NHC Master’s Theses

The following students completed their master’s theses through various programs and departments at the University of Colorado Boulder. During their time as students, they also worked as research assistants at the Natural Hazards Center.

Showing Up “in a Good Way”: Addressing Power Inequalities Between White and Indigenous Activists in the Movement to Stop Line 3

By Brigid Mark

2023

Explaining Death: A Typology of Accounts of Parental Loss Experienced During Childhood and Early Adulthood

By Theresa Edwards-Capen

2022

Comparing Social Vulnerability and Population Loss in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria

By Jocelyn West

2022

Long-Term Housing Recovery Among Mexican-Origin Immigrants: How Service Providers Navigate Active and Passive Anti-Immigrant Disaster Recovery Policies

By Melissa Villarreal

2020

Oil and Gas Development in Proximity to Colorado Schools: A Quantitative Analysis of Risk Distribution

By Lisa McDevitt

2019

Hospital Experiences with Hurricane Harvey in Harris County, Texas

By Emma Hines

2019

“I Had to Try to Establish an Identity Without a Business”: Business Interruption, Identity Disruption, and Innovative Recovery Strategies Among Small Business Owners Following the 2013 Colorado Floods

By Allison Madera

2017

Compounded Vulnerability: Homeless Service Organizations During Disaster

By Jamie Vickery

2015

NHC Undergraduate Honors Theses

The following students completed their undergraduate honors theses through various departments at the University of Colorado Boulder. During their time as students, they also worked as research assistants at the Natural Hazards Center or were advised by faculty at the Center.

Flooding Memorials in the Northern Front Range of Colorado: Hazard Memorialization and the Human – Environment Relationship

By Zoe Boiarsky

2022

Strategies Parents Use to Support Adolescents Experiencing Climate Grief

By Taylor Hirschberg

2021