• 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. ...

• Exploring the Political Ecology of a Proposed CAFO within the Driftless area of Southwest Wisconsin 

  Bedtka, Jessica (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 

  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 ...

• Aging in Place: An Analysis of Land Use Accessibility in Madison, WI 

  Sanford, Cassandra (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 

  Caldwell, Kela E. (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 

  Gerlowski, Lauren (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 

  Eddy, Raina (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 

  Rice, Anika M. (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 ...

• Keeping Seeds: Memory, Materiality and Agrobiodiversity Conservation 

  Keeve, Christian Brooks (2020)

  A good amount of commercially produced grocery store tomatoes are grown in the state of Florida, in agricultural landscapes better known for citrus and sugar, but still just a couple hours from my hometown. They are planted, ...

• Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Cartography: Using Deep Learning for Map Style Transfer and Map Generalization 

  Kang, Yuhao (2020)

  Maps have always been considered as a combination of science and art. Following a set of stylistic design criteria that integrates human creativity, perception, and experience, cartographers are able to produce unique map ...

• Developing a dynamic Huff model for business analysis using location big data 

  Liang, Yunlei (2020)

  The Huff model has been widely used in location-based business analysis for delineating a trade area containing potential customers to a store. Calibrating the Huff model and its extensions requires empirical location visit ...

• Processes controlling soil hydrology and pedogenic carbonate formation in loess tablelands, Nebraska, USA 

  McDowell, Taylor (2020)

  As part of a larger project, the objective is to understand how microtopography and the presence of buried soils potentially influence the stability of the landscape in semiarid southwestern Nebraska. It ...

• Ice Age Mapping as a Case Study: Interactive Cartography and Big Open Data in Paleoecology 

  George, Anna Elizabeth (2020)

  Online interactive mapping interfaces are valuable tools in paleoecological and global change research, because these maps demonstrate key ecological concepts such as species moving through time and space and the effects ...

• Linking belowground biotic components and soil organic carbon across tropical forest succession 

  Díaz Vallejo, Emily J. (2020)

  Tropical land cover is continuously changing due to the increasing demand for agricultural products, affecting global carbon dynamics. As a consequence, there are more secondary forests than primary forests in tropical ...

• Gardening in Madison During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  Archuleta, Christopher; Tapia, Diana (2020-12-14)

  The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting people’s social and physical wellbeing. Gardening is a way people have been adapting to the pandemic, as seen in the increased demand and subsequent shortages of seeds. We administered ...

• Impact of COVID-19 on UW-Madison's Community Members’ Consumer Behavior and Economic Security, and what this Means for Local Businesses 

  Calaway, Riley; Erickson, Dillon (2020-12-14)

  Since the beginning of COVID-19 the UW-Madison community as well as communities around the world have been affected in numerous ways, particularly in ways pertaining to their local economy. Both students and businesses in ...

• A Feasibility Study of Wind Power on Lake Michigan: Economic, Political, Cultural, and Environmental Barriers 

  Sweet, Hanna; Thelen, Mackenzie (2020-12-14)

  The Great Lakes present vast potential for wind energy generation, yet no offshore wind projects on the lakes are in operation. This article examines the feasibility of offshore wind development on Lake Michigan and questions ...

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