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Spring 2023

Parida, Debadutta

This dissertation seeks to examine the evolving politics of planning and governance of climate risks in Bhubaneswar city in India, by analyzing how climate risk governance has evolved and its implications on future adaptation possibilities. Southern cities such as Bhubaneswar have been at the...

Fall 2023

Li, Kehan

As internal tides propagate in the ocean, they carry and dissipate energy over hundreds and even thousands of kilometers. We perform fully nonlinear simulations to examine the evolution of horizontally propagating, vertical mode-1 internal tides in non-uniformly stratified fluids, as it depends...

Spring 2023

Chen, Qi

The Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation is the primary host of the crude bitumen reserves in the Athabasca Oils Sand Region. The regionally extensive meander belts associated with estuary point bars have been recognized as the primary reservoir facies in the McMurray Formation. It is widely...

Spring 2023

Kotila, Amanda

Mountain glaciers, key sources of freshwater to downstream ecosystems and users, are responsive and vulnerable to changes in climate. Understanding their current influence, their potential future changes, and consequences of those changes are all important research goals, so many modeling...

Fall 2023

Huang, Yinlong

In snow-dominated regions, snow storage is a primary water resource contributing to surface water (SW) and groundwater (GW) supplies. Snow drought is defined as either lack of snow storage or high-temperature-induced early snowmelt, leading to a loss of snow water resources. GW drought refers to...

Fall 2023

Khalili, Pouya

The unfolding climate change crisis poses a growing challenge to water and food security, and yet the reliability of the global breadbaskets and their relation with water resources in the future is poorly understood. The global breadbaskets are defined as key production regions for food grains...

Spring 2024

Braun, Bennett L.

Lithium is crucial for battery production and is utilized in electric vehicles and portable electronics. Among alternative sources of lithium is flowback and produced water (FPW) brines, which can be recovered utilizing ion-exchange with sorbents such as lithium manganese oxide spinels. Among...

Spring 2024

Alencastro, Felipe

Terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) are active remote sensing sensors that use light to measure distances between the sensor and objects generating a three-dimensional dataset. This technology has been used in a diverse range of ecological studies measuring plant and vegetation properties. In the...

Spring 2024

Duan, Yuwei

The escalating global climate change poses a more severe challenge, and Canada, as a high-latitude country, is experiencing heightened Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects. Given the substantial influence of UHIs on urban, regional, and national climates, ecosystems, and human life, researching this...

Spring 2024

Melnyk, Scott A.

Tidally-influenced sedimentary environments are regions where sediment deposition is strongly influenced by the regular ebb and flow of tides. These natural processes result in distinctive and often heterogeneous patterns of sediment distribution and sedimentary structures, both physical and...