MINDS@UW Madison: Recent submissions
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Recommendations from NOAA's Marine and Coastal Area-based Management Advisory Committee: Supporting Indigenous-led conservation and co-stewardship
(2025-02-26)As an agency of the US Government, NOAA has a legal and moral obligation to protect the interests of Tribal Nations, including their lands, resources, and treaty or other tribal rights, based on the unique relationship ... -
Oral History Interview, Special Collections WOW! September 2018 (1827-1832)
(2018-09)The following short-form oral histories were gathered during UW-Madison’s Welcome Week in September 2018 at a UW-Madison Libraries tent on East Campus Mall. These were done to get students' thoughts about the start of the ... -
Fine-Scale Vegetation Change and Its Implications for Methane Emissions in Arctic Aquatic Ecosystems
(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
(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 ... -
Advancing Green Schoolyards: Equity Leadership and Project Based Learning
(University of Wisconsin- Milaukee, 2024-08-01)Green schoolyards are described as an intervention implemented at an educational facility designed to incorporate nature into a child’s environment to integrate natural elements that support local climate, ecology, and ... -
Mitigation of Spatial Bias in Social Media Data for Disaster Relief
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Waterway Benefits Study Fact Sheet
(2024-10)The Waterway Benefits Study was conducted in 2021–2022 to explore the St. Louis River estuary community’s deep connections to our local waterways including Gichigami (Lake Superior), Gichigami-Ziibi (the St. Louis River ... -
Alana Maijala
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Laurel Sanders
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Alan Anderson
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Brad Nelson
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WISCONSIN DOULA PERSPECTIVES REGARDING TRAINING, CERTIFICATION, AND MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT
(2025-08-22)I come to this research grounded in extensive community-based experience in maternal and child health, informed by my own lived experiences as a Black mother and lifelong resident of Madison, Wisconsin. I am the founder ... -
Development of a Transient Heat Flux Sensor for Analyzing Pre-Chamber Thermal Loading
(2025-08-08)A high-speed transient surface temperature sensor was designed and manufactured with two key features that differentiate it from other sensors. First, the sensor was designed such that 1-D conduction can be unambiguously ...
