Kansas State University

Abstracts Received

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Non-Student Papers

• Baker, T., S. Battersby, S. Bednarz, A. Bodzin, B. Kolvoord, S. Moore, D. Sinton, and D. Uttal.  Research In, For, and About Geospatial Technologies and Learning.
• Bauer, J.T.  Route Originality between Competing Automobile Route Guides.
• Bednarz, R.S.  Spatial Thinking in Education: Implementation, Assessment, Technology, Recommendations.
• Brown, C.  Examining resiliency-based approaches to watershed management in the Lake Champlain Basin.
• Brym, M., C. Everly, and K. Watkins.  Immigration, Ethnicity and Community Formation in the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area.
• Campbell, C.L.  Avian Diversity Increased Compared to Grinnell-Storer’s Cross-Section through Yosemite. 
• Carr, J. and T. Milstein.  MAN vs MANATEE:  The Legal Framing of Neoliberal Environmental Discourses.
• Combs, H.J. and K. Harders.  Pioneer Life on Glass:  The Balcom-Green Collection.
• Combs, H.J.  Micropolitan County Voting in the 2012 Presidential Election.
• Comer, J.C.  Don't It Make My Red State Blue:  A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Oklahoma's Voting Registration Mismatch.
• Connolly, M.H., R. Hile, J. Stevens, E. Rentz, and S. Brewer.  Comparing the Spatial Distribution of Texas Municipal Water Consumption Drivers using Linear and Non-linear Data Reduction Methods.
• Correia, D.  Terror as Usual: On the Legal Geographies of Indian Drinking in New Mexico.
• de Beurs, K.  Agricultural Changes in European Russia: Implications for Food Security.
• DeMers, M.N.  Strategic Planning for K-12 Geography Education in New Mexico: Recent Activities of the New Mexico Geographic Alliance.
• Duvall, C.S.  Plant Diffusion Within and Scientific Knowledge of the Columbian Exchange:  The Importance of Social Processes.
• Eidem, N.T.  Enhancing Social-Ecological Resilience in the Colorado River Basin.
• Gillan, J.K. and J. Karl.  Photogrammetrically Measuring Dryland Soil Erosion from a UAS Platform.
• Goodin, D.G.  A Prototype Decision Support System for Mitigating the Effect of Prescribed Rangeland Burning in the Kansas Flint Hills.
• Greiner, A.  Sacred Space and Globalization: An Historical and Geographical Appraisal.
• Hamilton, J.G.  Pikas in the Peaks: An Applied Geography Exercise Utilizing Minimal GIS.
• Harjo, L.  Doctrine of Difference: Cobell v. Salazar and the Failure of Indian Trust.
• Harm Benson, M.  Regulatory Takings:  Rights or Relations.
• Harner, J.  Animated Growth of Colorado Springs.
• Hiner, C.  Framing “Foothills in Flux”: Considering Wine and the Consumption and Production of Landscapes in the Sierra Nevada Foothills of California.
• Holder, C.  Service and Research Opportunities through Peace Corps Response.
• Jonsson, D.  Where is the Texas Hill Country?
• Julian, J.P., G. Daly, E.D. Dascher, J.Y. Espinoza, H.W. Flores-Ortiz, and K.B. Newcomer.  Water Resources and Protected Places in the South-Central United States.
• Klein, A., P. Montanga, T. Palmer, J. Sericano, S. Sweet, T. Wade, and M. Kennicutt.  The Footprint of Human Impacts in Cold Climates: Lessons Learned at McMurdo and Palmer Stations, Antarctica.
• Lane, K.M.D.  Methodological Mistakes in Legal Geography.
• Langhorst, J.  Mediating Power: The Agency of Urban Open Space in the Post-Industrial City.
• Lea, D.M. and C.J. Legleiter.  Mapping Spatial Distributions of Stream Power and Channel Change along a Gravel-bed River in Northern Yellowstone.
• Lu, Y.  An Individual-based Assessment of Air Pollution Exposure and Health Risk.
• Millett, B.V.  Vegetation Affects on LIDAR LAS Data.
• Nashleanas, K.  Metageographic Communities:  Structuring the Non-place Place.
• Otterstrom, S.M.  Volatility and Persistence in 19^th Century California Family Migration.
• Owsley, B., K. de Beurs, and J. Julian.  A Unified Disturbance Analysis for Forests and Grasslands in New Zealand.
• Palmer, J.M.  Cultural Planning and Geographical Imaginations: The Role of Affective Mapping in Revealing/Re-valuing Places.
• Pan, F.  A Spatially-Distributed Hydrological Modeling and Visualization Framework.
• Passe-Smith, M.S. and J. Passe-Smith.  Twitter, 'Hate' Maps, and Immigrants:  The Variability of Mapping Tweets to Identify Anti-Immigrant Places and Sentiments.
• Paul, B.  Internal Migration in Bangladesh: A Comparative Study of Coastal, Environmentally Challenged, and Other Districts.
• Purcell, D.  Viewing China through the Geopolitical Lens of Late-Night Humor.
• Rohli, R.V., P.E. Binford, and J. Ibanez.  Accessibility to Higher Education Geography Programs in Louisiana.
• Salo, J. and D. Theobald.  Mapping Riparian Zones in the Southern Rockies Ecoregion:  A Multi-Scale, Hierarchical Model.
• Stadler, S. and J.S. Greene.  The Geography of “No”: Further Adventures in Oklahoma’s Wind Power Development.
• Squires, R.  Urban Growth and Development Re-Imagined (in Minnesota).
• Todhunter, P.E.  A Volumetric Lake Hydrology of Devils Lake, North Dakota:  1950-2010.
• Tran, T.V., K.M. de Beurs, and J.P. Julian.  Monitoring and Classifying Forest Disturbances in Southeastern Oklahoma from 2000-2011 using High Spatiotemporal Resolution Imagery.
• von Reichert, C., J. Cromartie, and R. Arthun.  Benefits of Return Migration to Rural U.S. Communities.
• Watrel, R.H., G.M. Webster, and F.M. Shelley.  Creating and Interpreting “The Atlas of the 2012 Elections”.
• Wallace, L. and L.M.B. Harrington.  Condit Dam Removal, Washington:  Perceptions and Decision-Making.
• Weaver, R.  Littering in Context(s): Using a Spatially-based Experiment to Explore Geographic Differences in an Antisocial Behavior.
• Wright, J.B.  Four Symbolic Boundaries of the American West.
• Yoder, Michael.  Revisiting the Functional Region:  Two Case Studies of Cargo Transport and Economic Development.
• Yoo, J., J. Galewsky, S.J. Camargo, and R.L. Korty.  Dynamical Downscaling for Paleoclimate Simulations of Tropical Cyclones in the Last Glacial Maximum Using a 36-km WRF Tropical Channel Regional Climate Model.

Non-Student Posters

• Buenemann, M., H. Throop, and D.J. Eldridge.  Soil Carbon Pools and their Spatial Variability along Environmental Gradients in New South Wales, Australia.
• Butler, D.  The Rise and Fall of the Fire Lookout Network in Glacier National Park, Montana.
• Colston, N., T. Fagin, A. Graham, and J. Vadjunec.  Governance and land use cover change in the southern Great Plains: A case study from Cimarron County, OK and Union County, NM.
• Diggs, D.M., J.P. Doerner, R.H. Brunswig, and M.R. Doerner.  Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Forest Canyon Pass, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
• Dillon, J.S., P.R. Hanson, J. Bruihler, and L.M. Howard.  New Geologic Mapping and Optical Ages from Platte River Floodplain and Terrace Alluvium in the Kearney Quadrangle, South-Central Nebraska, USA.
• Harrington, Jr, J., C. Dye, and I. Howard.  Understanding Variations in Precipitation Seasonality in Kansas.
• Hutchinson, J.M.S., A. Jaquin, S.L. Hutchinson, and J. Verbesselt.  Monitoring Inter- and Intra-Annual Vegetation Dynamics on U.S. Army Training Lands using MODIS Composite Imagery and Temporal Decomposition Methods.
• Lin, Y. and X. Gong.  A GIS-based Risk Assessment of Water Pollution Exposure to Hazardous Waste Sites.
• McGregor, K.M.  The Current Drought in Texas:  Breaking or Not?
• Mohler, R.R.J., M.J. Wilkinson.  A Simple Method for Change Detection Applicable to the Classroom.

• Stine, M.B.  Stream Channel Form and Associated Vegetation in Two Southern Appalachian Peatlands.

• Townsend, C.G., D.R. Butler, and R. Dixon.  Viticulture in the Texas Hill Country:  An Evaluation of Grower Perceptions of Natural Hazards in their Vineyards.

Student Papers

• Adhikari, P. and K.M. de Beurs.  Role of Environmental Factors in the Growth of West African Cities: A Case of Kumasi of Ghana and Ouagadougou of Burkina Faso.
• Akumaga, U.  Calibration and Validation of the FAO AquaCrop Model for Rainfed cereals in Nigeria, West Africa.
• Bode, C., S. Hallgren, C. Cordova, and S. Stadler.  Spatial Clustering of Eastern Red Cedar False Rings in the Oklahoma Crosstimbers.
• Bowler, J.  Plan it and they will come:  An assessment of recreation potential and user interests on the Green River in Utah.
• Brady, S.A.  Mobility and Sustainable Transportation in Latin America: Successes, Failures, and Diffusion of Ideas.
• Brownson, C.  Lives Entwined:  The Human Obligation to Companion Animals, Livestock, and Wildlife Affected by Natural Hazard Events.
• Brussel, T., T.A. Minckley, S. Brewer, C.J. Long, and M.J. Power.  A Proof of Concept Study on the Evolution of Plant Community Fire Adaptation.
• Carlisle, A. and A. McDaniel.  Plastic Bag Use Analysis in Denton, Texas.
• DeCapo, M.  Comparative Analysis of Waste Management at Kansas State University and the University of Ghana, Legon.
• Desai, K., C. Tiwari, and J. Oppong.  Influence of the Choice of Disease Mapping Method on Population Characteristics in Areas of High Disease Burdens.
• Diller, S.  The Relationship of Social Media and Area Marketing in Promoting Boybands.
• Dunn, I. and A. Ponette-Gonzalez.  Agricultural and Residential Land-Use Effects on North Eastern Cross Timbers Forest Structure and Composition.

• Ferré, L.E., B. McCormick, and D.S.K. Thomas.  Potential Uses of Social Vulnerability Assessments to Support Decision Making in the Colorado Dam Safety Branch.

• Gong, Xi, Y. Lu, Y. Lin, and F.B. Zhan.  K-Vec:  A Global and Cross-Scale Analysis Method of Vector Autocorrelation.
• Groth, A.A.P.  Social and Environmental Impacts of Big-Leaf Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) Logging on Peruvian Indigenous Communities.
• Grubh, K. and N. Currit.  Land cover change analysis in the fastest growing city in the United States.
• Guthrie, D.D.  Goree Island:  An American Political Pilgrimage.  Discourse Analysis Examining the Processes of Place Perception in Relation to Public and Political Actors.
• Haddock, B.H.  Beyond the Ma and Pa: Navigating Rural Sexuality and Gender Identity Networks.
• Hann, D.G.  Geographic Discourse in Children’s Literature.
• Heitmeier, B.  Texas Elections 2014: Mapping Wendy Davis’s Prior Electoral Credibility.
• Herlihy, P.H., T.A. Tappan, M.L. Fahrenbruch, J.H. Kelly, and J. Dobson.  Formalizing Indigenous Land Tenure in La Moskita, Honduras: The Value of Participatory Research Mapping in Identifying and Mitigating Conflict.
• Hinchliffe, M. and T. Gliedt.  Analyzing Human Health Effects and Perceptions of Using Shampoo and Conditioner that uses Sodium Lauryl Sulfate as an Emulsifier.
• Jackson, C.P.  Object-Oriented Land Change Science: How a Legitimately Realist Ontology Can Temper Anthropocentrism, Scientism, and Continuous Observations of Ceaseless Change.
• Jackson, C.P. and C.W. Atherton.  Doves and Dust Revisited: An Improved Object-Oriented Maximum Entropy Approach for Modeling Dust Sources from Presence-Only Data.
• Kellner, G.  Land Sharing vs. Land Sparing:  Agricultural Management Impact on Pollinator Abundance and Crop Production in an Urban Matrix.
• Kinworthy, Bryan.  Distribution of Rock Glaciers in New Mexico with Potential Applications for Climate Research.
• Kuster, E.L. and R.A. McPherson.  Exploring Land Cover Change in the Oklahoma Cross Timbers.
• Lyakhov, A., P. Hartman, and T. Gliedt.  Scaling Environmental Value: A Non-Profit and Business Comparison.
• McCollum, J.L.  Urban Transport Governance and Public Dialogue: A Transition to Compressed Natural Gas in Bolivia.
• McDonald, Y., M. Schwind, D.W. Goldberg, I. Scarinci, P.E. Castle, J. Cuzick, A. Powell, M. Robertson, and C.M. Wheeler.  Landscape of cervical cancer screening, diagnosis and pre-cancerous treatment services in New Mexico, USA.
• Mooney, M.  Using Qualitative GIS and Sketch Mapping to Assess Individual Walking Behavior, Perceptions, and Experiences.
• Parker, J.  Pastoral Livelihoods and Household Water Management Strategies in the Central Argentine Andes.
• Pavlowsky, C.  Water Management in the Southern High Plains of Texas:  An Institutional Analysis of Water Governance.
• Perkins, Dylan.  Developing a Data Discovery Tool for Interdisciplinary Science by Leveraging the Combination of a Web-based Mapping Application and Geosemantic Searching.
• Prince, B.  The Appalachian Trail: Visual Discourse of the National Geographic Society.
• Post, J.M., P.L. Carter, and C.L. Sorrensen.  Mapping Environmental Justice in Lubbock through Time:  A Mixed-Methods Historical Perspective.
• Sabie, R. and M. Buenemann.  Remote Sensing for Monitoring Surface Coal Mine Reclamation in Drylands.
• Shelton, T.C.  Spatial-Temporal Cluster Analysis to Identify Emerging Agglomeration of Texas Wineries 1973-2014.
• Shepard, R.C. and R. Wingo.  Mapping Community Formation on the Plains.
• Su, L. and J.M.S. Hutchinson.  Engaging Agricultural Stakeholders and Communicating Climate Change Risk with WebGIS-based Crop Calendar. 
• Sveinsdottir, A.G.  Land Tenure and Tourism Development in Nicaragua: A case study from Playa Gigante.
• Thapa, G.  Internship Program at the United Nations Office at Nairobi: Building a National Urban Policy Database for United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN–Habitat).
• Thompson, E.S. and K. de Beurs.  Urban Dynamics of a Shrinking City:  An Analysis of Detroit.
• Tziganuk, A. and T. Gliedt.  Learning Geography and Sustainability:  A Focus Group Analysis.
• Wetherholt, B.  Exploring Place Attachment in Kansas’ Central Great Plains: A Jewell County Pilot Study.
• Windahl, E. and K. de Beurs.  Comparing Methods for Land Surface Temperature Retrieval over Heterogeneous Land Cover Using Landsat-5 TM Thermal Infrared Data.
• Wiseman, S. and P.S. Wilson.  Using Acoustics as Remote Sensing.
• Xavier, G. and S. Dodge.  Visualization of Animal Movement and the Environment.
• Zhang, S., C. Lippitt, S. Bogus, and A. Loerch.  Best Practices for Tethered Weather Balloon Mapping.

Student Posters

• Abbott, S., I. Kamarinas, J. Julian, and J. Dymond.  Legacy Effects of Land Use and an Extreme Precipitation Event on River Turbidity in the Manawatu Catchment, New Zealand.
• Aragon, A.D., J.P. Zebrowski, and M.S. Petronis.  A Geospatial Analysis and Geoheritage Investigation of Land Use Practices In The Upper Pecos River Valley, New Mexico, USA.
• Bom, U.B.  Opportunities and Barriers:  Toward Sustainable Recycling in Laramie, Wyoming.
• Cooner, A.J.  Analyzing the Effectiveness of Urban Growth Boundaries Using Spectral Un-mixing.
• Daly, G. and J.P. Julian.  Changing Ecosystem Services in the Fastest Growing City in the Nation.
• DeJesus, J.  Fracking Site Identification in Williston, North Dakota.
• Deng, X. and C. Zhao.  Identifications of Both Water Scarcity and Solutions for Adapting to Climate Changes in the Heihe River Basin of China.
• Dong, X., Y. Ju, and A. Klein.  Glacier Mapping using Google Earth Engine.
• Eddins, A. and S. Wolverton.  The Influence of Local Habitat Variability on White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Body Size at Fort Hood, Texas.
• Everly, C. and B. Liang.  Mapping Urban Materials in Cedar Falls, Iowa Using Very High Resolution Thermal and Hyperspectral Imagery.
• Ferona, V. and M. Core.  Fostering a Culture of Sustainability at the University Of Colorado Colorado Springs.
• Firmin, S. and R. Bergstrom.  Organic Foods and Consumption:  An Exploration in Consumer Demographics.
• Gibson, A.  A Summary of the Scottish Referendum on Whether or Not to Secede from the United Kingdom.
• Hardwick, D.R.  The Spatiotemporal Effect of Regionality on Species Distribution Modeling Using MaxEnt.
• Hu, Q., F. Pan, X. Pan, D. Zhang, Q. Li, Z. Pan, and Y. Wei.  Spatiotemporal Analysis of Climate Change in Inner Mongolia during 1961-2012.
• Jaynes, E.  Noctilucent Cloud Occurrence: An Indication of Anthropogenic Climate Change.
• Jin, H. and S. Hu.  Study on the stream temperature change in local Paradise watershed, PA.
• Kamarinas, I., J. Julian, B. Owsley, K. de Beurs, and A. Hughes.  Identifying Critical Source Areas of Sediment Runoff and their Effect on River Water Quality Using High-resolution Spatio-temporal Datasets.
• Knight, B. and J. O'Neal.  Virtual Environments and Spatial Awareness in Adolescents, A Study in Virtual Tours at Southwestern University.
• Klemm, T. and R.A. McPherson.  Advances in Seasonal Climate Forecasting for Agriculture.
• Larsen, A., E. Kaslon, and J. Dillion.  Is the 'Loper Fan' a True Fan?
• Larsen, A. and P. Burger.  Using GIScience and Gravity Modeling to Predict UNK's Freshman Class.
• Larsen, T.B.  ‘Spreading It Faster than We Can Shovel It:’ Local Perceptions of Power and Controversy in the Management of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
• Lee, J.  Supervised Classification’s Usefulness in Determining Population of Urban Regions.
• Martin, R.H.  Recreation Impact in Mountain Environments:  A Review of Non-Motorized Human Trampling Impacts in Montane, Subalpine, and Alpine Zones.
• Martin, R.L. and C.L. Campbell.  The Birds and the Trees: The Effects of Salt Cedar Removal on Migratory Bird Community Compositions.
• McHaney, M., J.M.S. Hutchinson, and A. Swamy.  Spatiotemporal Analysis of Growing Season Length and Freeze Dates as a Measure of Climate Change for Agricultural Producers in Kansas.
• McNerney, C.S. and A.J. Groce.  Analyzing Desertification in Eastern Brazil Using Change Detection Analysis.
• Motselebane, T., M. Phooko, and B. Ignac.  Space, Time and Crime – A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Crime Related Activities on the Campus of University of Oklahoma.
• Newcomer, K.B., J. Julian, and K. Meitzen.  Spatiotemporal Changes in Interior Least Tern Sandbar Habitat along the Red River below Denison Dam.
• Patch, N.L.  Variables Affecting Meander Bend Migration of Regulated Stream, Kansas River, USA.
• Pichardo, I., J. Rodriguez, D. Thomas, A. Rumbach, L. Lizarraga, W. Klaw, D. Lizarraga, L. Cole, J. Nemeth, and C. Makarewicz.  Understanding Latino Community Recovery after the September 13 Colorado Flash Floods.
• Pokhrel, P. and F. Pan.  The Spatial and Temporal Variation of the Degree Day Factor across Western United States.
• Pons, D. and S. Neeley.  Projected Prevalence of Malaria in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala for the years 2020 and 2050 using Global Circulation Models and Ecological Niches.
• Ramekar, A.  Access to Emergency Healthcare in Wyandotte County, Kansas, 2010.
• Reinholz, M.R.  Mapping of Tornadoes in the State of Colorado from 1950-2014.
• Rodgers, T., S. DeMaso, N. Enwright, and M. Shafer.  Exploration of the Relationship between Weather Parameters and Abundance of Seasonal Surface Water.
• Rhys Wilson, D., R. Carter, and A. Hertzke.  Central City New Orleans and the Revitalization of Dryades Street/Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard.
• Silvis, V. and K.K. Johnson.  Disaster Response and Recovery: Are Women Falling Through the Cracks?
• Swack, D., E. Reynolds, F. Morales, D. Riebel, P. Anthamatten, and D. Thomas.  Body Mass Index (BMI) Mapping and Community Engagement.
• Szpakowski, D. and J.P. Julian.  Combined Effects of Drought and Water Management on the Flow Regime of the Kiamichi River, Oklahoma.
• Williams, H.F.L. and J. Hodge.  Assessing Post-Hurricane Rita and Ike Sedimentation on the McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge: Implications for Coastal Marsh Aggradation.