The University of Maine Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) project is a joint effort of Fogler Library and the Graduate School. Our goals are "to improve graduate education, increase sharing of knowledge, help universities build their information infrastructure, and extend the value of digital libraries," in keeping with those of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, a national initiative of which the University of Maine is a member.
This online collection features the final theses and dissertations approved by the Graduate School of the University of Maine.
For more information about finding additional theses and dissertations or obtaining copies of those not available electronically, see Fogler Library's Subject Guide on Theses & Dissertations.
Questions can also be directed to Fogler Library's Special Collections Department by phone at (207) 581-1686 or email at um.library.spc @ maine.edu.
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Spatial Analysis of the Impacts of Marine Aquaculture on Coastal Housing Prices, Christina Robichaud
How do we collaborate? A look into Maine's Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network, Abby Jane Roche
Developing a Collaborative Research Program to Evaluate Fine-Scale Groundfish Dynamics in Eastern Maine, Mattie Rodrigue
Advancing Development of Porphyra umbilicalis as a Red Algal Model System and Aquaculture Crop, Charlotte Royer
Using Nutrition Education at a Maine Food Pantry Impacts Food-Related Behavior of Participants, Marissa E. Rublee
Improving Management and Conservation of Cusk (Brosme brosme): Habitat Distribution, Bycatch Interactions, and Conservation Practices, Jocelyn M. Runnebaum
Consumer Acceptability of Oat and Barley Recipes in Older Adults, Amy Ryan
An Automated Device to Increase Screening Throughput of Zebrafish Larvae, Fuoad Saliou-Sulley
Cellulose Nanofiber-Reinforced Impact Modified Polypropylene: Assessing Material Properties from Fused Layer Modeling and Injection Molding Processing, Jordan Elliott Sanders
An Assessment of Aerial Survey Methods for Generating Forest Inventory Models, David Sandilands
Using Hydroacoustics to Investigate Biological Responses in Fish Abundance to Restoration Efforts in the Penobscot River, Maine, Constantin C. Scherelis
Assessing Students' Understanding of Variability and Graph Interpretation Through an Authentic Science Investigation, William M. Schlager
The Biogeographic Origins and Trophic Ecology of Maine’s Island Red-Backed Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus), Nikko-Ideen Shaidani
SO2-Alcohol-Water Fractionation of Sugarcane Straw, Asif Sharazi
A Picture and a Thousand Words: Language, Imagery, and the Patient-Provider Relationship, Ryan Shelley
Music for a Dome: Experimental and Electronic Music in 5.1 Surround Sound, Duane Shimmel
Rural Women’s Perception of Environmental Degradation: A Case Study of Amhara, Ethiopia., Tizezew Shimekach Sisay
Development of Spectroscopic Methods for Dynamic Cellular Level Study of Biochemical Kinetics and Disease Progression, Anna M. Sitarski
Playing at Women and Men: A Discourse Analysis of Gender and Sexuality Performance in an Online Play-by-Post Role-Playing Game, Caitlin M. Smith
Oyster Aquaculture Site Selection Using Landsat 8-derived Sea Surface Temperature, Turbidity, and Chlorophyll a., Jordan Snyder
In Situ Dating of Multiple Events in Granulite-Facies Rocks of the Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, East Antarctica Using Electron Microprobe Analysis of Monazite, Steven K. Spreitzer
Lobster in a Changing Gulf of Maine: Investigating the Temporal Impact on Molting and the Fishing Fleet, Kevin W. Staples
Characterizing Hydrologic Fluxes in Six Central Maine Vernal Pools with a Focus on Groundwater Flow, Kelli M. Straka
Prospective Studies of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Mild Cognitive Impairment, Kevin Sullivan
Variable Proportions of Silicate and Nitrate in the Gulf of Maine: The Role of Internal Recycling Versus Advective Inputs, Megan Switzer
Discourses of Developmental English Education: Reframing Policy Debates, Aaron R. Tolbert
"They need to get over it..." The dismissal of Native American social issues, Andrew Tomer
Splitting Together: The Evolution of Cooperation in Food Buying Clubs, Ethan Tremblay
Development of an Active-Learning Lesson that Targets Student Understanding of Population Growth in Ecology, Elizabeth Trenckmann
Hygrothermal Properties of Cross Laminated Timber Panels, Jaya Tripathi
Effects of Geese and Caribou on Nutrient and Carbon Cycling in Southwest Greenland, Carl Tugend
A Study in Cross-Beam Polarization Fluorescence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy on Dendra2-Hemagluttinin in Fixed NIH3T3 Cells, Matthew M. Valles
Investigating Student Learning of Analog Electronics, Kevin L. Van De Bogart
Effects of Dam Removal on Assemblage Composition and the Interactions of Fishes in the Penobscot River, Maine, Jonathan Watson
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Effects of Antibacterial Agent Triclosan on Cellular Signal Transduction and Mitochondrial Function, Lisa Weatherly
Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) as a Functional Link between Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Daniel M. Weaver
Party Development and Political Conflict in Maine 1820-1860 From Statehood to the Civil War, Lee D. Webb
Operational Limits of Blade Coating with High Aspect Ratio Pigments, Lisa Weeks
Grassroots Diplomacy and Vernacular Law: The Discourse of Food Sovereignty in Maine, John Welton
Basic Vision Research with Clinical Applications and Science Education Assessments, Andrew Wilson
Large Payload HIAD Systems: Development of Computationally Efficient Modeling Strategies and Structural Investigations, Andrew C. Young
Exploring the Ways In Which Highly Efficacious Intermediate Teachers Employ Best Practices in Reading Instruction for Struggling Readers, Terrence P. Young
Characterization of Paper Dusting, Gregory K. Yum
Theoretical and Experimental Evaluation of Heading Instability of Moored Ships in Waves and Winds, Razieh Zangeneh
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Modeling and Forecasting the Influence of Current and Future Climate on Eastern North American Spruce-Fir (Picea-Abies) Forests, Caitlin Andrews
Sources of Ecologically Important Trait Variation in Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis and Gambusia holbrooki), Heather Ann Arnett
A Comparison of Global Climate Reanalysis and Climate of South Greenland and the North Atlantic, Jeff Auger
Impact of Wind Generation on Dynamic Voltage Characteristics of Power Systems, Luis Badesa
Pélagie-la-Charrette, une Épopée, Sarah C. Barnard
Changes in Fish Communities and Chimpanzee Ecology in the Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project Area Following Dam Impoundment, Abdulai Barrie
Calcium Components in Drosophila melanogaster Cardiac Pacemaking, Vernon E. Beasley
Characterization of the Murine Lung Transcriptome During Pre- and Post-natal Development in Three Inbred Strains of Laboratory Mice, Kyle Jaymes Beauchemin
Disconnect and Try Again: A Collection of Short Fictions, Christine Becker
Temporal Variability in Key Life History Traits of Atlantic Herring (Culpea harengus) in the Gulf of Maine, James R. Becker
Understanding the Impact of Commercial Harvest on White Suckers (Catostomus commersonii) in Maine, Megan A. Begley
L'Irlande de Georges Dor, Jacques Ferron et Louis Gauthier, Stacy A. Black
An Evaluation of the Long-term Knowledge and Behavior Change of Participants in UMaine Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, Rebecca L. Bonnett
An Analysis of Farm Profitability, Exit Decision, and Price Supports in the Maine Dairy Industry, Dylan D. Bouchard
Investigating the Effect of Particulate Hexavalent Chromium on Homologous Recombination Repair, Cynthia L. Browning
Eating for Environmental and Personal Health: Green Eating, Health Behavior and Environmental Perceptions at the University of Maine, Moira E. Burke
Splicing of Concrete-Filled Fiber Reinforced Polymer Tubes for Structural Applications, Jason K. Burns
Antigua's Demonstration Community-Based Marine Reserve, Ruleo A. Camacho
The Effects of Regional Temperature Cycles on Larval American Lobsters, Homarus Americanus, Meghan E. Capps
Redefining Transitional Justice in the North American Context? The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Evan P. Centala
Analysis of Safety on Bridge Road Segments Compared to Normal Road Segments, Ryan D. Chabot
Sediment Accumulations Patterns in the Damariscotta River Estuary, Emily A. Chandler
Assessing Off-Farm Employment and Income in Rural China, Jing Chen
The Greatest Good: Black Reformers and the Early Civil Rights Movement in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945, Adam L. Cilli
Wireless Leak Detection Using Airborne Ultrasonics with Technology Demonstration on the International Space Station, Casey M. Clark
Financial and Social Implications of Community Solar in New England, Stephanie Coffey
Microstructural Analysis of Thermoelastic Response, Nonlinear Creep, and Pervasive Cracking in Heterogeneous Materials, Alden C. Cook
A Multi-Channel 3D-Printed Bioreactor for Evaluation of Growth and Production in the Microalga Dunaliella sp, Cristian A. Cox
Nonabsolute Extensions of the Lebesgue Integral on the Real Line, Danielle E. David
Algebraic Refinements of Direction Relations through Topological Augmentation, Matthew Paul Dube
Roles of Siphon Flows in Suspension Feeding, Kevin Du Clos
Improving the Performance of Ice Sheet Modeling Through Embedded Simulation, Christopher G. Dufour
Spruce Grouse Habitat Ecology in Maine's Commercially Managed Acadian Forest, Stephen W. Dunham
Wabanaki Access to Sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata) within Coastal Maine's Diminishing Open Land Tradition, Amanda Marie Ellis
An Investigation of Linking Number, Twist, and Writhe, in Knots, Links, Ribbons, and Möbius Ribbons, Jennifer M. L. Fatula
Highly Seasonal Reproduction in Desmophyllum dianthus from the Northern Patagonian Fjords, Keri Feehan
Predicting Relationship Satisfaction in Same- and Cross-Sex Friendships, Hannah Ford
An Assessment of Growout Strategies for the Green Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) in the Gulf of Maine, Pamelia E. Fraungruber
Synthesis, Structure, and Thermal Stability of Electrically Conductive Co-Evaporated Pt(1-x)Si(x) Thin Films, Robert T. Fryer PhD
A competitive assessment of commercial elderberry (Sambucus sp.) products and the evaluation of copigmentation within elderberry tinctures, Joseph A. Galetti PhD
A Qualitative Study of Rural School Returners' Journeys to Secondary Credential Completion, Brenda Elaine Swan Gammon
Abatement of Streptococcus equi in Equine Compost, Alexandria Garcia
Improvements to Data Assimilations Strategies in Forestry, Trevor Gionet Jr
Anticipating Aliens: Applying Social Science to Understand Stakeholder Perceptions of Emerald Ash Borer, Janet Elizabeth Gorman
Late Holocene Climate and Environmental Reconstruction Derived from the Asian Ice Core Array (AICA), Bjorn Grigholm
The Habitat Ecology of Pool-Breeding Amphibians During All Annual Life History Periods in the Mountains of the Dawn, Luke Alexander Groff
Disturbance Frequency and Successional State Alter Community Structure and Vulnerability, Jessica M. Haghkerdar