Theses/Dissertations from 2018
THE STRUCTURE, LIMITS, AND DRIVERS OF DAPHNID DIVERSITY, Richard Joseph Knecht
A Human Visual System Inspired Feature Recognition Method Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Evan Koester
Observations of Transitional Tidal Boundary Layers in the Great Bay Estuary, NH, Kara M. Koetje
ANALYSIS OF UNCERTAINTY IN UNDERWATER MULTIVIEW RECONSTRUCTION, IGOR V. KOZLOV
The photosynthesis-foliar nitrogen relationship in deciduous and evergreen forests in New Hampshire, Conor Madison
IMPLEMENTING PROPOSED IEEE 1588 INTEGRATED SECURITY MECHANISM, Dragos Maftei
WILD BEE DECLINES AND CHANGES IN PLANT-POLLINATOR NETWORKS OVER 125 YEARS REVEALED THROUGH MUSEUM COLLECTIONS, Minna Mathiasson
Advancing Coastal Resilience: An Institutional Analysis of Living Shorelines in New Hampshire, Trevor Mattera
Drivers of introgression and fitness in the Saltmarsh-Nelson's Sparrow hybrid zone, Logan Maxwell
Adjusting to Life as a Three-Legged Dog, John Joseph McDonough
SCALABLE WEB SERVICE DEVELOPMENT WITH AMAZON WEB SERVICES, Patrick Russell McElhiney
EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF FATIGUE TEST SETUP FOR A GUSSET-LESS TRUSS CONNECTION, Duncan William McGeehan
FACTORS AFFECTING RESTAURANT PURCHASE OF LOCALLY GROWN FOOD: A BINARY LOGIT ANALYSIS, Amanda McLeod
STRENGTH OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLOODS AND EXTREME RAINFALL EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, Benjamin John Miller
Improvements in speech of children with apraxia: The efficacy of a Treatment for Establishing Motor Program Organization (TEMPO), Hilary Miller
THE EFFECTS OF CORTISOL, STRESS AND REARING TEMPERATURE ON BLACK SEA BASS (CENTROPRISTIS STRIATA) SEX DIFFERENTIATION, Kelsie A. Miller
Real-time Planning as Decision-making Under Uncertainty, Andrew James Mitchell
Classification of Arbitrary Motion into a Canonical Basis, Michael Moger
EFFECT OF BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ON THE MODAL RESPONSE OF INTACT SURROGATE NUCLEAR FUEL RODS, Blaise Nganyi Imbembe
A SIMPLIFIED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS METHOD FOR A 20-FOOT CARGO SHIPPING CONTAINER, Dzijeme Ntumi
FOLLOWING THE CROWD: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CAMPAIGN PERSONAL APPEARANCES DURING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY SEASON, Brian O'Connor
Abundance data change geographic estimates of terrestrial invasive plant risk in the contiguous United States, Mitchell W. O'Neill
POPULATION GENETICS AND MALE SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN THE AUSTRALIAN SMALL CARPENTER BEE, CERATINA AUSTRALENSIS, Robert L. Oppenheimer
USING DAY NEUTRAL CULTIVARS AND LOW TUNNELS TO EXTEND THE STRAWBERRY HARVEST SEASON IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, Kaitlyn Marie Orde
Impacts of Sea-Level Rise and Thin-Layer Deposition on Salt Marsh Elevation Dynamics in New Hampshire, Andrew Payne
Food Democracy: Public Participation in New England Food Policy Councils, Cathryn Porter
Culturally Relevant Leisure Experiences as Predictors of Intercultural Sensitivity Among Study Abroad Students, Samantha Powers
Phylogenetic Focusing Reveals the Evolution of Eumetazoan Opsins, Curtis Provencher
Providing Nautical Chart Awareness to Autonomous Surface Vehicles, Samuel John Reed
BROADBAND ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS OF A CONTROLLED SEEP WITH MULTIPLE GASES FOR VERIFICATION OF FLUX ESTIMATES THROUGH BUBBLE DISSOLUTION AND TARGET STRENGTH MODELS, Kevin Michael Rychert
"A DAINGEROUS LIBERTY": MOHAWK-DUTCH RELATIONS AND THE COLONIAL GUNPOWDER TRADE, 1534-1665, Shaun Sayres
Communicative participation improves following motor speech program treatment in apraxia of speech, Emily A. Schultz
THE IMPACT OF DAMS ON FLOODS AND NITROGEN FLUX IN THE LAMPREY RIVER WATERSHED, NH, David Simon
ENHANCING E. COLI REMOVAL FROM SLOW-RATE BIOFILTERS TREATING LOW-CARBON SOURCE WATERS, Darline Simoni Balen
PHOTOCATALYSIS USING TiO2 NANOPARTICLES CONTAINING SURFACE METAL SITES, Benjamin D. Stewart
College Students' Perceptions of Policing Careers, Patrick Robert Sullivan
Development of Electronic Testing Devices That Detect Peripheral Neuropathies, Peter Svendsen
Experimental investigation of turbulent wakes generated by wind turbine models in a large boundary layer wind tunnel, Gregory Gilbert Taylor-Power
HOME RANGE AND MICROHABITAT ASSOCIATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN RED-BACKED VOLE (MYODES GAPPERI) IN NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS, Honora Tisell
UNINTENTIONAL RF RADIATION AND RECEPTION IN COAXIAL CABLE TRANSMISSION LINES DUE TO SHEATH CONDUCTOR FAULTS, Ronald Totten
TRACKING SULFUR DIAGENESIS IN METHANE RICH MARINE SEDIMENTS ON THE CASCADIA MARGIN: COMPARING SULFUR ISOTOPES OF BULK SEDIMENT AND CHROMIUM REDUCIBLE SULFUR, Sarah Chaviva Turner
Engineered Equestrian Riding Surfaces, Ryan van der Heijden
THE EFFECTS OF INVASIVE TUNICATES ON THE GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION OF THE BLOOD STAR, HENRICIA SANGUINOLENTA, Kaitlin Samantha Van Volkom
Developing Spectral Metrics as Early Indicators of Water Stress Detection at the Canopy Level, Korik Vargas
ORTHOPHOSPHATE REMOVAL FROM SIMULATED AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF USING ZEROVALENT IRON ENHANCED SOIL MEDIA, Zachary Wallin
A wideband acoustic method for direct assessment of bubble-mediated methane flux, Elizabeth Frances Weidner
The Neurobiology of Human Vocalization: A Quantitative Meta-Analytic Approach, Zoe Marie Weston
SECURING FPGA SYSTEMS WITH MOVING TARGET DEFENSE MECHANISMS, Zhiming Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A INFLUENCES CORTICAL MICROTUBULE ORGANIZATION IN RESPONSE TO SALT STRESS, Gabriella Angelini
Marine Debris Visual Identification Assessment, Zachary Paul Angelini
MOOSE DENSITY, HABITAT, AND WINTER TICK EPIZOOTICS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE, Kyle Ball
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDIES OF BIOMIMETIC MEMBRANES, Daniel Ryan Barden
COLLABORATING FOR COASTAL RESILIENCE: STAKEHOLDER ASSESSMENT AND PERCEPTION OF INTERDEPENDENCE IN SEABROOK, NH, Emily Bialowas
Virtual Catholicism, Andrew Bills
AIRBORNE LIDAR BATHYMETRY BEAM DIAGNOSTICS USING AN UNDERWATER OPTICAL DETECTOR ARRAY, Matthew Birkebak
Effects of small-scale turbulence on phytoplankton growth and metabolism, Wilton Gray Burns
The Role of Adenylate Cyclase in Hydra Magnipapillata Phototransduction, Jonathan Chan
Race and Income Disparities in Disaster Preparedness in Old Age, Katherine M. Cox
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DIIRON HYDROGENASE MIMIC CATALYST FOR EFFICIENT DIHYDROGEN PRODUCTION, David S. Danico
INTERROGATING THE OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC FUNCTIONS OF SQUID BIOCHROMES, Christopher W. DiBona
DISCERNING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES BASED ON LAKE TROPHIC STATUS, Jonathan Dufresne
The Strength of an Icelandic Horse, Jesse Duthrie
COORDINATION OF LEADER-FOLLOWER MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM WITH TIME-VARYING OBJECTIVE FUNCTION, Zalan Mark Fabian
EVALUATING THE USE OF UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS (UAS) FOR COLLECTING THEMATIC MAPPING ACCURACY ASSESSMENT REFERENCE DATA IN NEW ENGLAND FOREST COMMUNITIES, Benjamin Thomas Fraser
CRITICAL SHEAR STRESS ESTIMATES FOR SUNKEN ALBERTA BITUMEN IN AN ANNULAR FLUME, Ian P. Gaudreau
Simultaneous measurements of soil moisture and streamflow in small catchments reveal varied coupling across sites, seasons, and timescales, Brian Timothy Godbois
HISTORICAL PRECIPITATION TRENDS AND FUTURE PRECIPITATION PROJECTIONS USING A STOCHASTIC WEATHER GENERATOR IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, Andrew Louis Goldman
CHIRAL BIOMOLECULE-INDUCED CHIROPTICAL ACTIVITY IN QUANTUM DOTS, Benjamin Haynie
Twenty-first Century Energy Policy Making in New Hampshire: Lessons for Collaboration, Henry Phillip Herndon
Technique for normalization of cross-linked peptide ion intensity to elucidate enzymatic conformational changes, Donna Hogan
EVALUATION OF SATELLITE-BASED OBSERVATIONS FOR CAPTURING EARLY WINTER SNOWMELT, Adam George Hunsaker
Performance Evaluation of the Velodyne VLP-16 System for Surface Feature Surveying, John Ryan Kidd
Factors affecting hospice social work utilization among hospice patients: Focusing on place of care and economic status, Mayumi Kimura
BROADBAND MATCHING FOR CIRCUITS WITH RESISTIVE TERMINATIONS, Michael Klempa
ENHANCED IN SERVICE CONDITION ASSESSMENT OF BRIDGES USING GOPRO® CAMERAS, Travis Manning
An Experimental Study of the Wake of a Turbulent Boundary Layer Junction Flow, Nicholas Marino
GRAFTING MELONS INCREASES YIELD, HARVEST PERIOD, AND RESISTANCE TO SUDDEN WILT, Janel Louise Martin
NEST PROVISIONING AND HOMING BEHAVIOR OF CERCERIS FUMIPENNIS (HYMENOPTERA, CRABRONIDAE): A USEFUL TOOL IN THE BIOSURVEILLANCE OF BUPRESTID BEETLES, Eleanor Ann McCabe
FEASIBILITY STUDY OF USING ELECTRODIALYSIS TO TREAT ANION EXCHANGE BRINE, Katerina Messologitis
APPLICATIONS OF MACHINE LEARNING AND COMPUTER VISION FOR SMART INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, Shounak Mitra
DESIGN, MECHANICAL MODELING AND 3D PRINTING OF KOCH FRACTAL CONTACT AND INTERLOCKING, Mona Monsef Khoshhesab
A NOISE ESTIMATION SCHEME FOR BLIND SPECTRUM SENSING USING EMD, Amr Nasr
Developing a molecular pipeline to identify Chenopodium species in New England, Erin Neff
Comparative Spectral Analysis of Flexible Structure Models: the Euler-Bernoulli Beam model, the Rayleigh Beam model, and the Timoshenko Beam Model, Anhhong Rose Nguyen
Effects of the biomedical bleeding process on the behavior and physiology of the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, Meghan Owings
ILLUMINATING GEOCHEMICAL CONTROLS OF METHANE OXIDATION ACROSS A GRADIENT OF PERMAFROST THAW, Clarice R. Perryman
DESIGNING AND TESTING A COST-EFFECTIVE DEVICE FOR THE HARVEST OF WHITE WORMS, Andrew S. Pompeo
SUPPLEMENTATION OF SODIUM BUTYRATE TO POST-WEANED HEIFER DIETS: EFFECTS ON GROWTH PERFORMANCE, NUTRIENT DIGESTIBILITY, AND HEALTH, Emily Margaret Rice
Playing with Dynamite: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Palestine, 1945-1948, Jared Paul Rivard
Chatter Simulation and Detection in CNC Milling, Jonathan Steven Shepard
SELECTIVE DETECTION OF MULTI-ANALYTE NEUROTRANSMITTERS USING MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMERS, Bo Si
PHYLOGENETIC AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSES REVEAL A SPECIES COMPLEX IN THE ESTUARINE NUDIBRANCH TENELLIA ADSPERSA, Amanda Sobel
BINK DOMAIN FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION IN THE REGULATION OF BIOLUMINESCENCE IN VIBRIO FISCHERI, Ian Ster
LAND USE CHANGE IN THE NORTHEAST UNITED STATES: RETAINING FOREST STRUCTURE AND ITS SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES THROUGH SILVOPASTURE, Anthony John Stewart
UNDERSTANDING THE EFFICACY OF FISH LADDER USE BY ALEWIFE (ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS), Kevin M. Sullivan