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 1992
Dissertation: Factors Affecting the Kinetics of Light Intensity Adaptation in Marine Phytoplankton, Chunzhi Guo
Dissertation: Development and Standardization of a Short-Term Assay for Evaluating Polluted Estuarine and Coastal Environments: The Medaka Embryo-Larval Assay, Michael Frederick Helmstetter
Thesis: Plankton Transport Patterns and Residence Times Around a Tall Seamount: Simulation Results, Dorlisa Louise Hommel
Dissertation: Ring Dynamics in the Western Gulf of Mexico, Adolphe W. Indest
Dissertation: Some Solutions to a Lens Model With Applications to Warm-Core Eddies, Juping Liu
Dissertation: Diapycnal Mixing and Mass Transfer in Western Boundary Currents, Jose Luis Pelegri Llopart
Thesis: A Paleoenvironmental Analysis Based on Ostracode Assemblages from the Late Pliocene Tuapaktushak and Middle Pleistocene Karmuk Members of the Gubik Formation of the Arctic Coastal Plain, Western Alaska, D. E. Loehrke
Thesis: Relation of Groundwater Fluoride Concentrations to Sediment Mineralogy, Potomac Formation (Cretaceous), Southeastern Virginia, Paul Anthony Maciuika
Dissertation: The Growth and Bioenergetics of Callinectes sapidus Larvae and the Effects of Diet Quality on Larval Physiology, James J. Pletl
Thesis: Fluid Inclusion Studies of the Morefield Pegmatite Amelia County, Virginia, John Richard Smerekanicz
Dissertation: Distribution of Foraminifera and Pollen in Coastal Depositional Environments of the Southern Delmarva Peninsula, Virginia, U.S.A., Han Jun Woo
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Thesis: The Geomorphology of Alluvial Fan Deposits on the West Flank of the Blue Ridge, Augusta County, Virginia, Debra Lynn Duffy
Thesis: A Geophysical and Geological Study of the Farmville Triassic Basin, Charles G. James Jr.
Dissertation: Processes Affecting the Behavior of Redox-Sensitive Elements in Chesapeake Bay, Maria Lourdes San Diego-McGlone
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Thesis: A Comparison of Metals in Several Ahermatypic Corals and Surficial Sediments: Mobile Pinnacles and Hoffa Reef, Northcentral Gulf of Mexico, Kathryn M. Conko
Thesis: The Hydrogeology and Leachate Generation of an Alum Sludge Lagoon Chesapeake Virginia, Charles M. Darling
Thesis: Hydrogeology and Water Budget Analysis of Two Interdunal Ponds Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve, Dare County, North Carolina, Richard A. Hisert
Thesis: Metal Mobilization from a Near-Shore Lake Sediment Under Simulated Acidic Groundwater Inputs, Raveendra V. Ika
Thesis: Middle Eocene Foraminifera From the Piney Point Formation of the Virginia and Maryland Coastal Plain, Megan S. Jones
Dissertation: Freshwater Transport on the Continental Shelf of the Southeastern United States, Cheolsoo Kim
Thesis: Trace Metals and Pyrite in Sediments of Chesapeake Bay, Robert S. Kluckhohn
Thesis: The Role of Longshore Sediment Transport in the Loss of Fill Material from an Estuarine Groin System, R. Neville Reynolds
Dissertation: The Effects of Variable Parameters on the Behavior of Initial Wind Waves, Glen Harvey Wheless
Thesis: The Effects of Two Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Benzo[a]pyrene and Naphthalene on Reproductive Success Embryological Development Larval Physiology and Mortality of the Mud Crab Rhithropanopeus harisii (Gould), Gregory V. White
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Dissertation: Population Variation in the Mitochondrial-DNA of Two Marine Organisms: The Hard Shell Clam Mercenaria spp. and the Killifish, Fundulus Heteroclitus, Bonnie Lynn Brown
Thesis: A Geophysical Study of the Easternmost Piedmont: Brunswick County, Virginia, Mark A. Corbin
Thesis: Picoplankton/Phytoplankton Dynamics in Hampton Roads, Virginia, Leslie E. Dorworth
Thesis: Lithofacies of the Pliocene Yorktown Formation in the Vicinity of Kingsmill on the James River, Virginia, Michael David Lawless
Dissertation: Nonlinear Solutions to a Two-Layer Quasi-Geostrophic Model of the Gulf Stream, Eiichi Oka
Thesis: The Geomorphology and Surficial Geology of the West Flank of the Blue Ridge, Sherando Area, Virginia, Derek Weston Ryter
Thesis: The Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Blue Crab Larvae on the Mid-Atlantic Bight Adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay, 1982-1983, Lyle Michael Varnell
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Dissertation: Holocene Geology and Migration of a Low-Profile Barrier Island System, Metompkin Island, Virginia, Mark R. Byrnes
Thesis: Recent Benthic Foraminifera of Breton and Stake Islands Northern Gulf of Mexico, Eric S. Collins
Thesis: Economic Considerations for Artificial Reef Development in Coastal Virginia, Dean Thomas Devereaux
Thesis: Distribution of Suspended Particulate Matter, Patuxent River Estuary, Maryland, Christopher W. Frye
Thesis: Nutrient Cycling in Bordenstake Bay Sediments: A Backbarrier Lagoon, Mark J. Herrenkohl
Thesis: Survival and Reproduction of the Freshwater Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes paludosus (Gibbes 1850) (Decapoda:Palaemonidae), in Saline Water, Brian Thomas Lowe
Thesis: Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Anahuac Formation (Late Oligocene-Early Miocene) from a Deep Well in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, Audrey Lynne Orndorff
Thesis: Trace Elements in Northern Virginia Middle Ordovician Carbonates: Implications for Diagenesis, Ruth Ann Strauss
Thesis: Structural Geology of Page Valley, Page County, Virginia, Tamera J. Warden
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Thesis: The Stratigraphy of Late Quaternary Deposits in the Payan Mining District, Narino, Colombia, South America, Richard Alan Barringer
Dissertation: A Simple Numerical Model for the Study of Baroclinic Estuarine Shelf Interactions, Thomas J. Berger
Thesis: Sediment Budgets and Shoreline Dynamics Cape Henry, Virginia, Marcia R. Berman
Thesis: Provenance of Sands Within the Lower Chesapeake Bay Based on Ilmenite Composition, Edward Augustus Council III
Thesis: Analysis of Phytoplankton and Particle Variability at a Warm Core Ring/Shelf Break Front Using Flow Cytometry, Kimberly G. Davis
Thesis: The Hydrogeology of Nags Head Woods, Dare County, North Carolina, Janet Salyer Emry
Thesis: Discrimination of Subparallel Beach Ridges Using Detrital Ilmenite Composition and Fourier Shape Analysis, Allen E. Evans Jr.
Thesis: A Comparison of Potential Fishing Methods Associated with Fish Aggregating Devices off the Northeast Coast of Puerto Rico, Alan M. Friedlander
Thesis: Molting in the Mature Female Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, Rathbun, Kirk J. Havens
Dissertation: Cross-Shore Sediment Transport in Relation to Waves and Currents in a Groin Compartment, Hyo Jin Kang
Dissertation: Growth Potential of Young Black Sea Bass, Centropristis Striata, in Artificial Environments, Joung Won KIm
Thesis: Sulfide in Shelf/Slope Waters of the Western Atlantic, Christian F. Krahforst
Thesis: Processes Which Create and Destroy Stratification in the South Atlantic Bight During GABEX II, Rebecca Lynn Lovingood
Dissertation: Groin-Associated Rip Currents Measured Using a New Digital Current Meter, Dennis L. Lundberg
Dissertation: Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Very Low Salinity Region of the James River Estuary, Virginia, U.S.A., Changho Moon
Dissertation: The Geochemistry of Selenium and Sulfur in a Coastal Salt Marsh, David Jay Velinsky
Thesis: Depositional and Diagenetic History of the Middle Ordovician Carbonates of the Shenandoah Valley, Northern Virginia, Lynn Ellen Weyenberg
Thesis: Laminar Viscous Effects on Longitudinal Dispersion in Tidal Froude Models, Larry H. White
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Thesis: Fracture Detection in a Volcanic Oil Reservoir Using Discriminant Analysis of Well Log Data, Joseph William Cross
Dissertation: Tidal Circulation in Chesapeake Bay, Carl W. Fisher
Thesis: A Histological Investigation of the Larval Mandibular Organ in the Mud Crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould) (Crustacea Decapoda Xanthidae), Lore Lynn Hantske
Thesis: Lineament Analysis in the Richmond Triassic Basin Area Virginia: A Kinematic Model, Richard D. Lutz
Dissertation: Patterns of Diurnal Vertical Distribution and Dispersal-Recruitment Mechanisms of Decapod Crustacean Larvae and Postlarvae in the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia and Adjacent Offshore Waters, Robert Copeland Maris
Thesis: Storm Surge Predictions at Sewell's Point with Local Wind, Pressure, and Previous Surge as Surge Predictors in Chesapeake Bay, Joy Elaine Moses
Thesis: Relationship of Stream Drainage and Airphoto-Derived Lineaments to Basement Structures in the North Central Virginia Coastal Plain, William F. Mullen
Thesis: Benthic Foraminifera and Paleoenvironments of the Arcola Limestone Member Mooreville Formation (Campanian) in Eastern Mississippi and Western Alabama, Julia K. Palmer
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Thesis: Lineament Analysis and Tectonic Interpretation for the Central Tharsis Region, Mars, Robert C. Anderson
Thesis: Fluvial Depositional Processes of a Tropical River, Colombia, South America, Michael L. Babuin
Thesis: A Geophysical Model of the Gravity-Magnetic High, Virginia Coastal Plan, Gordon Everett Davison
Thesis: Depositional Model for the Auriferous Gravels in the Payan Mining District Department of Narino, Columbia, South America, Jim R. Garrett
Thesis: Foraminiferal Paleoenvironments of the Eastover Formation (Upper Miocene Virginia), JoAnn H. Goshorn
Thesis: The Apparent Dissociation Constants of Carbonic Acid in Low Salinity Waters, Ching-Hui Hsu
Thesis: Depositional Environments of Late Precambrian Sediments from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Senegal, West Africa, Alfred W. Magee III
Thesis: Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Significance of Boulder Layers in the Outer Coastal Plain of Southeastern Virginia, Robert C. McDaniel
Thesis: Leachate Monitoring in Naturally Saline Groundwater Chesapeake Landfill Chesapeake Virginia, T. Britt McMillan
Thesis: Conodont Biostratigraphy of the Cambrian-Ordovician Boundary Interval in the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, U.S.A., Randall C. Orndorff
Thesis: Comparison of an Improved Plankton Sampler to the Standard Conical Plankton Net, Ronald S. Schmidt
Thesis: The Use of Ilmenite Element Composition for the Determination of Provenance, Yu W. Tsang
Thesis: Investigation of Eddy Population and Motion in the Southern International Ice Patrol Operations Area (40°-47°N by 40°-55°W), Frank J. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Dissertation: An Intraseason Forecasting System for Commercial Marine Fisheries, Erik J. Barth
Dissertation: An Examination of the Variability of Migratory Timing Statistics Estimated From Catch and Effort Observations, Arthur J. Butt
Dissertation: Phytoplankton Ecology and Dynamics in the James River Estuary Virginia, U. S. A., Margaret J. Filardo
Thesis: Fourier Series Analysis of the Relationship of Morphologic Variations and Bathymetry in Recent Bolivina (Foraminiferida) From the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Anthony Cavedo Gary
Thesis: A Description and Analysis of the Timing of Virginia's Weakfish Fishery, Bruce William Hill
Thesis: Tectonic Implications of Late Tertiary Strata exposed Along the Piankatank River, Eastern Virginia, Daniel Stephen Lane
Thesis: A Method for Determining Creosote Contamination of Sediment from the Elizabeth River, Norfolk, VA, Elizabeth G. Merrill
Thesis: Stratigraphy and Textural Analyses of a Beach Ridge Complex, Cape Henry, Virginia, Daniel Leland Oyler
Thesis: The Effects of X-Irradiation on the Metamorphosis and Budding of Aurelia aurita, Michael John Prokopchak
Thesis: The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the Larvae of Sympatric Pagurid Hermit Crabs (Decapoda, anomura) in Virginian Estaurine and Coastal Waters, Philip Wesley Sadler
Dissertation: Determinants for the Timing of Escapement From the Sockeye Salmon Fishery of the Copper River, Alaska: A Simulation Model, Howard A. Schaller
Thesis: Timing of the Blue Crab Fisheries of Virginia and Its Application to Harvest Management, J. Dale Shively
Thesis: Numerical Experiments with the Quasigeostrophic Potential-Vorticity Equation, Peter L. Spence
Dissertation: The Aquatic Geochemistry of the Particle-Reactive Radionuclides PO-210, PB-210, and BE-7, James Forrest Todd
Thesis: Analysis of Central Equatorial Pacific Water Masses by Method of Principal Components, Ross Tuxhorn
Thesis: Underwater Acoustic Wavefront Phase Fluctuations, George L. Vojtech Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Thesis: The Effect of Crowding on Growth of the Cichlid Fish, Oreochromis Mossambicus, Bonnie A. Barrows
Thesis: Input and Distribution of Sewage Derived Sedimentary Material Adjacent to Chesapeake-Elizabeth Sewage Outfall, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Robert Carroll Brown
Thesis: Simultaneous Functional Hermaphroditism in the Shrimp Hippolysmata wurdemanni (Gibbes) (Decopoda: Caridea: Hippolytidae), Marie Hollister Bundy
Thesis: Variability of Atmospheric Hydrocarbon Concentrations and Deposition Rates, Charles Thomas Farmer
Thesis: The Effect of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Fecundity of Acartia tonsa (calanoid Copepoda), Juanita Y. Grabarczyk