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Northwest Missouri State University


Student Research

Thesis in Progress

Nathan Tenholder.  Effect of MetroLink on Residential Property Values.  Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Carmella Burdi.  The Creation of a Flexible Prescriptive Analytical Model to Determine the Best Location of a Luxury Small Business.  Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Chad Benham.  A GIS-based Decision Model for Solving the "Tower Location Problem" in Support of Electric Power Smart Grid Initiatives.  Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Charles Nichols.  Land Use / Land Cover Classification: A Method to Overcome Pixel Confusion and the Effects of Tree Shadows in Very High Resolution Multispectral Imagery.  Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Gregory Simpson.  Sedimentation in Small Black Hills Ponds: Determining Volume and Accuracy of Measurements with GIS.  Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Kristen Farmer.  Utilizing Object-based Image Analysis to Explore the Effect of Urbanization on Vegetation Diversity in Duval County, Florida.  Advisor: Dr. Yanfen Le.

Joan Biediger.  The Use of Digital Image Processing to Facilitate Digitizing Land Cover Zones from Gray Level Aerial Photos.  Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Adam Dixon.  The Design of Wildlife Corridors between Selous Game Reserve and Coastal Forest Protected Areas in Southern Tanzania.  Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Davie Crawford.  Implementing a Utility Geographic Information System for Water, Sewer, and Electric.  Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Anne Wooden.  Developing a Tornado Likelihood Model for Michigan through Spatial Analysis.  Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Charles Shoemaker.  Habitat Suitability Model for Pacific Fisher in a Portion of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California.  Advisor: Dr. Yanfen Le.

David Hubbard.  Geovisualization of Knowledge Diffusion:  Visualization of Bibliometric Data 1995-2009.  Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Arturo Botello.  Predicting the Region's Growth with a Simple Land Use Model:  Forecasting Future Land Uses Based on Existing Trends in the Laredo, Texas Metropolitan Area.  Advisor: Dr. Yanfen Le.

David Jaquet. GIS Multicriteria Analysis for Siting a Sun/Wind Powered Plastic Processing Facility in the Contra Costa County, CA, Recycling Market Development Zone.  Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Timothy Kahmann. Using GIS to Determine Airport Site Selection and Optimal Runway Orientation.   Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Michael Rhoads. Using Landsat Imagery and a Supervised Classification Methodology for Monitoring Land Cover Change in Berks County, Pennsylvania.  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.

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

Daniel Cobb.  December 2011.  Social Vulnerabilities to Storm Surge Flooding: A Case Study of Lee County, Florida View PDF. Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.  Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Jeff Eisman.  December 2011.  Using Mobile GIS for Monitoring and Evaluating International Relief and Development Projects in East Africa View PDF.  Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.  Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Christopher Park.  December 2011.  Cellular Automata and Urban Growth: A Case Study in the Western Shore Region of the Chesapeake Bay View PDF.  Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.  Advisor: Dr. Gregory Haddock.

Stephen Sanford.  December 2011.  A Technique for Mapping Urban Areas and Change Using Integrated Remote Sensing and Dasymetric Population Mapping Methods View PDF.  Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.  Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Chau Nguyen.  August 2011.  Mergeos:  A Pilot Study for Collaborative Mapping and Dynamic GIS Web Application View PDF.  Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.  Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Sherry Massey.  August 2011.  Fire Station Site Selection in Rural Areas:  A Case Study of Dickinson County, Kansas View PDF.  Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.  Advisor: Dr. Yanfen Le.

Cinthia Eichhorn.  April 2011.  A Comparison of Federal Geospatial Taxonomic Standards among Selected U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Interior Agencies View PDF.  Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.  Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

Max Masters.  April 2011.  GIS Analysis of the Effect of Lahars from Mount Rainier, Washington, on Area Water Sources in King and Pierce Counties View PDF.  Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.  Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Michael Berzinis II.  April 2011.  Modeling Using Network Analysis to Examine Travel Distance Minimization in Forestry Field Sampling View PDF.  Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.  Advisor: Dr. Patricia Drews.

William Bird.  May 2010.  Use of GIS Technology in Improving Medical Service Delivery by Volunteer Drivers to VA Medical Facilities View PDF.  Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.  Advisor: Dr. Yi-Hwa Wu.

Ramiro Vega. December 2009. Managing Water Utilities with Geographic Information Systems: The Case of the City of Tampa, Florida View PDF. Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Gregory Haddock.

Nathan Paul. December 2009. Creating a User-friendly Multiple Natural Disaster Database with a Functioning Display Using Google Mapping Systems View PDF. Masters thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Ming-Chih Hung.

Danielle Cervantes. July 2009. Using GIS to Create an Interactive GeoPDF Mapbook for the Big Island of Hawaii View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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) View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. 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 View PDF. Masters Thesis, Department of Geology/Geography, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO. Advisor: Dr. Gregory Haddock.