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Ceasing Usage of American Indian Mascots : Factors in the Retirement or Retainment of American Indian Folks as Mascots Within Four Wisconsin K-12 Schools
(2020-04)
The use of Indigenous Peoples as team names and mascots within K-12 school districts in the United States has been contested by both individuals and organizations for decades. Recent studies have concluded that exposure ...
On-water Bathymetric Survey of the 1,237-Acre Old Abe Flowage in Chippewa County Utilizing a Lowrance Integrated GPS/HD-Sonar
(2020-04)
Bathymetric mapping employs a diverse set of cartographic skills proceeding from the survey of lake depths to the interpolation of depth contours, and the design and printing of maps that meet DNR standards. Over the past ...
Locating a Mass Execution Trench From The Holocaust (Shoah): Subsurface Imaging Within a Coastal Dune System, Šķēde, Latvia
(2024-04)
The Shoah, commonly referred to as the Holocaust, was the organized mass execution of Jewish civilians incongruent with Nazi Germany's political agenda. From December 15-17th 1941, a massacre of ~2,700 Latvian Jewish ...
Analyzing the Impact of Geospatial Derivatives on Domain Adaptation with CycleGAN
(2024-04)
In scenarios when you have two sets of satellite images from distinct domains, CycleGAN provides image-to-image translation for automatic land-cover mapping. Style transfer and domain adaptation are two areas that heavily ...
Applying Geospatial Technologies to Verify the Location of Holocaust Mass Execution Trenches in Liepāja, Latvia
(2024-04)
At least 1000 Jewish people were executed within the Liepāja coastal dunes in southwestern Latvia. These atrocities were committed throughout the month of July in 1941 by Nazis and Latvian collaborators south of the port’s ...
Using Shallow Subsurface Geophysics to Aid Latvian Communities that were Impacted by the Holocaust
(2024-04)
The country of Latvia, located along the Baltic Sea, was invaded by the Nazis in late June of 1941. During the occupation, Nazi soldiers and their Latvian collaborators were sent out to exterminate all Jewish people and ...
An Investigation of the Geospatial and Religious Dimensions of the Forgotten Jewish Community of Aizpute, Latvia
(2024-04)
Aizpute Latvia is home to one of the many forgotten Jewish communities that succumbed to Nazi and local antisemitic violence during the Holocaust. Despite the significant cultural and economic contributions of the Jewish ...
Perceptions of Sustainable Agriculture in the Chippewa Valley Among Current Farmers
(2024-04)
Sustainable agriculture uses environmentally responsible farming practices to meet the needs of society without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. It is a form of farming that is concerned ...
Analysis of Paired Linear Dune Stratigraphy in the Nebraska Sand Hills Utilizing Ground Penetrating Radar
(2024-04)
The paired linear dunes in Nebraska were last active 700-1000 years ago when the last significant period of drought occurred. Reduction in vegetated cover in the previous drought resulted in aeolian [wind blown] process ...
Continuity and Change in Rural Southwestern Wisconsin Hamlets Since 1940
(2024-04)
An assessment of land use in dozens of southwestern Wisconsin hamlets was published as “The Unincorporated Hamlet: One Element of the American Settlement Fabric” in the Annuals of the Association of American Geographers ...










