Theses & Dissertations Digitization Project

William & Mary Libraries worked for two years on a project to digitize and catalog W&M dissertations and theses going back to 1920 and up until 2015.  The project helps to accomplish many goals:

  • share the developments and research conducted here with scholars around the world
  • preserve the scholarly record
  • increase the impact of theses and dissertations
  • raise the profile of graduate students
  • grow the reputation of William & Mary
  • demonstrate the institution’s impact on local and global communities

As of October 22, 2018, you are now able to view the dissertations and theses included in this retrospective project as well as those which have been submitted electronically since 2016 in W&M ScholarWorks, the university's open access institutional repository.

Below, please find a list of W&M theses and dissertations which have been digitized as part of this retrospective conversion project . The information includes the authors associated with the project, along with their degree-granting department and year of completion. If you wrote a thesis and/or dissertation between 1920 and 2015 would like to opt-out of the project by restricting access to your work to on-campus access only, then you will need to contact scholarworks@wm.edu with your name, date of graduation and thesis or dissertation title. Theses and dissertations will continue to be made available through interlibrary loan (ILL) to other libraries, as they were when they were available in print. If you are a copyright holder for one of these works, and would like to provide additional information about a work, or discuss rights and access to the work, please contact us at scholarworks@wm.edu.

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Title Author Department Year Degree
Molecular phylogeny of Lake Baikal amphipods Macdonald, Kenneth S. 1971- Marine Science 1999 Master of Science
Chesapeake Coastal Community Flood Vulnerability - Prediction and Verification Renaud, Alexander D., 1987- Marine Science 2016 Master of Science
New data on ichthyoplankton of the south western Pacific Suntsov, Andrei V. Marine Science 1997 Master of Science
Quantifying the ecosystem role of a suspension and a facultative deposit feeding bivalve in the New River Estuary, NC : with responses to changes in nutrient and sediment inputs Wiseman, Heather Marie, 1984- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
Sediment transport and erodibility in the York River Estuary : a model study Rinehimer, Jeffrey Paul, 1982- Marine Science 2008 Master of Science
The lateral extent and spatial variation of mercury exposure in birds and their prey near a polluted river Howie, Mikaela Gioia Selene. Biology 2010 Master of Science
Ecosystem gas exchange in natural and created tidal salt marshes of Tidewater, Virginia Roggero, Molly Mitchell. Marine Science 2003 Master of Science
Population dynamics of the smooth dogfish, Mustelus canis, in the northwest Atlantic Conrath, Christina L., 1973- Marine Science 2000 Master of Science
Effects of metal-based montmorillonite clay and zeolite additives on the fire retardance and smoke suppression of poly(vinyl chloride) Zestos, Alexander George. Chemistry 2008 Master of Science
The effect of Phragmites australis invasion on community processes in a tidal freshwater marsh Campana, Michael Leadbeater, 1972- Marine Science 1998 Master of Science
Development of a method for quantifying the air-sea flux of volatile organic carbon Jayne, Emily A., 1987- Marine Science 2011 Master of Science
Anthropogenic causes of copepod mortality and bacterial decomposition of copepod carcasses Bickel, Samantha L., 1983- Marine Science 2009 Master of Science
Site fidelity, home range, and daily movements of white perch, Morone americana, and striped bass, Morone saxatilis, in two small tributaries of the York River, Virginia/ McGrath, Patrick E., 1978- Marine Science 2005 Master of Science
Mechanistic studies on chlorinated polymeric systems Zhang, Jing, 1977- Chemistry 2003 Master of Science
Investigations of the fragmentation spectra of dipeptides containing lysine and its non-protein amino acid homologs Hamdy, Omar. Chemistry 2011 Master of Science
Investigation of relationships between short-term photosynthetic performance and long-term growth of Zostera marina Lewis, Elizabeth Amy, 1974- Marine Science 2004 Master of Science
Effects of human disturbance on the breeding success of eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) Kight, Caitlin Rebecca, 1981- Biology 2005 Master of Science
The consequences of shoreline development for near-shore communities in Chesapeake Bay, USA : a before-after control-impact study Davenport, Theresa M. Marine Science 2012 Master of Science
Songbirds, pesticides, and golf courses : exposure and effects Burdge, Ryan Brennan. Biology 2009 Master of Science
Protease inhibitors of the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, and their relationship to the protozoan pathogen, Perkinsus marinus Oliver, Jacques L., 1972- Marine Science 1999 Master of Science
On shelf-slope water mass exchanges near Washington Canyon and Norfolk Canyon in the Mid-Atlantic Bight Wang, Haixing, Marine Science 2016 Master of Science
Correspondence between environmental gradients and the assemblage structure of littoral fishes in the tidal portion of three Virginia coastal plain rivers Wagner, C. Michael (Clifford Michael), 1967- Marine Science 1997 Master of Science
Recent sedimentation patterns and facies distribution on the Waipaoa River Shelf, N.Z. Rose, Lila Eve, 1981- Marine Science 2008 Master of Science
Survival in an urbanized landscape : radio-tracking fledgling eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) on golf courses Jackson, Allyson Kathleen. Biology 2010 Master of Science
Historical diet analysis of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempi) sea turtles in Virginia Seney, Erin E., 1978- Marine Science 2003 Master of Science
Accuracy assessment of remote sensing in a tidal wetland Goldberg, Jason S., 1974- Marine Science 2000 Master of Science
Automatically generating random test data for relevant and implicitly defined subdomains Murphy, John Alexander, 1984- Computer Science 2008 Master of Science
Tidal freshwater and oligohaline benthos : evaluating the development of a benthic index of biological integrity for Chesapeake Bay Draheim, Robyn C., 1972- Marine Science 1998 Master of Science
Ecological, physiological, and bio-optical characteristics of Phaeocystis globosa in coastal waters of south central Vietnam Liu, Xiao, 1987- Marine Science 2011 Master of Science
Quantifying the overwash component of barrier island morphodynamics : Onslow Beach, NC Foxgrover, Amy C. Marine Science 2009 Master of Science
Meiofauna abundance and distribution in Chesapeake Bay : relationships with environmental stressors, sediment toxicity and macrofauna Metcalfe, William J., 1977- Marine Science 2005 Master of Science
Location management in a mobile object runtime environment Fedorov, Andriy, 1980- Computer Science 2003 Master of Science
The total synthesis of the lolium alkaloids Hovey, Michael Todd. Chemistry 2011 Master of Science
Documenting the suspended and bottom sediment dynamics of a two estuarine turbidity maximum system using 7Be and 234Th Romine, Heidi M., 1975- Marine Science 2004 Master of Science
Effects of salinity and nitrogen on the distribution and growth of Phragmites australis along the Rappahannock River Packett, Carmen Rebekah, 1981- Biology 2005 Master of Science
Relationships among fine sediment settling and suspension, bed erodibility, and particle type in the York River Estuary, Virginia Fall, Kelsey A. Marine Science 2012 Master of Science
Using an occupancy modeling framework to test the effects of habitat variables on pond occupancy of Mabee's salamander (A. mabeei) and marbled salamander (A. opacum) Fairman, Christy Michelle. Biology 2009 Master of Science
Geochemistry of small mountainous rivers of Papua New Guinea : local observations and global implications Raymond, Megan B. 1972- Marine Science 1999 Master of Science
Influences of habitat conditions on submerged aquatic vegetation development in the Chickahominy River and other Virginia tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay Shields, Erin C., 1981- Marine Science 2008 Master of Science
Effects of adaptive foragers on the diversity and functioning of assembled model communities Tarantino, William J., 1983- Marine Science 2008 Master of Science
Assessing the functional status of created wetlands in eastern Virginia via a soil and vegetative developmental trajectory Kreisel, Sara Elizabeth, 1985- Biology 2010 Master of Science
Relationships between watershed characteristics and base flow nutrient discharges to Eastern Shore coastal lagoons, Virginia Stanhope, Jennifer Wu, 1974- Marine Science 2003 Master of Science
Efficiency of pound-net cull panels : a comparison of size selectivity and relative release for weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) and summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) Hager, Christian Harding, 1968- Marine Science 2000 Master of Science
Parallel unstructured grid generation for complex real-world aerodynamic simulations Zagaris, George, 1982- Computer Science 2008 Master of Science
The parasite fauna of the wreckfish, Polyprion americanus, in the North Atlantic Ocean: application to host biology and stock identification Fennessy, Colleen Jill, 1970- Marine Science 1998 Master of Science
The effects of seagrass species and trophic interactions in experimental seagrass communities Moore, Althea F. P., 1980- Marine Science 2011 Master of Science
Hydrography and phytoplankton distribution in the Amundsen and Ross Seas Fragoso, Glaucia M., 1984- Marine Science 2009 Master of Science
Shore-oblique bars, nearshore gravel outcrops, and their correlation to shoreline change Schupp, Courtney A., 1978- Marine Science 2005 Master of Science
A parallel two dimensional Delaunay decoupling method Linardakis, Leonidas, 1965- Computer Science 2003 Master of Science
Investigation of Hg(II) solution speciation by ESI-MS and proton NMR Nestor, Madeline R. Chemistry 2011 Master of Science