Browsing UW-Madison Department of Geography Master's Theses by Title
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Jachymov: Heaven or Hell?: Contrasting Historical Narratives about Jachymov, Czech Republic and its Radioactive Elements
(2012)The small town of Jachymov, Czech Republic is nestled in the Krusne Hory, which is literally translated from Czech to English as the "Cruel Mountains", but known in English as the Ore Mountains. The town is located in the ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
Land Use and Aquatic Invasive Species: Relationships in Southeastern Wisconsin Lakes
(2013)Submerged aquatic vegetation provides many ecological services to waterways, including water quality control, erosion control, and habitat for small fish and invertebrates. When an exotic species is introduced, it can alter ... -
Las Patronas, Clientelism, and Care
(2012)In La Patrona you learn by sound which direction the train is traveling--but not in the obvious way. The trains' oatmealy engine noise gets easily confused with the far-off bounce and clatter of sugarcane trucks wending ... -
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 ... -
Livelihood Shifts in Hausa Niger: the Gendered Impacts of Climate and Social Change
(2011)The goal of this thesis is two-fold: 1) to clarify the ways in which households of a village in the climate-volatile Sahel deal with both biophysical stresses and with social change which may or may not be related, and ... -
Manufactured Commons: Collective Ownership and Differential Commoning
(2014)This thesis grapples with the emergence and details of collective ownership in the midst of ‘actually existing neoliberalism’. While the two chapters are each designed to stand alone – with the intention of eventually ... -
Mapmaking for Change: Online Participatory Mapping Tools for Revealing Landscape Values in the Bad River Watershed
(2013-05)The research reported here contributes to an emerging understanding of crowdsourced information and collaboration in the Geoweb. Its focus is Online Participatory Mapping (OPM), or the public, collaborative synthesis and ... -
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 ... -
Mapping Technology in Wilderness Search and Rescue
(2015)Wilderness or wildland search and rescue (WiSAR) managers and planners create and use maps to plan searches, collaborate on strategy, decide where to distribute resources, and communicate tasks to searchers in the field. ... -
A Modern Analog Analysis of the Relationship Between Northern and Southern East Asian Summer Monsoon Regions, with an Application to the Paleoclimate of the Past 1000 Years
(2011-11-27)Recent studies have identified a precipitation dipole (i.e. two regions in which precipitation changes are consistently out of phase with each other) between the Northern and Southern East Asian Summer Monsoon regions ... -
Modernizing the Moshav: Israel's Sociological Management of Mizrahi Jewish Settlement, 1948-1967
(2018)In an effort to understand the coupling of Palestinian displacement with Mizrahi settlement, this project examines the theories and practices developed by Israeli sociologists and land settlement planners to facilitate ... -
"Money Trees” in Southern Thailand: Beyond the Rubber Market
(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 ... -
More People, More Trees: Social and Ecological Factors for Tree Cover Distribution and Their Implications for Forest Connectivity in Southern Tanzania
(2016)Fragmented habitats are a core concern for biodiversity, as isolation threatens survival of vulnerable species. Conservationists recognize that the creation of protected areas is insufficient for long-term preservation ... -
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
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Multi-touch Interfaces and Map Navigation
(2009)Development of multi-touch interfaces over the last 25 years has led to their recent adoption into the marketplace. Multi-touch interfaces now allow users to apply several points of contact to a device, an innovation which ... -
Narratives of Environmental Change: Mangroves, Shrimp Farming and Artisanal Fishing Communities in Ecuador
(1999)In recent years, many developing nations have reaped an economic windfall from the growth of shrimp aquacultute. Increasing demand for specialty seafood in the industrialized world, as well as a drive to diversify export ... -
On Varying the Detectability of Symbols to Encode Data Uncertainty
(2010)Visual variables are properties of an image, such as the size or shape of a mark, that can be manipulated systematically to convey information. However, there is another, more fundamental property of images which has not ...