Gallup, New Mexico: Contextualizing Urban Tree Programs and Planning Processes, Joseph A. Scala
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Examining Psilocybin and LSD Consumption Through A Geographical Lens, Nicole Sarah Caruana
NUANCED NETWORKS: HOW SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND POWER INFLUENCE PARTICIPATION IN PRIVATE LANDS CONSERVATION PROGRAMS, Ellen Loechner
Weedy Relations: Narratives of invasion and intimacy with tamarisk in the Chihuahuan Desert, Shannon S. Pepper
In Pursuit of Comparability: Evaluating Influence and Interaction Among Components of the Home Range Estimation Process in Chimpanzee Datasets, Jillian J. Rutherford
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
DRINKING WATER GOVERNANCE FOR WHOM? AN INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF RURAL DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS IN NEW MEXICO, Tucker Colvin
Assessing drought vegetation dynamics at the landscape scale in semiarid grass- and shrubland using MESMA, Rowan Converse
BACKYARD WILDLIFE REFUGES IN ALBUQUERQUE, NM: AN URBAN LAND ETHIC IN PRACTICE, Laurel E. Ladwig
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Adjudication and the Adaptive Capacity of Pecan Farmers in the Lower Rio Grande, Daniel R. Beene
A hybrid GIS/in situ analysis of AED coverage on the UNM central campus, Ian T. Hill
La gota que colma la caguama: Cummulative Tensions Transformed into the Defense of Water, Anthony J. Meluso
Assessing How Terrain Representations and Scale Affect the Accuracy of Distance Estimates, Kristian Mueller
ENGAGING SACRED SPACE AND EXPERIENCING GOD IN THE MOUNTAINS: A STUDY OF THE NON-TRADITIONAL WORSHIP ENVIRONMENT OF MOUNTAIN CATHEDRALS, AN ECUMENICAL MEETUP GROUP BASED IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, Brendan Isaiah Nixon
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
URBAN ANIMALS: GIS ANALYSIS OF STRAY CANINES AND FELINES IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, Courtney Brock
WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN THE SANTA FE RIVER: TRACKING POLLUTION SOURCES VIA QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION ANALYSIS, Hayley Aurora Hajic
Impact of Drought on Land Cover Changes in Diné Bikéyah – A Study through Remote Sensing, Anjanette A.J. Hawk
Virtuous discourse in the specialty coffee sector: How social responsibility practices fragment pursuits for a supply chain, Jane H. Motsinger
Evaluating the Utility of Object-Based Image Analysis for Ecological Monitoring of Pinon-Juniper Mortality, Zachary C. Taraschi
How the Proximity of Crime Impacts Housing Prices: A Hedonic Pricing Study of Inner-Loop Houston, TX., Samuel D. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF FOUNTAIN SPACES IN DENVER AND ALBUQUERQUE, Susanna Diller L
Subjectivity of Solar Power: Using Q Methodology to Evaluate Perceptions of Solar Energy Projects in the San Luis Valley, Aaron D. Russell
Forests on the Edge: Forest Restoration and Concepts of Nature in Northern New Mexico, Jordan W. Stone
Assessment of Vegetation Response to Wildfire at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico: Case Study of the Las Conchas Fire, Gladys Valentin-Gonzalez
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Modeling Urban Growth and Land Use Change in Albuquerque using SLEUTH, Pankaj Bajracharya
ASSESSING DROUGHT-INDUCED CHANGE IN A PI\xd1ON-JUNIPER WOODLAND WITH LANDSAT: A MULTIPLE ENDMEMBER SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS APPROACH, William Brewer
Framework for Assessing Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America: Case Studies of Buenos Aires and São Paulo, Christina Kathryn Faris
New Mexico Rock Glacier Inventory: Analysis of Geomorphology and Paleogeography, Bryan Kinworthy
Modeling the Timeliness of Airborne Remote Sensing Data, Andrew Loerch
Land Cover Change During a Transition in Land Management at Valles Caldera 1989-2013, Nicholas Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Distortion and Revolution in Texas U.S. Congressional Redistricting Politics: 1972-2014, Willard B. Hunter
A CASE STUDY IN TOPONYMY: SAMPLING AND CLASSIFYING A TRI-LINGUAL PLACE NAME INVENTORY FOUND IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL STATE OF NEW MEXICO, Roberto H. Valdez
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Connecting People and Place: Farmers, Resilience, and the Future of Smallholder Farms in Albuquerque, Crystiana Baca-Bosiljevac
Crime and Immigration in Albuquerque, NM — Real or Misperception?, Saundra D. Daras
Since I Know Myself: A Cultural Examination of Medicinal Plant Use in the Commonwealth of Dominica, Maureen Meyer
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Assessing Uncertainty in Volunteered Geographic Information for Emergency Response, Michael Camponovo
The Effect of Airport Delays on the Evolution of the U.S. Air Travel Network, Eric Cox
Restraurant regions : an ecological community based model of restaurant chain distribution in the United States, Stephen Griego
The Effect of Geography and Personal Experience on Attitudes and Perceptions of the Mexican Gray Wolf Reintroduction, Erin Marchand
TO THRIVE, WORK, AND LIVE: PROGRESS TOWARD AND CHALLENGES TO SUSTAINABILITY ON THE FREI GONDIM SETTLEMENT, PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL, William Maxwell
Remediation of Sand Dune Blowouts Along Pipeline Right of Ways., Knutt Peterson
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Valles Caldera: Recreationists' Perspectives on Access and Management, Matt Gagnon
Prehistoric Roads of New Mexico: A Synthesis of GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques, Natalie Heberling
Characterizing the Local Food Environment in Albuquerque, New Mexico: A Dual Perspective of Retailer and Consumer, Kathryn Lenzer
Spatial-temporal neighborhood-scale urban water demand estimation, Steve P. Linger
Determining Historic Ethnic Changes in Sierra County and New Mexico 1870-2000, Destiny Mitchell
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Suitability modeling and the location of utility-scale solar power plants in the southwestern United States, Drew Ignizio
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Positional accuracy of the Wide Area Augmentation System, Lisa L. Arnold
Assessing the effects of new public transportation routes : an equity analysis on the changing accessibility of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Calvin Tribby
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Eagle Vision : new directions in K-12 GIS, Cody Wiley
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Regional Variations of Kachina Iconography in Eastern Pueblo Rock Art, Dara Leigh Saville
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
The Use Of The Welsh Language As A Measurement Of The Dimensions Of "Welshness", Jerry Clyde Phillips
Remote Sensing of Transfrontier Air Pollution in the United States-Mexico Border Region, Laurence Richard Shillito
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Environmental Perception In Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, Howard Graham Crow II
Surface Area Measurements and Seasonal Variation of Selected New Mexico Lakes, Mike Edwin White
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Modeling Ephemeral Stream Channel Development in a Semiarid Upland Environment, William Kaufman Hodges
