Browsing UW-Madison Department of Geography Master's Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Tensions in the Installation of a Smart Electric Grid: Parasitic Mediations and Short Circuiting Environmental Justice
(2014)Many geographic questions can be asked of smart grids and the sociotechnical networks in which they are embedded. This thesis primarily asks two sets of questions: the first examines the limits and contingencies of automation, ... -
Towards A Code OF Ethics For Journalistic Cartography: Graphics Professionals’ Perspectives On Visual Storytelling
(2023)In this research, I document an interview study with 17 news cartographers to explore how journalistic ethics are applied to cartographic visual storytelling. News organizations have produced some of the most widely seen ... -
Un fiume per Roma Capitale: the socio-political landscape of the Tiber embankment, 1870-1910
(2003)In conclusion, I hope to have convincingly placed Rome's embankment of the Tiber at the end of the nineteenth century as the discursive embodiment of two prominent ideals of the Risorgimento: 'modernity' and national ... -
Understanding Chin Political Participation in Myanmar
(2013)In scholarship on political participation, a tension exists between paying attention to individual agency, complexity, and contingency on the one hand and generalizing to a level that allows the application of findings to ... -
User Experience Optimization in Geo-portals for Data Discovery
(2018-04)This research focuses on user experience of Geo-portals for citizens to discover geospatial data online. The misguided design ideas in the last decades encourage engineers to focus on their own behaviors rather than citizens’ ... -
The Variability of Urbanization in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
(2012)Most research studies examining Polish urban patterns at the national scale consider only one approach to quantify changes in the urbanization levels: measurement based on demographic data or measurement based on land-cover. ... -
Variation in Soil Properties and Topographic Roughness of Stabilized Sand Dunes in the Central Great Plains, USA: Implications for Susceptibility to Reactivation
(2018-12)With a warming global climate, regional climates will undergo changes to their temperature, precipitation, and wind regimes. Consequently, the potential exists for these shifting climatological conditions to affect dunefields ... -
Vegetation and climate changes at Spicer Lake, Indiana, during the Holocene
(2013)Many paleoclimate studies have shown that the midcontinent of North America experienced a warmer and drier-than-present climate during the early and middle Holocene and relatively humid climate during the late Holocene, ... -
Where Do We Go From Here?: Understanding Mobile Map Design
(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. ...