Browsing UW-Madison Department of Geography Master's Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Data Mining For Knowledge-Based Approach for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping
(2018)Statistical approaches to landslide susceptibility mapping can be an effective tool for determining areas of high risk, but have also had problems with portability, reliability, stability, and impracticality as they often ... -
Data-Mining Social Media for Spatiotemporal Patterns of Negative Opinion
(2013)Given that political and natural events cause unrest in social media, the research of this thesis serves to address the following question: Using census demographics and the geographic signature of social media content, ... -
Dead Zones, Weed Nests, and Manure Mishaps: How Gardeners Cultivate Collective Place in Eagle Heights Community Gardens
(2011)The garden plots of Eagle Heights Community Gardens stretch for eight acres up a hillside on the west side of the University of Wisconsin at Madison's campus. Individual gardeners shape much of the space in this allotment-style ... -
Decontaminating Memory: Governmentality, Networks and Relational Enactment Through Policy Development at the Badger Army Ammunitions Plant, Wisconsin
(2011)In 1997, the US Army announced that the Badger Army Ammunition Plant (BAAP) in Sauk County, Wisconsin would be decommissioned, marking the end of the site?s complicated history and sparking extensive debate over proposed ... -
Designing an Experience: Maps and Signs at the Archaeological Site of Troy
(2016-06-29)Here, I discuss ways of enhancing the visitor experience at the archaeological site of ancient Troy near Çanakkale, Turkey, by redesigning the current maps and signage. Maps and signage are essential for visitors to ... -
Detecting Change in Urban Areas at Continental Scales with MODIS Data
(2014)Urbanization is one of the most important components of global environmental change, yet most of what we know about urban areas is at the local scale. Remote sensing of urban expansion across large areas provides information ... -
Detection and Exploration of Individual Semantic Trajectories Using Social Media Data
(2018)Individual travel trajectories collected from social media platforms (i.e., digital footprints) are often aggregated using methods such as the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) and varying ... -
Detection of Peri-urban and Agricultural Expansion 1990-2015 in Pakse, Laos, Using Dense Time Stacks of Landsat Imagery
(2016)Built-up areas in Southeast Asia have been expanding rapidly in the export-oriented economies of Vietnam, China, and Thailand, but less attention has been paid to cities in more rural nations such as Laos. The Laotian ... -
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 ... -
Driftless Divided: Cardinal-Hickory Creek and Wisconsin Transmission Resistance
(2025)Introduction to U.S. Transmission and Transmission Resistance: The U.S. is experiencing a renewable energy building boom. Transmission lines, along with wind and solar farms, are being proposed and built, across the ... -
Effects of Land Use Change on Streamflow: An Evaluation of the Salt River Basin, Kentucky
(2011)The Salt River Basin has experienced extensive land use change during the second half of the twentieth century as a result of expansion of urbanized areas. Due to expected climate change, the hydrological regime of the ... -
Expert Perspectives on the Design and Use of Learning Materials for Neocartographic Interfaces
(2014)The design of learning materials varies greatly across neocartographic interfaces and there has yet to be best practices established within the discipline. Learning materials vary not only in type (e.g., tutorials, tooltips, ... -
Factors Controlling Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Storage in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
(2016)Tropical soils represent a large and important carbon (C) reservoir and thus play an important role in the global C cycle. The accumulation and persistence of C in soils has implications for soil fertility and climate ... -
"Farm Trucks, not Semis": a Farm-to-Table Imaginary and the World of its Production
(2014)This master’s thesis delves into the world of farm-to-table relationships in Madison, Wisconsin, to explore the production of one such geographical imaginary with attentiveness to the lived realities (intentionality, values, ... -
Finding Space for Elephants
(2007)Shimba Hills National Reserve (SHNR) in coastal Kenya is well known for it great biological diversity and large resident elephant population. However, there is concern that high rates of land use/land cover change (LULCC) ... -
Fine-Scale Vegetation Change and Its Implications for Methane Emissions in Arctic Aquatic Ecosystems
(2025)While small water bodies (ponds) make up a small fraction of the surface area of Arctic permafrost landscapes, they have been observed to emit disproportionately high volumes of methane and carbon dioxide. To assess drivers ... -
Floodplain Response to Historical Land Use Change on the Upper Baraboo River, Wisconsin
(2010)Since the 1840s, Euro-American settlement of Wisconsin's Baraboo River watershed has had lasting effects on the landscape. This study examines the longitudinal and lateral changes in connectivity on the Baraboo River ... -
A General Framework for Predicting the Optimal Computing Configurations for Climate-Driven Ecological Forecasting Models
(2017-04)Rapidly growing databases are swiftly transforming the field of biodiversity modeling into a big-data science, characterized by high volume, heterogeneous datasets with high uncertainty. As climate warming and land use ... -
GIScience Education from Faculty Careers to Student Training: A Dual Perspective on Academic and Professional Development
(2025)This thesis examines the educational and institutional state of Geographic Information Science (GIScience) through two complementary components: global faculty hiring patterns and the structure of U.S.-based professional ...