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Title: A Chronosequence of Cracking in Mill Creek, California
Author: Berberich, Samantha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology
Description: Mechanical weathering –aka physical weathering; the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces --is one of the first modifications rock undergoes once it approaches Earth’s surface. Essentially, almost all processes that shape the la...

Title: A HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BURIED WASHOVER DEPOSITS FROM FOLLY ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOTEMPESTOLOGY
Author: Zurawski, Lance
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geology, Paleontology, Sedimentology
Description: A 40-meter transect consisting of eight equally spaced 2.44-m vibracores was taken across a marginal-marine salt marsh behind North Folly Island, a barrier island located in Charleston County, South Carolina. Analysis of storm signatures from this...

Title: ANATOMY OF SELECT FLUVIAL DEPOSITS IN THE MAUCH CHUNK GROUP, SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA, USA
Author: McCreary, Alan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Environmental geology
Description: The Mauch Chunk Group has been interpreted as a product of multiple transgressions and regressions (Miller and Eriksson, 2000; Beuthin and Blake, 2004). An outcrop containing the upper Hinton Formation and Princeton Formation, the middle two forma...

Title: An observational analysis on the distance to supercell-boundary interaction in the Great Plains
Author: Magee, Kathleen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Atmospheric science
Description: Several case studies and numerical simulations have confirmed that baroclinic boundaries provide enhanced horizontal and vertical vorticity, wind shear, helicity, and moisture that induce stronger updrafts, higher reflectivity, and stronger low-le...

Title: Assessing the impact of the nocturnal transition on the lifetime and evolution of supercell thunderstorms in the Great Plains.
Author: Gropp, Matthew
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Predicting the evolution of supercell thunderstorms during and after the eveningtransition is a known challenge due to an incomplete understanding of how they evolve inresponse to associated environmental changes. As the low-level environment cool...

Title: Characterizing the Growth in Spatial Thinking Abilities in Meteorology Students Across the Curriculum
Author: Decker, Lauren
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Spatial thinking skills are essential to student success in disciplines such as geology, atmospheric science, and geography. In particular, previous work on spatial thinking in the atmospheric sciences has demonstrated that skills such as mental a...

Title: Comparing the Tornado Environments Among East Coast and Gulf Coast Landfalling Tropical Cyclones
Author: Toadvine, Matthew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: Tornadoes spawned by the landfalling tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a non-trivial threat tolife and property. Previous research efforts have developed TC-tornado climatologies and have noted differences between East coast and Gulf coast landfalls, b...

Title: Constraining the Northern Hemisphere Mid-Latitude Jet Response to Climate Change Using the Difference Between Arctic and Subtropical Warming
Author: Robinson, Rachel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Atmospheric science, Climatic changes, Meteorology
Description: Greenhouse gases’ continuously increasing emissions have a variety of implications for the future of our climate patterns. This includes potential changes in the northern hemisphere jet strength and location, which are influenced by the warming in...

Title: Depositional Environments and Timing of Formation of the Lilesville Gravels, Anson County, NC
Author: Yankech, Matthew
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sedimentology
Description: MATTHEW ROBERT YANKECH. Depositional Environments and Timing of Formation of the Lilesville Gravels, Anson County, NC (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DIEMER). Near Lilesville, North Carolina, on the western margin of the Fall Zone, there occur up...

Title: Development of a Forecasting Technique for the Charlotte Urban Heat Island Intensity
Author: Stuck, Anna
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: The urban heat island (UHI) of Charlotte (North Carolina) - a rapidly expanding subtropical city - was studied through statistical analysis and short-term predictive modeling. Our study used hourly surface observations taken from 12 weather statio...

Title: Diagnosing Thunderstorms Induced Power Outages with the Rapid Refresh Model
Author: Cucinotta, Rachel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Atmospheric science
Description: Duke Energy customers frequently experience electrical power outages caused by thunderstorms that produce strong surface winds and subsequently damage power distribution infrastructure. To better anticipate such outages, forecasters would benefit ...

Title: Effects of the Urban Heat Island on Anurans in Remnant and Stormwater Control Ponds in the Charlotte Metropolitan Region
Author: Boucher, Adrienne
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology
Description: The urban heat island (UHI) has been documented to increase urban air temperatures compared to rural areas, but little is known about the effects of UHI-induced meteorology on anuran breeding and diversity. My research objective is to understand h...

Title: Environmental Evolution of Supercells Interacting with the Appalachian Mountains
Author: Purpura, Sarah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: The Appalachian Mountains within the eastern United States have a considerable impact on day-to-day weather, including severe convection. However, the impact of the Appalachians on supercell thunderstorms is not well understood, posing a significa...

Title: Evaluating Foraminifera as a Tool for Recreating Historical Landscapes and Verifying Cartographic Accuracy at Fort Fisher, North Carolina
Author: Di Bari, Sofia
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Environmental sciences, Marine biology
Description: The research in this thesis focused on the use of Foraminifera to determine paleo-subenvironments and to quantify changes in the subenvironments through time at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Historical maps were assessed with respect to the subenvi...

Title: Evaluating invertebrate community diversity using eDNA for biomonitoring in freshwater ecosystems.
Author: Rowe, Rachael
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Aquatic sciences, Ecology, Environmental sciences
Description: Traditional invertebrate biomonitoring has low taxonomic resolution, low accuracy, and is plagued with human error and biases. Molecular monitoring, using environmental DNA (eDNA), is a practical alternative due to the high accuracy, lack of human...

Title: Extreme Dewpoint Trends Are Increasing Across Much of the United States
Author: Burroughs, James
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: As temperatures continue to increase all over the world, extreme weather events and the extreme observations associated with them are becoming more prevalent. This should imply that higher moisture content values are occurring across the globe, wh...

Title: Holocene Evolution of Low-Order Watershed Hillslopes and Soils in the SE Piedmont, NC USA
Author: Vaughan, Nora
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Geomorphology, Soil science, Geology
Description: This study characterizes four toposequences in two first-order watersheds (4.5 and 6.2 ha) of the SE Piedmont where the entire Holocene source-to-sink system is presumably still intact. Despite a long history of soil and geomorphic research in the...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES RELATED TO THE PRECIPITATION STRUCTURE OF SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS AND THEIR EVOLUTION
Author: Sirico, Richard
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology
Description: The precipitation structure of supercell thunderstorms (e.g., low-precipitation(LP), classic (CL), high-precipitation (HP)) has been associated with differing severeweather threats (wind, hail, or tornadoes) to the public, thus motivating work exa...

Title: Idealized Simulations of Supercell Thunderstorms Interacting with the Appalachian Mountains
Author: Riggin IV, Roger
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Meteorology, Geophysics, Geography
Description: The Appalachian Mountains within the eastern United States have a considerable impact on daily weather, including supercell thunderstorms. Forecasters currently lack a comprehensive conceptual model to assist with the decision-making process when ...

Title: Impervious Cover Thresholds of the North Carolina Piedmont Fish Assemblage
Author: Webster, Patrick
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Geodesy, Ecology, Natural resources--Management
Description: Researchers have placed emphasis on quantifying and identifying ecological thresholds to study biological responses to urbanization. As watersheds become urbanized, they exhibit a systemic pattern of degradation that disrupts the natural biogeoche...