Some of our Graduates
| Student | Year | Thesis/Project Title | What career began after graduation? | Who was the first employer after graduation? | ||||
| Savannah Quintana-Eddins | 2023 | Impacts of Urban Renewal on Community Identity and Sense of Place in Las Cruces, New Mexico | ||||||
| Joshua Driscol | 2023 | abqMaps: An Environmental Justice Map for Albuquerque, New Mexico | ||||||
| Westin Guthrie | 2023 | Projecting Vegetation Condition and Fire Risk in Southern California | ||||||
| Michael Gurule | 2023 | The Impact of Transfer Learning for Ungulate Recognition at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge | ||||||
| Samantha Stroud | 2023 | The Affective Landscapes of Herbalism in New Mexico | ||||||
Desiree Loggins | 2022 | The Nature of Environmental Planning in the Carnué Land Grant | ||||||
Marissa Heller | 2022 | Rock Climbing and Conservation in Land Management: Can they Coexist? | ||||||
Liu Zhuoming | 2022 | Individual Exposure potential Assessment for Livestock Based on Spatial-Temporal Analysis of GPS Data and Behavior Patterns Classification in Cove Wash Watershed, Arizona | ||||||
Shannon Pepper | 2021 | Weedy Relations: Narratives of invasion and intimacy with tamarisk in the Chihuahuan Desert | ||||||
Ellen Loechner | 2021 | Nuanced Network: How Social Relationships and Power Influence Participation in Private Lands Conservation Programs | ||||||
Nicole Caruana | 2021 | Examining Psilocybina and LSD through a Geographic Lens | ||||||
Laurel Ladwig | 2020 | Backyard Wildfire Refuges in Albuquerque, NM: An Urban Land Ethic in Practice | ||||||
| Rowan Converse | 2020 | Assessing Drought Vegetation Dynamics at the Landscape Scale in Semiarid Grass- and Shrubland Using MESMA | ||||||
| Aron Roberts | 2020 | An Analysis of Contraflow Network Resiliency Under Mass Evacuation Conditions in Houston, Texas | ||||||
| Tucker Colvin | 2020 | Drinking Water Governance For Whom? An Institutional Analysis of Rural Drinking Water Systems in New Mexico | ||||||
| Anthony Meluso | 2019 | La gota que colma la caguama: Cummulative Tensions Transformed into the Defense of Water | ||||||
| Jacob Wikle | 2019 | Drone Based Aerial Survey: Using Drones to Replace Traditional Field Survey Methods for Determining Peak Streamflow | ||||||
| Alexander Marx | 2019 | Geospatial Technologies to Detect and Visualize Potential Urban Farmland for Neighborhood Revitalization | ||||||
| Ian Hill | 2019 | A hybrid GIS/in situ analysis of AED coverage on the UNM central campus | ||||||
| Brendan Nixon | 2019 | Engaging Sacred Space and Experiencing God in the Mountains: A Study of the Non-traditional Worship Environment of Mountain Cathedrals, An Ecumenical Meetup Group Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico | ||||||
| Daniel Beene | 2019 | Adjudication and the Adaptive Capacity of Pecan Farmers in the Lower Rio Grande | ||||||
| Sean O'Neill | 2019 | Mapping Health in New Mexico's Forests: A High Performance, Cloud based, UserFriendly, Continuously Updated Forest Health Web Mapping Application | ||||||
| Kristian Mueller | 2019 | Assessing How Terrain Representations and Scale Affect the Accuracy of Distance Estimates | ||||||
| Anjanette Hawk | 2018 | Impact of Drought on Land Cover Changes in Diné Bikéyah – A Study through Remote Sensing | ||||||
| Zachary Taraschi | 2018 | Evaluating the Utility of Object-Based Image Analysis for Ecological Monitoring of Pinon-Juniper Mortality | ||||||
| Akashia Allen | 2018 | Evaluating Field- and Image-based Remote Sensing Methods for Monitoring Vegetation Change at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge | ||||||
| Hayley Hajic | 2018 | Water Quality Assessment in the Santa Fe River: Tracking Pollution Sources via Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis | ||||||
| Samuel Thompson | 2018 | How the Proximity of Crime Impacts Housing Prices: A Hedonic Pricing Study of Inner-Loop Houston, TX | ||||||
| Courtney Brock | 2018 | Urban Animals: GIS Analysis of Stray Canines and Felines in Albuquerque, New Mexico | ||||||
| Jane Motsinger | 2018 | Virtuous discourse in the specialty coffee sector: How social responsibility practices fragment pursuits for a supply chain | ||||||
| Gladys Valentin-Gonzalez | 2018 | Assessment of Vegetation Response to Wildfire at Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico: Case Study of the Las Conchas Fire | ||||||
| William Brewer | 2017 | Assessing Drought-Induced Change in a Piñon-Juniper Woodland with Landsat: A Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis Approach | Ph.D. Student | SDSU-UCSB Joint Doctoral Program in Geography | ||||
| Susanna Diller | 2017 | Human Experience of Fountain Spaces in Denver and Albuquerque | geospatial analyst | UNM Earth Data Analysis Center | ||||
| Aaron Russell | 2017 | Social Perceptions of Solar Power: Using Q-Methodology to Explore the Evolution of Solar Energy Conversations in the San Luis Valley of Southern Colorado | Ph.D. Student | College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware | ||||
| Sagert Sheets | 2017 | Implementing the Distance Decay Function in an Enhanced Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Analysis and Interpreting Its Effect on Results: A Tool for Geographic Information Systems. | geospatial analyst | |||||
| Jordan Stone | 2017 | Forests on the Edge of Nature: Restoration and Concepts of Nature in Northern New Mexico | environmental management | |||||
| Pankaj Bajracharya | 2016 | Modeling Urban Growth and Land Use Change in Albuquerque using SLEUTH | Ph.D. Student | Department of Geography, UNC-Greensboro | ||||
| Tina Faris | 2016 | Framework for Assessing Integrated Water Resources Management in Latin America: Case Studies of Buenos Aires and São Paulo | environmental management | Kansas Dept of Health and Environment: Bureau of Air | ||||
| Marshall Grebe | 2016 | Project: Designing a Broadband Radio Transmission System for Time-sensitive Remote Sensing | geospatial analyst | Albuquerque Water Authority | ||||
| Alissa Healy | 2016 | A Comparison of Presence Only Suitability Models to Accurately Identify Prehistoric Agricultural Fields in Western New Mexico Through Remote Sensing | archeologist | North Wind Group | ||||
| Bryce Locket | 2016 | Project: Economic analysis of a proposed ‘Acequia Park” | geospatial analyst | Sandia National Laboratory | ||||
| Andrew Loerch | 2016 | Modeling the Timeliness of Airborne Remote Sensing Data | Ph.D. Student | SDSU/UCSB Joint Doctoral Program in Geography | ||||
| Erinn Manning | 2016 | Plan II professional project | cartographer | U.S. Forest Service | ||||
| Greg Maynard | 2016 | GIS modeling for road maintenance priority planning | geospatial analyst | Bohannon Huston | ||||
| Kilko Paz | 2016 | Plan II professional project | ||||||
| Nicholas Thompson | 2016 | Land Cover Change During a Transition in Land Management at Valles Caldera 1989-2013 | geospatial analyst | Isletta Pueblo | ||||
| Peter Callahan | 2015 | Energy resource management | ||||||
| Veronica Chavez | 2015 | Community development in New Mexico | geospatial analyst | New Mexico Office of the State Engineer | ||||
| Willard Hunter | 2015 | Distortion and Revolution in Texas U.S. Congressional Redistricting Politics: 1972-2014 | ||||||
| Bryan Kinworthy | 2015 | New Mexico Rock Glacier Inventory: Analysis of Geomorphology and Paleogeography | Ph.D. Student | Department of Geography, University of Calgary | ||||
| Roberto Valdez | 2015 | A Case Study in Toponomy: Sampling and Classifying a Tri-Lingual Place Name Inventory Found in North-Central New Mexico | instructor | Northern New Mexico University | ||||
| Su Zhang | 2015 | Assessing the utility of nighttime light satellite imagery for adjusting cost estimate by project location | geospatial analyst/research engineer | UNM Earth Data Analysis Center | ||||
| Crystiana Baca-Bosiljevic | 2014 | Connecting People and Place: Farmers, Resilience, and the Future of Smallholder Farms in Albuquerque | environmental management | |||||
| Saundra Daras | 2014 | Crime and Immigration in Albuquerque, NM — Real or Misperception? | IT specialist | Network Coverage | ||||
| Sarah Haft | 2014 | Blue carbon conservation analysis for mangrove forests in Madagascar | environmental management | |||||
| Maureen Meyer | 2014 | Since I Know Myself: A Cultural Examination of Medicinal Plant Use in the Commonwealth of Dominica | Fulbright Scholar | Cameroun | ||||
| Imogen Ainsworth | 2013 | Evaluation of the City of Santa Fe's Basin Study: Resilience Thinking and Adaptive Capacity in a Preliminary Assessment of Climate Change and the Santa Fe Watershed | ||||||
| Michael Camponovo | 2013 | Assessing Uncertainty in Volunteered Geographic Information for Emergency Response | geospatial analyst | geospatial scientist department of geography at the University of Tennessee Knoxville | ||||
| Eric Cox | 2013 | The Effect of Airport Delays on the Evolution of the U.S. Air Travel Network | ||||||
| Stephen Griego | 2013 | Restraurant regions : an ecological community based model of restaurant chain distribution in the United States | Ph.D. Student | Department of Communication and Journalism, UNM | ||||
| Mark Lawler | 2013 | Non-Federal/Federal Collaborators in Endangered Species Driven River Restoration: How Risk and Incentive Mobilize Institutional Supply in the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program | environmental management | |||||
| Kris Lindgren | 2013 | Plan II professional project | geospatial analyst | New Mexico mining industry | ||||
| Erin Marchand | 2013 | The Effect of Geography and Personal Experience on Attitudes and Perceptions of the Mexican Gray Wolf Reintroduction | ||||||
| Martin Martinez | 2013 | |||||||
| William Maxwell | 2013 | To Thrive, Work, and Live: Progress toward and Challenges to Sustainability on the Frei Gondim Settlement, Pernambuco, Brazil | Ph.D. Student | Department of Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill | ||||
| Autumn Carr | 2012 | Plan II professional project: Mock intelligence assessment of Iran | intelligence analyst | U.S. Department of Defense | ||||
| George Keyes | 2012 | Historical GIS of Civil War campaigns in New Mexico | optometrist | |||||
| Sarrah Kubinec | 2012 | Plan II professional project | environmental management | Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper | ||||
| Choongman Oh | 2012 | geospatial analyst | ESRI-Korea | |||||
| Knutt Peterson | 2012 | Remediation of Sand Dune Blowouts Along Pipeline Right of Ways | environmental management | Bureau of Land Management | ||||
| Matthew Gagnon | 2011 | The Valles Caldera: Recreationists' Perspectives on Access and Management | environmental management | |||||
| Katherine Lenzer | 2011 | Characterizing the Local Food Environment in Albuquerque, New Mexico: A Dual Perspective of Retailer and Consumer | health policy analyst | Robert Wood Johnson Center for Health Policy Research, UNM | ||||
| Steve P. Linger | 2011 | Spatial-temporal neighborhood-scale urban water demand estimation | ||||||
| Destiny Mitchell | 2011 | Determining Historic Ethnic Changes in Sierra County and New Mexico 1870-2000 | ||||||
| Peggy Allison (now Deaton) | 2010 | Cartographic construction of the Mt. Taylor Traditional Cultural Property | geospatial analyst | U.S. National Park Service | ||||
| Natalie Heberling | 2010 | Prehistoric Roads of New Mexico: A Synthesis of GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques | geospatial analyst | |||||
| Drew Ignizio | 2010 | Suitability modeling and the location of utility-scale solar power plants in the southwestern United States | geospatial analyst | U.S. Geological Survey | ||||
| Lisa Arnold | 2009 | Positional accuracy of the Wide Area Augmentation System | geospatial analyst | |||||
| Calvin Tribby | 2009 | Assessing the effects of new public transportation routes : an equity analysis on the changing accessibility of Albuquerque, New Mexico | Ph.D. Student | Department of Geography, University of Utah | ||||
| Kathleen Hawkos | 2008 | Cooperative roles of geographic information science in identifying boundary uncertainty : a case study in The Bureau of Land Management's Manzano Wilderness Study Area | ||||||
| Cody Wiley | 2008 | Eagle Vision : new directions in K-12 GIS | instructor/lab technician | University of New Mexico |
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