Electronic theses and dissertations from graduate students in the Ocean & Earth Sciences Department, Colleges 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 2007
Dissertation: Seagrass-Mediated Carbonate Dissolution and Early Diagenesis in Bahamas Bank Sediments, Xinping Hu
Thesis: Salt Fluxes at the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, Ruth Lane
Dissertation: The Observation, Modeling, and Retrieval of Bio-Optical Properties for Coastal Waters of the Southern Chesapeake Bay, Xiaoju Pan
Thesis: Cave Development in Strata of Ordovician-and Silurian-Devonian-Age in Highland County, Virginia, Carol Ann Peterson
Thesis: Interactions Between Phytoplankton and Bacteria in the Uptake of Organic Compounds, Andrea Michel Rocha
Dissertation: Mixed Layer Dynamics Along the Seward Line in the Northern Gulf of Alaska, Nandita Sarkar
Dissertation: Annual and Interannual Variability in the Wind Field and the Hydrography Along the Seward Line in the Northern Gulf of Alaska, Isaac Schroeder
Thesis: Investigation of a Possible Lead-Lag Relationship Between the Innuitian and Laurentide Ice Sheets, Arctic Canada, Paula Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Thesis: Fortnightly Variability at the Transition Between Two Sub-Estuaries, Mayra Lorena Riveron Enzastiga
Thesis: Characterization of β-Lactam Resistant Pandemic Serotypes of Vibrio cholerae Isolated from Ships' Ballast Tanks and Coastal Waters, Amanda Lynn Goodrich
Thesis: Exchange Hydrodynamics Between a Subestuary and Its Adjacent Estuary, Diego A. Narváez
Thesis: Tidally Induced Variability at the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, María Andrea Piñones
Thesis: Age Validation and Reproductive Biology of Bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, Along the East Coast of United States, Eric Robillard
Dissertation: Continuously Stratified Flow Dynamics Over a Hollow, David Salas-Monreal
Thesis: Correlating Late Pleistocene Deposits on the Coastal Plain of Virginia with the Glacial-Eustatic Sea-Level Curve, Timothy Wullschleger Scott
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Dissertation: Correlation and Causes of Fifth Order Cycles Within the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Formation, Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, Kimberly Ann Johnson
Thesis: Interannual Variation of Stratification in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Christopher S. Katzenmiller
Dissertation: Modeling the Effects of Physical and Biogeochemical Processes on Phytoplankton Species and Carbon Production in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean, Baris Salihoglu
Dissertation: Geochemical Behavior of the Rare Earth Elements in Natural Terrestrial Waters, Jianwu Tang
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Dissertation: Inter-Annual to Inter-Decadal Variability of Upwelling and Anchovy Population off Northern Chile, Jose L. Blanco-Garcia
Thesis: Hydrologic Variations Within Created and Natural Wetlands in Southeastern Virginia, Aaron Dyer Despres
Thesis: Hydrologic Variations Within Created and Natural Wetlands in Southeastern Virginia, Aaron Dyer Despres
Dissertation: The Effect of Submarine Canyon Width and Stratification on Coastal Circulation and Across Shelf Exchange, Kyung-Hoon Hyun
Dissertation: Estimation of Primary Production and Carbon Flux in Antarctic Coastal Waters: A Modeling Study, Hae-Cheol Kim
Dissertation: Inner Shelf Circulation in Coastal Virginia: A Data Assimilation Approach, Hector Hito Sepulveda
Thesis: Anthropogenic Lead Deposition and Four National Parks in Poland as Determined by Lead Isotope Ratios, Shannon Simcoe
Dissertation: An Investigation of Dissolved Organic Matter in a Shallow Coastal Bay Subject to Aureococcus anophagefferens Blooms, Jean-Paul Simjouw
Dissertation: Bio-Optical Properties of the Arctic Waters: Empirical and Theoretical Observations, Jian Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Thesis: Dissolved Humic Substances: Characterization of their Sorption onto Iron Hydroxide Aluminum Hydroxide Kaolinite and Smectite, Sarah E. Diebel
Dissertation: Wind-Induced Exchange in Semi-Enclosed Basins, Rosario Sanay
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Dissertation: Modeling the Biogeochemical Cycle of Selenium in the San Francisco Bay, Shannon L. Meseck
Thesis: Sea Level Slopes and Volume Fluxes Produced by Atmosphere Forcing in Chesapeake Bay, David Salas Monreal
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Thesis: The Distribution of Airborne Coal Dust in Soil Profiles of Norfolk, VA and Its Implication for Arsenic Loading to These Soils, William Joseph Bounds
Dissertation: Transverse Variability of the Flow and Density in Inlets of Southern Chile, Mario Arturo Cáceres Muñoz
Dissertation: Trichodesmium spp.: Numerical Studies of Resource Competition, Carbohydrate Ballasting, and Remote-Sensing Reflectance, Tonya Denise Clayton
Dissertation: Coastal Ocean Morphodynamics and the Resulting Erosion and Deposition: An Analytical Approach, Shejun Fan
Thesis: Morphostatic Long-Term Hypsometric Analysis of Coastal Bay Environments: Hog Island Bay, Virginia, Kathleen Marie Overman
Dissertation: Tidal and Subtidal Lateral Structures of Density and Velocity in the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, Austreberto Cristobal Reyes-Hernandez
Thesis: Hydrographic Variability on Decadal and Interdecadal Scales in the Northern Gulf of Alaska, Nandita Sarkar
Dissertation: Dynamical Sedimentary Models of Shallow Marine Environments, Yong Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Dissertation: Physical Control of Biological Processes in the Central Equatorial Pacific: A Data Assimilative Modeling Study, Marjorie Anne MacWhorter Friedrichs
Dissertation: Nitrate Reductase Activity, Nitrate Uptake and Iodine Speciation in the Marine Environment, Chin-Chang Hung
Thesis: Analysis of Lunar Basalt Flows in Oceanus Procellarum Using Clementine Data, Noel William Jackson
Dissertation: The Impacts of External Nutrient Sources on Marine Phytoplankton in an Eastern Shore Sea-Side Estuary, Claudette Lajoie Jenkins
Thesis: Encystment, Excystment and Photosynthetic Activity in the Temporary Cysts of Amphidinium carterae, Steven R. Kibler
Dissertation: A Coupled Bio-Optical and Mixed Layer Model for the Equatorial Pacific, James Vincent Koziana
Thesis: Effects of Organic Matter and Iron-Rich Clay on Mobility of Trace Metals From Flue Dust Contaminated Soil, Scott Ephraim Lewis
Dissertation: Stratal Architecture in a Prograding Shoreface Deposit, Eastern Shore, VA: Relationship to Grain Size, Permeability, and Facies Distribution, Andrew C. Miller
Dissertation: Ocean Surface Maps From Blending Disparate Data Through Normal Mode Analysis, William John Schulz Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Dissertation: Non-Volatile Dissolved Organic Iodine in Marine Water, Xianhao Cheng
Dissertation: Studies of Warm-Core Rings Using a Particle-in-Cell Method, John James Holdzkom II
Thesis: Modeling Environmental Effects on MSX Prevalence and Intensity in Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Populations, Michelle Christine Paraso
Thesis: A Paleoenvironmental Study of a Middle Wisconsinan Biota Site, Russell County, Virginia, Thomas C. Wynn
Thesis: The Geomorphological History of an Alluvial Fan Complex in Nelson County, Virginia, Melinda Ann Youngblood
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Dissertation: Distribution of Free Marine Viruses of Lower Chesapeake Bay and Their Effects on Life-History Parameters of the Estuarine Copepod Acartia tonsa Dana, Lisa A. Drake
Thesis: Middle Shoreface Intervals: Evidence of Barred Nearshore Systems in he Stratigraphic Record, James V. Gravette
Thesis: Modeling Plankton Community Structure Under Environmental Forcing on the Southeastern United States Continental Shelf, Andrew Glenn Edward Haskell
Thesis: The Effects of Organic Matter Rich Topsoil on the Germination Growth and Metal Uptake of Corn (Zea mays) Grown in Flue Dust Contaminated Soil, Christopher Allen Impellitteri
Thesis: 40AR/39 AR Geochronology of the Lowland Creek Volcanic Field and Its Temporal Relations With Other Eocene Volcanic Areas, Vladimir Olegovich Ispolatov
Thesis: Ice Transport in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canadian Arctic Using Detrital FE Oxide Grain Composition, Duan Li
Thesis: Biostratigraphic Analysis of Southern Florida's Plio-Pleistocene Shell Beds, Dalton L. Rasmussen
Dissertation: Influence of Physics on the Distribution of Ichthyoplankton Across the Chesapeake Bay Plume, Christian S. Reiss
Thesis: Elevation as a Control of Boulder Stream Formation in the Blue Ridge Province of Virginia, Marc D. Zamkotowicz
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Thesis: Depositional Environment and Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation of Miocene St. Marys Formation, Calvert County, Maryland, John J. Blandin
Dissertation: Recruitment of Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, Postlarvae to the Back-Barrier Lagoons of Virginia's Eastern Shore, Robert D. Brumbaugh
Dissertation: The Effects of Environmental Variability on the Population Structure of the Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica): A Modeling Study, Margaret McManus Dekshenieks
Dissertation: Observation of Shelfwater Overrunning the Southern Slope Sea, Ajoy Kumar
Dissertation: Seasonal and Mesoscale Variability in the Distribution of Antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba, West of the Antarctic Peninsula, Cathy Meyer Lascara
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Dissertation: The Effect of Arctic River Hydrological Cycles on Arctic Ocean Circulation, Peter Becker
Thesis: Geology of an Archean Greenstone Belt at Point Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, Patrick Rowan Considine
Dissertation: Seasonal Variability of Heat and Mass Transport Process in the Upper Tropical Atlantic Ocean: A Numerical Model Study, Sang-Ki Lee
Dissertation: Dynamics of Dipoles in the Middle Atlantic Bight, Bruce L. Lipphardt Jr.
Thesis: "A Geological Interpretation of the Stanley Fault and Other Thrust Faults in Page County, Virginia", Michael James Sarros
Thesis: Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Upper Indus-Fan Complex a Model for Fan Development, Syed Firasat Shah
Thesis: Late Cretaceous Foraminifera as Indicators of Sequence Boundaries, Book Cliffs, Utah, U.S.A., Kimberly A. Smith
Dissertation: A Feasibility Study of Dynamical Assimilation of Tide Gauge Data in the Chesapeake Bay, Yvette H. Spitz
Dissertation: Thermocline Circulation Driven at Surface Outcrops of Isopycnal Surfaces, Gudavalli V. R. K. Vittal
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Dissertation: Quaternary Seismic Stratigraphy of the Inner Shelf and Coastal Zone, Southern Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia, Anthony M. Foyle
Thesis: The Dinoflagellate Flora of the Late Oligocene - Early Miocene Old Church Formation Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, Alan P. Hoffmeister
Dissertation: The Speciation of Dissolved Uranium in Marine Waters, Darrin Kent Mann
Dissertation: Flow Kinematics and Dynamics of the Gulf Stream From Composite Imagery, Caitlin Patrice Mullen
Dissertation: Methods for the Comparison of Timing Behavior Applied to the Pink Salmon Fisheries of Prince William Sound, Alaska, Louis J. Rugolo
Thesis: The Influence of Saprolite Composition Texture and Structure on Groundwater Flow in the Piedmont Province Henry County Virginia, John Thomas Russell
Dissertation: Iodate Transformation By Marine Phytoplankton, Ajcharaporn Udomkit
Dissertation: On the Low-Frequency Current and Temperature Fluctuations Along the Shelf Break in the South Atlantic Bight, Sunny Yu Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Thesis: Paleocene to Miocene Foraminifera From a Well Near Gloucester, Virginia, Nelson Stanley Ford
Thesis: Description, Distribution, and Abundance of the Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus (Rathbun), Spawning Stock of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Patrick John Geer
Dissertation: Heat Storage and Transport Processes in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Andras Kapolnai
Dissertation: Production and Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide by Marine Phytoplankton, Dong-Beom Kim
Thesis: Paleobathymetric Interpretation of Pleistocene Sediments in the South Padre Island Area, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Using Benthic Foraminiferal Morphology, Karen Ianthe Kruebbe-Belwood
Thesis: Instability Waves in the Gulf Stream Front and Its Thermocline Layer, Sang-Ki Lee
Thesis: Recent Benthic Foraminifera, Petrology, and Implications for Recent Transport in Wilmington and South Heyes Submarine Canyons, U.S. Atlantic Continental Margin, Jason James Lundquist
Dissertation: Description and Dynamics of 50-Day Oscillations in the Western Tropical Region of the CME Model, Julie Lorraine McClean
Dissertation: Modeling Nutrient and Plankton Processes in the California Coastal Transition Zone, John Roland Moisan
Thesis: Lithofacies of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Lucayan Limestone, Great Abaco Island, Little Bahama Bank, Mary K. Mullen
Dissertation: The Biogeochemistry of Hydrogen Sulfide in the Open Ocean, Joël Radford-Knoery
Thesis: Petrology of a Large Granophyre-Rich Mesozoic Diabase Dike Near Farmville, Virginia, Philip Thomas Rogan
Dissertation: The Biogeochemistry of Iodine in Seawater, Lingsu Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Thesis: Ground Water Investigation of the Petersburg Granite in Chesterfield County, Virginia, Michael W. Bennett
Thesis: Evaluation of Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic Tectonism: Atlantic Inner Coastal Plain Margin Near Richmond, Virginia, Andrew A. Gremos