Student Research

Thesis in Progress

Max Masters. GIS Analysis of the Effect of Lahars from Mount Rainier, Washington, on Area Water Sources. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

David Weibel. GIS Market Analysis for Small Businesses. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Ramiro Vega. Managing Water Utilities with Geographic Information Systems: The Case of the City of Tampa, Florida. Advisor: Dr. Gregory Haddock.

Nathan Paul. Creating a User-friendly Multiple Disaster Natural Disaster Database with Built-in Mapping System Using Google Earth. Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Erika Bocian. Using GIS for Safe Bicycle Routing in Morris County, New Jersey. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Steven Stout. A GIS Approach to Automated Redistricting of LDS Church Ward Boundaries. Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Richard Carlson. Efficacy of Using Normalized Intensity Values of Panchromatic Imagery for Change Detection Analysis. Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Wendy Evans. An Evaluation of the Most At-Risk Areas and People to Be Affected by Hurricanes and Hurricane Damage, Jefferson County, Texas as Case Study. Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Karyl Fuller. Is Vermont an Endangered Place? Looking at Efficacy of Vermont's Land Use Regulations, Act 250 and Act 200, on High-Growth Towns, 1970-2005. Advisor: Dr. Gregory Haddock.

Aaron Lorenzen. Changes in Medium-sized Cities: Demographics and Spatial Distribution, 1970-2000. Advisor: Dr. Gregory Haddock.

Julie Muzzarelli. Geospatial Visualization Applications for Critical Infrastructure Analysis. Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Thesis Completed

Full-text on-line theses are available from Northwest’s Library web pages

Danielle Cervantes. July 2009. Using GIS to Create an Interactive GeoPDF Mapbook for the Big Island of Hawaii . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Deborah Peterson. July 2009. An Interactive GIS Map of Autism Resources in Missouri . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Melanie Riley. July 2009. Automated Detection of Prehistoric Conical Burial Mounds from LIDAR Bare-Earth Digital Elevation Models . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Bradley Fisher. May 2009. Spatio-Temporal GIS Modeling of the Relationship between Precipitation and Streamflow . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Kevin Royal. May 2009. Evaluating and Comparing Digital Geospatial Publishing Tools . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Dirk Peterson. December 2008. Using Large Scale Aerial Images for 3D Visualizations of Marion Sampson Park Mountain Bike Trails . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Nathan Wood. December 2008. Woody Corridor Levee Protection along the Missouri River: Mapping Areas That Can Benefit . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Samantha Banker. July 2008. Utilizing Geographic Information Systems to Identify Potential Lahar Pathways in Proximity to Cascade Stratovolcanoes: Mount Saint Helens, Cowlitz & Skamania Counties, Washington as Case Study . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Andrew Chapkowski. July 2008. Geographical Distribution of Pediobius Foveolatus in New Jersey Soybean Fields to Control the Mexican Bean Beetle Population . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Eric Foster. July 2008. Using Geographic Information Systems to Determine Street, Road, and Highway Functional Classification Accuracy . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Brett Matney. July 2008. Using an Animated Geographic Information System to Improve the Quality of Secondary Education of History in America . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Jennifer Morgan. July 2008. Spatial Implications of Municipal Sex Offender Residency Restrictions in Bay County, Florida, 2005-2007 . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Jason Wilder. Dec. 2007. Modeling Malaria Transmission Risk Using Satellite-Based Remote Sensing Imagery: A Five-Year Data Analysis in Democratic People's Republic of Korea . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Gregory Haddock.

Kreh Germaine. June 2007. An Automated Methodology for the Identification of Impervious Surfaces from High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Imagery and LIDAR . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University,Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Chad Lynch. April 2007. Examining the Relationship between Property Value and Urban Sprawl in Canyon County, Idaho . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Andrew Selk. Dec. 2006. Implementing a Geographic Information System to Identify Suitable Monitoring Station Locations on Protected Small Streams in Wisconsin . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Gregory Haddock.

Robert Brundage. Dec. 2006. Implementing an Archival GIS Template Utilizing ArcMap GIS Software and the Personal Geodatabase . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Aaron Addison. July 2006. ArcGIS Geodatabase Data Model for Cave Science . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Lydia VerBrugge. July 2006. Depth of Soil in the Goss-Gasconade-Rock Outcrop Complex in Callaway County, Missouri using the Soil Land Inference Model (SoLIM) . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Melanie Salyer. July 2006. An Evaluation of the Economic and Environmental Impacts of Coal Mining, Flat Gap, Pound, Wise County, Virginia as Case Study . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Eric Wolf. April 2006. Low-Cost Large-Scale Aerial Photography and the Upland South Folk Cemetery . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Erik Harper. April 2006. Open-Source Technologies in Web-Based GIS & Mapping . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Kathryn Bennett. April 2006. Development and Evaluation of Movement Corridors used by Rocky Mountain Elk within the Vicinity of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico . Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Christopher McLean. April 2005. Potential Release Site Sediment Concentrations Correlated to Storm Water Station Runoff through GIS Modeling . Masters Thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Gregory Haddock.