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Identifying Functional Urban Regions from Bluetooth Data: A Case Study of Austin, Texas
(2018-05)Worldwide, the rate of urbanization has increased over the last several decades and the need to adequately identify urban areas are used increases importance with every year. This study applies dynamic time warping and ... -
Impacts of Flooding on the Hispanic Community in New Braunfels, Texas: A Mixed Method Approach to Understanding Flood Vulnerability
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Assessing the Effects of Hydrologic Enforcement Methods in a Central Texas Watershed
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Environmental Geography Education for Adults with Intellectual/Development Disabilities
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The Relationship between Regional Climate and Post-fire Debris Flows in Glacier National Park
(2018-05)Debris flows often occur on burned hillslopes in mountainous areas, which can damage infrastructure and pose hazards to people and wildlife. Glacier National Park, Montana, has a well-documented history of wildfires across ... -
The West African Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak of 2014: Mapping the Journey of Confirmed Cases through Sierra Leone
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Garwood Irrigation Division, Texas: Exploration of Water Use and Conservation: 2012-2016
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Predicting International Travel Destinations from Geotagged Flickr Photos
(2017-12)No abstract prepared. -
Floodplain Land Cover Classification and Change Detection Analysis for the City of Austin, TX From 2008 to 2016
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Baseline Climatology of Sounding-Measured Variates Associated with Atlantic and Gulf Coast Tropical Cyclone Tornado Clusters
(2017-05-01)Radiosonde sounding-measured variates are analyzed for 55 cases of tornado outbreaks associated with tropical cyclones from 1995-2010. We define a tropical cyclone tornado outbreak as six or more tornadoes occurring in a ... -
Kombucha Culture: An ethnographic approach to understanding the practice of home-brew kombucha in San Marcos, Texas
(2017-05-15)Kombucha, a traditional fermented tea beverage touted for its numerous health benefits, has seen a dramatic rise in popularity over the last fifteen years. Once exclusively found in specialty health shops and only known ... -
Demographic Usage Patterns of Purgatory Creek Park, San Marcos, TX
(2017-05-01)This project seeks to make use of methods utilized in previous studies, such as surveys, statistical analysis and literature research, and apply those techniques to Purgatory Creek Park. The findings will be useful to city ... -
Land management trends of small acreage landowners in a high growth exurban watershed in Central Texas
(2017-05-04)This research explores the link between land management attitudes, actions, and ideologies of small acreage exurban landowners and their implications for the landscape as a whole. In particular, this research is a case ... -
How Can Elderly Residents of Texas Be Informed about Medicare?: A Geographic Approach to Media Consumption by Older Population of Texas
(2016-12-01)This study intends to locate Medicare beneficiaries in Texas and to propose effective outreach methods to use for providing elderly people with information about Medicare. Data, used for this study, have primarily been ... -
Evacuation compliance and actual wildfire risk in Austin, Texas: Determining the effects of risk education through online community surveys
(2016-05-01)No abstract prepared.
