• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• (C)art Therapy: Sketch Mapping Workshops for Early Teens as a Case Study in Post-representational Cartography 

  Iverson, Alicia Adelle (2019)

  In this study, I considered the process of mapping as art intervention programming for individuals to uncover the important role that place plays in life’s experiences (affective geographies), specifically the emotions ...

• Cocoa and Forests: Smallholder Incentives in Sustainable Cocoa Production 

  Teague, Molly (2019)

  I provide background information on the history of cocoa production in Côte d’Ivoire and describe the study area. I also provide some preliminary results on land access and tenure systems, land use history, and cocoa ...

• Homeless Choice and Public Camping in Denver Homeless Organizing 

  Leavitt, Luke (2019)

• Reimagining a Violent Landscape: Disaster, Development and Cartographic Imagination in the Brahmaputra River Valley 

  Inks, Kevin (2019)

  The physical geography of India's Brahmaputra River, one of the world's largest braided rivers, is characterized by constant shift. Communities along the river experience frequent and intense flooding, and displacement due ...

• Where Do We Go From Here?: Understanding Mobile Map Design 

  Abraham, Leanne (2019)

  As global smartphone ownership rises, so does the global usage of mobile maps on smartphones. As mobile map usage increases, it is essential to understand what separates mobile maps as a unique from of cartographic expression. ...

• Impact of Time Step On the Results of a Fully-Distributed Watershed Model for Scenario Analysis 

  Risk, Clara (2019)

  Major storms are significant drivers of runoff from agricultural areas, which implies that modeling watershed processes at smaller time steps, such as hourly versus daily, will allow such effects to be expressed in a ...

• Human Movement Patterns of Different Racial-Ethnic and Economic Groups in U.S. Top 50 Cities: What Can Social Media Tell Us About Segregation? 

  Wu, Meiliu (2019)

  Human movement patterns, one of the important fields in human mobility study, is significant for various practical applications, and many studies have proven that it is strongly impacted by individual socioeconomic and ...

• More Than One Way to Kill a Spruce Forest: the Role of Fire and Climate in the Late-Glacial Decline of Spruce Woodlands Across the Southern Great Lakes Region 

  Jensen, Allison M. (2019)

  In the North American boreal forest, temperatures are expected to rise by 4 to 11 °C over the next century and fires are predicted to increase in size, severity, and frequency. The combination of warming and intensified ...

• Implementation of Agrarian Reform in North Sumatra, Indonesia: the Productiveness of Institutional Fragmentation 

  Lee, Zhe Yu (2018)

  Over the past few years, the Government of Indonesia has set out to implement an ambitious goal of formally changing land tenure arrangements on over 20 million hectares of land across the country. With the official intention ...

• Quantifying Carbon Emissions From Cropland Expansion in the United States 

  Spawn, Seth (2018)

  After decades of decline, croplands are once again expanding across the United States. A recent spatially explicit analysis, for example, mapped nearly three million hectares of US cropland expansion between 2008-2012. ...

• "Money Trees” in Southern Thailand: Beyond the Rubber Market 

  Shattuck, William R. (2013)

  Over the past two years, Thai- and English-language newspapers have reported on the difficulties facing Thailand’s rubber farmers. Newspaper articles focus in particular on the dissatisfactions over low rubber prices ...

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