This collection features all master's theses produced by students at Central Washington University. For more information, please see the School of Graduate Studies and Research.
Theses from 2014
Exploring and Evaluating the Pedagogical Usefulness of Online Public Language Corpora: A Guide for ESL/EFL Teachers, Karlyn Koughan-Thornburg
Women and Evangelical Individualism, Danielle C. Kuehn
The Effects of Sugar Substitutes on the Gut Microbiota of Mice, Katie A. Lantau
The Effect of Chilling on Diapause and Development of Washington State Apple Maggot Rhagoletis Pomonella (Walsh) (Diptera: Tephritidae), Nathan J. Lehrman
The Effects of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms on Working Memory in Children, Rachel Lee Liudahl-Carr
Priming the Data: Examining Self-Potentiation in a Word Fragment Completion Task, Michael P. McDonald
Thermobarometry and geochronology in the Dulan region, North Qaidam ultrahigh-pressure terrane: resolving spatial variation of ages, temperatures, and pressures, Megan Eileen Regel
The Museum as an Inclusive Community: A Blueprint for Moving Forward, Howard P. Scott
Alpine and Other Abandoned Towns along the Great Northern Railroad near Stevens Pass, Washington, 1890-1930, Stacy Marie Stanley
Controls on fault geometry during early stages of extension in the Larkspur Hills, northwest Basin and Range, Diana Jean Strickley
GIS Modeling of Elk Habitat Suitability in the North Cascades of Washington State, Anna Yost
Sustainability Policy’s Inherent Dilemmas – Exemplified Via Critical Examination of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Sustainability Campaign, Kathryn A. Zimmerman
Theses from 2013
Experiments to Measure the Effects of Timber Harvesting Equipment on Surface Lithic Scatters, Douglas J. Baughman
Paleoseismologic Evidence for Holocene Activity on the Pinto Mountain Fault, Twentynine Palms, California, Ana Maria Cadena
Evaluating the Utility of Beaver Reintroduction Programs for Enhancing Habitat for Rainbow Trout and Steelhead, Jonathan Rodger Hegna
The Elwha River Restoration: Landscape Change, Salmon, and Sense of Place, Kelseyanne Johnson
Feasibility of Seismic Monitoring to Identify Avalanche Activity: Snoqualmie Pass, WA, Kathryn Johnston
Geomorphology of Deposits from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Tamil Nadu, Southeastern India, Patrick Alan Johnston
The Roles of Humans and Climatic Variation on the Fire History of Subalpine Meadows - Mount Rainer National Park (Washington), Michael Louis Lukens
Characterization of Mass Wasting Through the Spectral Analysis of LiDAR Imagery: Owyhee River, Southeastern Oregon, Christopher Earl Markley
LiDAR Assessment of Sediment Transport Related to the Removal of the Marmot Dam, Sandy River, Oregon, Carl Daniel Matzek
Black Carbon Measurements of Snow and Ice Using the Single Particle Soot Photometer: Method Development and an AD 1852-1999 Record of Atmospheric Black Carbon from a Mount Logan Ice Core, James Andrew Menking
Integration of School Psychology and Neuropsychology: An Inquiry, Megan Colleen Moerke
Theses from 2012
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Responses to Visitors using Chimpanzee-Friendly Behaviors, Daniella Bismanovsky
Holocene Arroyo Cut and Fills Cycles, South-Central Washington, Matthew Ian Durkee
The Effects of 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3, Docosahexaenoic Acid and 5-Fluorouracil on Human Breast Cancer Cells, Liv Astri Engelsen
A Punishment-free, Toilet-training Protocol for Children with Developmental Disabilities, Chelsea Lynn Pearsall
The Grissom Site (45KT301): A Review and Synthesis of Investigations and Exploration of the Site's Research Potential, Holly Ann Cecilia Shea
Applying GIS Metrics to Determine Degree of Glacial Modification in Mountainous Landscapes, Carl Delbert Swanson II
Petrogenetic Relationship of the Postcaldera Eruptions of Mount Mazama, Crater Lake, Oregon; Evolution of a Sub-volcanic Magma Chamber Following a Large Silicic Eruption, Michelle Leanna Tebbe
The Identification and Historic Context of Mining Archaeology of the Wenatchee Mountains within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Jared Valenta
Geochemical Constraints on Groundwater Recharge in the Royal Slope Area, Grant County, Washington, Zoe Danielle Weis
Theses from 2011
Cooking up a Nation: Food, Culture, and Identity in the Early American Republic, Karen Anne Bailor
Geochemistry, Geothermobarometry and Geochronology of High-Pressure Granulites and Implications for the Exhumation History of Ultrahigh-Pressure Terranes: Dulan, Western China, Benjamin David Joseph Christensen
Assessment of Black Carbon in Snow and Ice from the Tibetan Plateau and Pacific Northwest, Matthew Glen Jenkins
Pollination of Basalt Daisy (Erigeron basalticus: asteraceae), Diedra Petrina
Surface Wave Inversion of the Upper Mantle Velocity Structure in the Ross Sea Region, Western Antarctica, James D. Rinke
Theses from 2010
Overwintering of Cascades Frogs (Rana cascadae) in Washington, April B. Barreca
IMPETUOUS DESIRE: A HISTORY OF KETTLE FALLS 1825-1860, Ryan W. Booth
Lacustrine Sediment Record of Multiple Quaternary Lava Dams on the Owyhee River, Southeastern Oregon, Caitlin Anne Orem
Fluid Budget of Metasedimentary Rocks from a Tertiary Accretionary Prism and Connections to Seismicity, Olympic Peninsula, Northwest Washington State, Holly Makena MacFadden Rotman
Theses from 2008
REPOSSESSING IDENTITY: THE WORK OF RITA ANN HIGGINS, Jeanine Alene Bator
Energy Budget Analysis of Slow-Slip Tremor Events Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone Using Continuous GPS Array Data, James Steven Chapman
From Shrub Steppe to Fruit for the Nation: Historic Preservation of Washington's Early Fruit Industry at Johnson Orchards in Yakima, Washington, Kelsey James Doncaster
Petrogenetic Processes Characterizing the Mount Bachelor, Oregon Magmatic System: Open- versus Closed-System Processes, Sara Elizabeth Johnson
Middle Crustal Ductile Deformation Patterns in Southern Tibet: Insights from Vorticity Studies in Mabja Dome, Jackie Langille
The Effects of Moisture on the Ectomycorrhizal Communities on Pinus Ponderosa, Helen Lau
Comparison of Landslides and their Related Outburst Flood Deposits, Owyhee River, Southeastern Oregon, Shannon Marian Othus
The 2004 and 1861 Tsunami Deposits on Simeulue Island, Western Sumatra, Katherine Frances Whitlow
Theses from 2007
Seismic Constraints on Slow Slip Events within the Cascadia Subduction Zone, Ana Cristina Aguiar
Late Holocene Uplift of the Chihshang segment of the Longitudinal Valley Fault at Fuli, Eastern Taiwan, Brian Thomas Gray
A Comparison of Intragroup Greeting and Reassurance Behaviors Across Four Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes) Social Groups in American and African Sanctuaries, Trijntje Laurel Marburg
Development and Evaluation of a Simulation System Based Upon Standard Pedestrian Thoroughfare Methodologies, Charles O. Pringle
Traditional Fishing and Significance of Place: A Case Study of Cooks Landing, Washington, Hillary Eagle-eye Renick
Paleoflood Record Reconstruction at an Archaeological Site on the Owyhee River, Southeastern Oregon, Stephanie Louise Vandal
The Public Perception of Enrichment for Captive Animals, Elizabeth Marie Webb
Theses from 2006
Fluvial Response to Intra-Canyon Lava Flows, Owyhee River, Southeastern Oregon, Cooper Cooke Brossy
Deciphering the Signature of Magma Mixing: Examples from the Castle Creek Eruptive Period, Mount St. Helens, Washington, Seth Taylor Mattos
Theses from 2005
JOB SATISFACTION, BURNOUT, AND PERCEIVED EFFECTIVENESS AMONG BUILDING-BASED AND DISTRICT-BASED SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS, Dawn Marie Farnsworth
The Role of Geomorphic Features and Hydrologic Processes on Sediment Clusters in Gravel-Bed Rivers, Washington: A Field-Based Approach, Ross Richard Hendrick
Chimpanzee Use of Modulation in Response to Questions, Jen-shiuan (Susan) Shiau
Transient Detection and Modeling of Continuous Geodetic Data, Walter Michael Szeliga
Theses from 2004
Teachers' Handbook for Using Picture Books to Promote/Reinforce Mathematical Concepts in the Early Primary Grades, Andrea Lynn Bannister
A Large Late Pleistocene Outburst Flood From Pluvial Lakes Alvord and Coyote Into the Owyhee River, Oregon, Deron Torrey Carter
Theses from 2003
Tracks in the Woods: Identifying and Evaluating Historic Logging Railroad Systems within the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Carol Taylor Hearne
CHUNKING MULTISYLLABLE WORDS INTO WORD PARTS TO INCREASE READING FLUENCY AND SPELLING ACCURACY, Joan Muriel Hutchinson
GIS Modeling of Desert Root Crop Maturation on the Mid-Columbia Plateau, Mary Michelle Phillips
TOWARD A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENTS OF PREHISTORIC ACHAEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AT MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Nicholas James Smith
Theses from 2002
A Field Study of the Northern Leopard Frog (Rana Pipiens) in the Potholes Reservoir Area, Washington, Heather Maranda Simmons
An Assessment of Potential Habitat Corridors and Landscape Ecology for Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca Fascicularis) on Bali, Indonesia, Mark Warren Southern
Environment-Based Education: Policy, Practice, and Place, Eric N. Wickwire
Theses from 2001
Chimpanzee-Caregiver Interactions in Captive Settings: The Effects of "Cultures" of Captive Management, Sarah Angela Baeckler
A small look at the big picture: linking geopotential height anomalies to paleofloods on the Snake River, Idaho and Oregon, Gwendolyn Bernitha Rhodes
Theses from 2000
A Parent Handbook: How Parents Can Foster Learning to Enhance Formal Schooling, Janet M. McKee
Theses from 1999
A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Riparian Vegetation along Satus Creek on the Yakama Indian Reservation, Kathryn Gellenbeck
The Effects of an Organizational Communication Intervention on Job Satisfaction in a Public Health Organization, Ann Kathleen Riley
Carbonado: The History of a Coal Mining Town in the Foothills of Mount Rainier, 1880-1937, John Hamilton Streepy
Theses from 1998
Factors Contributing to Landslide Activity in the Winter of 1995-96, Clearwater County Near Orofino, Idaho, Aaron Paul Wisher
Theses from 1997
Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) Restoration in Altered Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Habitat of the Yakima Training Center in Central Washington, Margaret Ann Pounds
Issues and Conflicts in the Management of the Public Domain of the Saddle Mountains in Eastern Washington: A Case Study, James Jack Sharpe
Summer Home Range Size of the Eastern Cascade Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa rainieri) in Relation to Availability of Preferred Food, Robert Julian Stagg
Theses from 1996
Johann Victor Bredt and German Party Politics: From Empire to Republic to Dictatorship, 1912 to 1933, John Michael Katz
Theses from 1995
Introversion, Extraversion, and Humor, Tanna Marlane Boucher
Impacts of Irrigation Development on Anadromous Fish in the Yakima River Basin, Washington, Robert L. Tuck
Theses from 1993
The Intelligibility of Japanese Speakers of English to Native Speakers of English, Manabu Aoki
To Assimilate the Children: The Boarding School at Chemawa, Oregon 1880-1930, James Alan Smith
Theses from 1992
Using Music to Enhance Beginning Reading, Shirley Yvonne Herrud
A Study of the Summer Steelhead, Oncorhynchus mykiss in Several Intermittent Tributaries of the Satus Creek Basin, Washington, Joel Denney Hubble
THE VALUE OF HEBELER CHILDREN'S SCHOOL, Janet Lucille Smith
Theses from 1990
Collaborative Reading at Home to Assist Children with Reading Difficulties, Criste R. Goldy
The Effect of Different Approaches to Goal Setting on Goal Commitment, Eileen Mary Piersa
Theses from 1989
Promoting Children's Writing for Publication, Minnie Mary McKay Merrill
Theses from 1988
Pre-Academy Placement in the Washington State Patrol: Factors Associated with Academy and Job Performance, Richard Franklin Hamack
Computers and the School Principal, Paul Henry Nelson
Theses from 1987
The Homeschool Enrichment Center: A Handbook for Implementation, Linda Maude Anderson
The Pre-First Transition Room Program, Jeffrey Scott Peck