Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Geosciences"
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40Ar/39Ar Diffusion and Age Constraints in Muscovite from the Ruby Mountains, Northeastern Nevada
(2018-06-05)
Plutonic rocks exposed in the Basin and Range province are known to have experienced widespread extension and uplift at ca. 16.5 Ma. This extension is broadly coincident with timing of earliest volcanism of the Yellowstone ...
Access to Healthcare in the Black Belt Region of the USA
(2024-07-23)
Even though the United States is highly developed, it lacks a universal healthcare system, leading to unequal access and health outcomes. These gaps are noticeable in marginalized areas like the Black Belt region, where ...
Analysis of Climate Information to Support US Fish and Wildlife Service Species Status Assessments: An Eye-Tracking Study
(2021-04-12)
Species Status Assessments (SSAs) are required for endangered species by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). These documents need to include climate information since climate will be negatively impacting ...
An analysis of sediment provenance for Carboniferous sandstones in the Ouachita-Arkoma Basin based on detrital muscovite 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and sediment composition
(2019-12-04)
The Arkoma-Ouachita Basin of southeast Oklahoma and central Arkansas, part of the vast Appalachian-Ouachita foreland system, evolved from a passive margin deep-water remnant ocean basin (Ouachita) between Laurentia and ...
Analysis of Subsurface Geology, including the Parautochthonous Breccias, Flynn Creek Impact Structure, Tennessee
(2019-12-02)
The present study concerns the Flynn Creek impact structure, Tennessee, which is estimated to have formed approximately 382 million years ago in a shallow marine environment. The present crater is about 3.8 km in diameter ...
Analysis of the D’Olive Creek Watershed: Identifying the Local Drivers That Have led to Stream Degradation
(2018-04-26)
Anthropogenic activities have influenced the characteristics of streams and tributaries throughout the Southeastern U.S., correlating with varying levels of degradation and prompting major restoration activities. This ...
Analysis of the Potential for Carbon Sequestration in the Subsurface Tuscaloosa Group, Southwestern Alabama
(2021-08-23)
In this project, the sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Group of the subsurface of an area in southwestern Alabama has been analyzed for carbon sequestration purposes. While collecting the ...
Analyzing Climate Change and Extreme Weather Event Impacts on Human Migration and Vulnerability in the Southeastern United States (2004 – 2018)
(2022-08-01)
There is growing concern about how extreme environmental events and climate change will impact communities, both urban and rural, in the Southeastern United States (SEUS). A changing climate is expected to force individuals ...
Analyzing Preparedness to Disaster Types and Severity: Insights from Human Mobility Data
(2024-07-31)
Our understanding of human response, preparation, and resilience to natural disasters remains limited despite their increasing frequency and severity. Traditional preparedness and recovery models predominantly depend on ...
Application of Geospatial Methodologies to Elucidate Honey bee (Apis mellifera) Colony Loss
(2022-07-27)
Geospatial methods can be used in a wide variety of applications to elucidate interactions among variables across space and time and at various spatial scales. The identification of spatial trends is a foundational element ...
Applications of charcoal morphometry and morphology during the Cretaceous Period
(2025-04-21)
Wildfire regimes are intensifying globally due to anthropogenic climate change, necessitating improved methods for reconstructing past fire activity to inform future mitigation strategies. The Cretaceous period, particularly ...
Are Cool Roofs Really Cool? A Predictive Regression Model for Buildings on Auburn University's Campus
(2017-11-20)
The natural environment has experienced many transformations into rapidly expanding urban areas. The use of concrete and asphalt has had direct impacts on the urban environment such as land-surface temperature (LST) and ...
Assessing Private Well Water Quality in Mobile and Baldwin Counties, Alabama
(2024-04-29)
Approximately 43 million people in the United States rely on private well water. Lack of regulation is important due sources of contamination from geogenic and anthropogenic sources. One source of anthropogenic contamination ...
Assessing Rainwater Harvesting Potential for Urban Multi-Family Housing Developments in Auburn, AL using a sUAS
(2018-04-23)
Many cities today are facing growing pressure to develop in a sustainable manner, and green infrastructure is quickly becoming a popular strategy for addressing this. Through the incorporation of decentralized solutions ...
Assessment of Geochemical Reactivity of Potential Geological Formations Characterized by Diverse Lithologies
(2025-05-09)
Global warming is driven by greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the atmosphere through the greenhouse effect. According to recent projections, rising greenhouse gas levels may drive global temperatures above 1.5ºC as early ...
Barriers Facing Undergraduate Atmospheric Science Education and Southeast US Oyster Farmers
(2025-05-07)
The goal of this dissertation research is to provide understanding to the growing body of literature related to barriers in both undergraduate atmospheric science education and Southeast US oyster farming industry through ...
Bridging the gap between Academic Research and Public Perception of Natural Hazard Risk
(2019-04-23)
Natural Hazards are a common but regularly misunderstood problem in our world. Researchers have training to understand the processes and risks of natural hazards to better understand how climate related hazards develop and ...
Building Better Graphs for Climate Change Communication: Evidence from Eye-Tracking
(2019-04-17)
Reducing harm from global climate change will require public participation and therefore public education. Visual data representations such as graphs are often used for communication with public audiences but they are ...
The Characterization and Carbon Storage Potential of the Paleozoic Ketona Dolomite of Central Alabama
(2025-05-09)
This study explores the viability of the Ketona Dolomite, a thick carbonate formation in central Alabama, as a potential reservoir for long-term CO₂ storage through its thorough petrological classification. A variety of ...
Characterization and hydrocarbon potential of the Lower Permian Wolfcamp Formation, northwestern Mitchell County, Midland Basin, Texas
(2018-12-10)
Lithologic, petrologic, and geochemical analyses were performed on the Wolfcamp Formation (operational benches A and B), with a focus on a 400-ft-thick core recovered from wildcat well Strain 2V (API 42-335-53586) in ...