Photo: River with trees on both  banks
Alumni

The Department of Geography is committed to maintain close contacts with its alumni. If you earned a degree in geography or environmental science and would like to be included in our alumni database, please submit your: name, email address, mailing address, job title, and company information to Elizabeth Boyd.

Recent graduate students

2012  
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Kelley Coker

Degree: MS 2012

Thesis: Organic carbon storage within in-channel deposits, Talladega Creek, Alabama.

Advisor: Davis

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Colleen Forrer

Degree: MS 2012

Thesis: Applications of Landsat-5 TM imagery in assessing and mapping water quality in the Bankhead Reservoir of the Black Warrior River.

Advisor: Han

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Scott Miller

Degree: MS 2012

Thesis: Student preferences for funding public parks and recreation areas during times of slow economic growth and high government deficits.

Advisor: Steinberg

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Joelle Motes

Degree: MS 2012

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Advisor: Steinberg

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Ben Lundberg

Degree: MS 2012

Thesis: Accessibility and university populations: local effects of non-motorized transportation in the Tuscaloosa-Northport area.

Advisor: Weber

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Laura Radford

Degree: MS 2012

Thesis: New tropical cyclone warning graphics: preferences, comments, and suggestions.

Advisor: Senkbeil

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Cory Rhodes

Degree: MS 2012

Thesis: Characteristics of tornadoes associated with land-falling Gulf Coast tropical cyclones.

Advisor: Senkbeil

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Meganne Rockman

Degree: MS 2012

Thesis: The role of hurricane track and intensity on evacuation decision making of Pensacola, Florida residents.

Advisor: Senkbeil

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Zach Tyler

Degree: MS 2012

Thesis: Lake Tuscaloosa and the North River: An analysis and plans to improve water quality.

Advisor: Steinberg

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Bryce Zimmermann

Degree: MS 2012

Thesis: Characterizing alluvial benches and incipient floodplains in a Piedmont stream and investigating biogeomorphic feedbacks as a possible mechanism for their occurrence.

Advisor: Davis

2011  
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Megan Buchanan

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: A range-wide disturbance history for Quercus alba in the eastern United States.

Advisor: Hart

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Ian Comstock

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: A classification scheme for landfalling tropical cyclones based on precipitation variables derived from GIS and ground radar analysis.

Advisor: Senkbeil

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Dusty Kimbrow

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: Coarse grain mobility in a step-pool mountain stream.

Advisor: Davis

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Qinyue Pan

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: Using time geography to geovisualize variation in work-related travel patterns by gender and race.

Advisor: Weber

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Rebekah Pine

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: Patterns of riparian and in-stream large woody debris across contrasting stand ages in a southern Appalachian forest.

Advisor: Hart

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Kate Miller

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: Student attitude and action regarding the single-use plastic shopping bag on the University of Alabama campus.

Advisor: Steinberg

Jacob

Jacob Richards

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: Canopy gap dynamics in mature, mesic Quercus stands on the Cumberland Plateau, Alabama.

Advisor: Hart

Craig

Craig Turberville

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: Population dynamics of sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) at the southern portion of its range: implications for range migration and succession.

Advisor: Hart

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Adam Watkins

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: A synthesis of Alabama beach states and nourishment histories.

Advisor: Davis

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Eric Yankson

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: Exploring location and accessibility relationships between manufactured housing and banking facilities in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

Advisor: Appiah-Opoku

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Alex Yuro

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: The impact of storm surge from successive hurricanes on the Alabama beach mouse population.

Advisor: Steinberg

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Liuhui Zhao

Degree: MS 2011

Thesis: Spatial equity analysis in the Atlanta 10-county region.

Advisor: Weber

 

Farrah Hall in the snow