This page collects the digitized full text Masters theses and Doctoral dissertations of the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

The following broadly describes library holdings for UA theses and dissertations:

Category print online
Dissertations 1953-2006 in MAIN

1950s-2012 in Special Collections
1989 - present are full-text in ProQuest

2012 - present in ScholarWorks

1950s - present indexed in ProQuest
Master's theses 1910s-2006 in MAIN

1910s-2012 in Special Collections
2006 - present are full-text in ProQuest

2012 - present in ScholarWorks

Theses were not systematically indexed in ProQuest prior to 2006.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Rock Wall Fracturing as a Potential Control on River Valley Width in the Buffalo National River, Arkansas, Kindle Hon

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Rural-Urban Migration and the Extent of Urbanization: A Case Study of Rural Migrants from Northern Ghana to Accra, Daniel Kissi-Somuah

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Geochemical Analysis of Basement Rock as a Potential Metal Source in Mississippi Valley-Type Ores, Southern Midcontinent U.S.A., Mackenzie Margaret Moorhead

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Determining the Climatic Effects of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province Across the End Triassic Mass Extinction in the Elliot Formation, southern Africa, Danielle Elizabeth Oberg

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Environments and Controls of Erosional Bedforms in Soluble Channels, Ethan W. Oleson

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The Demotechnic Index of Nations (1980 - 2018) and its Correlation with the Human Development Index (1990 – 2021), Camden Rainwater

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Fire Potential in Arkansas through the Lens of the Keetch-Byram Drought Index, Charles Daly Steward

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Controls on the Development of Hummocky Topography on Debris-Covered Glaciers, Ryan M. Strickland

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Modeling the Peak Ground Acceleration and Assessing the Economic Loss and Casualty Due to Potential Earthquakes of Various Magnitudes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Mahmud Afroz

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An Age, Size, and Climate Response Study of Old Growth Shortleaf Pine in the McCurtain County Wilderness Area, Oklahoma, Nicholas Cancalosi-Dean

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The Terroir of Swiss Cheese: A Temporal and Geomorphological Investigation of the Martian CO2 Sublimation Pits, Racine D. Cleveland

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Cartographic Analysis of Earth-Sun Relationships in Ancient Amazonia, Jackson Bennett Critser

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A Geospatial Assessment of Turkey’s Military Campaigns Against the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Steven Lucas Escalante

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Green Infrastructure in the Ozarks: Northwest Arkansas Development Policy and the Open Space Plan, Daniel Holtmeyer

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Maximum Depositional Age Analysis using Paired LA-ICP-MS and CA-ID-TIMS Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology, Benjamin L. Howard

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Reproducibility and Replicability in Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Geographic Information Science, Cassandra Howe

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Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Ouachita River Streamflow, Keaton Cade Jenkins-Joyce

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Chemostratigraphic and Paleoclimatic Studies of Cloverly Formation, Northern Wyoming, U.S.A, Queen Amarachi Kalu

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Development of a Historic Digital Elevation Model (hDEM) from Archival Aerial Imagery over the Black Mountain Alluvial Fan, Canada, Emma Menio

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The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Large Rock Blocks and Control on Landscape Evolution in the Ozarks, Chelsea Moran

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Geochemistry of Metal-Rich Black Shales and Their Genetic Relationship to Mississippi Valley-Type Pb-Zn Ore Deposits, Midcontinent U.S., Noah S. Morris

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Constraining High Temperature Deformation and Metamorphism in the Southern Wet Mountains, Colorado, USA: Implications for the Regional Extent of the Picuris Orogeny, Sarah Morse

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Age, Size, and Composition of Selected Old-Growth Shortleaf Pine Stands in the Upper Buffalo River, Arkansas, Willa Avery Thomason

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Shallow Groundwater Distributions and Changes with Sea Level Rise in Seattle, Washington, Taylor L. Watson

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Geospatial Analysis of Weathering and Recession on Architectural Limestone at the 1891 Powerhouse/Icehouse in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Stuart Bruce Wright

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Airbnb Valuation: A Machine Learning Approach, Katherine Wyatt

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Structural Interpretation of an Alkaline-Carbonatite Complex Using Gravity and Magnetic Methods at Magnet Cove, Arkansas, Chelsea Morgan Amaral

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The Mangrove Walks: An Econometric Analysis of Climate Migration Drivers from Coastal Bangladesh and their Geopolitical Impacts, Kendall Scott Byers

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Precision Weed Management Based on UAS Image Streams, Machine Learning, and PWM Sprayers, Jason Allen Davis

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Analysis of Gentrification and Green Spaces in East Austin, Texas, Carly Fordyce

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Evaluation of Carbon Isotopic Chemostratigraphy of the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah, Clayton Forster

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Changes of Winter Severity in Arkansas during 1901-2100, Christian Garcia

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A Geochemical and Mineralogical Evaluation of the Mona Lisa Turquoise Mine, Polk County, Arkansas, Alexander Arai Goodsuhm

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Toward Global Localization of Unmanned Aircraft Systems using Overhead Image Registration with Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Networks, Rachel Linck

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The Human Natural Resource Endowment of Limestone for Cement Manufacturing, Vanya Marie North

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Geospatial Analysis of Registered Sex Offenders: a case study from Pulaski County, Arkansas, Maggie Rose Bridges

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Modeling the Lafourche Delta network in the Mississippi Delta Complex, Byong-Suk Chun

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Geolocation of Monitoring Wells Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Joel DeYoung

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Forced and Unforced Permafrost Changes in the Northern Hemisphere during 1901-2100, Hong Guo

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Machine Learning Applied to a Modern-Pleistocene Petrographic Dataset: The Global Prediction of Sand Mineralogy (GloPrSM) Model, Isaac Johnson

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Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of Upper Mississippian Siltstone, Oklahoma and Arkansas, Linnea Johnson

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A 60- Year Record of the Demotechnic Index of States, 1960-2019, Gavin James Kellough

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Effects of the Triassic-Jurassic Central Atlantic Magmatic Event Recorded in Continental Strata in Western Pangea: The δ13C Record of Warner Valley & Zion National Park, Dennis Mmasa

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Carbon-Isotope Chemostratigraphy and Fluvial Sedimentology of the Moenave Formation, Utah, Jordan Oefinger

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Spatial Assessment of Urban Growth in Cities of the Decapolis; and the implications for modern cities, Wade A. Pierson

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Machine Learning & Big Data Analyses for Wildfire & Air Pollution Incorporating GIS & Google Earth Engine, Abdullah Al Saim

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The Morphodynamic Interaction of River Deltas and Their Marshes, Kelly M. Sanks

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Modeling and Measuring Water Level Fluctuations in the Greenland Ice Sheet: How Moulin Life Cycle and Shape can Inform us on the Subglacial Drainage System., Celia Trunz

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Seismic Expressions of Paleokarst, Olanrewaju Ayodapo Aboaba

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Multi-Proxy Provenance Evaluation of the Stevens Sandstone, San Joaquin Basin, California, Charles Adam Ball

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Gentrification and Income Segregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Willie Benson

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Comparative Geochemical Analysis of Ordovician and Mississippian Cherts in Relation to the Northern Arkansas and the Tri-State Mississippi Valley-type Ore Districts, Jonathan T. Chick

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Framework Grain Composition and Texture of the Wedington Sandstone Member, Fayetteville Shale, as a Provenance and Sediment Dispersal Indicator for Clastic Depositional Systems Across the Northern Arkansas Structural Platform During the Late Mississippian, Tanner Wayne Corbin

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Landscapes of Danger: A Geospatial Analysis of Perceived and Realistic Risk in Bryce Canyon National Park, Tia Francis

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Integrated Hyperspectral and Geochemical Analysis of the Upper Mississippian Meramec STACK Play and Outcrop Equivalents, Anadarko Basin and Ozark Uplift, Oklahoma, David Gates

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A Spatial Analysis of Student Safety and Perception, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, Casey Goodman

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Environmental Influences on Tree-driven Karst Bedrock Physical Weathering, Cole Robert Jimerson

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Far-Right Extremism in America: A Geospatial Analysis of Incident Distribution, Meredith LeAnn Lerma

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Paleotectonic Investigation by Successive 3D Seismic Horizon Flattening in the Pennsylvanian Interval of Western Osage County, Oklahoma, Douglas Cooper McCabe

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Spatial Analysis of Soil Creep Rates on Mount Sequoyah, Fayetteville Arkansas, Amy Suzanne Morris

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Remote Sensing and GIS Study of Hazards and Risks in East Africa, Hafid Nanis

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Effects of Terrestrial Weathering on Rare Earth Element Concentrations and Sulfur Isotopic Signatures of Carbonaceous and Ordinary Chondrites, Ruby Virginia Patterson

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Fayetteville and Imo Shales: Punctuated Upper Mississippian Shallowing Upward Sequence, Southern Ozark Region, Northern Arkansas, Joshua Stevens

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Geospatial Analyses of Seismic Hazards and Risk Perception in Libya, Somaia Suwihli

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Exploring Sediment Compaction in Experimental Deltas: Towards a Meso-Scale Understanding of Coastal Subsidence Patterns, Samuel Mason Zapp

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Suitability Assessment for Integrated Urban Development in Makkah City of Saudi Arabia, Mislat Alotaibi

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Characterizing Hydrothermal System Groundwater Dynamics Using Conservative and Non-conservative Tracers: Insights and Implications Drawn from Study at the Taupo Volcanic Zone (New Zealand) and Valles Caldera (USA), Joshua Michael Blackstock

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Provenance and Maximum Depositional Age Analysis of the Moenave Formation using Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Sandstone Petrography, Asher Rea Boudreaux

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Geochemical Analysis of Mississippian Cherts and Devonian-Mississippian Novaculites, Southern Midcontinent Region, Julie Mary Cains

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The Structure and Dynamics of a River Delta are Related Through its Nourishment Area, Suggesting Optimality, Christopher A. Cathcart

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Drug Trafficking, State Capacity, and the Post-Soviet Condition in the Kyrgyz Republic, Christopher George Cowan

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Analysis and Conservation of Native Forests at Kessler Mountain Fayetteville, Arkansas, Alan James Edmondson

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The Effects of Geography and Proximity on Board of Directors: An Exponential Random Graphs Approach, Panagiotis Giannakis

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Daily to Seasonal Moisture Signals Present in Sub-Annual Tree-Ring Data, Ian Howard

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The Rise of Anti-immigration Populist Radical Right Parties: The Effect of the Syrian Conflict on Refugee Resettlement and Migration Policies in Germany and Austria, Sara Kouchehbagh

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Spreadsheets-in-Space: A Quantitative Exploration of Movement, Currency Creation, and Conflict within EVE Online, Christopher Alan Pryor

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The Effects of Urban Development and the Incidence of Flooding and Discharge Changes from 1956-2016: a case study from Juan Diaz Township, Republic of Panama, Virgilio De Jesus Quintero Rodriguez

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Incorporating Recent Geochemical and Isotopic Constraints in Age Dating the Waters of Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, Kristina Marie Raley

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The Paleozoic Sedimentary Rocks of the Ouachita Mountains and their Genetic Relationship to the Mississippi Valley-Type Mineralization in the Southern Ozark Region: Insights from Radiogenic Pb Isotopes and Trace Elements Studies, Christophe Wakamya Simbo

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The Image from the Road: Towards Mapping the Phenomenological, Rachel Anna Smith Loerts

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Stable Isotope and Geochemical Characterization of Nutrient Sources in the Big Creek Watershed of Northwest Arkansas, Kelly Robin Sokolosky

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A Geospatial Analysis of Safety and Risk Perception in the Buffalo National River, Julie Nicole Terhune

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Cool and Warm Season Climate Signals in Tree Rings from North America, Max Carl Arne Torbenson

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Stratigraphy and Depositional Characterization of the Moorefield Shale (Middle-Late Mississippian) in its Type Area, Northeastern Arkansas (Eastern Arkoma Basin), Griffin Warner

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The Shelf to Basin Transition and Tectonostratigraphy of the Atoka Formation (Lower Pennsylvanian) in the Arkoma Basin, Northwest Arkansas, Travis Gibson White

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Improving Earthquake Disaster Models with Post-Event Data: Insights from the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake, Bradley Steven Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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A Geospatial Study of the Drought Impact on Surface Water Reservoirs: Study Cases from Texas and California, Zachary Asbury

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An Integrated Well Log and 3D Seismic Interpretation of Missourian Clinoforms, Osage County, Oklahoma, Abram Max Barker

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Speleogenesis in Turbulent Flow, Max P. Cooper

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Subsurface Stratigraphic Interpretation of the Lower Atoka Formation, Northern Arkoma Basin, Arkansas, William Stephen Denham

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Towards Quantifying Relevant Land Cover Change: A Case Study in the Central Flyway of the Monarch Butterfly, Hanna Lenee Ford

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Estimating Watershed Mercury Contribution to Lake Fort Smith State Park, Arkansas, USA, William Miles Harmon

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Mapping Lower Austin Chalk Secondary Porosity Using Modern 3-D Seismic and Well Log Methods in Zavala County, Texas, David Kilcoyne

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The Occurrence of the Greta Sandstone, Frio Formation (Late Oligocene), Texas Gulf Coastal Plain, Sean C. Kincade

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Margaret White Springs Recharge Study, Buffalo National River, North-central Arkansas, USA, Ashlon Elizabeth Leonard

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Subsurface Analysis of Mississippian Tripolitic Chert in Northwest Arkansas, Thomas Jason Liner

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Seismic Facies Mapping for Source Rock Distribution of the Rakopi Formation in Deep-water Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, Sidney W. Mahanay

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Stratigraphic Evaluation of the St. Joe-Boone Boundary Interval, Kinderhookian-Osagean Series, Lower Mississippian System, Tri-State Region, Southern Midcontinent, Forrest Dalton McFarlin

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The Energy Yield of Global Crops 1961-2016, Quinn Montana

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Structural Cross Sections and Subsurface Maps of the Atoka Formation in the Northern Arkoma Basin, Western and Northwestern Arkansas, David Nance