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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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New Techniques for Studying Ocean Eddy Dynamics in the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, Paul Andrew Ernst

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Investigating Arctic Ocean Freshwater Content and Circulation in a Changing Climate, Emma Louise Hoffman

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An Assessment of Drinking Water Equity in South Carolina: Access, Affordability, Quality, and Private Well Resources, Catherine Lippert Min

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Housing Buyouts at the Intersection of Flooding and Toxins: a Case Study of Cheraw, South Carolina, Victoria Ponds

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Assessing Multi-Annual Phytoplankton Community Compositions and Biomass Across Tidal Creek and Open Water Estuarine Habitats in South Carolina, Shannon Elizabeth Powers

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Deconvolving Provenance Signatures of Pliocene-Pleistocene Coastal Loess Deposits Along the Atlantic Margin of Argentina, Will Robert Quanrud

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Genomic Analysis of Exophiala SP. ETNP2018, a Marine Fungal Strain Isolated From an Oxygen Minimum Zone, Margaret Kelly Bernish

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Nitrous Oxide Cycling in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone From Concentrations, Stable Isotopes and Isotopomers, Margaret Ann Gaspar

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Robocat: An Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) for Near-surface Hydrodynamic Measurements In Buoyant Plumes. Development and Case Study, Christopher Tom Papageorgiou

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Understanding the Role of the Jet Streams and Gulf Stream Eddies on the Northwest Atlantic Marine Heatwaves, Lydia Rose Duncan Sims

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Examination and Application of Body Condition Methods in Cetaceans, Kira Anne Telford

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Evaluation of Monthly and Seasonal Grazing Rates Of Ilyanassa Obsoleta on Benthic Microalgae in the North Inlet Estuary, Brittany DeArmitt

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Sources and Cycling of Neodymium and Rare Earth Elements in the Arctic Amerasian Basin and Bering Sea, Brian D. Duggan

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Tropical Cyclone and Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Gulf of Mexico, Emily Nichole Eley

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Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas Dynamics in a Changing Climate, Sarah B. Hall

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Urban Flooding Accelerates the Affordable Housing Shortage: A Case Study in Columbia, South Carolina, Mary Hannah Lindsay

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Quantifying the Controls of Shear-Coupled P-Waves, Jackson Saftner

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An Assessment of the Performance of the Earthscope Automated Receiver Survey: A User’s Guide to EARS., Erin L. Taxon

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Differentiating Pleistocene Alloformations in the South Carolina Coastal Plain Through Lithologic, Textural, Mineralogical, and Cluster Analyses, Charles Andrew Wykel

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Monitoring of Carbon Dioxide Injection in the Southeastern United States, Adil Murad Awad Alshammari

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Fortnightly Effects of Urea Additions on Cyanobacteria in A Stormwater Detention Pond, Halley Carruthers

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Radium at the Lost City and Mid-Cayman Rise Hydrothermal Fields, Jessica D. Frankle

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Spatial and Temporal Variability in Carbon and Nutrient Concentrations Within the North Inlet Estuary,SC, Heather Kish

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Zooplankton Community Structure and Grazing within a Stormwater Detention Pond in Coastal South Carolina, Kristen Laccetti

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Characterizations of Dissolved Organic Carbon at Hydrothermal Systems of the MidCayman Rise, Aaron Mau

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Land, Racial Formations, and Power: Exploring the Network of Power Relationships During Climate Change Planning in Coastal South Carolina, Teresa Norman

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Sensitivity of Aquatic Organic Matter Degradation To Changing Temperature and Nutrient Conditions in a Coastal Watershed, Curtis John Szewczyk

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Dissolved Nitrogen Cycling in the Eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago From Stable Isotopic Data, Holly Westbrook

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Caribbean Yellowtail Snapper Ocyurus Chrysurus: Filling In Critical Gaps in Research for Life History and Novel Ageing Validation Utilizing Δ14C, Sarah Zajovits

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Dynamics of the Loop Current System and Its Effects on Surface and Subsurface Properties in the Gulf of Mexico, Richard James Brokaw

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Seismic Attribute Fracture Analysis and Thin and Thick-Skinned Structural Controls on the Evolution of a Foreland Basin - Parrando and Guavio Anticlines, Eastern Cordillera Foothills, Colombia, Ibraheem Khalil Hafiz

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Adjustment of a Coastal Buoyant Outflow Under Tidal and Wind Forcing, A K M Nahid Hasan

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Influence of Stormwater Management on Oxygen Demand and Organic Matter Cycling in Urbanizing Headwater Catchments, Kelly McCabe

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Circulation Changes in the Arctic Ocean and Subarctic Seas and Their Connections to the Global Ocean and Climate, Rachel Elizabeth Nichols

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Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions During Intraseasonal Oscillations in the Northern Indian Ocean, Heather Leigh Roman-Stork

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New Approaches to Understanding Mjo Dynamics, Casey Shoup

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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Benthic Microalgae in South Carolina Shelf Sediments, Sarah N. Zaunbrecher

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Fielding Sustainability: The Potential for Compost Extract as an Amendment on Athletic Turfgrass, Lacy M. Adams

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Using Long Time Series of Satellite Remote Sensing Data to Assess the Impact of Climate and Anthropogenic Changes in the Mesopotamian Marshes, Iraq, Reyadh Albarakat

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3-D Potential Field Inversion Camp Clubhouse Crossroads Mafic Intrusive Pluton, Coastal Plain, South Carolina, Kubra Sibel Albayrak

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Water Systematics of Samoan Peridotite Xenoliths, Aaron Wolfgang Ashley

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Mantle Heterogeneity from the Mantle Plume Perspective: Sources vs. Processes, Paul Béguelin

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An Assessment of Legal Frameworks for Sea Turtle Conservation in the Southeastern United States, Perry A. Fennell

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The Role of the Southern Ocean on Global Ocean Circulation and Climate, Brady Scott Ferster

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Energetic Consequences of Human Impacts for Bioindicator Atlantic Ghost Crab (Ocypode Quadrata), Mustafa Remzi Gül

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Green Forest Businesses as a Method to Improve Communities in Unesco’s East Usambara Biosphere Reserve in Tanzania, Myoung Su Ko

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Glacial-Interglacial Changes in the Thermocline Structure of the Makassar Strait: Implications for Changes in the Indonesian Throughflow, Michael Lis

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Salt Marsh Health and Biomass Responses to a Changing Environment, Gwen Joelle Miller

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The Impacts of Episodic Floods, Droughts, Turbidites on Organic Carbon Burial over the past 2,000 Years in the Santa Barbara Basin, California, Caitlyn Sarno

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Upper Ocean Dynamics and Mixing in the Arabian Sea During Monsoons, Corinne Beverly Trott

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Larval Fish Mortality and Vertical Chlorophyll Structures: Reexamination of the Stable Ocean Hypothesis in the Southern California Current, Brendan D. Turley

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Endolithic Microbial Carbon Cycling in East Antarctica, Natalie Tyler

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Assessment Of Upper Cretaceous Strata For Offshore CO2 Storage: Southeastern United States, Khaled F. Almutairi

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Classifying The Woody Vegetation Community Of Wade Ponds In Colleton County, South Carolina, Wade Biltoft

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Organic Acids and Amino Acids in Serpentinization Related Fluids from the Atlantis Massif, Nicholas Camper

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Impacts of Natural and Anthropogenic Colonized Habitats on the Range Shifting Mangrove Tree Crab (Aratus Pisonii), Zachary John Cannizzo

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Restoration of visual performance and opsin expression within the retina during eye regeneration in the Florida fighting conch (Strombus alatus), Jamie M. Clark

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Phenotypic Response Of Marine Cryptophytes To Varying Spectral Irradiance, Kristin M. Heidenreich

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Influence of Energy Availability on the Carbon Isotopes of Methane and Biomarkers during Hydrogenotrophic Methanogenesis, Tran Nguyen

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Climate Metric Coherence: Stationarity of the Relationships Between North Pacific Climate Indices and Ecological Processes in the Gulf of Alaska, Michael Opiekun

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The Role Of ENSO On The Agulhas Current Leakage Region, Morgan Lauren Paris

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Re-Evaluation Of The Extent And Tectonic History Of The Helena Banks Fault Zone, Offshore South Carolina, Ahmet Postaagasi

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Salt Tectonism In The Carolina Trough, Ceren Postaagasi

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Particle Fluxes In The North Pacific: An Assessment Of Pseudonitzschia And Domoic Acid In The Santa Barbara Basin, And Of Mercury, Carbon And Nitrogen In The Central Pacific, Blaire P. Umhau

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Impacts Of Drainage Systems On Stormwater Hydrology: Rocky Branch Watershed, Columbia, South Carolina, Logan Ress

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The Sedimentary Record Of Eocene Deformation In The Interior Of The Southern Canadian Cordillera, Erica May Rubino

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Chinese Tallow Invasion On A South Carolina Barrier Island: A Study Of Current Distribution Following Herbicide Treatments, Victoria Schwartz

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The Impact Of Upland Development And Marsh Width On Groundwater Composition In Estuarine Tidal Creeks In The Southeastern Coastal United States, Meghan Shanahan

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Determining the Subsidence Rate of the Cascade Seamount using Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy, Sarah L. Vorsanger

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Effectiveness Of Conventional And Lid Stormwater Management Approaches With SWMM Modeling: Rocky Branch Watershed, Columbia, SC, John M. Williams

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On The Scattering Of Topographically Modified Semidiurnal Kelvin Waves Into Internal Waves, Tianyi Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Causes and Consequences of Individual Phenotypic Differences in Brachyuran Crabs With A Focus on Behavior, Benjamin A. Belgrad

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Marine Phosphorus Biogeochemistry Ecological Insights From Analytical Chemistry, Douglas W. Bell

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Tectonic Studies Of Southeastern North America: The Suwannee Basin, Brunswick Suture Zone, Osceola Arc, And Pangean Transcurrent Fault System, Susannah Katherine Boote

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Air- Sea Interactions And Ocean Dynamics In The Southwest Tropical Indian Ocean, Jessica Maureen Burns

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The Influence of Phytoplankton Size and Community Composition on Carbon Cycling and Planktonic Food Webs in the Sargasso Sea, Bridget Elise Cotti-Rausch

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Development of a Sandwich Hybridization Assay for the Harmful Cyanobacteria Microcystis spp., Nicole M. Dearth

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The Summerville Formation: Evidence for a Sub-Horizontal Stratigraphic Sequence below the Post-Rift Unconformity in the Middleton Place Summerville Seismic Zone, Joseph Edward Getz

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The Energetic Consequences of Temperature Variation and Sequential Autotomization for the Stone Crab, Menippe spp., Eric R. Hancock

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Molecular Exploration of Bioavailable Dissolved Organic Matter Across Aquatic Ecosystems, Yuan Shen

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Wind Driven Shelf Circulation: Effects of Shoreline Orientation, Bathymetry, and Surface Cooling, Xiaodong Wu

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Delineation Of The Lower Permian Gas Sand Via Calibrated Avo And Pre-Stack Seismic Inversions In Majhol Field, Saudi Arabia, Abdullah Alhashel

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3D Seismic Depth Imaging and Velocity Model Building in Anisotropic Media: Serri Oil and Gas Field, Saudi Arabia, Ali Jomaah Alsalem

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Biodegradation of Highly Weathered Deepwater Horizon Oil, Joel T. Bostic

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North American Butterfly Association Counts at Congaree National Park: A Case Study for Connecting Citizen Science to Management, Austin Clarridge

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Utilization Of Satellite-Derived Salinity For ENSO Studies And Climate Indices, Caroline Mary Corbett

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Utilization Of Satellite-Derived Salinity To Study Indian Ocean Climate Variability, Joseph Matthew D’Addezio

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Applicability of LiDAR Technology in Saltmarshes: Landscape-Scale Predictive Models to Local-Scale Biomass Estimation, James Dean Edwards Jr.

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Submarine Groundwater Discharge and the Configuration of the Freshwater-Saltwater Interface at the Nearshore and Embayment Scales, Tyler Brandon Evans

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Assessing the Effects of the Mud Snail, Ilyanassa Obsoleta, on the Benthic Microalgal Community in a Pristine Saltmarsh, Miranda Gore

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Mislabeling Of Commercial Atlantic Cod (Gadus Morhua) Products In Spain, Joshua Helgoe

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Implications of Hf-Nd Isotopes in West Philippine Basin Basalts for the Initiation and Early History of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc, Benjamin D. Hocking

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An Integrated Structural Analysis on Seismic of a Paleo Mound Development (Woolsey Mound, Northern Gulf of Mexico), Ricardo Tomas Troco Kabila

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Decadal Salinity Changes in the Oceanic Subtropical Gyres and Connection to Changes in the Global Water Cycle, Bryce Andrew Melzer

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Alongshore Momentum Balance Over Shoreface-Connected Ridges, Fire Island, NY, Conor Ofsthun

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Development And Application Of Foraminiferal Carbonate System Proxies To Quantify Ocean Acidification In The California Current, Emily B. Osborne

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Three Dimensional Thermobaric Modeling of A Gas Hydrate System, Amanda Quigley Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Global Methylation of DNA Among Spartina Alterniflora Clones Differing in Age at North Inlet, SC, Trenton Agrelius

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Examining the Sensitivity of Surface Chlorophyll to Upwelling Events of Variable Frequency in the California Current System, John Thomas Bartlett

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3-D Numerical Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Injection into the South Georgia Rift Basin for Geologic Storage, Daniel Eric Taylor Brantley