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 1983
Thesis: Polychlorinated Biphenyl Levels in the Ocean Scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) Gmelin from the Philadelphia Sewage Sludge Disposal Site, Guy Jeffrey Hall
Dissertation: A Model of the Population Dynamics of the Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay, Betty Springer Hester
Thesis: The Effect of Sea Nettle Abundance on the Food Chain of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Michael Glenn Kelly
Thesis: The Distribution of Phytoplankton in Frontal Regions of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Richard V. Lacouture
Thesis: A Study of Increased Flow Off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States Within Four Synoptic Flow Patterns During the Winter Months, John Dale Liechty
Thesis: The Growth and Feeding Behavior of Juvenile Spot, Leiostomus xanthurus Lacepede, in the Nursery Region of the James River, Virginia, John Thomas McCambridge Jr.
Thesis: The Relationship of Size Class Distribution to Migratory Behavior in Brown Shrimp (Penaeus aztecus) in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina, Mario A. Paula
Thesis: Adaptations of Dolphin Vision to the Oceanic Environment, Andre Rivamonte
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Thesis: A Laboratory Study of Nongenetic Embryonic Adaptation to Salinity and Its Subsequent Effects Upon Larval Development of the Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes pugio Holthius, Paul Jay Anninos
Thesis: Some Effects of the Polychaete Nereis Succinea Frey and Leukart 1847 on the Distribution of Copper Cadmium and Zinc in Sediments and Water, Gabriela Kitzig August
Thesis: Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of a Late Pleistocene Barrier Island Complex, Southeastern Virginia, Alan K. Jasper
Dissertation: A Comparison of Recruitment Strategies Among Brachyuran Crustacean Megalopae of the York River, Lower Chesapeake Bay and Adjacent Shelf Waters, David Franklin Johnson
Thesis: The Effects of Varying Fresh Water Discharge on Dispersion in an Estuarine Hydraulic Model of the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, Michael J. Jugan
Thesis: Factors Effecting Phytoplankton Assemblages in the Lafayette River Estuary, Laurie Ann Kalenak
Thesis: The Effects of Dredged Material (Suspended Solid Phase) on the Hatching Success of Spot Eggs (Leiostomus xanturus), Meryl A. Masters
Thesis: Environmental Influence on the Migratory Behavior of the Brown Shrimp in Pamlico Sound North Carolina, Michael Andrew Matylewich
Thesis: Morphological Variation of the Foraminifer Elphidium excavatum (Terquem) on Crumps Bank and Willoughby Bank, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Pamela Kay Painter
Dissertation: The Marine Geochemistry of Selenium, Kazufumi Takayanagi
Thesis: A Capacitance Wavestaff and Measurements of Wave Height Decay in the Surf Zone, David L. Timpy
Thesis: The Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Hydrocarbons in Atmospheric Deposition From Stations Surrounding Lower Chesapeake Bay, David Benjamin Webber
Thesis: The Effects of Salinity on Growth and Survival of the Blue Tilapia Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner) (Pisces Cichlidae), Maylon Lowell White Jr.
Thesis: Analysis of Heavy Minerals in Arenaceous Lutites From the Northern Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean, Kim Zauderer
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Thesis: A Quantitative Description of Migratory Behavior of the Brown Shrimp (Penaeus aztecus) with Applications in Fisheries Management, Anne Madolyn Babcock
Thesis: Characteristics of Sediment Transport in Overwash Surges, Paul Richardson Bowen
Thesis: Growth and Recruitment of Two Penaeids in the Bay of St. Louis, Mississippi During 1979, Teresa C. Heaton
Dissertation: Water Wave Refraction with Non-Linear Theory, Im Sang Oh
Dissertation: Geomorphology and Dynamics of a Sand Wave in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, Gerardo Miguel Eduardo Perillo
Dissertation: Numerical Model Simulation of Offshore Flow During the Winter Season, Maria Cintia Piccolo
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Thesis: The Effects of Salinity on the Growth and Survival of the Crayfish, Procambarus actus actus (Girard), Emily Deaver
Thesis: Filtration Ingestion and Assimilation Rates of the Mysid Shrimp Neomysis Americana Smith, Fed Three Food Sources, Robert W. Grabb
Dissertation: Coherence Between Wind and Current Events in a Nearshore, Shallow Water, Wave Dominated Environment, George Milton Hecker
Dissertation: Surface Circulation and Horizontal Diffusion Processes of the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Frederick A. Hilder
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: The Distribution of Cesium-137, Copper, Lead and Zinc in Various Sedimentary Environments of the James River Estuary, Virginia, Colin Stevenson Moy
Thesis: Distribution of the Dinoflagellate Symbiosis in Astragia danae as Affected by Light Attenuation, Michael Perry Weston
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Dissertation: Turbulence Spectra in a Well-Mixed Estuary, Jong Yul Chung
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: The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Fish Eggs and Larvae in Hempstead Bay Estuary, Joseph Adelard Lessard
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
Dissertation: The Response of an Idealized Continental Shelf to Atmospheric Forcing, Paul Francis Moersdorf
Thesis: Spring Phytoplankton Composition and Distribution in Coastal Waters Between Nova Scotia and the Chesapeake Bay, Larry William Neal
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: 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: 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: Feeding Ecology of Black Sea Bass Centropristis striata on an Artificial Reef off Virginia (Perciforms: Serranidae), Ping K. Chee
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
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
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
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: The Effect of 4-Chlororesorcinol on the Growth Potential of Dunaliella Tertiolecta Butcher (Dun Clone), John Anthony Chigges
Dissertation: Numerical Simulation of Thermohaline Convection in the Mixed Layer of the Ocean, Victor Eli Delnore
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: The Natural History of the Naked Goby Gobiosoma bosci (Perciformes: Gobiidae), Leonard L. Nero
Thesis: The Effects of Dredging on the Stability of an Ebb-Tidal Delta, Lynnhaven Inlet, Virginia, Donald Keith Riggenbach
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
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Thesis: The Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds in the Southern Chesapeake Bay, Virginia by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, James D. Haluska
Thesis: Urbanization and Environmental Change in Lynnhaven Estuary, Don W. Oswalt
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
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Thesis: Feeding and Food Preferences by Three Sympatric Species of Cyprinodontid Fishes, Lawrence J. Baer
Thesis: Quantitative and Qualitative Seasonal Analysis of the Surface Zooplankton of Magothy Bay, Virginia, Malcom E. Browne
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Thesis: A Seasonal Distributional Survey of the Epiphytic Diatoms of the Outer Banks Region of North Carolina with Respect to Temperature and Salinity, Charles Welles Belin Jr.
Thesis: Seismic Refraction Study of Post-Pliocene Stratigraphy, Dismal Swamp, Virginia, William Brian Fraser
Thesis: Investigation of the Halocline Structure in Lower Chesapeake Bay, Samuel Bowen Heltzel
Thesis: Food and Feeding of Fishes from Magothy Bay, Virginia, Joseph J. Kimmel
Thesis: Evolution of Platt Shoals Northern North Carolina Shelf: Inferences from Areal Geology, Philip C. Sears
Thesis: Particle Size Distribution and Small-Scale Bed-Forms on Sand Waves, Chesapeake Bay Entrance, Virginia, John T. Wells
Thesis: Phycosociology of the Estuarine Eulittoral of Smith Island Virginia: A Quantitative Approach to Seasonal Periodicity, William M. Willis
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Thesis: Morphologic Time Series From a Submarine Sand Ridge on the South Virginia Coast, John F. McHone Jr.
Thesis: Surface Water Turbidity in the Entrance to Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, James R. Melchor
Thesis: Determination of Nutrient Levels and Proposed Predictive Models for Phosphate in the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia, John R. Montgomery
Thesis: The Influence of the Summer Thermocline on Estuarine Classification in the Chesapeake Bay Entrance, William G. Weiss Jr.
Thesis: A Physical Hydrographic Study of the Lafayette River, E. Glenn White
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Thesis: An Evaluation of a Stable Isotope of Dysprosium for Labeling and Tracing Sedimentary Particles, Charles Glenn Boone
Thesis: A Graphic Analysis of Current Velocity Salinity Density and Temperature During Periods of EBB and Flood in the Entrance to Thimble Shoals Channel, Stanley Hecker
Thesis: Observations on the Hydraulic Regime of the Ridge and Swale Topography of the Inner Virginia Shelf, Barry W. Holliday
Thesis: Analysis of Littoral Transport by Wave Energy: Cape Henry, Virginia to the Virginia, North Carolina Border, Zvi Henry Weinman
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Thesis: Erasure of Sediment Surface Features by Mellita quinquiesperforata (Leske), Walter Richard Boehmer
Thesis: An Evaluation of an Electromagnetic Current Meter for Study of Water Particle Motion, George Milton Hecker
Thesis: Grain Size Reconnaissance of the Virginia-North Carolina Inner Shelf Analysis by Settling Technique, Robert Bailey Sanford Jr.