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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 ...
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, ...
Modeling the distribution of native and invasive species of bumble bees (Hymenoptera: apidae) in Chile, using citizen science data
(2021)
There are around 260 species of bumble bees (Bombus) globally, many of them providing important pollination services. In fact, some species are bred and sold commercially to assure the successful pollination of crops. ...
Maps, milkweed, and monarchs: application of geospatial techniques to identify habitat in rights-of-way for Lepidopteran conservation
(2021)
As a signatory of the Nationwide Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances for the Monarch Butterfly on Energy and Transportation Lands (CCAA), the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) is required to locate ...
Caricatures of cartography: geographic imaginaries in the political cartoons of Emad Hajjaj
(2021)
This thesis examines the political cartoons of Palestinian-Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj as a site for new Arab imaginative geographies. With the mapping of the Arab world an artifact of imperialism, the ability to ...
Application of Spectral Index-Based Logistic Regression to Detect Inland Water in the Caucasus
(2021-05-14)
The Caucasus is a diverse region with many climate zones that range from subtropical lowlands to mountainous alpine areas. The Caucasus region also contains irrigated agricultural lands, heavily vegetated wetlands, ...
A Spatial Analysis of Simulated Tornado Warning Decisions in the United States
(2021-12-17)
The work presented in this thesis uses theories from risk perception and decision making to examine spatial variations of tornado warning decision making across the U.S. Decision-making as it relates to tornado warnings ...
"One card to rule them all:" Towards a Critical Understanding of New Fare Collection Technology
(2021-05)
Payments for public transit are changing, as agencies adapt to the near-ubiquity of smartphones as well as credit- and debit-cards in order to secure fare revenues. These developments have enabled many transit agencies in ...
An Examination of the Impacts of Hurricane Harvey on Water Utility Operations and Planning
(2021)
Hurricane Harvey stalled over Southeast Texas for the better part of a week in August 2017. During that time, the Category 4 storm produced unprecedented amounts of rainfall throughout the region, causing extensive flooding ...