Conveners
Paper Session: Spatial Analytics and Geovisualization
- Yijie Zhu (Florida Atlantic University)
Paper Session: Climate, Environment, and Geomorphology
- Chris Badurek (State University of New York at Cortland)
Paper Session: Geographies of Well-Being, Education, and the Built Environment
- Yehua Dennis Wei (University of Utah)
Paper Session: Urban and Economic Transformations
- Tom Dwyer (Harbinger Real Property Advisors, Inc.)
National Hurricane Center (NHC) HURDAT2 database archives the center point locations and other information of tropical cyclones (TC) at discrete time intervals since 1861. From 2004, it also includes wind radii for tropical storms and hurricanes at four quadrants. This study developed a method to represent the full TC wind impact areas by computing the contiguous potential wind lateral reach...
The Census Bureau’s Survey of Construction provides national and regional statistics on starts and completions of new single-family and multifamily housing units and statistics on sales of new single-family houses in the United States. To reduce the need for costly fieldwork, Reveal developed an end-to-end system using high-resolution satellite imagery and machine learning to detect new...
In recent years there has been a surge of new research focused on poaching in protected areas, but gaps remain that requires investigation. Specifically, we need to better understand the types of geospatial data collected by practitioners and the processes that protected areas currently use to mitigate poaching. This data is found in two forms: device-based geospatial sensors (from platforms...
This study explores the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in reconstructing historical landscapes, focusing on the estate and influence of Nicholas Jarrot, a prominent French American entrepreneur in early 19th-century Cahokia, Illinois. By employing geospatial techniques, the research reconstructs the spatial dimensions of Jarrot's extensive landholdings and examines their...
University campuses are actively promoting their campus sustainability efforts to students and the public as evidenced in green campus sustainability ratings and third party reviewers such as AASHE STARS program. While these ratings and reporting programs are often vast in scope, almost all include assessment of carbon emissions generated by the campus(es). Assessment of carbon emissions is...
Climate change has intensified rainfall variability in timing, duration, and intensity, making smallholder farmers in developing countries increasingly vulnerable to weather-related crop losses. While contemporary adaptation discourse advocates integrating traditional ecological knowledge with modern meteorological systems, existing approaches lack systematic frameworks for meaningful...
Reconstructing paleoenvironmental history is important not only for understanding how local environments responded to climate changes in the past, but it also offers insight into how these places might be affected by future climate trends. Proxy records embedded in the banks of the San Marcos River are effective for analyzing changes that occurred throughout the Holocene. This study focuses on...
PSPS (Public safety power shutoff) is an emerging and commonly utilized strategy for mitigation of wildfire threats to safe operations of power systems. PSPS typically aims to cut down the supply of electricity in an area experiencing high wildfire risks to avoid fires sparked by power devices. Vulnerable populations who depend on the availability of electricity have not been studied when PSPS...
Abstract: Physical environment has received increasing attention for its potential influence on mortality rates, but the complex role of urban sprawl remains insufficiently understood. Using county-level data for the contiguous United States, we examine a multidimensional set of urban sprawl indicators alongside natural environmental factors as correlates of mortality. We also explore the...
Though the COVID-19 pandemic has reached its five-year milestone since the disease first sparked massive disruption in 2020, research continues to examine the spatial and temporal patterns of its spread as a means of using past experience to shape responses to likely future epidemics. With this in mind, the focus of this research is to provide insights and add to existing knowledge on the...
Racial and ethnic disparities in college education persist, partly due to unequal access to costly textbooks. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer a low-cost alternative that may help bridge this gap, yet little is known about how students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds perceive OER, particularly in geography courses. This study investigates these perceptions among students...
This paper chronicles the seven-year journey that led to the end of Ohio’s practice of suspending driver’s licenses for failure to pay fines and fees. It began with a simple question from Legal Aid attorneys in Cleveland: Why do so many bankruptcy clients have suspended driver’s licenses? To investigate, we submitted two data requests to the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). Our analysis...
In his 2012 book, Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (2012), Jeff Speck offers ten planning steps for creating American downtowns that are useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting. While the ten steps emphasize walkability, they include improvements to land use, public transit, bicycle use, and traffic flow. In this presentation, I will demonstrate how I used...
Prior to its bankruptcy filing in April 2024, 99 Cents Only Stores LLC operated 374 “dollar stores” in four southwestern states. This session examines the status of the store portfolio roughly 1.5 years after the commencement of the liquidation of the chain’s real estate assets, which included both owned and leased stores. Insights from the store data pertain to store size, location type...
School gentrification has been powerful in reshaping urban demographic and socio-economic spaces. An emerging school-gentrifying community in Changchun, China was taken as an example in this study to explore the interrelationships among education, real estate, and gentrification. The analysis revealed that in the context of China’s educational inequity and educational reform, the combination...
For many years department stores anchored the shopping mall business model. Department stores were seen as pivotal to the success of enclosed shopping centres across North America. The retail scale and consumer attraction associated with these major retailers formed the basis for long-term leasing models. The mix of department stores was a major determinant of the rents paid by the non-anchor...
Geographers have long examined how exclusionary zoning practices and NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) opposition constrain urban development, particularly regarding new urbanist principles and multifamily housing projects. These regulatory barriers have historically enabled affluent communities to maintain low-density residential character while displacing housing demand to other areas, contributing...
