Browsing Environmental & Conservation Sciences Masters Theses by Title
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Late Pleistocene Mountain Glacier Equilibrium Line Altitudes and Paleoclimate Reconstruction in the Great Basin
(North Dakota State University, 2022)This thesis presents new reconstructions of paleoglacier surfaces and Equilibrium Line Altitudes in nine mountain ranges in the northeastern Great Basin during the Last Glacial Maximum. Improved methods for paleoglacier ... -
Late Quaternary Glacier and Climate Change in the Northeastern Great Basin
(North Dakota State University, 2021)This thesis presents a cosmogenic 10Be exposure chronology for glacial moraines within the Baker Creek valley alongside water balance and climate modeling of Pluvial Lakes Franklin and Clover. These records further limit ... -
Micro-Pore Parametrics for Optimal Hyperfiltration of Conservative Contaminants
(North Dakota State University, 2012)In compacted Na-montmorillonite membranes, the pore-size, and surface charge will influence filtration processes of solutes. A dead-end hyperfiltration setup was utilized to: (a) study the intrinsic retention, membrane ... -
Mid-Wisconsinan Climate Reconstruction Based on Fossil Beetles from Six Mile Creek, Ithaca, New York
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The history of the Mid-Wisconsinan sub-stage in northeastern North America is one of large climatic oscillations. Fossil beetles were extracted from two horizons at the Six Mile Creek site, New York. A total of 738 individuals ... -
Migratory Ecology and Wing Morphology of North Dakota Bats
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Understanding links between a species’ migratory behavior, wing morphology, and foraging strategy can provide insight into factors driving the evolution of behavioral and ecological responses. The first chapter of this ... -
Morphological Differences and Diversity of Small Mammal Species
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Small mammals play important roles in ecosystems, but are often overlooked due to their small size and plentiful abundance. Two studies evaluated the morphological differences and diversity of small mammal species based ... -
Multi-Element Analysis on Riparian Wetlands and River Sediment in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2014)River sediment, transfer metals, nutrients and pollutants from various sources and tributaries within a catchment, and deposit sediment whenever the flow rate of water is low. Multi-element fingerprinting technique could ... -
Multi-Element Fingerprinting of Wetland Soil for Rapid Assessment
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Wetland functions and conditions are determined by hydrologic, soil physiochemical, and biotic states. Information obtained from soil analysis can convey wetland history due to hydrologic regime, soil chemical changes, ... -
Mycorrhizas and the Context Dependency of Mutualism: Effects of Soil Phosphorus Availability and Community Composition of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Plant Performance and Symbiosis With the Grassland Forb Gaillardia aristata Across Its Northern Range
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) colonize roots and provide phosphorus as well as other benefits to hosts in exchange for photosynthate. I explored how the symbiosis between AMF and the native prairie forb Gaillardia ... -
The Need to Move: Exploring Landscape Connectivity through the Eyes of the Northern Leopard Frog
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) is a species that depends on landscape connectivity to complete its lifecycle. However, due to historic and present anthropogenic landscape changes, this species encounters a variety ... -
Neonicotinoids: Assessing their Distribution and Biological Effects to Prairie Pothole Wetlands
(North Dakota State University, 2018)The use of neonicotinoid pesticides is widespread throughout agricultural regions, including the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of North America. Recently, there have been growing concerns regarding the use of these pesticides ... -
OSL Dating of High-Elevation Alluvial Sediments: McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
(North Dakota State University, 2015)High-elevation alluvial fans in the McMurdo Dry Valleys are a record of short-term, occasional melting events along the margins of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Sediment samples were dated from five fans using Optically ... -
Paleoclimatic Interpretation of the Moorhead Low Water Phase of Glacial Lake Agassiz in the Southern Basin based on Fossil Coleoptera Assemblages
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Performance of a Retrofit Detention Basin in Fargo, ND
(North Dakota State University, 2019)“The Fargo Project” located in Fargo, North Dakota, is an 18-acre stormwater detention basin that was retrofitted in 2015 to include an earthen-channel, sediment forebay, and various native vegetation within the floodplain ... -
Photodegradation of (E)- and (Z)-Endoxifen: Kinetics, By-Products Identification and Toxicity Assessment
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Endoxifen is an effective metabolite of tamoxifen, a commonly used chemotherapy drug, and has been detected at the final effluent of a municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Its presence in the environment could bring ... -
Plant-Stand Count and Weed Identification Mapping Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images
(North Dakota State University, 2018)Modern agriculture encounters several challenges these days. There is a vital need for spatial data about plant and weed distributions. Obtaining accurate knowledge of the plants and weeds distribution in the field with ... -
Population Genetics of the Western Prairie Fringed Orchid
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The Western Prairie Fringed Orchid (WPFO) Platanthera praeclara is listed as a federally threatened species in the United States. The habitat of the WPFO is highly fragmented, causing the possibility of genetic isolation ... -
Pupfishes as a System to Test the Predator Naiveté Hypothesis
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Pupfishes are an ideal system to test this the predator naiveté hypothesis because they often occur in isolated springs across a gradient of predation pressure. A convenient tool for assaying antipredator competence are ... -
Relationships Between Winter Social Dominance Hierarchies and Immune Function in the Black-Capped Chickadee
(North Dakota State University, 2016)social species, dominance rank has implications for an individual’s health and fitness. Dominant individuals often receive greater access to resources, protection from predators, higher quality t ... -
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Miocene-Age Glacial Deposits, Friis Hills, Antarctica
(North Dakota State University, 2011)The Friis Hills is an isolated plateau standing as much as 600 m above surrounding topography in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region or Antarctica.Preserved on the plateau surface is a sequence of early to middle Miocene-aged ...