Below are theses and dissertations completed by graduates of the University of Nevada Las Vegas College of Sciences.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Ichnology and paleoecology of the Jurassic Aztec Sandstone, Heather Marie Stoller
The Evaluation of Water Storage in Death Valley using GRACE Satellite Data, Maile Sweigart
Dissolution Rates of Amorphous Al- and Fe-Phosphates and their Relevance to Phosphate Mobility on Mars, Valerie Tu
Estimation of the Tax Rates Based on Vehicle Miles Traveled Using Stochastic Models, Pratik Verma
Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations in Dispersive and Metamaterials Media, Jiajia Waters
Fate and Transport of Fourteen Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in an Irrigated Soil Profile, Lena Wright
Time-Dependent Random Effect Poisson Random Field Model for Polymorphism within and Between Two Related Species, Shilei Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Natural and constructed wetlands for ecosystem and engineering services in the arid and semi-arid regions, Achyut Raj Adhikari
Burial and Exhumation History of Mississippian Strata in East-Central Nevada, Yuki Yunika Agulia
Deciphering the Evolution of Ore Fluids at The Batu Hijau Copper-~Gold Porphyry Deposit, Sumbawa, Indonesia, Jordan Thomas Armstrong
Evaluating Recharge and Dynamics of Flow in the Lower Virgin River Basin, USA: Interpretation of Hydrochemical and Stable Isotopic Data, Joseph Asante
Synthesis and High-Pressure Structural Studies of AuX2 (X= Al, Ga, In) Compounds, Jason Lee Baker
Chemical Weathering of the Mafic Minerals Serpentine and Olivine in Natural Environments, Julie Lynn Baumeister
From the Foreland to the Hinterland: Taphonomy across the Cretaceous to Paleogene Sevier Retroarc Region of Nevada, Joshua William Bonde
Paleoseismic Study of the Stewart Valley and Northern Pahrump Segments of the Stateline Fault System, Nevada, Jonathan Carter
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of the Stability Region for a Cylindrical Ion Trap, Bradley Steven Clarke
A Gauge Theoretic Treatment of Rovibrational Motion in Diatoms, Gregory Colarch
Natural and Lignocellulose-Enriched Microbial Communities in Great Boiling Spring, NV, Jessica Cole
The Effects of Salt Diapirs on the Thermal Maturity of Surrounding Sediments in the Western Pyrenees, Spain, Nicholas Martin Downs
Determining the Motion and Location of the Frenchman Mountain Fault, Las Vegas, Nevada: A Paired Basin Analysis and Structural Analysis, Laura Margaret Eaton
Petrogenesis of the East Fork Member Rhyolites, Valles Caldera, New Mexico, USA, Carla Eichler
Volcanic Evolution Of The Southern Quinn Canyon Range: Implications For Regional Correlation Of Volcanic Units, Christina Emery
Scorpion Phylogeography in the North American Aridlands, Matthew Ryan Graham
Petrogenesis of the Linked River Mountains Volcanic Section and Wilson Ridge Pluton, Denise Kelly Honn
Valuation of Financial Derivatives Subject to Liquidity Risk, Yanan Jiang
Molecular Processes in Astrophysics: Calculations of H + H2 Excitation, De-Excitation, and Cooling, Matthew Kelley
An Estimate of Groundwater Recharge in the Nabogo River Basin, Ghana Using Water Table Fluctuation Method and Chloride Mass Balance, Melanie Lynn Krautstrunk
Measured Rates of D2 Abstraction in H2O+ , D2 Substitution in H2DO+ and Charge Transfer of He2+ with Noble and Other Gases at <1eV, Chrysanthos Kyriakides
Exercise-induced neuroprotection in a hemiparkinsonian 6-hydroxydopamine rat model, Merrill Russen Landers
The Zeta Function of Generalized Markoff Equations over Finite Fields, Juan Mariscal
Muddy Creek Formation: A Record of Late Neogene Tectonics and Sedimentation in Southern Nevada, Thomas William Muntean
The impact of creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) and biological soil crust on Ca distribution in arid soils of the Mojave Desert, Brittany Myers
A Genetic, Transgenic, and Transcriptomic Analysis of Larval Salivary Gland Physiology in Drosophila melanogaster, Elana A. Paladino
Periodic Solutions and Positive Solutions of First and Second Order Logistic Type ODEs with Harvesting, Cody Alan Palmer
2000 Year Moisture Source Record from a Central Nevada Speleothem, Paul Pribyl
Spawning, Veliger Growth and Desiccation of Dreissena bugensis, Lynn Schwaebe
The behavior of zircon during partial melting in anatectic migmatites: Insights to metamorphism, deformation and tectonism in the central Santa Fe Range, northern New Mexico, Michelle Renee Stropky
The Fluvial Muddy Creek Formation Near Overton, Nevada, Carl Taylor Swenberg
Topics in Galaxy Formation: Pairwise Velocities of Dark Matter Halos and Molecular Hydrogen Regulated Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations, Robert Jo Thompson
Parker Winds Revisited: An Extension to Disk Winds, Timothy Waters
Evaluation of possible source rocks in northern Nye County, Nevada: implications for hydrocarbon exploration, Inessa Yurchenko
Analysis of Bank Failure and Size of Assets, Guancun Zhong
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Molecular organic geochemistry of the oil and source rocks in Railroad Valley, eastern Great Basin, Nevada, United States, LaOde Ahdyar
An Ecological study of peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) at Lake Mead National Recreation Area, 2006-2010, Joseph Graham Barnes
Mesozoic burial, Mesozoic and Cenozoic exhumation of the Funeral Mountains core complex, Death Valley, Southeastern California, Mengesha Assefa Beyene
Microbial impacts on endocrine disrupting contaminants: Las Vegas Wash and Lake Mead, Nevada, Susanna May Blunt
Bryoecology in the American southwest: Patterns of biodiversity and responses to global change, John Carroll Brinda
Historical diversification of montane herpetofauna within and between the sierras of Mexico, Robert William Bryson Jr.
ARIMA models for bank failures: Prediction and comparison, Fangjin Cui
Microstructural characterization of kinked germanate olivine grains, Alex Gregory Drue
Mathematical modeling of metamaterials, Valjean Elizabeth Elander
Spectroscopic studies of melamine at high pressure, Martin Donald Galley
Pleistocene climate in Alaska from stable isotopes in an ice wedge, Corinne Y. Griffing
A comparison of spatio-temporal prediction methods of cancer incidence in the U.S, Michelle Hamlyn
Zero-sum magic graphs and their null sets, Samuel M. Hansen
Phylogeography of a vanishing North American songbird: The painted bunting (Passerina ciris), Connie Ann Herr
Raman Spectroscopic Study of Solid Solution Spinel Oxides, Brian D. Hosterman
Numerical Simulations of Accretion Disks and Extrasolar Planets, Stefan Luketic
Statistical Analysis of Fatalities Due to Vehicle Accidents in Las Vegas, NV, Annabelle Marie Mathis
Modeling gamma-ray bursts, Amanda Maxham
Phylogeography of three heteromyid taxa: Insight on the evolution of a North American arid grassland rodent guild, Sean A. Neiswenter
Global and specific controls of protein synthesis in hibernators, Peipei Pan
Statistical inference of a measure for two binomial variates, Serena Petersen
Characterization and regulation of the icsP and ospZ locus in Shigella flexneri, Krystle Lashell Pew
Modeling Mortality Rates for Leukemia Between Men and Women in the United States, Blessed Quansah
Magma chamber processes at Mutnovsky Volcano, Russia, Kelly L. Robertson
Embryonic Development of the Grass Shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio, and the Influence of Salinity on Cardiac Physiology, Amie Lynn Romney
Boundary Element Method (BEM) and Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS) for the boundary value problems of the 2-D Laplace's equation, Ermes Anthony Salgado-Ibarra
Molecular evolution and historical biogeography of new world birds, Brian T. Smith
Second-order conditioning in Drosophila, Christopher J. Tabone
A Statistical model for long-term forecasting of strong sand dust storms, Siqi Tan
Gamma-ray burst populations, Francisco J. Virgili
Dispersion of the hyperpolarizability of the carbon tetrachloride molecule, Scott Wilde
Co-development of biological soil crusts, soil-geomorphology, and landscape biogeochemistry in the Mojave Desert, Nevada, U.S.A. – Implications for ecological management, Amanda Jean Williams
Development of a Sustainable Water Resource Financing Mathematical Model for Donors and End-Users, Sahar Zavareh
A Multi-wavelength study on gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows, Binbin Zhang
New cross sections for H on H2 collisional transitions, Qianxia Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Using fluid inclusions to trace formative fluid evolution at the Verde and Pancho porphyry Au deposits of the Refugio District, Chile, Brian Joshua Aillaud
Carbon isotopic fractionation across a late Cambrian carbonate platform: A regional response to the SPICE event as recorded in the Great Basin, Jonathan Lloyd Baker
Temporal and spatial assessment of evaporation, transpiration, and soil moisture redistribution, Brian M. Bird
The Role of ecdysone signaling in fat-body tissue remodeling and pupal metabolism, Nichole Dinell Bond
Presenilin is necessary for the function of CBP in the adult Drosophila CNS, Randy S. Boyles
Poisson Process Monitoring, Test and Comparison, Qing Chen
The Larval salivary gland of Drosophila melangogaster: A model system for temporal and spatial steroid hormone regulation, Benjamin Constantino
The Effects of contact metamorphism on the host rocks for Carlin-type mineralization at the Getchell Development, Nevada, USA, Nathan C. Eck
ARIMA model for forecasting Poisson data: Application to long-term earthquake predictions, Wangdong Fu
Space use and mating activities in the speckled rattlesnake, Xavier Glaudas
Transcriptional regulation of the Shigella flexneri icsp Promoter: Silencing and anti-silencing by H-NS and VirB, Dustin Harrison
Phylogeography of two closely related anurans, the Relict Leopard Frog (Rana onca) and Lowland Leopard Frog (Rana yavapaiensis), Viktoria Hemmings