Highlights & Reminders

Mark your Calendars:  

Heads up... Summer and Fall Class Registration begins Mar 25th for graduate students and April 1 for undergraduate students

Don't miss your registration window! Check banner for your scheduling dates and make sure you have any holds cleared!

 Undergraduates are required to attend the scheduling meeting on Thursday March 14 at 3:30 p.m. in Rowland 200

 Summer Field Courses - Get in touch with Dr. Marr or Dr. Jantz if you are interested in the Chili Class (Summer 2013), or Dr. Cornell if you are interested in summer classes at the Marine Science Consortium! 

 Annual Geo-ESS - Gamma Theta Upsilon Spring Research and Awards Reception April 26, 2013 

 

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Contact

Geography & Earth Science Department
104 Shearer Hall
1871 Old Main Dr.
Shippensburg, PA 17257

Phone: 717-477-1685
Fax: 717-477-4029
Email: geog@ship.edu

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Alumni

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Theses

2011

Griffith Jones.  Water quality improvement and nitrate removal in Craig's Marsh, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania 

2010

Albert Beck.  A comparison of selected Wisconsin counties using an atmospheric hazard vulnerability assessment 

William Pompeii.  Assessing urban heat island mitigation using green roofs: a hardware scale modeling approach 

2009

Jeffery Humpton.  Monitoring and evaluation of a small urban stream restoration project in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 

James Manuel.  Implementing a long-term monitoring system on the restored Conococheague Creek following removal of Birch Run Dam 

2008

Eliza Gross.  Groundwater susceptibility to elvevated nitrate concentrations in South Middleton Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania 

Melissa Mimna.  Effects Of impervious surfaces on maximum stormwater runoff temperatures: modeling and field monitoring of the Shippensburg University Of Pennsylvania Campus

Adrienne Smith.  Ischemic heart disease mortality and priority air pollution in Pennsylvania

2006

Michael Ross.  Reconstructing the cultural landscape of Pennsylvania's Cumberland County: 1765-1775

Brandy Vos.  Floodplain management programs in a tri-state regional Area: A comparison of elements and implementations

Eric Weltmer.  Population characterization as a determinate of urban form: A Study of Harrisburg, PA

Jinnieth Woodward.  The ability of a spring-fed wetland to lower nitrate Concentrations in an agricultural area

2005

John Balay.  Implementation and analysis of a comprehensive fluvial geomorphic monitoring methodology for evaluating a restored stream channel in southcentral Pennsylvania

Brenda Fruchtl.  Carbonate load and denudation estimates from a mantled karst landcsape, Pennsylvania

Bruce Lindsey.  Hydrology of a carbonate spring in the Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania

Christopher Spahr.  A study of gentrification in the Uptown neighborhood of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

2004

William Bechtel.  Hydrology of Boiling Springs - A comparison of drought, wet, and normal Conditions

2001

Robin Christeen Dee.  Water chemistry of the Cleversburg Sink cave system: Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania

Todd Grote.  Baseflow geochemistry on a fluviokarst watershed: Burd Run, south-central Pennsylvania

Jennifer Kinzer.  Park and recreation planning and GIS in Washington County, Maryland

Patricia Miller.  A study of the influence of cimate change on infectious disease rates- case study focused on the United States

1999

Allen Gross.  Mapping the deciduous forest communities of southern New England using remote sensing imagery and ancillary GIS data

1998

Lynette Ward.  Analysis of the James River regional flow management plan for the falls of the James Area