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How College Campuses Are Using Social Media During Severe Weather Events, Emmale Davis
How College Campuses Are Using Social Media During Severe Weather Events, Emmale Davis
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This study explores how college campuses are using social media during severe weather events. This topic surfaced after a tornado devastated Moore, Oklahoma in May 2013 and those displaced flocked to the University of Oklahoma campus after a post made on Twitter went viral prior to an official message being sent out by the university. In order to further explore this topic, a qualitative phenomenological case study was conducted at the following sites: University of Alabama, Missouri Southern State University, University of Oklahoma, and Florida State University. This study included observations of social media posts on Facebook and Twitter on …
Gis Modeling Of The Prominent Geohazards In Arkansas, Kyle Walker Rowden
Gis Modeling Of The Prominent Geohazards In Arkansas, Kyle Walker Rowden
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The State of Arkansas is prone to numerous geohazards. This thesis is a twofold study of prominent geohazards in Arkansas: the first fold includes a novel triggerless approach for mass wasting susceptibility modeling applied to the Boston Mountains in NW Arkansas, and the second fold is a GIS-based regression modeling of the extreme weather patterns at the state level. Each study fold is presented in this thesis as a separate chapter embracing a published peer-reviewed paper. In the first paper, I have used the analytical hierarchy process to assign preliminary statistical weights to the most cogent variables influencing mass wasting …