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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 ... -
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 ... -
Optimizing Best Management Practices (BMPS) For Watershed Plans Considering Temporal Dynamics, Maintenance, and Investment Constraints
(2023)In an era increasingly challenged by environmental issues in watersheds, understanding and optimizing land-use management practices becomes crucial. This thesis examines the optimization of Best Management Practices (BMPs) ... -
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 ... -
History In The Margins: Ecotonal Dynamics and Abrupt Vegetation Change In Holocene Lower Michigan
(2023)Abrupt changes in ecological systems are expected to become more frequent in the near future, as a result of on-going climate change and increases in both the frequency and intensity of disturbance and extreme climate ... -
Multi-Scale Spatial Heterogeneity In Ice-Wedge Permafrost Degradation
(2023)Common methods of mapping ice-wedge degradation use surface water in remotely sensed imagery as a proxy for ice-wedge degradation; this method consistently underestimates total degradation and ice-wedge extents as surface ... -
Towards A Code OF Ethics For Journalistic Cartography: Graphics Professionals’ Perspectives On Visual Storytelling
(2023)In this research, I document an interview study with 17 news cartographers to explore how journalistic ethics are applied to cartographic visual storytelling. News organizations have produced some of the most widely seen ... -
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Mixed-Use Planning & Patterns in Milwaukee, St. Louis & Tampa
(2022)Land use integration has emerged as an important sustainability principle in the last three decades, with many American cities recently reforming their land use policies to promote mixed-use developments. This study examines ... -
Mapping Guatemala-US Migration: A Case Study in Critical Visual Storytelling
(2022)In this research, I document a visual storytelling design study intended to address the persistent gap between critical geographic scholarship and conventional cartographic representation--specifically, the failure of ... -
Physics-Informed Weakly Supervised Learning for Near Real-Time Flood Mapping
(2022)Advances in deep learning and computer vision are making significant contributions to disaster management when used in combination with remotely sensed data. Although existing supervised methods proved to be effective, ... -
Storytelling in Online Atlases
(2022)From the Introduction: 1.1 Background: An atlas is a geographic communication device comprising a selection of maps related by theme, or region, and organized into a coherent volume (Buckley 2003). While print atlases ... -
Role of Urban Plan Quality and Land Surface Characteristics in Urban Heat Island Outcomes
(2022)As climate change continues to intensify temperature extremes across the world, understanding the impacts of extreme heat events and planning strategies for heat adaptation and mitigation are critical to human wellbeing. ... -
Exploring the Political Ecology of a Proposed CAFO within the Driftless area of Southwest Wisconsin
(2022)Plans for what could become the largest hog confinement facility in Wisconsin have created divides over the future of a rural community within the Driftless region of Crawford County. This concentrated animal feeding ... -
The Spatial Variation of Geographic Polarization in the United States
(2022)Introduction: In 1977, sociologists Knoke and Henry predicted that "future trends suggest a diminishing political difference between rural and urban populations" (51). Given recent events, their prognostication could not ... -
Aging in Place: An Analysis of Land Use Accessibility in Madison, WI
(2021)Introduction: Americans are living longer than they ever have before. By 2060, there are expected to be 98 million Americans aged 65 and over, twice as many as there were in 2015. Additionally, the 85+ population, which ... -
The Katrina Moment: Rethinking Disaster with Black Geographies
(2021)Prelude: I spent two years working in homeless services in Los Angeles after graduating from college in 2016, matching unhoused individuals to long-term housing opportunities, supporting outreach, ... -
Dance, Precarity & Covid-19 in Two Global Art Cities
(2021)During time in isolation and quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, professional dancers have had little interaction with their careers amidst the global health crisis. While technological innovations have been creatively ... -
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’ ... -
Pandemic-Era Agroecology in Guatemala: Economic Solidarity and Smallholder Resilience to Economic Shock
(2021)The Covid-19 pandemic’s unprecedented market and mobility restrictions (2020-2021) created a distinct economic shock for Guatemalan smallholders, which arrived on the trails of other economic and environmental shocks. At ...
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