Thesis Topics

2005 James Paul Gerjevic "Extraction of Transportation Infrastructure From Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data"

2005 Alexandra Mikhailovna Bozheva (Sasha) "Russian Immigration to the USA, 1990-2003"

2005 Jennifer Lynn Trent "Characterization of the Pleistocene Stratigraphy at the Alden Quarry in Hardin County, Iowa"

2005 Brian Bakker "GIS-Based Site Suitability Analysis for Planning Confined Animal Feeding Operations in Iowa"

2004 Andrey N. Petrov "Spatial Population Dynamics in the Resource-Dependent Peripheral Territories of the Canadian North during the 1990s"

2004 Chris T. Simenson "The John Deere Ceres Program: The Decision to Locate Assembly of German Tractor in Waterloo, Iowa"

2004 James Harken "Mapping Wetlands and Potential Wetland Restoration Areas in Black Hawk County, Iowa using Object-Oriented Classification and a GIS-Based Model"

2004 Jess Elder "Assessing The Applicability of Traditional Urban Transportation Planning Methods for the University Campus: A Case Study of the University of Northern Iowa"

2003 Elisha Jasper Dung "Agricultural Land Evaluation in Black Hawk County Using Geospatial Technologies"

2003 Nanmi J. Tissing "The Use of Geospatial Technologies to Analyze Mosquitoes Breeding Sites in Black Hawk County"

2003 Karla Leilani Suckling "Regional Patterns and Social Implications of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh."

2003 James W. Quinn "Measuring Land Use/Land Cover Change Using Land sat Imagery in an Iowa Lake Watershed: A Comparison of Supervised Classification Methods"

2002 Dale Splinter "Quaternary Stratigraphy and Soil Geomorphology of the Lower Little Cedar River Valley, Northeast Iowa"

2002 Marc Peterson "The Influence of Highway Development on Population and Land Cover: A Case Study of Non metropolitan Easter Iowa Cities"

2002 Michael Owen Carpenter "Urban Traffic Externalities and Housing Values"

2001 William Jeff Brown "A political Geography of Chinese and Other State Claims to Territorial Sovereignty of the Spartly Islands"

2000 Tim Beermann "Civilian Conservation Crops Rubble and Masonry Dams and Gully Morphology in Northeastern Iowa"

2000 Mark Arthur Alexander "Assessing the Classification Accuracy of Digitized National Aerial Photography Program Imagery: Comparison with Botanical Data"

1999 James R. Dickerson "Identification of Hog Farm and Confinement Facilities in North-Central Iowa by Spatial an Spectral Characteristics of land sat Images"

1998 Randal Pilkington "Estimating the Potential Available Labor Supply for Mid-Sized Iowa Communities"

1997 Michael Todd Applegarth "Soil Catenas of Calcareous Tills, Whiskey Basin, Wyoming"

1995 Sa'ed Abu-Hijleh "The Political Geography of a Palestinian State: Main Problems of Implementation"

1992 Thabit Abu-Rass "The Egypt-Palestine/Israel Boundary: 1841-1992"

1992 Kirk Stufflebeam "International Tourist Patterns in Kenya: 1973-1988 A Comparative Analysis"

1989 Aminiel Elimringi Maro "The Spatial Patterns of the Age-Sex Structure of the 1978 Tanzanian Population: An Exploratory Analysis"

1988 Alice Christine Robbins "Native Trees in an Urban Area: A Case Study of the Waterloo Metropolitan Area, Black Hawk County, Iowa"

1988 Shengtang Ma "China's Rice Economy, 1932-85: A Spatial Analysis"

1983 Jeff Knapp "The Erosional Cycle of Upland Wetlands Created by Eolian Sands"

1982 Sherman McNeal "Measuring Hazard Precipitation of Nuclear Power Plants"

1980 Julius Dada "Exploratory Data Analysis of Nigeria's 1963 Age Structures"

1979 Razia Babar "The Kashmir Conflict: A Geographical Perspective"

1978 Don Wade "Utilization of the Oklahoma State Plane Coordinate System with Reference to the Air Quality Maintenance Areas"

1978 J. Mark Linda "The Extent of Solid Waster Disposal in Karst Depressions in Northeast Iowa"

1977 Lyle Davis "A Pattern of Eolian Deposition in Northeast Iowa"

1977 Mohammad Kamiar "Spatial Patterns of Iran's Population"

1976 Craig McCoy "Burial Space Availability in Polk County, Iowa: Trends and Projections"

1976 Ardith Hansel "Mechanically Induced Karst Development Along the Silurian Escarpment in Northeast Iowa"

1975 Donald Peterson "Regional Variations in the Age Structure of the United States: 1870-1970"

1972 S. Sajabi "Spatial Structure of the African Population of Uganda: A Multivariate Analysis"

1972 John Lavender "Delimitation, Internal Structure, and Comparison of the CBD of a Small City: The Case of Cedar Falls"

1969 William Blake "County Seats of Northeast Iowa: A Multivariate Classification"