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The Impact of Homelessness in Social Vulnerability Assessment: A Case Study of Austin, Texas
(2019-08)Among existing research on social vulnerability, virtually no studies have considered homelessness as a variable in their vulnerability assessments. This study identified the relevance of homelessness as a key index in ... -
Preliminary Findings for Sizing a Bioretention Pond and an Analysis of Urban Stormwater Runoff: San Marcos, TX
(2019-05)The senior engineer for the City of San Marcos has designated an existing Stormwater Control Measure (SCM), a stormwater detention pond at the City of San Marcos City Hall, for improvements to better meet the stormwater ... -
Town of Highland Park, Texas: An Assessment of Water Use and Conservation Potential
(2019-08)The Town of Highland Park, Texas would like to take steps towards improving their water use conservation as a demonstration of community leadership. To do this, they have partnered with the Texas State University team ...
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A Qualitative Content Analysis of Hazard Mitigation Plans in Texas
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Testing Water Quality from Space: A Comparison between Remote Sensing and in situ Measurements
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Beach Erosion Impacts on Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Nesting Along the South Texas Coast
(2019-05)Beach erosion is a potential threat to Kemp’s ridley sea turtle nesting populations because of a loss in nesting habitat that is critical to the survival of this endangered species. The Texas coast is experiencing beach ... -
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The Green Roof Landscape of Austin, Texas: A Contemporary Inventory of Green Roof Systems
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Examining the Driving Factors of Urban Sprawl in San Antonio Metropolitan Area During 1990-2010
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Facing Reality: Agriculture without the Ogallala Aquifer: A Comparative Study: The Texas Panhandle and Western Australian Wheatbelt
(2018-12)Agriculture in the Texas Panhandle depends extensively on the Ogallala Aquifer for its water needs and is on path to be completely depleted. Once emptied, hydrogeologists estimate it could take over 6,000 years to fully ... -
Land Use / Land Cover Change Detection and Analysis of the Upper Guadalupe River, Central Texas
(2018-08)The study was conducted to detect the land use/ cover changes in the upper Guadalupe River basin, located in central Texas over an analysis period from 1987 to 2017. Surface water bodies, vegetation, urban areas and ... -
Analyzing Human Interest to Hurricane Harvey Using Location Based Social Media and Tobler's First Law of Geography
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Does Better Accessibility to Exercise Facilities Mean People Use Them More?
(2018-08)GIS provides an excellent means for visualizing and analyzing health spatial data, geographically integrating large amounts of information from different sources and serving as a common platform for health data, recreation ... -
A Study of CPTED Principles and their Relationship to Crime Risk in Beaumont, Texas
(2018-08)Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is an approach to understanding crime which focuses on the built environment and geography instead of simply a potential offender’s behavior or socio-economic ... -
Modeling the Impacts of Green Roof Systems on Stormwater Mitigation
(2018-08)No abstract prepared. -
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 ... -
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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