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Wildfire risk along the wildland-urban interface in Oklahoma in relation to encroaching eastern redcedar
(2022-12-16)
Across the United States, the number of wildfires has been increasing, but this can especially be felt in the Great Plains, where some of the most drastic increases in wildfire frequency and size have occurred. While ...
Questioning the Nature of Reality: The Emancipatory Politics of Westworld (2016-)
(2021-05)
The myth of the American West is rooted in a visual language of commodification, nationalism, and violence. The Western film genre codifies this aesthetic representation of space; it naturalizes the United States’ continuing ...
Geographies of lithium in Bolivia: conflicts over conditions
(2022-08-04)
Lithium is a metal with a rising global demand due to its applicability in batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. Bolivia holds the biggest lithium reserves in the world but has not been able to ...
Identification of mid-tropospheric patterns associated with tornado outbreaks in the United States.
(2019-12)
The identification of large-scale atmospheric patterns associated with tornado outbreaks poses a great challenge. It involves analysis of physical processes occurring at different time and space scales that, in the right ...
Evaluating the Impacts of Wastewater on Aquatic Biota in the Red River Basin
(2023-05-12)
The capture and reuse of wastewater is a promising strategy for increasing water
availability, but the environmental benefits and costs are poorly quantified. In water-limited river
basins, wastewater outfalls are an ...
Road Culvert Impacts on Stream Fish Community Structure in Eastern Oklahoma
(2019-05)
Road culverts threaten the Ozarks and Ouachita Mountains regions of Oklahoma with habitat fragmentation and loss of aquatic biodiversity. This region of Oklahoma is understudied when it comes to this issue. Fishes within ...
Identifying habitat use of red deer in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada using a cost-distance time-geographic approach
(2021-08)
The expressed movements of animals are realizations of complex spatiotemporal processes. The varied environmental contexts (such as varying topography or landcover) in which animals move are central to these processes, ...
Approaches to Spatializing Qualitative Data
(2022-05)
This study investigates how researchers use technology to create geographic visualizations that provide spatial context for displaying and accessing qualitative data such as texts, photographs, videos, and/or audio recordings. ...
Modeling futurity: examining epistemological assumptions and political context in urbanization modeling
(2022)
Computer simulation models projecting urban expansion are useful for academics, planners, and stakeholders interested in land use patterns and their future implications. Although urban simulation models are being expanded ...
Natural Disaster Crisis Communication by FEMA and Red Cross Via Twitter During Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and Michael
(2019-08-01)
This thesis examined the way disaster relief agencies, FEMA and Red Cross, communicated during natural hazards at the national and regional levels. Using tweets from the weeks of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and ...