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Our undergraduate students cover a wide range of topics from Human Geography to Physical Geography. Here you can find some examples of recently completed undergraduate dissertations.

Human Geography dissertation examples

Georgina Ogg

Supervised by: Dr. Flurina Wartmann

Simone Arvid

What was your dissertation about?

My dissertation was investigating the sustainability of ecologically restoring The Dunvegan Estate and The Kinrara Estate in Scotland using a qualitative mixed-method approach. It explored how local context and levels of engagement within planning processes are shaping different stakeholder and local community perceptions. The findings highlighted how complex issues of scale, social constructions and political-historical structures impacts the perceptions and general sustainability of the projects. It also illustrated that potential barriers to inclusive processes included revenues associated with woodland restoration, a disconnection with localism and the impacts of COVID-19.

What skills did you develop (further) during your dissertation research?

Due to the impacts of COVID-19, I had no prior practical experience with conducting research. Furthermore, we were initially restricted to conducting research using online methods, which led me to choose a qualitative mixed methods approach (e.g. surveys and interviews). However, I struggled to collect sufficient data due to the remoteness of both projects and a bias in the design of my survey. It pushed me to re-adjust the design of my methodology, which included in-person fieldwork in October/November as the COVID-19 guidelines changed. Ultimately, the process developed my research skills, creativity and resilience, as I managed to gather substantial data after experiencing significant setbacks.

What was the highlight of your dissertation work?

Conducting fieldwork in-person and getting the opportunity to connect with the local stakeholders on a personal level was a very rewarding and inspiring experience. It allowed me to explore the local culture and project sites, which enhanced my understanding of the place-based contexts and issues. Contributing new knowledge to a contemporary academic and political debate also ensured that the dissertation process was engaging throughout and felt very meaningful to complete.

Supervised by: Dr. Paula Duffy

What was your dissertation about? My dissertation was undertaken to study the contribution of land reform to sustainable development in the Western Isles of Scotland. This was conducted in collaboration with the James Hutton Institute and compared survey data from the National Islands Plan across the different Scottish Island regions; as well as my own interviews in Na h-Eileanan Siar. In an attempt to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of the Community Land Organisations (Community Land Trusts) in the region. The findings were incorporated to provide policy recommendations related to land reform which were presented to representatives of the Scottish Government and Islands Team.

What skills did you develop (further) during your dissertation research? I developed my research skills, both in quantitative and qualitative analysis; and also increased my knowledge in a key area of interest for me; and an area of great importance for policy makers and land managers in Scotland.

What was the highlight of your dissertation work? I think the real highlight for me was getting to see the benefit of my work to the government and interacting with many important stakeholders in this area. It was also really amazing to study an area such as Na h-Eileanan Siar in depth. The culture, the people and their relationship with the land is really inspiring and is something which I think we all could learn from.

Supervised by Dr. Lorna Philip

I chose to focus my dissertation on the role of urban green spaces in Aberdeen during the ongoing pandemic.

During the first lockdown it was clear to see that people being confined to their own homes led them to seek any opportunity to get outdoors so as to improve their physical and mental well-being. This was supported by Google's 2020 mobility data report which highlighted Aberdeen City as an example of a place showing a particularly large increase in park visitors during this period. I wanted to find out more about why people were deciding to visit green spaces or conversely maybe why there were now less inclined.

Access was a key aspect I focused on to identify the distribution of green spaces across Aberdeen city and find pockets that access could be improved for residents. I created online questionnaires to gather first hand responses of how people had been using green spaces and how maybe that had changed over the past year. The outcome of my dissertation made it clear to see how valuable these green spaces were to residents during the pandemic but also the new challenges which had arisen.

Supervised by Dr. Flurina Wartmann

Physical Geography dissertation examples

Emma Simpson

My dissertation mapped the groundwater vulnerability to the contamination through pesticides in the Ythan catchment. The river Ythan has a significant amount of baseflow which indicates a strong correlation between the groundwater and the river flow and is under a lot of agricultural pressure. Agriculture is the main identified reason for high pesticide values in the water which led to the area becoming a Nitrate vulnerability zone. Through creating two different models I visualised the most vulnerable zones of the catchment and with that data created a risk map for crops. This shows the areas that have intensive crops farming and are also vulnerable to groundwater pollution. Mapping two models allowed to show the distinctions when emphasising different parameters.

Throughout my research I developed skills in building hydrological models using ArcGIS as well as improved my data management skills. Especially from the data management I learned a lot for future research as I had to create 5 to 7 GIS layers per model and often further layers throughout the process. Another important learning was to extract the important information from the less important and to make choices for my final data set.

The highlight of my work was seeing the final maps and understanding the differences in the models. But also realising how abstract they are but then through creating risk maps can become relevant for stakeholders.

Supervised by Dr. JC Comte

Fingal Summers

My dissertation used modelling to analyse the effect of forestation on reducing river flood peaks in a Scottish upland catchment area. The catchment in questions was the Linne nam Beathach river catchment, Argyll. I created the model using a commonly implemented hydrological modelling software called SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool), using a wide assortment of input data including measured discharge measurements, weather statistics, as well as soil and land use maps. After calibration and validation occurred, I used ArcGIS to manually update the land use map to extend forest boundaries to several different areas. Results showed that increasing forests on this catchment would decrease flood peak scenarios by a small margin.

I developed my skills in hydrological modelling, and in finding data sources for model creation. Furthermore, I had to get used to using a variety of new software and techniques, including the model software itself, and SWAT-CUP, which I used for the crucial step of calibration. More generally I increased my ability in finding creative solutions to difficult problems, and I further developed my Excel skills, such as using keyboard shortcuts to speed up handling of large amounts of data.

The highlight for me was seeing the calibrated model run for the first time and getting results. It had taken a lot of work to get to this point so it was a moment of great satisfaction. Another aspect I enjoyed was the analysis of the final simulated data, and using statistical techniques to compare it with original scenario of forest cover.

Supervised by Dr. David Haro Monteagudo

What was your dissertation about? My dissertation used data extracted from pollen diagrams to map patterns of tree spreading in the British Isles during the early Holocene. I created a series of isochrone maps – showing the direction and timing of species dispersal – using ArcGIS. This built upon research first conducted in the late 1980s (with hand-drawn maps), almost doubling the number of data points. Significant changes in patterns were observed in some instances, with the research ultimately adding to our body of knowledge regarding species distributions, rates of spread, and response to controlling factors such as climate and topography.

What skills did you develop (further) during your dissertation research? I learnt a number of new techniques, particularly how to use GIS software, and improved my statistical analysis skills and my ability to think critically when analysing data outputs. I also improved my ability to quickly find and filter potential data sources. In terms of personal development, working during the COVID lockdown helped me hone my time management skills, notably creating and keeping to my own deadlines whilst also remembering to take regular breaks.

What was the highlight of your dissertation work? Finding new and undiscovered patterns of tree spread, and being able to explore the possible causes for this. Completing my dissertation was a rewarding experience as I felt that I had contributed new knowledge to my subject field.

Supervised by Dr. J. Edward Schofield

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Theses and dissertations are documents that present an author's research findings, which are submitted to the University in support of their academic degree. They are very useful to consult when carrying out your own research because they:

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• provide inspiration for the finished product
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On this page you will find guidance on how to search for and access theses and dissertations in the Bodleian Libraries and beyond.

Definitions

Terms you may encounter in your research.

Thesis: In the UK, a thesis is normally a document that presents an author's research findings as part of a doctoral or research programme.

Dissertation: In the UK, a dissertation is normally a document that presents an author's research findings as part of an undergraduate or master's programme.

DPhil: An abbreviation for Doctor of Philosophy, which is an advanced research qualification. You may also see it referred to as PhD.

ORA: The Oxford University Research Archive , an institutional repository for the University of Oxford's research output including digital theses.

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The Bodleian Libraries collection holds DPhil, MLitt and MPhil theses deposited at the University of Oxford, which you can consult. You may also be interested to read theses and dissertations beyond the University of Oxford, some of which can be read online, or you can request an inter-library loan.

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To find out more about how to find and access theses and dissertations in the Bodleian Libraries and beyond, we recommend the following:

• Bodleian Libraries theses and dissertations Links to information on accessing the Bodleian Libraries collections of Oxford, UK, US and other international theses.
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• Guide to copyright The Bodleian Libraries' Quick guide to copyright and digital sources.

Prize winning undergraduate dissertations are available in print in the Social Science Library opposite the printing and photocopying room. These start from the year 2000 onwards. Prize winning dissertations from 1979 to 1999 are located offsite but can be ordered to the Social Science Library by searching for the title on SOLO. A full list of the titles is located with the dissertations in the library and is also  here .

Prize winning dissertations from 2019 are also available on the SOGE intranet  here .

There is also a a listing of all non-prize winning dissertations by year from 2003 which includes their abstracts, located by the dissertations. 

BCM, ECM, NSEG & WSPM MSc Dissertations

MSc dissertations with a Distinction are located in the Social Science Library opposite the printer and photocopier room. All dissertations with a Distinction are available in printed format for the years 1995 to 2017. Dissertations from 2018 onwards are only available electronically on the SOGE intranet  here .

DPhil theses in print format are kept off-site at the Bodleian Book Storage Facility. They can be found on SOLO by a keyword search including the word ‘thesis’. Alternatively there is a browseable list by year on the SOGE intranet with links to SOLO  here .

DPhil theses in print format can only be requested to the Weston Library for consultation.

Many of the more recent DPhil theses are also available to read online unless they have an embargo. These are on the university repository,  ORA . The SOGE intranet  browseable list  also includes links to the online full text in ORA where available.

Further information about finding theses, both in Oxford and in other universities can be found  here . 

Depositing your thesis

It is mandatory for students completing a research degree at the University of Oxford (registered to a programme of study on or after 1st October 2007) to deposit an electronic copy of their theses with the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) in order to meet the requirements of their award. To find out more, visit the Oxford University Research Archive guide.

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Masters Theses, 1928-Present

• Hubert Anton BAUER  Tides of the Puget Sound and Adjacent Island Waters [1928]
• Wallace Thomas BUCKLEY  The Geography of Spokane [1930]
• Carl Herbert MAPES  The History and Function of the Map in Relation to the Science of Geography [1931]
• William Bungay MERRIAM  Geonomics of the Rogue River Valley [1933]
• James Allan TOWER  The Oasis of Damascus [1933]
• Vera C. CASS [Sawyer]  The Port of Stockton [1934]
• William Haskell PIERSON  A Regional Study of Texas [1934]
• Leonard Clarence EKMAN  The Geography of Occupance in the Skykomish Valley [1937]
• Harold Ellsworth TENNANT  The Columbia Basin Project [1937]
• Margaret TAYLOR [Carlstairs]  Intensification of Agriculture in Sub-tropical Japan [1939]
• Russel SHEE MCCLURE  The Hudson Bay Wheat Road [1939]
• Burton W. ATKINSON  The Historical Geography of the Snohomish River Valley [1940]
• Elmer ANDERSEN  The Eden-Farson Reclamation Project of Wyoming [1940]
• Woodrow Rexford CLEVINGER  The Southern Appalachian Highlanders in Western Washington [1940]
• Tim Kenneth KELLEY  The Geography of the Wenatchee River Basin [1940]
• Gertrude Louise MCKEAN [Reith]  Industrial Tacoma [1940]
• Chester Frederick COLE  Land Utilization on Vashon Island [1941]
• Violet Elisabeth RYBERG  Oasis Agriculture in Tacoma, Argentina [1942]
• Ernestine Annamae HAMBURG [Gavin]  Geography of Pen Oreille County Washington [1943]
• Enid Lorine MILLER [Stevens]  A Geographic Study of Jefferson and Clallam Counties Washington [1943]
• Marion E. MARTS  Geography of the Snoqualmie River Valley [1944]
• William Ross PENCE  The White River Valley of Washington [1946]
• Willert RHYNSBURGER  A Critical Bibliography of African Topographic Maps [1946]
• Richard M. HIGHSMITH, Jr.  Irrigation Agriculture in the Yakima Valley [1946]
• Herman Walter BURKLAND  The Yokohama Waterfront: A Study in Port Morphology [1947]
• Michael Perry MCINTYRE  Geography of the New Hebrides [1947]
• Elbert Ernest MILLER  Geography of Grant County, Washington [1947]
• Frederick William BUERSTATTE  The Geography of Whidbey Island [1947]
• Howard John CRITCHFIELD  The Geography of Boundary County, Idaho [1947]
• Oliver Harry HEINTZELMAN  The Urban Geography of Longview Washington [1948]
• Stanley Alan ARBINGAST  The Industrial Geography of Duluth, Minnesota [1948]
• Douglas Broadmore CARTER  The Sequim-Dungeness Lowland. A Natural Dairy Community [1948]
• Robert Nelson YOUNG  Geography of the Okanogan Valley [1948]
• John Olney DART  The Geography of the Roslyn-Cle Elum Coal Field [1948]
• Harold Ray IMUS  Land Utilization in the Sumas Lake District, British Columbia [1948]
• Donald Otto BUSHMAN  The Geography of Orcas Island [1949]
• Constance Demange CROSS  The Geography of Clackamas County, Oregon [1949]
• Roger Edward ERVIN  The Economy of Central Costa Rica [1949]
• Edward Clarence WHITLEY  Agriculture Geography of the Kittitas Valley [1949]
• Brian Henry FARRELL  The Study of an Evolving Habitat: Ahuriri Lagoon, New Zealand [1949]
• Keith Westherad THOMSON  The Manawatu Lowland of New Zealand [1949]
• Will F. THOMPSON, Jr.  Resources of the Western Aleutians [1950]
• Dale Elliot COURTNEY  Bellingham: An Urban Analysis [1950]
• Donald William MEINIG  Environment and Settlement in the Palouse, 1868-1910 [1950]
• Forrest Lester MCELHOE, Jr.  Physical Modifications of Site Necessitated by the Urban Growth of Seattle [1950]
• Clarke Harding BROOKE, Jr.  The Razor Clam Siliqua Patula of the Washington Coast and Its Place in the Local Economy [1950]
• Herbert Lee COMBS, Jr.  The Historical Geography of Port Townsend, Washington [1950]
• Wilfred Gervais MYATT  Urban Geography of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan [1950]
• Elaine May BJORKLUND  Changing Occupance in Davis County, Utah [1951]
• Francis William ANDERSON  The Urban Geography of Everett, Washington [1951]
• John Albert CROSBY  The Problem of Relief Representation on Maps [1951]
• Theodore HERMAN  The Manufacture of Aluminum Products in the State of Washington, as of June 30, 1950 [1951]
• Elizabeth SCHREIBER OXFORD  Phoenix: An Oasis in the Great American Desert [1951]
• Anthony SAS  The Coal Mining Industry in South Limburg, Netherlands [1951]
• Eva Kathleen DEKRAAY  Geography of Routt County, Washington [1951]
• John Richard HOWARD  Wichita – An Urban Analysis [1951]
• James Eugene BROOKS  Wahkiakum County, Washington: A Case Study in the Geography of the Coast Range Portion of the Lower Columbia River Valley [1952]
• Hazel Loraine LAUGHLIN  The La Connor Flats of Western Washington [1952]
• Gene Ellis MARTIN  Population and Food Production in the Philippine Province of Antique [1952]
• Dave Victoria GRAVES  A Geographical Study of Olympia, Washington [1952]
• William Reed HEAD  A Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of the Areal Arrangement of Retail Business in Communities and Neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon [1952]
• Harold Earl BABCOCK  The Historical Geography of Devils Lake, North Dakota [1952]
• Jack Allen HARRISON  An Evaluation of Mackinder’s Heartland Theory in Light of Selected Pre-War Economic Developments in the Soviet Union [1952]
• Joseph LOTZKAR  The Boundary Country of Southern British Columbia. A Study of Resources and Human Occupance [1952]
• Thomas Edward STEPHENS  Temperatures in the State of Washington as Influenced by the Westward Spread of Polar Air Over the Rocky and Cascade Mountain Barriers [1952]
• Charles Dennis DURDEN  The Road System of San Juan County [1953]
• Harold Glenn LUNTEY  An Analysis of the Economic Benefits of Irrigation to Twin City Falls County, Idaho [1953]
• Francis E. SHAFER  Tourist Flow to the San Juan Islands [1953]
• Neil Collard FIELD  The Amu-Darya: Problems and Implications of Soviet Plans for Water Resource Development. An Application of Systematic Geographic Principles to Regional Research in the Soviet Field [1954]
• Burton Francis KELSO  Flow Pattern Changes in the Canadian Petroleum Industry. A Case Study in the Impact of Increased Oil Production Upon Petroleum Transportation in Canada [1954]
• Raymond Success MATHIESON  The Industrial Geography of Seattle, Washington [1954]
• Rodney STEINER  An Investigation of Selected Phases of Sampling to Determine Quantities of Land and Land-Use Types [1954]
• Fred Patrick MILETICH  The Historical and Economic Geography of Port Angeles, Washington [1954]
• William Angus ERWIN, Jr.  Medford as an Urban Economic Unit [1954]
• Willis Robertson HEATH  Limitations on Settlement in a Baja California Village – San Jose de Comodu [1955]
• Howard K. ALBANO  An Analysis of the Crop Production Potential of the Mongolian People’s Republic [1956]
• Ralph Edward BLACK  Maps and Mapping Agencies in Washington State – A Selective and Analytical Bibliography [1956]
• Howard Edward VOGEL  Maps and Maping Agencies in Washington State – A Selective and Analytical Bibliography [1956]
• William Robert Derrick SEWELL  The Conflict of Fish and Power: A Problem in the Water Resource Development of the Pacific Northwest [1956]
• Duane Francis MARBLE  The Spatial Structure of the Farm Business [1956]
• William Richard SIDDALL  I. Seattle and the Hierarchy of Central Places in Alaska; II. Wholesale-Retail Trade Ratios as Indices of Urban Centrality; III. A Historical Study of the Yukon Waterway in the Development of Interior Alaska [1956]
• Brian Joe Lobley BERRY  Geographic Aspects of the Size and Arrangement of Urban Centers: An Examination of Central Place Theory with an Empirical Test of Hypothesis of Classes of Central Places [1956]
• Rajanikant Nilkanthrao JOSHI  The Cotton Textile Industry of Bombay City. A Locational Analysis [1956]
• Chen WANG  I. The Role of Irrigation Ponds in the Agricultural Development of the Taoyuan Tableland, Taiwan; II. Irrigated Agriculture in Imperial Valley, California; III. Ch’ientao: An Irrigation Region of Northwestern China [1956]
• Robert Martin BONE  The Development and Significance of Tea Cultivation in the Soviet Union [1957]
• Carlos B. HAGEN  The Azimuthal Equidistant Projection [1957]
• Richard Leland MORRILL  An Experimental Study of Trade in Wheat and Flour in the Flour Milling Industry [1957]
• John David NYSTUEN  Locational Theory and the Movement of Fresh Produce to Urban Centers [1957]
• Richard Ellis PRESTON  I. Wenatchee, Washington: A Study in Community-Industry Relations. II. Java: A Study in Population and Settlement Geography [1957]
• Waldo Rudolph TOBLER  An Empirical Evaluation of Some Aspects of Hypsometric Colors [1957]
• William Frank KOHLER  An Investigation of the Feasibility of Making a Preliminary Classification of Soils from Aerial Photos and An Exploratory Field Investigation of the Soils, Vegetation and Terrain of the Copper River Martin-Bering Glacier Lowland of Alaska [1957]
• Ruth Ellen Marken KROMANN  Rural Settlements: Form and Function, with Southern Jutland, Denmark as an Example [1957]
• Nancy Houts NEWTON  The Evolution of Manufacturing in the Central Industrial Region of the U.S.S.R. [1957]
• Arthur Jacob DIENO  The Geography of the Southern Okanogan Valley of ritish Columbia [1957]
• Michael Francis DACEY  The Minimum Expectation Method for Computation of the Service Component of the Urban Economic Base [1958]
• Roger E. PEDERSON  The Procurement of Fruits. An Empirical Evaluation of the Factors of Fruit Procurement [1958]
• John Francis KOLARS  The Development and Use of Coal in Relation to the Turkish Energy Base [1958]
• Ernest LUCERO  Suggested Examination of Acculturation Aspects of Milpa Agriculture as Related to Resistance to Change [1958]
• Jeremy Herrick ANDERSON  The Agricultural Development of Yakutia [1959]
• John Graham RICE  Ideological Theory Underlying the Distribution of Industry in the U.S.S.R. [1959]
• Richard Louis EDWARDS  A Survey of Cotton Production on the Irrigated Lands of Soviet Central Asia [1959]
• Julian Vincent MINGHI  The Conflict of Salmon Fishing Policies in the North Pacific [1959]
• Charles Buckley PETERSON III  The Evolution of the Politico-Territorial System of the Ukraine Since January 1917 [1960]
• Richard William KEPPEL  Attitude Measurement as a Function of Map User Requirements Analysis [1960]
• John James SOUTHWORTH  Alternative Routes for the Great Slave Railroad: Some Geographical Considerations [1960]
• Visvaldis SMITS  Impact of Collectivization on Latvian Agriculture [1960]
• Eugene Thomas WEILER  I. Cost Determinants of River Basin Development: The Columbia River Power System Case; II. An Illustration of the Use of the Basic-Service Ratio in Seattle, Washington [1961]
• William James SHAW II  The Classification and Graphic Representation of Railroad Data [1961]
• George Kazuo SAITO  An Investigation of Some Visual Problems of Cartographic Lettering [1962]
• Robert G. JENSEN  Competition for Land in the Humid Subtropics of Soviet Georgia [1962]
• Ronald Everett SHOEMAKER  Screen Gray Value Uses for Cartographic Representation [1962]
• Donald Wesley PATTEN  The Air Traffic Patterns of the Seattle-Tacoma Hub [1962]
• Dexter Alden ARMSTRONG, Jr.  Loss of Detail in Halftone Reproduction of Aerial Photographs: An Investigation [1962]
• George Harold HAGEVIK  Locational Tendencies and Space Requirements of Retail Business in Suburban King County [1963]
• Richard Waldo WILKIE  Cartography as an Effective Tool in the Study of Social Change [1963]
• John Edward George BOYMAN  Alaska’s External Trade 1951-58: Some Characteristics and Developments [1963]
• Yun CHA  Political-Geographical Appraisal of Divided Korea [1963]
• Michael Iwan ANDERSON  Rangoon: A Study of Changing Functions of a Southeast Asian City [1963]
• Ladd JOHNSON.  The Cowlitz River Development: History, Effects, and Implications [1963]
• Keith Way MUCKLESTON  The Function of the Volga as Route of Transportation [1963]
• Robert Philip WRIGHT  The Russian Empire and the U.S.S.R.: A Cartographic and Tabular Presentation of Population: 1897-1959 [1964]
• Harris Henry HAERTEL  Irrigation, Mosquitoes, and Encephalitis: A Problem of Water Resource Development [1964]
• Paul Daniel MCDERMOTT  A Preliminary Investigation of the Suitability of Aerial Photographs for Developing Visualization and Comprehension of Map Symbols in the First, Second, and Third Grades [1964]
• James Robert HENDERSON  Depressed Areas and Location Theory Case Study: Cambridge, Ohio [1964]
• Frederick Joseph NAMMACHER  The Nineteenth Century Basic Ferrous Metallurgical Industry of South Russia: A Geographical Appraisal [1964]
• Roger Lee THIEDE  The Nineteenth Century Basic Ferrous Metallurgical Industry of South Russia: A Geographical Appraisal [1964]
• Marvin Alan STELLWAGEN  Housing Expenditure Patterns in Seattle 1950-1960 [1964]
• Per Sur HENRIKSEN  The Faroe lslands: A Political Geographic Case Study [1965]
• Kerry Josef PATAKI  Shifting Population and Environment Among the Auyana: Some Considerations and Phenomena and Schema [1965]
• Khalida Nuzhat QURESHI [Nasir]  The Political-Geographical Implications of “Pukhtoonistan” [1965]
• Evan DENNEY  Economic Development, A Case Study of the Caroni River Region, Venezuela [1965]
• Frederick Abraham HIRSH  Spatial Distribution of the Electronic Industry in the United States [1965]
• Richard Owen MERRITT  Land Use Allocation for Military Purposes: The U.S. Marine Corps at Pickel Meadows, California [1965]
• Stephen Keith NEWSOM  A Computer Program Which Constructs Interrupted Cylindric Map Projections [1965]
• Frank James QUINN  National Involvement in a Small International River Valley: The Okanogan, British Columbia and Washington [1965]
• Huibert VERWEY  The Problem in the Development of the Kulunda Steppe [1965]
• Kenji Kenneth OSHIRO  Jiwari Seido in the Central and Southern Ryukyus [1965]
• Harry Holman MOORE  Standardization of Geographic Names [1965]
• Philip Rust PRYDE  A Locational Analysis of the Cotton Textile Industry of the U.S.S.R. [1965]
• Philip Patrick MICKLIN  Electric Power Development in the Angaro-Yenisey Region of the U.S.S.R. [1966]
• Elisabeth Warriner PUTNAM  An Analysis of the Spatial Variation in Selected Agricultural Practices in the Georgia Piedmont [1966]
• Jack Francis WILLIAMS  China in Maps, 1890-1960. A Selective and Annotated Cartobibliography [1966]
• Allen Ralph SOMMARSTROM  The Impact of Human Use on Recreational Quality: The Example of the Olympic National Park Backcountry User [1966]
• David Lloyd STALLINGS  Automated Map Reference Retrieval [1966]
• Ernest Harold WOHLENBERG  Some Spatial Aspects of the Wood Pulp Industry in the United States and Canada [1966]
• Alan Anthony DELUCIA  SEMSID: An Automated System for Graphic Display of Series Map Status Information [1966]
• Daniel Benjamin Scott PRATHER  The Cities of the Soviet Second Metallurgical Base: A Study of the Origin and Distribution [1967]
• Barbara Mary BRERETON [Haney]  Viticulture and Viniculture in the U.S.S.R. [1967]
• Geoffrey John Dennis HEWINGS  Persistence of Precipitation and No Precipitation Described by a Markov Chain Probability Model: Case Studies from Selected Stations in Washington State [1967]
• Everett Arvin WINGERT  Tonal Enhancement and Isolation in Aerial Photographic Interpretation [1967]
• Donald Allen OLMSTEAD  Trend-Surface Analysis of Geographical Data Surfaces [1968] [Sherman]
• Alice Bent THIEDE  An Examination of the Map as a Conveyor of Propaganda [1967] [Sherman]
• Kenneth Joseph LANGRAN  The Political and Administrative Control of Water Pollution in International River Basins [1968] [Cooley]
• Joshua David LEHMAN  The Problem of Freeway Noise in Urban Areas [1968] [Ullman]
• Dennis Gene ASMUSSEN  I. Railway Timber Flows in the Soviet Union; II. The Conservation Commission: An Alternative Beginning for the Creation of Effective Environmental Policy; III. Wild and Scenic Rivers: Private Rights and Public Goods [1969] [Jackson]
• Thomas Pierce BOUCHARD  Politics and Environment: The Struggle for Wild and Scenic Rivers [1969] [Cooley]
• Lawrence E. GOSS Jr.  The Rise and Fall of Downtown Tacoma: Its Causes and Consequences [1969] [Boyce]
• Charles Edwin GREER  Chinghai Province: The Transformation of a Cultural Frontier [1969] [Chang]
• Dean R. LOUDER  Non-Urban Stagnation in a Regional Setting: The Case of the Pacific Northwest [1969] [Morrill]
• Victor Lee MOTE  Some Factors in Siberian Development: With Emphasis Upon the Western Siberian Butter Industry [1969] [Jackson]
• George Franklin SHERWIN Jr.  Automobile Ownership Patterns: A Study of Variables Affecting Automobile Ownership in Seattle [1969] [Boyce]
• Richard Robert SLOMON  The Hohsi Region Within the Han Frontier System : An Historical Geographic Approach [1969] [Chang]
• Dona Shirlene STROMBOM  The Kirkland Business District: A Case Study of the Discrepancy Between Potential Trade Area and Retail Responses [1969] [Boyce]
• Daniel Perry BEARD  Expansion of Outdoor Recreation Facilities: Two Case Studies Financed Under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act in Washington State [1969] [Cooley]
• Philip Stephen KELLEY  Control of the Ocean Floor: A Conflict Between Reality and Idealism [1969] [Sherman]
• Cristine Jenner CANNON  Mapping Western North America and Puget Sound [1969] [Sherman]
• Robert James BARNES.  The Structural-Functional Approach to Socio-Spatial Organization [1970] [Cooley]
• Edward Fisher BERGMAN  Politics and the Geography of Transportation [1970] [Jackson]
• James Jefferson KYLE  The Nisqually Delta Controversy [1970] [Cooley]
• Paul J. MCCRAW  I. Determinism and Possibilism in the Case of China’s Economic Development; II. China’s Industrial Process and Reorientation in Foreign Trade [1970] [Chang]
• Barbara Ann WEIGHTMAN  Commercial Fertilizer Manufacturing in Communist China: An Analysis of the Development Process and Growth Pattern of a Newly Emerged Industry [1970 ][Chang]
• Larry Martin SVART  Field Burning in the Willamette Valley: A Case Study of Environmental Quality Control [1971] [Cooley]
• David A. MUNGER  A Survey of the Western Red Cedar Shake Industry of the Pacific Northwest [1970] [Marts]
• John Robert BRADEN  An Analysis of Models of Investments in Urban Outdoor Recreation Facilities [1971] [Beyers]
• Gerald Ray PETERSEN  A Survey of the Growth and Nature of Medical Geography with Special Emphasis on Its Content, Methods and Relationships to the Health Sciences [1971] [Sherman]
• Eugene James TURNER  The Functional Role of Animation in Cartography [1971] [Sherman]
• Randolph James SORENSEN  Indian-American Land Tenure Conflict: A Case Study of the Shoshone- Bannock Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Fort Hall, Idaho [1971] [Jackson]
• Olen Paul MATTHEWS  American Indian Cultural Change and Government Policy [1971] [Velikonja]
• Marilyn L. CAYFORD  Transportation in Micronesia [1971] [Fleming]
• Werner Johann LINDEMAIER  A Basic Study of an Endangered Natural Resource: The Ocean Shoreline of Washington State [1971] [Marts]
• Arnold Lee TESSMER  Transport Development in Thailand; Strategic Requirements and Economic Growth [1971] [Ullman]
• Kenneth Allan POPP  Gaming and the Evaluation of Population Forecasts. [1972] [Morrill]
• Saud H. RAAD  Towards an Assessment of Environmental Impact of Urban Mass Transit and Political Integration in Lebanon [1972] [Jackson]
• David William BAYLOR  Silver, Lead, and Zinc in the Economic Development of Shoshone County, Idaho [1972] [Thomas]
• Michael Lee TALBOTT  Movements of Soviet Oil and Gas Since World War II [1972] [Jackson]
• Philip ANDRUS  At Home in Tuwanasavi: The Perceived Integrity of the Hopi Environment [1972]
• Roger Earl DOBRATZ  A Special Theory of General Systems in Geography [1972] [Ullman]
• Lawrence Laird NYLAND  The Scandinavian Experiment: An Analysis of Various Aspects of Scandinavian Social Space Within the Confines of Western Europe [1972] [Fleming]
• Art CHIN  The Economic Regionalization of Hainan Island South China (1950-1965) [1973] [Chang]
• Leon C. JOHNSON  Black Migration, Spatial Organization and Perception in Philadelphia’s Urban Environment, 1638-1930 [1973] [Boyce]
• Fedva DIKMEN  Patterns of Turkish Migration [1972] [Morrill]
• Diane Lynn MANNINEN  The Role of Compactness in the Process of Redistricting [1973] [Morrill]
• Charles Everett OGROSKY  New Approaches to the Preparation and Reproduction of Tactual and Enhanced Image Graphics for the Visually Handicapped [1973] [Sherman]
• Gerald Ray JEWETT  Changing Social Objectives and the Columbia Basin Project: Past, Present, Future [1973] [Marts]
• James Robert BUCKNELL  The Impact of Avalanches in Three Selected Areas of the Cascades: A Study of Avalanches as Natural Hazards [1974] [Marts]
• William Redford ALVES  Three Papers on the Spatial Dynamics of Development: I. Critique of an Urban System Diffusion Model: Hudson’s (1969) Diffusion in a Central Place System. II. Decentralization of Manufacturing Location Theory of the Firm III. The Commuting Field and Its Spread Effects: Seattle, 1960-1970 [1974] [Beyers]
• John Philip KING  The Global Pattern of Wide-Body Jet Routes: A Study of Network Determination [1974] [Fleming]
• Moses Pui-Chuen LAI  Coal Industry in Mainland China: An Analysis of Its Changing Pattern of Growth and Distribution [1974] [Chang]
• Kathleen Elizabeth O’BRIEN [Braden]  The Petroleum Resource of West Siberia [1974] [Jackson]
• James Albert BUSS  Grouping, Regionalizing, Classifying: An Introduction [1974] [Morrill]
• John Timothy GRIFFIN  Uncertainty and the Strategy of Flexibility in the Space-Economy [1975] [Beyers]
• George Herbert HARMEYER  Rhine River Basin Water Pollution Problem [1975] [Fleming]
• Robert Graham MITTELSTADT  Landscape Realization in the Cinema: The Geography of the Western Film [1976] [Fleming]
• Jerome R. BROTHERS  The Subway Network in the Evolution of the Tokyo Mass Transit System [1976] [Velikonja]
• Kathryn Lynn ERICKSON  Land Settlement in Tropical Africa for Population Pressure and Agricultural Development [1976] [Velikonja]
• Thomas Randall REVIS  Geographic-Economic Problems and Development of a Soviet Population Policy [1976] [Jackson]
• Lawrence Alvin WOODWARD  International Influence Fields: A Study in Political Geography [1976] [Jackson]
• Hazel Lynn SINGER [Griffith]  The Spatial Distribution of Federal Funds for Research and Development [1976] [Thomas]
• Joseph P. CHURCHILL  Skid Row in Transition [1976] [Boyce]
• Diana DENHAM  Gypsies in Social Space [1976] [Velikonja]
• Jean CULJAK SHAFFER  An Evaluation of Fare-Free Transit in Downtown Seattle [1976] [Boyce]
• Lawrence Leonard MANSBACH  An Investigation of Locational Behavior as Viewed Through the Processes of Firm Growth [1976] [Krumme]
• David Alan FANSLER  Downtown Retailing: A Quarter-Century of Decline [1977] [Hodge]
• Sallie Ann MILLER [MacGregor]  Nonmetropolitan Growth as an Expression of Residential Preference [1977] [Morrill]
• George D. COOK  The Presentation of Two Algorithms for the Construction of Value-By-Area Cartograms [1977] [Youngman]
• David Paul BEDDOE  An Alternative Cartographic Method to Portray Origin-Destination Data [1978] [Sherman]
• John Henry BANNICK Jr.  Unbalanced Product Specialization and the Location of Branch Plants [1978] [Morrill]
• Donna Lee KLEMKA  Pacific Northwest Electrical Energy Planning. Problems of Institutional Redesign [1978] [Marts]
• Michael Kay MELTON  A Study of the Visual Perception of Analytical Hill-Shading Technique [1978] [Youngman]
• Paula Noel TWELKER  Ethnic Communities in Western Settlement [1978] [Velikonja]
• Masami HASEGAWA  Depopulation: Recent Trends in Rural-Urban Migration in Japan [1978] [Kakiuchi]
• Valerie Jeanette LEACH [HODGE]  Upfiltering and Neighborhood Change in the Madrona Area of Seattle, Washington [1978] [Hodge]
• Lawrence John KIMMEL  Siberian Development and Its Implications for the U.S.S.R. [1978] [Jackson]
• Wendy Terra PRODAN  Wilderness Review Procedures: Evaluating Alaska’s Wildlands [1979] [ZumBrunnen]
• Philip George HIRTES  Orienteering and Orienteering-Mapping: Implications for Geography and Cartography [1979] [Sherman]
• Francis Eugene SHERIDAN  The Gentrification of the Capitol Hill Community of Seattle in the 1970’s [1979] [Morrill]
• Lynn Phyllis WEINER [Anderson].  A Spatial Analysis of Regional Economic Change in the United States Between 1967 and 1975 [1979] [Beyers]
• Tamer KIRAC  Formulating Regional Input-Output Models. A Case Study of Turkey [1979] [Beyers]
• Chris Edward LAWSON  Hardrock Mineral Development Policy for National Forest Land [1979] [Beyers]
• Bridget TRUPIANO [Diekema]  Spatial Variation in Soviet Living Standard: 1959-1975 [1979] [ZumBrunnen]
• Jody Hamaka Matsubu YAMANAKA  The Geography of the U.S. Air Cargo Industry [1979] [Fleming]
• Nangisai Nason Kudzirozwa GWARADA  Historical Development and Future Aspects of Agriculture in Zimbabwe [1979] [Hodge]
• Elizabeth Carol HOLLENBECK  Open Space at the Urban Periphery [1979] [Mayer]
• Della Geneva O’CONNOR  Port Development in the People’s Republic of China: A Geographical Perspective [1979] [Chang]
• Craig Smith CALHOON  Population Redistribution and Regional Economic Structure in the System of U.S. Metropolitan Regions, 1965-1975 [1980] [Beyers]
• Kent Hughes BUTTS  Alberta’s Energy Resources: Their Impact on Canada [1980] [Jackson]
• James William HARRINGTON  Tan-Zam: Economic, Technological, and Political Perspectives on a New Transport Route [1980] [Thomas]
• Peter Haynes MESERVE  Convergence: The Unsummoned Response [1980] [Jackson]
• Claudia Ann SWEENY  The Effects of Equity Policies on Agricultural Mechanization in the People’s Republic of China [1980] [Chang]
• Paul WOZNIAK  Zoning in Urban Expansion and Its Urban Form Implications [1980] [Hodge]
• Christopher L. DOUM  Maps for Promotional Purposes: The Map in Travel [1980] [Sherman]
• Holly Jeanne MYERS-JONES  A Geographical Analysis of Political Opposition to Busing in Seattle [1980] [Morrill]
• Howard John TIERSCH  Network and Schedules: A Look at Airline Strategies. [1980] [Mayer]
• Sheila Jo MOSS  Stress, Change and A Sense of Place: Some Thoughts on Providing Care for Cancer Patients [1980] [Mayer]
• Jacob Henry SCHNUR  The Geographic Implications of Federally Established Fair Market Rents: Case of Seattle, Washington [1980] [Hodge]
• James Scott MACCREADY  Technological Processes and Geographical Dimensions of the Product Life Cycle [1981] [Thomas]
• Michael Robert SCUDERI  An Examination of the Spatial Behavior of Wilderness Uses, With Special Reference to Campsite Selection – A Case Study in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks [1981] [Beyers]
• Mary Elizabeth MONSCHEIN  Color in Cartography and Landsat Image Comparison for Land Use Change Detection: A Feasibility Study [1981] [Youngman]
• Mary Ann CIUFFINI  The Discriminability of Textures as Area Symbols on Tactual Maps and Graphics for the Visually Handicapped [1981] [Sherman]
• Laura Lee MCCANDLESS  Two Studies in Cartography: A Review of Color Perception Research and the Design of Maps in Travel Advertising [1981] [Sherman]
• Terry Lynn STORMS  The Crossed-Slit Anamorphoser: An Analysis of Its Characteristics and Utility in Cartography [1981] Sherman]
• John Michael MACGREGOR  Spatial Equity of Mass Transit Service: The Seattle METRO [1981] [Hodge]
• John Brady RICHARDS  Technology Transfer from Japan to the Transportation Sector of the Soviet Far East, 1970-1980 [1981] [Jackson]
• Richard Terry CAMPBELL  Industrial Growth and Regional Development in Japan: The Case of the Electric Power Industry [1981] [Kakiuchi]
• David WOO  Maps as Expression: A Study of Traditional Chinese Cartographic Style [1981] [Sherman]
• Patrick Henry BUCKLEY  A Study of Migration in India: Regionalization of India Based Upon 1961, 1971 Migration Streams [1982] [ZumBrunnen]
• Michael William CORR  The Lake Biwa Watershed: Problems of Agricultural and Industrial Pollution [1981] [Morrill]
• Larry Allen DIEKEMA  Spatial Variations of Defense Contract Awards by DOD Contractors [1981] [Beyers]
• Marjorie Beth PALMER  Residential Woodfuel Use in Western Washington, Estimated 1980 Consumption and Year 2000 Forecast [1981] [Beyers]
• Richard Arthur SNYDER  Regional Variations in Air Passenger Variations [1981] [Mayer]
• Matthew Okpani ALU  Cartography as an Essential Tool in Regional Planning and Development [1982] [Fleming]
• John Arthur BOWER Jr.  The Pacific Northwest Power Supply System: the Present and Future Operation of a Power Pool [1982] [Beyers]
• Lori Etta COHN  Residential Patterns of the Jewish Community of the Seattle Area, 1910-1980 [1982] [Mayer]
• Marilee G. MARTIN  The Geographical Distribution of Federal Civilian Employment, 1967-1978 [1982] [Beyers]
• Charles Robert ROSS, Jr.  Agricultural Land Conversion: A National Perspective and a Local Level Multiple Objective Planning Application [1982] [ZumBrunnen]]
• Janet E. FULLERTON  Transit and Settlement in Seattle, 1871-1941 [1982] [Velikonja]
• Elizabeth KOHLENBERG  Geography and the Demand for Mental Health Services [1982] [Mayer]
• Karen Louise MCFAUL  Municipal Annexation: A Study of the Urban Political Geography of King County, Washington, 1970-1980 [1982] [Hodge]
• Gene Edward PATTERSON  The Effects of Oil-Field Pollution on Residents in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Area [1982] [ZumBrunnen]
• Judith PEFFERMAN  The Evolution of Land Transportation in Pre-Modern Japan [1982] [Kakiuchi]
• Stanley Winfield TOOPS  The Political Integration of Yunnan [1983] [Chang]
• Dean Lee HANSEN  The Newly Industrialized Countries. Industrialization Strategies and Geographical Trade Dependence [1983] [Fleming]
• Anjan BANERJEE  Structural Comparison of Three Regional Economies: A Case Study of Georgia, West Virginia and Washington [1983] [Beyers]
• Garret Harold ROMAINE  Analysis of the Creation of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument [1983] [Beyers]
• Ahmed Eid AL-HARBI  Maps and Mapping Activities in Saudi Arabia; Annotation and Cartobibliography [1983] [Sherman]
• Mirko BOLANOVICH  I. Role of the Enterprise Zone in the Formation of Growth Poles in the Inner City. II. The Relationship of Race as an Identifiable Submarket to Housing Demand [1983] [Hodge]
• Richard Taber HAND  On the Value of Estuaries as Public Goods [1983] [Beyers]
• Jay Richard LUND  Living Aboard as an Element of an Urban Landscape [1983] [Mayer]
• Suzette Lorraine CONNOLLY  Geography of the Northwest Wine Industry: Development and Outlook [1983] [Beyers]
• Lydia M. HAGEN  Landscape Perceptions and Changes. A Case Study: The Journal of Susanna Moodie by Margaret Atwood [1984] [Jackson]
• Elizabeth Starnes SELKE  The Geographical and Seasonal Characteristics of Suicide in Washington State, 1973-1977 [1984] [Mayer]
• John Stewart SNOW  A Microcomputer Based Stereophotogrammetry System [1984] [Sherman]
• Mary Ellen BURG  Habitat Change in the Nisqually River Delta and Estuary Since the Mid-1800’s [1984] [ZumBrunnen]
• Michael Gerhard PARKS  Intra-Metropolitan Residential Mobility: A Simulation Approach [1984] [Hodge]
• Andrew Campbell DANA  An Evaluation of the Yellowstone River Compact: A Solution to Interstate Water Conflict [1984] [Marts]
• Peter N. V. SAMPLE  CHROMA: An Interactive Choropletic Mapping Package for Analysis in Geography [1984] [Hodge]
• Glenn Eric SIEFERMAN  The Location of Veterinary Services in the United States; and: Health and Development [1985] [Mayer]
• Frederick Ross TILGHAM  The Prospect for High-Speed Passenger Trains in the United States [1985] [Fleming]
• Becky Johnston REININGER  POLYMAP: A Microcomputer Based Geographic Information Display System [1985] [ZumBrunnen]
• Jon A. BOYCE.  Tsunami Hazard Mitigation: The Alaskan Experience Since 1964 [1985] [Marts]
• Peter Reppert GALVIN  The Private Plot in Transition. Recent Development in Soviet Private Agriculture [1985] [Jackson]
• Frank William LEONARD  A Study in Creating Multi-Level Tactile Maps and Graphics for the Blind Using Liquid Photopolymer [1985] [Sherman]
• Thomas M. PERRY  A Cognitive Approach to Instructional Techniques and Color Selection in Mapping [1985] [Sherman]
• Jana Claire HOLLINGSWORTH  Maps for the Fun of It: Tourist Maps and Map Use by Recreational Travelers [1986] [Sherman]
• Nancy Lee HUTCHEON  Automation in Municipal Planning Agencies: A Case Study [1986] [Hodge]
• Jonathan Kent VAN WYK  Spatial Variation in the Heavy Truck Market: A Study in Marketing Geography [1985] Krumme]
• Ric VRANA.  Electronic Atlases: Expanding the Potential for Graphic Communication [1985] [Hodge]
• Victoria B. ADAMS  The Effects of Recreational Development on Rural Landscapes and Communities [1986]
• Susan C. DANVER  The Historical Geography of Misty Fiords National Monument and Wilderness and Its Relationship to the Economy of Ketchikan, Alaska [1986] [Marts]
• Marcy A. FARRELL  Rural Alaskan Native Participation in Alaska’s Coastal Management Program [1986] [Sherman]
• Marjorie Beth RISMAN  An Examination of Peak-Season, Single-Family Residential Water Consumption in Seattle, Washington [1986] [ZumBrunnen]
• Elizabeth Leverett TAYLOR  Causation and Extent of Indian Tribal Influence on Environmental Protection in Washington State [1986] [Marts]
• Edward J. DELANEY  A Geographic Perspective on Invention [1986] [Morrill]
• R. Gordon KENNEDY  A Search for Definitions of Cartographic Accuracy [1986] [Sherman]
• John J. GRUBER  Potential for Automobile Energy Conservation in the United States: A Simulation Approach [1986] [ZumBrunnen]
• Robert Matthew RUDERMAN  The Role of Programming Languages and Cartographic Data Structure in Computer-Assisted Cartography [1987] [Hodge]
• Corrin M. CRAWFORD  The Utility of Cartographic Devices in Market Research [1987] [Sherman]
• Kathleen A. EVANS  Regional Administrative Centralization of Water Management Authority in the United States: Ideal or Impossibility? [1987]Morrill]
• Kenneth Riley HERRELL  Natural Language Processing of Spatial References for Cadastral Cartography [1987] [Nyerges]
• Jacqueline KROLLOP KIRN  The Skagit River – High Ross Dam Controversy: A Case Study of a Canadian-U.S. Transboundary Conflict and Negotiated Resolution [1987] [Marts]
• Douglas O. STRANDBERG  Oil and Gas Transport System of the North Sea [1987] [Fleming]
• Gardner PERRY III  Size as Related to Efficiency in United States Counties [1987] [Sherman]
• Joan TENG  The Evolution of the Chinese Seaport System [1987] [Fleming]
• Eileen ARGENTINA  Growth Management in King County: The King County Comprehensive Plan [1987] [Hodge]
• Brooke U. KENT  Central City – Suburban Variation in Female and Male Earning in the United States [1988] [Hodge]
• Andrew C. ROSS  A Spatial Analysis of the Residential Histories of Hodgkin’s Disease Cases [1988] [Mayer]
• Daniel EWERT  Public Policy and Race Relations in Malaysia: Some Geographical Dimensions [1988] [Jackson]
• Theodore HULL  The Filter-Down” Process of Nonmetropolitan Industrialization: A Case Study Approach [1988] [Krumme]
• Anne FAULKNER  Development, Women’s Status, and the Nature of Work: The Incorporation and Marginalization of Women In the Ecuadorian Economy, 1974 to l982 [1988] [Lawson]
• Steven W. LARSON  A Proposed Strategy for the Incremental Development of Geographic Information System Technology in King County, Washington [1988] [Chrisman]
• Kathyrn Y. MAURICH  Private Land in Lake Chelan National Recreation Area: An Integrative Approach to Landscape Protection for Stehekin, Washington [1988] [Beyers]
• Carlyn E. ORIANS  School Desegregation and Residential Segregation: The Seattle Metropolitan Experience [1988] [Morrill]
• Thomas J. NOLAN  A Land Information System Network for the Puget Sound Region [1988] [Nyerges]
• Charles P. RADER  A Functional Model of Color in Cartographic Design [1989] [Hodge]
• Nancy Kopsco RADER  Determining Lateral Boundaries for River Conservation Areas: The Case of the Upper Delaware River [1989] [ZumBrunnen]
• D. Timothy LEINBACH  Factors Affecting the Adoption of Transferred Technologies in Less Developed Countries: Some Theoretical Considerations [1989] [Thomas]
• Dan WANCURA  A Transportation Cost Approach to Integrated Freight Transportation [1989] [Fleming]
• Thomas W. CHOW  An Explanation of High-Tech Activities in Britain [1989] [Fleming]
• Amanda WHELAN  Geographic Aspects of Obstetrical Care in Washington State [1989] [Mayer]
• Sophia EBERHART  Assessing the Transfer of Technology to Developing Countries: Nigerian Palm Oil Industry Case Study [1989] [Thomas]
• Michael T. WOLD  After the Boldt Decision: The Question of Inter-Tribal Allocation [1989] [ZumBrunnen]
• Terri Lynne CARL  Residential Property Values In Seattle Neighborhoods [1990]
• Patricia Ortiz CHALITA  Meditacion en el Umbral (Meditation on the Brink): The Woman-Headed Household in Urban Latin America as Possibility and Constraint [1990] [Lawson]
• Julianna SISSON FORMAN  Is Money All That Matters? A Study of Recycling in Seattle [1990] [Morrill]
• George Walker HORNING  Information Integration for Geographic Information Systems in a Local Government Context [1990] [Nyerges]
• Frank W. MATULICH  Financial Transactions As Geographic information. [1990] [Nyerges]
• James Ethan BELL  Ideology and the Built Environment: Evolving Socio-Spatial Structures in Tashkent [1990] [Jackson]
• William Samuel ALBERT  The Use of Behavioral Data in a Geographical Information System for Transportation Planning [1990] [Nyerges]
• Kevin Patrick McCOLLISTER  Two-paper option: 1. Disease Ecology and Human Landscape Alteration: The Case of Lyme Disease in the United States; 2. Ecological Scale and Conceptions of Disease Causation in Urban Areas: The Example of AIDS in the United States [1990] [Mayer]
• Robert A. ROOSE  The Geographic Variables of Language Mobiliation: The Case of Belgium [1990] [Jackson]
• Curt NEWSOME  Transboundary Marine Water Pollution in the Puget/Vancouver Basin [1990] [Jackson]
• Teresa Anna KENNEDY  An Analysis of the Impact of Traffic Congestion on King County Employers and Possible Mitigation Measures [1990] [Hodge]
• Alice Marie QUAINTANCE  People Without Places: The Response of Capitol Hill Churches to the Homeless [1991] [Hodge]
• Marcus Kalani LESTER  Two paper option: 1. A Conceptual Model of Multidimensional Times for Geographic Information Systems; 2. A Comparison of Two Methods for Detecting Positional Error in Categorical Maps [1991] [Chrisman]
• Samuel Gary SHAW  Infrastructure, Development and the Mexican Border: A New Synthesis [1991] [Lawson]
• Thomas EDWARDS  Virtual Worlds Technology as an Interface To Geographical Information [1991] [Chrisman]
• Joseph EMMI  Japanese Economic and Spatial Change In Theoretical Perspective: A Case Study in the Execution, Results and Implications of Neo-Schumperterian Development Policy [1991] [Thomas]
• Timothy OAKES  The Spatial Constitution of Ethnicity and Tourism in Southwest China: An Appeal for a Theoretically Rejuventated Cultural Geography [1991] [Lawson]
• Trudy SUCHAN  Useful Categories: A Cognitive Approach to Land Use Categorization Systems [1991] [Chrisman]
• Meredith FORDYCE  Two-paper option: 1. Medical Geography: Its Practical and Philosophical Contexts; 2. The Utility of Small Area Analysis in Identifying Variations in Utilization of Hospital Services and the Implications of Those Variations [1991] [Mayer]
• Laurie L. ASMAR  What Are We Doing? The Actions and Perceptions of Service Providers Assisting the Suburban Homeless [1991] [Hodge]
• Joseph C. SPARR  Shaping Urban Growth: Urban Containment and Urban Concentration in Portland, Oregon [1991] [Hodge]
• Carrie S. ANDERSON  A GIS Development Process: Preparing an Organization For The Introduction of GIS Technology [1991] [Nyerges]
• Alan N. FORSBERG  The Cocaine Trade: Exploitation and Social Change Amongst the Bolivian Peasantry [1992] [Lawson]
• Nedra J. CHANDLER  The Search for Community Vision: Between Collective Lying and Learning [1992] [Hodge]
• Rose MESEC  A Gender and Space Analysis of Seattle’s Lesbian and Gay Communities [1992] [Hodge]
• Jon Hofheimer NACHMAN  Sex, Race and Role in World Geography Textbooks: Representations of Africans South of the Sahara and Americans of the United States [1992] [Fleming]
• Keeley S. WELFORD  The Construction of a Framework for Studying Home Based Work in Advanced Economies [1992] [Beyers]
• Charles K. DODD  Siting Hazardous Facilities in the Soviet Union: The Case of the Nuclear Power Industry [1992] [ZumBrunnen]
• Delia C. ROSENBLATT  Black Gold in Western Siberia: The Oil Industry and Regional Development [1992] [Jarosz]
• Cedar C. WELLS  The Ranking of Puget Sound Watersheds for Nonpoint Pollution Control: A Policy Analysis [1992] [ZumBrunnen]
• Brian D. LUDERMAN  A Geography of Financial Centers [1992] [Fleming]
• Michael MOHRMAN  Primary Health Care In Seattle, 1950-1990 [1992] [Mayer]
• Katherine HARRIS  Spatial Patterns of Helping Neighbor Networks for the Elderly: A Case Study [1992] [Mayer]
• Charles VAVRUS  The Intersection of Class and Ethnicity: Land Tenure and Indian Community in Colonial Oaxaca, 1519-1821 [1992] [Lawson]
• Gabriel GALLARGO  Urban-Spatial Behavior of Hispanic Immigrants [1992] [Hodge]
• Christine ROBERTS  Asthma Mortality in Washington State, 1980-89 [1992] [Mayer]
• Rachel SILVEY  Changing Migration Patterns of Women in Java: A Multiscale Analysis [1992] [Hodge]
• Irina GUSHIN  Trihalomethanes in the California State Water Project: A Study of Their Geography, Chemistry and Public Policy Implications [1992] [ZumBrunnen]
• Mary NEUBERGER  The Exodus To Oregon. The Emigration of Russo-Ukranian Pentecostals to the American West, 1988-93 [1993] [Velikonja]
• Ivan GATCHIK  A Topological Data Model and Some Algorithms for Three Dimensional GIS [1993] [ZumBrunnen]
• David BARBER  Understanding Jobs-Housing Balance: Implications On Affordable Housing Needs and Employment Accessibililty For the Urban Poor in King County, Washington [1993] [Hodge]
• Robert HOIBY  Congestion Pricing: The Effects of the Toll Ring in Oslo, Norway [1993] [Hodge]
• Craig DALBY  A Plan For the Implementation of GIS in the National Park Service, Pacific Northwest Region [1993] [Chrisman]
• Dion MATHEWSON  The Impacts of Economic Restructuing on Woman-Headed Households, 1980-1990: Connections Between Employment and Housing [1993] [Lawson]
• Nicole DEVINE  The Metropolis In Transition: Gender, Urban Restructuring and Residential Communities [1993] [Hodge]
• Terrance L. ANTHONY  Approaching Development: The Necessity Of Multiscalar Analysis [Beyers]
• Are BJORDAL  Hydrologic Modeling With Smallworld GIS. An object-oriented approach [1994] [Chrisman]
• Peter Sterling HAYES  Value Out, Value In: The Bone River and Wilapa Watersheds, 1854-1994 [1994] [Beyers]
• Rita ORDONEZ  Land Use Conflict and Sacred Space: Blackfeet Indians and the Badger-2 Medicine [1994] [Jackson]
• Jonathan SMITH  Cultural Change and Depopulation in the Americas [1994] [Mayer]
• Charles HENDRICKSEN  (two paper option). 1) A Model of the Migration Process; 2) Prescriptive Models in A Spatial Decision Support System: Intelligent Agents and Workflow Procedures [1994] [Nyerges]
• Deborah OHMANN  Social and Economic Change in Rural Pacific Northwest Communities [1994] [Beyers]
• Frederick ROWLEY  Urban Restructuring and the Spatial Redistribution of Men’s and Women’s Work Opportunities [1994] [Hodge]
• Joshua SKOV  Retail Firm Behavior In Global Food Systems [1994] [Jarosz]
• Brigit R. BAUR  Pronasol: Decentralization and Democratization of Development [1995] [Lawson]
• Renee F. GARBER  (two-paper option). 1. A New Approach to Introductory Courses in Undergraduate Geography Education 2. The Israeli Health Care System and the Arab Minority [1995] [Mayer]
• Lena Lynn HERON  Wandering the Wilderness Between Plan and Market: Contemporary Land Reform and Agricultural Restructuring in Russia [1995] [Jarosz]
• Stacy Lyn BIRK-RISHEIM  Digital Data for the 1994 Central California Environmental Sensitivity Index [1995] [Nyerges]
• Aaron Patrick GILL (two-paper option)A GIS data dictionary to support the site selection decision process & map displays to support the site selection decision process [1995] [Nyerges]
• Jeffrey Brandt MILLER  Concepts for Group Spatial Decision Support Systems for Political Campaigns [1995] [Nyerges]
• Sarah M. HILBERT  Revitalization of identity and place: The Zapatista Rebellion and the challenge to Mexican nationalism [1995] [Lawson]
• Mary Katherine GOODWIN  A locational analysis of abortion in Washington State [1996] [Mayer]
• Peter Alexander CLITHEROW  An analysis of factors affecting recent household travel behavior in the Puget Sound region [1996] [Morrill]
• Richard Allen MOORE  World Wide Web tools for collaborative development of a geographic information system database for the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP) [1996] [Nyerges]
• Lise Kirsten NELSON  Neoliberalism as contested ideological terrain: State practices and peasant agencies in Michoacan, Mexico [1996] [Lawson]
• Peter Birger NELSON  The what and why behind the “West at War.” An empirical and theoretical analysis of migration to nonmetropolitan areas in the Pacific Northwest [1996] [Beyers]
• Gregory Paul SEGAS  The evolution of a hydraulic state: The case of Uzbekistan [1996] [ZumBrunnen]
• Douglas Grant MERCER  Rural Women founders of business service firms: New questions about old spaces [1996] [Beyers]
• Robert Alfred NORHEIM  Is there an answer to mapping old growth? Examination of two projects conducted with remote sensing and GIS [1996] [Chrisman]
• Terri L. SUZUKI  Towards a more complete understanding of poverty: examination of life stages, gender, and race from a geographic perspective [1996] [Morrill]
• Monica Weiler VARSANYI  Proposition 187: Xenophobia, the feminized immigrant, and public spaces of reproduction in a transnational era [1996] [Mitchell]
• Matthew James BARRY  Multiple Perspectives in Multimedia Maps [1996] [Nyerges]
• Susan Elizabeth GRIGSBY  GIS Applications in a Coho Salmon Habitat Study of the Stillaguamish Watershed [1996] [Nyerges]
• Martha Steinert COMPTON  Data models and the worlds they create: A comparison of remotely sensed riparian zones and GIS delineated riparian reserves in Canyon Creek watershed [1997] [Chrisman]
• Lara Anne DETWEILER  Alaskan surimi, the `Other, Other White Meat’: Globalization, migration, fish production, and modernity on the last frontier [1997] [Morrill]
• Caroline Archibald LANGE  Intermarriage on the medieval frontier: Undermining and defining the Anglo-Scottish border and technology, sexuality, and frontiers: Historical and geographic perspectives on Western pornography [1997] [Mayer]
• Yuko MERA  International labor migration trends in Asia. [1997] [Chan]
• Jessica Louise PETERS  Casinoization of native American cultures: Destruction or creation of the “authentic” Indian? [1997] [Jarosz]
• Cheryl Lynn CRANE  Therapeutic landscapes: A cast study of feminist health care [1998] [Jarosz]
• Brian David HAMMER  Circular migration in poverty countries in China [1998] [Chan]
• Charles Rene TOVARES  Is everybody going to San Antone? A metropolitan scale analysis of Chicano and Anglo migration to Texas [1998] [Hodge]
• Margaret Dickinson HAWLEY  (two paper option) 1.Filipino World War Two Veterans and Social Theory: A Critique of Racial Formation in the US and Immigrant Acts (“Racial Formation in the US” and “Immigrant Acts” should both be italicized, since they are book titles); 2.’Would you like rice with that?”: Globalization, Cultural Heirarchies and Filipina American Food Service Workers [1998] [Jarosz]
• Charles Malcolm O’DONNELL  Initiative 676. An attempt to reduce firearm violence in the State of Washington [1998] [Mayer]
• Mary Katherine KAEHNY  Citizen representation in growth management: An evaluation of Seattle’s neighborhood planning process [1999] [Hodge]
• Eugene W. MARTIN  Conservation geographic information systems in Ecuador: An actor-network analysis [1999] [Chrisman]
• Samuel ADAMS  GIS on the Rez: A Case Study of GIS Implementation On the Colville Indian Reservation, WA, USA [1999] [Nyerges]
• Chris DAVIS  Urban Stream Habitat Restoration: Thinking At A Landscape Scale [1999] [Beyers]
• Desiree DESURRA  Women’s Labor Resistance and Transnational Organizing: New Frameworks for Resistance and Theory [1999] [Lawson]
• Richard HEYMAN  Geographical Thought, Ideology, and the University: The Humboldt Brothers and Daniel Coit Gilman [1999] [Jarosz]
• Joanna SURGEONER  The North: Dissociation, Intimacy, and Beyond [1999] [Jarosz]
• Catherine VENINGA  The Political Economy of New Urban Space: A Case Study of Northwest Landing [1999] [Mitchell]
• Lili Catherine HEIN  The Location of Foreign Direct Investment In China [2000] [Chan]
• Xiaohong HOU  Experimenting with Migration Flow Representation Using GIS Software Components [2000] [Chrisman]
• David A. JESCHKE  A Carbon Cycle Model of Forestry in the Russian Far East [2000] [ZumBrunnen]
• Shawn Kenneth MCMULLIN  Trade Area Assessment and Customer Prospecting: A Case Study Utilizing Geographic Information Technologies [2000] [Harrington]
• Brigg Bromley NOYES  Human/Nature: Exploring Individual Interactions with American Wilderness [2000] [Jarosz]
• Daniel Alejandro REYES  Between County and State Data: Nuances of Archaeological Database Consolidation for GIS Modeling [2000] [Chrisman]
• Carolina KATZ  Remapping Rights and Responsibilities: A Legal Geography of the 1996 Welfare and Immigration Reforms [2000] [Sparke]
• Molly VOGT  Data Tiles in a Checkerboard Forest: Challenges of Data Integration with GIS [2000] [Chrisman]
• Hilary Nagle MCQUIE  Boomtown & busts: Unlayering Seattle’s “drugscapes” [2000] [Jarosz]
• Walter D. SVEKLA  Representation in GIS-based simulation model integration: A case study of earthquake loss estimation and mitigation [2002] [Nyerges]
• Linda Bich-Kieu WASSON  Exploring discursive constructions of contemporary Vietnam in the context of tourism and economic development [2001] [Lawson]
• Kristen Sedley SHUYLER  Telling salmon stories: A narative analysis of Nooksack struggles for treaty fishing rights in Washington State [2001] [Jarosz]
• Colleen Moira DONOVAN  Negotiating protest and practice: Development, rural livelihoods, and the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) [2001] [Lawson]
• Maria E. FANNIN  Birth as a spatial process: Themes of control, safety, family and natural in “homelike” birthing rooms [2002] [England]
• Maureen Helen HICKEY  On “The Beach”. Travelers’ dreams, Hollywood magic, and development dilemmas in Southern Thailand [2002] [Lawson]
• Manija SAID  Cultivating the forbidden flower: War, vulnerability, and the geopolitics of opium in Afghanistan [2002] [Jarosz]
• M arcia Rae ENGLAND  Who’s afraid of the dark? Not Buffy! A feminist examination of the paradoxical representations of public and private space in Buffy the Vampire Slayer [2002] [Brown]
• Angela K. LEUNG  The role of technology and knowledge in foreign direct investment and regional economic development: a case study of Shenzhen in China [2002] [Chan]
• Joseph A. MILLER  Scales of Quality: a multilevel approach to coronary artery bypass grafting in New York state [2002] [Mayer]
• Dana MORAWITZ  All bare permanently or all bare fleetingly? Tracking land cover conversions and forestry practices through time by comparing spectrally unmixed remote sensing data with forest practice act data: a case study on the urban forestry [2002] [Chrisman]
• Joseph  LLOBRERA  Nutrition and the infant formula controversy: A case study of maternal dietary diversity and infant feeding practices in the Philippines [2002] [Jarosz]
• Joshua P. NEWELL  Land use and land cover on an urbanizing fringe: policy drivers and implications for conservation and forests of Russia’s far east: Rising threats of corruption and consumption [2002] [ZumBrunnen]
• Nandini Narayani VALSAN  Conceptualization and perpetuation of identity among middle class Indian women in Washington state [2002] [Withers]
• Christopher FOWLER  Missing the boat: The role of transportation networks in shaping global economic relations [2003] [Ellis]
• Jonathan GLICK  Neighborhood catch-22? Considering the place(s) of revitalization in the gentrification of Washington, D.C. [2003] [Withers]
• Andrew James WENZL  Consumption side up: The importance of non-earnings income as a new economic base in rural Washington state [2003] [Beyers]
• Robert Ian DUNCAN  Beneath Transition: Dialogic Landscapes of Modernisms and the St. Petersburg Subway [2004] [Brown]
• Chris CHAMBERLIN  Nationalism and development in the Indonesian census [2004] [Ellis]
• Steven GARRETT  (2 paper option) (1) Coming back to the foodshed: Geographic imagination, pedagogy and social action. (2) Short, thin or obese? Comparing growth indexes of children from high- and low-poverty areas [2004] [Jarosz]
• Caroline FARIA  Gendering roles and responsibilities: Privileging prevention in the Ghanaian fight against HIV/AIDS [2004] [Jarosz]
• Joseph EGGER  A political ecological analysis of the emergence of epidemic dengue/dengue hemorrhagic fever in Trinidad [2004] Mayer]
• Kevin RAMSEY  Stakeholder involvement and complex decision making: A case study into the design and implementation of a GIS for supporting local water resource management [2004] [Nyerges]
• Antonia BENNETT  (two paper option) (1) A review of new evidence for the aging and the dying processes. (2) Floating migrants in Guangdong: The invisible numbers behind China’s economic growth [2004] [Chan]
• Dominic CORVA  Localization, Globalization and the World Social Forum: Towards a Process Geography of Counterhegemonic Mobilization [2004] [Sparke]
• Derik ANDREOLI  Fuzzy Concepts and Fuzzy Borders: An interactions-based approach to defining the geography of industrial clusters [2004] [Beyers]
• Steve HYDE  Discursive strategies of displacement: a revisionist History of the anti-Chinese movement in the Puget Sound region of North America, 1885-1886 [2004] [Beyers]
• Naheed Gina AAFTAAB  Developing educated Afghan women: a critical case study [2004] [Jarosz]
• Anne WIBERG-ROZAKLIS  The educational gaze: the public classroom and competing national discourses post-September 11th [2005] [Mitchell]
• Erin GAULDING  Locating the gap between academic and school geographies: a study of truth in middle and high school social studies textbooks [2005] [Brown]
• Matthew W. WILSON  Implications for a public participation geographic information science: analyzing trends in research and practice [2005] [Nyerges]
• Elise BOWDITCH  The significance of geography in the transition to adulthood: the significance of geography for adult outcomes in intergenerational mobility [2005] [Withers]
• Ann BARTOS  Through a pink lens: the geographical imaginations of “Code Pink” [2005] [Brown]
• Dawn COUCH  From public works to the projects: a regulationist perspective on public housing [2005] [Ellis]
• Victoria BABBIT  Embodying borders: trafficking, prostitution and the moral (re)ordering of Sweden [2005] [Herbert]
• Megan TONEY  Media representations of women and credit card debt: a context analysis of two Seattle newspapers [2005] [England]
• Erica SIEBEN  Patterns of racial partnering of mixed-race individuals [2005] [Ellis]
• Jeff MASSE . Pure is Elsewhere: Bottled Water and the Geography of  Lack  [2006] [Jarosz]
• Sarah IVES  Contesting ‘National’ Space: Soap Operas in Post Apartheid South Africa [2006] [Jarosz]
• Serin HOUSTON  Spatial Stories: The Racial Discourses of Mixed-Race Households in Tacoma, Washington [2006] [Ellis]
• Rowan ELLIS  “Dravida Nadu for Dravidians”: Discourse on place and identity in early and mid-twentienth century Tamil Nadu [2006] [Mitchell]
• Cale BERKEY. Neoconservative Ideology and Geospatial Homeland Security at the City of Seattle [2006] [Nyerges]
• Doris OLIVERS. Neoliberal articulations: methodologies for the study of globalization and Counter-hegemonic dispersions: The World Social forum model [2006] [Sparke]
• David JENSEN. Homeless1@ spl.org : taking the bus to the Internet [2007] [Beyers]
• (Charles) Todd FAUBION. HIV/AIDS Care in South Africa: Examining Treatment Possibilities and the Context of Regressive Social & Health Policies Post-Apartheid [2007] [Mayer]
• Michalis AVRAAM. Geographic foundations as an interdisciplinary framework [2007] [Nyerges]
• Rebecca BURNETT. Relocating the welfare mother: Neoliberal discourses on women in the culture of poverty [2007] [Lawson]
• Heather DAY. Competing visions for the hemisphere: the role of the Hemisphere Social Alliance in constructing alternatives to the FTAA [2007] [Lawson]
• Juan GALVIS. The state and the construction of territorial marginality: The case of the 1961 land reform in Colombia [2007] [Jarosz]
• David MOORE. Equity: Environmental justice and transportation decision-making processes [2007] [Withers]
• Tricia RUIZ. Exploring the links between school segregation and residential segregation: A geographical analysis of school districts and neighborhoods in the United States, 2000 [2007] [Withers]
• Charu VERMA. Spatial tactics and protest zones: The zoning of dissent since 9/11 [2007] [Herbert]
• Anneliese STEUBEN. Segregated pedagogies in an era of standardization: Stories of progressive teaching in the Seattle metropolitan area [2007] [Mitchell]
• Jesse AYERS. Valuing natural amenities in spatially variable contexts, an hedonic pricing study in King County, WA [2007] [Beyers]
• Elizabeth UNDERWOOD-BULTMANN. Enforcing behavior: Transgression and spatial politics of zoning [2008] [Herbert]
• Zhong WANG. On-line public participation: Formalization and implementation [2008] [Nyerges]
• Michelle BILODEAU. Place-Based Suicide: The ‘Scene’ and the Unseen Meanings of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge [2008] [Mayer]
• Anna MCCALL-TAYLOR. Care, Gender, and Households’ Pursuit of Employer-Based Health Insurance [2009] [Withers]
• Jack NORTON. Rethinking First World Political Ecology: The Case of Mohawk Militancy [2009] [Jarosz]
• TIM STILES. The Social Construction of Geospatial Technology and Sustainability in the Private Sector [2009] [Elwood]
• MILISSA ORZOLEK. Understanding Recovery: Belonging and Responsibility in Post-Katrina New Orleans [2009] [Elwood]
• Patricia LOPEZ. An Historically Situated Case For Children’s Right To Health: The Birth of the Model Cities Clinic of Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic [2009] [Mitchell]
• Gary SIMONSON. Forgotten Stayers: The Impacts of Gentrification on Long-term Working-class Residents in Columbia City [2009] [Brown]
• Mike BABB. Filling in the Blanks: Missing Data in the US Census and the Race Question [2009]  [Ellis]
• Kathryn GILLESPIE . Killing with Kindness? Reconceptualizing Humane Slaughter [2010] [Jarosz & Lawson, co-chairs]
• Josef ECKERT.  Tropes 2.0: Strategic Mobilizations of Geoweb Participation [2010] Herbert]
• Cindy GORN . “A Place Like This”: Producing Psychiatric Disablement In Adult Homes [2010] [Brown]
• Tiffany GROBELSKI . The Dynamics of Scale in EU Environmental Governance: A Case Study of Integrated Permitting in Poland [2010] [ZumBrunnen]
• Amy PIEDALUE.  Solving Violence Through Development: India’s National Family Health Survey-3 and the Framing of Domestic Violence [2010] [England & Lawson, co-chairs]
• Margaret RAMIREZ .  Food as an Engine: Race, Privilege and the Transformative Potential of Food Justice Work in Seattle [2011] [Lawson]
• Allison SCHULTZ.  (Re)Placing ‘The Fattest Americans’: A Critical Geography of Obesity and Diabetes Among the Akimel O’otham [2011] [Jarosz]
• Theron STEVENSON  . Balkan Ghosts in Heavenly Gardens: How Nature Parks and Tourism are Making a European Croatia [2011] [Sparke]
• Christopher LIZOTTE . The Children of Choice: Public Education Reform and the Evolution of Neoliberal Governance [2011] [Mitchell]
• Monica FARIAS.  Embodying Economic “Crisis”: Argentina’s Middle Classes and the Cultural Politics of Difference [2011] [Lawson]
•   Stefano BETTANI .’Queering’ Straightness: Heterosexual Experiences of Homonormative Spaces in Seattle [2012] [Brown and England]
• Elyse   GORDON . Cultivating Good Workers: Youth Gardening, Non-Profits and Neoliberalization  [2012] [Elwood]
• Skye NASLUND . Portraits of Parasites: Geographic Imaginaries in the Production of Health Knowledge [2012] [Mayer]
• Natalie WHITE.  Who is Transnational? Considering Ideologies of Return in Guatamalan Origin Communities  [2012] [Lawson]
• Jason YOUNG.  Selecting a Conceptual Basemap: Critical GIS and Political Theory [2012] [Elwood]
• Lynda TURET . Building Transformative Place-Making: Lessons From Washington Hall [2013] [Mitchell]
• Yolanda VALENCIA.  Leyes Crueles – Lugares Violentos: Mexican Women’s Testimonios Along the Migration Journey’ [2014] [Lawson]
• William MCKEITHEN .Governing Pet Love: ‘Crazy  Cat Ladies,’ Cultural Discourse, and the Spatial Logics of Inter-Species Intimacies [2014] [Brown]
• Annie   CRANE.  Uncaring Systems and the Production of Trans* Subjectivities: Exploring Digital Spaces of Trans* Care [2014] [Brown]
• Lila GARCIA.  The Revolution Might Be Tweeted: Digital Social Media, Contentious Politics and the Wendy Davis Filibuster [2014] [England]
• Kidan ARAYA.  Examining Claims of Food Justice in the Oxfam International’s Agenda: A Case Study of the GROW Campaign  [2015] [Jarosz]
• Meredith KRUEGER.  Care and Capitalist Crisis in Anglophone Digital landscapes: The Case of the Mompreneur [2015] [Lawson]
• Key   MACFARLANE.  “Noisy Sphere”: Sonic Geographies in the Era of Globalization [2015] [Mitchell]
• Margaret WILSON.   Ebola Exceptionalism: On the Intersecting Political and Health Geographies of the 2014-2015 Epidemic [2015] [Sparke]
• Phillip NEEL. Logistics Cities: Poverty, Immigration and Employment in Seattle's Southern Suburbs [2016] [Bergmann]
• Lee FIORIO. Neighborhoods Neighboring Neighborhoods: Adjacency, Sprawl and Tract-level Racial Change in the U.S., 1990 to 2010 [2016] [Ellis]
• Robert ANDERSON. From Non-native "Weed" to Butterfly "Host": Knowledge, Place and Belonging in Ecological Restoration [2017] [Biermann]
• Olivia HOLLENHORST. A Rights Based Approach to Humanitarian Data Protection Policies [2017] [Mayer]
• Edgar Sandoval. "Being Undocumented and Gay, Just Like Death, Means Having to Navigate Two Worlds": Geographies of Disidentifications and UndocuQueer as World-Making [2017] [Ybarra]
• Rebecca STUBBS. Place, Policy, and Parity: Examining Spatial and Socioeconomic Contributions to Hospital Charge Markup and MapSuite: An R Package for Thematic Maps [2017] [Ellis]
• Rod PALMQUIST. Does the NGO Sector Undermine National Health Providers? How to Measure Migrations of Health Workers Between Public and NGO Care Providers on a Cross-Country Basis [2017] [Sparke]
• Maeve DWYER. Urban Citizenship, Quality Domesticity, and the Queer Precarity of Rural Migrants in Beijing [2018] [Chan]

NON-THESIS M.A. (Special Projects)

• Jonathan Ferns MOULTON  Boundary & Arcedit. [1985]
• David Kenney BALTZ  Micro CENMAP: A Microcomputer Mapping Program for Census Data. [1986]
• John Hall GRIFFITH III  “SAGIS” User’s Guide. [1987]
• Jerome J. CORR  Proportional Symbols Program. [1988]
• Philip Michael CONDIT  Quality Report For Three Components of Seattle’s Geographic Base File. [1990]
• Ernest Moore  The Evolution of a GIS: Case of Thurston County, Washington. [1991]

Doctoral Dissertations, 1930-Present

• Hubert Anton BAUER  The Tide as an Environmental Factor in Geography. [1930]
• Albert Lloyd SEEMAN  The Port of Seattle. A Study in Urban Geography. [1930]
• James Allen TOWER  Land Utilization in Mason County, Washington. [1936]
• Carl Herbert MAPES  A Map Interpretation of Population Growth and Distribution in the Puget Sound Region.[1943]
• Arch Clive GERLACH  Precipitation of Western Washington. [1943]
• Willis Bungay MERRIAM  Thew Rogue River Valley and Associated Highlands.[1945]
• Tim Kenneth KELLEY  The Commercial Fishery of Washington. [1946]
• John Clinton SHERMAN  The Precipitation of Eastern Washington. [1947]
• Lucile CARLSON  Human Energy, Physical and Emotional, Under Varying Weather Conditions. [1948]
• John Henry THOMPSON  Geography of the Truckee and Carson River. [1949]
• Edna Mae GUEFFREY  Historical Geography of New Zealand (850 A.D. – 1840 A.D.) [1950]
• Richard Morgan HIGHSMITH, Jr.  Agricultural Geography of the Eugene Area. [1950]
• Clark Irwin CROSS  Geography of the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming [1951]
• Elbert Ernest MILLER  Agricultural Geography of Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho [1951]
• Howard John CRITCHFIELD  The Agricultural Geography of Southland, New Zealand [1952]
• Oliver Harry HEINTZELMAN ; The Dairy Economy of Tillamok County, Oregon. [1952]
• Willert RHYNSBURGER  The Puget Sound Drift Plain: Land Resources of Human Occupance. [1952]
• Albert William SMITH  The Development of the Kauri-Gum Industry and Its Role in the Economy of Northland, N.Z. [1952]
• Manuel John LOEFFLER  Phases in the Development of the Land-Water Resource in an Irrigated River Valley, Colorado. [1953]
• John Olney DART  The Renton-Sumner Lowland of Western Washington. [1953]
• Donald William MEINIG  The Walla Walla Country: 1805-1910. A Century of Man and the Land. [1953]
• Keith Westhead THOMSON  The Dairy Industry of England and Wales Since the Establishment of the Milk Marketing Board. [1953]
• Theodore HERMAN  An Analysis of China’s Export Handicraft Industries to 1930 [1954]
• William Rodney STEINER  An Investigation of Selected Phases of Sampling to Determine Quantities of Land and Land-Use Types.[1954]
• Woodrow Rexford CLEVINGER  The Western Washington Cascades: A Study of Migration and Mountain Settlement. [1955]
• Midori NISHI  Changing Occupance of the Japanese in Los Angeles County, 1940-1950.[1955]
• Charles Dennis DURDEN  Some Geographic Aspects of Motor Travel in Rural Areas – Empirical Tests of Certain Geographical Concepts of Location and Interaction.  [1955]
• Stanley Alan ARBINGAST A Geographic Study of the Pattern of Manufacturing in Texas.[1956]
• Robert Martin TAYLOR  International Mail Flows: A Geographic Analysis Relating Volume of Mail to Certain Characteristics of Postal Countries. [1956]
• Neil Collard FIELD  The Role of Irrigation in the South European U.S.S.R. in Soviet Agricultural Growth: An Appraisal of the Resource Base and Development Problem.& [1956]
• Burton Lawrence ANDERSON  The Scandinavian and Dutch Rural Settlements in the Stillaguamish and Nooksack Valleys of Western Washington [1957]
• James Eugene BROOKS  Settlement Problems Related to Farm Size in the Columbia Basin Project, Washington [1957]
• Douglas Broadmore CARTER  The Relation of Irrigation Efficiency to the Potential Development of Irrigated Agriculture in the Pacific Northwest. [1957]
• Francis William ANDERSON  Functional Interrelationship of Urban Centers[1958]
• Brian Joe Lobley BERRY  Shopping Centers and the Geography of Urban Areas. A Theoretical and Empirical Study of the Spatial Structure of Intraurban Retail and Service Business. [1958]
• Clyde Eugene BROWNING  The Structure of the Mexico City Central Business District: A Study in Comparative Urban Geography. [1958]
• Willis Robertson HEATH ; Maps and Graphics for the Blind; Some Aspects of the Discriminability of Textural Surfaces for Use in Areal Differentiation. [1958]
• John Doneric CHAPMAN  Land Classification in British Columbia. A Review and Appraisal of the Land Utilization Research and Survey Division. [1958]
• Dale Elliot COURTNEY  Problems Associated with Predicting Land Use in Low Latitude Humid Regions: A Case Study of the San Sebastian-Rincon Area, Puerto Rico. [1959]
• John Albert CROSBY  A Geographical Analysis of Seattle’s Wholesale Trade Territory. [1959]
• Duane Francis MARBLE  Transport Inputs at Urban Residential Sites. A Study in the Transportation Geography of Urban Areas.  [1959]
• Richard Leland MORRILL  A Normative Model of Trade Areas and Transportation: With Special Reference to Highways and Physicians’ Services.[1959]
• William Richard SIDDALL  Idiographic and Nomothetic Geography: The Application of Some Ideas in the Philosophy of History and Science to Geographic Methodology. [1959]
• Fleming Stanley MOORE  The Role of Floriculture in the Agriculture of Florida. [1959]
• John David NYSTUEN  Geographical Analysis of Customer Movements and Retail Business Locations: (1) Theories; (2) Empirical Patterns in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and (3) A Simulation Model of Movement [1959]
• William Wheeler BUNGE Jr.  Theoretical Geography. [1960]
• Michael Francis DACEY  Identification of Patterns on Maps with Special Reference to Data Reduction for Systems Analysis.  [1960]
• Robert Charles MAYFIELD  An Analysis of Tertiary Activity and Consumer Movement: The Spatial Structure of Ludhiana and Jullundur Districts, Punjab, in Terms of Central Functions and the Range of a Central Good. [1961]
• Ronald R. BOYCE  Comparative Central City Spatial Structure: Trends in the Location and Linkage of Selected Commercial Activities. [1961]
• Waldo Rudolph TOBLER;  Map Transformations of Geographic Space.  [1961]
• Sen Dou CHANG  The Chinese Hsien Capital: A Study in Historical Urban Geography.  [1961]
• Arthur GETIS  A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry into the Spatial Structure of Retail Activities.  [1961]
• Julian Vincent MINGHI  Some Aspects of the Impact of an International Boundary on Spatial Patterns: An Analysis of the Pacific Coast Lowland Region of the Canada-United States Boundary.  [1962]
• Robert D. PICKER  Industrial Development in Central Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan: A Study of a Third Metallurgical Base in the Soviet Union.  [1962]
• Astvaldur EYDAL  Some Geographical Aspects of the Fisheries of Iceland.  [1963]
• Louis HAMILL  A Preliminary Study of the Status and Use of the Forest Resources of Western Oregon in Relation to Some Objectives of Public Policy.  [1963]
• Robert Allen LEWIS  Early Irrigation in West Turkestan.  [1964]
• Andrew Lee MARCH  Landscape in the Thought of Su Shi (1036-1101).  [1964]
• Robert Granville JENSEN  Soviet Agricultural Regionalization and Price Zonation.  [1964]
• Deane Richard LYCAN  Defense-Space Research and Development Contraction Expenditures: Analysis and Some Implications of Their Areal Patterns.  [1964]
• William Marvin ROBERTS, Jr.  Soviet Economic Regionalization in the Pre-Plan Period.  [1964]
• Jeremy Herrick ANDERSON  The Soviet Corn Program: A Study in Crop Geography.  [1964]
• Anne BUTTIMER  Some Contemporary Interpretations and Historical Precedents of Social Geography: With Particular Emphasis on the French Contributions to the Field.  [1964]
• William Robert Derrick SEWELL  Economic and Institutional Aspects of Adjustment to Floods in the Lower Fraser Valley.  [1964]
• Robert William MCCOLL  The Rise of Territorial Communism in China 1921-1934. The Geography Behind Politics.  [1964]
• John Lynden KIRBY  A Geography of Han China (206 B.C. – A.D. 221) According to the  Shi Chi , the  Han Shu , and Related Texts.  [1964]
• Bob Randolph O’BRIEN  The Yellowstone National Park Road System: Past, Present and Future.  [1965]
• Douglas Knowles FLEMING  Coastal Steel Production in the European Coal and Steel Community 1953 to 1963.  [1965]
• Elmer A. KEEN  Some Aspects of the Economic Geography of the Japanese Shipjack-Tuna Fishery.  [1965]
• Calvin Gus WILLBERG  Problems in Establishing an Automated Mapping System.  [1965]
• Gunter KRUMME  Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of Patterns of Industrial Change and Entrepreneurial Adjustments: The Munich Region.  [1966]
• Harold BRODSKY  Location Rent and Journey-to-Work Patterns in Seattle.  [1966]
• Guy Perry Frederick STEED  A Framework for the Study of Manufacturing Geography: With a Consideration of the Nature and Process of Manufacturing Changes in Northern Ireland 1950 to 1964.  [1966]
• John Brian PARR  Regional Development and Public Policy: North-West England and the Post War Period.  [1967]
• William Bjorn BEYERS  Technological Change and the Recent Growth of American Aluminum Reduction Industry.  [1967]
• Marvin Alan STELLWAGEN  An Analysis of the Spatial Impact of Federal Revenue and Expenditures; 1950 to 1960.  [1967]
• Ihor STEBELSKY  Land Tenure and Farm Holding in European Russia on the Eve of Collectivization.  [1967]
• David Williams WILCOXSON, Jr.  The Economic Geography of the Contemporary Steel Industry in the American West.  [1967]
• Robert Michael PEARCE  Land Tenure and Political Land Authority: The Process of Change and Land Relations and Land Attitudes in Vietnamese Villages of the Mekong Delta Since 1945.  [1968]
• Warren Emil HULQUIST  The Geographic Structure of the Soviet Sugar Industry.  [1968]
• David STRAUSZ  Specialty Crop Agriculture in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Hops: A Case Study.  [1968]
• Harvey Eric HEIGES  Intra-Urban Residential Movement in Seattle, 1962-1967.  [1968]
• Gregory Lloyd SMITH  The Functional Basis of the ZIP code and Sectional Center System.  [1968] [Morill]
• Robert EARICKSON  A Behavioral Approach to Spatial Interaction: The Case of Physician and Hospital Care. [1968] [Morrill]
• Gerald Lee GREENBERG  Map Design for Partially Seeing Students: An Investigation of White Versus Black Line Symbology.  [1968] [Sherman]
• Richard Waldo WILKIE  On the Theory of Process in Human Geography: A Case Study of Migration in Rural Argentina.  [1968] [Morrill]
• Hans-Joachim MEIHOEFER  The Use of the Circle in Thematic Maps: A Study in Visual Perception of Cartographic Symbol.  [1968] [Sherman]
• Frederick Abraham HIRSCH  Geographical Patterns of Inter-Metropolitan Migration in the United States 1955 to 1960.  [1968] [Morrill]
• Geoffrey John Dennis HEWINGS  Regional Industry Models Using National Data: The Structure of the West Midlands Economy.  [1969] [Fleming]
• Neil Robert Michael SEIFRIED  A Study of Changes in Manufacturing in Mid-Western Ontario 1951-1964.  [1969] [Thomas]
• Philip Rust PRYDE  Natural Resource Management and Conservation in the Soviet Union.  [1969] [Jackson]
• John CAMPBELL  The Relevance of Input-Output Analysis and Digraphg Concepts to Growth Pole Theory.  [1969] [Thomas]
• James B. CANNON  An Analysis of Manufacturing as an Instrument of Public Policy In Regional Economic Development: Canadian Area Development Agency Program 1963-1968.  [1969] [Thomas]
• Charles Buckley PETERSON III  Geographical Aspects of Foreign Colonization in Prerevolutionary New Russia.  [1969] [Jackson]
• Roger James CRAWFORD, Jr.  Factors Affecting the Location of Bank Facilities.  [1969] [Boyce]
• Jacek Ignacy ROMANOWSKI.  Factors of Location of Fresh Vegetable Production in Poland.  [1969][Jackson]
• Robert Walter TESHERA  The Territorial Organization of American Internal Governmental Jurisdiction.  [1970] [Jackson]
• Evan DENNEY  Urban Impact on Rural Environment: A Case Study of San Juan County, Washington.  [1970] [Cooley]
• Allan Ralph SOMARSTROM  Wild Land Preservation Crisis: The North Cascades Controversy.  [1970] [Cooley]
• Malcolm Algernon MICKLEWRIGHT  The Geography of Development in Northern Ireland.  [1970] [Thomas]
• Nangisai Nason Kudzirozwa GWARADA  Historical Development and Future Aspects of Agriculture in Zimbabwe. [1979]
• Ernest Harold WOHLENBERG  The Geography of Poverty in the United States: A Spatial Study of the Nations’s Poor.  [1970] [Morrill]
• Frank James QUINN  Area-0f-Origin Protectionism in Western Water.  [1970] [Cooley]
• Murray Thomas CHAPMAN  Population Movement in Tribal Society: The Case of Duidui and Pichahila, British Solomon Islands.  [1970] [Morrill]
• Siim SOOT  Changes in the Socioeconomic Spatial Structure of Milwaukee and Journey-to-Work Patterns.  [1970] [Boyce]
• Thomas Walter POHL  Seattle 1851-1861: A Frontier Community.  [1970] [Baron]
• Roger Lee THIEDE  Town and Function in Tsarist Russia: A Geographical Analysis of Trade and Industry in Towns of New Russia, 1860-1910.  [1970] [Jackson]
• Keith Way MUCKLESTON  The Problem of Implementing the Federal Water Project Recreation Act in Oregon.  [1970] [Marts]
• Phillip Patrick MICKLIN  An Inquiry into the Caspian Sea Problem and Proposals for Its Alleviation.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Jonathan Jung-Hui LU  The Demand in the United States Rice: An Economic-Geographic Analysis.  [1971][Morrill]
• Barbara Mary HANEY  Western Reflections of Russia, 1517-1812.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Paul Yvon VILLENEUVE  The Spatial Adjustment of Ethnic Minorities in the Urban Environment.  [1971] [Morrill]
• Dennis Gene ASMUSSEN  Children’s Cognitive Organization of Space.  [1971] [Baron]
• Edward Fisher BERGMAN  Metropolitan Political Geography.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Joseph Alan BRUFFEY  The Impact of the Super-Carrier upon Ocean Cargo Flows, Routes and Port Activity.  [1971] [Fleming]
• Ronald Richard SCHULTZ  The Locational Behavior of Physician Establishments: An Analysis of Growth and Change in Physician Supply in the Seattle Metropolitan Area, 1950-1970.  [1971] [Boyce]
• Victor Lee MOTE  Air Pollution in the Case U.S.S.R.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Marwyn Stevart SAMUELS  Science and Geography: An Existential Appraisal.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Hyun Kil KIM  Land Use Policy in Korea: With Special Reference to the Oriental Development Company.  [1971] [Jackson]
• Kenji Kenneth OSHIRO  Dairy Policies and the Development of Dairying in Tohoku, Japan.  [1972] [Kakiuchi]
• Stephen Miles GOLANT  The Residential Location and Spatial Behavior of the Elderly: A Canadian Example.  [1972] [Morrill]
• Clifford E. MAYS  The Dynamics of Retail Growth: An Investigation of the Long-Run and Short-Run Adjustments of Activities in the Growth and Decline of Retail Nucleations.  [1972] [Boyce]
• William Michael ROSS  Oil Pollution as a Developing International Problem: A Study of the Puget Sound and Strait of Georgia Regions of Washington and British Columbia.  [1972] [Marts]
• Kazuo Z. NINOMIYA  A View of the Outside World During Tokugawa Japan: An Analysis of Reports of Travel by Castaways, 1636 to 1856.  [1972] [Kakiuchi]
• Barbara Ann WEIGHTMAN  Study of the Indian Social Milieu in an Urban Environment.  [1972] [Chang]
• Dean R. LOUDER  A Distributional and Diffusionary Analysis of the Mormon Church 1850-1970.  [1972] [Morrill]
• John Richard KILCOYNE  Pictography Symbols in Cartography: A Study of Efficiency in Map Reading.  [1972] [Sherman]
• Rodney Allen ERICKSON  The “Lead Firm”; Concept and Economic Growth: An Analysis of Boeing Expansion, 1963-1968.  [1973] [Thomas]
• Daniel Perry BEARD  Electric Power Plant Siting Legislation: A Review.  [1973] [Marts]
• Peter HARRISON  The Land Water Interface in an Urban Region: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Nature of Significances of Conflicts Between Coastal Uses.  [1973] [Thomas]
• Richard LE HERON  Productivity Change and Regional Economic Development: The Role of Best-Practice Firms in the Pacific Northwest Plywood and Veneer Industry, 1960-1972.  [1973] [Thomas]
• Glen VANSELOW  Spatial Imagery and Geographic Scale.  [1973] [Morrill]
• Everett Arvin WINGERT  Potential Role of Optical Data Processing in Geo-Cartographic Spatial Analysis.  [1973] [Sherman]
• John Griffith SYMONS, Jr.  An Inquiry into Efficiency, Spatial Equity, and Public Facility Location.  [1973] [Morrill]
• Laurence E. GOSS, Jr.  Wholesale Trade in New England: A Study of a Central Place Function.  [1973] [Ullman]
• Charles Gilbert SMITH  Spatial Structure of Industrial Linkages and Regional Economic Growth: An Analysis of Linkage Changes Among Pacific Northwest Steel Firms, 1963-1970.  [1973] [Thomas]
• Larry Martin SVART  Natural Environment Preferences and Interregional Migration.  [1973] [Ullman]
• Roger HAYTER  An Examination of Patterns of Geographical Growth and Locational Behavior of Multi-Plant Corporations in British Columbia.  [1973] [Krumme]
• Kwawu Yao AGBEMENU  The Pattern of Growth in the Manufacturing Industry in Ghana, 1958-1969.  [1974] [Thomas]
• Marjorie Nanette RUSH  The Precession Wave of Urban Occupance: Conversion of Rural Land to Urban Use.  [1974] [Boyce]
• O. Fred DONALDSON  “To Keep Them in Their Place”: A Socio-Spatial Perspective on Race Relations in America.  [1974] [Morrill]
• Virginia R. HETRICK  Factors Influencing Voting Behavior in Support of Rapid Transit in Seattle and Atlanta.  [1974] [Morrill]
• Alan Anthony DELUCIA  The Map Interpretation Process: Its Observation and Analysis Through the Technique of Eye Movement Recording.  [1974] [Sherman]
• William H. FREEMAN, Jr.  An Analysis of Military Land Use Policy and Practice in the Pacific Northwest: 1849-1940.  [1974] [Marts]
• Richard Ivan TOWBER  The Locational Responses of Soviet Agriculture to Central Decision Making.  [1974] [Jackson]
• Russell Nozomi HORIUCHI  Chiseigaku: Japanese Geopolitics.  [1975] [Kakiuchi]
• David Lloyd STALLINGS  Environmental Cognition and Land Use Controversy: An Environmental Image Study of Seattle’s Pike Place Market.  [1975] [Morrill]
• Nathaniel H. BRYANT  Urbanization and the Ecological Crisis: An Analysis of Environmental Pollution.  [1975] [Kakiuchi]
• Charles E. GREER  Chinese Water Management Strategies in the Yellow River Basin.  [1975] Chang]
• Thomas Edward STEPHENS  Selected Geographic and Economic Aspects of the United States Railroad Freight Forwarding Industry with Recommendations for Procedures to be Used in the Selection of an Optimum Terminal Site Location.  [1975] [Boyce]
• Betsy Rose GIDWITZ  Political and Economic Implications of the International Routes of Aeroflot.  [1976] [Jackson]
• David Charles JOHNSON  The Population Age Structure of an Urban Area: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Change.  [1977] [Boyce]
• Eugene James TURNER  The Use of Shape as a Nominal Variable on Multipattern Dot Map.  [1977] [Sherman]
• Steven Anthony CARLSON  Land-Use Planning: A Rural Focus.  [1977] [Beyers]
• Philip Stephen KELLEY  Information and Generalization in Cartographic Communication.  [1977] [Sherman]
• Charles Everett OGROSKY III  The Ordinal Scaling of Point and Linear Symbols for Tactual Maps.  [1978] [Sherman]
• Yehuda HAYUTH  Containerization and the Load Center Concept.  [1978] [Fleming]
• Thomas Pierce BOUCHARD  Environmental Decision Making. The Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act and the Department of Natural Resources.  [1978] [Marts]
• Michael Lee TALBOTT;  Development of North Sea Oil and Gas.  [1978] [Jackson]
• Richard Akira TAKETA  Structure and Meaning in Map Generalization.  [1979] [Youngman]
• Gail Ann CHRISTENSEN KLEIN  The Expansion of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Wimpy in South Africa: A Study in the Diffusion of Innovation.  [1979] [Morrill]
• Maureen MCCREA  Evaluation of Washington State’s Coastal Management Program Through Changes in Port Development.  [1980] [Marts]
• Olen Paul MATTHEWS  Legal Elements in Mineral Development with Special Reference to Idaho.  [1980] [Velikonja]
• Dianne Lynn MANNINEN  Labor Forces Migration Associated with Nuclear Power Plant Construction.  [1981] [Morrill]
• Robert Houston ALEXANDER  Adaptation of Land Use to Surficial Geology in Metropolitan Washington, D.C.  [1981] [Marts]
• Kathleen Elizabeth BRADEN  Technology Transfer to the USSR Forest Product Sector.  [1981] [Jackson]
• Charlette Kay HIATT  The Function of Color Legibility of Linear Symbology on Maps for Partially Blind.  [1982] [Sherman]
• Barbara Jeanne DOWNING  Nonmetropolitan Migration in the Context of Cultural Change and Social Structure.  [1983] [Morrill]
• James William HARRINGTON  Locational Change in the US Semiconductor Industry.  [1983] [Thomas]
• Lance Douglas WERNER  Socio-Economic Development and the Growth of Pre-School Services: A Geography of Socialist Construction in Peripheral Soviet Republics, 1959-1970.  [1983] [Jackson]
• Barbara Lynn BRUGMAN  A Spatial Perspective on the Process of Technological Innovation in Technology-Intensive Industry.  [1983] [Thomas]
• Godfrey Emmanuel CHISANGA  The Wood Products Industry of the Lower Columbia Region: Technological Change, Evolution and Its Role in Regional Economic Development.  [1983] [Thomas]
• Godfrey Goliath MUYOBA  Labor Recruitment and Urban Migration: The Zambian Experience.  [1983] [Chang]
• Barbara Pfeil BUTTENFIELD  Line Structure in Graphic and Geographic Space.  [1984] [Sherman]
• Thomas James KIRN  Service Sector Growth and Regional Development in the United States: A Spatial Perspective.  [1974] [BEYERS]
• Jois Catherine CHILD  Creating a World: The Poetics of Cartography.  [1984] [Sherman]
• Arthur William LEON  Place Image Choice: The Central Place of Images in Migration Decision Making.  [1984] [Morrill]
• Sherry Lynn MCNUTT  An Analysis of Remote Sensing Information for Ice Forecasting Models in the Eastern Bering Sea.  [1984] [Sherman]
• Kent Huges BUTTS  Resources Geopolitics: U.S. Dependence on South African Chromium.  [1985] [Jackson]
• Anne Jeanne OSTERRIETH  Space, Place, and Movement: The Quest for Self in the World.  [1985] [Morrill]
• Randolph SORENSEN  Waterways and the State in Imperial China. [1985] [Chang]
• Lawrence Gary HART  Geographic Variations in Medical Resource Use During Office Encounters with Family Physicians.  [1985] [Morrill]
• Barney Louis WARF  Regional Transformation and Everyday Life: Social Theory and Washington Lumber Production.  [1985] [Beyers]
• Nasser Mohammed SALMA  The Selection, Allocation, and Arrangement of Arabic Typography on Maps.  [1986] [Sherman]
• Nancy A. FISHER-ALLISON  Urban Path to Health: Spatial Organization, Everyday Life, and the Use of Primary Care Service.  [1986] [Mayer]
• John Brady RICHARDS  Changing Patterns in Taiwan’s Aquaculture, 1957-1983.  [1986] [Fleming]
• James Conrad EFLIN  Technology and Social Power: Social Action, Intentional Technology and the Social Basis of Space-Time Autonomy.  [1987] [Hodge]
• Eric A. FRIEDLI  Competition Among Equals: A Study of Interstate Conflict, Public Policy Making, and Job-Growth Policy.  [1987] [Hodge]
• James Edward RANDALL  Household Production in an Industrial Society.  [1987] Beyers]
• Holly Jeanne MYERS-JONES  Power, Geography, and Black Americans: Patterns of Black Suburbanization in the U.S.  [1988] [Morrill]
• Peter MESERVE  Boundary Water Issues Along the Forty-Ninth Parallel: State and Provincial Legislative Innovation.  [1988] [Jackson]
• Patrick ALDWELL  Technological Rejuvenation and Competitiveness in the Washington State Woodpulp Industry, 1960-1985: A Global Perspective.  [1988] [Thomas]
• Janos L. WIMPFENN  International Transport Regimes and Contiguous Countries: Goods Movement Between the United States and Canada.  [1988] [Morrill]
• Marc-Andre L’HUILLIER  The Metropolitan Concentration of Minorities in the United States and Britain.  [1988] [Morrill]
• Joseph NOWAKOWSKI  Itinerary Choice Among Korean Periodic Market Traders: A Cultural, Economic, Social and Time-Geographic Analysis.  [1989] [Krumme]
• Gail LANGRAN  Time In Geographic Information Systems.  [1989] [Chrisman]
• John COURTNEY  Canadian Grain Exports To the Soviet Union: A Case Study In Spatial Interaction.  [1989] [Jackson]
• Lynn STAEHELI  Public Services and the Reproduction of Social Sedge-Baed Structured Modeling: An Application to Stream Water Quality Management.  [1989] [Hodge]
• Erick J. HOWENSTINE  Misperception of Destination Encouraging Migration of Mexican Agricultural Labor to Yakima Valley, Washington.  [1989] [Morrill]
• Iain M. HAY  Lo(o)sing Control: Money, Medicine and Malpractice in American Society.  [1989] [Mayer]
• Robert PAVIA  Appropriate Technology for Community Control of Hazardout Chemical Accidents.  [1989] [ZumBrunnen]
• Elizabeth KOHLENBERG  Friends in Places: Friendship in Country, Town and City [1989] [Mayer]
• John A. BOWER  The Hydrogeography of Yakima Indian Nation Resource Use.  [1990] [Beyers]
• Neil SORENSON  Airline Competitive Strategy: A Spatial Perspective.  [1990] [Fleming]
• Stanley TOOPS.  The Tourism and Handicraft Industries in Xinkiang: Development and Ethnicity in a Minority Periphery.  [1990]Jackson]
• Dean L. HANSEN  Acquiring High Technology: The Case of the Brazilian Computer Industry.  [1990] [Krumme]
• Edward Joseph DELANEY  New Firms’ Innovative Search In A New-Technology Industry: Evaluation of Biotechnology Firms.  [1991] [Thomas]
• Rowena AHERN  International Strategic Alliances: The Use of Cooperation by Canadian Firms.  [1991] [Krumme]
• Raguraman KRISHNASAMY  Understanding International Air Travel Choice: A Case Study of the Singapore – Western U.S.A. Route.  [1991] [Fleming]
• Eugene PATTERSON  Sense of Place In an Emerging Home Area: Investigations In the Bear Creek Area of King County, Washington.  [1992] [Jackson]
• Susanne TELTSCHER  Informal Trading in Quito, Ecuador: Economic Integration, Internal Diversity, and Life Chances.  [1992] [Lawson]
• Kurt ENGELMANN  The Introduction of Market Forces and Structural Changes In Command Economies: A Linear Programming Analysis of Irrigated Agriculture in Uzbekistan.  [1993] [Jackson]
• Timothy Roger STRAUSS  Spatial Assessments of Infrastucture: The Importance of Space in Analyses of the Relationship Between Public Capital and Economic Activity.  [1994] [Hodge]
• Frank NORRIS.  Spatial Diffusion of Intermodal Rail Technologies.  [1994] [Mayer]
• Mike PIRANI  Understanding the Effects of Small Hospital Closures on Rural Communities.  [1994] [Mayer]
• Ilya Naumovitch ZASLAVSKY  Logical Inference About Categorical Coverages in Multi-Layer GIS.  [1995] [Chrisman]
• Jesse Harrison BROWNING  Regional Development, Technological Paradigms and Policies: A Framework for Conceptualizing Socioeconomic Processes.  [1995] [Thomas]
• Eric Hugh LARSON  Geographic Variation in the Risk of Poor Birth Outcome in the Non-Metropolitan Population of the United States, 1985-1987.  [1995] [Mayer]
• Daniel Bruce KARNES  A Dynamic Model of the Land Parcel Network.  [1995] [Chrisman]
• Timothy Steven OAKES  Tourism in Guizhou, China: Place and the Paradox of Modernity.  [1995] [Chan]
• Francis James HARVEY  Geographic Information Integration and GIS Overlay.  [1996] [Chrisman]
• Delia Clare ROSENBLATT  A Political Economy of the Russian Oil Industry: Can Western Capital, Technology and Management Facilitate Change?  [1996] [Jarosz]
• James Ethan BELL  A place for community? Urban social movements and the struggle over the space of the public in Moscow.  [1997] Lawson]
• David James ALLEN  The effects of language and economic restructuring and electoral support for sovereignty in Qeubec, 1976-1995.  [1997] [Morrill]
• David Persson LINDAHL  New frontiers of capital. A geography of commercial real estate finance.  [1997] Beyers]
• Edward Donald MCCORMACK  A chained-based exploration of work travel by residents of mixed land-use neighborhoods.  [1997] [Nyerges]
• Patricia Lynn PRICE  Crafting meaning from economic chaos: Low-income urban women and neoliberal reform in Mexico.  [1997] [Lawson]
• Christine ROBERTS  A process of community action: Vashon-Maury islanders and the local nursing home.  [1997] [Mayer]
• Linda BECKER  Invisible Threads. Skill and the Discursive Marginalization of the Garment Industry’s Workforce.  [1997] [Lawson]
• Mark HUYLER  Redefining Civic Responsibility: The Role of Homeowner Associations and Neighborhood Identity.  [1997] [Hodge]
• Rachel SILVEY  Placing the migrant: Gender, Identity, and the Development in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.  [1997] [Lawson]
• Ric VRANA.  Monitoring Urban Land Use Transition with Geographic Information Systems.  [1998] [Chrisman]
• Joan Aileen QAZI  The hands behind the apple. Farm women and work in North Central Washington. [1998] [Jarosz]
• Debra Ruth OHMAN  Understanding change on the Ocean Coast: Restructuring and the meaning of property, nature, and development. [1999] [Beyers]
• Haihua YAN  The impact of rural industrialization on urbanization in China during the 1980’s [1999] [Chan]
• Peter NELSON  Hegemony and the Rural: Economic and Cultural Perspectives on Restructuring in the Rural West. [1999] [Beyers]
• Douglas Grant MERCER  The Nature of Fairness: What the Biggest Cleanup Effort in History Has to Say About the Culture of American Environmental Management. [1999] [Beyers & Mitchell, co-chairs]
• Alexander Sergeievich PEREPECHKO  Spatial Change and Continuity in Russia’s Political Party System(s): Comparison of the Parliamentary Elections in 1917 and 1995. [1999] [Chrisman & ZumBrunnen, co-chairs]
• David ABERNATHY  Bound to succeed: Science, territoriality and the emergence of disease eradication in the Panama Canal zone [2000] [Mayer]
• Harold FOSSUM  Formation and function of industrial districts in the rural northwest: Two cases. [2000] [Beyers]
• Gabriel GALLARDO  The socio-spatial dimensions of ethnic entrepreneurship: Business activities among African-American, Chinese, Korean and Mexican persons in the Seattle metropolitan area [2000] [Hodge]
• Wonho LEE  Industrial reform, ownership structure and labor market segmentation: understanding a changing inequality in the post-reform China. [2000] [Lawson]
• Lise Kirsten NELSON  Remaking gender and citizenship in a Mexican indigenous community. [2000] [Lawson]
• Li ZHANG  The state and urbanization in China: A systemic perspective. [2000] [Chan]
• Evelynes Kawango AGOT  Widow inheritance and HIV/AIDS interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: Contrasting conceptualizations of “risk” and “spaces of vulnerability”. [2001] [Jarosz]
• Alana Bridget BOLAND  Transitional flows: State and market in China’s urban water supply.[2001] [Chan
• So-Min CHEONG  Korean fishing communities in transition: Institutional change and coastal development.[2001] [Harrington]
• Jackson Tyler ZIMMERMAN  Re-mapping transborder environmental governance: Sovereign territory and the Pacific Salmon Treaty. [2001] [Sparke]
• Ta LIU Internal migration in socialist China: An institutional approach. [2002] [Chan
• Christina Helen DREW . The decision mapping system: Promoting transparency of long-term environment decisions at Hanford. [2002] [Nyerges]
• Kim D. VAN EYCK  Neoliberation and democracy? The gendered restructuring of work, unions and the Colombian public sphere. [2002] [Lawson
• Charles S. HENDRICKSEN  The Research Web: Asynchronous collaboration in social scientific research [2002] [Nyerges]
• Judith Marie BEZY  Driving behavior in a stratified sample of persons aged 65 years and older: Associations with geographic location, gender, age and functional status. [2003] [Morrill]
• Nicholas HEDLEY  3D geographic visualization and spatial mental models. [2003] [Nyerges]
• Karin Elena JOHNSON  Bordering on health: Origins and outcomes of the idea of global health. [2003] [Mayer]
• James PEET  Measuring equity in terms of relative accessibility: An application to Seattle’s Duwamish Corridor seaport facilities.[2003] [Nyerges]
• Pervin Banu GOKARIKSEL  Situated modernities: Geographies of identity, urban space and globalization. [2003] [Mitchell]
• David Michael PASCHANE  A theoretical framework for the medical geography of health service politics. [2003] [Mayer]
• Barbara Shepherd POORE  Blue lines: Water, information, and salmon in the Pacific Northwest. [2003] [Chrisman]
• Charles TOVARES  Race and the Production of Public Space [2003] [Mitchell]
• Clare NEWSTEAD  (Dis)entangling the politics of regional possibility in the post-colonial Caribbean. [2004] [Lawson]
• Joanna SURGEONER  Books and worlds: A literary study of the Canadian North. [2004] [Jarosz]
• Scott MILES  Participatory assessment of a comprehensive areal model of earthquake-induced landslides. [2004] [Nyerges]
• Carolina KATZ-REID  Achieving the American dream: A longitudinal analysis of the homeownership experiences of low-Income families [2004] [Withers]
• Meredith REITMAN  Race in the workplace: Questioning whiteness, merit and belonging.[2004] [Ellis]
• Sarah WRIGHT  Harvesting knowledge: A study of the contested terrain of intellectual property rights in the Philippines. [2004] [Lawson]
• Richard HEYMAN  Locating civil society: Knowledge, pedagogy and the production of public space. [2004] [Sparke]
• Amy FREEMAN  Contingent Modernity: Moroccan women’s narratives in “post” colonial perspectives. [2004] [Lawson]
• Hyung-Joo (Julie) KIM  IT goes to school: Interactions between higher education institutions and information technology companies in U.S. metropolitan areas. [2004] [Harrington]
• Deron FERGUSON  An event-historic analysis of short-term U.S. regional employment adjustment, 1975-99. [2004] [Harrington]
• Barbara TEMPALSKI.  The uneven geography of syringe exchange programs in the U.S.: need, politics and place.[2005] [Mayer]
• Catherine VENINGA  The transgressive geographies of integration: school desegregation in Seattle. [2005] [Brown]
• Enru WANG  Retail restructuring in post-reform urban China: the case of Beijing. [2005] [Chan]
• Jamie GOODWIN-WHITE  Placing progress: contextual inequality, internal migration and immigrant incorporation. [2005] [Ellis]
• Brian HAMMER  New Urban Spaces for a Twenty-First Century China [2005] [Mitchell]
• Meredith FORDYCE  An evaluation of the Consistency of Selected County-Level Rural Typologies in Determining Rate and Risk: the Case of Inadequate Prenatal Care [2005] [Mayer]
• Nathaniel TRUMBULL  The environmental impacts of transition: water resources planning in the urban environment. [2005] [ZumBrunnen]
• Maria FANNIN  Birthing subjects: midwifery and the politics of self-determination [2006] [England]
• Elizabeth BROWN. Crime, culture and the city: political geographies of juvenile justice [2006] [Herbert]
• Matt SOTHERN. “the extraordinary body” and the limits of (neo)liberalism [2006] [Brown]
• Jessica GRAYBILL. Contested space in the periphery: Perceptions of environment and resources on Sakhalin Island [2006] [ZumBrunnen]
• Darrin MAGEE. New energy geographies: powershed politics and hydropower decision making in Yunnan, China [2006] [Chan]
• Joseph HANNAH. Local Nongovernmental Organizations in Vietnam: Development, Civil Society and State-Society Relations [2007] [Jarosz]
• Britt YAMAMOTO. A Quality Alternative?  Quality Conventions, Alternative Food and the Politics of Soybeans in Japan [2007] [Jarosz]
• Chris FOWLER. From lived experience to economic models: a mixed methods analysis of competitive policies in Gioia Tauro and Genoa, Italy [2007] [Ellis]
• Greg SIMON. Brokering development: Geographies of meddiation and energy sector reforms in Maharashtra, India [2007] [ZumBrunnen & Jeffrey, co-chairs]
• Jie WU. Artifact management and behavioral discourse in the software development process for a large Public Participatory Geographic Information System [2007] Nyerges]
• Joshua NEWELL. Studies in foreign direct investment in the Eastern Russia, urban water infrastructure in US Cities, and global buyer-driven furniture chains [2007] [ZumBrunnen]
• Nicholas VELLUZZI. Fermenting Growth: Institutions, Agency and the Competitive Foundations of Localized Learning in the Walla Walla Wine industry [2007] [Harrington]
• Andrew WENZL. Wealth, consumption, and regional economic development in the United States [2008] [Beyers]
• Sunil AGGARWAL. The Medical Geography of Cannabinoid Botanicals in Washington State: Access, Delivery, and Distress [2008] [Mayer]
• Mona ATIA. Building a House in Heaven: Islamic Charity in Neoliberal Egypt [2008] [Mitchell]
• Anne BONDS. Placing the Prison: The politics of prisons, poverty, and neoliberal restructuring in the rural American Northwest [2008] [Lawson]
• Astrid CERNY. In Search of Greener Pastures: Sustainable Development for Kazak Pastoralists in Xinjiang, China [2008] [Chan]
• John CARR. The Political Grind: The Role of Youth Identities in the Municipalities of Public Space [2008] [Herbert]
• Courtney DONOVAN. Ideology and Identitiy in France: An Examination of Prenatal Health Care Choices Among Immigrant Women [2008] [Brown]
• Kris ERICKSON. Hacker Mentality: Risk, Security and Control in the Information Society [2008] [Herbert]
• Sarah STARKWEATHER. Defining Extraterritorial Citizenship: the Case of Americans Living Abroad [2008] [England]
• Guirong ZHOU. Ontology, Sensemaking and Architecture of an Online Participatory Geographic Information System [2008] [Nyerges]
• Jonathan GLICK. Household Benefits From the Housing Boom: Expanding Gains and Reconcentrating Wealth in the United States 1995-2005 [2008] [Withers]
• Tony SPARKS. As Much Like Home As Possible: Geographies of Homelessness and Citizenship in Seattle’sTent City 3 [2008] [Sparke]
• Matthew WILSON. Coding Community [2009] [Nyerges]
• Kevin RAMSEY. Adapting (to) the “Climate Crisis”: Urban Environmental Governance and the Politics of Mobility in Seattle [2009] [Nyerges]
• Rowan ELLIS. Civil Society, Savage City: Urban Governance and the Liberalizing State in Chennai, India [2009] [Mitchell]
• Amber PEARSON. Health and Vulnerability: Economic Development in Ugandan Pastoralist Communities [2009] [Mayer]
• Caroline FARIA. Imagining a New Sudan: The Diasporic Politics of Body and Nation [2009] [Jarosz]
• Jean CARMALT. Geographic Perspectives on International Law: Human Rights and Hurricane Katrina. [2010] [Herbert]
• Maureen   HICKEY. Driving Globalization: Bangkok Taxi Drivers and the Restructuring of Work and Masculinity in Thailand [2010] [Lawson]
• Sarah PAIGE. Social, Behavioral and Spatial Dimensions of Human Health and Primate Contact in Western Uganda [2010] [Mayer]
• Stephen YOUNG. The Global Redline: Mapping Markets and Mobilities In the Financialization of India. [2010] [Sparke]
• Dominic CORVA . The Geo-politics of Narco-Governance in the Americas: A Political Economy Approach [2010] [Lawson & Sparke)
• Ann E. BARTOS. Remembering, Sensing and Caring for their Worlds: Children’s Environmental Politics in a RuralNew Zealand Town [2011] [Brown]
• Jaime KELLY. Pilgrims of Modernity: Beijing Luxury Hotel Workers in Pursuit of an Urban Future [2011]  [Chan]
• Kacy MCKINNEY. Seeding Whose future? Exploring Entanglements of Neoliberal Choice, Children’s Labor, and Mobility in Hybrid Bt Cotton Seed Production in Western India [2011] [Jarosz]
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The Spatial Organization of Pre-Colonial African Kingdoms: The Empires of Ethiopia & Mali , Victoria O. Alapo

Commemorating the Past: Nebraska Museum Practices in Interpreting, Memorializing, and Mythologizing History , Carissa Dowden

Film and the Making of a Modern Nebraska (1895-1920): A Historical Geography , William Helmer

Reexamining the Desert: A Study of Place-Based Food Insecurity , Morgan Ryan

Votes and Voters in Time and Space: The Changing Landscape of Political Party Support in Kentucky, 1974-2020 , Glenn Humphress

Federal Land-Use Policy and Resettlement in the Great Plains: An Experiment in Community Development During the New Deal Years, 1933-1941 , Theresa Glanz

Population Sustainability in Rural Nebraska Towns , Andrew Husa

Timing and Formation of Linear Dunes South of the Niobrara River Valley, North-Central Nebraska Sand Hills , Ashley K. Larsen

ASSESSING LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY WITH GIS USING QUALITATIVE & QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN KNOX COUNTY, NEBRASKA , Christian J. Cruz

A Historical Geography of Six and Eight-Man Football in Nebraska , Andrew Husa

Utilizing a Consumer-Grade Camera System to Quantify Surface Reflectance , Joseph J. Lehnert

Modeling Gross Primary Production of Midwest Maize and Soybean Croplands with Satellite and Gridded Weather Data , Gunnar Malek-Madani

Spatial Analysis of Ethnic and Racial Segregation in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, 2000 - 2014 , Roy Yao

Dating Late Quaternary Alluvial Fills in the Platte River Valley using Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating , Jacob C. Bruihler

A Research Framework for the Geographic Study of Exotic Pet Mammals in the USA , Gabrielle C. Tegeder

Using GIS to Assess Firearm Thefts, Recoveries and Crimes in Lincoln, Nebraska , David A. Grosso

A STUDY OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH DWELLING STRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENT BASED ON AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA , Jeehoon Kim

Geographic Variation of Health Care Spending on Heart Failure in Metropolitan Areas , Kevin McMillan

"We Shall Meet Beyond the River": An Analysis of the Deathscape of Brownville, Nebraska , Ashley J. Barnett

Building a GIS Model to Assess Agritourism Potential , Brian G. Baskerville

Exploring the Nature of Space for Human Behavior in Ordinary Structured Environments , Molly Boeka Cannon

A Historical Geography of Sand Island 1870 - 1944 , Lucas P. Johnson

Proximal Sensing as a Means of Characterizing Phragmites australis , Travis Yeik

Multi-Temporal Analysis of Crop Biomass Using Selected Environmental Variables and Remote Sensing Derived Indices , Nwakaku M. Ajaere

Evaluating Vegetation Response to Water Stress Using Close-Range and Satellite Remote Sensing , Sharmistha Swain

ASSESSING SEASONAL FEATURES OF TROPICAL FORESTS USING REMOTE SENSING , Roberto Bonifaz-Alfonzo

USING A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM TO DEFINE REGIONS OF GRAPE-CULTIVAR SUITABILITY IN NEBRASKA , Ting Chen

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Malaria in Paraguay , Nicole M. Wayant

Levels of Response In Experiential Conceptualizations of Neighborhood: The Potential For Multiple Versions of This Place Construct , Cynthia M. Williams

PRESERVATION ETHICS IN THE CASE OF NEBRASKA’S NATIONALLY REGISTERED HISTORIC PROPERTIES , Darren Michael Adams

Intersections of Place, Time, and Entertainment in Rural Nebraska in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries , Rebecca A. Buller

The Changing Landscape of a Rural Region: The effect of the Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir in the Osage River Basin of Missouri , Melvin Arthur Johnson

Detection and Measurement of Water Stress in Vegetation Using Visible Spectrum Reflectance , Arthur Zygielbaum

Patterns and Consequences of Segregation: An Analysis of Ethnic Residential Patterns at Two Geographic Scales , Kenneth N. French

Geographies of Indigenous-based Team Name and Mascot Use in American Secondary Schools , Ezra J. Zeitler

A WATERSHED-BASED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR LAKES IN AGRICULTURALLY-DOMINATED ECOSYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY OF NEBRASKA RESERVOIRS , Henry N. N. Bulley

MODELING BIGHORN SHEEP HABITAT IN NORTHWEST NEBRASKA , Kyle M. Forbes

CLOSE-RANGE AND SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING OF ALGAL BIOMASS IN THE IOWA GREAT LAKES , Eric A. Wilson

EFFECTS OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION AND LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE ON LAND COVER CHARACTERIZATION , Wenli Yang

Spatial Structure and Decision-Making Aspects of Pedestrian Route Selection through an Urban Environment , Michael R. Hill

VACANCY CHAINS AND INTRA-URBAN MIGRATION , Donald Rundquist

Water Power Development on the Lower Loup River: A Study in Economic Geography , Ralph Eugene Olson

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As part of the third-year examination, students also submit a 10,000-word dissertation on a subject of their choice.

Starting in the second year, students work with a dissertation supervisor to develop their research topic, in an area of their interest; this is an opportunity to put into practice what has been taught in lectures, supervisions and practical classes. Data collection usually takes place in the summer vacation at the end of the second year.

The subjects and locations of dissertations vary widely, as a few titles from recent years indicate:

• A Lost Community? Migration and Community on St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly
• Saviour or Stealth Tax? Pay-by-use Domestic Waste Charging in Dublin, Ireland
• Food Access in Malawi: An Island Perspective
• Living in the Valley of the Shadow of Death? Management and Risk Perception of Volcanic Hazards near Mt Rainier, WA
• Sulphur Dioxide and Hydrogen Sulphide Emissions from Mutnovsky Volcano, Kamchatka, Russia
• Recent Temporal Changes and Spatial Trends in the Dynamics of a Shrinking Valley Glacier: Haut Glacier D’Arolla, Switzerland

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Some students choose to do the research for their dissertations abroad, whilst others stay in the British Isles. Some funding is available via the Department and there are also University travel awards for which there is open competition. Many Colleges also provide generous financial support for travelling during the vacations.

For me the dissertation was the most meaningful component of the Geography course, because I learnt so much simply through working on a project of my own interest and design from start to finish. This independence means you have to organise everything effectively by yourself, but is also freeing in how you have lots of choice and control over your work. You can explore topics on the fringes of the Geography course in more detail, and even connect your work to interests outside Geography. My topic, for example, looked at the regulation of busking, which not only allowed me to connect my research to my love of music and interest in politics, but also allowed me to consider a niche subject area that had hardly been explored before in Geography.

My research was largely interview-based, which presented a fair few challenges but was also the most enjoyable part for me. Finding enough contacts for each group implicated in my research (buskers, councillors, and residents) – and getting them to reply to emails – was perhaps the hardest aspect of this! But once I was in good correspondence with a few individuals in each group they were happy to give me more contacts. It was especially heartening to see people’s interest in my research topic, and how willing they were to give their time and help me. Meeting such kind and engaging people from all walks of life, and having the privilege of hearing their stories and outlooks, is what gives me such fond memories of my dissertation fieldwork. Many of these people I’m still in touch with now, and they are helping me with new ventures post-Cambridge.

Jack Lowe, Girton College

Unlike some other departments where the student is allocated and assisted by a supervisor to guide through the dissertation process, the Geography Department takes a much more individualistic research approach. The department can assist financially and faculty members are able to provide some guidance, however, much of your dissertation is your own work. Whilst this may seem daunting at first, you get the full research experience from planning to execution and the write-up.

Benefiting from the extremely broad spectrum of fields that Geography covers, the choice of dissertation subject is infinite. Furthermore, topics are not limited to what is covered in lectures, in fact, most decide to conduct independent research on a topic that interests them, which is usually beyond what is taught in the department. My dissertation was in the field of urban climatology, something quite different from what is offered in lectures.

With the progression and acceleration of urbanisation on a global scale paralleled with on-going climate change, I investigated how urban environments played a role. My study was based in Tokyo and encompassed the Greater Tokyo area which covers a range of urban and rural areas. I received various grants from the Geography department, university and college which allowed me to fully fund the research. I conducted a time series analysis into trends and variability using JRA-55 reanalysis data and ground station temperature measurements across 29 stations in the Greater Tokyo region from 1958-2012 to show how urban environments influence local microclimates. The handling of >2,000,000 data points was certainly a challenge, however, exploring a topic of interest to such detail as part of an independent research is a highly rewarding experience and is certainly one of the most memorable component of my Geographical Tripos.

Tomohito Shibata, King’s College

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Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2022-2023 (archived)

Module GEOG3432: DISSERTATION (40 CREDITS) IN GEOGRAPHY B

Department: geography, geog3432: dissertation (40 credits) in geography b, prerequisites.

• GEOG2462 Scientific Research in Geography

Corequisites

Excluded combination of modules.

• To enable students to plan and execute a substantial piece of independent geographical research on an approved topic
• To provide students with an opportunity to collect and analyse data from primary and/or secondary sources
• To encourage students to develop the transferable skills of advanced literacy and presentation
• An individual piece of work on an approved physical geography topic, chosen by the student
• Formulation of the topic and progress towards completion are advised and monitored by the Dissertation Supervisor, with whom there are six discussion tutorials during Level 3

Learning Outcomes

• On successful completion of the module students are expected to have developed an advanced and detailed knowledge of a specified geographical topic.
• On successful completion of the module students are expected to be able to produce a dissertation showing the following skills:
• Formulation: identify a clear objective; establish the relevant substantive and theoretical context; produce a scholarly and critical review of relevant literature
• Execution: use appropriate and relevant research methods; identify a logical structure and argument; show relevance and depth; produce a critical appraisal of the outcome
• Presentation: demonstrate advanced skills of literacy, numeracy, graphicacy, editing and proof-reading, documentation and bibliography
• Conceptualisation: consider and formulate a research question and methodology of appropriate and feasible scope, drawing on and synthesising relevant literature
• Research: conduct data gathering and analysis in an academically rigorous manner
• Synthesis: consider findings with reference to empirical questions and scholarly debates as relevant
• Management: skills in time and project management appropriate for undertaking multifaceted, long-duration research projects

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The dissertation is the most important single item on which Single Honours Geography students are assessed. It is their own work on a topic of their own choice, done largely in their own time and reflecting their level of training, attitude, motivation, powers of organisation and analysis as well as depth of knowledge of a specified geographical topic.
• The Level 2 Dissertation Supervision Groups (Part of the module 'Scientific Research in Geography') supported students in formulating projects and conducting fieldwork, as well as time/project management skills. Students were given detailed verbal and written feedback on the formative research proposal in Level 2.
• The Level 3 Dissertation Supervision individual meetings support students in completing fieldwork, analysing data, interpretation and writing up findings.
• Students are given detailed verbal and written feedback on the formative draft chapter(s) (max 8 pages) and a 2-page outline at Level 3.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative assessment, formative assessment:.

Formative feedback on a) eight page draft dissertation chapter or eight pages derived from multiple chapters and b) two page outline of the dissertation consisting of section headings.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University

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Geography's 'Best Undergraduate Dissertation' award winner reflects on her journey

Rachel wibberley.

Geography graduate

05 November 2020

Rachel Wibberley, 2020 BA Geography graduate, was awarded 'Best Undergraduate Dissertation' last academic year for her outstanding research on gender pay gap inequalities in London’s financial services sector. She's written a blog reflecting on her time at King's, why she chose her dissertation topic and what she is up to now.

I decided to study a BA in Geography at King’s in order to gain the analytical and technical skills needed to understand real-world development issues. I knew that I was keen to pursue an international policy route within my degree and the breadth of the course at King’s meant that I could use complex data sets to better understand the interactions between humans and their environments, whilst gaining practical experience in policy writing to facilitate positive change.

Alongside my degree, I took an interest in international gender and development issues and was even given the opportunity to represent young women in the UK at the UN Commission on the Status of Women and the UN Human Rights Council. My dissertation, or Independent Geographical Study (IGS) as it’s called in the Department, presented the perfect opportunity to develop this interest by exploring the knowledge gaps within current literature on gender inequalities and adding value where I felt it was needed the most. I decided to focus my IGS on an issue that will continue to impact every woman in the world until sufficient progress is made – the gender pay gap.

Stagnant gender gap progress suggested that monitoring had not gone far enough in generating substantive progress towards gender equality – a fundamental human right. My IGS attempted to draw upon qualitative evidence from female employees in London’s financial services sector, alongside corporate narratives to explore the impacts of surveillance on everyday attitudes and behaviours. The study revealed that the narrow parameters of traditional monitoring theory and practice are limiting the progression of gender equality and it supported policy recommendations to drive cultural change.

Despite the coronavirus circumstances during my final term, I really enjoyed writing my IGS. Settling on an idea was the hardest part. I think the key is to not get bogged down with finding a ground-breaking gap in the literature but to add your analysis to an area you are genuinely interested in. This way the process becomes much more enjoyable.

Rachel with her award-winning dissertation

I conducted the bulk of my literature review research between February 2019 and December 2019. I reached out to potential participants on LinkedIn and conducted my interviews in the first term of my final year. I used the Christmas period to write my literature review and then used the final term to conduct my analysis and write the remainder of my dissertation. I spent several weeks editing my IGS before the final deadline, creating countless drafts in order to get it within the 10,000-word limit and ensure it read well. I submitted it and I hoped for the best.

When I received my mark I cried happy tears! I refreshed the result several times just to be sure that it wasn’t a mistake in the online system. I then read the examiners feedback and was blown away by the positive comments. I felt relieved that the year of hard work that went into my IGS had completely paid off and ecstatic that I had created a valuable piece of research.

More recently, I found out that I won the award for the best overall undergraduate dissertation. Again, I was in complete disbelief. Throughout university I often doubted myself before essay submissions and I think that receiving this award has instilled confidence in my own ability to produce quality research. This confidence has helped me within my current role as a policy executive, where I am working in a policy institute to produce a report on international gendered health inequalities.

I owe a lot to my wonderful IGS supervisor, Professor Cathy McIlwaine, who provided invaluable advice, expertise and support throughout the writing of my IGS and has since encouraged me to apply for postgraduate study. I hope to study for a Masters in the next couple of years. Following that, I would love to work in international development within an international organisation.

Read Rachel's Dissertation

‘No reporting about us, without us’: Exploring the Impacts of UK Surveillance Practices on Gender Inequality in London’s Financial Services Sector.

• Wibberley, Rachel 2020 (4.38 MB PDF)

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Dara wins ‘Best Undergraduate Dissertation’ in Geography 2021

2021 BA undergraduate, Dara Engelbrekt won the “Best Undergraduate Dissertation” in the Department of Geography this year. Dara’s research looked at the obstacles to a coherent EU energy efficiency policy in the residential sector in Sweden. She has written us a blog on why she studied geography, what led her to choose her dissertation topic, and offers some advice on how you can get started on your research too.  

For me, one of the most interesting and unique perspectives we develop when studying Geography is the ability to understand how different political scales interact, how the local influences the international and vice versa. Throughout our degree, and especially during our field trips, we learn how local cultures, values, and practices are connected to global issues such as climate change, often requiring coordination between different policy levels – local, regional, and global. In my dissertation, I chose to explore this scalar relationship in the European Union’s energy sector which is currently undergoing an extensive transformation toward decarbonisation.

Coming from two very different EU countries, Sweden and Bulgaria, I have often been struck by the diversity in everyday practices of handling essential resources such as energy and water. Differences can be seen in everything from ease of access, saving and use, to paying the bill. While mainstream energy transitions literature predominantly focuses on industry-level shifts, changes in everyday practices are often neglected despite their important potential role in decarbonising the energy sector. The dissertation provided a great opportunity for me to address this gap in the literature and pursue my interest in environmental policy. 

I focused the research on understanding the difficulties encountered in implementing the EU Energy Efficiency Directive in Sweden. The Directive sets a requirement for individual metering and charging of heating in apartment buildings under the premise that it will push households to reduce their energy consumption. The individual metering of heating is common in many European countries. Uniquely in Sweden though, each household pays a set monthly price for heating regardless of how much energy they actually consume. This was something that I had never really given much thought to until I moved to London and me and my flatmates got our first bill. Sweden has had this system for decades and has, to my surprise, been very reluctant to change it despite strong pressures from the EU. Using qualitative methods, I considered why and how national actors in Sweden, a country often branded as “green”, have resisted the introduction of individual meters. The research revealed the difficulties that can arise when EU policies reach the widely diverse national settings of its member states. What I found most interesting from a geographical perspective was the significance of considering local socio-political and cultural contexts when implementing international environmental and energy policies. 

I really enjoyed writing the dissertation and having the opportunity to delve deep into a topic I am interested in. It is a great chance to figure out what you are or aren’t passionate about and what you could see yourself working with in the future. Even so, it was a challenging and long process. I found the most difficult aspect of writing the dissertation to be deciding on the topic, formulating a feasible research question, and sticking to it. The process involved a lot of self-doubt, late-night research, and discussions with my supervisor, friends, and family. I think it is important to keep your cool (which is easier said than done!) and not put too much pressure on the research being flashy or ground-breaking. The most interesting findings can often come from the seemingly most low-key, mundane, and even random topics. My advice is to pick a topic that sparks interest in you and that you have some personal connection to. I would also encourage you to take advantage of all the resources given to you. I did a large part of my literature review in the beginning of third year; that way I was able to receive a lot of useful feedback from my supervisor when submitting the first draft. I am now very happy and relieved to see that the hard work paid off! 

I want to say a big thank you to my supervisor Professor Alex Loftus without whose guidance, support, and expertise I could not have written this dissertation. I also want to thank him for his encouragement and help in applying for post-graduate studies. Now I am looking forward to studying for a master’s degree in Environmental Policy at Cambridge and hopefully build on the research that I started at King’s.

Read the news piece about Dara’s award on the King’s College London website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/geography-student-wins-dissertation-award-for-work-on-energy-efficiency-policies-1

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Geography Dissertation Topics

Published by Carmen Troy at January 6th, 2023 , Revised On August 16, 2023

Introduction

Geography is the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources and political and economic activities.

Geography is related to the climate changes and ecological value of a region that helps determine the environmental situation of that region. Therefore, it is important to explore the different geographical ideas and theories. Geography is an interesting field and there is a range of issues that you could choose from for your dissertation.

This article lists several geography dissertation topics and research ideas so you can base your dissertation on a manageable and intriguing issue.

Here is our selection of geography dissertation topics that we think will definitely interest you and your supervisor.

Topic 1: Impact of Natural Catastrophes on Economic Growth and Human Development- A Case of 2011 Fukushima Crisis in Japan

• Topic 2: How Do Natural Disasters Affect the Geosphere? Calculating the Effects of Earthquakes, Floods, and Volcanic Eruptions on Geosphere in Asia

Topic 3: Geography a Natural Friend or Enemy? The Role of Geography in Promoting/Demoting Climate Change Disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa

Topic 4: geo-mapping and land reforms: a study to find the role of geo-mapping, sensor data, and big data analytics in bringing land reforms to developing countries, topic 5: predictive analytics and natural disaster: a study to find the role of artificial intelligence (ai) in predicting natural disasters and epidemics.

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2022 Geography Research Topics

Research Aim: This research aims to analyze the impact of natural catastrophes on economic growth and human development. It will assess the socioeconomic effects of the 2011 Fukushima Crisis in Japan. It will show how it affected Japan’s economic growth by affecting the population, production levels, employment, investments, etc.? Moreover, how did it affect the Human Development Index (HDI)? Lastly, it will show how Japan managed to recover from this catastrophe? And what lessons can other countries learn from Japan to mitigate the socioeconomic effects of natural disasters?

Topic 2: How Does Natural Disasters Affect the Geosphere? Calculating the Effects of Earthquakes, Floods, and Volcanic Eruptions on Geosphere in Asia

Research Aim: This study intends to calculate the effects of earthquakes, floods, and volcanic eruptions on the geosphere in Asia. It will find whether there is an empirical relationship between geosphere disturbance and natural disasters? Or changes in the geosphere cause natural disasters in Asia? It will primarily test a causal relationship between natural disasters and geosphere disruption. Moreover, it will show whether there are ways to protect the geosphere or not?

Research Aim: This research assesses the role of geography in promoting/demoting climate change disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa. It will find ways through which geography saves or further exacerbate the climate change situation. It will analyze various natural disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa and see what geography’s role is in protecting or further hurting the population. Lastly, it will see the government’s efforts such as investment in eco-friendly projects, cutting down 〖CO〗_2 and increase in the number of trees to maintain their natural geography.

Research Aim: This study analyzes the role of geo-mapping, sensor data, and big data analytics in bringing land reforms to developing countries. It will review geo-mapping concepts and how sensor data gathered through geo-mapping can be used in big data analytics? Further, it will show how developing countries use geo-mapping and big data analytics to reform their rotten real estate sector. Moreover, comparing their efforts with advanced countries will recommend improving their geo-mapping and land reforms.

Research Aim: This research finds the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in predicting natural disasters and epidemics. It will assess various machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models and big data tools to show how they are used to predict natural catastrophes such as earthquakes, floods, storms, etc. It will test the reliability and efficacy of these model to recommend best models to predict further catastrophes in the future.

Geography Dissertation Research Topics

Topic 1: studying the fertility of soil after the volcanic eruption..

Research Aim: The research paper aims to find out the study of the soil’s fertility caused by a volcanic eruption. The consequences of volcanic eruptions affect the soil, which makes the soil difficult to cultivate.

Topic 2: Understanding Global Warming through Geography

Research Aim: The research paper has the purpose of understanding global warming through Geography. Global warming has severe impacts on the climates and people’s health because it is caused due to harmful UV rays.

Topic 3: Geography: Determining the Effects caused by Natural Calamities on a Region

Research Aim: The research paper aims to determine the effects that are caused due to natural calamities on a region. Natural calamities impact the region because of the destruction that occurs to life and property. Therefore, the study will understand the adverse effects of natural disasters on an area.

Topic 4: Evaluating the Ecological Value of the Forests

Research Aim: The research paper aims to evaluate the ecological value of the forests. Forests help build the region’s environmental conditions and provide a home to a massive amount of wildlife. So, the paper understands the value of ecology in forests.

Topic 5: Comprehending the Security of Nutrition and Food in Geography

Research Aim: The research paper aims to investigate the security of nutrition and food in geography. There is a big challenge related to the sustainability of the atmosphere growing food and the arrangements of the society so that the poor people can have an adequate amount of food and nutrition.

Topic 6: Geography Empathizes with Environmental Protection.

Research Aim: The research paper aims to understand the emphasis that geography puts on environmental protection. I maintain the ecological balance and provide people with a safe and healthy environment, and it is essential to protect the environment. Therefore, the research paper will discuss the importance of environmental protection through geography.

Topic 7: Importance of Water Conservation

Research Aim: The research paper aims to understand the significance of water conservation. Water preservation is essential because it will help the farmers cultivate when fresh water is scarce. Therefore, the paper will discuss the importance of water conservation.

Topic 8: The impact of drought on farmers: Geography

Research Aim: The research paper will discuss the impact of drought on farmers. Drought is the main reason why farmers suffer from severe economic pressure, which also affects the region’s food supply. Hence, the paper studies the critical aspects of drought and its impact on farmers.

Topic 9: Effect of Ocean Currents on the Weather of an Area

Research Aim: The research paper excavates the effect of ocean currents on the weather of an area. The ocean currents are the conveyer belt that transports warm water along with precipitation. Therefore, ocean currents do regulate global climatic changes.

Topic 10: Geography: To Understand the Transforming Thermal Regime of the Polythermal Glaciers

Research Aim: The research paper aims to comprehend the transforming thermal regime of the polythermal glaciers. The thermal regime of any glacier has significant ramifications depending on how it moves; it can be both temperate and polar depending on the temperature.

Topic 11: Analysing the usage of Greenfield in an Area

Research Aim: The research paper aims to analyze the usage of greenfields in an area. Companies’ greenfield analysis is done to understand the optimal location and number of all the distribution centres, and geography helps to understand this vastly.

Topic 12: Geography: An in-depth study about the Destinations of the Sources of Rivers

Research Aim: The research paper states the in-depth study about the destinations of rivers’ sources in geography. From the perspective of geography, the river sources’ destination will be studied where the flow and destination of rivers tend to change because of the absorption of sediments in their sizes and shapes.

Topic 13: Aspects Contributing to the Creation of a Sustainable Environment

Research Aim: The research paper aims to study the aspects contributing to creating a sustainable environment. To evaluate the sustainable environment, it is imperative to excavate the factors contributing to its formation.

Topic 14: Evaluating the Impacts of Acid Rain

Research Aim: The research paper aims to evaluate the impacts of acid rain. In geography, acid rain is taken as an adverse effect that leads to a big downfall both for the environment and in harming the crops. Hence, the paper states the adverse impacts caused to the life and cultivation of people due to acid rain.

Topic 15: Geography: Construction of Buildings Affecting the Soil

Research Aim: The research paper aims to view geography’s perspective in evaluating the effects caused to soil due to the construction of buildings. The soil fertility is almost lost because of building construction, and therefore the paper will be evaluating all the effects that building construction causes on the soil.

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The module will prepare students for their final year piece of independent research (i.e. dissertation). The module will provide insights into contemporary emerging research challenges together with discussions focussed on research methodologies and data analysis (quantitative and qualitative) in addressing key thematic research issues.

The module consists of a series of lectures and small group tutorials (Dissertation labs, quantitative data analysis techniques). The lectures provide guidance on research design, theoretical framing and methodological rigour whilst developing a research proposal. The quantitative data analysis element introduce key quantitative data analysis exercises in addressing contemporary geographical and environmental research issues. The research and quantitative data skills learned will help support the students to develop their independent research proposal as part of the small group dissertation lab sessions run by dissertation supervisors. 

By the end of the module students should be able to:

• Identify the literature and conceptual framework that they will employ in their final year research project
• Know what is good practice in research design and sampling across different areas of Physical Geography and Environmental Science
• Appreciate the role of data analysis and the techniques available in contemporary physical geography and environmental science areas
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative and data analysis techniques in physical geography and environmental sciences

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• GEOG2462 Scientific Research in Geography

Corequisites

Excluded combinations of modules.

• To enable students to plan and execute a substantial piece of independent geographical research on an approved topic
• To provide students with an opportunity to collect and analyse data from primary and/or secondary sources
• To encourage students to develop the transferable skills of advanced literacy and presentation
• An individual piece of work on an approved physical geography topic, chosen by the student
• Formulation of the topic and progress towards completion are advised and monitored by the Dissertation Supervisor, with whom there are six discussion tutorials during Level 3

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• On successful completion of the module students are expected to have developed an advanced and detailed knowledge of a specified geographical topic.

Subject-specific Skills:

• On successful completion of the module students are expected to be able to produce a dissertation showing the following skills:
• Formulation: identify a clear objective; establish the relevant substantive and theoretical context; produce a scholarly and critical review of relevant literature
• Execution: use appropriate and relevant research methods; identify a logical structure and argument; show relevance and depth; produce a critical appraisal of the outcome

Key Skills:

• Presentation: demonstrate advanced skills of literacy, numeracy, graphicacy, editing and proof-reading, documentation and bibliography
• Conceptualisation: consider and formulate a research question and methodology of appropriate and feasible scope, drawing on and synthesising relevant literature
• Research: conduct data gathering and analysis in an academically rigorous manner
• Synthesis: consider findings with reference to empirical questions and scholarly debates as relevant
• Management: skills in time and project management appropriate for undertaking multifaceted, long-duration research projects

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The dissertation is the most important single item on which Single Honours Geography students are assessed. It is their own work on a topic of their own choice, done largely in their own time and reflecting their level of training, attitude, motivation, powers of organisation and analysis as well as depth of knowledge of a specified geographical topic.
• The Level 2 Dissertation Supervision Groups (Part of the module 'Scientific Research in Geography') supported students in formulating projects and conducting fieldwork, as well as time/project management skills. Students were given detailed verbal and written feedback on the formative research proposal in Level 2.
• The Level 3 Dissertation Supervision individual meetings support students in completing fieldwork, analysing data, interpretation and writing up findings.
• Students are given detailed verbal and written feedback on the formative draft chapter(s) (max 8 pages) and a 2-page outline at Level 3.

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MEarthSci Earth Science and Physical Geography

UCAS code: FF6V

Duration: 5 years

Delivery: Full-time

School: GeoSciences

College: Science and Engineering

Introducing MEarthSci Earth Science and Physical Geography

If you want to help tackle the greatest challenges facing society and the natural world, this degree is for you.

The world needs geographers and Earth scientists now more than ever before.

For example, we need them to:

• help us address the climate crisis
• adapt to environmental changes
• live more safely and sustainably on our dynamic Earth

Our degree will help you play a valuable role in addressing global challenges facing our planet and society.

What will I learn?

Our (MEarthSci) Earth Science and Physical Geography allows you to combine your understanding of both physical geography and Earth processes to address global challenges.

It balances data science, programming, and computing skills with traditional field and laboratory skills, along with a knowledge of geography and Earth science.

You will learn about:

• the structure and composition of the Earth
• the deep-Earth processes that shape the Earth's surface and impact the landscape
• the associated hazards such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides

We will build on this knowledge to explore how oceans, rivers, glaciers, and human impact define the modern and ancient landscape. We will also explore how these processes, impact society.

This understanding is important for leading research on global change and many of the world's physical environmental challenges.

We have a hands-on approach to learning, so you can develop valuable practical skills. Many of your activities are similar to what professionals do in the real world. We will also teach you computational analysis and quantitative skills.

You will learn from leading national and international geographers and Earth scientists across a range of fields. We help make sure your degree has real-world relevance and makes you highly employable.

Our links also give you valuable networking and potential employment opportunities. You will be able to meet and interact with professionals from different sectors throughout your studies. You will also have the opportunity to work with practitioners and industry experts to gain valuable experience.

This degree offers you flexibility in your studies of a wide range of interests across geography and the Earth sciences. You will be able to build your degree around topics you are curious or passionate about.

For example, you may enjoy:

• studying the Earth sciences but want greater flexibility in your honours years, or
• studying physical geography, but also want a deeper understanding of how the Earth works

An extraordinary reputation

We are one of the largest and most successful groupings of geographers, Earth and environmental scientists in the UK. Many of us are world experts in our field.

• We have pioneered research proving human-caused greenhouse gasses are warming our planet, which helped underpin the 2015 Paris Agreement.
• We are working with major space agencies to monitor the environment using satellite data.
• We are 22nd in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2024.
• We are ranked in the world's top 50 universities for natural sciences subjects, and 4th in the UK. Across Earth and marine sciences, environmental sciences, geology, geography and geophysics, we are ranked top 10 in the UK ( QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024).

Our staff will include the latest research in your teaching, and share our discoveries with you.

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Life-changing field trips.

Field trips are at the heart of this programme.

We know that getting out in the world is essential for understanding how it works.

We will take you beyond the classroom so that you can apply your learning to real-life situations.

For example, you could be:

• photographing rugged coastlines and cliffs with airborne drones
• visiting worksites to meet Earth science professionals and find out what they do
• hunting for fossils and chatting with your professor about their work on the latest Jurassic World film
• surrounded by Scotland’s glorious mountains, gathering evidence to unravel its unique geological history
• exploring the impact of climate, tectonics and sea-level change on the landscape of Spain

What do you do on a field trip?

Our field courses and day excursions are hard work and fun. Often, they will provide some of your most memorable moments.

Our hands-on approach to learning helps build your confidence and practical experience. It also gives you field skills valued by employers.

For example:

• drawing 3D geological maps

documenting and analysing the types of rocks within an outcrop

learning to read and map a landscape, to understand the geological and geomorphological history

• measuring glacier and river erosion and deposition

We work with a wide network of geographers and Earth science professionals in different sectors. We will arrange meetings with them at their work sites during our trips.

Our trips also help you to experience working with different types of field equipment, which will help you develop practical skills. We have a range of tools and high-tech equipment to take field measurements.

A dynamic learning experience

Your training will culminate in the opportunity to conduct your own independent research project. An experienced academic will supervise and support you through your work.

Field experiences will help create a sense of community within your cohort. You will engage in a dynamic learning experience through peer learning where knowledge, ideas, and discoveries thrive.

We sometimes also combine students from other related degrees. Working on multidisciplinary problems prepares you for the real world, where collaborative solutions are important for solving local and global challenges.

The locations and experiences of each trip will vary. We want to give you a broad understanding of how the world works. Our goal is to reduce our carbon footprint while providing you with the best training opportunities.

Our compulsory field trips or field courses are free, including travel and accommodation. To make sure our degrees are accessible and inclusive, we offer alternative learning experiences where necessary.

You can also find our blog posts and videos about fieldwork experiences on the School of GeoSciences website.

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Edinburgh is your ideal base

Edinburgh is ranked 2nd in the UK and 16th in the world in the QS Best Student Cities 2024. Our vibrant capital is a blend of history and modern city life.

Edinburgh is not only a fantastic city to live in, it is also the perfect location to study geography and the Earth sciences. Did you know that Edinburgh is the 'birthplace' of modern geology and Earth sciences?

An ancient volcano known as 'Arthur's Seat' forms part of a magnificent park in the middle of our city. And superb geological locations are right on our doorstep, providing you with world-class outdoor training grounds. Many of these sites are of scientific importance. For example, the world-famous "Hutton's Unconformity" at Siccar Point is just a short trip away.

We will help you make the most of our local surroundings throughout your studies.

Immerse yourself among rugged coastlines, misty mountains, forest glens and sparkling freshwater lochs.

What is it really like to study with us?

No one knows what it is like to study here better than the students themselves.

Our students are sharing their experiences - from studying to living in Edinburgh and everything in between.

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What you will study

The exciting nature of Earth science and geography means you will have a diverse learning experience during your years with us.

The way you learn will depend on the courses you take, and the nature of the topics explored.

Your programme begins with a broad grounding of topics across Earth science and the environment.

• build on this foundation while exploring new and varied topics in the following years
• develop independence and confidence as you progress through your studies

You can find details for compulsory and option courses through the 'Programme Structure' link below.

The information on this page is for our 5-year MEarthSci Earth Science and Physical Geography degree.

It follows the 4-year BSc Earth Science and Physical Geography degree until the end of Year 4. The degree then requires you to take an extra year of study. You will complete an additional independent research project in Year 5.

Study pathways

Most of the courses in your first and second years are shared with our range of Earth science and environment degrees.

This gives you the flexibility to switch between degrees as you discover the subjects you like best.

You will then specialise in the subjects of your choice in later years.

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Switching degrees

Our Earth Science and Environment degrees provide opportunities to switch between degrees in your early years. However, some later courses may not be available if you have not taken the necessary pre-requisite courses. You should discuss your interests with your Cohort Lead to ensure that these options are still available to you.

Option courses

One of the best things about a Scottish undergraduate degree is the amount of electives (called 'option courses') you can study. You have the opportunity to take a significant number of courses outside your degree in Years 1 and 2.

You can choose courses related to your degree. Or you can try something completely different and new to you.

Changes to teaching and learning

We are committed to offering high-quality education to all our students. However, please be advised that there may be changes to course options and delivery. All decisions are made to ensure we can provide the highest standards for your educational experience.

Although we endeavour to provide a wide range of optional courses to choose from, these can be subject to change or cancellation at short notice. Places on optional courses can be limited due to course capacity and timetabling constraints. It may not be possible to guarantee every offer holder their top choice of optional courses.

Data innovation

A key feature of our programme is a focus on developing your skills around the generation and analysis of scientific data, aided by a wide range of computational techniques. Demand is growing for these data skills across a range of employment sectors.

Along with your subject-specific skills, you will develop valuable transferable skills.

• advanced computing and data skills
• the ability to think in 3D and 4D
• model building from limited datasets
• the capability to integrate spatial and temporal information
• understanding processes on a range of scales
• extrapolating hypotheses based on small data sets
• extracting key information from complex sets of observations
• assessing large data sets and pattern recognition in complex data
• dealing with complex systems and uncertainties

Changes to field trips

Field course locations may change for a variety of reasons, including the health and safety of our students, staff and communities, and to ensure we can maintain the highest standards for your educational experience. Where suitable, fieldwork will be relocated or rescheduled. We will also look at alternative arrangements that will ensure you achieve the quality learning outcomes of your degree. We will announce any changes as soon as possible.

Accessibility on field trips

We are committed to making our degree as accessible and inclusive as possible. In the event that you cannot attend all trips or only some of them, we will provide alternatives with comparable learning outcomes where necessary.

Your programme begins with a broad grounding of topics across Earth science, geography and the environment.

Most of your compulsory subjects will be the same across our Earth sciences and environment degrees.

• gain an understanding of the processes which shape the Earth
• develop the skills to recognise the evidence for these processes in rocks
• learn fundamental concepts and current ideas in physical geography
• begin to establish fieldwork, computing and quantitative skills

Approximately half of your courses will be compulsory courses in Earth science and geography. The other half will be your chosen option courses.

• learn what the Earth is composed of, its minerals, and the processes that form rocks
• learn about geomorphology and the physical processes that shape the Earth's surface at a range of scales
• develop field skills including geological and geomorphological mapping

As in Year 1, you will have significant flexibility in your option course choices.

Your coursework will become more focused on specialised aspects of your degree.

You can start integrating your knowledge in a range of areas. For example, you can integrate your knowledge of rock-forming processes with tectonics and sediment fluxes.

During this year, you will:

• develop the foundation of your study direction for Year 4
• begin research training by designing your dissertation research project

You will also join geography students on a field course. Your work will develop your field skills and provide experience in interdisciplinary learning.

In addition, you will gain expertise in specific topics through your course choices.

You will develop expert knowledge in a field of your choice.

A significant focus will be on your honours dissertation project. This is an independent, original piece of research in your chosen specialist field.

Your project can be inspired by your area of interest, aided by our world-class facilities and top scientists. We will support you with individual supervision from an academic with experience in your chosen subject area.

Previous students have researched a wide range of topics, for example:

• ice sheet change
• water resources
• geological solutions to carbon capture and storage
• our geological and geomorphological heritage

They have also researched topics that address society’s resilience to increasing natural hazards as a result of global change, for example:

• coastal erosion
• sea-level rise
• ocean acidification
• earthquakes

Through fieldwork, you will apply the skills you have learned during your studies. You will work with practitioners, industry experts and researchers to gain experience in project planning, data collection and report writing.

You will also continue to study courses that further your knowledge in Earth science and physical geography.

We will also introduce you to our network of researchers and organisations that employ our graduates. Your real-world experience can be developed further by working on a range of projects relevant to society.

You will become an independent professional capable of critical analysis and understanding of the Earth system at a high level.

The main focus will be on conducting your own advanced research project on a topic you choose with your supervisor, who will be an academic with experience in your chosen research area. You will be aided by our world-class facilities and top scientists.

Your advanced skills are also developed through independent and taught courses.

There is an emphasis on:

• surface processes
• the linked interactions around landscape formation and climate change

Programme structure

Find out more about the compulsory and optional courses in this degree programme.

To give you an idea of what you will study on this programme, we publish the latest available information. However, please note this may not be for your year of entry, but for a different academic year.

Programme structure (2024/25)

Where you will study

Our facilities.

You will have access to the University's facilities across all University sites.

• laboratories
• study spaces
• computing facilities
• social spaces
• leisure facilities

Our Earth Science and Physical Geography programme is delivered through the School of GeoSciences.

• Earth sciences and environment are based in the King's Buildings campus
• Geography is based in the Central Area campus

You can easily travel between the two campuses. It takes around 15 minutes by bus. You can also cycle (10 minutes) or walk (25 minutes).

In Year 1, many of your courses are taught in the Central Area campus. Practical classes and some teaching will also be in the King's Buildings campus.

In later years, the amount of time you spend at either campus will depend on your course choices.

Additionally, you may study at other Edinburgh campuses depending on the option courses you choose.

Institute of Geography

The Institute of Geography building is part of the Central Area campus. It is on Drummond Street, bounded by the 16th Century Flodden Wall.

You will have access to:

• well-equipped lecture, seminar and tutorial rooms
• a state-of-the-art IT laboratory. It has software for image processing, geographical information science and modelling
• labs for physical geography, including soil, pollen and sediment analysis

The Institute is also close to many teaching spaces and facilities within the Central Area campus. For example, the Main Library and gym.

King's Buildings campus

Most teaching occurs within the School of GeoSciences, located at the University's King's Buildings campus. The King's Buildings (KB) is the main campus of the College of Science and Engineering.

The School of GeoSciences houses a wide range of cutting-edge facilities and services. We also host several collaborative centres of research excellence.

You will attend lectures, tutorials and practicals in our state-of-the-art theatres and classrooms.

We embrace a hands-on approach to learning, so you will also have plenty of access to our specialist research facilities, laboratories, supercomputers and field equipment.

• have access to a range of high-tech facilities, letting you analyse various types of samples
• collect some of these samples during field excursions and for your independent research project
• conduct field measurements using various techniques used in earth and environmental sciences
• have access to digital field equipment and UAV unoccupied aerial vehicles (drones) to conduct measurements using various techniques

You will also be given a dedicated undergraduate student learning space during your honours years. You can use this space for your independent work, to study with others and socialise with your peers.

Computing facilities

We also have advanced computing facilities, where you will be able to:

• perform advanced geographic information systems (GIS) analysis
• run cutting-edge meteorological and geophysical computer models
• make the most out of digital field mapping tools

A cluster of science and technology companies are also located on the campus. Many of these companies are spin-out companies based on college research. There are also start-ups which have located here to build close ties with the college.

Take a virtual tour

You can take a closer look at the School of GeoSciences and explore our facilities and campus on the University's Virtual Visit site.

Discover our city's landmarks, our campuses, accommodation and get video tours - all in one place.

Take a virtual tour of the School of GeoSciences

There are no compulsory placements or internships as part of this degree, but you will have ample opportunities to gain professional experience.

• We can help you with self-arranged internships or summer work placements.
• Your research projects in Years 4 and 5 provide the opportunity to collaborate with an external partner.

Study abroad

There are exciting opportunities to study abroad as part of the University's exchange programmes.

Many of our students spend their third year abroad in Europe or further afield. A year abroad can give you invaluable academic and life skills.

In addition to University-wide exchanges, the School of GeoSciences has several subject-specific exchanges. We have partner universities in:

• New Zealand

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Learning and assessment

How will i learn.

You will be taught by a wide range of experienced academics at the forefront of their field. Our research-led, industry informed teaching incorporates the latest developments in your field. By sharing our discoveries with you, we keep your degree up-to-date and exciting.

The types of learning styles depend on the courses you choose and the nature of the topics explored.

• discussing how climate and tectonics interact to shape mountain belts one day, or
• running numerical model simulations of a glacier the next

Teaching can be through a mix of:

• practical classes
• laboratory work
• field trips and field courses
• project work

You will also:

• design and execute your own research dissertation project in Year 4
• conduct an advanced, extensive research project in Year 5

Technical training

This degree has a hands-on approach to develop you with a range of practical skills and we will carefully balance:

• remote sensing
• advanced data science
• programming, computing simulations and modelling
• use of specialist computer programmes
• laboratory experience in a range of analytical techniques
• observational and analytical skills in different field settings
• geographical information systems ( GIS )

You will have access to our wide range of specialist research facilities, laboratories and field equipment.

We also have cutting-edge computational facilities. They enable you to visualise and explore the scientific data created in your advanced projects.

How will you support me?

We want to help you make the most of your studies with us.

You will have access to a range of resources and activities to support you during your studies. You will be assigned a Student Adviser for the duration of your degree, who will be your main contact if you have any questions related to academic or pastoral support.

The Student Adviser works closely with academics in your degree, as well as with wider University support services. They are also able to help you with a range of administrative and practical issues, and they can direct you to relevant resources or people.

Find out more about student support

You will also be assigned a Cohort Lead who will organise activities to help you get to know the other students on your degree.

They will also advise and support you on a range of topics including:

• course choices
• how to develop and improve your academic skills
• how to effectively use feedback
• advice on your future career opportunities

For your honours dissertation project and advanced project, you will also receive individual supervision and guidance from an academic with experience in your chosen subject area.

How will I be assessed?

You will be assessed in a variety of ways. The types of assessment depend on the courses you choose and the nature of the topics explored.

Assessment can be through a mix of:

• written or practical exams, including multiple-choice exercises
• laboratory reports and field project reports
• practical evaluation in the field or field notebooks
• coursework such as essays
• individual or group projects and presentations

You may also be evaluated in computer programming exercises. Some senior honours courses and projects in Earth sciences and environment involve computational modelling elements.

We will also assess your:

• presentation and scientific writing skills for your independent research project in Year 4
• advanced research project in Year 5. Your format may be a professional report or scientific paper, depending on your project.

Career opportunities

Our planet is approaching a critical state.

As a result, the demand for geographers and Earth scientists has never been greater. With this degree, you can play a vital role in humanity's most ambitious plan for a better world.

We also want you to develop practical skills for future employers. So, many of your learning activities simulate those that professionals perform in the real world.

Our programme also equips you with valuable data skills, computational analysis and quantitative skills. Demand is growing for these skills across a range of employment sectors.

Where do our graduates find employment?

Our graduates are employed in a range of sectors.

• energy (including renewables)
• environmental planning and regulation
• hydrogeology and geomorphology
• risk and hazard management
• geotechnical engineering
• environmental consultancy
• land and water management
• carbon capture and storage
• geoconservation
• science communication and education

Our graduates have gained employment in roles such as:

• GIS analyst/consultant
• geotechnical engineer
• environmental engineer
• environmental consultant
• geo-consultant
• geological surveyor
• energy resources manager

The skills you develop with us are also highly transferable. Our graduates are working in fields that seek quantitative science skills, such as management and finance.

A sustainable future

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action to address the significant global challenges of our generation.

There are 17 overarching goals with a timeline set to 2030. Nearly all countries in the world have committed to this plan, with societies rapidly adjusting to meet these goals.

They address challenges such as:

• climate change
• environment
• food inequality
• protecting our planet

Earth sciences and geography are at the heart of these efforts.

With this degree, you can work in fields that directly contribute to the UN 's Sustainable Development Goals.

You will join a world-leading University, playing a vital role in tackling the numerous complex climate challenges. We are driving efforts to mitigate climate change and transition to a low-carbon economy.

Our research is internationally renowned in the areas of carbon capture and storage, as well as negative emissions (also known as greenhouse gas removals). We are working within the UK and across the world on the delivery of net-zero emissions targets to meet the UN Paris Agreement.

Further study

Our programmes also prepare you for competitive entry into relevant postgraduate degree programmes. A significant proportion of our students progress to further postgraduate study and research.

• MSc Applied Environmental Hydrogeology
• MSc GeoEnergy
• MSc Geographical Information Science ( GIS )
• Explore School of GeoSciences postgraduate taught degrees
• Explore School of GeoSciences Masters by Research (MScR) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes
• Edinburgh Earth, Ecology and Environment Doctoral Training Partnership ( E4 DTP )
• Satellite Data in Environmental Science – Centre for Doctoral Training( SENSE CDT )

Careers Service

We support you in recognising the many possibilities ahead.

Our award-winning Careers Service plays an essential part in your wider student experience. We also support you after graduation.

We provide:

• tailored advice
• individual guidance
• internships and networking opportunities (with employers from local organisations to top multinationals)
• access to the experience of our worldwide alumni network

We invest in your future beyond the end of your degree. Studying here is about laying the foundations for your future success. Whatever shape that takes.

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Entry requirements

Standard entry requirement.

The standard entry requirement is:

• SQA Highers: BBBB by end of S5 or AABB by end of S6. BBB must be achieved in one year of S4-S6.
• A Levels: ABB - BBB in one set of exams.
• IB : 32 points with 655 at HL - 30 points with 555 at HL.

Minimum entry requirement

The minimum entry requirement for widening access applicants is:

• SQA Highers: BBBB by end of S6. BBB must be achieved in one year of S4-S6.
• A Levels: BBB.
• IB : 30 points with 555 at HL.

More information for widening access applicants

Required subjects

The grades used to meet our entry requirements must include:

• SQA : Highers: two of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics, or Physics at B. Higher Applications of Mathematics is not accepted in place of Higher Mathematics. National 5s: English at C and Mathematics at A.We will accept combinations of Mathematics and Physics both at grade B to meet this requirement.
• A Levels: two of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Geology, Mathematics, or Physics at B. GCSEs: English at C or 4 and Mathematics at A or 7. We will accept combinations of Mathematics and Physics both at grade B, or Mathematics, Science plus Additional Science all at grade B to meet this requirement.
• IB : HL: two of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics (Analysis and approaches only) or Physics at 5. SL: English at 5 and Mathematics (Analysis and approaches only) at 5 (if not at HL).

Find out more about entry requirements

International applicants

We welcome applications from students studying a wide range of international qualifications.

Entry requirements by country

Mature applicants

We welcome applications from mature students and accept a range of qualifications.

Mature applicant qualifications

Second year entry

For direct entry to second year the standard requirements must be exceeded, including the following:

• SQA Advanced Highers: Highers at AABBB to include three of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics or Physics. Plus Advanced Highers at BB to include Biology, Chemistry*, Geography, Mathematics* or Physics* (*include at least one). Higher Applications of Mathematics is not accepted in place of Higher Mathematics.
• A Levels: ABB in one set of exams to include three of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Geology, Mathematics* or Physics* (* include at least one).
• IB : 32 points with 655 at HL to include three of Biology, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics (Analysis and approaches only), or Physics at 5.

Other entry pathways

Entry to many degrees in Science & Engineering is possible via other qualifications (eg HNC/D, Access, SWAP).

• Science & Engineering applications

English language requirements

Regardless of your nationality or country of residence, you must demonstrate a level of English language competency at a level that will enable you to succeed in your studies.

SQA , GCSE and IB

For SQA , GCSE and IB students, unless a higher level is specified in the stated entry requirements, a pass is required in English at the following grades or higher:

• SQA National 5 at C
• GCSE at C or 4
• Level 2 Certificate at C
• IB Standard Level at 5 (English ab initio is not accepted for entry)

English language tests

We accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified:

• IELTS Academic: total 6.5 with at least 5.5 in each component. We do not accept IELTS One Skill Retake to meet our English language requirements.
• TOEFL-iBT (including Home Edition): total 92 with at least 20 in each component. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.
• C1 Advanced ( CAE ) / C2 Proficiency ( CPE ): total 176 with at least 162 in each component.
• Trinity ISE : ISE II with distinctions in all four components.
• PTE Academic: total 62 with at least 54 in each component.

We also accept a wider range of international qualifications and tests.

Unless you are a national of a majority English speaking country, your English language qualification must be no more than three and a half years old from the start of the month in which the degree you are applying to study begins. If you are using an IELTS , PTE Academic, TOEFL or Trinity ISE test, it must be no more than two years old on the first of the month in which the degree begins, regardless of your nationality.

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It is one of many sources of information which will enable you to make an informed decision on what and where to study.

Please note that some programmes do not have Discover Uni data available.

Fees, costs and funding

Tuition fees.

Tuition fees for MEarthSci Earth Science and Physical Geography

Additional costs

The School of GeoSciences does not charge extra fees for compulsory field trips or field courses.

Costs of travel, accommodation and general upkeep on compulsory field trips are covered by the programme, thanks to the continued support of our generous alumni community.

However you are responsible for any incidental/personal expenses. This may include suitable outdoor clothing and footwear.

Excursions as part of optional courses have extra fees, which vary depending on the nature of the field trip.

Dissertation costs

There may be some costs associated with your dissertation research project, including field costs. You can design your dissertation project to reduce costs.

The School of GeoSciences also provides a £200 allowance for using facilities to support your dissertation project in Year 4, and again for your advanced research project in Year 5.

For more information on how much it will cost to study with us and the financial support available see our fees and funding information.

Fees and funding

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Degrees in Earth Sciences and Environment

14 degrees in earth sciences and environment.

• Earth Science and Physical Geography (BSc) FF68
• Earth Science and Physical Geography (MEarthSci) FF6V
• Earth Sciences (BSc) F600
• Earth Sciences (MEarthSci) F640
• Environmental Geoscience (BSc) F630
• Geophysics (BSc) F660
• Geophysics (MEarthPhys) M7G6
• Geophysics and Geology (BSc) F690
• Geophysics and Geology (MEarthPhys) L3R7
• Geophysics and Geology with Professional Placement (MEarthPhys) L5T6
• Geophysics and Meteorology (BSc) FFP8
• Geophysics and Meteorology (MEarthPhys) K7T8
• Geophysics and Meteorology with Professional Placement (MEarthPhys) K8T9
• Geophysics with Professional Placement (MEarthPhys) U9H6

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Dissertation examples

Listed below are some of the best examples of research projects and dissertations from undergraduate and taught postgraduate students at the University of Leeds We have not been able to gather examples from all schools. The module requirements for research projects may have changed since these examples were written. Refer to your module guidelines to make sure that you address all of the current assessment criteria. Some of the examples below are only available to access on campus.

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Geographical Fieldwork Grants

The Geographical Fieldwork Grants offer up to £3,500 to student research teams carrying out geographical field research overseas.

About the Award

The Geographical Fieldwork Grant is the Society's longest running grant scheme. Every year, these grants enable UK based, student-led teams (defined as three or more people) to get into the field. Grants between £500 to £3,500 are awarded.

To qualify for a Geographical Fieldwork Grant, the research must involve fieldwork that aims to make a significant contribution to existing geographical knowledge. Multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary and collaborative projects are encouraged.

Team members can be working together on a joint project or each team member can undertake an individual, independent project (for example undergraduate dissertations or Masters theses) if these are linked together under a coherent research theme (this must be clear in the application). Each team member must be involved in the development of the research, and must take equal responsibility for planning, delivery and reporting.

These grants are primarily intended for undergraduate and Masters students. Projects in which the majority of team members are research active academics (including PhD students) will not be supported.

Please see the Geographical Fieldwork Grants application form for more information and further details of eligibility criteria.

The Geographical Fieldwork Grants are generously supported by a number of donors which include:

Alexander Awards, Barling Fisher Bequest, the  Frederick Soddy Awards , Gough Island Fund, Gumby Award, HR Mill Trust Fund, Marjorie Sweeting Bequest, the Neil Thomas Proto Award, Penruddocke-Park Lander Fund, Peter Smith Award, the Philby Award, Ralph Brown Memorial Fund, Rio Tinto Award, Rod Whitney Bequest, Shara Dillon Award, Stephens Bequest,  The Jeremy Willson Charitable Trust and the Violet Cressey-Marcks Fisher Fund.

Deadline: 15 February

All prospective grant applicants should read our  Advice and Resources  pages, which include more information about referee statements, the grants programme, its conditions, and what is expected if your application is successful.

To apply you must use the GFG application form  and GFG team members form  and email these or any enquiries, to  [email protected]

Two referee statements are required. One must be from a university academic, not a member of the research team, nor directly involved in the planning of the research project and one should be from an appropriate in-country contact.

Your application will be reviewed by a panel of academic experts and teams may be invited to interview on the basis of this review. Interviews will be held at the Society in London in March.  

2024 recipients

Zachary Scott-Paul, Samuel Reeves, Charles Wright, Valerie Devereux, Eden Kong (Durham University) Assessing coastal sewage pollution using macroalgae nitrogen isotopes

This interdisciplinary research team of undergraduate students will assess post-COVID sewage nitrogen pollution around Gran Canaria's coastal environment. Fieldwork will involve collecting macroalgae from ~40 sites (n = 600 samples) for nitrogen isotope analysis at Durham University under the supervision of Prof Gröcke. This data will be directly compared to an equivalent sample set that was collected during Covid (2020). This research goal is to compare 2020 from 2024 to determine the impact that Covid and reduced tourists had on sewage delivery to the coast. This project may potentially lead to the modification of environmental policies related to tourism.

Samuel Nurney, Holly Edwards-Sloan (University of Sussex) Biogeography, ‘ecological forensics’ and implementation of the ‘Rights of Nature’

To compare effectiveness of spatially-explicit biogeographical databases with field collection methods in protecting high-biodiversity ecosystems under Ecuador's Rights of Nature laws. We explore the role of biogeographical data in defending critical ecosystems against threat, leveraging online species distribution databases and field data to enhance legal protections for biodiversity hotspots. Objectives include collating species/ecological data, conducting field biodiversity surveys to assess avian and amphibian diversity, analysing field-collected and GIS-generated IUCN distributional datasets, and modelling biodiversity loss due to mining activities. Outputs include two MSc theses, RGS report, community report and peer-reviewed journal article, to inform Rights of Nature legislators, policymakers, and the public. 

Sebastian Rumfitt, Montague Pierce Jones (University of Oxford), Solange Sabelle (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Pumas in Patagonia: Investigating the Effects of Ecotourists on Health

We will collect puma scat for the measurement of corticosteroid levels (indicators of reproductive health and stress) and for genetic analyses, marking a first in such research. We will conduct interviews with park rangers, ranchers, lodge managers, and other stakeholders (local indigenous groups) about predator tourism and human-puma relations. By combining our disciplines of Biology and Anthropology we aim to rigorously assess tourist disturbance effects and inform park management decisions if needed. Finally, we hope to use our student-led project, a blend of science and adventure, to inspire the next generation of conservationists.

Eleanor Mullier, Abby Lambert, Jane Williamson (University of Bristol) Biogeochemical explorations of the Watson meltwater river in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland

This project will explore whether biogeochemistry and sediment composition changes over the course of a 25km stretch of Watson River (Qinnguata Kuussua), draining Leverett and Russell glaciers, outlets of the Greenland Ice Sheet. This transect follows the river from glacier snout to Sondre Stromfjord. Our measurements will determine the extent of biogeochemical processing from glacier to fjord to understand export from the ice sheet. This is critical for determining how glacier meltwater impacts ocean processes now, and into the future. Our results will be shared via scientific reports (including our 3rd year dissertations and papers) and blog posts at travelsinglaciology.wordpress.com.

Joseph Thomas, Catherine Clarke, Madeleine Graham, Joseph McGrattan, Holly Muntus, Isaac Benfield (Newcastle University) Newcastle University Kangerlussuaq 2024

The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) and the Arctic are currently warming at a rate four times faster than the rest of the planet, which is having an unprecedented influence on melt rates and ice loss. Our expedition will investigate the impacts of climate change on Russell Glacier. We will undertake this through 6 research objectives relating to geomorphological, glaciological and biogeographical changes on and around the glacier. This will be conducted through a 30-day expedition. Upon completion, we will produce a series of interim and full reports to funder. Each team member will also produce an individual undergraduate dissertation. 

2023 recipients

Jessica Chavez, Coral Humbar, Hannah Cioci, Sophie Bruder (Oxford Brookes University): Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity within community-based forests in Bali

There is an urgent need for a global transition to farming systems that provide social and economic equity whilst protecting ecosystem services on which agriculture depends. This project aims to understand which tree/crop composition of non-timber forest products is optimal for providing ecosystem services, biodiversity and yields. Fifty plots in a community-based forest in the West Bali National Park will be selected to investigate: soil quality, pollination services, invertebrate, mammal, and bird assemblages. These variables will be linked to tree/crop composition and yields. The results will be shared with the local forestry department for optimising yields/ecosystem services in local community-based forests.

Oscar Turner, James Chapman and Agnes Liddell (University of Oxford): Project Amu Darya - An Oral History of the Aral Sea Crisis

Project Amu Darya is an official Oxford University Expedition that will travel along the Zeravshan and Amu Darya rivers (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). Along these Aral Sea tributaries, we will collect oral histories of the socioecological breakdown of these waterways. This project will be the first to record and relate the upstream voices of the Aral Sea Crisis. Our recorded interviews will form an educational film, made in collaboration with students from Uzbek universities including Westminster International University in Tashkent. Our research will be shared via film festivals and educational platforms in both Uzbekistan and Britain.

Matthew Nicholson, Laura Brierley, Maisie McCormack, Shaun Farrell, Dominic Rees (Newcastle University): The anthropogenic and climatic impacts in Longyearbyen and Longyearbreen

This research programme aims to assess the impacts of rapid climate change in Longyearbyen. This will be achieved by investigating: ablation rates on Longyearbreen by assessing debris cover, short-term variability of sediment flux and water properties of Longyear River, abundance of heavy metals affecting water quality of Longyear River, temporal evolution of meltwater channels, and changes of vegetation with glacier recession, calculating past ice extent of Longyearbreen. 

Raphaela Betz, Patrick Robichaud, Victoria Taylor, William Wallock, Sofi Waterer (University of Oxford): Sustainable Water Management in West Bengal, India

Over two billion people lack adequate access to water. Climate change will only exacerbate this challenge. Communities are adapting by developing novel water management practices. This adaption has been especially pronounced in West Bengal, India. This project plans to travel along the rivers, Dwarakeswar and Teesta, to document evolving water management challenges. The research aims to identify pioneers of adaptation approaches, listen to stories about water, and share them with the world. Strategic partnerships will allow the project access to regional stakeholders and provide a platform to share findings.

Sneha Maria Varghese, Simran Pal Kaur, Hamza Abdullah (LSE): Social Justice is Climate Justice - Theorising from Delhi

This research seeks to develop collectively an intersectional Southern perspective on the question of climate justice. The investigation will be anchored in Delhi, a city facing catastrophic climate-change impacts, and Shaheen Bagh, a Muslim-dominated unauthorised 'colony' (neighbourhood or settlement) in the city. The team consists of three Indian students pursuing MSc Urbanisation and Development at LSE. Individual dissertations investigating livelihood, state-citizen relations and housing-tenure security will together interrogate how unequal power-relations shape climate-change vulnerability. The project will use qualitative methods such as interviews and focus-group discussions to collect novel data and disseminate findings through a group publication and blog articles.

Niamh Hope, Lucy Whittles, Kathryn Davies, James Downing, Harley Geraghty, Harris Green (Newcastle University): Gepatschferner Glacier and River Fagge Expedition

This fieldwork expedition aims to investigate and assess the role of debris cover on ablation of the Gepatschferner glacier, the impacts of pollutants on its glacial melt and the spatial variation of factors influencing the glacial melt. Additionally, vegetation succession on moraines in Gepatschferner’s proglacial area will also be assessed. On the other hand, the fieldwork aims to investigate the relationship between soil/vegetation properties and River Fagge, as well as examine the factors controlling sediment transportation within River Fagge.

2022 recipients

Jakub Domanski, Ursula Shaw, Robert Kunzmann, Madeleine Ary Hahne (University of Cambridge); Monika Rasz (Jagiellonian University), Mei Wen: Cambridge University Narsarsuaq Glacial Climate Impact Expedition

The aim of this expedition is to conduct robust, interdisciplinary research of climate change impact on glaciers in Southern Greenland. Our objectives are as follows: 1. Photographically recapture glacial scenes that were shot by the Brathay expedition groups (concluding in 1976). 2. Collect glacial water samples to study microplastic pollutants. 3. Measure air pressure and temperatures for the ASIAQ Greenland Survey. 4. Opportunistically sample carbonatitic rock forms for donation to St. Andrews’ University. The expedition seeks to produce articles for both scientific journals and popular publications.

Cassie Dummett, Joe Langley (University College London); Joseph Kanyama Tabu (University of Kisangani): Investigating humans, birds and plants in the Cuvette Centrale peatland forests, DRC

This project will investigate the social, ecological and botanical aspects of the recently discovered central Congo Basin peatlands. In forest near Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo, we will use participatory methods to assess how communities use plants in the peatland forest and whether forest resources are managed sustainably. The community composition and diversity of bird species in different peatland habitats will also be investigated to determine whether logging and other anthropogenic activities affect bird species richness. This is the first study of birds in the Cuvette Centrale peatlands. Our findings will be synergised in a report that will be disseminated to the Society, CongoPeat research network and the DRC government Peatlands Management Unit.

Eleanor Leadbeater, Rebecca White, Alex Burton, Sam Eveleigh (Newcastle University): Studying the effects on climate change on the cryosphere in Svalbard

The overall aim of the project is to assess the impact of climate change on Longyearbreen glacier and the surrounding permafrost. Fieldwork methods including GPS mapping, ablation stakes, thermal monitoring and boreholes will be used to ascertain data relating to debris cover, melt rates, and permafrost temperature and thawing. Longyearbyen is the fastest warming town on Earth, so by studying the changes in glaciers and the surrounding permafrost, the impact of climate warming can be understood in this area. 

Lucy Friend, Emily Willans, Molly Aspinwall (Newcastle University): Glacier de Miage and Lex Blanche Glacier Expedition

This expedition aims to investigate supraglacial pond pollution and the composition and successional patterns of vegetation at the Glacier de Miage and Lex Blanche Glacier, Italy. To assess pond pollution, we will sample the water, invertebrates, diatoms and sediments, which will then be processed and analysed in Newcastle University’s laboratories. The relationship between vegetation composition and soil conditions will be explored separately at both glaciers through quadrat counts and laboratory analysis of soil samples. 

Lucia Hudson, Suzannah Egleston, Aoife Cantwell-Jones (Imperial College London): What’s the buzz about climate change?

Venturing to the Arctic, our project will visit a century-old phenology transect to retrace the steps of past scientists to understand how insect pollinators respond to climate change. We will compare how bumblebee and plant communities have responded to warming to improve our capacity to predict shifting pollination trends under a changing planet and, through studying these ectotherms, provide early indications of climate change (‘canary birds’). The project will produce two masters’ theses, a chapter in a PhD thesis, and deliver academic presentations to environmental and geographical scientists, with manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals.

2019 recipients

James English (Newcastle University): Reconstructing past environmental conditions in the Sayan Mountains, Siberia

In collaboration with researchers from the Institute of Geochemistry, Irkutsk, this team of four Physical Geography undergraduate students aims to extract a series of lake sediment cores from four lakes in the Sayan Mountains of southern Siberia. Cores will be processed and preserved invertebrate remains will be analysed to reconstruct palaeotemperatures and past ecosystem structure. Spheroidal carbonaceous particles will be used to assess the extent of anthropogenic pollution in the region. These analyses will form the basis of third year dissertation projects.

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Natalie Lewis (University of Exeter): Project Madagascar, Iaroka Forest

Iaroka lies in the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor, home to some of the largest areas of remaining rainforest in Madagascar, which, if compromised, could endanger the continuity of vital ecosystems of flora and fauna. This student-led project will carry out biodiversity surveys in a new research area in collaboration with Development and Biodiversity Conservation Action for Madagascar (DBCAM) and local scientists from the University of Antananarivo. The project aims to gain a deeper understanding of the endemic species and the ecosystem services Iaroka provides to the local communities in order to raise awareness of their intrinsic value.

Anya Gleizer (University of Oxford): Wandering in other worlds, talking with the spirits

This expedition to the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia will be a centennial retracing of the famed 1914 expedition route of one of Oxford’s first female anthropologists, Maria Czaplicka. The team will be approaching the project from the viewpoints of their three disciplines: art, anthropology and cognitive science. The result will be an immersive virtual-reality film about contemporary Evenki (Siberian native) lives and landscape, the immense change this region has undergone since Czaplicka travelled there (the rise of the USSR and perestroika), and about changes in the study of anthropology itself. This film will be exhibited in the Ruskin School of Art and the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Arzucan Askin (London School of Economics and Political Science): Mujeres Tarea Vida: gendered experiences of climate change in Cuba

This research project aims to understand why and how women are at the forefront of climate action in Cuba, and examines the socio-political factors that determine Cuban women’s climate change resilience and their contribution to the country’s plan for climate action, known as 'Tarea Vida' (Spanish: 'Life Task'). A mixed-method approach will be taken, consisting of questionnaire surveys, semi-structured interviews, focus groups and analysis of data provided in reports of Cuban climate change groups and government ministries.

Matthew Jones (University of Oxford): Usun Apau Plateau expedition

Usun Apau Retraced is a conservation focused expedition to Sarawak, Malaysia, following in the footsteps of four University of Oxford students back in 1955. The original team made their way up the Plieran river to the remote Usun Apau plateau, where they spent a number of weeks assessing biodiversity. In 2019, a team of three undergraduate students will be journeying to the same region to spend a month studying the flora and fauna of the region. Being 800m above sea level, the area is home to a huge range of endemic species that are found nowhere else in the world. Through collecting baseline ecosystem data the expedition hopes to continue the plateau's conservation. 

Aimee Edwards (Newcastle University): Investigation into the key drivers of ablation on Miage Glacier

This research programme involves seven separate investigative projects to further understand the factors driving ablation rates at the Miage Glacier in northwestern Italy. To achieve this aim, two groups will be working simultaneously during June and July 2019, one on the glacier and the other in the pro-glacial area. The pro-glacial team will look at differing aspects of stream characteristics, while the supraglacial team aims to understand the extent and effect of debris coverage, investigating its differing outcomes on different parts of the glacier.

Anna Kalish (Newcastle University): Russell Glacier expedition 2019

This project aims to assess the dynamics of Russell Glacier in west Greenland, in relation to melt, sediment supply and lake properties. Glacier melt will be determined from repeat surveys of an ablation stake interwork, and will be compared to lake and air temperature data. The team will quantify the impact of debris cover, microclimate and surface roughness on melt rates and reconstruct past fluctuations in Russell Glacier from proglacial landforms. Each of these research objectives will inform a dissertation project that will be produced from the results of fieldwork and data analysis.

Jennifer McFarlane (Newcastle University): Investigating the flora and fauna of Manu National Park

This project aims to deepen knowledge of key ecological processes and interactions to aid conservation challenges at Cocha Cashu biological station in southeastern Peru. Its objectives are to gain a better understanding of how birds aid in the dispersal of seeds across habitats; to better understand fig trees as a keystone species looking specifically at the interaction with the local ecosystem; identify jaguar habitat preferences and behaviour; and to investigate the effects of leaf litter on the microflora of bromeliads, a keystone genus of neotropical forests. 

Geographical Fieldwork Grant recipients 2010-2018 (PDF)

Alexander Hyde, Samuel Gillan, Louise Reddy, Calum Sowden and Tom Drysdale (University of Sheffield): Ala Archa 2018

Find out more about the University of Sheffield team's research in the northern Tien Shan mountain range in Kyrgyzstan, investigating the impact of climate change on glaciers in the region, in this film documenting their fieldwork. 

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