USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

 

This collection contains Master's theses created by USF St. Petersburg campus graduate students since the University received separate accreditation within the USF System. However, please note that the official copies of theses and dissertations written by USF students who had declared St. Petersburg as their home campus prior to separate accreditation are maintained by Special and Digital Collections in the USF Tampa Library.

Recognizing the valuable contributions of our student scholars, the Poynter Library has created this portal for graduate theses. Some theses may have restricted access for a period of up to one year following graduation if the student requests such an embargo at the time the thesis is submitted to the USF St. Petersburg campus Office of Graduate Studies.

It is the intention of the USF St. Petersburg campus Digital Archive to comply with all U.S. and international copyright restrictions and to respect the intellectual property of all authors whose work is represented in the archive. If any individual or corporate entity has concerns about a specific item, please contact digcol at nelson.usf.edu

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Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Assessment of the Impacts of Land-use Change on Streamflow of the Chipola River, Maryam Arif

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Seasonal Water Quality Trends in Bayboro Harbor, a Humid Subtropical Urban Estuary in Tampa Bay, Florida, Stephanie Asher-Leonard

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Effects of In Situ Incubation Temperatures on Hatchling Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta) Morphology, Health Indices, and Locomotor Performance, Kelsey Alexandra Fleming

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A Survey and Comparison of Plant Communities in Crescent Lake Park, an Urban Lake in St. Petersburg, Florida, Hunter Hajaistron

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Becoming Lincoln: His Changing Legacy from Savior of the Union to the Great Emancipator, 1865 - 1965, Nicki Hannum

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How We Experience Eating Disorders: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, Elise Hummel

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Connections Between Female Sexuality and Hell: Misogyny in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Jordan Kohn-Foley

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Culpability and Social Commentary in Titus Andronicus and King Lear, Jay S. Looney

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A Comparative Behavioral Analysis of Time Budgets of Sea Turtles at The Florida Aquarium through the Application of an Ethogram, Kate Rae Lowry

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Effects of DEM Resolution and Fractal Complexity on Slope Characterization and Subsequent Stream Delineation and Flow: A Comprehensive Analysis, Leo Harry Meirose III

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Comparing the Fertility of Florida’s Eastern Mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki, Based on Differences in Female Traits, Water Quality, and Habitat Type, Jordan David Miller

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PAH Exposure in Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) Collected at Natural and Artificial Reef Systems in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Tiffany Jane Nicholson

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State Emotion Regulation as a Mediator of the Relationship between State Attachment Security and State Mindfulness, Jamie Onufrak

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Phillis Wheatley and Carolina Maria de Jesus: Unexpected Voices of Revolutionary Times, Tami L. Toms

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Marriage and Community in New Spain, 1550-1580: The Bigamy Cases of Gabriel Carrasco, Francisco González, and Luisa de Abrego, Hannah Tweet

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Historical Black Press Newspapers and Technology Adoption: The Weekly Challenger, Daytona Times, and Florida Courier, Indhira Suero Acosta

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Who Should Manage Red Snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) in the Gulf of Mexico?A Study of the Social Dynamics of the Red Snapper Fishery, Sydney A. Alhale

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Between Two Empires: Life in Mid-Eighteenth Century St. Augustine on the Eve of Evacuation, T.E. Bryant

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The role that the quantity of sampling wells has on the groundwater quality analysis at the Savannah River Site (SRS), Jerry J. Cantrell

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Informant Discrepancies in Transactive Memory System scoring, Lovia Feliscar

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Integration of Terrestrial Source, Landuse, and Watershed Hydrogeology in Coastal MPA Management, Kyle Flanagan

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The Polarization and Civility of Hong Kong Political Discourse on Facebook News Pages, Leung Kiu Fok

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Historical sediment record and levels of PCBs in sedimentsand mangroves of Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico, Lindsey Hanson

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Florida Entanglements: The 1791 William Augustus Bowles Rebellion, Clinton Hough

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Representations of Transgender Murder Victims in Digital U.S. News Media: A framing analysis, Karlynd June

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Local and Diverse Economies as a Driver of Sustainability: A Perspective from US Cities, Alita M. Kane

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Sadomasochistic Fantasy in Dickens’s Great Expectations, Daniel G. Lauby

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Task-Dependent Fluency and Devaluation of Gender-Ambiguous Faces: The Effects of Categorization Disfluency on Hireability, Ilona Nemeth

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Neural Activation in Bilinguals and Monolinguals during a Word-Recognition Task, Rebecca Porzig

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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“…A Bolshevik, a Negro and a Gun”, Nadine Allan-Vaught

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Winter-Dominated Little Ice Age Cooling in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Determined from Mg/Ca in Planktonic Foraminifera, Rita Marie Crouch

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The Victorian Man: Re-defining and Re-negotiating Masculinity in Brontë and Gaskell, Sylvia Crowhurst

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An Analysis of Wetland Mitigation Success in Hillsborough County, Florida 2000-2007, Leigh Ann Elgin

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Assessing the Impact of Untreated Sewage on the Coral Reef System off the Coast of Caye Caulker, Belize: Applying the Foram Index, Kristen Lynn Emrich

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The Use of Artificial Neural Networks to Describe and Predict the Presence of Harmful Algae in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Erin L. Faltin

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Scientific Novels and ‘Lady Novelists’: Nature and Nurture In Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters, Ashlie Flanigan

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"I Do Not Know How to Fulfill Those Demands": Rethinking Jesuit Missionary Efforts in La Florida, 1566-1572, Saber Gray

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New Governance in the New South: Can Changes in Water Policy Foster a Shift from a ‘Culture of Consumption’ to a ‘Culture of Conservation’ and Introduce Sustainability to Metropolitan Atlanta and the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin?, Andrew Cullen Hayslip

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Sterilization and the Mass Media: Representations of Women in the California State Prison System (2006-2010), Ashley Barbara Jasper

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We Women: From the Age of Aquarius to the Coming of Age: An Intimate Look at the Challenges of Aging in America through the Eyes of Pinellas County Women, Christine S. Melecci

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The Endless Pier: A Study of Iconic Architecture via the St. Petersburg Pier, Kyle W. Pierson

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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A Textual Analysis of Media Frames: The Coverage of the Shooting of Trayvon Martin, Andrea K. Andrus

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“What do you think of Bleak House?”: Dickens’s Serial Novels and Victorian Literary Fandom, Susan Jane Ballinger

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Bat Species and Distribution in a Gulf Coast System at Fort DeSoto Park, Florida, Jennifer Beltran

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Framing Terrorism: How the Tampa Tribune and Tampa Bay Times Portrayed Sami Al‐Arian in 2001, Wendy Biddlecombe

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Organic Carbon Burial Rates in Mangrove Soils: Global Context and A preliminary Investigation of the Coastal Everglades, Joshua L. Breithaupt

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George Snow Hill: A WPA Artist and His Contributions to Florida and Tampa Bay, Diane M. Craig

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A Multi-scale Approach for Characterizing Habitat Selection of Tidal Creek Fish in Charlotte Harbor, Florida, Renee M. Duffey

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The Good, the Bad, and the Garbage : The Making of Modern Florida Solid Waste Policy, Andrew David Fairbanks

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The Rhetoric of the American Dream: Freedom, Democracy and American Exceptionalism, Donna Knudsen

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Effects of Hydrologic Changes and Precipitation on Tree Island Fire Frequency in the Everglades, Florida, Katie Laux

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The Robles Family during the Civil War in Tampa, Karen E. Lucibello

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Trends in Linear Extension Rates for over 100-Year Period in Three Coral Species from Dry Tortugas, Florida, Adis Muslic

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Websites vs. Mobile Apps : A Content Analysis of Tampa Bay's News, Brittany Danielle Padley

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Historical Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon, Pesticide, and Metal Contamination in Clam Bayou, Florida, Renee A. Price

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Finding Florida : The Guide to the Southernmost State, Revised, Cathy Salustri

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Rivers of Truth, Shores of Myth and the Land Between: The Dawning of Silvia Sunshine upon Florida’s Frontier, An Annotated Diary, Dara R. Vance