• Working Class Immigrant Organizing in The Wake of The War on Terror 

  Ramachandran, Vignesh V. (2022)

• Spatiotemporal Analysis of Mixed-Use Planning & Patterns in Milwaukee, St. Louis & Tampa 

  Wongso, Samto (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 

  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. ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

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