Theses, Dissertations, and Reports

The following is a list of master's theses (M.S.), doctoral dissertations (Ph.D.), research reports (M. Eng., M.S., Ph.D.), field reports (any degree), senior capstone project reports (B.S.), and senior honors theses (B.S.) completed by HWR students. Click on the Title of the thesis, dissertation, or report for additional information. Click on the Column Header to sort by Year, Student, Faculty Director, Manuscript Type, or Subarea.

Want a copy? The department no longer maintains a bound copy of manuscripts. (Note: Undergraduate reports or theses are not available for reprinting.) All graduate-level thesis and dissertation manuscripts are digitally archived with the UA library and UMI ProQuest, Inc. To obtain a copy of any thesis or dissertation manuscript, UA Affiliates should follow this link: Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations at the UA Library and ProQuest, Inc. For those living outside the Tucson, Arizona area, follow this link: Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.

Yearsort icon Title of Thesis, Dissertation, or Report Student Director Type Subarea
2000 A study of perched mound growth and dissipation: potential effects on artificial recharge efficiency Davies, Darian Kevin E. Lansey Master's Thesis Subsurface Hydrology
2000 Optimal pumping policy for a public supply wellfield using computational neural network with decision-making methodology Coppola, Emery A., Jr. Ferenc Szidarovszky Doctoral Dissertation Surface Hydrology
2000 A comparison of water quality methods and data: GLOBE program vs. United States Geological Survey Clemons, Joshua Edward Roger C. Bales Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
2000 Effect of velocity and water content on the gas-phase partitioning tracer test for the in-situ measurement of soil-water content in a large weighing lysimeter Carlson, Tyson David Mark L. Brusseau Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
2000 Sorption behavior of formaldehyde to ice grains Burkhart, John Faulkner Roger C. Bales Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
2000 Adsorption of volatile hydrophobic organic compounds at the vapor/water interface Bruant, Robert Gilbert, Jr. Martha H. Conklin Doctoral Dissertation Surface Hydrology
2000 Monte Carlo simulation of paleofloods: information content of paleoflood data in flood-frequency analysis Blainey, Joan Brandon Victor R. Baker Master's Thesis Surface Hydrology
2000 Central Avra valley storage and recovery project geochemical modeling study Anderson, Darcy J. Randy L. Bassett Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
2000 Use of biotracer tests to evaluate the impact of enhanced-solubilization flushing on in-situ biodegradation Alter, Stacie Ratcliff Mark L. Brusseau Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
1999 Comparison of snow distribution methods in the Echaurren basin, Chilean Andes Wolaver, Brad David Roger C. Bales Master's Thesis Surface Hydrology
1999 Simulation of groundwater flow in the Rincon valley area and Mesilla basin, New Mexico and Texas Weeden, A. Curtis Thomas Maddock III Master's Thesis Subsurface Hydrology
1999 An evaluation of limiting parameters on an in situ trichloroethene bioremediation project based on seven TCE field bioremediation studies Walecka-Hutchison, Claudia Martha H. Conklin Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
1999 Uncertainty estimation of hydrological models using bayesian inference methods Thiemann, Michael Soroosh Sorooshian Master's Thesis Surface Hydrology
1999 The impacts of digital elevation model data type and resolution on hydrologic modeling Syed, Kamran Haider Soroosh Sorooshian Doctoral Dissertation Surface Hydrology
1999 Lowering rates of moraine crests from accumulation of cosmogenic 36-Cl and 10-Be: eastern Sierra Nevada, California Shomer, J. Scott Marek G. Zreda Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
1999 Riparian and rangeland soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions in southeastern Arizona Scott, Russell Lawrence W.J. Shuttleworth Doctoral Dissertation Surface Hydrology
1999 Isotopic and chemical characterization of groundwater in the northern Tucson basin, Arizona Pasilis, Sofie Austin Long Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
1999 The role and usability of climate forecasts for flood control and water supply agencies in Arizona: a case study of the 1997-98 El Nino Pagano, Thomas Christopher Soroosh Sorooshian Master's Thesis Surface Hydrology
1999 Innovative tracers for subsurface characterization Nelson, Nicole Terese Mark L. Brusseau Doctoral Dissertation Environmental Hydrology
1999 Meteoric 36-Cl in the contiguous United States Moysey, Stephen Marek G. Zreda Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
1999 Alpine biogeochemical modeling: case studies, improvements, and parameter estimation Meixner, Thomas Roger C. Bales Doctoral Dissertation Surface Hydrology
1999 Seawater intrusion at Guaymas valley, Mexico: a flow and transport model Martinez-Morales, Manuel Thomas Maddock III Master's Thesis Subsurface Hydrology
1999 Single- and cross-hole pneumatic injection tests in unsaturated fractured tuffs at the Apache Leap research site near Superior, Arizona Illman, Walter Arthur (Sho Yamamoto) Shlomo P. Neuman Doctoral Dissertation Subsurface Hydrology
1999 Analysis of the utility of remote sensing data for urban hydrologic modeling Goodwin, Kathryn Lynn Kevin E. Lansey Master's Thesis Surface Hydrology
1999 Evaporation from irrigated crops: its measurement, modeling and estimation from remotely sensed data Garatuza-Payan, Jaime W.J. Shuttleworth Doctoral Dissertation Surface Hydrology
1999 Storm response of Sonoita creek watershed Gangadean, Devananda Simon Ince Master's Thesis Surface Hydrology
1999 Deciding to recharge Eden, Susanna Donald R. Davis Doctoral Dissertation Water Resources Administration
1999 Glacio-isostatic rebound rates from in-situ cosmogenic chlorine-36 dating of raised marine beaches in Makinson inlet, eastern Ellesmere Island Drinkard, Sally Lyn Marek G. Zreda Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
1999 Analysis and characterization of exterior water use demands of single family homes within the Tucson area Craft, Martha Everett Michael D. Bradley Master's Thesis Water Resources Administration
1999 A groundwater flow model of Indian Wells valley, California, utilizing GMS with GIS applications Clark, Alexandra Lynn Thomas Maddock III Master's Thesis Subsurface Hydrology
1999 Nitrogen removal and transformations during simulated soil aquifer treatment (SAT) Chipello, Peter Luke Martha H. Conklin Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
1999 Performance and simulation of chemically enhanced solubilization and removal of residual chlorinated solvents from porous media Boving, Thomas Bernhard Mark L. Brusseau Doctoral Dissertation Environmental Hydrology
1999 Predicting tracer and contaminant transport with the stratified aquifer approach Blue, Julie Elena Mark L. Brusseau Doctoral Dissertation Environmental Hydrology
1999 Water law and policy in the Sonoita creek basin Blomgren, Nathan Frederick Simon Ince Master's Thesis Water Resources Policy
1999 A systematic method for steady-state groundwater flow model calibration Blazer, Derek Jason Tian-Chyi Yeh Master's Thesis Subsurface Hydrology
1999 Artificial neural networks and conditional stochastic simulations for characterization of aquifer heterogeneity Balkhair, Khaled Saeed Lucien Duckstein Doctoral Dissertation Surface Hydrology
1998 A theoretical study of gas flow in porous media with a spherical source Rojano Aguilar, Abraham Arthur W. Warrick Doctoral Dissertation Subsurface Hydrology
1998 Parameter estimation for hydrometeorological models using multi-criteria methods Bastidas, Luis Alberto Soroosh Sorooshian Doctoral Dissertation Surface Hydrology
1998 Column leaching experiments and mass balance modeling simulating in-situ leaching within the oxide zone of the Florence poryphyry copper deposit, Pinal county, Arizona Brewer, Michael Donald Randy L. Bassett Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology
1998 Application of boron isotopic ratios for identifying source waters and mixing fractions at Apache Leap, Arizona Buchman, Jason Adam Randy L. Bassett Master's Thesis Environmental Hydrology