Browsing UW-Madison Department of Geography Master's Theses by Title
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Quantifying Carbon Emissions From Cropland Expansion in the United States
(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. ... -
Reconfiguring Nation and Diaspora: Self-Identifying Estonians in Estonia as a Diaspora
(2010)I will present the main reasons why this research is important. First, it helps to contest the marriage between nation and state; second, it offers new ways for understanding borderland and diaspora space; third, it offers ... -
Reconstruction of Late Glacial Discharges in the Upper Mississippi Valley
(1995)This project investigates the link between late glacial hydrologic events in a reach of the upper Mississippi River valley and Glacial Lake Agassiz. The project is divided into three parts: a chronology of the upper ... -
Red, Blue, or Purple Produce?: Exploring Liberalism, Conservatism and the Politics of Midwest Farmers' Market Participants
(2011)"Really? Conservatives like farmers' markets?" This was one of the most common responses I heard when telling friends, colleagues, or strangers about my research on what motivates people from different political positions ... -
Redefining Historical Significance: Toward New Possibilities for Preservation at Madison’s Sugar Castle
(2014)In this thesis, I claim that the National Register of Historic Place’s current criteria for historical significance, which are models for most state- and city-level landmark designation criteria, can limit understanding ... -
Reimagining a Violent Landscape: Disaster, Development and Cartographic Imagination in the Brahmaputra River Valley
(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 ... -
The Relation of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to Winter Tornado Environments
(2011)Previous analyses of the relationship between tornadoes and El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) have been complicated by biases in tornado counts. Here I analyze winter tornado activity across the eastern United States ... -
The Relationship Between Voting and Crime: a Neighborhood-Level Analysis
(2017-05)Why do people vote? Casting a ballot on election day is not just a way to show support for a particular candidate, it also embeds an individual into collective society. Knack argues that voting is a social norm, or a ... -
The Role of Cartographic Interface Complexity on Spatial Decision Making: a Case Study in the North American Hazardous Waste Trade
(2017)Digital interactive maps are part of our everyday lives: we use them for navigation on our smartphones, they enhance stories for online news sources, and they populate our social media timelines. The public has a favorable ... -
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. ... -
Russia's Past and Present in Animated Cartoons: a Sway Space Geography of Affect in Film-watching
(2011-03)Over the last decade, the urgency Russians have felt to distance themselves from their Soviet past has diminished, and cultural materials referencing that period have become popular. Film and animated film in Russia has ... -
The Social Dimensions of Livestock Mobility: Climate Risk, Information Networks, and Resource Governance in Central Senegal
(2013)This case study of institutions for information transfer among agropastoralists in Senegal builds on current literature on the human dimensions of climate change, environmental governance, and pastoral mobility. Focusing ... -
Soil Microbial Respiration and Carbon Turnover under Perennial and Annual Biofuel Crops in two Agricultural Soils
(2015-05-08)Bioenergy crops have the potential to provide a low carbon-intensive alternative to fossil fuels. More than a century of agricultural research has shown that conventional cropping systems can reduce soil organic matter ... -
Spatial Text Mining: an Enhanced Text Mining Framework for Extracting Disaster Relevant Social Media Data
(2017)In the past decade, the rise in social media has led to the development of a vast number of social media services and applications. Disaster management represents one of such applications leveraging massive data generated ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Streamflow response to changes in land cover and climate in Lower Michigan
(2009)Studies of the influence of basin land use on the hydrologic response of streams to climate change are limited, and have generally focused on individual land use types in isolation. Prediction of future hydrologic change ... -
Symbol Considerations for Bivariate Thematic Mapping
(2012)Bivariate thematic maps are powerful tools for understanding geographic phenomena, making visible spatial associations between them. But bivariate thematic maps are more visually complex than a univariate map, a source ... -
Temperature Controls on No-Analog Community Establishment in the Great Lakes Region
(2018)Temperature reconstructions in eastern North America from pollen are rife in the literature, but these reconstructions cannot be used to study the sensitivity and response time of vegetation to temperature changes. Branched ...