Department of Watershed Sciences (WATS). This department was previously known as Aquatic, Watershed and Earth Resources. The name was changed in Fall Semester 2006.

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Evaluating the Effect of the Removal of Non-Native Trout in Two High Elevation Tributary Streams in the Intermountain West, Clint Brunson

Dissertations

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A Multi-Scale Investigation of Factors Limiting Bull Trout Viability, Tracy Bowerman

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Analyzing the Impacts of Beaver Dam and Beaver Dam Analog Complexes to Stream Ecology Within the Intermountain West, J. Marshall Wolf

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An Ecological Study of the Bear Lake Littoral Zone, Utah-Idaho, Gar W. Workman

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Big Fish and More of Them: Salmonid Habitat Availability, Quality, and Use Across Multiple Scales Within a River-Reservoir System, John S. McLaren V

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Carnivoran Frugivory and its Effect on Seed Dispersal, Plant Community Composition, Migration, and Biotic Carbon Storage, John P. Draper

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Chlorophyll and Productivity in a Mountain River, William J. McConnell

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Consumer-Driven Nutrient Recycling in Arctic Alaskan Lakes: Controls, Importance for Primary Productivity, and Influence on Nutirient Limitation, Cody R. Johnson

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Developing Empirical Predictive Models to Support Conservation Planning for Threatened Frogs, Toads, and Turtles in South-Coastal California, Umarfarooq Adavudi Abdulwahab

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Development of Sediment Budgets at Multiple Scales, Susannah O'Brien Erwin

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Ecomorphological and Genetic Investigations into the Utah Lake, UT Sucker Complex with Comparisons to the Jackson Lake, WY Sucker Complex, David D. Cole

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Effects of Livestock Grazing on Infiltration and Erosion Rates Measured on Chained and Unchained Pinyon-Juniper Sites in Southeastern Utah, Frank E. Busby Jr.

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Efficacy of Conservation Actions for Imperiled Colorado River Fishes in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, Brian D. Healy

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Eutrophication Trends of Bear Lake, Idaho-Utah and Their Effect on the Distribution and Biological Productivity of Zooplankton, David Nyquist

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Factors Influencing the Distribution of Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) in a Mountain Stream: Implications for Brown Trout Invasion Success, Christy Meredith

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Impacts of Phragmites australis Management on Wetland Plant Community Recovery, Seedbank Composition, and the Physical Environment in the Chesapeake Bay, Eric L. G. Hazelton

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Integrating Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Models for Terrestrial Vegetation Analysis: Phenology, Biomass, and Stand Age, Gong Zhang

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Integration of Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) and in Situ Data for Snow Studies from Space, Changyi Sun

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Invasive Phragmites australis Management in Great Salt Lake Wetlands: Context Dependency and Scale Effects on Vegetation and Seed Banks, Christine B. Rohal

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Linking Form and Process in Braided Rivers Using Physical and Numerical Models, Alan Kasprak

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Mechanisms of Vegetation-Induced Channel Narrowing on an Unregulated Canyon-Bound River, Rebecca Blanche Manners

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Modeling Bark Beetle Outbreak and Fire Interactions in Western U.S. Forests and the Invasion Potential of an Invasive Puerto Rican Frog in Hawaii Using Remote Sensing Data, Simon A. Bisrat

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Modeling USA Stream Temperatures for Stream Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessments, Ryan A. Hill

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Multi-Objective Water Management in Idaho's Henrys Fork Watershed: Leveraging Reservoir Operation and Groundwater Pathways to Benefit Aquatic Habitat, Christina N. Morrisett

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Nonpoint Source Transport Model for Indicator Bacteria from Western Rangeland Watersheds, Everett P. Springer

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Population and Community Dynamics of Freshwater Decapods in Response to Ecological and Anthropogenic Factors in Subtropical Streams in the Caribbean, Omar Perez-Reyes

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Quantification of Hydrologic Response to Forest Disturbance in Western U.S. Watersheds, Sara A. Goeking

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Rates of Algal Production and Sphaerotilus Assimilation in the Logan River, Utah, Gary D. Beers

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Refining, Testing, and Applying Thermal Species Distribution Models to Enhance Ecological Assessments, Donald J. Benkendorf

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Relationships between Riparian Vegetation, Hydrology, Climate and Disturbance across the Western United States, Nathaniel Hough-Snee

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River Hydrology, Morphology, and Dynamics in an Intensively Managed, Transient Landscape, Sara Ann Kelly

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River Network Structure: A Template for Understanding Predator-Prey Dynamics and Potential Anthropogenic Impacts, Catherine L. Hein

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River Response to Sediment Supply: The Sand Bed Case, Christina M. Leonard

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Seed Ecology and Regeneration Processes to Inform Seed-Based Wetland Restoration, Emily E. Tarsa

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Some Effects of Accumulated Radium on the Productivity of Algae, Joseph W. Angelovic

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Spatial Epidemiology of Birth Defects in the United States and the State of Utah Using Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Statistics, Samson Y. Gebreab

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The Abiotic and Biotic Controls of Arctic Lake Food Webs: A Multifaceted Approach to Quantifying Trophic Structure and Function, Stephen L. Klobucar

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The Ecosystem Role of Fishes in Lotic Environments, Christopher C. Wheeler

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The Effects of Radium on Certain Goldfish Blood Constituents and Organs, D. Wayne Linn

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The Influence of Geology and Other Environmental Factors on Stream Water Chemistry and Benthic Invertebrate Assemblages, John R. Olson

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The Influence of Measurement Scale and Uncertainty on Interpretations of River Migration, Mitchell R. Donovan

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The Influence of Salinity on the Growth and Reproduction of Marsh Plants, D. K. Kaushik

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Top-Down vs Bottom-Up Effects on Predator-Prey Interactions in Aquatic Communities, Catherine Mary McClure

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Water, Fish, and Fire: Interdisciplinary Research on Ecosystem Services and Climate Adaptation, Liana Prudencio

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Water Quality Impact of Burning and Grazing on a Chained Pinyon-Juniper Site in Southeastern Utah, John C. Buckhouse

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Watershed Management to Control Pollution in the Ayuquila River, Jalisco, Mexico, Luis Manuel Martinez Rivera

Reports

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A Natural Channel Design to Restore the Greenwater River, Washington, Gregory J. Laurie

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Assessing Beaver Dam Dynamics in the Logan-Little Bear Watershed, Connor Penrod

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Contour Trenching as a Strategy in Watershed Rehabilitation: Application to Nepalese Condition, Kumar P. Upadhyay

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Developing Educational Tools for Sustainable Stormwater Management, Lauren Houskeeper

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Geomorphic Changes Following Beaver Dam Failure and Abandonment, Sonya Britt Welsh

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Modeling Lake Temperature Response to Climate Change in the Alaskan Arctic, Thomas Balkcom

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Supplementation and Community Involvement as Drivers of Salmon Recovery: Summer Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) Populations in Union and Tahuya Rivers, Washington, United States, Seth M. Elsen

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The Blackwood Creek Reach 6 Restoration Project's Influence on Reach Scale Sediment Scour and Storage Characteristics, David Raymond Immeker

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Understanding Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Potentials at Utah Ski Resorts, Rachel Hager

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Understanding the Relationship Between Livestock Disturbance, The Protocols Used to Measure that Disturbance and Stream Conditions, Lindsey M. Goss

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Visualizing Effects of Changing Base Level on Tributary Resources in Lake Powell Reservoir, Madeline Friend

Theses

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15N Tracer and Modeling Analyses of Nutrient Transport Through Lakes in a Subalpine Watershed, David M. Epstein

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Abundance, Movements, Harvest, and Survival of Brown Trout and Mountain Whitefish in a Section of Logan River, Utah, David W. Bridges

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A Century of Geomorphic Change of the San Rafael River and Implications for River Rehabilitation, Stephen T. Fortney

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A Comparison of Soil Moisture and Hillslope-Stream Connectivity Between Aspen and Conifer-Dominated Hillslopes of a First Order Catchment in Northern Utah, Amy R. Burke

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Age and Growth of the Green Sunfish Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque in Northern Utah, Young E. Wright

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Age and Growth of the Utah Chub, Gila atraria (Girard), in Panguitch Lake and Navajo Lake, Utah, From Scales and Opercular Bones, John M. Neuhold

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Aligning Conservation Goals and Management Objectives for Bonneville Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarki utah) in the Logan River, Utah, Harrison E. Mohn

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A Method of Estimating Fishing Pressure and Harvest as Used on Logan River, Utah, Albert Frank Regenthal

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Analysis of Food Web Effects of Non-Native Fishes and Evaluation of Stream Restoration Potential for the San Rafael River, Utah, Timothy E. Walsworth

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Analysis of Long-Term Streamflow Patterns on Two Davis County Experimental Watersheds in Utah, Stephen P. Glasser

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An Assessment of Vegetation Metrics and Plot Types to Measure Seasonal Variation and Grazing Effects on Riparian Plant Communities, Caroline M. Laine

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An Ecological/Life History Comparison of Two Whitefish Species in Bear Lake, Utah/Idaho, Brett W. Thompson

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An Evaluation of Arthropod Assemblages in Great Salt Lake Wetland Habitats: Differences Between Native and Invasive Vegetation and Implications for Restoration, Emily E. Leonard

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An Evaluation of Bull Trout Movement Dynamics in the Walla Walla River, Courtney Newlon

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An Evaluation of Methods of Concentrating and Counting the Phytoplankton of Bear Lake, Utah-Idaho, William J. Clark

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An Evaluation of the Food Web Dynamics and Predator Prey Interactions in Scofield Reservoir, Lisa K. Winters

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An Evaluation of the Relative Performance of Diploid Versus Triploid Brook Trout with Consideration of the Influence of Lake Characteristics, Andy Dean

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An Examination of the Effects of Prey Density, Mortality, Nutrients, and Foraging Tradeoffs on a System With Inducible Defenses: An Empirical and Theoretical Approach, Benjamin C. Ralston Daniel

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An Investigation of the Early Life-History of Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) and Potential Influences on Invasion Success in the Logan River, Utah, Jeremiah Wood

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A Post-Project Assessment of the Provo River Restoration Project: Channel Design, Reconfiguration, and the Re-Establishment of Critical Physical Processes, Randy Ray Goetz

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Are Experimentally Derived Estimates of Thermal Tolerance Useful in Interpreting Species Distribution Models, Iva Sokolovska

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A River Transformed: Historic Geomorphic Changes of the Lower Rio Grande in the Big Bend Region of Texas, Chihuahua, and Coahuila, David James Dean

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Assessing Linkages Among Landscape Characteristics, Stream Habitat, and Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Idaho Batholith Ecoregion, Andrew C. Hill

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Assessing the Ecological Implications of the Altered Flow and Sediment Regimes of the Rio Grande Along the West Texas-Mexico Border, Demitra E. Blythe

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Assessing the Effects of Myxobolus cerebralis and Other Environmental Factors on the Dynamics, Abundance, and Distribution of Trout Populations in the Logan River, Utah, Ernesto A. de la Hoz Franco

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Biological Condition and Stressors of BLM Wadeable Streams in Northeastern California and Northwestern Nevada, Nicole Cappuccio

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Carbon Sinks and Sources in Great Salt Lake: Consequences of Declining Lake Levels, Melissa Cobo Arias

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Changes in Floodplain Inundation under Non-Stationary Hydrology for an Adjustable, Alluvial River Channel, Bruce C. Call

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Channel Adjustment and Channel-Floodplain Sediment Exchange in the Root River, Southeastern Minnesota, Michael A. Souffront Alcántara

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Channel Narrowing of the Green River near Green River, Utah: History, Rates, and Processes of Narrowing, Tyler M. Allread

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Channel Response to Flow Augmentation: Diamond Fork River, UT, Diane E. Wagner

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Classification and Prediction Models for Natural Streamflow Regimes in the Arid Southwestern USA, Angela M. Merritt

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Classification of Vegetation and Analysis of its Recent Trends at Camp Williams, Utah Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Techniques, Thomas G. Van Niel

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Colorado River Cutthroat Trout Habitat Resistance and Resilience to Climate Change, Kate H. Olsen

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Comparing Commonly Used Aquatic Habitat Modeling Methods for Native Fishes, Eryn K. Turney

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Comparing Multiple Approaches to Reconstructing the Phosphorus History of Marl Lakes: A Utah Lake Case Study, Mark R. Devey

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Comparison of Topographic Surveying Techniques in Streams, Sara G. Bangen

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Competitive Interactions Between a Native and Exotic Trout Species in High Mountain Streams, Heather M. Thomas

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Constraining Decadal-Scale Erosion and Delivery of Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Deposits, Casey Langstroth

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Control of Large Stands of Phragmites australis in Great Salt Lake, Utah Wetlands, Chad R. Cranney

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Controls on Sediment Connectivity in Fluvial Networks Impacted by Wildfire Across Utah, Alec Arditti

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Detecting Ecosystem Response to Restoration Efforts with Implications for Recovery of the Threatened June Sucker (Chasmistes liorus) in a Shallow, Eutrophic, Utah Lake, Ryan D. Dillingham

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Discharge-Suspended Sediment Relations: Near-Channel Environment Controls Shape and Steepness, Land Use Controls Median and Low Flow Conditions, Angus A. Vaughan