Enormous analytical challenges are involved in the analysis of compositionally complex samples such as biomass-derived products and crude oils. In this dissertation mass spectrometry (MS)-based novel strategies for the ...

Given the declining price of solar panels and rising public awareness for environmental protection, solar photovoltaic distributed generation has become one of the fastest growing types of renewable sources being integrated ...

Urbanization and evolving land-use is challenging water management strategies in semi-arid regions of the United States, where stream flows are often dominated by treated wastewater effluent discharges. Effluent-dominated ...

The association between hydrocarbon-rich reservoirs and organic-rich source rocks means unconventional oil and gas plays usually occur in mature sedimentary basins – where large-scale conventional development has already ...

Krylov subspace methods are often used to solve large, sparse systems of linear equations Ax=b. Preconditioning can help accelerate the Krylov iteration and reduce costs for solving the problem. We study a polynomial ...

This thesis applies statistical methods used by economists to a recent paper in the political science literature. As a basis for suggesting more robust methods to be employed in future research, I will replicate and extend ...

This dissertation serves as one of the first comprehensive system investigations of microplastic ingestion by freshwater and marine fish from the Brazos River basin and Texas nearshore marine waters. In total, 436 freshwater ...

The Austin Chalk Formation (Upper Cretaceous) consists of uniformly bedded lithologies throughout south-central Texas. The lithologies found within the subsurface are technically wackestones to mudstones. These general ...