Peace Corps Master's International

Master's Theses and Reports

2015

Tyler M. Barton

Served in El Salvador

 The Routine Disaster: A Case Study in El Salvador
2014

Bri Hetland Lopez

Served in Guatemala, 2010-2012

 A Surface Displacement Analysis for Volcan Pacaya from October 2001 Through March 2013 by Means of 3-D Modeling of Precise Position GPS Data
Jay Wellik, Doing More With Short Period Data: Determining Magnitudes From Clipped and Over-Run Seismic Data at Mount St. Helens
2013
Patrice Cobin, Probabilistic Modeling of Rainfall Induced Landslide Hazard Assessment in San Juan La Laguna, Soloá, Guatemala
Stephanie Tubman, Spring Discharge Monitoring in Low-Resource Settings: A Case Study of Concepción Chiquirichapa, Guatemala
2012

Daniel Smith

 Stability Analysis and Hazard Assessment of the Northern Slopes of San Vicente Volcano in Central El Salvador
2011

Lara Kapelanczyk

 An Eruptive History of Maderas Volcano Using New Argon-40/Argon-39 Ages and Geochemical Analyses

Robert Hegemann

 An Investigation of Surface Water/Groundwater Relationships in a Rural Watershed in Southern Honduras

Kyle Brill

 Characterization of Harmonic Tremor at Santiaguito Volcano and Its Implications for Eruption Mechanisms

John Lyons

 Dynamics and Kinematics of Eruptive Activity at Fuego Volcano, Guatemala 2005 – 2009

Jesse Silverman

 "The Need Obliged Us": Culture as Capacity during the Hurricane Stan Emergency Response. A Case Study from Tectitán, Huehuetenango, Guatemala

Randall Fish

 Using Water Balance Models to Approximate the Effects of Climate Change on Spring Catchment Discharge: Mt. Hanang, Tanzania
2010

Hans Lechner

 Differential GPS as a Monitoring Tool on Volcano Santa Ana (Illamatepec) and the Coatepeque Caldera, El Salvador

Julie Herrick

 Recurrent voluminous sector collapses at Volcán Barú, Panama (Abstract)

Jemile Erdem

 Modeling Temporal Changes using Coda Wave Interferometry and Seismo-Acoustic Observations at Fuego Volcano, Guatemala (Abstract)
2009

Adam Blankenbicker

 Detailed Characterization of Small Vulcanian Explosions at Santiaguito Volcano

Karinne Knutsen

 La Yeguada Volcanic Complex, Western Panama: An Assessment of the Geologic Hazards using New Ar40/Ar39 Ages

York Lewis

 Geologic Controls for Landslides in the Central American Highlands of Northern El Salvador
2008

Essa Gross

 A Manual Pumping Test Method for Characterizing the Productivity of Drilled Wells Equipped with Rope Pumps