• Fine-Scale Vegetation Change and Its Implications for Methane Emissions in Arctic Aquatic Ecosystems 

  Maraldo, Daniel J. (2025)

  While small water bodies (ponds) make up a small fraction of the surface area of Arctic permafrost landscapes, they have been observed to emit disproportionately high volumes of methane and carbon dioxide. To assess drivers ...

• Driftless Divided: Cardinal-Hickory Creek and Wisconsin Transmission Resistance 

  Shapiro, Gabriel Noah (2025)

  Introduction to U.S. Transmission and Transmission Resistance: The U.S. is experiencing a renewable energy building boom. Transmission lines, along with wind and solar farms, are being proposed and built, across the ...

• Mitigation of Spatial Bias in Social Media Data for Disaster Relief 

  Dhakal, Ashmita (2025)

  Social media platforms generate large volumes of geotagged data that are becoming more valuable for disaster response and situational awareness. However, the opportunistic and skewed nature of Volunteered Geographic ...

• Mapping Urban Coyote Ecology in Los Angeles: Insights from Citizen Science and Human Mobility Data 

  Zhang, Qianheng (2025)

  Understanding how urban coyotes (Canis latrans) respond to human activities is a critical challenge in urban ecology, especially in an era of rapid urbanization. As coyotes adapt to urban environments, the list of citizen ...

• GIScience Education from Faculty Careers to Student Training: A Dual Perspective on Academic and Professional Development 

  Chen, Yanbing (2025)

  This thesis examines the educational and institutional state of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) through two complementary components: global faculty hiring patterns and the structure of U.S.-based professional ...

• Land Titles and Deforestation: Evidence from Peru's Palm Oil Sector 

  Gunderson, Celeste O. (2024)

  The rapid expansion of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) in the Amazon raises critical questions about the relationship between land ownership and deforestation. Producers, particularly companies establishing large plantations, ...

• When Kami Met Kuma: Feminist Popular Geopolitical Perspectives on Japanese Nationhood and Settler Colonization of the Ainu in Persona 4 Golden 

  Kao, Benjamin Chin-Hung (2024)

  Reach Out To The Truth… When the player-protagonist 1 ambushes an enemy and enters a battle with an advantage, that is moving first, in the Japanese Role Playing Video Game (JRPG), Persona 4 Golden (P4G), an upbeat tune ...

• Towards a Queer Understanding of Environmental Racism: An Exploration of LGBTQ+ BIPOC Experiences of Environmental (In)Justice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

  Silverman-Rodriguez, Markia (2023)

  This thesis centers on how--and to what extent--LGBTQ+ people of color (henceforth QTPOC: queer and trans people of color) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin experience and resist environmental injustices, and how environmental ...

• Submerged Empire: Racial Grammars of Environmental Governance in Houston, 1900-1939 

  Ponnaganti, Amani (2023)

  How do histories of colonial and racial dispossession shape contemporary urban environmental injustices? Building on scholarship that examines the legacies and afterlives of empire; I theorize grammars of governance as an ...

• Optimizing Best Management Practices (BMPS) For Watershed Plans Considering Temporal Dynamics, Maintenance, and Investment Constraints 

  Qiu, Jianxiang (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) ...

• History In The Margins: Ecotonal Dynamics and Abrupt Vegetation Change In Holocene Lower Michigan 

  Wiles, Sam (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 

  Braun, Katherine N. (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 

  Steinberg, Jake (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 ...

• Working Class Immigrant Organizing in The Wake of The War on Terror 

  Ramachandran, Vignesh V. (2022)

• Spatiotemporal Analysis of Mixed-Use Planning & Patterns in Milwaukee, St. Louis & Tampa 

  Wongso, Samto (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 

  Underwood, Nick (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 

  Vongkusolkit, Jirapa Jamp (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 

  Baldrica-Franklin, Gareth (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 

  Rose, Rebecca (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. ...

• The Spatial Variation of Geographic Polarization in the United States 

  Hudson, Kyler (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 ...

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