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Relationship Between Tree Canopy Cover, Impervious Surfaces, & Bird Biodiversity In Urban Parks In Nashville, Tennessee​, Colin Swanson, Darlene Panvini, Lydia Mitchell

Science University Research Symposium (SURS)

Bird diversity is an indicator of the overall biodiversity in urban green spaces. Identifying factors associated with urban green spaces that strongly influence bird biodiversity can inform the development and management of urban green spaces. Parks with larger areas of impervious surfaces were predicted to have lower bird diversity than those with more tree canopy coverage. This study used iTree Canopy to determine the percentage of tree canopy and impermeable surfaces for four different areas of urban parks in Nashville, Tennessee. Two parks were closer to the urban core and two were farther away. Tree canopy and impermeable surface cover …

Village Of Grand Ridge Gis Utility Mapping: Effective Decision Making And Cost Benefits, Nick Harsted

Geography and the Environment: Graduate Student Capstones

According to Worldpopualtionreview.com, “As of 2018, there are 19,495 incorporated cities, towns and villages in the United States. Of those, 14,768 have populations below 5,000. Only ten have populations above 1 million and none are above 10 million. There are 310 cities considered at least medium cities with populations of 100,000 or more.” According to the U.S Census Bureau stats, “about 80% of the United States population lives in urban areas.” Within these cities or towns are underground utility infrastructures such as water lines and sewer pipes. For years cities have stored in files and boxes these construction plans explaining …

Paradoxes Of Emancipation: Radical Imagination And Space In Neoliberal Greece, Dmitris Soudias

Syracuse Open

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Understanding Delays And Improving Emergency Response With Gis - Evergreen Fire Department In Evergreen, Colorado, Adrien Hoff

Geography and the Environment: Graduate Student Capstones

It is expected that both the PSAP and the responders in the field react quickly and arrive on the scene to emergency events as soon as possible. Fire agencies have been held to standards set in place reflective of where the emergency occurs and how quickly responders are expected to reach that location. Calls that experience delays in meeting these standards should be carefully examined and learned from for future events. Utilizing National Fire Protection (NFPA) population zone recommendations, population zones previously established with 2010 census data and unknown methods were recreated for Evergreen Fire Protection District. Then, utilizing SQL …

Using Geospatial Social Media Data For Infectious Disease Studies: A Systematic Review, Fengrui Jing, Zhenlong Li, Shan Qiao Ph.D., Jiajia Zhang Ph.D., Bankole Olatosi Ph.D., Xiaoming Li Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

Geospatial social media (GSM) data has been increasingly used in public health due to its rich, timely, and accessible spatial information, particularly in infectious disease research. This review synthesized 86 research articles that use GSM data in infectious diseases published between December 2013 and March 2022. These articles cover 12 infectious disease types ranging from respiratory infectious diseases to sexually transmitted diseases with spatial levels varying from the neighborhood, county, state, and country. We categorized these studies into three major infectious disease research domains: surveillance, explanation, and prediction. With the assistance of advanced computing, statistical and spatial methods, GSM data …

Automating Intersection Marking Data Collection And Condition Assessment At Scale With An Artificial Intelligence-Powered System, Kun Xie, Huiming Sun, Xiaomeng Dong, Hong Yang, Hongkai Yu

Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Intersection markings play a vital role in providing road users with guidance and information. The conditions of intersection markings will be gradually degrading due to vehicular traffic, rain, and/or snowplowing. Degraded markings can confuse drivers, leading to increased risk of traffic crashes. Timely obtaining high-quality information of intersection markings lays a foundation for making informed decisions in safety management and maintenance prioritization. However, current labor-intensive and high-cost data collection practices make it very challenging to gather intersection data on a large scale. This paper develops an automated system to intelligently detect intersection markings and to assess their degradation conditions with …

Red Arctic: Russian Strategy Under Putin, Elizabeth Buchanan, Brookings Institution Press, 2023., Mark T. Peters Phd

Journal of Strategic Security

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"Merapi Volcano Imaginary" An Alternative Multimedia Learning Geography In The South Region Of Merapi Volcanism, Muhammad Nursa'ban, Mukminan Mukminan, Mawanti Widyastuti, Dimas Sekar Langit, Muhammad Choirul Anwar

Informasi

This study aims to anticipate the loss of learning for students in the geography education field practice in the southern region of Merapi Volcano during the Covid-19 Pandemic era by developing Android-based interactive learning multimedia as a medium as well as teaching materials. The development uses the ADDIE method (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation). Product feasibility was assessed by six material and media expert lecturers and 10 geography education students as users. The result of the development is an interactive multimedia with flipped book combined with Adobe Flash Maker on Android, with the name "Merapi Volcano Imaginary". The contents …

Impacts Of The Poultry Industry In Mississippi, Sara Watts

Master's Theses

This thesis examines the impacts of the poultry industry in seven counties in the Piney Woods region of South Mississippi: Wayne, Jones, Forrest, Lamar, Jefferson Davis, Marion, and Pike. Current research indicates that the poultry industry has a significant impact on the cultures and economies of rural towns throughout the United States. There is no current research that examines the effects of the poultry industry on residents of the Piney Woods. This thesis addresses that gap in the research and contributes to current understanding of how the industry molds and impacts the lives of those intimately associated with it.

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Geographical And Attendance Impact On Financial Sustainability At The Field Museum In Chicago, Il, Clara Barbier

Nonprofit and NGO Studies Student Projects

This study focuses on the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, and analyzes how the geographical location of the museum and the rate of attendance impacts the museum’s financial health and sustainability. This study utilizes three sources of data: annual reports to donors, yearly financial audits, and a primary data source via a survey response from an employee of the finance department at the Field Museum. The data collected was analyzed qualitatively using three categories that aligned with the research question: location, attendance, and finances. These three categories, and the use of Excel and its equation functions, allowed …

Geography And Philosophy Of Spatial Dimension, Ebthal Abd Ali Frhan

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research discusses the dialectical relationship between geography and the place, which is described as the intellectual container of space or spatial domain, The place itself is not a phenomenon, Rather, it is an intellectual framework and an abstract concept that does not really exist, Rather, it is related to our human sense, because we cannot perceive things unless they are biased in space and successful in time. The place consists of four dimensions symbolized by four variables (length, width, depth, and time). These dimensions are necessary to identify any geographical phenomenon, and the evidence for this is the reference …

Mapping South Central Minnesota: An Aerial Photograph Digitization Project, Heidi J. Southworth

Library Services Publications

In 2021, a team consisting of Evan Rusch (Government Documents/Reference and Instruction Librarian), Nicole Smith (Maps Technician), Heidi Southworth (Digital Initiatives Librarian), and student workers Britney Hartmann, Samuel Lemma, Jasmyne Fisher began digitization of 27,441 unique aerial photographs. These aerial photographs are from the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) District 7 covering south central Minnesota from 1957-2006. They are housed in the Dr. Mary T. Dooley Map Library at Minnesota State University, Mankato. These photographs are heavily utilized by students and faculty in our geography and engineering departments and by other researchers who visit our campus. Through digitization, we have …

Program Review: Geography Department, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Department Of Geography Faculty

Academic Program Reviews

This Self-Study of the UNK Geography Program offers an overview of the program, its characteristics, performance, resources, institutional contributions, student profiles, and faculty qualities since the last program review. The Self-Study concludes with a summary of faculty goals and plans for the Geography Program. The Geography Program is committed to the delivery high quality instructional programs that prepare students to become life-long learners through an academically sound program of study, while at the same time participating fully in the traditional missions of teaching, research, and service. Geography faculty are invested in supporting students, developing the Program, and continuing to build …

A Pedagogy Of Consilience And Renewal, Carolyn Calloway-Thomas

Journal of Communication Pedagogy

This essay calls for a pedagogy of consilience and renewal as a dynamic fusion of research and practices in order to provide a more coherent way of examining some of the keen, interlaced variables that trouble the academy and society. The project challenges scholars to study five key scholarship of learning variables that should help transform the way we look at pedagogy for the betterment of North American society and beyond. The variables—a quintile—are knowledge, geography, critical thinking, civic engagement, and empathy.

Farms Review Probes Geography, Papyri, Isaiah, Creation, And More

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The latest FARMS Review (vol. 16, no. 2, 2004) is another weighty issue flush with articles covering a wide array of interesting topics. In the lineup are reviews of works on Book of Mormon geography, de-Christianization of the Old Testament, the Joseph Smith Papyri, Isaiah’s central message, Jerusalem in Lehi’s day, creation theology, gospel symbolism, and the Christian countercult movement. Also included are two freestanding essays, one older article of lasting appeal (initiating a new feature in the Review), book notes, a 2003 Book of Mormon bibliography, and the editor’s top picks of recent publications. A foretaste of the many …

Are California Venture Capitalists The Best Venture Capitalists?, Tyler Hull, Luna Y. Goldblatt

Management Faculty Publications

We test if California VCs significantly outperform VCs from other US states. We additionally test in which instances California VCs outperform the other VC concentrated states of Massachusetts and New York. We find that VCs from California, Massachusetts, and New York have significantly greater probabilities of successfully exiting their investments than VCs from other states. Additionally, we show that California VCs are even more adept than VCs from Massachusetts and New York at 1. Early-stage investments, 2. Helping their entrepreneurial firms receive future rounds of financing, and 3. Helping their backed entrepreneurial firms receive higher IPO valuations and achieve superior …

Acid Mine Drainage In The Shamokin Creek Watershed: A Spatial Analysis Of Economic And Environmental Consequences Of Coal Mining, Ben Shimer

Student Project Reports

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Introduction: Festivalisation As A Contested Urban Strategy, Andrew Smith, Guy Osborn, Bernadette Quinn

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

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South African Human Rights Advocate Brings His Work To Ohio This Fall, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Genetic Freedom Of The Seas In The Age Of Extractivism: Marine Genetic Resources In Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, Irus Braverman

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 4 in Laws of the Sea: Interdisciplinary Currents, Irus Braverman, ed.

Areas beyond national jurisdiction are the largest environment on earth and marine genetic resources are its new, and perhaps final, frontier. It is no wonder, then, that the scope and protection of marine genetic resources in this oceanic space have been hotly contested and that a new doctrine for ocean governance has been coined in this context: mare geneticum. This chapter examines different definitions of marine genetic resources debated in the ongoing treaty negotiations over areas beyond national jurisdiction (the BBNJ), the conflicting interests involved, and …

Amphibious Legal Geographies: Toward Land–Sea Regimes, Irus Braverman

Contributions to Books

Published as ine introduction to Laws of the Sea: Interdisciplinary Currents, Irus Braverman, ed.

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the juridical thinking that has enshrined the land/sea divide into contemporary governmental infrastructures, disciplinary traditions, and regulatory apparatuses, and charts the disastrous implications that such a legal fixation on the land/sea binary has wrought on human and other-than-human lifeworlds. As the collection proceeds, a second broad theme emerges, building on the first: when one rethinks the abstraction of law as played out on the ground, the …

Classifying The 2022 Status Of Tsuga Canadensis (Eastern Hemlock) Along The Kentucky Portion Of The Pine Mountain Wildlands Corridor., Grace M. Embree

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The invasion of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) (Adelges tsugae) has posed a continual threat in the United States to the Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) trees since the 1950s. HWA feed on eastern hemlock needles, reducing the amount of healthy photosynthesizing vegetative area. The use of satellite imagery has been instrumental in identifying areas of eastern hemlock presence. Satellite platforms like Landsat and AVIRIS are commonly used for identification, classification, and mapping of eastern hemlock. Sentinel-2 imagery was released in 2015 for free access. It has a finer spatial grain of with the majority of the …

The Level Of Awareness And Compliance With Traffic Regulations Among Femaledrivers On The Roads In Al-Qassim Region, Haifa Ali Al-Khushieban Dr.

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

This study is concerned with measuring the level of compliance with traffic regulations and road safety among female drivers in Al-Qassim Region. It aims to identify the demographics characteristics of female drivers in the region and their relationship to the level of compliance with regulations and awareness of traffic safety, as well as to reveal the best means of disseminating knowledge of traffic systems among women. A sample of (400) questionnaires was distributed to female drivers who got a driving license from Al-Qassim Traffic Department. The study found that: the degree of women’s compliance with traffic regulations is high, and …

Yeong Kim Studies Japan's Bid To Host The 2030 Olympics, Spends Summer At Chubu, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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The Use Of Spectral Indicators In The Studydynamic Of The Al Jaforah Desert And Its Environmental Effects In Eastern Saudi Arabia During 2000-2019, Nora Alnaim Dr., Ahmed Aldughairi Dr.

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

The Eastern Region is exposed to wind erosion in most seasons of the year, especially since the region is characterized by the presence of three sand seas represented in the Al-Dahna desert-the Jaforah desert-the Rub al khali desert, which exposes urban centers, agricultural lands and roads to the danger of sand encroachment that lies within these deserts, and is considered a desert Al-Jaforah of marine origin is one of the most influential in the region's environment.The study has a descriptive approach and an analytical approach based on field study methods and analysis of satellite images using remote sensing techniques such …

The Spatial Modeling Of Evaluation Of Tourist Accommodation Facilities In Jeddah City Using Geographic Information Systems, Sabah Brik Alharbi Dr., Mohammed Ibrahim Aldagheiri Dr.

Journal of Arabic Sciences and Humanities

The study focused on the use of geographic information systems in analyzing the spatial distribution of tourist accommodation facilities in Jeddah. This is based on the most important applied aspects of geographic information systems represented in spatial analysis, to reveal the characteristics of the spatial distribution of tourist accommodation facilities and their distribution pattern, and to evaluate the efficiency of their distribution according to the local standard. The study came out with a number From the results and recommendations, as well as the hypotheses assumed by the researcher. The study methodology was related to the spatial analysis methods of the …

Faisal Ghazi Al-Mayali And His Book Euphrates Studies In Geography, History And Archaeology, Janan Abdel Hadi Jasem Al-Absi, Hassan Attia Abdel God Al-Jiyashi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Study of the personality of Mr. Faisal Ghazi al-Mayali Study of the personality of Mr. Faisal Ghazi al-Mayali, as one of the contemporary historians who carried out the historical school, to learn about the great services he provided, and for Iraq, from local history. To continue the course of his life and the objective circumstances that surrounded it, and made an effective contribution to the formation of his thought and culture, while addressing the study of one of his most prominent publications (Frata studies in geography, history and archeology), to find out his method in historical writing.

Film And The Making Of A Modern Nebraska (1895–1920): A Historical Geography, William Helmer

Department of Geography: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This thesis is a historical geography of the first 25 years of film exhibition in Nebraska, primarily focusing on Southeastern Nebraska. My research chronicles how the first films were viewed, and the contemporary cultural reaction to film. I introduce my topic by explaining how it fits into geographies of media and the historical geography of Nebraska. In my second chapter I describe how film technology first came to Nebraska in 1895. Here I map the locations of the first film screenings, and provide commentary on the popular reaction to the technology. In my third chapter I examine the first Nebraska …

25 Arts & Sciences Faculty Promoted, 15 Granted Tenure, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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22 Arts & Sciences Professors Awarded Faculty Fellowship During 2022-23, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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