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  • Construction, Degradation, and Restoration of Wet Meadow Ecosystems in Semi-arid Landscapes, Northern Great Basin, USA

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    Nash, Caroline S.
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    Wet meadow ecosystems are a useful natural laboratory in which to explore feedbacks between biogenic and geologic controls on valley bottom landforms. Characterized by flat valley floors flanked by higher-gradient hillslopes, these meadows are singular both in that they represent depositional features in what is primarily an erosional environment, and...
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    DISSERTATION OF Caroline S. Nash for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Water Resources Engineering

  • Beyond the paired-catchment approach : isotope tracing to illuminate stocks, flows, transit time, and scaling

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    Hale, V. Cody
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    This dissertation integrates a process-based hydrological investigation with an ongoing paired-catchment study to better understand how forest harvest impacts catchment function at multiple scales. We do this by addressing fundamental questions related to the stocks, flows and transit times of water. Isotope tracers are used within a top-down catchment intercomparison...
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    of my wonderful wife, Caroline. In addition to her love and kindness, she has made many sacrifices

  • Soil Moisture Encodes Plant Water Use Strategies

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    Bassiouni, Maoya
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    Resilient water, food, and energy management strategies for an ever-growing population and changing environment depends on our understanding of water and carbon cycles from local to global scales. Fluxes of water and carbon are coupled by photosynthesis and plant transpiration cycles the largest fraction of terrestrial water from the land...
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    rainfall. The Nash-Sutcliffe efficiencies of the analytical model’s fit to soil observations ranged from

  • Counterfactual thinking applied to multiagent systems

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    Zerbel, Nicholas
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    Multiagent approaches are well suited to designing autonomous solutions for systems that feature complex interactions between many individuals such as in autonomous traffic systems and multi-robot exploration systems. However, creating autonomous agents that function effectively in these systems is a challenging task. In these complex environments, agents need informative reward...
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    multiagent systems. Fortunately, many techniques such as joint-action learning [24], Nash Q-Learning [64

  • Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

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    Ellis, Erik
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    This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
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  • Providing Informative Feedback for Learning in Tightly Coupled Multiagent Domains

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    Rockefeller, Golden C.
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    Autonomous agents that sense, decide, act, and coordinate effectively with each other are critical in many real-world domains such as autonomous driving, search and rescue missions, air traffic management, and underwater or deep space exploration. All such domains share a key difficulty: though high-level mission goals are clear to system...
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  • Ecohydrological mediation of water budget partitioning and time scales of subsurface flow in a seasonally semi-arid grassland

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    Pangle, Luke A.
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    Understanding how the interactions and feedbacks between plant function, climate, and soils ultimately affects the terrestrial water balance and subsurface flow processes is major challenge in scientific hydrology. This dissertation summarizes the findings of a manipulative climate warming experiment, an observational field study that utilized stable-isotope tracers, and associated modeling...
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    members Cody Hale, Luisa Hopp, Julian Klaus, Tina Garland, Caroline Patrick, Chris Gabrielli, Jay

  • Harnessing Heterogeneity in Human Gut Microbiome Data

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    Tataru, Christine
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    The focus of this thesis is to design, characterize, and apply novel computational methods and molecular systems to interrogate heterogeneous human gut microbiome-related phenomena. In Chapter 2, I design, implement, and characterize a method for embedding co-occurrence patterns derived from massive 16s amplicon datasets. I use this method to 1....
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  • Decentralized Multiagent Coordination for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Routing in Congested Networks

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    Mostafizi, Alireza
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    In 2017, the cost of congestion in the United States was around 305 billion dollars, and city-dwellers, on average, lost 1400 dollars while sitting 42 hours in traffic jams. Aiming for better mobility and more efficient utilization of the transportation network, emerging connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies and their...
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    , late-night talks, dinners, movies, and parties. Mehdi, Mohammad, Mostafa, Caroline, Iria, Albetro

  • The Role of Submesoscale Features in Transporting Heat and Salt Across Ocean Fronts

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    Sanchez-Rios, Alejandra
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    The focus of this dissertation is the analysis of submesoscale and finescale features measured at oceanic fronts and the role they play in the transport of heat and salt. Two different geographical areas were used to analyze this transport: one, an area on the western side of the North Atlantic...
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    and Carlos, Carla, Bryn, Morgan, Caroline, Mostafa, Tala and Charlie. These people and many others