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
Morphological study of Dbx1+ respiratory rhythm-generating neurons in preBoetzinger complex in neonatal mice Weragalaarachchi, Krishanthi Tharanga Harshani. Applied Science 2012 Master of Science
Effects of shoreline development and oyster reefs on benthic communities in Lynnhaven, Virginia Lawless, Amanda Sue, 1978- Marine Science 2008 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
Peroxynitrite oxidation of aromatic thiols : characterization of the products formed through oxidation of thionitrobenzoic acid and thionitropyridine by peroxynitrite Mall, Catherine Balchunas, 1981- Chemistry 2006 Master of Science
A numerical modeling study of storm surge and inundation in the Chesapeake Bay during the November 2009 Mid-Atlantic nor'easter Gao, Jie, 1987- Marine Science 2011 Master of Science
A molecular phylogeny of the Echeneoidea (Perciformes: Carangoidei) and an investigation of population structuring within the Echeneidae Gray, Kurtis N., 1975- Marine Science 2005 Master of Science
Mate-guarding in the Australian zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata : for males, protecting paternity is more important than extra-pair copulations Wilson, Leah Catherine, 1984- Biology 2011 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
Acoustic measurement and modeling of waves in estuarine and coastal environments Vandever, Justin P. Marine Science 2007 Master of Science
Partial year tagging models : accounting for changing tag visibility and delayed mixing Waterhouse, Lynn, 1985- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
Location management in a mobile object runtime environment Fedorov, Andriy, 1980- Computer Science 2003 Master of Science
Microburst damage assessment and forest composition reconstruction after Hurricane Isabel in the College Woods, Williamsburg, VA Carlson-Drexler, Kjarstin Alane. Biology 2012 Master of Science
A molecular analysis of Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) stock structure Lynch, Abigail J., 1983- Marine Science 2008 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
Net microbial activity, vegetation dynamics, and ecosystem function in created and natural palustrine forested wetlands in southeastern Virginia, USA Hauser, Christian A., 1985- Marine Science 2011 Master of Science
Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of the thyroid hormone receptor Roggero, Vincent R. Biology 2008 Master of Science
Cellulose and its derivatives Murray, Otis Willard, 1914- Chemistry 1937 Master of Science
Investigation of the life history of the cownose ray, Rhinoptera bonasus (Mitchill 1815) Grusha, Donna S., 1957- Marine Science 2005 Master of Science
Production of cyclohexylene-containing diamines in pursuit of novel radiation shielding materials Bate, Norah G. Chemistry 2011 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
The role of bacteria-particle interactions in marine snow dynamics Yam, Emily M., 1979- Marine Science 2007 Master of Science
Seed burial in the seagrass Zostera marina : the role of infauna Blackburn, Natalia J., 1987- Marine Science 2012 Master of Science
The development of the CALIPSO lidar simulator Powell, Kathleen A., 1954- Applied Science 2005 Master of Science
Patterns of abundance and community dynamics in Atlantic Coastal sharks Peterson, Cassidy, 1991- Marine Science 2016 Master of Science
Estimating detection probabilities in beach seine surveys for estuarine fishes Williams, Branson D., 1984- Marine Science 2010 Master of Science
A parallel two dimensional Delaunay decoupling method Linardakis, Leonidas, 1965- Computer Science 2003 Master of Science
Sublethal effects of methylmercury on the songbird immune response : an experimental study Lewis, Catherine Ann. Biology 2012 Master of Science
Idiopathic lesions and visual deficits in the American lobster (Homarus americanus) from Longs Island Sound, NY Magel, Christopher Robert, 1981- Marine Science 2008 Master of Science
Status and demographic analysis of the dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus, in the northwest Atlantic Romine, Jason G., 1975- Marine Science 2004 Master of Science
Flow cytometric analyses on the activation, proliferation, and differentiation state of B cells in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Barr, Maggie Jeanne. Biology 2010 Master of Science
Understanding the origins, dispersal, and evolution of Bonamia species (Phylum Haplosporidia) based on genetic analyses of ribosomal RNA gene regions Hill, Kristina M., 1981- Marine Science 2011 Master of Science
Status, distribution and reproductive rates of American oystercatchers in Virginia Wilke, Alexandra Lee. Biology 2008 Master of Science
Tidal wetland contributions to fecal coliform loads in shellfish growing waters by analysis of model prediction discrepancy Huang, Jie. Marine Science 2005 Master of Science
Reactive sulfur : redox reactions of cysteines and methionines in the cytoskeletal protein tubulin Hagedorn, Tara Dawn. Chemistry 2011 Master of Science
A genetic investigation of population structure and phylogenetics of the benthic polychaete Paraprionospio pinnata in Chesapeake Bay Stubbs, Julie Beck, 1977- Marine Science 2003 Master of Science
Evaluating persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and mercury in the west Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) food web, with a focus on Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) Brault, Emily K. Marine Science 2012 Master of Science
The effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide on the neurons of the preoptic anterior hypothalamus : a mechanism of a hot flash Braasch, Daniel Cameron, 1981- Biology 2005 Master of Science
Chesapeake Coastal Community Flood Vulnerability - Prediction and Verification Renaud, Alexander D., 1987- Marine Science 2016 Master of Science
Calculation of equilibrants for semipositive matrices Tong, Zheng. Applied Science 2009 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
A modern sediment budget for the continental shelf off the Waipaoa River, New Zealand Miller, Andrea J. Marine Science 2008 Master of Science
An economic assessment of reducing incidental capture of sea turtles in the northwest Atlantic pelagic longline fishery Scott, Tara L., 1980- Marine Science 2004 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
The roles of the pituitary-adrenal axis in the reproductive physiology of male prairie deermice (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdi) Coppes, John Charles, 1955- Biology 1980 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
Novel approaches to the fabrication of highly conductive silver surfaces well adhered to polyimide substrates Davis, Luke Michael. Chemistry 2008 Master of Science
Anthropogenic causes of copepod mortality and bacterial decomposition of copepod carcasses Bickel, Samantha L., 1983- Marine Science 2009 Master of Science
Estimation of annual and semi-annual survival of adult female blue crabs and assessment of the effectiveness of the Virginia blue crab sanctuary using tag-return methodology Lambert, Debra M., 1975- Marine Science 2005 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
Sublethal effects of sediment contamination on an estuarine amphipod Vogt, Bruce W., 1976- Marine Science 2003 Master of Science