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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 
. 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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.
