Faculty director in parentheses
2007
Arnold, Martin T. “Relative Deprivation, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Homicide in Chicago: An Analysis at Multiple Geographic Levels.” (Wang)
Feliberty, Yvette C. “Spatial Distribution of Toxic Release Inventory Sites in Illinois: Is there Environmental Inequity?” (Wang)
Kelly, Heidi R. “Land Use Impacts on Soil Microbial Community Dynamics.” (Konen)
McElvogue, Jean M. “Latino and Asian Settlement Patterns in Chicago’s Suburbs.” (Greene)
Oltman, Dustin R. “A Synoptic Climatology of Destructive Tornado Events in the Central Midwest.” (Bentley)
Sabdo, Christy "Tillage System Impacts on Soil Carbon Stocks in Northcentral Illinois." (Konen)
Seales, Dean J. “A Site Location Analysis of an Apricot Orchard in the Baltimore/Washington Fringe (Appalachian Region).” (Greene)
Seales, Dean J. “A GIS Model Approach to Study Urban Change: The Case of the Blackberry Watershed, Illinois.” (Greene)
Song, Guan “Modeling Energy, Water and Carbon Fluxes Over a Corn Field Using Coupled Land Surface Model and Dynamic Crop Model.” (Song)
Trivedi, Tarun H. “Designing a Geography Information Systems-based Prototype Airport Noise Reporting System.” (Greene)
Walden-Mather, Jamie “Feral Horse Population Dynamics and Climate Variation in West Central Colorado.” (Krmenec)
Wollenweber, Jennifer "The Effects of Cultivation on Soil Properties Along a Catena in Kane County, Illinois." (Konen)
2006
Catania, Nathan C. “Land-Use Impact on Soil Properties Along a Catena in North Central Illinois.” (Konen)
DeMuynck, Erin L. “The Relationship Between International Migration and Sprawl: the Case of Elgin, IL.” (Greene)
Hall, Soren G. “The Impacts of Urban Sprawl on the Vulnerability to Tornado Hazards in Northeastern Illinois.” (Ashley)
Heitkamp, Jodi L. “Limitations of GIS in Map Production: Illustrations by Examples.” (Wang)
Lee, Lauren M. “Examining Lightening Occurrence at the Most Popular Golf Courses in Georgia Including a Focused Analysis of Lightening Risk Surrounding the Masters Golf Tournament.” (Bentley)
Stowell, Jessica L. “An Exploratory Spatial Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease in Montreal, Quebec and Vancouver, British Columbia.” (Krmenec)
VerHalen, Patrick J. “Climate Reconstruction for Lake Superior Provincial Park Using Climate-growth Relationships of Red Pines (Pinus Resinosa).” (Rigg)
2005
Bennett-Wittenauer, Theresa J. “The Costs of Urban Sprawl: How Municipal Service Costs are Impacted by Land Area Consumption.” (Greene)
Sandstrom, Michael A. “Relating Surface Dew Point Temperatures to Mesoscale Convective Complexes.” (Changnon)
Schaffer, Charles H. III “Investigating the Importance of Land Cover on Evapotranspiration.” (Song)
Zhu, Haojie “Identifying Scale-dependent Management Zones in Corn Fields: An Application of Geographically Weighted Local Statistics and Geostatistics Methods.” (Krmenec)
2004
Granata, Charles "Using Synoptic Categories to Determine the Relationship
of Severe Weather and Low Level Jets to Enhance Weather Prediction."
(Song)
Lauritsen, Ryan G. "An Extreme Dew Point Climatology for the Midwestern United States." (Bentley)
Liao, Ke "Climatological Study of the Nocturnal Low-Level Jet in the Southern Great Plains." (Song)
Liao, Ke "An Examination of the Changing Suburban Hierarchy in Los Angeles 1990-2000." (Greene)
McLean, Aaron S. "An Analysis of Population Distribution Patterns in Chicago Region from 1990 to 2000: A Density Functions Approach." (Wang)
McLean, Aaron S. "A Trade Area Analysis of Two Major League Baseball Teams in the Chicago CMSA: A Gravity Model and Nearest Neighbor Approach." (Wang)
Napoli, James M. "A Forest Modeling Procedure Using Dasymetric Interpolation in a GIS Environment: Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada." (Greene/Rigg)
O’Brien, Van M. "Constructing Geographic Areas for Analysis of Homicide in Small Populations." (Wang)
Pinnau, Martin U. "A Geographic Analysis of Stock Car Racing." (Greene)
Szczuka, Tomasz "An Application of Land Evaluation and Site Assessment
Model (LESA) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as an Effective Measure
of Social Implications in Farmland Conversion Process." (Greene)
2003
Bigley, Russell L. "An Examination of Two Daily Mean Temperature
Calculations: Is the Current Mean Temperature Adequate for Calculating Heating
Degree Days?" (Changnon)
Fitzgibbon, Matthew K."The Spatial Variation of Labor Productivity and Its Relationship to Population Density - U.S. Industries at the County Level in 1997." (Wang)
Sparks, Jesse A. "The Influence of the Great Lakes on the Maintenance of Severe Mesoscale Convective Systems that Traverse Over Them: An Observational Investigation." (Bentley)
2002
Buell, Honor Melanie "Suburban Population Clusters of Multi-Family
Housing in DuPage County, Illinois: A Look at Walkability and Quality of Life."
(Greene)
Diochon, Amanda C. "A Demographic Analysis of Sugar Maple (Acer Saccharm Marsh) Seedlings at the Species Northern Growth Limit in Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada." (Rigg)
Hayakawa, Shuhei "The Change of Population Distribution Patterns in Chicago from 1980 to 1990: A Density Functions Approach." (Wang)
Hayakawa, Shuhei "A Graphical User Interface for GIS Analyses of
Census Data." (Greene)
Lindenmier, Larry J. "Student's Achievement Gap in Illinois: Socioeconomic
Status or School District?" (Wang)
Perciante, Craig T. "Measuring and Relating Selected Variables in DLA Simulated Watershed Networks." (Luo)
Russ, Karen L. "A GIS Analysis of the Paleoclimate of the Upper Midwest." (Greene)
Sill, Paul M. "Methods for Determining Retail Trade Area Boundaries for Consumer Oriented Businesses: A Review and Illustration." (Krmenec)
Sill, Paul M. "An Example of Regression and Probability Modeling in a Retail Based Geographic Information System Environment Using Both Classic and Modern Economic Foundations." (Krmenec)
Talaga, Brandi J. "Comparison of Organic Carbon Measurement Methods on Cultivated and Never Cultivated Soils of Northern Illinois." (Konen)
Ulreich, Raymond G. "Defining the Geographic Realities of Land Use Change Due to Population Growth." (Greene)
2001
Healy, Mark L. "The Importance of German Immigration as a Locational
Factor in the Illinois Brewing Industry: 1870-1920." (Wang)
Healy, Mark L. "GEOG 101 ONLINE!: A Web-Based Course in World Regional Geography." (Greene)
Jones, Douglas J. "Analysis of 1985-1990 Immigrant Settlement Patterns Within Metropolitan Areas Classified by Migration Characteristics." (Greene)
Jones, Linda S. "Composition, Structure, and Regeneration Dynamics of an Oak (Quercus alba) Woodland in Northern Illinois." (Rigg)
Ritsche, Michael T. "PDO Effects on Winter Temperatures in the United States Midwest." (Changnon)
Schuble, Todd J. "Intraurban Congestion-Relief Tunnels: A Chicago Case Study." (Greene)
Stan, Amanda B. "Factors Affecting White Oak (Quercus alba) Seedling Establishment and Growth in a Northern Illinois Woodland." (Rigg)
2000
Buhta, Michelle. "ENSO Relationships to Summer Drought in the United
States Midwest." (Changnon)
Cha, Soomee. "Defining Employment Centers in Milwaukee: A GIS Solution to Boundary Questions." (Greene)
Graham, Jennifer. "Soil Spatial Variability: The Process of Mapping Soil as a Continuum." (Krmenec)
Liang, Shumin. "The Use of Geographic Information System for Locating and Interpreting Contemporary Urban Growth of Chicago's Urban Fringe." (Greene)
Lu, Duanjun. "Exploring Methods for Routine Atmospheric Corrections for the Red, Near-Infrared, and Thermal Bands of NOAA-14 AVHRR Images." (Song)
1999
Creech, Tamara. "Reassessing Climate Information and Services."
(Changnon)
Minnick, Richard D. "Airport Induced Industrial Land Use Change: A Cartographic Approach to Representing Change." (Harlin, Wang - Co-Directors)
Steiner, Stephen F. "Assessing the Impact of a Community's Land-Use Planning Initiatives on Development Pressure in Neighboring Communities." (Greene)
Stojanovic, Bobbi "Environmental Impacts of Golf Course Construction and Maintenance on Vegetation and Soil in Kane County, Illinois." (Rigg)
Swenson, Steven R. "Brownfields: Applying the Analytical Hierarchy Process to Promote Redevelopment." (Greene)
