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Diffusion of Twitter Messages on Dallas Mass Shooting: Patterns and Factors
(2017-07-20)Through analyzing Twitter data on the Dallas mass shooting, the objective of this thesis research is to add to our understanding about the diffusion process of social media messages regarding mass-scale events, which may ... -
Dams, Dam Removals, and Freshwater Mussel Conservation
(2017-07-25)This study uses variety of analytical and geospatial techniques to analyze the connections between fragmentation and freshwater mussel distribution and community composition in Texas and the Guadalupe San Antonio River ... -
Learning Progressions on Map Understanding: A case study of elementary through college students in Korea
(2017-07-21)This dissertation aims to develop a reliable and valid assessment tool to measure students’ Learning Progression (LP) on map understanding, identify Korean students’ LP on map understanding, and examine whether there is ... -
Improving Spatial Accessibility to Agricultural Markets in the Afram Plains, Ghana
(2017-03-23)Poor spatial accessibility has been known as one of the main factors responsible for the poor development of Afram Plains in Ghana. Spatial accessibility here refers to the capacity to reach one location from another. Due ... -
Historical Riparian Habitat Changes of an Endangered Bird Species: Interior Least Terns along the Red River below Denison Dam
(2017-04-19)The Red River along the Texas-Oklahoma border provides ideal Interior Least Tern (Sterna antillarium athalassos) habitat because of its wide river channel with large, open sandbars that are sparsely vegetated and close to ... -
Growing Social Capital? A Comparative Study of a Community Development Initiative in Cleveland, Ohio
(2017-04-21)Using the case of a recently established community-based vineyard in Cleveland, Ohio, this research explores the extent to which grassroots, collaborative community development initiatives might have the capacity to improve ... -
Spatial and Temporal Changes in Reptile and Amphibian Populations in a Suburban Greenbelt in Williamson County, Texas
(2017-04-25)Changes in climate and human habitat usage can lead to changes in population sizes and dynamics of reptiles and amphibians in a given microhabitat. This project was an effort to document those changes over a twenty year ... -
The Sensation-Seeking and Motivational Dimensions of Storm Chasers
(2017-04-14)Since the release of the Hollywood blockbuster Twister in 1996, and later the Discovery Channel television show Storm Chasers, 2007-2011, the general public has taken a larger collective interest in storm chasing. A storm ... -
Riparian and Geomorphic Disturbance from a High-Magnitude Flood on the Blanco River in the Texas Hill Country
(2017-04-21)Rivers of the Central Texas Hill Country are subject to significant bio-geomorphologic changes along the riparian corridor during low-frequency, high-magnitude catastrophic flood events. One significant change can involve ... -
Perceived Risk and Response to the Wind Turbine Ice Throw Hazard: Comparing Community Stakeholders and Operations and Maintenance Personnel in Two Regions of Texas
(2017-04-21)Risk managers who work directly with wind energy know that accumulations of ice on wind turbine blades pose a substantial risk to wind farm employees and a lesser extent to the general public. However, overall, the hazards ... -
Analyzing the Diffusion of Geospatial Technologies as Instructional Tools in High School Geography Education
(2015-04-13)Twenty-first century education demands that students engage in innovative technologies in authentic learning environments. With a focus on keeping geographic learning current, the geography education community strives to ... -
The Protracted Dispute over the Edwards Aquifer: Revisiting and Reframing Multiparty Stakeholder Conflicts in Management, Regulation, Allocation, and Property Rights
(2016-11-23)The 2011 drought was the worst single-year climatic occurrence in Texas’ recorded history. Texas must meet residential and economic development requirements of a population that will nearly double state wide over the next ... -
Examining the Use of a Contraflow Evacuation Method for Tropical Cyclone Evacuations in Nueces County, Texas
(2016-11-17)Millions of residents along the United States Gulf Coast live with the threat of tropical cyclones. These potentially devastating storms, more commonly referred to as hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, ... -
Beaver Dam Dimensions and Distribution in Northeastern New Mexico
(2015-06-29)The impacts of beaver dams on the geomorphology and ecology of the landscapes on which they are built have grown to become a significant body of literature in recent decades. Additionally, the landscape characteristics ... -
Geography in the Common Core: Embedded Themes Of Space, Place, and Society in Children’s Literature
(2015-04-17)This dissertation investigates the embedded geographic information inherent in a collection of children’s literature – as set forth by the Common Core curriculum – intended for second to eighth graders. Qualitative and ...
