UW-Madison Department of Geography Master's Theses: Recent submissions
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(C)art Therapy: Sketch Mapping Workshops for Early Teens as a Case Study in Post-representational Cartography
(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
(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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Impact of Time Step On the Results of a Fully-Distributed Watershed Model for Scenario Analysis
(2019)Major storms are significant drivers of runoff from agricultural areas, which implies that modeling watershed processes at smaller time steps, such as hourly versus daily, will allow such effects to be expressed in a ... -
Human Movement Patterns of Different Racial-Ethnic and Economic Groups in U.S. Top 50 Cities: What Can Social Media Tell Us About Segregation?
(2019)Human movement patterns, one of the important fields in human mobility study, is significant for various practical applications, and many studies have proven that it is strongly impacted by individual socioeconomic and ... -
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 ... -
Implementation of Agrarian Reform in North Sumatra, Indonesia: the Productiveness of Institutional Fragmentation
(2018)Over the past few years, the Government of Indonesia has set out to implement an ambitious goal of formally changing land tenure arrangements on over 20 million hectares of land across the country. With the official intention ... -
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. ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
How to Play With Maps
(2018)The research reported here responds to the growing calls in cartography to integrate elements of play and games into mapping products and process. Specifically, I investigated video game maps as a case study for enriching ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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’ ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...