Graduate Students

Dissertation Title: Investigating the origins of the Shell Mound Archaic: Occupational histories and interaction among shell-bearing sites in western Tennessee.

Committee: David G. Anderson (Chair), Benjamin Auerbach, Jeff Chapman, and Russell Zaretzki

Dissertation Title: The Sky Above, The Mud Below: Landscapes of the Prehistoric Rock Art of the Cumberland Plateau Region

Committee: David G. Anderson  (Chair)

Dissertation Title: The Vegetation and Fire History of a Bog Communities, Chattachoochee National Forest, Georgia, U.S.A.

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, and Philip Li

M.S. Degree in Geography, August 2012

Thesis Title: The Vegetation and Fire History of a Southern Appalachian Bog, Whiteoak Bottoms, Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, and Philip Li

Dissertation Title: Holocene Climate and Environmental History of Laguna Saladilla, Dominican Republic

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, Liem Tran, and Dave Finkelstein (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

Dissertation Title: From Foraging to Food Production: A diachronic perspective on the interrelationship between people and plants on the southern Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee.

Committee: Jan Simek (Chair), Sarah Sherwood, Kandace Hollenbach, Gary Crites, and Sally Horn

Thesis Title: Detecting Tropical Cyclone Signals in Tree Growth Reponses of Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris Mill.), Lake Louise, Georgia, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri D. Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Kelsey Ellis, and Sally Horn

Thesis Title: Stand Dynamics and Fire History of a Southern Appalachian Pine-Hardwood Forest on Rainy Mountain, Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, and Philip Li

Thesis Title: Microscopic Charcoal as Evidence of Long-term Fire History in the Cuatro Cienegas Valley, Mexico

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, and Philip Li

Dissertation Title: Late Archaic Settlement and Population Maintenance in the Tennessee Valley: Examining Environmental Change, Land Use Strategies and Social Structure in the Late Archaic Southeast

Committee: Jan Simek (Chair), David Anderson, Sarah Sherwood, and Sally Horn

Thesis Title: A Dendroecological Evaluation of the Possible Effects of Coal Ash on Tree Growth, Kingston Fossil Plant, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, and Philip Li

Dissertation Title: Vegetation Dynamics of Endangered Pine Rockland Communities in the Lower Florida Keys, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, Carol Harden, and Jennifer Franklin (Forestry, Wildlife, Fisheries)

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair)

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair)

Ph.D. Student in Geography

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer

M.A. Degree in Anthropology, May 2012

Thesis Title: Predictive Modeling in Kisatchie National Forest: Archaeological Site Locations in Western Louisiana

Committee: David G. Anderson (Chair), Boyce N. Driskell, and Kandace Hollenbach

Ph.D. Student in Geography

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair) and Henri Grissino-Mayer

M.S. Degree in Geography, May 2014

Thesis Title: Stable Isotope Analysis of Lake Sediments from Laguna Santa Elena and Laguna Azul, Costa Rica.

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, and Chad Lane

M.A. Thesis Title: The Distribution of Paleoindian Debitage from the Pleistocene Terrace at the Topper Site: An Evaluation of a Possible Pre-Clovis Occupation (38Al23)

Committee: David G. Anderson (Chair), Boyce Driskell, Kandace Hollenbach

Thesis Title: Fire History Reconstruction in the National Key Deer Refuge based on Macroscopic Charcoal in Palmetto Pond, No-Name Key, Florida, U.S.A.

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, and Liem Tran

Thesis Title: Reconstructing Holocene Paleoenvironments from Floodplain Paleosol and Sedimentary Sequences in the Interior of Southeastern North America.

Committee: Zheng-Hua Li and Linda Kah (Co-Chairs), Steven Driese, David Finkelstein, and Sally Horn

Dissertation Title: Fire Regimes of Lower-elevation Forests in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, Carol Harden, and Wayne Clatterbuck (Forestry, Wildlife, Fisheries)

Dissertation Title: The Potential for Gender Distinctions in Folsom-Era Hunting Technology

Committee: David G. Anderson (Chair), Boyce Driskell

Ph.D. Student in Geography

Dissertation Title: Glacial History of the Tian Shan Mountains, China

Committee: Philip Li (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, and Sally Horn

M.S. Degree in Geography, December 2010

Thesis Title: The Impact of Oceanic-Atmospheric Oscillation Change in the Southeastern United States Abstracted from Tree-Ring Network Data

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, and Carol Harden

Thesis Title: Response of Lake Level Fluctuations to Climate Change in the Tibetan Plateau in the Past Four Decades Investigated Using Landsat Images

Committee: Philip Li (Chair)

Dissertation Title: The Rise and Fall of Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Vacant Quarter and Beyond: Assessing Socio-Political Change in the Mississippian Southeast from a Panarchical Perspective

Committee: Jan Simek (Chair), David Anderson, Boyce Driskell, and Sally Horn

Thesis Title: Stand History of Old-Growth Ponderosa Pine Forests, El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, and Saskia van de Gevel (Appalachian State University)

Committee: Philip Li (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, and Sally Horn

Thesis Title: Dendrogeomorphic Analysis of Debris Flow Activity in the Mt. Le Conte Area, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, and Carol Harden

Thesis Title: Climate Response of Hardwood Trees Growing along an Elevational Transect, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, and Philip Li

Thesis Title: Influences of Climate and Anthropogenic Disturbances on Wildfire Regimes of the Zuni Mountains, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, and Carol Harden

Dissertation Title: Evaluating Pre-Clovis at the Topper Site (38Al23), South Carolina

Committee: David G. Anderson (Chair), Boyce Driskell

Dissertation Title: A Dendrochronological Approach for Analyzing the Geographic Range Structure of Tree Species

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, Carol Harden, Nicholas Nagle, and Nate Sanders (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Thesis Title: Low-Frequency Climate Drivers of Wildfire Activity, El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri D. Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, and Philip Li

Thesis Title: An 8000-year Sediment Record of Vegetation and Environmental History from Laguna Tortuguero, Puerto Rico

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, and Chad Lane (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)

Thesis title: A Vegetation History from Emerald Pond, Great Abaco Island, The Bahamas, Based on Pollen Analysis

Committee Members: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, and Ken Orvis

Thesis Title: Response of Ponderosa Pine to Variable Temporal Scale Environmental Processes, French Creek Drainage, Idaho

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, and Carol Harden

Dissertation Title: A Multi-proxy Approach to Understanding Environmental Dynamics in Old-Growth Woodlands, El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, Carol Harden, and Wayne Clatterbuck (Forestry, Wildlife, Fisheries)

Dissertation Title: Applied GIS and Fire Behavior in a Pine Rockland Ecosystem, Big Pine Key, Florida, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri D. Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, Nicholas Nagle, and Wayne Clatterbuck

Dissertation Title: Spatial Variation in Organic Carbon and Stable Isotopic Composition of Lake Sediments at Laguna Zoncho, Costa Rica

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Carol Harden, Ken Orvis, and Dave Finkelstein (Earth and Planetary Sciences)

Dissertation Title: Fire and Forest History in Native Yellow Pine and Mixed Hardwood-Pine Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, U.S.A.

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, Carol Harden, and Kandace Hollenbach (Anthropology)

Dissertation Title: Late Quaternary Palaeoenvironments and Biota of Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Henri Grissino-Mayer, Darrin Hulsey (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), and Maarten Kappelle

Thesis Title: Variability in Late Archaic Shell Rings in the Southeastern United States

Thesis Title: An Investigation of Stratigraphic Evidence for an Abrupt Climatic Event 8200 yr BP in Valle de las Morrenas, Costa Rica

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair), Carol Harden, Ken Orvis, and Chad Lane (University of North Carolina-Wilmington)

Thesis Title: Stand History, Structure, and Composition of the Pygmy Forests at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Committee: Henri Grissino-Mayer (Chair), Sally Horn, and Philip Li

Committee: Sally Horn (Chair)