Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
In late Fall 2023 or Spring 2024, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Thesis: Determinants of Variation in Avian Mobbing Behavior, Charles Ray Chandler Jr.
Thesis: Life History Aspects of Reithrodontomys humulis in Southeastern Virginia, Michelle Cawthorn Chandler
Thesis: Germination and Host Range of Branched Broomrape (Orobanche ramosa) from Texas, Robert D. Coffin
Thesis: The Role of Colonization Predation and Season in Determining Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in a Temperate Lake, Cheryl Lynn Frew
Thesis: Characterization of the DNA and Chromosonal Analysis of Embryonic Dermacentor variabilis (SAY) Cells in Culture, Stanley Nicholas Mason
Thesis: A Molecular Phylogeny of the Grunts (Perciformes: Haemulidae) Inferred from Nuclear RAG1 Gene Sequences, Millicent D. Sanciangco
Thesis: Demographic Analysis and Microhabitat Relationships of a Small Mammal Community in Clearings of the Great Dismal Swamp, Jean Ferguson Stankavich
Thesis: Activity Levels of Arboreal Rodents Peromysus and Ochrotomys Evaluated with Nest Cans in Seasonally Flooded Forests, John W. Walke
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Thesis: The Effects of Dredged Materials on the Copeod, Acartia Tonsa, Renee Suzanne Crouch
Thesis: The Effects of the Mud Snail Ilyanassa obsoleta (Say) Upon the Benthic Community of Broad Bay, Virginia, Wick Timothy Harlan
Thesis: A Quantitative Study of the Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in an Irregularly Flooded Salt Marsh, Smith Island, Virginia, Leon L. Robert Jr.
Thesis: Homing and Ecology in the Southern Flying Squirrel, Glaucomys volans in Southeastern Virginia, Sherrie Lynn Sawyer
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Thesis: Variation in Leaf Macronutrients of Overstory Trees as Influenced by Species Season and Soil Type in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Bruce J. Bandle
Thesis: An Ecological Study of the Troglobitic Cirolanid Isopod Antrolana lira Bowman from Madisons Saltpetre Cave and Stegers Fissure, Augusta Co., Virginia, T. Lynn Collins
Thesis: Determining the Uptake and Possible Assimilation of the Plant Component of Spartina Detritus by Palaemonetes Pugio Using a Rapid Radiolabeling Method, Michael Peter Crosby
Thesis: Food Habits and Ecology of Beavers in Southeastern Virginia, John Lennox Echternach Jr.
Thesis: Myology and Osteology of Lupinoblennius Herre (Pisces: Blenniidae, William A. Roumillat
Thesis: A Structural Analysis of Phytoplankton in the Chesapeake Bay Plume and Adjacent Shelf Waters, Charles K. Rutledge
Thesis: Feeding Behavior of Three Species of Spionid Polychaetes, Thomas Lane Stokes Jr.
Thesis: The Effects of Kepone on the Estuarine Copepod Acartia tonsa, Judith Marie Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Thesis: Algal Dynamics in a Cypress Stand in the Seasonally Flooded Great Dismal Swamp, Joseph A. Atchue III
Thesis: The Seasonality of Occurrence of Larval and Juvenile Sciaenids in a Virginia Seaside Estuary, James Howard Cowan Jr.
Thesis: Incorporation of Carbon-14 Metabolites into the Sex Pheromon 26-Dichlorophenol of Dermacentor andersoni Stiles; and the Disruption of Pheromone Activity in D. andersoni and D. variabilis (SAY) by Quinones, Daniel Martin Gainsburg
Thesis: Fine Structure of the Nucleus and Cytoplasmic Feulgen-Positive Areas in the Developing Oocyte of Argus (Persicargas) radiatus, Bonnie J. Harding
Thesis: The Effects of Copper on Skeletonema Costatum (Greville) Cleve, Susanne Sybille Jackman
Thesis: Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Anatid Herpesvirus, Margaret Anne Lewis
Thesis: Petroleum-Utilizing Bacteria: The Biological Line Defense Against Oil Pollution, Steven W. Sokolowski
Thesis: Breeding Birds of Two Atlantic White Cedar Stands in the Great Dismal Swamp, Karen Terwilliger
Thesis: The Use of Microscopic Vegetative Characteristics and Leaf Characteristics and Leaf Deterioration Rates in the Formulation of Keys of Some Wetland Plants, Bruce Foy Williams
Thesis: Decay Rates and Nutrient Dynamics in Confines and Nonconfined Leaf Litter in the Great Dismal Swamp, R. Frederick K. Yates
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Thesis: An Evaluation of Small Rodent Populations in Four Dismal Swamp Plant Communities, Fiona Elizabeth Breidling
Thesis: The Association of Semen Factors with the Recovery of Ureaplasma urealyticum, Rebecca D. Cintron
Thesis: The Effects of 712-Dimethylbenz (A) Anthracene on Ovarian Steroidogenesis and Uterine Growth in the Mouse, Jeffrey Lynn Clark
Thesis: The Feasibility of Commercial Scale Culture of Atlantic Sturgeon, Acipenser Oxyrhynchus, Christopher John Coffing
Thesis: The Effect of the Herbicide Metolachlor on Nutrient Levels in Zea Mays L., Tamsey Dawn Warren Ellis
Thesis: Litter Production and Nutrient Content of Litter in the Seasonally Flooded Dismal Swamp, Marta M. Gomez
Thesis: Macrobenthic Communities of an Industrialized Seaport Ecosystem: The Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, Virginia, Steven D. Hawthorne
Thesis: Morphological Variation Among 14 Species of Callogobius Bleeker (Pisces: Gobiidae), James Francis McKinney
Thesis: Isolation and Enumeration of Enteric Viruses From Primary Wastewater Sludge, Michael Wayne Nath
Thesis: Germination and Haustorial Development in Orobanche Minor Smith (Orobanchaceae), David L. Spelce
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Thesis: Swimming as a Determinate to Immigration for Two Small Mammals in Coastal Virginia, Jeffrey Lewis Carter
Thesis: Structure of a Subtidal Benthic Community Near Cape Charles, Virginia, R. Michael Ewing
Thesis: The Development of Techniques for the Enumeration of Selected Pathogenic Bacteria in Lynnhaven Estuarine Sediments, Mark T. Frank
Thesis: Detection of Unique Tumor-Associated Proteins in the Urine of Patients with Transitional Cell Carcinoma by High Resolution Two-Dimensional Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis, Robert David Lehman
Thesis: A Potential Macroregulatory Mechanism for Growth Regulation in Neurospora crassa, Martha Mooney
Thesis: Seasonal Feeding Habits of the River Otter (Lutra canadensis) in Ditches of the Great Dismal Swamp, Ronnie M. Pierce
Thesis: Animal-Sediment Relationship Study of the Western Branch of the Lynnhaven River, Charles Perry Seymour
Thesis: Studies on the Anatomy of the Parasitic Gymnosperm Parasitaxus Ustus (Podocarpaceaea), Evelyn Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Thesis: The Fall and Winter Food Habits of the Black Bear (Ursus Americanus) in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Francis Leonard Daniel
Thesis: Herbaceous Production in Burned-Cut Burned-Uncut and Control Areas of a Chamaecyparis Thyoides (L.) BSP (Cupressaceae) Stand in the Great Dismal Swamp, Caroline Elisabeth McKinley
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Thesis: Duck Plague Virus an Investigation of Cytopathic Effects, in-vitro Host Range, and Inhibition by Phosphonoacetic Acid, Ronald Attanasio
Thesis: A Seasonal Study of Phytoplankton Composition Abundance and Productivity in Back Bay, Virginia, Robert Ringgold Comegys
Thesis: Demonstration of Unique Mycelial Components in Candida Albicans, David Jon Mancuso
Thesis: Contributions to the Reproductive Biology and Natural History of the Pirateperch, Aphredoderus Sayanus, Edward O. Murdy
Thesis: Plant Distribution and Succession Within Interdunal Depressions on a Virginia Barrier Dune System, Robert Wayne Tyndall
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Thesis: Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoretic Studies Demonstrating Cytoplasmic Protein Components Unique to the Mycelial Phase and to the Yeast Phase of Candida albicans, Theresa Catherine Burgess
Thesis: Sex Pheromone Activity in the Foveal Glands in the Two Species of Ixodid Ticks: Dermacentor Andersoni (Stiles) and Dermacentor Variabilis (Say), Lynn Anne Collins
Thesis: The Pathophysiology of Acute Venous Occlusion, Lewis H. Curd Jr.
Thesis: Structural Comparisons of Four Plant Communities in the Great Dismal Swamp, Claire Virginia Dabel
Thesis: The Distribution of Submersed Hydrophytes in Currituck Sound, Steven Harry Davis
Thesis: Variation in the Ecology Morphology and Behavior of the Troglobitic Amphipod Crustacean Crangonyx Antennatus Packard (Crangonchidae) from Different Habitats, Gary Wayne Dickson
Thesis: An Investigation of the Nucleotide Cyclic 3'5' Adenosine Monophosphate in Young Hypocotyls of Pisum sativum L., Gary Marsh Hilton
Thesis: Improved Techniques for Marking, Night-Viewing, and Aging White-Tailed Deer, Odocoileus Virginianus, Barnard Hodge Powell
Thesis: The Food Habits of Ictalurus Natalis, Centrarchus Macropterus and Perca Flavescens in Lake Drummond in the Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Steven C. Russell
Thesis: An Intensive Study of the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia, Donald Lynn Webster
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Thesis: Osteology of Trypauchenichthys sumatrensis Hardenburg, Christine Parrish Baer
Thesis: Measurement of Transpiration in Pinus Teada L. and Liquidambar Styraciflua L. in a Closed Environment Growth Chamber Using Tritiated Water, Jean K. Czoch
Thesis: Genetic Studies of Cave and Spring Populations of the Freshwater Amphipod Crustacean Gammarus Minus Say, Steven Wolf Hetrick
Thesis: Application of Satellite Data and Lars' Data Processing Techniques to Mapping Vegetation of the Dismal Swamp, Jeffrey Allan Messmore
Thesis: Seasonal Distribution of Higher Marine and Aquatic Fungi in the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Scott Schatz
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Thesis: Seasonal Composition of Zooplankton in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, Dahn E. Crandall
Thesis: A Taxonomic Study of Members of the Family Entrobacteriaceae with Gas Chromatography, Madeline Ducate
Thesis: Comparison of Interferon Produced in Vitro by Monkey Kidney Cells Demonstrating Interference Against Polio II, Coxsackie A-9, Influenza A2/Hong Kong/68, and Echo-9 Viruses, Archer Duncan Farmer Jr.
Thesis: The Ecology of the Dominant Tick Species in the Northwestern Portion of the Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Mary Keith Garrett
Thesis: Observations on the Distribution and Composition of Zooplankton in Portions of the Intracoastal Waterway, Virginia, O. Clair Hillard Jr.
Thesis: The Use of Color Infrared Aerial Photography in Determining Salt Marsh Vegetation and Delimiting Man-Made Structures of Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia, Robert E. Holman lll
Thesis: Studies on the Causes of Tree Distribution in a Forest Type in the Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Thomas A. Janszen
Thesis: An Ecological Study of the Craney Island Disposal Area in Hampton Roads, Virginia, David Wallace Laist
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Thesis: Seasonal Composition of Zooplankton of Lower Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Coastal Waters, Elizabeth W. Atkinson
Thesis: Cytogenic Studies of a Chesapeake Bay Population of Molgula Manhattensis (Dekay) (Ascidiacea: Stolidobranchia), Elizabeth A. Crawford
Thesis: A Zooplankton Study of Stumpy Lake, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Jose E. Hernandez
Thesis: A Simulation Model of Peromyscus Leucopus in an Area of the Great Dismal Swamp, James E. Paschal Jr.
Thesis: Phytoplankton Succession in the Lafayette River, Estuary, Norfolk, Virginia, Thomas W. Purcell lll
Thesis: Community Structure and Production in a Marsh on the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, Virginia, Michael Bassett Robblee
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Thesis: The Effects of the Cyclic 3'5'-Monophosphate of Adenosine and Its Dibutyryl Derivative on the In-Vitro Immunization of Mouse Spleen Cell Suspensions, James A. Blanks
Thesis: Phytoplankton Distribution in Waters Off the Northeastern Coast of the United States, Sharon H. Craft
Thesis: A Study of Precipitin and Soluble Antigen Fluorescent Antibody Technique in the Detection of Dirofilaria Immitis in Canines, John H. Ellsworth
Thesis: Plant Succession in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Susan Woodward Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Thesis: Phytoplankton Composition at Lake Drummond in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, William Howard Poore Jr.
Thesis: Trap Manifested Behavior Trap Reflected Density Trap Reflected Distribution and Foods Consumed by Raccoons (Procyon Lotor L.) in Two Natural Areas of Virginia, Elton L. Winslow