All ODU theses and dissertations since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles to 1976 of dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
To browse dissertations and theses by academic department or program, please go to the Research by College, Department, Center page.
At some point, backfiles for all master's theses will be scanned and added. In the meantime, consult the library guide for "Dissertations & Theses" to find older items in print.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Thesis: The Effects of Elevated Calcium Chloride and Magnesium Chloride Levels on Larval Growth and Survival of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (De Man) (Decapoda Palaemonidae) Reared in the Laboratory, James Thomas Michaels II
Thesis: Structural Studies of Preimplantation Rabbit Embryos Using FTIR ATR, Amy R. Moler-Booth
Thesis: The Distribution of Cesium-137, Copper, Lead and Zinc in Various Sedimentary Environments of the James River Estuary, Virginia, Colin Stevenson Moy
Thesis: Finite Element Model of a Timoshenko Beam with Structural Damping, Louis Ablen Roussos
Thesis: Multiple Methods of Analysis of 2'-O-Methylation in 5.8S rRna, Sharon H. Ryan
Dissertation: Analytic and Experimental Studies of a True Airspeed Sensor, Joseph Yao-Cheng Shen
Thesis: Germination and Haustorial Development in Orobanche Minor Smith (Orobanchaceae), David L. Spelce
Dissertation: Influence of Nonequilibrium Radiation and Shape Change on the Flowfield of a Jupiter Probe With Ablation and Mass Injection, Sundaresa Venkata Subramanian
Thesis: Use of Disclosing Tablets and Signs of Gingival Bleeding for Improving the Oral Health and Oral Hygiene Status of Adult Dental Clients, Susan Elaine Thompson
Thesis: Distribution of the Dinoflagellate Symbiosis in Astragia danae as Affected by Light Attenuation, Michael Perry Weston
Thesis: Multiple Forms of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Glycohydrolase from Bull Semen, Stanley D. Yeatts II
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Dissertation: Turbulence Spectra in a Well-Mixed Estuary, Jong Yul Chung
Thesis: Effect of the Rubber-Cup Prophylaxis and the Self-Administered Prophylaxis on the Oral Hygiene Performance of the Pedodontic Patient, Kay Diane Edwards
Thesis: Core Size, Pricing, and Cost Structure, William K. Edwards
Thesis: Structure of a Subtidal Benthic Community Near Cape Charles, Virginia, R. Michael Ewing
Thesis: Franck Condon Factors and R-Centeroids for Six Diatomic Molecules, Patricia M. Fazio
Thesis: The Development of Techniques for the Enumeration of Selected Pathogenic Bacteria in Lynnhaven Estuarine Sediments, Mark T. Frank
Thesis: Feeding Morphologies and Distribution Patterns of Marine Cladocera in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Sandra Layne Gilchrist
Dissertation: Production of a Population of the Stout Razor Clam (Tagelus plebeius Solander) in a Virginia Estuary, Mark James Grussendorf
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: The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Fish Eggs and Larvae in Hempstead Bay Estuary, Joseph Adelard Lessard
Thesis: Measuring Empathy in Female Hygiene Students, Patricia R. Mason
Thesis: Seasonal Feeding Habits of the River Otter (Lutra canadensis) in Ditches of the Great Dismal Swamp, Ronnie M. Pierce
Dissertation: Curing and Flow of Thermosetting Resins for Composite Materials Pultrusion, Howard L. Price Jr.
Thesis: The Synthesis and Evaluation of the Potential Antineoplastic Activity of the Semicarbazone and the Thiosemicarbazone Derivatives of the Di-2-Pyridyl Ketone and the 1,8-Diazafluorenone Ring Systems, Adriene Y. Principe
Thesis: Animal-Sediment Relationship Study of the Western Branch of the Lynnhaven River, Charles Perry Seymour
Thesis: A Study of Decision Making: The Case of Brown and Root, Inc., Mary Blossom Springle
Thesis: Studies on the Anatomy of the Parasitic Gymnosperm Parasitaxus Ustus (Podocarpaceaea), Evelyn Wilkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Thesis: Mercury, Copper, and Zinc in Selected Ichthyofauna of Lower Chesapeake Bay and Hampton Roads, Virginia, W. Bruce Aitenhead
Thesis: Experiments in Attempted Interspecific and Interpopulational Hybridzation of Grass Shrimp of the Genus Palaemonetes (Caridea Palaemonidae), Mark Andrew Boston
Thesis: The Relationship of Bottom Sediments to the Current-Generated Topography on Crumps Bank and Willoughby Bank, Southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Eugene Robert Brush
Thesis: The Fall and Winter Food Habits of the Black Bear (Ursus Americanus) in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Francis Leonard Daniel
Thesis: Life Goals of Five Dental Hygiene Groups in Three Educational Settings, Kathleen Olivia Hodges
Thesis: Values of Dental Hygienists in Three Different Occupational Settings, Adele Cereghino Koot
Dissertation: Design, Calibration, and Application of a Sensor for Measuring Time Dependent Angle of Attack of Helicopter Blades, Weiyuan Henry Liu
Thesis: Conservation According to the Pure Theory of Exhaustible Resources, George Lymbouris
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
Dissertation: The Response of an Idealized Continental Shelf to Atmospheric Forcing, Paul Francis Moersdorf
Thesis: The Distribution of Several Metals and Cation Exchange Capacity in Sediment Fractions from an Artificial and Natural Marsh, James River, Virginia, William Nivens
Dissertation: Crack Propagation in Aluminum Sheets Reinforced With Boron-Epoxy, George Lawrence Roderick
Thesis: Effect of Precursor Heating on Radiating and Chemically Reacting Viscous Flow Around a Jovian Entry Body, Kuo Yen Szema
Dissertation: Analysis of Moisture Absorption and Diffusion in Fiber Reinforced Polymeric Resin-Matrix Composite Materials, Stephen Stern Tompkins
Dissertation: The Photosynthetic Action Spectra of the Phytoplankton and Their Role in Governing Spatial and Temporal Distribution: A Numerical Modeling Approach, William Morrow Willis
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 Baseline Study on the Possible Mechanisms of Larval Stomatopod Distribution on the Carolina Shelf, Carl Robert Berman Jr.
Thesis: Suspended Matter and Light Attenuation in a Turbid Estuary, Daniel E. Campbell
Thesis: A Model to Investigate the Influence of Suspended Sediment on the Mass Transport of a Pollutant in Open Channel Flow, Raymond Scott Chapman
Thesis: Feeding Ecology of Black Sea Bass Centropristis striata on an Artificial Reef off Virginia (Perciforms: Serranidae), Ping K. Chee
Thesis: A Seasonal Study of Phytoplankton Composition Abundance and Productivity in Back Bay, Virginia, Robert Ringgold Comegys
Thesis: A Study of the Gas-Solid Reaction Between Hydrogen Sulfide and Mercury(I) Chloride; Development of a Method for Determination of Atmospheric Hydrogen Sulfide, Eric H. De Carlo
Thesis: The Effects of Oral Health in-Service Education in an Extended Care Facility, Marcia Brand Doloresco
Thesis: The Effects of Temperature and Salinity on the Larval Development of the Grass Shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio Holthuis Reared in the Laboratory, William Ray Floyd III
Dissertation: Evaluation of Hydrogen as a Cryogenic Wind Tunnel Test Gas, Richard Carl Haut II
Thesis: Effect of Nitrite and Nitrate on the Larval Development of the Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes pugio Holthuis, Carl Bingham Hinesman
Thesis: Temperature and Salinity Tolerance of the Larvae of the Sand Shrimp, Crangon Septemspinosa (Say), Karen Lyttle Hinsman
Dissertation: Precise Frequency Control of the Voltage Controlled Oscillator Using Finite Digital Word Lengths, Timothy Peter Hulick
Thesis: Creativity in Dental Hygiene Students and Dental Hygiene Professionals, Frances Lynne Jarrett
Thesis: Sediment Interstitial Dissolved Mercury and Carbon Relationships in an Artificial and Natural Marsh, James River, Virginia, Apostolos Katsaounis
Thesis: Description of the Larval Development of Squilla empusa Say (Crustacea Stomatopoda) with Aspects of Larval Ecology in Chesapeake Bay, Steven Gaines Morgan
Thesis: Contributions to the Reproductive Biology and Natural History of the Pirateperch, Aphredoderus Sayanus, Edward O. Murdy
Dissertation: Optimal Control of a Large Space Telescope Using an Annular Momentum Control Device, Arun Anant Nadkarni
Thesis: The Effects of Electron Irradiation on MOSFETs, Mark D. Skeldon
Thesis: Plant Distribution and Succession Within Interdunal Depressions on a Virginia Barrier Dune System, Robert Wayne Tyndall
Dissertation: Fundamental Analysis of the Linear Multiple Regression Technique for Quantification of Water Quality Parameters From Remote Sensing Data, Charles Henry Whitlock III
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Thesis: A Comparative Study of a Salt Water Impoundment with Its Adjacent Tidal Creek Pertinent to Culture of Crassostrea Virginica (Gmelin), William D. Anderson III
Thesis: Effect of the Chesapeake-Elizabeth Sewage Outfall Virginia Beach, Virginia on the Distribution and Ecology of Benthic Foraminifera, James M. Bates Jr.
Thesis: Studies of the Purification of NAD-Dependent and NADP-Dependent Isocitrate Dehydrogenase by General Ligand Affinity Chromatography, Geoffrey H. Bertkau
Dissertation: Similitude of Mass Transfer Processes in Distorted Froude Model of an Estuary, Carvel Hall Blair
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: The Effect of 4-Chlororesorcinol on the Growth Potential of Dunaliella Tertiolecta Butcher (Dun Clone), John Anthony Chigges
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
Dissertation: Numerical Simulation of Thermohaline Convection in the Mixed Layer of the Ocean, Victor Eli Delnore
Thesis: Variation in the Ecology Morphology and Behavior of the Troglobitic Amphipod Crustacean Crangonyx Antennatus Packard (Crangonchidae) from Different Habitats, Gary Wayne Dickson
Thesis: Control of Clay Mineral Distribution by Estuarine Circulation, James River Estuary, Virginia, Jean-Pierre Feuillet
Thesis: Topography, Shallow Structure, and Sedimentary Processes of the Atlantic Continental Slope off the Carolina Coast, Robert Michael Fitchko
Thesis: Seasonal Distribution and the Retention of Some Decapod Crustacean Larvae Within the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Joseph William Goy
Thesis: Dynamics and Sedimentology of Inner Middle Ground - Nine Foot Shoal, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Mitchell Alan Granat
Thesis: An Investigation of the Nucleotide Cyclic 3'5' Adenosine Monophosphate in Young Hypocotyls of Pisum sativum L., Gary Marsh Hilton
Thesis: The Natural History of the Naked Goby Gobiosoma bosci (Perciformes: Gobiidae), Leonard L. Nero
Thesis: Improved Techniques for Marking, Night-Viewing, and Aging White-Tailed Deer, Odocoileus Virginianus, Barnard Hodge Powell
Thesis: A Batch Method for the Isolation of Immunogenically Pure IgG, IgA, and IgM from Human Sera, Samuel Christopher Powell
Thesis: The Effects of Dredging on the Stability of an Ebb-Tidal Delta, Lynnhaven Inlet, Virginia, Donald Keith Riggenbach
Thesis: Kinetic and Binding Studies on L-∝-Glycerophosphate Dehydrogenase, Paul Richard Rosevear
Thesis: Test Variation in the Sand Dollar, Mellita quinquiesperforata (Leske), George Glynn Rountree
Thesis: Stability and Local Effects of an Offshore Sand Storage Mound, Dam Neck Disposal Site, Virginia Inner Continental Shelf, William Joslyn Saumsiegle
Thesis: A Numerical Model for the Prediction of Tides and Tidal Currents in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, G. McAllister Sisson
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: The Synthesis of New Maleimide Addition Polymer Precursors, Richard B. Brown
Thesis: Sensitivity of a Gas Filter Correlation Instrument to Variations in Atmospheric Profile and Earth Surface Temperatures, Joseph C. Casas
Thesis: The Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, James D. Haluska
Thesis: Application of Satellite Data and Lars' Data Processing Techniques to Mapping Vegetation of the Dismal Swamp, Jeffrey Allan Messmore
Thesis: Urbanization and Environmental Change in Lynnhaven Estuary, Don W. Oswalt
Thesis: An Engineering Solution to Improve Water Quality in a Tidal Lagoon, Richard Warren Price
Thesis: Seasonal Distribution of Higher Marine and Aquatic Fungi in the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Scott Schatz
Thesis: Microbenthic Algal Production of an Intertidal Sandflat in Little Creek Harbor, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Clayton Barry Shedrow
Thesis: Processes Controlling the Distribution of Methane in the Cariaco Tranch, Venezuela, Denis A. Wiesenburg