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Graduate Degrees 2007-08

Ph. D. in Geography
Knowles, Jason Thomas “Coastal Lake-Sediment Records of Prehistoric Hurricane Strike in Honduras and Turks and Caicos Islands of the Caribbean Basin” (Liu, 2008)

Sumpter, Amy Rhiannon “Environment, Labor, and Race: An Historical Geography of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, 1878-1956” (Colten, 2008)

Wang, Fei “Land-Cover and Land-Use Study Genetic Algorithms, Petri Nets, and Cellular Automata” (Lam, 2007)

Zhu, Yuanda “Modeling Spatial and Temporal Variations of Surface Moisture Content and Groundwater Table Fluctuations on a Fine-Grained Beach, Padre Island, Texas” (Namikas, 2007)

Master of Arts in Geography
Cohen, Jessie Chaiya “Africanisms and Cultural Modifications: A Study of Southall Quarter, Williamsburg, Virginia” (Mann and Namikas, 2008)

DeLaune, Jonathan Zachary “Unwelcome Neighbors? Industrial Growth and Water Pollution in Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1940-1960” (Colten, 2007)

Gulyas, Sandor “Creating a Blues Playground: A Comparison of Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, and Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi” (DeLyser, 2008)

Master of Science in Geography
Andrews, Alexa Jo “Spatial and Temporal Variability of Tropical Storm and Hurricane Strikes in the Bahamas, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles” (Keim, 2007)

Bleichner, Barry James III “An Analysis of Marine Protected Areas Legislation in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles” (Hesp, 2008)
Caparotta, Stephen Paul “The Madden-Julian Oscillation and Tropical Cyclone Frequency Variability” (Rohli, 2008)

McKenna, Winston Aloysius “An Evolutionary Model of Parabolic Dune Development: From Blowout to Mature Parabolic, Padre Island National Seashore, Texas” (Hesp, 2007)

Pal, Tania “Accuracy Assessment of Individually Calibrated Journey-To-Crime Geographic Profiling Models” (Leitner, 2007)

Master of Arts in Anthropology
Baumer, Lisa Elaine “Evidence of Pulmonary Disease in the Poole-Rose Ossuary Population: An Analysis of the Ribs” (Tague, 2008)

Burke, Rachel Marie “Can We Estimate Stature from the Scapula? A Test Considering Sex and Ancestry” (Manhein, 2008)

Crocker, Elizabeth Thomas “A Trinity of Beliefs and a Unity of the Sacred: Modern Vodou Practices in New Orleans” (Richardson, 2008)

McMenamin, Erin “Databasing the Disappeared and Deceased: A Review of the Resources Available in Missing and Unidentified Persons Cases” (Manhein, 2008)

Osborn, Michelle Lynn “Effects of Handedness on the Skull and Shoulder Bones” (Tague, 2008)

Schwartz, Carey Melissa-Ann “A Matter of Questionable Death: An Analysis of Physical Child Abuse” (Manhein, 2008)

Voisin, Erin Elizabeth “Saint Malo Remembered” (Regis, 2008)

Undergraduate Degrees