Professor
Current Students
Past students – dissertation/thesis title
Hannah Johnson (MS Sustainability, 2023) – An Analysis of the Effects of Distance, Activities, and Amenities on Texas State Parks Visitation
Joanna Weathersby (MS, 2023) – A Broader View of Conservation: Mapping Nature and Culture in Gillespie County, Texas
Isabelle Habegger (BS Honors, 2022) – Tex-essibility: An Analysis of Accessibility in Texas State Parks
Madeline Wade (MS, 2022) – Blue Index San Marcos: Assessing Emotional Experiences, Values, and Patterns of Use of Waterscapes in San Marcos, Texas
Christina Lopez (PhD, 2021) – Community Geography, Place Identity, Environmental Stewardship: What Motivates Volunteerism at Environmental Nonprofit Organizations?
Elizabeth Davila (MAG, 2021) – Spatiotemporal river use patterns and implications for Texas wild-rice distribution in the San Marcos River (Texas, USA) for Summer 2016
Aaron Raper (MAG, 2020) – Plum Creek Watershed Management: A survey and synthesis of management strategies within the context of watershed-scale changes in land use, hydrology, and water quality
Imokhai (Theo) Tenebe (MS Engineering, 2020) – Land use and water quality connections in the Manawatu Catchment, NZ [co-advised with Dr. Keisuke Ikehata, Civil Engineering]
Ioannis Kamarinas (PhD, 2018) – Geospatial analyses of terrestrial-aquatic connections across New Zealand and their influence on river water quality
Mike Kraft (MAG, 2017) – Demographic Usage Patterns of Purgatory Creek Park, San Marcos, TX
Grant Moss (MS, 2017) – Protecting water quality and connecting protected places in Texas using riparian connectivity networks
Kristen Newcomer (MS, 2017) – Historical riparian habitat changes of an endangered bird species: Interior Least Terns along the Red River below Denison Dam
Samantha Abbott (MS, 2016) – Cross-scale interactions among land use, climate and river sediment loads in the Manawatu Catchment, New Zealand
Matt Heinemann (MS, 2016) – Leveraging data mining and market segmentation to gain conservation opportunity intelligence
Chelsea J. Martin-Mikle (MS, 2014) – Development of a Spatially-explicit Approach for Identifying Priority Sites for Low Impact Development in a Mixed-use Watershed [co-advised with Dr. Kirsten de Beurs]
Nick Wilgruber (MS, 2014) – Land Cover Change Impacts on Stream Channel Loss [co-advised with Dr. Kirsten de Beurs]
Trung V. Tran (PhD, 2013) – Landscape heterogeneity and spatio-temporal resolution considerations for mapping land cover changes [co-advised with Dr. Kirsten de Beurs]
Rana N. Jawarneh (PhD, 2012) – Environmental Influences on Past and Future Urban Development in the Arkansas Red River Basin (USA), 1857-2050
Sadiq Khan (PhD, 2011) – Satellite remote sensing and hydrologic modeling for flood monitoring in data poor environments [co-advised with Dr. Yang Hong]
Sayed Moursi (Postdoc, 2010) – Effects of Dam Operation on Downstream Hydrology, Riparian Vegetation, and Channel Migration Patterns