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The Variability of Urbanization in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
(2012)Most research studies examining Polish urban patterns at the national scale consider only one approach to quantify changes in the urbanization levels: measurement based on demographic data or measurement based on land-cover. ... -
Variation in Soil Properties and Topographic Roughness of Stabilized Sand Dunes in the Central Great Plains, USA: Implications for Susceptibility to Reactivation
(2018-12)With a warming global climate, regional climates will undergo changes to their temperature, precipitation, and wind regimes. Consequently, the potential exists for these shifting climatological conditions to affect dunefields ... -
Vegetation and climate changes at Spicer Lake, Indiana, during the Holocene
(2013)Many paleoclimate studies have shown that the midcontinent of North America experienced a warmer and drier-than-present climate during the early and middle Holocene and relatively humid climate during the late Holocene, ... -
Viability of Offshore Wind Energy Across Wisconsin's Great Lakes
(2016)This research project was designed to determine suitable sites for an offshore wind farm within Wisconsin’s jurisdiction of Lake Michigan and Superior. In the research process, we used GIS data to create a map of ideal ... -
Visualizing Ice Quality on Lake Mendota
(2019)We examined the quality of ice health on Lake Mendota because of the lack of an easy-to-understand resource visualizing how climate change will impact the local culture and lake ecology in Madison. We assessed ice duration ... -
Walkability, Amenities, and Housing Choice in Downtown Madison
(2018-08-10)High-Rise apartments are a quintessential living option for residents in major cities and downtown areas. Two important aspects of high-rise apartments are the amenities that are offered and how walkable the area surrounding ... -
Wellhead Protection and the Future Water Demands from Publc Wells in the City of Madison
(2018-05-06)Ultimately, chemicals and other contaminants wasted on the ground will make their way to reach the groundwater or aquifer and that way these pollutants will make the ground water unsafe for drinking. Where does uncertainty ... -
„Wer darf Deutsch sein?”: the Racialization and Integration of Refugees in Germany
(2018-05)This thesis addresses problems with the integration of refugees in Germany, specifically focusing on refugees as the constitutive other to a popularly perceived white German identity. The purpose of this thesis is to ... -
Where Do We Go From Here?: Understanding Mobile Map Design
(2019)As global smartphone ownership rises, so does the global usage of mobile maps on smartphones. As mobile map usage increases, it is essential to understand what separates mobile maps as a unique from of cartographic expression. ... -
Wild to Tame: The Presentation and Experience of Nature at Four Madison Landmarks
(2016-06-16)Our research deals with the recursive relationship between the presentation and experience of nature at four sites in Madison, Wisconsin. We attempt to understand how common conceptions of nature influence the unfolding ... -
Winners and Losers: Gerrymandering and the Wisconsin Supreme Court Case
(2017-12-17)The objective of this research is to examine the validity of the gerrymandering claims being levied against the current Wisconsin State Assembly map in the Gill v Whitford Supreme Court case. To test these claims we examined ... -
Wisconsin Barns: Stewards of Our Values and Dynamic Cultural Landscapes
(2010-12)Wisconsin is rooted in the agrarian rural landscape. We can make this identification while driving anywhere in the state and seeing the numerous farms adjacent to the highway or on license plates of passing cars. Barns are ... -
WISCONSIN DESERT -The Sand Barrens of the Lower Wisconsin River
(2009-05)When Glacial Lake Wisconsin drained at the end of the last ice age, it catastrophicly flooded the Lower Wisconsin River Valley. This flooding deposited massive amounts of glacial sand, which then, through a process of down ... -
Wisconsin on Fire: an Interactive History of Wildfires in Wisconsin
(2018-12-17)Wildfire is a common occurrence in Wisconsin, and has serious effects to the landscape and the lives of people in its way. Predicting future wildfire occurrence is impossible without first understanding and synthesizing ... -
The Wisconsin Rebound: the Fall and Rise of Housing Prices in Wisconsin During the Great Recession
(2018-12-17)This paper details the Wisconsin housing market during the Great Recession. We explore how race, income and density factored into the fall and rise of housing prices from 2003 to 2018, a period spanning before, during ... -
Wisconsin State Parks and the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2020-12-14)This paper explores how the Wisconsin State Park System has been affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic. First and foremost, we seek to understand how the DNR has changed the park system’s operations, and how visitors’ experiences ... -
Wisconsin's 2011 Act 10: Analysis of Impacts to K-12 Public Education
(2017)Our research investigates the differential impacts of Wisconsin’s 2011 Act 10 and Act 32 on K-12 public school districts throughout the state. The 2011 biennial state budget (Act 32), the reallocation of state aid and ... -
Zoning for Urban Agriculture: The Politics of Institutionalizing Community Gardens in Madison, WI
(2010-12-14)The growing popularity of urban agriculture calls for the need for formal recognition in the Madison zoning code rewrite. To understand the politics of this process, we interviewed key actors: city planners and community ...