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A Case Study in Wealth Distribution: The Evolution of Economic Prosperity and Wealth in Prairie du Chien
(2009-03-30)Historically, Prairie du Chien has played a significant role as a distributor of wealth and goods throughout the Lower Wisconsin Riverway. The railroad became one of the most important means of transportation of goods ... -
The Catastrophic Flood of Glacial Lake Wisconsin
(2009-05)The formation of Glacial Lake Wisconsin begins during the Wisconsin Glaciation approximately 30,000 years ago. As the Laurentide Ice Sheet moved south from Canada into Wisconsin it encountered a high, hard outcropping of ... -
Central Place Theory, the Spatial Dynamics of Professional Sports Teams Relocation and Expansion, and the Public Financing of Stadium Construction
(2016-06-16)The increasingly profitable North American professional sports industry drives individual leagues, like the NBA, NFL and NHL, to continue exploration into either league expansion or franchise relocation. This paper ... -
The Certainty of Change: Flood, Drought, and the Genre of Environmental Prophecy in California's Central Valley, 1987-2015
(2015)Disaster studies, a field that gained prominence in the 1970s in response to growing research on environmental hazards, has now become a robust nexus for geographers, anthropologists, historians, and cultural critics. In ... -
Changes in Nitrogen Cycling During Tropical Forest Secondary Succession on Abandoned Pastures
(2018-05-03)Nitrogen (N) plays two important roles in Earth's climate. As a plant nutrient, the availability of N affects plant growth and the uptake of carbon (C) from the atmosphere into plant biomass. The accumulation of C in ... -
Cherokee Marsh: a Case Study in Residential Perceptions of Nutrient Runoff in the Yahara River Watershed
(2016)The Cherokee Marsh in Madison, Wisconsin, wrestles with eutrophication issues due to constant influxes of phosphorus from urban and agricultural sources. A lack of vegetative buffers, soils with poor phosphorus storage ... -
Chronology of Late Holocene Glacier Recessions in the Cascade Range and Deposition of a Recent Esker in a Cirque Basin, North Cascade Range, Washington
(1987)Recessional events over the past 800 years between 23 glaciers of varying size, elevation and aspect in the North Cascades and on Mount Rainier were found to be broadly synchronous. Eight periods of recession were identified ... -
Client-side versus Server-side Geoprocessing: Benchmarking the Performance of Web Browsers Processing Geospatial Data Using Common GIS Operations
(2014)Web-based GIS and mapping applications are traditionally based on a client-server model, where most of the data processing work is placed on the server, but current trends in web applications are moving towards more ... -
Climate Change Perceptions at University of Wisconsin-Madison
(2016)This study seeks to explore perceptions of climate change of students at UW-Madison by gauging demographics, political leanings, media influence, and exposure to climate change education. UW-Madison students tend to believe ... -
Cocoa and Forests: Smallholder Incentives in Sustainable Cocoa Production
(2019)I provide background information on the history of cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire and describe the study area. I also provide some preliminary results on land access and tenure systems, land use history, and cocoa ... -
Color Perception and Preference Among Older Map Readers
(2012)Research outside of cartography suggests that color perception changes as one ages. The goal of this study is both to explore and to acquire a better understanding of how individuals of advanced ages understand and perceive ... -
Community Gardens: Governance and Soil Quality in Madison, WI
(2010-12-14)A growing interest in urban agriculture creates the need to investigate the effectiveness of community garden management, specifically how it influences the garden?s physical health. We employed plot holder questionnaires, ... -
Community Responses to Water Quality Decline in the Lake Mendota Watershed
(2014-12)Land use and land cover (LULC) are critical factors in determining the water quality of surrounding water bodies. Although the mechanisms are different, both urban and agricultural LULC increase the quantity of runoff ... -
Contemporary Professional Practices in Interactive Web Map Design
(2016-06-06)It is time for cartographic research to catch up to the technology and practice of interactive web mapping. Here, I investigate the interactive web map creation process through the lens of those who spend their professional ... -
The Contribution of Global Transport on North American Carbon Monoxide Concentrations
(2007-05-18)Carbon monoxide, CO, is produced by natural and anthropogenic processes including biomass burning and fossil fuel usage and affects atmospheric chemistry through its roles as a sink for the hydroxyl radical (OH) and as ... -
The Correlation Between Illegal Drugs and Violent Crime in Madison, Wisconsin
(2009-12-15)Studies show conflicting findings on the nature of the violent crime and drug relationship. This is partly due to the differences in the method of data collection employed by these studies. Statistical data generally ... -
Covid-19 Waste Patterns in UW Campus Area Restaurants
(2020-12-14)The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated multiple responses from governments at all levels across the world, many of which concern the safe operation of businesses, including restaurants. The following research ... -
Creativity Shining Through: A Geotourism Analysis in Spring Green, Wisconsin
(2009-05)Canoeing down the Lower Wisconsin River, paddlers encounter a variety of the state's natural and cultural wonders; blue herons stepping through marshes, rolling bluffs set against the open sky, and local residents casting ... -
Cricket in the West Indies: A Postcolonial Assessment of Structure, Identity, and the Oriental
(2010-04-12)Contemporary West Indian society exists as a hybridized collection of identities that has been forged by centuries of ethnic and ideological exchanges, a process that continues to this day. In those Caribbean Islands ... -
Cultural Parallax and Ethnobotany
(2009-05-08)We will describe our project on Ho-Chunk ethnobotany in a narrative form implicating our roles in the research process. Out initial intention was to understand the cultural and scientific link between traditional, medicinal ...