The dynamics of organic matter (entrainment, transport, deposition) can influence geomorphic and ecological complexity in rivers. However, the depositional controls on and characteristics of downed, large wood (LW) and coarse particulate organic matter (CPOM) on floodplains have…
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Accurate hydrologic modeling of ungauged mountain basins plays an important role in ensuring the safety of Colorado’s dams. Recent research has shown that infiltration-excess runoff, saturation-excess runoff, and subsurface stormflow can all contribute to streamflow from major s…
In this study analyses of faunal remains are employed to investigate environmental, economic, social, and ideological factors associated with the emergence of a large aggregated Pueblo town in southwestern Colorado, during the Pueblo III period (ca., A.D. 1100–1300). Detailed sp…
Pastor Pete Peters is a minister in La Porte, Colorado. He operates a small church, an Internet website, a newsletter, and a worldwide cassette tape ministry. He teaches Christian Identity, the belief that the white race is Israel of the Bible. His rhetoric contains open derisio…
This doctoral dissertation constitutes a reservoir characterization and tertiary recovery improvement of the Weber Formation, northwest Colorado. The Weber formation was deposited in an ancient desert environment and consists of intertonguing eolian dunes and fluvial deposits. S…
This dissertation considers animal remains from great houses in the San Juan Basin of the American Southwest. The archaeofauna from an outlying great house, Albert Porter Pueblo in the central Mesa Verde region, occupied between Pueblo II and III (AD. 1020-1280), indicates that …
The presentation of archaeological sites, the concept of authenticity, and the development of site management plans are key aspects of how cultural sites are cared for. This dissertation examines in detail how these aspects of heritage management are applied at three archaeologi…
This study investigates the sexual division of meat procurement at Shields Pueblo, a large aggregated village in the Northern San Juan region of Colorado, occupied from ca. A.D. 725-1280. This is primarily achieved through analysis of faunal remains in reference to the environme…
This dissertation is an ethnographic examination of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) movement in the mining industry. Using Newmont Mining Corporation in Denver and Newmont's Batu Hijau copper and gold mine in Sumbawa (Indonesia) as case studies, I trace the emergence a…
The main purpose of this historical piece is to provide a few role models and to, hopefully, generate or maintain moral inspiration in the movement for legal protection of selected land areas. May it also serve to teach certain concrete lessons, in political and interpersonal re…
This dissertation tells the story of women and children sugar beet workers and the role of family labor in the creation of and contestation over power, citizenship, and belonging in the twentieth-century North American West. Focusing on two groups of migrant farmworkers in Color…
Soil development combined with sediment storage and erosion in small, upland watersheds are key landscape processes for which assumptions are frequently made but rarely verified in landscape evolution studies. However, processes such as these, acting in small, steep catchments, …
This thesis examines how the gentrification of Denver over the last decade has unfolded across the city’s preexisting geography of class and race. Specifically, how systemic racial discrimination positioned certain neighborhoods as economically and politically vulnerable to gent…
Backcountry skiing has continually grown as a recreational activity since alpine skiers began leaving developed ski area boundaries in the late 1930s. Placing individuals in a less managed, sometimes hostile, winter landscape creates a significant management issue for the U.S. F…
Leadville is among Colorado’s most historic cities, but to date has engaged only fitfully with historic preservation. The city lies at the heart of the Mineral Belt, a 250 mile-long, high altitude geologic hotspot holding rich precious and industrial metals spread across Colorad…
In the summer of 2020, The Wild Goose Meeting House, a café in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, crafted a series of conversations on racial justice called “The Goose Talks.” Over the course of twelve weeks, the café hosted sixteen events in order to engage the local communit…
The Cripple Creek alkaline igneous rock-related low-sulfidation epithermal gold telluride deposit is hosted in a 10 km wide Oligocene alkaline volcanic diatreme in Proterozoic rocks. Periods of phreatic eruptions and progressively more mafic alkaline magma emplacement created th…
Low porosity and permeability organic-rich sedimentary rocks categorized as “unconventional reservoirs” comprise significant global hydrocarbon reserves. Characterizing unconventional materials is challenging, as pores are often less than 100 nm equivalent circular diameter. Add…
This dissertation investigates policy-relevant topics in public economics and law and economics. The first chapter applies the transitional gains trap to legal land title enfranchisement in developing countries. The second chapter examines the role of US Forest Service avalanche…