UW-Madison Department of Geography Master's Theses
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Optimizing Best Management Practices (BMPS) For Watershed Plans Considering Temporal Dynamics, Maintenance, and Investment Constraints
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Mixed-Use Planning & Patterns in Milwaukee, St. Louis & Tampa
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
The Katrina Moment: Rethinking Disaster with Black Geographies
(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
(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 ... -
Pandemic-Era Agroecology in Guatemala: Economic Solidarity and Smallholder Resilience to Economic Shock
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ...
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