Browsing by Author "Burton, Christopher"

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Analysis of Climate Information to Support US Fish and Wildlife Service Species Status Assessments: An Eye-Tracking Study

Cashwell, Haven (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 ...

Are Cool Roofs Really Cool? A Predictive Regression Model for Buildings on Auburn University's Campus

Greer, Seth (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 ...

Development and Demonstration of a Flexible Performance-based Resilience Evaluation Program (PREP) Framework to Support Transportation Planning and Decision-Making

Cordero, Fernando (2023-05-04)

The past decade has seen an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events around the globe. The changes in weather and climate patterns can be linked to the increasing amount of greenhouse gases, GHGs, ...

How Resilience Changes with Spatial Extent and Scale: A Case Study of Sea Level Rise in Coastal Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida

Cliff, Summer (2020-07-14)

Resilience is a term used in natural hazards and disasters research to describe a community’s ability to recover after a damaging hazard event occurs. It is within this context that resilience is often measured using ...

Irrigation and Water Use Reporting in the Tennessee Valley Region of Alabama

Roland, Jarrett (2019-06-27)

Irrigation is the largest consumptive use of water in the United States. Accurate monitoring of water use for irrigation is critical for a state to sustainably manage its water resources. Federal programs provide valuable ...

Social Vulnerability and Earthquake Impact Modeling in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region IV (Southeast of the U.S.)

Siddique, Sumaiya Tul (2018-07-18)

At the forefront of the natural hazard risk assessment sciences is the assessment of earthquake risk. Countries such as the United States have been targets of extensive earthquake risk assessments to communicate potential ...

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Ecosystem Degradation in a Gulf of Mexico Estuary System

Metz, Alexander (2019-05-14)

Coastal estuaries are a vital resource that provide many environmental and socioeconomic benefits. Despite their value, increased anthropogenic influence has resulted in ecosystem degradation due to eutrophication in coastal ...

Towards Urban Sustainability: A Framework for Understanding the Applicability of SDGs to small and medium size cites (SMSC)

Shrestha, Megha (2023-04-26)

United Nations (UN) News states that understanding upcoming urbanization trends is crucial to implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This agenda consists of 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) that ...

Tropical Cyclone Risk and Social Vulnerability Amongst Small and Medium-Sized Cities Along the Gulf of Mexico in the United States

Silano, Miranda (2023-08-02) ETD File Embargoed

As climate change continues to warm the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in the United States, tropical cyclone intensity in the region may increase which will threaten vulnerable communities. The goals of this project include ...