B.A. (History): “1986: The State of Texas Attempt to Close the University”.
M.S. (Geology): “The Petrology of the Leyva Canyon Formation, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Texas”.
Ph.D. (Geology): “The Application of Trace-Element Geochemistry in Igneous Petrogenesis: Understanding the Origin of Metaluminous to Peralkalic Quartz Trachyte to Rhyolite”.
“Feasibility of Continuous Scrubbing of CO2 from Air at Atmospheric Pressure Using Amine Temperature Swing Chemistry”. Still being written. I’m just waiting for my shipment of monkeys and typewriters to arrive.
Undergrad was “Scale-up Parameters for a Biofilter”, about 60 pages all up.
Ph.D. in geology: “Paleoclimatology of the Neoproterozoic interglacial to Marinoan glacial succession (~650-575 Ma), Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia,” 242 pages.
“Twin Screw Extrusion of Polystyrene with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide”, in support of a Masters of Applied Science, Chemical Engineering (Waterloo, '97). 250 pages, 9 data points
See, if you tease the right gas into a polymer melt under appropriate conditions, the viscosity drops like a rock. This has implications wrt reactive processing, blending, low energy / low shear processing, and foamed structures etc. I just figured out how to get the gas to stay inside the extruder barrel for more than half a second at a time.
Heh, I don’t understand half of some of your titles.
Masters in Psych: Sub-specific differences in vocalizations of the squirrel monkey (Saimeri sciureus) A little less than 100 pages.
Ph.D in Biology: Genetic and morphological variation in the Black-billed Magpie (Pica pica hudsonia): Evolution of social signals. A couple of hundred pages.
MA (Geography) - “Factors in Hub Location: An Analysis Using Logit and Probit Models.” Around 80-90 pages.
Ph.D. (Geography) - “Deconcentration, Time-Space Convergence, and Metropolitan Dominance: The Spatial Reorganization of the U. S. Urban System, 1940-1990.”
470 or so pages in 2 (!) Volumes. Volume I - around 235 pages (includes tables and maps). Volume II - around 235 pages (consists entirely of data - input and output - used in research).
‘Novel bioactive coatings for prostheses applications’ MSc University of Manchester 2001, exactly 100 pages. PhD, same title and university , ongoing, but currently running at 47 pages of literature review and approximatley 20 pages of badly written practical write up.
Children, Death, and Society: A History of Death in American Children’s Literature, 1850-2000. Honors BA, Interdisciplinary Studies, 2000. I think it was between 65 and 70 pages.
That was the only project/paper I ever finished EARLY, and of course it was the last paper/project of my undergrad career. I finished it a week ahead of time!
Thin Film Dewetting Accelerated by Surfactant Adsorption, MS in Material Science and Engineering (Polymer Option), 2003 (tentative as I’m still working on it). Currently it is about 80 pages.
I should probably know the title, shouldn’t I, given that it’s due in 7 weeks? Probably something like ‘Analysis of a Midden Deposit from Pulu Islet, Torres Strait.’ It should be between 13,000 and 15,000 words, probably. Speaking of ‘shoulds’, I should be working on it right now. Which means that it’s…time for a lunch break, yeah!
M.S. (Civil and Environmental Engineering): Treatment of Urban and Roadway Stormwater Runoff with Crushed Concrete Filtration Media, 2001, 87 pages (incl. bibiliography).
“‘Sad Stories of the Death of Kings’: Language, Identity, and Self-Dramatization in Richard II.” B.A. with High Honors in English, University of Michigan, 2001. About 50 pp.
“Ben Jonson’s Balancing Act: Volpone and the Antitheatricalists.” M.A. in Humanities, University of Chicago, 2002. About 30 pp.
I have a couple of years before I start on my PhD dissertation, though I can tell you a few things: it’ll be long, verbose, and Shakespeare’s histories will be involved in some way. Clearly my interests are similar to Fretful Porpentine’s.
Ph.D.: “And for to pleye as he was wont to do”: Chaucer’s Games in The Canterbury Tales. 220 pages.
BA: I did a senior thesis back in '88, but I don’t remember the title. It was for my minor in journalism; something about media self-investigation. “Who Watches the Watchers?” or something like that. Hey, I was under the influence of Alan Moore at the time.