Browsing UW Geography Senior Honors Theses by Title
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The Impact of Logging on White-Tailed Deer During the 1800s: Northwoods Wisconsin Case Study
(2001-05)The current persistence of white-tailed deer population fluctuations cannot be understood without fully analyzing and appreciating northern Wisconsin's environmental history, particularly logging-induced population ... -
Influence of Land Use Change on Grant River Hydrology, Grant County, Wisconsin
(2008-07-21)Over the past two centuries, widespread agriculture has been significantly altering the landscape. It is known that agriculture can significantly alter hydrologic processes and increase soil erosion. While corn is the ... -
Interaction of Human Settlement, Vegetation Patterns and Soils in the Northern Minnesota Prairie-Forest Region from the Euro-American Settlement Era to Present
(2017)From studying pollen and charcoal in lake sediments, scientists have reconstructed the past climate, fire frequency, and intensity as well as the vegetation patterns in the state of Minnesota. They concluded that the climate ... -
Land Use Strategies and Their Causal Forces in Rondonia, Brazil, With Special Reference to the Rondonia Natural Resources Management Project (PLANAFLORO)
(2002-01-02)This paper explores the factors contributing to the expansion of small-scale farming, ranching, logging, mining, and subsistence extraction as land use choices in Rondonia, Brazil. As a framework, these factors are grouped ... -
A Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Fire Record from Appleman Lake, Indiana: The Use of Charcoal Analysis in Investigating Landscape Change
(2008-07-21)Charcoal analysis was conducted on a sediment core from Appleman Lake, Indiana. Appleman Lake is a kettle lake that was formed as the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated during the last deglaciation. Macroscopic charcoal ... -
Learning Through Map-Making: A Cartographic Exploration of Environmental Education
(2023)1.1. Context: Intersection of Environment Education and map-making Environmental Education (EE) is an established yet evolving discipline, with an increasing importance given the current climate emergency. First officially ... -
Living with Coyotes; Madison Citizens’ Experiences and Attitudes
(2019)The prevalence of some wildlife species in urban areas draws attention from ecologists and social scholars, alike, especially for controversial species like the coyote (Canis latrans). Geographers investigate urban citizens’ ... -
Madison, Wisconsin: the Danger of Liberal Havens an Analysis of Neighborhood Formation
(2017-05)To better explore the question of Madison as a liberal haven, I have chosen to study the low-income, minority neighborhood of South Madison. Due to Madison’s large white population, there is little inter-racial mixing in ... -
Maximizing Speculative Urban Development: An Empirical Analysis of Local Governance in Milwaukee
(2002)After being awarded major league baseball's all-star game, the city of Milwaukee felt that the time was right to build a new stadium to take full advantage of this prestigious opportunity to showcase both their team and ... -
Mbojo: Lion Attacks on People West of Tarangire N.P., Tanzania
(2001)Between the days of November 11th and November 26th, 2000 I conducted a study of problems villagers were experiencing with lions in northern Tanzania. The study took place in the villages of Sangaiwe, Sarame, Chern Chemu, ... -
The Media, Groundwater, and Development: Scientific Input in the Arizona Daily Star, 2006
(2008-07-21)In 2006, the Arizona Daily Star, a newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona, paid significant attention to groundwater issues. Authors at the Star discussed groundwater and its connections to commercial, residential, and industrial ... -
Recreating the Social Environment of Salmon Beach: An Analysis of the Salmon Beach Community and Applications Within the Field of Urban Design
(2011-05-01)Salmon Beach is a community in Tacoma, Washington that remains relatively hidden and unheard of, even to the local population. To get to this community, one must first find the unmarked entrance, which looks more like an ... -
The Relative Site Moisture Index: an Expansion of the Topographic Relative Moisture Index
(1996)Soil moisture is an important factor influencing vegetation establishment and productivity. Several attempts have been made to develop an accurate means of characterizing soil moisture in the field without extensive ... -
Remote Sensing Analysis of the Relationship between Sand Dune Topography and Vegetation Response to Varying Precipitation in the Central Great Plains
(2023)The Central Great Plains is a premier site of sand dune landscapes. These sand dunes are largely covered by native vegetation and as a result, are often used for livestock grazing. The beef industry is an important sector ... -
Response of Turtle Creek to Settlement 1836-1973
(1973-05)Man's impact on the environment has been observed and analyzed to a great extent in recent years. The response of a landscape, vegetal community, or stream to inputs of settlement, cultivation, urbanization, or ... -
River Response to Deforestation, 1832-1971, Platte River, Grant County Wisconsin
(1972-06)Man's impact on his environment is currently a popular subject of discourse; it is a topic of genuine importance in a world of increasing population and increasing utilization of natural resources. This thesis is concerned ... -
The Role of Government in the Olympic Games: A Comparative Study of the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
(2011-01-06)The Olympic games have always been the major sports events that draw the attention from the audience, the media and the academics. Every four years, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chooses a city among four to ... -
Settlement Colonialism: ANCSA, the Willow Project, and Colonial-Capitalism in Alaska’s North Slope
(2023)I. Introduction The Willow Oil project is a recently-approved oil development project on the North Slope of Alaska. The project exists on a large piece of land settlers refer to as “the National Petroleum Reserve,” which ... -
Sustainable Subjects: an Investigation of the Production of Subjectivities in San Francisco de Coyote, Costa Rica
(2017)Over the past decade, the fishers of San Francisco de Coyote, Costa Rica have experienced significant changes to the management of their coastal fishery. In 2006 and 2009, two Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) were created, ... -
Terra Nullius and Boxing Crocodiles: Colonialism in the Kitsch
(2020-05-20)Early cartographers imagined Australia to be a mythological continent on the other side of the world full of strange creatures. Driving across the landscape today, one is still bound to run into something surreal; be it a ...