Browsing Undergraduate Research Scholars Capstone (2006–present) by Department "Geography"
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Arctic greening has been studied as a significant and accelerating environmental change throughout the past few decades; however, most studies focus on greening across scales as large as the entire terrestrial Arctic and ...
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Wayfinding from the perspective of the scientific domain known as Environmental Cognition is the process in which individuals attempt to orient themselves in space for the purpose of navigation. This process has been ...
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(2014-02-28)The primary purpose of this research project is to develop, test, and evaluate a volunteered geographic information (VGI) based approach for collecting data in order to assess its accuracy and relativity to a field of ...
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(2013-09-27)Previously unattainable shale gas deposits have become accessible since the late 1990s using a technique called hydraulic fracturing — the injection of chemicals, water, and sand into subsurface shale to free extractable ...
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(2018-05-03)In the Northwest Hawaiian Islands and Emperor Seamounts different seamounts have been subjected to varying levels of fishing impacts where some seamounts have never been fished, some where fishing stopped ~30 years ago, ...
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(2013-02-13)Grain size distribution is the reflection of the feedback between sediment transport system and morphologic change of beach systems. In this respect, early models suggest that grain size can be used to determine the transport ...
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Geography of Historical Racial-Ethnic Segregation: Comparing Charleston, SC and Buffalo, NY in 1940 Spatial distribution patterns of social groups can be studied through the use of digital “boundary” files, or “shapefiles,” and data from the U.S. Census. Shapefiles are readily available for recent decades but they are ...
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(2019-04-25)Anastomosing rivers are multichannel systems characterized by a definitive main channel and semi-permanent sub-channels that intertwine with the main channel in their planform. This semi-permanence of the sub-channels is ...
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According to the US Energy Information Administration, over 50% of the oil and natural gas produced in the US came from hydraulically fractured wells in 2015. While the economic and geopolitical benefits of this new industry ...
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(2017-04-24)Beaver ponds contribute 0.8-1.0 million tons of atmospheric methane (CH4) emissions per year globally (Whitfield et al., 2014; Wik et al., 2016) and are found to be the largest CH4 emitters among all the wetland types in ...
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New and continuing research within recent years has provided volumes of insight into the past, present, and projected states of the Texas coastal region, its ecosystems, climate patterns, and human population. The Mission ...
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(2011-04-28)The lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) of Texas is one of the poorest regions with the largest population lacking suitable water supply in the entire United States. The region is characterized by low-income, rural and peri-urban ...
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In this research project, deep-sea bamboo coral collected off the southeastern coast of the United States (SE USA) underwent isotopic ratio analysis to test for reproducibility. We found that reproducibility is possible ...
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(2019-04-23)Invasive species have large economic and ecological impacts, including agriculture losses, native species replacement, ecological function modification, and altered community structure. Despite this, invasive marine species ...
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(2011-05-06)The lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas is one of the poorest regions with the largest population lacking suitable water supply in the entire United States. The region is characterized by low-income, rural and peri-urban ...
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(2011-05-06)The lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas is one of the poorest regions with the largest population lacking suitable water supply in the entire United States. The region is characterized by low-income, rural and peri-urban ...