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:: COMPLETED APPLICATIONS

List of Graduate Students who Completed the GIS Certificate at ISU
 
Graduated Spring 2009

Lisa Marie Crabbs (Community and Regional Planning)
Directing and diverting development: promoting city growth while protecting environmentally critical areas in Waukee, Iowa
Advisor: Paul F. Anderson
 
John Lambert (Anthropology)
A Spatial Analysis of Paleoindian Site Structure at the Jim Pitts Site
Advisor: Matthew G. Hill

W. Scott Lincoln (Geological and Atmospheric Sciences)
Spatial and quantitative analysis of NEXRAD precipitation estimates in distributed watershed in central Iowa
Advisor: Kristie J. Franz

Tricia Sample (Community and Regional Planning)
Examining urban sprawl in Waukee, IA:  2000-2008
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Justin Sullivan (Anthropology)
Archaeological site predictive modeling: Six southwest Iowa counties
Advisor: Paul F. Anderson
 
Bethany Wilcoxon (Community and Regional Planning)
Assessing Iowa's Wind Energy Industry: A Spatial Analysis
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Fei Yang (Community and Regional Planning)
Use of VGI to enhance the public participation in the planning process
Advisor: Christopher Seeger
  
Graduated Fall 2008

Emmanuel Byamukama (Plant Pathology)
Occurence, incidence, distribution and spatial dependence of bean pod mottle virus on soybean in Iowa
Advisor: Christopher Seeger
  
Graduated Summer 2008

Zhengyu Sun (Community and Regional Planning)
The use and abuse of crash data in roadway access management
Advisor: Reginald Souleyrette

Graduated Spring 2008
 
Majd Abdullah (Sustainable Agriculture)
The effect of the change in land use on land value in Iowa
Advisor: Paul F. Anderson
 
Shannon Leigh Thol (GIS Certificate)
The why of where: using GIS to investigate habitat use by threatened reptile species in a sand prairie ecosystem
Advisor: William Clark

Jin Zhang (Interdepartmental program of Environmental Science)
GIS spatial modeling of vegetation distribution and change in Broken Kettle Grassland, Iowa
Advisor: Paul F. Anderson

Graduated Fall 2007
 
Lindsay Marie Carroll Kasuga (Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology)
A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach for analyzing the effects of landscape composition on reproductive success of the Blanding's turtle, Emys blandingii, in Iowa
Advisor: William Clark
 
Laura McCullough (Anthropology)
Site Catchment Analysis of Archaeological Sites in the Central Des Moines River Valley
Advisor: Paul Anderson
 
Brad Robert Schmidt (Community and Regional Planning)
A Web-Based Public Participation Tool: Greene County Bio-Economy Survey
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Kelly Schulte (Business Administration)
City of Ames Clear Water Diversion Program
Advisor: Kevin Kane
 
Janea Lynne Triplett (International Development Studies)
Understanding the Ugandan context with geographic information systems
Advisor: Brian Mennecke
 
Lan Wei (Community and Regional Planning & Landscape Architecture)
GIS modeling of urbanization impacts on natural resources, Dakota County, Minnesota
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Graduated Summer 2007
 
Kelly Delmonico (GIS Certificate)
Examining Transportation and Environmentally Protected Lands for the Greene County Pilot Study
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Basil Riad Mahayni (Political Science)
GIS and the Bioeconomy: A Preliminary Assessment of Water Quality, Water Quantity and Co-Location for the Purposes of Creating a Spatial Survey
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Graduated Spring 2007 
 
Lisa Baumhover (GIS Certificate)
Designing a Process to Spatailly Extract and Analyze Hybrid Test Plot Data
Advisor: Paul Anderson
 
Jeremy Hall (Department of Anthropology)
Modeling Archeological Site Location Based on Boolean and Predictive Methodology
Advisor: Paul Anderson
 
Peter Martin Lovell (GIS Certificate)
Employing Aerial Photointerpretation to Examine Eastern Redcedar Cover Change in the Grand River Grassland of Southern Iowa 
Advisor: James Miller
 
Mary Nyasimi (Anthropology)
Exploratory Spatial Analysis of Livelihood Capital Index in Western Kenya
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Graduated Fall 2006
 
Khalil Ahmad (Civil Engineering)
Estimation of Soil Erosion Using Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Advisor: Chris Seeger 
 
Zsolt Gemesi (Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology)
Plumbing Agricultural Landscapes for Water Quality Improvement - Coexistence of Intensive Agriculture and Good Water Quality
 
Michelle Johnson (GIS Certificate)
Wetlands Inventory: an Assessment of 1930s and 2000 Aerial Photography in Clear Lake and Dougherty Townships, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Advisor: William Clark 
 
Adam Martin-Schwarze (GIS Certificate)
Least-coast Models and Assumtion Testing of Functional Connectivity for Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge
Advisor: Diane Debinski
 
Daniel Nack (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Developing a Land Parcel Geodatabase for the City of Hawarden, Iowa
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad 
 
Graduated Spring 2006
 
Andrew Boehm (Department of Anthropology) 
Spatial Analysis of the Chipped Stone and Faunal Remains from the 2005 Excavations of the O.V. Clary Site (25GD50)
Advisor: Dr. Matthew G. Hill
 
Ying Deng (Department of Community and Regional Planning) 
GIS Visualization of a Downtown: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Advisor: Christopher Seeger
 
Isha Kaphle (Department of Community and Regional Planning) 
Using Exploratory Spatial Analysis for Studying Urbanization of Santo Andr� Municipality 
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Jagadish Metla (Department of Community and Regional Planning)
Web-enabling Community-based Programming and Design: an Application for the Downtown Revitalization of the City of Ames 
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Erik Otarola-Castillo (Deaprtment of Anthropology)
Oneota Site Structure in Central Iowa: A Reexamination of the Clarkson Site
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Luke Parris (Department of Community and Regional Planning)
Collection of Information Data and Complaint Reporting Systems via ArcIMS
Advisor: Christopher Seeger
 
Natalia Rogovska (Department of Agronomy)
Remote sensing of soybean canopies and GIS technologies as tools to map alkaline soils on a field scale
Advisor: Antonio Mallarino
 
Zoran Todorovic (Department of Community and Regional Planning)
Use of GIS Tools to Identify Critical Points for Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystem Health in Agricultural Areas and Potential for Natural Resource Management
Advisor: Kevin Kane
 
Karie Wiltshire (GIS Certificate)
Exploring perennial land cover connectedness and connectivity in the Iowa Landscapes
Advisor: Paul Anderson
 
Graduated Fall 2005
 
Pedro Anibal Barabagelata (Department of Agronomy)
Integrating Geostatistics and GIS to Assess Spatial Variability and to Map Soil Fertility Parameters in Iowa Fields
Advisor: Antonio Mallarino
 
Debra Lampe (GIS Certificate)
Appanoose County Land Use
Advisor: David Plazak
 
Xiaojia Liu (Department of Civil Engineering)
Private Vehicle Usage by Commuters in Texas 
Advisor: David Plazak
 
Jessica Parkhurst (GIS Certificate)
A Spatial Analysis of the Correlation between duck nest destruction and predator movement trajectories in Chase Lake, North Dakota.
Advisor: William Clark
 
Vasudha Pinnamaraju (Department of Community and Regional Planning)
GIS as a Tool in Watershed Analysis
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Pipat Reungsang (Department of Agriculture)
A Web-Based GIS Decision Support System Demonstration for Identifying Potential Centralized Digestion Facility for Methane Recovery
Advisor: Kevin Kane
 
Adam Skibbe (Department of Landscape Architecture)
Urban Growth and Land Acquisition on Chicago�s Metropolitan Fringe: The cost of maintaining a viable conservation land acquisition program
Advisor: James Miller
 
David Franklin Webber (Department of Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering)
Using Watershed-scale Digital Terrain and Map Comparison Analysis Results to Enhance Web-based GIS Decision Support System Functionality
Advisor: Steve Mickelson 
 
Graduated Spring 2005
 
Mathew Joseph Dvorak (Department of Geology)
Exploring the Impact of Human Land Development on Estuaries in Southwest Florida using GIS and Stable Isotopes
Advisor: Dr. Chris Harding
 
Joe Herring (Department of Agronomy)
GIS Terrain Analysis Applications: Methods for characterizing relative site capability along streams for Riparian Buffer Strips
Advisor: Paul Anderson
 
Adam Craig Holven (Department of Anthropology)
Identifying Site Formation Processes at the Late Paleoindian Clary Ranch Site
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Liang Hu (Department of Architecture)
GIS Application in Campus Facilities Planning and Management
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Anne Melissa Johnson (Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology)
Exploring spatial patterns of Iowa frog and toad distribution
Advisor: Brent Danielson
 
Seung II Lee (Department of Community and Regional Planning)
Modeling of Visual Resource Quality and Comparison two VRM Methods
Advisor: Paul Anderson
 
Susan Elizabeth Olsen (Department of International Development)
The Built Environment: Fast food and Daily Travel: Testing Methodology with a Research Group in Ames, IA. 
Advisor: Christopher J. Seeger
 
Hsin-I Yu (Department of Community and Regional Planning)
Demand Modeling for Successful Park and Ride Planning
Advisor: David Plazak
 
Graduated Fall 2004
 
Xudong Chai (Department of Civil Engineering))
Traffic Impact Analysis of Large Regional Development
Advisor: Reg Souleyrette
 
Maria C. Daza-Sandoval (Department of Interdisciplinary Grad. Studies)
Retail Trade Areas of Iowa on the Internet
Advisor: Christopher Seeger
 
Karen Louise Johnson (Department of Community and Regional Planning)
Imperviousness in Planning for Water Quality: a BASINS evaluation
Advisor: Monica A. Haddad
 
Daniel Adam Kilborn (Department of Agronomy)
Chariton Valley Biomass Project (Task 5.10.0): Site-specific Management for Biomass Production
Advisor: Ken Moore
 
Kanichiro Kitahara (Department of Landscape Architecture)
Airport Noise and Compatible Land Use Planning � A Case Study at des Moines International Airport 
Advisor: Reg Souleyrette
 
Graduated Summer 2004
 
Monica M. Barbazan (Department of Agronomy)
Treatment Application effects on soil-test phosphorous spatial variability
Advisor: Antonio Mallarino
 
Graduated Spring 2004
 
Marc Delong (Department of Civil Engineering)
Precise Surveying and Mapping for GIS Applications
Advisor: Reg Souleyrette
 
Katarzyna Grala (Department of Landscape Architecture)
Spatial Analyses for the Vegetation Management Plan of the Platt District CNRA, Oklahoma 
Advisor:  Paul Anderson
 
Antonio Jose de Araujo Moreira (Department of Plant Pathology)
Use of Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Statistics to assess soybean yield and soybean cyst nematode populations in soybean fields
Advisor: Forrest Nutter 
 
Zhen Zhan (Department of Landscape Architecture)
GIS Application in Landscape Planning and Resource Management
Advisor: Paul Anderson
 
 
 
 
 
 
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