Graduate Theses

Graduate PH.D. Theses Archived Graduate Master Theses Archived We will be moving to an e-thesis model for final submission of Ph.D. and Masters level theses as of May 1, 2011.  Students defending from that point onward will be expected to file their final thesis via Digital Commons on the library website.  Digital Commons Geography & Earth Sciences Theses Information for PhD Students The following information is for PhD students who are close to defending. Below are the defense scheduling timetable and urls that contain important information on the defense process and deadlines. PhD students can initiate the online defense process here. Guide for the Preparation of Theses Information on the defense process (and submitting for binding) can be found here. The sessional dates which include the pre- and post-defense thesis submission deadlines for Fall 2011 convocation can be found here.

 

PH.D. Theses

2012

Sandra Micucci, Social Capital and Health in Multiple Communities: A Mixed Methods Study

Dan Thompson, Wildfire impacts on peatland ecohydrology

2011

Ben Chin, Simulating Landscapes and national Scale Carbon Fluxes in Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystems Using CN-CLASS

Jenifer Asanin Dean, Neighbourhood-level environmental determinants of adolescent body weight in low-socioeconomic status neighbourhoods in Ontario, Canada

Kelsey Norlund, The Ecology of Geochemistry: bacterial sulfer geochemistry in mine waters.

John MacLachlan, Analysis of subglacial deposits and landforms in southern Ontario using sedimentology and geomatics

Daniel Harington, Newly emerging environmental health risks in a risk society: A case study of the public perception of food allergies

Jessica Pilarczyk, Foraminiferal Taphonomy as a Paleo-Tsunami and Overwash Indicator in Coastal
Environments - Evidence from Oman and the British Virgin Islands

2010

Lisa Sonnenburg, Ph.D. Holocene Lake-Level Change and Submerged Archaeological Site Potential of Rice Lake, Ontario

Jamie Spinney, Ph.D., Geography, land Values, and Municipal Taxation: A Spatial Paradigm for the Estimation and Reclaimation of Rent

Kevin Burdette, Ph.D., The record of Late Cenozoic coastal deposits preserved in the Florida Coastal Plain: Morphology and geochronology with implications for the stratigraphic record of Late Cenozoic sea level change in the Mid-Atlantic of the United States.

Kelsey MacCormack, Ph.D., Enhancing the Accuracy of 3-Dimensional Subsurface Models

Anneliese Poetz, Ph.D., "Risk is a Social Thing, Not Just a Mathematical Thing." A model for the Management of Risk in Institutional Decision-Making.

Tim Duval, Ph.D., Hydrological and Biogeochemical Controls on Calcareous Fen Ecosystems

Steven Farber, Ph.D., The Social Cost of Automobility.

Dominik Papinski, Ph.D., Investigating Route Choice Decisions using GPS and Prompted-Recall Diary Data

 

Master Theses

2012

Nicole Fallon, M.Sc. “Multi-Frequency Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) Study of GlaciofluvialOutwash Deposits, Limehouse, Ontario”

2011

James Sherwood, MSc., Ecohydrological Response to Peatland Drainage and Wildlfire

Naoya Kaneda, MA., Modelling the traffic related pollution reduction through increased use of Hybrid-Electric Vehicles (HEVs) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Ewe Kielasinka, MA., The Geography of Urban Arson in Toronto

Shakeel Ahmad, M.Sc., Sea-Level and Barrier evolution of Saint Joseph Peninsula, North Gulf of Mexico, Florida from textural analysis, ground penetrating radar and organic matter isotope geochemistry

Samira Salimi, M.Sc., Water depth and salinity control of thecamoebian (testate amoebae) assemblages in Cootes Paradise, Southern Ontario, Canada

Peter Dao, M.Sc. Reconstruction of Bronze-Age (Mycenaean) Coastal Environments and Anchorage Sites At Kalamianos (Korphos, Greece) Using Geoarchaeological and Geophysical Techniques”

Tufayel Chowhury, MA., Travel Behaviour – Built Environment Nexus: An Investigation In The Content Of Halifax Regional Municipality

Andrew Brennan, M.Sc., Characterizing the Quaternary Hydrostratigraphy of Buried Valleys using Multi-Parameter Borehole Geophysics, Georgetown, Ontario

Md. Moniruzzaman, MA., Accessibility And Built Environment Effects On Transit Use

Kate Whalen, MA., Travel Preferences and Choices of University Students and the Role of Active Travel

Jia Yang, MA. Microsimulating Firmography of Small and Medium Size Business Establishments in the City of Hamilton on the Basis of GIS

Xudong Liu, MA., Towards a Microsimulation Residential Housing Market Model: Real Estate Appraisal and New Housing Development”.

Jessica Slomka, M. Sc., Sedimentary Architercture of Shallow and Deep Subsurface Quartenary Sediments, Southern Ontario

Emily Nicholas, M.Sc. Assessing Seasonal Dynamics of Soil CO2 Efflux Using Continuous  Measurements In A Temperate Pine
Forest

Steve Holland, M.Sc., “Characterizing Clay-Microbe-Metal Interactions: Implications for Metal Immobilization”.

Natalie Spina, M.Sc., Beach Hydrology Implications for Beach Quality, Georgian Bay, Ontario

Stacey Puckering, M. Sc., Analysis of Variable Scale Bedrock Erosional Features in Ontario and Ohio: Improving Understanding of Subglacial Erosional Processes

Francesca Cardwell, MA., Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Global Environmental Change and Health: Towards Sustainable Behaviour Change?

Bonnie Chow, MA., Everybody Else Got to Have this Cookie: The Effects of Food Allergen Labels on the Well-Being of Canadians

Sara Lise Underhay, M.Sc., “Structure and Deformation of the Sudbury Impact Crater”

Sarah Dykeman, MA. “Compassionate Care Benefit Pre-Implementation Knowledge Tool Development For Canadian Social Workers: A Qualitative Study”

Jeff Axisa, MA., Migration and the Journey to Work in Toronto's Commuter Shed