Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Cultural Control Tactics for Managing Spotted Wing Drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, in New Hampshire Highbush Blueberry, Catherine Doheny Coverdale
Using Large Language Models to Modify Robot Behavior in Response to Natural Language Prompts, Garrick Michael Craft
Enhancing Education to Mitigate Workplace Violence to Increase Staff Safety In a High Acuity Setting: A Quality Improvement Project, Michelle Crowley
Access to Nature in New Hampshire: Equity and Quality of Life, Cody G. Crytzer
ACCESS TO NATURE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: EQUITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE, Cody Garrott Crytzer
Towards Automation of Volunteered and Authoritative Bathymetric Data Comparisons, Patrick Debroisse
The Intersection of Gentrification, Race, and Historical Sociology: Utilizing the Construction of a Racial Gentrification Index to Measure Racialized Versus Economic Changes Across Massachusetts from 2000 to 2020, Paige Elizabeth DePasquale
Climate Change Resiliency in Coastal New Hampshire Roads with the Application of Natural and Nature-Based Features, Lauren Emma Dwyre
Assessing and Improving Pediatric Nurses' Documentation of Childhood Immunization Status Using the Electronic Health Record, Katherine Engalichev
An Analysis of River Channel Change Over Time in New England Rivers, Trevor Fenoff
Population Viability Analysis of a Remnant New England Cottontail Population in Southern New Hampshire, Brett Ferry
INVESTIGATION OF COMMON MILKWEED AS A NOVEL FOOD CROP FOR NEW ENGLAND, Colter Allen Flynn
Registered Nurse Competencies and the Implementation of Self-Care Interventions Among Surgical Patients with Type Two Diabetes: A Quality Improvement Project, Elizabeth Fossum
These Little Worlds, Shannon Marie Garvey
Placing the Peices of Silence, Lena Neris Gemmer
Stand Structural Diversity, Not Functional Traits, Drives Variation in Maximum Stand Density in Old-Growth Kauri (Agathis australis) Dominated Forests, Heidi Isabelle Giguere
Rare Earth Element Distributions in Forest Soils Across Bedrock Gradients in New Hampshire and Vermont, Ashley Grengs
ASSOCIATIONS OF DIETARY PATTERNS WITH BRAIN VOLUME IN THE BOSTON PUERTO RICAN HEALTH STUDY, Chris Guarino
EFFECTS OF PERENNIAL FORAGE COMPOSITION AND HARVEST INTENSITY ON THE WEED SEEDBANK COMMUNITY, Lilly E. Hartman
The Under-appreciated Roles of Spatial Scale, Individual Variation, and Nonlinearity in Spatial Ecology, David Heit
Funny Stories for Sad People, Colton Huelle and Colton Huelle
Improving Initial Pain Assessments Upon Arrival to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit by Implementing the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool, Molly Jacques MS, RN
PHOTOCATALYTIC CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION USING COBALT CATALYSTS ON SURFACES, Tianqi Jin
Reshaping Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Hourly Rounding to Increase Patient Safety and Instill Values-based Care: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Jacqueline Juhn
INVESTIGATION INTO ITADORI KNOTWEED AS A CONTROL OF BANK EROSION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE RIVERS, Lauren Kaehler
AUTOMATIC BANKFULL WIDTH EXTRACTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND VERMONT RIVERS, Desmond Kager
Right Neural Substrates of Language and Music Processing Left Out: Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) and Meta-Analytic Connectivity Modelling (MACM), Lauren C. Keith
Multi-Level Barriers And Opportunities For Nutrition Access In New Hampshire Hispanic Communities, Brooke Kelleher
Shallow Geothermal Energy Systems in the Northeastern United States: System Distancing and Policy Considerations, Aeowyn Kendall
A 10x Visium Approach: A Spatial RNA-Seq Analysis of Renal Tissue in Peromyscus eremicus, Molly Kephart
Evaluation of a Wave Powered Water Pump Performance by Ocean Field Testing and WEC-Sim Modeling, Chelsea Kimball
Quantifying and Modeling the Effects of Internal Waves on Synthetic Aperture Sonar, Nicholas Anthony La Manna
Using Education to Promote Waste Segregation and Waste Reduction in the Operating Room: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Sarah E. Landgraf
Changing Long-Term Spatial Climate Patterns of the Northeastern U.S., Emily Landry
Using Education to Improve Timeliness and Efficiency of Medication Administration in an Inpatient Hospital Setting: A Quality Improvement Project, Kevin Christopher Lane
Reducing CLABSI Rates Through Education on Maintaining CVC Dressing Integrity: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Hanna I. Lentine
UNDERSTANDING RIVERINE PLASTIC ACCUMULATION ALONG AN URBANIZATION AND SPATIAL GRADIENT: A PLASTICS STUDY IN THE IPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED, Emily Kathryn Lever
MESOSCALE EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOL FOR OIL MOVEMENT UNDER SEA ICE, Jessica Manning
Moment-to-Moment Fluctuations in Sustained Attention in Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury, Kelly Claire Marinick
Reducing Instances of Staff Exposure to Ionizing Radiation in the PACU, Christina McAuliffe
LABORATORY ASSESSMENT OF RAPID-SETTING CONCRETE USED FOR FIELD PLACED CONNECTIONS IN ACCELERATED BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION, Spencer William McKinnon
Reducing Violence in the Workplace: A Quality Improvement Project, Molly McQueeney
Homesteading in Maine: Motivations and Current Trends, Alexandrea Merchant
Herenow, Thereafter, and All the Places in Between and Accompanying Short Stories, Daniel O'Leary Missroon
Characterization of Fiber Intake, the Gut-Brain-Axis, and Glycemic Control in NH Bhutanese Refugees, Brandy Moser
Improving Accuracy of I&O Documentation for Patients on a Medical-Surgical Telemetry Unit, Corinna Moskal
Heparin vs. Saline: Evaluating Evidence-Based Best Practice for Maintaining Patency of Implanted Ports, Shannon D. Murdock
Evaluating the Equivalency and Ecological Validity of TPITOS and ITERS-3 Ratings of Quality in New Hampshire’s Quality Recognition and Improvement System, Eileen Elizabeth Murphy
Reducing Blood Culture Contamination Rates Through Staff Education: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Kirsten M. Mutuberria
Parental Bonds and Mental Health Treatment In Adolescence: An Analysis of Disparities by Race and Sex, Jonni Norman
Variable Light Penetration and Chlorophyll Concentrations from a Vertical Profiler in the Gulf of Maine, with Implications for Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Modeling, Terence W. O'Brien
Changing Winters and the Vernal Window in Northwestern Wyoming, Julia Olson
Movement patterns, habitat use, and survival of anadromous rainbow smelt in Great Bay Estuary, NH, Chloe Pearson
THE EFFECTS OF HATCHERY STRESSORS ON GROWTH, AGGRESSION, AND CANNIBALISM OF JUVENILE LUMPFISH, Shelby Perry
Legacy effects of land cover and land use on painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) populations over a 20-year period in southeastern New Hampshire, Benjamin Phillips
Spatially Revealing the Liver’s Genetics in the Dehydration Resistant Cactus Mouse, Sean Pierre-Louis
Impacts of Human Development on Mammalian Wildlife in an Exurban and Rural Landscape, Mairi Poisson
Just Do It: The Coming Out Story of a Closeted Athlete, Lilian Pudlo
The Blueberry Gall Midge Complex and its Specialist Parasitoids, Monique Michele Raymond
The Estimation of Forest Inventory Biometrics Using UAS-Lidar, Sarah Ashley Reny
Handsome, Johnathan J. Riley
Evaluating growth patterns of beech bark disease fungal agents Neonectria faginata and Neonectria ditissima under different in vitro conditions, Santiago Rivera Reyes
Establishing a Protocol to Address Workplace Violence and Increase the Perceptions of Safety Among Emergency Department Nurses: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Devan M. Robidoux
CULTIVATING COMMITMENT: HOW CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AFFECT VISITOR LOYALTY IN PARKS AND PROTECTED AREAS, Thomas James Robinson
Hard Feelings: Essays On Being Close to People, Claire Sasko
Lifewater, Benjamin Scott Savard
Sextually Active Youth: A Nationally Representative Study of Youth Sexting and Peer Influence in the United States, Tori Sciara
Machine Vision Based Speed Control and its application in Autonomous UAV Snow Depth Remote Sensing, Jacob Matthew Shaker
“AN ALARMING STATE OF EVIL AMONG OUR JUVENILES” A Case Study of Public Education in Manchester, New Hampshire from 1845-1915, Amy Cummings Sherr
Exploring forest structural complexity: scale effects and metric relationships in New England hardwood forests, Alex Jed Siebert
AN EXPLORATION OF CONVENTIONAL BEAMFORMING APPLIED TO A PHASE MEASURING SONAR, JOAO CELSO SILVA DE DEUS
Investigation of Motor Programming in Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Madison Smith
The impact of thiamin (B1) and its precursors on microzooplankton-phytoplankton interactions, Sara Smith
Implementation of a Multipronged Approach to Improve Pre-Operative Efficiency and First Case on Time Start Performance, Melyssa A. Stokes
Advancing a Design for Trusted Community Bathymetry, Daniel Tauriello
Avian Functional Diversity Response to Changes in Forest Structure and Degradation in Northern New England, Michael Christopher Thompson
THE IMPACT OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BLUE MUSSEL MYTILUS EDULIS, Bryson Yerik Torgovitsky
PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF A HIGH-PERFORMANCE ELECTROTHERMAL MODEL OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC HEATING SYSTEM, Jeremiah Vardaman
Multi-Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle (UUV) Optical Communication System Design, Igor Vladimirov
Using Variable-Resolution Grids to Model Precipitation from Atmospheric Rivers around the Greenland Ice Sheet, Annelise Nicole Waling
A Pilgrim's Portent, Elise Wallace