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2 | xx | Virtual Paper | NO | 1C -Virtual Paper Session (8AM Friday) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/83156117202 | 0 | Friday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Schooner Room | John | Menary | California State University, Dominguez Hills (Faculty) | jmenary@csudh.edu | Faculty or Professional | Words Have Geographical Meaning - The Case of 'Extreme' | Educational geography seeks to improve geographic pedagogy thereby enhancing student learning outcomes. This paper explores how Artificial Intelligence, specifically, chatgpt, can help elementary and secondary teachers of World Geography design geography games. Tested is a word garnering media attention - extreme. But is this word a geographical concept susceptible to classroom instruction? Proposed are two games offering teachers insight into extreme's geographical nature as well as insight into its inclusion within a World Geography curriculum | John Menary, CSU- Dominguez Hills | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | John | Menary | CSU, Dominguez Hills | jmenary@csudh.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 28094 | Virtual Paper | NO | 1C -Virtual Paper Session (8AM Friday) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/83156117202 | 1 | Friday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Schooner Room | Seth | Gustafson | California State University, Monterey Bay | sgustafson@csumb.edu | Faculty or Professional | Oral Histories from Restored Landscapes: Lessons in Community-Based Landscape Restoration from the Habitat Stewardship Project | As an emerging practice of social and environmental care, community-based landscape restoration is an emerging means of addressing social fragmentation, public environmental education, habitat and biodiversity losses, climate mitigation, and other similar issues in a variety of contexts around the globe. Because of its adaptability into these contexts, community-based landscape restoration is a useful tool to address overlapping and entangled socio-environmental issues as experienced in place. Yet with social inequalities deepening and the effects of environmental change becoming only more pronounced, efforts to enact community-based landscape restoration are all the more urgent. This paper relies on archival and oral historical sources to reflect on the historical development and future promise of community-based landscape restoration from the perspective of the Habitat Stewardship Project (HSP), whose efforts across nearly 30 years in Monterey County, California, have restored substantial areas of the central California coast region. Because of its persistence across several decades, interviews and other sources from leaders and participants in the HSP offer some insights into the past, practices, and potential for community-based habitat restoration. | habitat restoration, interdisciplinarity, oral history, California | Seth Gustafson CSU - Monterey Bay Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Seth | Gustafson | CSU - Monterey Bay | sgustafson@csumb.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 28038 | Virtual Paper | NO | 1C -Virtual Paper Session (8AM Friday) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/83156117202 | 2 | Friday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Schooner Room | Patrick | Buckley | Western Washington Univerisity | patrick.buckley@wwu.edu | Faculty or Professional | Exploring a living wage, Isolated Islands, and possible macro monopsony using a CGE | Increases in regional minimum wage in places like Hawaii have been a highly contentious issue with hundreds of inconclusive studies across the country as to its benefits or costs. This exploratory study introduces geography and a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model along with possible “macro monopsony” into this debate for a highly isolated island economy where a large portion of its activity are dominated by exports to the hospitality industry. This work demonstrates how such circumstances can be modeled using a CGE and explores to what degree a change in minimum wage would re-calibration the balance of returns between labor and capital. The benefit of this study is to demonstrate how the question of possible macro monopsony under circumstances of geographic isolation can be modeled and understood using a CGE and how this relates to a living wage. Key words: Hawaii, living wage, computable general equilibrium, macro monopsony | Hawaii, living wage, computable general equilibrium, macro monopsony | Patrick Buckley Western Washington University Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Patrick | Buckley | Western Washington University | patrick.buckley@wwu.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 28036 | Virtual Paper | YES | 1C -Virtual Paper Session (8AM Friday) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/83156117202 | 3 | Friday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Schooner Room | Kylie Yuet Ning | Poon | University of California, Los Angeles | poonkylie@gmail.com | Master's Student | Home Sweet Home? Constructions of Home and Perceptions of Urban Redevelopment among South Asian migrants and Hong Kong residents in the contested space of Sham Shui Po | Homes are important. Beyond being physical structures, homes act as repositories of distinctive meanings. Existing studies have revealed that residents’ sense of home on a neighborhood level can be positively or negatively impacted by urban redevelopment, whether it is through physical improvements, or conversely, gentrification and displacement. Nonetheless, limited attention has been paid to how different ethnic groups experience home and react to urban redevelopment within multi-ethnic neighborhoods in the pre-redevelopment phase. Under this context, I examine the different experiences of home among South Asian (SA) migrants and Hong Kong (HK) residents in the low-income, multi-ethnic, and declining neighborhood of Sham Shui Po (SSP) in HK, and their perceptions of SSP’s impending large-scale redevelopment by the Urban Renewal Authority. Drawing on data collected from mixed-methods research, I propose the term "re-rooting" to document SA migrants’ and HK residents’ dualistic perspectives. Numerous SA migrants have decided to "re-root" their lives in SSP because it “feels like home”, attributed to the large presence of “friends” and SA businesses. These factors have cultivated their thoughts against urban redevelopment. Meanwhile, HK residents often have no choice but to live in SSP because they are poor. They feel a limited sense of home in SSP to begin with given the poor living environment compared to other HK neighborhoods. The increasing presence of SA migrants who are perceived to be dirty and dangerous has made such feelings worse. These factors have revealed their desire to be "re-rooted" to a better living environment through governmental compensation. | sense of home, urban redevelopment, South Asian migrants, Hong Kong residents, Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong | Kylie Yuet Ning Poon University of California, Los Angeles Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Kylie Yuet Ning | Poon | University of California, Los Angeles | poonkylie@gmail.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 28091 | Virtual Paper | YES | 1C -Virtual Paper Session (8AM Friday) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/83156117202 | 4 | Friday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Schooner Room | Aila Bandagi | Kandlakunta | University of Nevada, Reno | aila@nevada.unr.edu | Doctoral Student | Gendered right to the city: mobility and infrastructure in Hyderabad, India | Studying women's use of urban transportation infrastrucutres in Global Southern cities gives rise to a complex understanding of their gendered right to the city. I use 'gendered right to the city' as a theoretical perspective that enables us to better understand the everyday, lived realities of women in Hyderabad, India. Using existing literature in critical infrastructure studies, mobilities, and feminist post-colonial geographies, I adapt the gendered right to the city perspective to conceptualize a study on women's work commutes to and from the Information Technology hub of Cyberabad. This focuses on the bodies at the core of state developmental imaginaries, techie-women, the colloquial term for women working in Information Technology, who are often the object of urban narratives and policies of progress, but rarely subjects of their own voice and making.This perspective, I argue allows for understanding the lives of women who are constantly living the duality of global aspirations and local reality. This priliminary theoretical work is based on intensive literature review of scholarship in geogrpahy. | Gendered right to the city, urban mobility, everyday, post-colonial city | Aila Bandagi Kandlakunta University of Nevada, Reno Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Aila Bandagi | Kandlakunta | University of Nevada, Reno | aila@nevada.unr.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | 27520 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2A - Faculty Paper Sessions (Friday@10) | 0 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Kris | Bezdecny | California State University, Los Angeles | kbezdec@calstatela.edu | Faculty or Professional | What happened in Florida? A follow-up and implications of Florida's dissolution of the RCID | The Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID) has dissolved. On the one hand, Disney’s private government in central Florida is (officially) no more. On the other hand, the new Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board, put into place by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration, highlights the dynamics that occur when an entity with significant economic and political power is perceived as a threat to an authoritarian regime. In this case, it became an opportunity for a potential US Presidential candidate to gain political power by taking on one of the largest transnational corporations in the world (UNCTAD 2022). This case study reinforces the detrimental sociopolitical impacts that occur when governments are corporately captured – and looks at the implications when a localized government tries to take control of a localized corporate site that happens to also be the most visited tourist site in the world. This presentation follows up on the policy relationships that led to Disney being granted its governmental status in 1965 by the Florida legislature, how and why this recently changed and the RCID was dissolved, and further connect this with the wave of rapid authoritarian expansion in the US. | Political geography, Reedy Creek Improvement District, Florida | Kris Bezdecny Cal State LA Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Kris | Bezdecny | Cal State LA | kbezdec@calstatela.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | 28057 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2A - Faculty Paper Sessions (Friday@10) | 1 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Mike | DeVivo | Grand Rapids Community College | mdevivo@grcc.edu | Faculty or Professional | African Wildlife Conservation, Transformational Leadership, and Pragmatic Decolonization of the Safari | The image of an indigenous tracker directing the white khaki-clad driver of a Land Rover guiding affluent white tourists on safari is reflective of Africa’s colonial legacy. Sightseers pay handsomely for the opportunity to bask in the presence of wild game and take selfies with megafauna in the background. With rare exception, their desire for experiencing wildlife encounters lines the pockets of indurated investors in safari lodges, while also subsidizing wildlife conservation in protected areas. In South Africa, Kruger National Park and its adjacent private reserves hold about half the world’s White Rhinos, and tourist dollars play a critical role in conservation efforts devoted to protecting the megaherbivore; however, the uneven dispersal of tourism revenue plays a role in the shaping of a cultural landscape marked more often by poverty than by wealth. On the one hand, exclusive safari lodges for the moneyed characterize private reserves, where rhino are viewed in their natural habitat. On the other hand, within the vicinity of the reserves are landscapes of despair, where half of working age adults are unemployed. Given that, it should come as no surprise that 67% of the Kruger’s rhinos have been lost to poachers within the past decade. Unfortunately, as exclusive safari lodges continue to emerge across the region, far too few owners show evidence of genuine concern for the people dwelling in villages close to the wildlife reserves. This paper explores transformational leadership as imperative to African wildlife conservation and the pragmatic decolonization of the African wildlife safari. | Africa, Wildlife Conservation, Tourism | Mike DeVIVO Grand Rapids Community College Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Mike | DeVIVO | Grand Rapids Community College | mdevivo@grcc.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | 28017 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2A - Faculty Paper Sessions (Friday@10) | 2 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Bryant | Evans | Houston Community College | bryant.evans@hccs.edu | Faculty or Professional | To Visit or Not to Visit? That is the Question... | The Coronavirus pandemic has impacted all corners of societies around the globe since emerging in 2020. One of the many effects the pandemic has had - at least on a temporary basis - is on decision-making and sites that tourists choose to visit. Since its inception, the Texas State Parks system has historically been a collective of natural and cultural sites popular with visitors. Before the onset of COVID-19, the popularity and visitation to Texas’ state parks was on a strong upward incline, corresponding with population growth and greater awareness of these protected state treasures. This paper explores what impacts there have been, if any, on visitation patterns across state parks in different regions around Texas since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic. It also looks at how the Texas State Parks system responded to the pandemic in its initial stages, and whether the system has re-invented its approach to tourism during the pandemic. | pandemic, visitation, Texas State Parks | Bryant Evans Houston Community College Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Bryant | Evans | Houston Community College | bryant.evans@hccs.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | 28102 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2A - Faculty Paper Sessions (Friday@10) | 3 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Deseret | Weeks | University of California, Merced | dweeks@ucmerced.edu | Doctoral Student | Visualizing the limits to growth and the metabolic rift in the neoliberal nexus | While the water-energy-food nexus has become a key approach for creating sustainability management plans for complex socio-ecological systems, major inefficiencies persist thus retarding management goals. Key gaps include a need for linkages between macro to micro-scale processes, critical theoretical approaches, and investigation of the local outcomes of industry. This research employs environmental justice GIS methods to delineate risk zones for exposure to water pollution resulting from nexus metabolism in a region of long-term rural industrialization – Kern County, California. Here, the nexus is conceptualized as the intersections of industrial agriculture, fossil fuel development, and water. Marx’s metabolic rift theory and the limits to growth provide the theoretical assumptions that an economic system based on never-ending growth results in socio-environmental crises. Risk buffers were created around fossil fuel development wells and agricultural lands that receive the highest amounts of pesticides according to crop type. Buffer areas were dissolved to create risk zones. Databases containing tap water quality and nexus industry-related disease death rates were imported into ArcGIS Pro to examine impacts inside vs outside the risk zones. Results show that, while several chemicals related to nexus industries throughout the valley portion of the county far exceed safety thresholds, levels for most of these chemicals are significantly higher within the risk zones and even greater yet in areas where the risk zones overlap. While Alzheimer’s deaths per capita are higher in the risk zones, cancer death rates per capita are higher in the fossil fuel risk zones vs the agricultural risk zone. | Critical Geography, Global Change, Sustainability, GIS, Complex Socio-Ecological Systems | Deseret Weeks University of California, Merced Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Deseret | Weeks | University of California, Merced | dweeks@ucmerced.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | 28137 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2A - Faculty Paper Sessions (Friday@10) | 4 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Christine | Rodrigue | California State University, Long Beach | cm.rodrigue@csulb.edu | Faculty or Professional | New insights from old software: Gridview brings out hidden tectonic features of Mars | This paper presents a novel application of the Goddard Space Flight Center's Gridview, a program facilitating analysis of gridded data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Gridview, last updated in 2011, provides access to MOLA datasets at several spatial resolutions. It allows construction of shaded relief maps with control over hypsometric color schemes, greyscale, vertical exaggeration, and the altitude and azimuth of illumination source. I built several greyscale visualizations in Gridview, covering the planet along the -15° parallel at every 30° of longitude in stereoscopic projection of the MOLA32 database. For each, I set vertical exaggeration at 1,000 times and illumination at 15° above the local horizon in a full circle every 30° of azimuth. The twelve output images for each longitude were placed in a single presentation for that longitude, for a total of twelve files. Each allows “animation” of the light source to enable megageomorphic analysis of different Martian regions. Findings include (1) long-wavelength ridges in Terra Cimmeria; (2) a hemisphere scale ridge or, in places, a graben-like pair of ridges spanning from western Terra Cimmeria, through Terra Sirenum and Aonia Terra, and south of Argyre Planitia into Noachis Terra; (3) a fainter scarp extending in a long line extending from Valles Marineris through Noachis Terra, Terra Sabaea, and Syrtis Major Planum into Isidis Planitia; and (4) detection of lines of craters, possibly secondary craters. Regional names are mapped for abstract readers at https://home.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/mars/regions/ | Mars, visualization, megageomorphology | Christine M Rodrigue Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Christine | M | Rodrigue | Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach | cm.rodrigue@csulb.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | 27596 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2B - Faculty Paper Session (Friday@10) | 0 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Bruce | Hall | Olympic College - Bremerton, Washington | bhall@olympic.edu | Faculty or Professional | A Learning Narrative: Japanese American Internment Camp Survivors as a Teaching Tool in Geography | Studies have shown the effectiveness of storytelling and narratives in education (Glaser, Garsoffky, and Schwan, 2009). Often, students will understand concepts and events better when presented as a narrative, especially when told by people who are participants in these events. This occurs for several reasons, including the development of a greater focus by the student and by building a personal connection to the narrator (Nathanson, 2006). Starting in 2017, I began leading field trips to the Japanese American Exclusion Memorial on Bainbridge Island. Bainbridge Island is the first location where the federal government forcibly removed Japanese Americans and imprisoned them in “internment camps” after the Pearl Harbor attack. Two survivors of from Bainbridge have been telling their stories to my students, and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and impressive. Memorial wall carved images and stories relate the stories of Japanese Americans. These tales are interspersed with the narrative of the survivors who also act out events from the exodus. Throughout these narratives the oppression endured is explored and students consider the threats to civil rights, government overreach, and abuse of power. One positive was the overwhelming support given by neighbors on Bainbridge Island, including the local newspaper owners: Walt and Milly Woodward. For these reasons, Bainbridge Island is unique among most west coast locations where Japanese Americans were not welcomed back to their homes and in essence, suffered a second forced relocation. | Narrative Learning, Field Trips, Japanese American Internment | Bruce M Hall Olympic College Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Bruce | M | Hall | Olympic College | bhall@olympic.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | 27947 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2B - Faculty Paper Session (Friday@10) | 1 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Michael | Pretes | University of North Alabama | mjpretes@una.edu | Faculty or Professional | William Montgomery McGovern: The Real Indiana Jones? | Indiana Jones is both one of the most popular fictional film characters and popular movie series in film history, generating almost $2 billion in revenue since 1981. The swashbuckling figure of Indiana Jones, with his trademark hat and whip, is instantly recognizable to the movie-going public and to most Americans and others worldwide. Was there a real person who inspired this fictional character, and, if so, who was it? One of the leading contenders for this honor is William Montgomery McGovern (1897-1964), a former Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University in Chicago, and a man who was one of the first foreigners to visit Tibet (in the early 1920s) and explore the Amazon Basin. This presentation is based on archival research at Northwestern University, and documents the case for McGovern’s role as a real figure behind the Indiana Jones myth. Not only does it shed light on an interesting and important scholar but also traces how real-life figures can be fictionalized and become popular film heroes. | William Montgomery McGovern, Indiana Jones, Northwestern University, Chicago, Exploration | Michael Pretes University of North Alabama Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Michael | Pretes | University of North Alabama | mjpretes@una.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | 28001 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2B - Faculty Paper Session (Friday@10) | 2 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Robert | Voeks | California State University, Fullerton | rvoeks@fullerton.edu | Faculty or Professional | A TALE OF TWO TULES: BIOGEOGRAPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA’S SPANISH PLACE NAMES | Geographical place names provide insights into a region’s cultural and environmental history. Animal and plant names are particularly instructive as they reveal early cultural perceptions of salient environmental features, many of which have changed over time or no longer exist. This talk examines the significance of California names on the land provided by Spanish explorers and clergy. Fully one-third of California place names are of Spanish origin, the lion’s share named for Catholic Saints or other religious symbols. But many place names were derived from specific encounters with plants and animals, even insects. And because Spanish visitors and settlers hailed from a similar Mediterranean climate, most of their botanical place names were assigned from plant genera that were common to Iberia and California. The most enigmatic of these introduced botanical place names were tule (referring to wetland plants, especially bulrush, Schoenoplectus sp.) and tulare (a place overgrown with tules). These are not Spanish terms, but rather Nahuatl names for wetland species learned during the Spanish occupation of Aztec Mexico. Liberally distributed over much of California, these Nahuatl loan words have become attached to creeks, rivers, lakes, canyons, and a county, not to mention tule elk, tule wrens, tule salmon, tule fog, the bacterial disease tularemia, and of course, the increasingly dated phrase—"they’re out in the tules”. I conclude with a suggestion as to why the Spanish abandoned their own name for bulrush—junco—and substituted tule and tulare from the Aztecs. | biogeography, place names, toponymy, tule, California | Robert A Voeks California State University, Fullerton Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Robert | A | Voeks | California State University, Fullerton | rvoeks@fullerton.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | 27971 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2B - Faculty Paper Session (Friday@10) | 3 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Kitty | Connolly | Friends of the Fiscalini Ranch Preserve | kitty@ffrpcambria.org | Other | Putting Protected Areas into Practice: Fiscalini Ranch Preserve | Land trusts, also known as land conservancies, are nonprofit organizations that permanently conserve public and private land either through conservation easements or by becoming landowners themselves. Land trusts also manage or restore conserved land. Better known organizations include The Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Lands, and Ducks Unlimited but there are more than 1,200 land trusts in the US. Roughly 61 million acres, or 3% of the United States’ territory, is protected by land trusts. For comparison, around 620 million acres, or 25% of the US, is under federal protection. With operations from regional to local, land trusts often form in response to a community’s desire to protect natural, scenic, recreational, historical, or agricultural values. This avenue for protecting land puts restrictions on its use and pledges to protect the land in perpetuity. Friends of the Fiscalini Ranch Preserve is a land trust in San Luis Obispo County, California, that holds the conservation easement on a 437-acre coastal property in the unincorporated community of Cambria. Fiscalini Ranch Preserve was purchased with public and private funds in 2000 and the title was transferred to the Cambria Community Services District. I will discuss how this land trust's operations are complicated by such common issues as its foundation in trespass, conflicting priorities of the landowner and easement holder, and climate change. | land trust, protected areas, land management, nonprofits | Kitty Connolly Friends of the Fiscalini Ranch Preserve Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Kitty | Connolly | Friends of the Fiscalini Ranch Preserve | kitty@ffrpcambria.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 28106 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2B - Faculty Paper Session (Friday@10) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/84341905280?pwd=UUlqZkQyb3NWL3RrQ21VNjlWOTFhZz09 | 4 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Stuart | Sweeney | University of California, Santa Barbara | stuart.sweeney@ucsb.edu | Faculty or Professional | Representative sampling off the rural road: Lessons from a sampling design and survey implementation effort in Rwanda | The goal of any household survey is to measure household attributes in such a way that they provide an unbiased characterization of households in the target population. The most direct approach is to use simple random sampling based on a complete registry of households in the target population. In rural Africa, household registries are unlikely to exist and simple sampling rules of thumb (like every xth house on a road) will miss rural households that are not located in rural villages or near roads. We review a sampling design that we specifically designed to capture households in villages and in more remote areas. The umbrella project centered around analysis of a villagization policy, so including non-village households was critical. We develop a spatial sampling approach using a spatial inhibition process combined with aggregate data on certain areal characteristics of Rwandan districts and sectors. After reviewing the sampling algorithm, we describe the resampling approach used to design inverse probability of selection weights. We then evaluate bias and accuracy of the sample with respect to other large-scale survey information (census and Demographic and Health Survey). The paper closes with a description of lessons learned during the implementation phase of the survey. | sampling design, household survey, Rwanda | Stuart H Sweeney UC Santa Barbara Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Stuart | H | Sweeney | UC Santa Barbara | stuart.sweeney@ucsb.edu | Jessica Marter-Kenyon University of Georgia Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Jessica | Marter-Kenyon | University of Georgia | jsmk@uga.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | 28049 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2C: Geography Is a Big House with Many Doors and Windows: Honoring Professor Dennis Dingemans, 1945-2023. (Friday at 10AM) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/84341905280?pwd=UUlqZkQyb3NWL3RrQ21VNjlWOTFhZz09 | 0 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Schooner Room | Jasmine | Arpagian | California State University, Sacramento | arpagian@csus.edu | Faculty or Professional | Cultural Landscapes in Bucharest: Analyzing the Intersection between Historic Preservation and Informal Housing | In recent years, many of Bucharest’s residential properties registered as historic landmarks were vacated for consolidation against seismic risk or rehabilitation for historic preservation. Preserving architectural heritage in Romania is complicated by the ongoing process of returning nationalized properties to private owners, with the ownership of some properties in legal limbo. This preliminary study extends previous research about the practice of squatting historic landmarks and the official discourse around informal occupants and their housing arrangements. In August 2023, properties that were part of the initial research were revisited. Families living in these properties had been displaced for the official reason of structural rehabilitation and historic preservation. However, field observations from August 2023 suggest that renovation did not follow eviction for many of these cases. Rather, many of these rehabilitation and consolidation plans were stalled. This study further explores the intersection of informal housing and the preservation of cultural landscapes. Dennis Dingemans Special Session | Bucharest, Historic Preservation, Informal Housing | Jasmine Arpagian CSU, Sacramento Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Jasmine | Arpagian | CSU, Sacramento | arpagian@csus.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | 27530 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2C: Geography Is a Big House with Many Doors and Windows: Honoring Professor Dennis Dingemans, 1945-2023. (Friday at 10AM) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/84341905280?pwd=UUlqZkQyb3NWL3RrQ21VNjlWOTFhZz09 | 1 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Schooner Room | Elena | Givental | California State University, East Bay | elena.givental@csueastbay.edu | Faculty or Professional | Who Is Your Neighbor? Latvia in the Russia’s Sphere of Interest | The Republic of Latvia is a high-income economy in Northern Europe, the EU and NATO member since 2004. Latvia has long been on the crossroads of the major European geopolitical players. Since the 12th century, it had been a part of Germany, Sweden, and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before being incorporated in the Russian Empire in 1795. After a brief period of independent development between 1918 and 1940 Latvia was once again occupied by Russia, this time as one of the Soviet Socialist Republics. The restoration of independence came in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist Bloc; however, the Russian aggressive rhetoric and behavior towards its closest neighbors never stopped. This presentation spotlights the author’s personal lived experiences in the Soviet Union and observations based on the recent traveling in Latvia. It examines the signs of Russia’s long-term presence manifested through the built cityscape. The war on Ukraine has made Russia’s intensions in the Former Soviet Union space unambiguously clear. The paper analyzes the country’s general perception of Russia as Latvia’s neighbor and the renewed anxiety in Latvia that affects all spheres of life. Dennis Dingemans Special Session | Latvia, Russia, the Soviet Union, geopolitics, history, observations, cityscape | Elena Givental CSU East Bay Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Elena | Givental | CSU East Bay | elena.givental@csueastbay.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | 28100 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2C: Geography Is a Big House with Many Doors and Windows: Honoring Professor Dennis Dingemans, 1945-2023. (Friday at 10AM) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/84341905280?pwd=UUlqZkQyb3NWL3RrQ21VNjlWOTFhZz09 | 2 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Schooner Room | Paul | Starrs | University of Nevada, Reno (emeritus) | starrs@unr.edu | Faculty or Professional | Obsessive Oligarchs and Ravaged Rangelands: The Emerging Figments of “California Forever.” | Solano County, one of the original 27 counties in California, today is the easternmost reach of the San Francisco Bay Area, with a Census population nearing 500,000. But in 1913 one Patrick Calhoun, grandson of Vice President John C. Calhoun, came forward as the agent for Solano Irrigated Farms, seeking to build Solano City, planned as “the most beautiful city in America” with 75,000 residents to be settled on 100,000 acres, a network of railroad lines, a massive inland seaport, and a planting of one million seedlings to provide shade through the city. All came to naught. As geographer Bill Bowen documents in the resplendent William Hammond Hall maps included in the California Water Atlas (1980), such schemes for irrigation colonies date well back into the mid-19th century. Current Solano County residents worry about huge recent land purchases, totaling more than 55,000 acres. Who was buying? Citizens worried that buyers might include the People’s Liberation Army, acquiring acreage all but surrounding Travis Air Force base, where B-52 bombers, C-130 cargo aircraft, and perhaps even B-1 and B-2 bombers are known to launch skyward. On August 25th, 2023, the New York Times broke the true tale. A cadre of front-page-name venture capitalists were purchasing acreage as Flannery Associates, paying two- to four-times market rates, and proposing their own new city. Details of an emerging story — and its proponents — are offered in this paper. Dennis Dingemans Special Session | speculative development, California Forever, urbanization, venture capital | Paul F Starrs University of Nevada, Reno (emeritus) Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Paul | F | Starrs | University of Nevada, Reno (emeritus) | starrs@unr.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | 27750 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2C: Geography Is a Big House with Many Doors and Windows: Honoring Professor Dennis Dingemans, 1945-2023. (Friday at 10AM) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/84341905280?pwd=UUlqZkQyb3NWL3RrQ21VNjlWOTFhZz09 | 3 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Schooner Room | Daniel | Arreola | Placitas, New Mexico | fronteradan18@gmail.com | Faculty or Professional | Mujeres Olvidadas Fronterizas: Forgotten Women Entrepreneurs in Mexican Border Towns | On the Mexico border during the early to late twentieth century, four women—Delfina Rochin de Vergobbi, Alice Gatliff, Matilde Olague Alvillar, and Rosantina Calvetti—have been instrumental in shaping landscapes in Nogales and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Palomas, Chihuahua, and Acuña, Coahuila, respectively. These pioneering women entrepreneurs succeeded at a time when few businesswomen could be found on the Mexican border. Several launched, operated, and stocked with exotic merchandise the first curio stores in their respective towns. Through the production and distribution of postcards, these women advertised their retail enterprises and promoted tourism and popular landmarks in the towns. This presentation recounts some of the contributions and landscape signatures forged by these forgotten border women. | women entrepreneurs, Mexico border towns, tourist promotion, Dennis Dingemans Special Session | Daniel D Arreola Placitas, New Mexico Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Daniel | D | Arreola | Placitas, New Mexico | fronteradan18@gmail.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | 28095 | In-Person Paper | NO | 2C: Geography Is a Big House with Many Doors and Windows: Honoring Professor Dennis Dingemans, 1945-2023. (Friday at 10AM) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/84341905280?pwd=UUlqZkQyb3NWL3RrQ21VNjlWOTFhZz09 | 4 | Friday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Schooner Room | Robin | Datel | California State University, Sacramento | datel@csus.edu | Faculty or Professional | "Geography Is a Big House with Many Doors and Windows: Honoring Professor Dennis Dingemans, 1945-2023" - Discussant | Professor Dennis Dingemans (1945-2023) was a pillar of the APCG. He gave 22 papers at annual meetings stretching across five decades. He served on many committees, co-organized the 1987 annual meeting in Davis, led field trips, mentored student participants, co-edited the Yearbook, and was vice-president and president of the association. This session in his honor features five presentations by colleagues, including former students. The body of work presented, often informed by field and archival techniques and incorporating landscape slides, reminds us of Professor Dingemans' approach to research and his interests in urban and economic places and spaces in North America (especially Northern California) and Eastern Europe. The session presents a lively slice of human geography nurtured on the Pacific Coast and recalls the eclectic Berkeley department of the late 1960s to early 1970s (especially professors Vance, Parsons, Hooson, and Pred), which shaped Professor Dingemans. His own brand of direct landscape observation and inventory, complemented by historical research, underpinned not only his academic efforts but also much of the applied geography he did through civic engagement. DENNIS DINGEMANS SPECIAL SESSION | Dennis Dingemans, special session, APCG history | Robin E Datel California State University Sacramento Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Robin | E | Datel | California State University Sacramento | datel@csus.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | 28111 | In-Person Paper | NO | 5A - Faculty/Professional Paper Sessions (Friday@3) | 1 | Friday | 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM | Clipper East & West | Lily | House-Peters | California State University, Long Beach | lily.housepeters@csulb.edu | Faculty or Professional | Unearthing the Microbial-Mineral Archive: More-than-Human Geographies of Iron Ore | Iron ore, a key ingredient in steel production and the most mined metal on Earth, has long been ontologically relegated to the realm of inanimate objects, belying the lively microbial foundation of iron ore’s formation. This paper takes as its point of departure the often neglected transcorporeality of microbial life and iron ore. Ancient stromatolites- layered rock structures, co-created through metabolic processes of ancient photosynthetic microorganisms, such as cyanobacteria - represent the earliest forms of life on Earth for which there is fossil evidence, dating back 3.5 billion years. This more-than-human creative collaboration illustrates the limits of the life/non-life binary, drawing attention to the deeply entwined microbial-mineral archive as a key site for geographic research tracing temporalities from the deep geologic to the contemporary and exploring spatialities from the micro to the macro. In this case study, we consider the Hammersly Range of Western Australia’s Pilbara Craton. The Hammersly, a mountainous formation dating to the Archaeon Eon four billion years ago, is home to the thickest and most extensive banded iron formations in the world, containing nearly 80% of all identified iron ore in Australia. Yet, simultaneously, large-scale extraction of iron ore by mega-mining companies Rio Tinto, BHP, and Fortescue to meet global construction and engineering demands and the ‘green’ energy transition is threatening this earth archive, destroying mineral-microbial memory strata, and imposing cultural and elemental amnesia. Employing creative and exploratory methods derived from new materialism we aim to recuperate geographic attention at the site of microbial-mineral entanglement. | extraction ecologies, microbial geographies, iron ore, new materialism | Lily House-Peters California State University, Long Beach Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Lily | House-Peters | California State University, Long Beach | lily.housepeters@csulb.edu | Katherine G Sammler University of Twente, The Netherlands Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Katherine | G | Sammler | University of Twente, The Netherlands | k.g.sammler@utwente.nl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | 28069 | In-Person Paper | NO | 5A - Faculty/Professional Paper Sessions (Friday@3) | 2 | Friday | 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM | Clipper East & West | Michael | Beland | California State University, Los Angeles | mbeland2@calstatela.edu | Faculty or Professional | Ultra-High-Resolution Mapping of River Habitat and Geomorphic Features using UAVs, Structure from Motion, and Machine Learning | For more than a century, the Los Angeles River has faced extensive environmental degradation due to urbanization, flood control measures, and other human activities. Over the last couple of decades, public interest in restoring some aspects of the river, while maintaining flood protection for adjacent communities, has grown steadily. The success of future ecosystem restoration and management efforts will hinge on our understanding of how alterations in flow can impact habitat resilience, which is constrained by the costs and time required to collect high quality data. To address these challenges and align with the growing public interest in its revitalization, we used a compact RGB camera, mounted on a consumer-grade UAV, to capture ultra-high-resolution (GSD = 1.6 cm) images of a 2-mile, soft-bottom reach of the LA River. Leveraging SfM, focal statistics and multiple RGB vegetation indices, we generated detailed topographic and vegetation height data, image texture information, and greenness measures. Further, we utilized principal component analysis (PCA) for data dimension reduction and employed machine learning, specifically support vector machines (SVM), to classify land cover based on these multi-modal data sources. Our approach achieved an overall classification accuracy of 83% (kappa = 80%). The generated land cover classification maps provide a comprehensive view of the Los Angeles River's habitat and geomorphic features, improving on previous efforts in terms of accuracy and detail. In the future, products generated from this approach could be instrumental in informing and guiding future management decisions that balance ecological restoration with flood risk management needs. | remote sensing, GIS, UAVs, drones, habitat mapping, urban river, ecosystem restoration and management, machine learning | Michael Beland Department of Geography, Geology, and Environment, California State University, Los Angeles Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Michael | Beland | Department of Geography, Geology, and Environment, California State University, Los Angeles | mbeland2@calstatela.edu | Chris Guo Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Chris | Guo | Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine | cguo2@go.pasadena.edu | Alex Purdom~ Department of Geosciences, Middle Tennessee State University~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Alex | Purdom | Department of Geosciences, Middle Tennessee State University | abp5f@mtmail.mtsu.edu | Alireza Farahmand~ Department of Geography, Geology, and Environment, California State University, Los Angeles~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Alireza | Farahmand | Department of Geography, Geology, and Environment, California State University, Los Angeles | afarahm2@calstatela.edu | ||||||||||||||
24 | 27679 | In-Person Paper | NO | 5A - Faculty/Professional Paper Sessions (Friday@3) | 3 | Friday | 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM | Clipper East & West | Achituv | Cohen | SPAR Lab, Geography Department, UCSB | achic19@gmail.com | Post-doc | Simplifying OpenStreetMap Data: Reducing Multi-Lane Streets to Single Lanes | OpenStreetMap (OSM) serves as an invaluable platform, providing a comprehensive and finely-detailed vector data representation of global street networks. Its open-access nature renders it an indispensable resource for a diverse spectrum of worldwide projects and research endeavors. Nonetheless, the intricate level of detail and granularity inherent in OSM's street network data can pose challenges in specific applications. Consequently, various research initiatives have arisen, devising techniques and methodologies for the simplification of OSM data. Within this context, our research is dedicated to the simplification process, specifically targeting the reduction of multi-lane streets to single-lane representations. This resulting streamlined network structure holds particular significance in the realm of active transportation modeling within urban environments, facilitating endeavors such as pedestrian walkability modeling, pedestrian volume estimation, and the enhancement of bicycle and pedestrian safety. The implementation of this network simplification entails the manipulation of OSM data to attain a more straightforward network configuration, where each street is singularly represented by a single lane. The central challenges of this process involve the identification of multi-lane streets and their consolidation into single-lane counterparts while preserving network continuity and topological integrity. Our model's performance underwent evaluation across a diverse spectrum of urban settings, including areas varying in complexity, spanning geographical locations across the United States, Canada, and Italy. Our research underscores the efficacy of our approach in simplifying OSM data and extends the utility of our findings by providing an open-source tool for the benefit of fellow researchers and practitioners in analogous domains. | OpenStreetMap, Data simplification, Active Transportation | Achituv Cohen SPAR lab, Geography Department, UCSB Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Achituv | Cohen | SPAR lab, Geography Department, UCSB | achic19@gmail.com | Trisalyn Nelson SPAR lab, Geography Department, UCSB Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Trisalyn | Nelson | SPAR lab, Geography Department, UCSB | trisalyn@ucsb.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | 27521 | In-Person Paper | NO | 5C- National Parks and Protected Areas: Emerging Issues and Ongoing Opportunities for Visitor Use, Environmental Monitoring, and Conservation Policy | 0 | Friday | 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM | Schooner Room | Jeffrey | Jenkins | University of California, Merced | jjenkins8@ucmerced.edu | Faculty or Professional | Visitation to national parks in California shows annual and seasonal change during extreme drought and wet years | This study examines the influence of drought indicators on recreational visitation patterns to National Park Service units in California from 1980 to 2019. Significant departures from the normal hydroclimate, reflected by drought or unusually wet conditions, can lead visitors to change their behavior, including recreating at a different time or place. Drought conditions can facilitate earlier seasonal access at higher elevation parks, but displace visitors in other seasons and parks. Wetter-than-average conditions can displace visitors due to snowpack or flooding, but also facilitate other activities. We found a decrease in annual visitation at popular mountain parks including Yosemite (-8.6%) and Sequoia and Kings Canyon (-8.2%) during extreme drought years due to lower-than-average attendance in peak summer and fall months. Extreme wet years also had significantly reduced annual visitation in Sequoia and Kings (-8.5%) and Lassen Volcanic (-13.9%) due to declines in spring and summer use as snowpack restricts road access. For arid parks, drought status did not have a statistically significant effect on annual visitation, although extreme drought led to less use during the hottest months of summer at Death Valley, and extreme wet conditions at Pinnacles led to less visitation throughout the year (-16.6%), possibly from impacts to infrastructure associated with flooding. For coastal park units, extreme drought led to year-round higher levels of use at Redwood (+27.7%), which is typically wet, and less year-round use at Channel Islands (-23.6%), which is relatively dry, while extreme wet years led to higher levels of annual use at Channel Islands (+29.4%). | national parks, recreation, drought, displacement | Jeffrey Jenkins University of California, Merced Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Jeffrey | Jenkins | University of California, Merced | jjenkins8@ucmerced.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | 27812 | In-Person Paper | NO | 5C- National Parks and Protected Areas: Emerging Issues and Ongoing Opportunities for Visitor Use, Environmental Monitoring, and Conservation Policy | 1 | Friday | 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM | Schooner Room | Selima | Sultana | University of North Carolina Greensboro | s_sultan@uncg.edu | Faculty or Professional | Transportation, (Im)Mobility, and the National Parks | For an increasingly urban American population, the National Parks System (NPS) offers an opportunity to visit the outdoors, see stunning vistas, explore wilderness areas with a chance to see wildlife, or just have a picnic. However, as the population has increased, the pressure on both the parks and the infrastructure necessary to access them also has increased. Privately owned vehicles comprise the major share of travel modes both to and within national parks, creating problems of traffic congestion and air and noise pollution. These problems, in turn, have raised issues about how much visitation the parks can handle without degrading either the environment or the experience, and what alternative transportation options should be created to address these concerns. This colloquium will present how people get to the park, how they move around within the park, and the impacts of this movement. A case study of national parks will be carried out to illustrate the variety of transport options that can exist in each park and potential solutions along with the concept of social carrying capacity. | National Park System, Transportation, Mobility, Sustainability, Carrying Capacity | Selima Sultana University of North Carolina Greensboro Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Selima | Sultana | University of North Carolina Greensboro | s_sultan@uncg.edu | Joe Weber University of Alabama Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Joe | Weber | University of Alabama | jweber2@ua.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | 27528 | In-Person Paper | NO | 5C- National Parks and Protected Areas: Emerging Issues and Ongoing Opportunities for Visitor Use, Environmental Monitoring, and Conservation Policy | 2 | Friday | 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM | Schooner Room | Terence | Young | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona | TGYoung@cpp.edu | Faculty or Professional | Diffusing Conservation to Post-Colonial Africa | As global climate change, habitat loss, and other threats undermine global biodiversity, protected areas have increased in importance. However, the historic development and spatial diffusion of such spaces and their management are complex, stimulating a lively discussion among conservation biologists, environmental historians, geographers, and political scientists. From where and when did global wildlife and protected-area policies emerge and diffuse? Why and how were they adopted and modified? Which policies were promoted, and which were not? This presentation is a contribution to these discussions with a focus on links between early post-colonial Africa and the United States. In summer 1965, three groups of African nationals enrolled at American universities assembled at Havasu National Wildlife Refuge, Yellowstone National Park, and Olympic National Park to participate in the African Student Training Program. Begun in 1961, annually staged on the Interior Department’s protected areas in the Pacific Northwest and Interior West, and run by the National Park Service, the three-week program was a Cold War effort to enhance the appreciation of “future African leaders” for conservation and their countries’ protected areas. Most of the fourteen participants majored in such disciplines as engineering or history, but five were forestry majors and all were interested in nature conservation. This program was an early effort by the National Park Service and its sibling agencies at the Interior Department to internationally diffuse America’s conservation practices and, arguably, the first protected-areas program developed by a nation that trusted others would voluntarily adopt its ideas and methods. | national parks, protected areas, diffusion, Africa, United States | Terence Young Cal Poly Pomona Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Terence | Young | Cal Poly Pomona | tgyoung@cpp.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | In-Person Paper | NO | 5C- National Parks and Protected Areas: Emerging Issues and Ongoing Opportunities for Visitor Use, Environmental Monitoring, and Conservation Policy | 3 | Friday | 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM | Schooner Room | Yolonda | Youngs | CSU - San Bernardino | Faculty or Professional | Third Views: The Value of Repeat Photography for Long Term Environmental Monitoring in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming | Repeat photography is a valuable yet underemployed technique for long term environmental monitoring and management decision-making in national parks and protected areas. In its most basic form, repeat photography involves finding the location of a historic image, capturing a contemporary photograph of the same scene, and then comparing the two images. These photograph sets can reveal landscape changes over time such as the paths of receding glaciers or shifts in forest cover change. With careful analysis and interpretation, physical geographers, geologists, and other environmental scientists can trace habitat loss, climate change, biodiversity, and ecosystem resilience. The technique also offers a portal for human geographers and social scientists to better understand the long-term effects of environmental policy and management decisions and visitor use in national parks and protected areas. This paper contributes to this vein of scholarship with a case study of an ongoing environmental monitoring project in Grand Teton National Park (GRTE) along the Upper Snake River in Wyoming. Three sets of repeat photographs collected over a span of almost 50 years present opportunities to trace changes in river channel geomorphology, riparian vegetation, the effects of park management policies on river use and recreation, the cultural landscape evolution of boating access sites, concessions impacts, and wildlife management. Findings from this work will be of interest to a wide range of physical and social scientists, park managers, public lands stakeholders, and environmental conservation groups | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | 27626 | In-Person Paper | NO | 6A - Faculty Paper Session (Saturday@8) | 1 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Ray | Sumner | California State University, Dominguez Hills | rsumner08@gmail.com | Faculty or Professional | Discovering the Quinkans: Adventures of a Young Geographer, Long Ago, in a Place Far Away | This paper is a recollection of and reflection on student participation in an expedition to discover and record a vast but previously unrecognized collection of Indigenous cave art created by ancient peoples in an extremely remote location in North Queensland. Now known as Quinkan Country, it was inscribed into the Australian National Heritage List in November 2018. Keywords: Indigenous rock art, recording and preserving; Indigenous Legends; Native wildlife; Percy Trezise (AM) and Dick Roughsey (OBE); National Heritage recording and protection | Indigenous rock art, recording and preserving, Indigenous Legends, Native wildlife, Percy Trezise (AM) and Dick Roughsey (OBE), National Heritage recording and protection | Ray Sumner California State University, Dominguez Hills Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Ray | Sumner | California State University, Dominguez Hills | rsumner08@gmail.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | 28007 | In-Person Paper | NO | 6A - Faculty Paper Session (Saturday@8) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/86993143056?pwd=a052RlhGdGNKVnNiZ09tdVZjLzNFUT09 | 2 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Clipper East & West | John | Harrington, Jr. | Independent Scholar | johnaharringtonjr@gmail.com | Faculty or Professional | The Three-Body Problem and Geographic Thought | Constructing a trilogy of major ideas has been an important aspect of some scholars contributions related to geographic research and/or thought. Selected works from the careers of Anne Buttimer and Bob Kates are used to document the importance of geographers thinking in threes. The history of geographic thought documents that scholars have generally identified three (or more) major components within the discipline. Geographers at the National Science Foundation also have used three different names and related emphases for their group during this century. In physics and classical mechanics, the three-body problem involves the uncertainties that arise from the interactions among three bodies. With two bodies of known mass and movement, subsequent positions are easily computed. When a third body is added to the situation under consideration, the subsequent outcomes are intractable, complicated, and non-linear. Chaotic outcomes are a possibility. The three-body problem is a global concern given that at least three major powers have nuclear weapons. Applying lessons from the three-body problem to geographic thought suggests challenges in discussing the character of the academic discipline. And, geographers have a history of sharing their multiple bodies of knowledge with potentially interested outsiders. Ideas related to the chaotic impacts of the three-body problem on sharing the scope of geography are presented, with a discussion of issues related to synthesis, the highest form of the geographer’s art, and pluralism. | geographic thought, three-body problem, chaos, pluralism | John Harrington, Jr. Independent Scholar Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | John | Harrington, Jr. | Independent Scholar | johnaharringtonjr@gmail.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | 27845 | In-Person Paper | NO | 6A - Faculty Paper Session (Saturday@8) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/86993143056?pwd=a052RlhGdGNKVnNiZ09tdVZjLzNFUT09 | 3 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Cindy | Nance | Mt. San Jacinto College | cyntheses@earthlink.net | Faculty or Professional | Desert Landscape Art - "Looking Awry" | Southern California’s high and low deserts offer a blank canvas for nomadic and outlier landscape art: Desert X, Salvation Mountain/Slab City, Bombay Beach Biennale, and High Desert Test Sites. Inspired by J.B. Jackson and other renown landscape geographers, I drafted an article about desert landscape art events for two-dimensional publication with references from 1925 to 2015. Since 2000 there is a noticeable gap in landscape geography publications. To adequately represent landscape art, I needed third and fourth dimensions (or a multi-verse) with dynamic links to internet articles, web sites, and internet magazine photo essays. I created a Story Map that augments my drafted article with multi-media for my audience to explore on their own, such as www.DesertX.org . Both the article draft and Story Map represent desert landscape art as sites that are situated in relation to other features, dependent on available land, and adapting to changing situations over time, such as weathering and cultural changes in attitude. I address why landscape art installations are where they are, how they persist (or not), and artist connections. Interactive maps enhance the written text, provide a quick tutorial on the Public Land Survey System, identify the study area with four landscape art destinations/events, and three roadside attractions. Imagery is embedded and linked, with the intent of encouraging my audience to experience landscape geography in-person and form their own opinion about thought-provoking and commercial landscape art: https://arcg.is/0CGXC40 . | landscape geography, landscape art, story map, Public Land Survey System, Salvation Mountain, Desert X, Bombay Beach Biennale, High Desert Test Sites | Cindy Nance Mt. San Jacinto College Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Cindy | Nance | Mt. San Jacinto College | cyntheses@earthlink.net | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | 27883 | In-Person Paper | NO | 6A - Faculty Paper Session (Saturday@8) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/86993143056?pwd=a052RlhGdGNKVnNiZ09tdVZjLzNFUT09 | 4 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Clipper East & West | William | Selby | Santa Monica College | wselby@smc.edu | Faculty or Professional | Solving and Celebrating Weird and Wild Weather Pattern Puzzles | Tropical storms, atmospheric rivers on steroids, droughts, heat waves, floods, looming costly and deadly disasters: are there any silver linings in these climate change clouds of doom? Yes! Geographers, meteorologists, climatologists, and naturalists have been handed a golden opportunity to bring science and natural history on to the center stage. We will follow and explain the science behind some recent anomalous weather patterns and show how they can be used to pique public interest, connect folks to their natural environments, sooth nature deficit disorders, and solve some big twenty-first century problems. | weather, climate change, atmospheric science, environmental science | William A Selby Santa Monica College Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | William | A | Selby | Santa Monica College | wselby@smc.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | 27809 | In-Person Paper | NO | 6A - Faculty Paper Session (Saturday@8) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/86993143056?pwd=a052RlhGdGNKVnNiZ09tdVZjLzNFUT09 | 5 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Clark | Akatiff | Palo Alto | cpakatiff@yahoo.com | Other | Was there a "Berkeley Moment" in Geography? | A consideration of the enduring influence of Carl O Sauer and the meaning of a Berkeley Moment. A critique of Chapter 7 of "Spatial Histories of Radical Geography" which concerns developments in Berkeley Geography (1970-2010). How geography influences thought and more so how thought influences geography. The rambling memories of a outsider on the inside. What is Radical Geography? The importance of Marx-Engels. All questions answered. | "Berkeley Moment", Carl Sauer, Radical Geography | Clark Akatiff Saklan Institute Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Clark | Akatiff | Saklan Institute | cakatiff@yahoo.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | 27966 | In-Person Paper | YES | 6B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@8) | 1 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Clipper North | Jiahua | Chen | UCSB | jiahuaxchen@gmail.com | Master's Student | Quantifying relationship between bike connectivity and safety vary with percentage of Hispanic | Amid a growing interest in sustainable transportation, bicycling gains appeal due to its environmental, health, and economic benefits. However, safety concerns often deter potential cyclists, prompting cities to invest in bike infrastructure networks for broader access. Despite the increasing interest in bike networks, few studies examine how connected infrastructure influences rider safety and equitable access across neighborhoods. Our goal is to understand safety outcomes of connected bike infrastructures by quantifying the relationship between bike crashes and connectivity, and examine how these relationships vary with neighborhood socio-economic characteristics. We used a hierarchical negative binomial regression model to assess the relationship between bike crashes and connectivity scores in 125 block groups in Santa Barbara and Goleta, California. Additionally, we investigated how this relationship varies with the percentage of Hispanic residents in the neighborhoods. After adjusting for exposure, topography, and demographics, our analysis unveiled a positive association between bike crashes and connectivity (β = 0.25), suggesting that more connected bike networks may heighten collision risks. Similar findings exist in other area, possibly related to urban areas where connected infrastructures attract more biking. Notably, in neighborhoods with a higher percentage of Hispanic residents, the association between bike crashes and connectivity was more pronounced (β = 0.31), indicating a disproportionately higher risk faced by Hispanic neighborhoods, possibly linked to the lower quality of bike infrastructure. Our findings suggest that policymakers should prioritize equitable resource allocation to investigate and address disparities in bike infrastructure, ensuring that infrastructure projects meet the unique needs and safety concerns of underrepresented communities. | bike network, bike safety, connectivity, equity | Jiahua Chen UCSB Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Jiahua | Chen | UCSB | jiahua_chen@umail.ucsb.edu | Peter Kedron UCSB Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Peter | Kedron | UCSB | peterkedron@ucsb.edu | Trisalyn Nelson~ UCSB~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Trisalyn | Nelson | UCSB | trisalyn@ucsb.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||
35 | 27969 | In-Person Paper | YES | 6B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@8) | 2 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Clipper North | Leah | Shamlian | University Centre of the Westfjords | leah20@uw.is | Master's Student | Rainbow Sheens and Headlines: Using news framing analysis to identify spatial patterns of oil spill communication in the Puget Sound region | From high-profile events like the Exxon Valdez spill (1989) and the Deepwater Horizon explosion (2010) to everyday occurrences like a sheen running into a storm drain, oil spills are a uniquely visible type of pollution. Although high-profile incidents are well-ingrained in public consciousness, smaller events still have significant cumulative impacts, ranging from environmental to social to societal. This project focuses on news coverage of oil spills in the Puget Sound region of the United States from 1990-2020, examining the language used in reporting through framing analysis. Newspaper articles are categorized according to frame (human interest, economic consequences, ecological consequences, government action/inaction, responsible party [RP] action/inaction, RP consequences), tone (catastrophizing, diminishing, neutral), and oil spill size (small, medium, large, multiple, potential, unknown). Oil spill reports from the National Response Center are mapped to compare newspaper coverage to spill report clusters. Spill report clusters are observed near urban waterways, larger cities, industry, military sites, marinas, tribal land, and coastlines. Media coverage of oil spills varies geographically and temporally. The tone analysis draws on methodology of past analyses of newspaper coverage of incidents or crises, but changes the spectrum of tone from positive-negative to catastrophizing-diminishing. This project contributes to the literature on Puget Sound and its urban waters and presents a novel approach to mapping oil spill clusters. | Oil spills, Puget Sound, content analysis, framing analysis, spatial patterns, communication | Leah C Shamlian University Centre of the Westfjords Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Leah | C | Shamlian | University Centre of the Westfjords | leah20@uw.is | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | 28043 | In-Person Paper | YES | 6B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@8) | 3 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Clipper North | Mitchell | Snyder | University of California, Davis | mpsnyder@ucdavis.edu | Doctoral Student | The Missing Middle of Disaster Displacement: Migration, Place attachment and Satisfaction following the 2018 Camp Fire | The decision to return or relocate after a disaster is often conceptualized as a balance between taking rational steps to decrease risk (i.e., out-migration) and an emotional attachment to a place. This study draws on survey data from northern California households affected by the 2018 Camp Fire to better understand the factors that influenced where people settled after the fire, the satisfaction with that place, and whether they wanted to return. The Camp Fire stands apart from intervening wildfires due to its rapid destruction of nearly 14,000 residences and the ensuing displacement of over 50,000 people. My findings align with displacement and place attachment scholarship, which note higher satisfaction among both households which move out of the area and households that opt to rebuild. Interestingly, I find that households displaced to nearby communities reported relatively lower quality of life compared to households rebuilding within the fire footprint and households that had relocated further away. The satisfaction and intentions of locally displaced households represents a knowledge gap, as place attachment studies center households that rebuild while displacement studies focus on households that relocate. Survey data from these locally displaced households challenge straightforward narratives of disaster recovery by raising questions about how risk and resources shape household intentions to relocate or rebuild. | Wildfire, Displacement, Migration | Mitchell Snyder UC Davis Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Mitchell | Snyder | UC Davis | mpsnyder@ucdavis.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | 27591 | In-Person Paper | YES | 6B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@8) | 4 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Clipper North | German | Silva | University of California, Santa Barbara | german.silva@geog.ucsb.edu | Doctoral Student | Remote Predictors of Changing Soil Salinity in an Intermittently Tidal Wetland | Soil salinization has increased due to drought, sea level rise (SLR), and changing precipitation patterns, leading to greater need to measure it. Remote sensing is a promising tool for estimating soil salinity on large spatial scales. However, the development of a remote sensing estimation approach for wetland soil salinity must account for: 1) the high spatial heterogeneity of coastal wetlands, and 2) the fact that soil salinity is the result of multiple hydrological and geomorphic processes, such as elevation. The Surface Biology and Geology HIgh Frequency Timeseries (SHIFT) dataset provides a unique opportunity to assess the application of high-resolution imagery to estimate soil salinity and, when combined with environmental variables, can account for spatial heterogeneity and multiple processes. In this study, I combined spectral and environmental datasets to predict soil salinity in an intermittently tidal estuary, Devereux Slough. Random forest regression was used to determine the model fit between predictor variables and soil salinity. Elevation was the most important predictor while the modified anthocyanin reflectance index and other vegetation indices held less importance. Solely using elevation has a high correlation between predicted and observed values (r = 0.92), but results in maps that do not capture temporal variability well. The spectral variables better capture the temporal dynamics and their inclusion results in a more accurate representation of soil salinity over time, despite lower correlation (r = 0.84). These findings have applicability in salinity monitoring and importance for modeling change in vegetation community or ecosystem productivity in managed and restored wetlands. | Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, Soil Salinity, Wetlands, Pickleweed, Salicornia pacifica | German D Silva University of California - Santa Barbara Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | German | D | Silva | University of California - Santa Barbara | german.silva@geog.ucsb.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | 28011 | In-Person Paper | YES | 6B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@8) | 5 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Clipper North | Caitlyn | Linehan | University of California, Santa Barbara | caitlynlinehan@ucsb.edu | Doctoral Student | Improving the denominator of safety rankings for bicycle and pedestrian safety | In order to accurately measure variation in biking and pedestrian safety it is necessary to measure both the number of crashes as well as exposure, a measure of those vulnerable to potential crashes. Including exposure in bicycling and pedestrian crash risk is difficult because few cities have robust data on pedestrian and biking volumes. Given lack of data, modelling approaches are helpful for representing exposure. The goal of this paper is to model pedestrian and bicycling exposure for large cities and counties in California and demonstrate how representations of bicycle and pedestrian safety change when exposure is included in safety rankings. Specifically, we evaluated how including exposure impacted safety rankings generated by California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), which distributes funding that increases road safety. We measured exposure as miles walked/biked per road mile using a validated model and data from the U.S. Census, National Household Travel Survey, Open Street Map, and Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System. Next we performed linear regression analysis in which the predictor is exposure and the outcome is bike/pedestrian crashes. The residual values and signs were used to rank regions based on safety. The most significant change in OTS ranks was for pedestrian safety in the city of San Francisco that was previously ranked as 3/15 (very unsafe) and with the modified rankings is now 15/15 (most safe). Our study demonstrates when normalizing crash risk using exposure, cities/counties that were previously considered unsafe can be reassessed as safer and vice versa. | exposure, crash risk, safety rankings, active transportation, spatial analysis | Caitlyn J Linehan University of California, Santa Barbara Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Caitlyn | J | Linehan | University of California, Santa Barbara | caitlynlinehan@ucsb.edu | Trisalyn Nelson University of California, Santa Barbara Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Trisalyn | Nelson | University of California, Santa Barbara | trisalyn@ucsb.edu | Achituv Cohen~ University of California, Santa Barbara~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Achituv | Cohen | University of California, Santa Barbara | achituv@ucsb.edu | |||||||||||||||||||
39 | 27518 | In-Person Paper | NO | 6C - Faculty / Professional Papers (Saturday@8) | 1 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Schooner Room | Sophia | Borgias | Boise State University | sophiaborgias@boisestate.edu | Faculty or Professional | Unlikely Alliances in Action: Balancing Alignment and Autonomy in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts | Environmentalists, ranchers, and Indigenous nations are increasingly coming together on environmental issues in what have been called “unlikely alliances.” These alliances offer important insights into the role of collaboration and collective action in environmental governance, yet they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this paper, we examine two cases of unlikely alliances that formed in response to large rural-to-urban water transfer projects in the western United States. Based on narrative analysis of interviews and focus groups with a diverse range of actors involved in these efforts, we highlight several key insights about unlikely alliances in action. Our findings suggest that unlikely alliances can take many different forms, often shifting over time; that they require a delicate balance between alignment and autonomy, particularly when involving sovereign Indigenous nations; and that there can be divergent understandings and expectations in regard to what it means to ally, with a notable distinction between between issue-oriented and relationship-oriented approaches. | Unlikely alliances, water governance, rural-urban, water transfers, Western U.S. | Sophia L Borgias Boise State University Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Sophia | L | Borgias | Boise State University | sophiaborgias@boisestate.edu | Kate A Berry University of Nevada, Reno Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Kate | A | Berry | University of Nevada, Reno | kberry@unr.edu | Dalten Fox~ Boise State University~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Dalten | Fox | Boise State University | |||||||||||||||||||
40 | 28112 | In-Person Paper | NO | 6C - Faculty / Professional Papers (Saturday@8) | 2 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Schooner Room | Gabriel | Granco | California State Polytechnic University-Pomona | ggranco@cpp.edu | Faculty or Professional | Hands-on learning of artificial intelligence for social good | Climate change is the most pressing issue for undergraduate students and their generation. Nevertheless, undergraduates are underserved when it comes to climate change, especially climate change action. Explanations for this disconnection range from the scale of the issue to pedagogical appoahces. We propose to overcome these believes by implementing a project-based teaching module to teach about climate change action and artificial intelligence, which we call AI for Social Good (AI4SG). AI4SG is based on culturally responsive pedagogy. In this manner, we value the students’ knowledge and engagement with their community. The project goal was to ideate an AI solution to address a climate change issue in the students’ community. During the project, students learned about cultural capital and how to identify issues in their communities that could be affected by climate change. Moreover, students learned about Artificial Intelligence and discussed case-studies of AI for social good in multiple context, from law to personal helpers. At the conclusion of the AI4SG module, students presented their projects to members of the Los Angeles Sustainable Development Goals Office and to the director of Cal Poly Pomona Center for Community Engagement. We will discuss our project-based teaching module and illustrate its application using a real example from our classrooms. Overall, students reported a high engagement and ownership of their projects while identifying that they can contribute to climate change action. | Artificial Intelligence, Pedagogy, Climate Change, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy | Gabriel Granco California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Gabriel | Granco | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona | ggranco@cpp.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | 28093 | In-Person Paper | NO | 6C - Faculty / Professional Papers (Saturday@8) | 3 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Schooner Room | scott | warren | Independent | scottdw1@gmail.com | Faculty or Professional | The Imagination of Place in The Ajo, Arizona Company Townsite | The whitewashed churches and central plaza of the Ajo townsite presents Southwest and Mission Revival styles. Initially built in the 1910s by the region’s dominant copper mining company, today much of this townscape has been preserved and serves as an important driver of a nascent cultural and amenity economy. This preserved townscape evokes serenity for some, but the Ajo company town was built in an era of turmoil. Situated in the borderlands between the labor-management wars of the American West and the Revolution in Mexico, the townsite emerged in a time of struggle over fundamental questions about the structure of the region’s political and economic systems. In this context, the Ajo townsite served as management’s bid to prevail in this struggle, and it served to reinforce the company’s vision of how local landscapes and borderland society ought to be ordered for harmonious economic production. In preserving the landscape of the company town today do we simply celebrate and reinforce the company’s vision of a harmonious social order? In this presentation I consider this broad question and invite comments, feedback, and critique from geographers exploring similar issues elsewhere. | U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, American West, Historical Preservation, Landscape | scott warren Independent Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | scott | warren | Independent | scottdw1@gmail.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | 28073 | In-Person Paper | NO | 6C - Faculty / Professional Papers (Saturday@8) | 4 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Schooner Room | Rhea | Presiado | Pasadena City College | rspresiado@pasadena.edu | Faculty or Professional | An online diversity module increases students sense of belonging and identity safety in Physical Geography classes | Pasadena City College (PCC) Geography faculty developed an online module to enhance diversity, promote equity and foster more inclusion in geography courses. First piloted in 2022, and recently updated in 2023, the modules’ objectives were to foster a sense of student belonging in geography, and ensure student identity safety in geography classes. The Diversity in Geography module was deployed in September 2023 in three online sections and one face to face section of physical geography. The methods used in the module included spotlighting diverse geographers, inclusive discussion of student’s ideas and experiences, clear messaging that geography’s future is diverse and inclusive, and soliciting student feedback. A pre and post survey was adapted from multiple national student diversity surveys and given to students before and after completing the one-week module. Results from the pre and post surveys showed students increased their sense of belonging in geography 6.8% and also showed an increase in students identity safety 8.6%. The PCC Geography program may consider deploying this module across more sections of Physical Geography to enhance diversity, promote equity and foster more inclusion in geography courses. Future studies may compare Physical Geography course retention and success data in courses that use vs don’t use the diversity module. Use of the module along with continued data analysis may help Geography instructors better support student engagement, persistence and potential to succeed in Physical Geography classes. | diversity, inclusion, physical geography, online | Rhea Presiado Pasadena City College Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Rhea | Presiado | Pasadena City College | rspresiado@pasadena.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | 28099 | In-Person Paper | NO | 6C - Faculty / Professional Papers (Saturday@8) | 5 | Saturday | 08:00 AM - 09:30 AM | Schooner Room | Yan | Lin | University of New Mexico | yanlin@unm.edu | Faculty or Professional | Advancing Community Driven Environmental Health Equity Research with Indigenous Communities Using Geospatial Big & Small Data | The complex spatio-temporal relationships between the environment, society, and health/health disparities remain an interdisciplinary research challenge. More than 160,000 abandoned hard rock mines throughout the western U.S. Contamination from these industrial sites has created a legacy of chronic exposure to metal mixtures in neighboring Native American communities. To advance the research to understand better and address environmental health disparities in these communities, challenges, and gaps exist, including but not limited to environmental exposure risk monitoring and assessment from the environment (e.g. water, air, soil, and plants), to livestock animals as traditional food sources, to humans. This paper applies geospatial thinking to address community-identified needs that center on understanding environmental exposure and health impacts among Native American communities leveraging geospatial big and small data. Several projects are discussed here: (1) a geospatial model of potential environmental exposure to abandoned uranium mines that considers wind pattern, topography, vegetation, proximity to mine sites, downslope drainage of mine sites, and groundwater contamination; (2) a spatiotemporal model for individual livestock exposure potential assessment based on GPS data using fuzzy logic, machine learning methods based on community input; and (3) a study to improve infrastructure for Native American communities through installation meteorological stations and PM monitors for air quality monitoring and air dispersion modeling. | Community-based research; Geospatial Big data; Native Americans; Environmental Health | Yan Lin University of New Mexico Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Yan | Lin | University of New Mexico | yanlin@unm.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | 27657 | In-Person Paper | NO | 7A -Faculty and Post Docs - Physical Geography Papers (Saturday@10) | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Maya | Weeks | California Sea Grant | mayamweeks@gmail.com | Post-doc | Death, Gender, and Disposability: Telling a Story of Feminist Ecotoxicology under Petrocapitalism in the Santa Barbara Channel | This paper examines how language around oil extraction in what is currently known as the Santa Barbara Channel produces invisible violences. It links the ecotoxicology of petrochemicals (which disproportionately affect people sexed female at birth), such as those produced via the decommissioned Platform Holly in the Santa Barbara Channel off the coast of California, with the specific language, or petro-language, used to discuss oil drilling in the area in online media. In examining the metaphor of referring to oil rigs with “she” pronouns; the ghost ship metaphor of the decommissioned platform; and the use of passive voice, the article links death, gender, and disposability. Among other functions, the use of gendered pronouns ascribes feminization and bodily characterization to Platform Holly, the metaphor of the ghost ship harks back to the material of oil having long-previously itself been alive, and the passive voice abdicates responsibility. Together, these linguistic functions apply a violent settler-colonial logic to the Santa Barbara Channel. The source documents for the article are publicly available journalism documents published online; the article studies them with a combination of discourse analysis and close reading. | political ecology, marine social science, discard studies, anticolonial ecofeminism, feminist science and technology studies | Maya Weeks California Sea Grant Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Maya | Weeks | California Sea Grant | mayamweeks@gmail.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | 28052 | In-Person Paper | NO | 7A -Faculty and Post Docs - Physical Geography Papers (Saturday@10) | 2 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Xi | Gong | University of New Mexico | xigong@unm.edu | Faculty or Professional | Measuring air pollution exposure: A pruned feed-forward neural network (pruned-FNN) approach | Environmental epidemiology studies require an accurate estimation of exposure intensities to air pollution. The process from air pollutant emission to individual exposure is however complex and nonlinear, which poses significant modeling challenges. This study aims to develop an exposure assessment model that can strike a balance between accuracy, complexity, and usability. In this regard, neural networks offer one possible approach. This study employed a custom-designed pruned feed-forward neural network (pruned-FNN) approach to calculate the air pollution exposure index based on emission time and rates, terrain factors, meteorological conditions, and proximity measurements. The model performance was evaluated by cross-validating the estimated exposure indexes with ground-based monitoring records. The pruned-FNN can predict pollution exposure indexes (PEIs) that are highly and stably correlated with the monitored air pollutant concentrations (Spearman rank correlation coefficients for 10-fold cross-validation (mean ± standard deviation: 0.906 ± 0.028), for random cross-validation (0.913 ± 0.024)). The predicted values are also close to the ground truth in most cases (95.5% of the predicted PEIs have relative errors smaller than 10%) when the training datasets are sufficiently large and well-covered. The pruned-FNN method can make accurate exposure estimations using a flexible number of variables and less extensive data in a less money/time-consuming manner. Compared to other exposure assessment models, the pruned-FNN is an appropriate and effective approach for exposure assessment that covers a large geographic area over a long period of time. | Air pollution, Exposure assessment, Pruned feed-forward neural network (pruned-FNN), Machine learning, GIS, Spatial modeling | Xi Gong University of New Mexico Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Xi | Gong | University of New Mexico | xigong@unm.edu | Lin Liu University of New Mexico Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Lin | Liu | University of New Mexico | liulin@unm.edu | Yanhong Huang~ University of New Mexico~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Yanhong | Huang | University of New Mexico | huangyh0906@unm.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||
46 | 27615 | In-Person Paper | NO | 7A -Faculty and Post Docs - Physical Geography Papers (Saturday@10) | 3 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Alana | Rader | California State University, Northridge | alana.rader@csun.edu | Faculty or Professional | Successional Clustering: Structural and compositional recovery in a seasonally dry tropical forest after hurricane disturbance in Southeastern Mexico | In the face of increasing and compounding disturbances, unprecedented forest transformations are occurring, particularly in tropical environments (Bhaskar et al., 2014). Forest transformations are followed by successional trajectories, where stages of forest compositional and structural recovery provide socio-ecologically important ecosystem processes, such as climate services, soil restoration, and CO2 sequestration (Chazdon 2014). This project investigates forest structure (basal area) and composition (biodiversity) of seasonally dry tropical forests recovering over 12 years since category 5 Hurricane Dean (2007) made landfall in the Mexican portion of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor (MxMBC). Bringing together remotely sensed patterns of forest regeneration and ecological survey data from 23 regenerating forest plots, we use statistical clustering and Principal Component Analysis to assess the role of landscape scale forest regeneration patterns in defining trajectories of structural and compositional recovery in forests of differing baseline age, successional stage, and level of initial hurricane damage. We expect that if patterns of forest structure and composition follow an equilibrium successional trajectory, measures of converging basal area and species compositions will follow and be dependent on surrounding forest age and successional stage. Conversely, we expect a non-equilibrium trajectory of forest structure and composition to be defined by idiosyncratic clusters of basal area, biodiversity, and species compositions, and dependent on spatio-temporal patterns of landscape scale forest regeneration. Understanding the recovering second growth forest structures and compositions that emerge during succession is of critical importance for assessing how and why forest ecosystems recover following continuous tropical forest disturbances. | Forest succession; Tropical forest; Regeneration; Land Use and Land Cover Change | Alana M Rader California State University Northridge Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Alana | M | Rader | California State University Northridge | alana.rader@csun.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | 27814 | In-Person Paper | NO | 7A -Faculty and Post Docs - Physical Geography Papers (Saturday@10) | 4 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Monika | Calef | Soka University of America | mcalef@soka.edu | Faculty or Professional | Changes Above, Below and at Waterline in Laguna Beach, CA: Seastars, Birds, and Sea-Level Rise | Laguna Beach in Southern California attracts 6 million visitors a year to its scenic 7-mile coastline, which consists of bluffs, rocky headlands, tide pools, coves and sandy beaches. This massive human impact along with ecological and physical changes at, above, and below the waterline is having a drastic effect on species observations and habitat availability. This study highlights three examples of recent near-shore dynamics at the Treasure Island MarineE (Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network) site: 1) the response of Ochre Seastar populations to the arrival of seastar wasting disease (below the waterline), 2) shorebird observation (above the waterline), and 3) the potential impacts of sea-level rise on habitat availability. Treasure Island is a gently sloping bedrock bench that contains several tide pools and a sandy beach and is undergoing long-term monitoring and biodiversity surveys as part of the MarinE initiative. Seastar wasting disease decimated the local Ochre Seastar population and recovery is questionable. Seventeeen species of birds were observed from 2007 to 2010, 79% of which were gulls; and Treasure Island was the second most popular spot for birds in Laguna Beach. Sea-level rise will likely be devastating to habitat availability at this site which is barely above sea-level now. Inland retreat is hard to imagine at this densely developed urban spot. Treasure Island serves as an excellent example of the multitude of negative ecological and physical dynamics continuing to impact our nearshore environments. | seabirds, seastars, sea-level rise, MarinE network, species observations | Monika P Calef Soka University of America Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Monika | P | Calef | Soka University of America | mcalef@soka.edu | Ed Almanza Laguna Ocean Foundation Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Ed | Almanza | Laguna Ocean Foundation | superpark@igc.org | Isolde Pierce~ Soka University of America~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Isolde | Pierce | Soka University of America | ipierce@soka.edu | Nicholas Tumbale~ Soka University of America~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Nicholas | Tumbale | Soka University of America | nickytymbale@gmail.com | |||||||||||||
48 | 27813 | In-Person Paper | NO | 7A -Faculty and Post Docs - Physical Geography Papers (Saturday@10) | 5 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper East & West | Paul | Knapp | University of North Carolina Greensboro | paknapp@uncg.edu | Faculty or Professional | 21st-century droughts are different: Increasing radial growth in old-growth high-elevation conifers in southern California, USA during the exceptional “hot drought” of 2000–2020 | Hot droughts, droughts attributed to below-average precipitation and exceptional warmth are increasingly common in the 21st century, yet little is known about their effect on coniferous tree growth because of their rarity. Here, we document radial growth responses of high-elevation old-growth conifers (Jeffrey pine, sugar pine, lodgepole pine) in the San Jacinto Mountains, California during a 21st-century hot drought (2000–2020, + 12%) and a 20th-century drought (1959–1966, -18%) driven by precipitation deficits. Radial growth of the three species we examined is principally affected by warmer annual minimum temperatures and secondarily by above-average annual precipitation. Because of this climate-growth response, we found that these species experienced increased radial growth during the extended hot drought of 2000–2020 as increases in temperature were more critical to growth than decreases in precipitation. The exceptions to this were during 2002 and 2007, suggesting that there are limitations to above-average growth during hot droughts, but only during the most extreme drought conditions. These results illustrate that the consequences of environmental stress on radial growth, even during exceptional events, exhibit spatiotemporal variability. | Hot drought, Sugar pine, Jeffrey pine, Lodgepole pine, San Jacinto Mountains. | Paul Knapp University of North Carolina Greensboro Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Paul | Knapp | University of North Carolina Greensboro | paknapp@uncg.edu | Peter Soule' Appalachian State University Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Peter | Soule' | Appalachian State University | soulept@appstate.edu | Tyler Mitchell~ University of North Carolina Greensboro~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Tyler | Mitchell | University of North Carolina Greensboro | tjmitche@uncg.edu | Avery Catherwood~ University of North Carolina Greensboro~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Avery | Catherwood | University of North Carolina Greensboro | aacather@uncg.edu | Hunter Lewis~ University of North Carolina Greensboro~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Hunter | Lewis | University of North Carolina Greensboro | hslewis@uncg.edu | ||||||||
49 | 27998 | In-Person Paper | YES | 7B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@10) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/81203084082?pwd=aWE0QWZuUGtYMm1kcVZBa1ZLNXBRdz09 | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Kate | Prell | California State University, Long Beach | kate.prell01@student.csulb.edu | Master's Student | Cannabis Equity: Analyzing interests, policy, and spatial outcomes in Long Beach, California | The criminalization of cannabis has had far-reaching effects on the social, economic, and spatial realities for low-income and communities of color in Long Beach, California. The Long Beach Cannabis Equity Program has been championed by various actors as a correction to the consequences of the historical over-policing and disproportionate incarceration in these marginalized communities. However, the definition of equity, program implementation, and geographic outcomes has challenged whether the program is resulting in equitable outcomes for participants, communities, and the city. This study delves into an evaluation of the program’s effectiveness in promoting equitable outcomes across these multiple scales. The study utilizes discourse network analysis (DNA) to trace the dominant themes and actors in the debate for cannabis equity through public comment in local newspapers and city council meetings. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with actors identified through DNA to add context and narrative to the themes of the policy debate. Through preliminary analysis of the DNA data, I have identified three types of actors in the debate—city officials, Long Beach cannabis business owners, and civil society. City officials and Long Beach cannabis business owners appear to have the most influence in the debate and are less likely to link other policy issues to equity, whereas civil society actors prioritize equity by co-linking equity to other policy issues. By analyzing the Long Beach Cannabis Equity Program, this research contributes valuable insights into the ongoing pursuit of cannabis equity, aiming to shape a more just and inclusive future for all stakeholders. | cannabis, equity, policy | Kate Prell California State University, Long Beach Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Kate | Prell | California State University, Long Beach | kate.prell01@student.csulb.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | 28045 | In-Person Paper | YES | 7B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@10) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/81203084082?pwd=aWE0QWZuUGtYMm1kcVZBa1ZLNXBRdz09 | 2 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Benjamin | Marcovitz | California State University, Northridge | b.marcovitz77@gmail.com | Master's Student | The Andy Warhol Fantasy: Creativity, Industry, and Gentrification in Downtown Los Angeles | Years ago, a local politician declared that downtown's resident artists were "the golden nuggets" that would restore prosperity to a decaying urban center. Since then, many have investigated the cultural confluence of artists, post-industrial environments, and land speculators. Journalists have labelled the phenomenon "artwashing." Economists declared the arrival of a new "creative class." Meanwhile, the local tenants have lived and worked to beautify their neighborhood with brilliant murals that celebrate the clash of traditions. This study positions a unique section of LA into a tradition of geographic literature that finds new trends in Los Angeles and shows how they are being exported to urban environments around the globe. | Urban Theory, Gentrification, Post-Industrial | Benjamin J Marcovitz CSUN Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Benjamin | J | Marcovitz | CSUN | b.marcovitz77@gmail.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | 27642 | In-Person Paper | YES | 7B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@10) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/81203084082?pwd=aWE0QWZuUGtYMm1kcVZBa1ZLNXBRdz09 | 3 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Danielle | Juarez | Northern Arizona University | daj335@nau.edu | Master's Student | Navigating Protections: Spatial and Policy Analysis of River Conservation Policies in the U.S. | Global freshwater biodiversity is in crisis. The United Nations Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s Target 3 asks for countries to protect at least 30% of their inland waters by 2030. As the United States aims to meet its 30X30 commitment, it is important to first understand what types and extent of protections already exist on riverine ecosystems across the country. Against that backdrop, this study asks 1) What types of protection policies are being employed on rivers in the U.S. and what is the extent of those protections? To answer this question, we employ a mixed methods approach. Through a literature review, at least 14 policies protecting free-flowing river connectivity were revealed. Subsequent spatial analysis details the total mileage protected under one or more of these policies. Policy analysis reveals that, while each policy aims to protect the integrity of the riverine ecosystem, they possess unique attributes associated with their conservation aims and scope. Results will be disseminated to conservation organizations and government agencies to inform focused efforts to fill the gap in protecting one million of the country's 3 million miles of river. | GIS, freshwater conservation, 30X30, free-flowing rivers, political ecology | Danielle A Juarez Northern Arizona University Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Danielle | A | Juarez | Northern Arizona University | daj335@nau.edu | Denielle Perry Director, Free Flowing River Lab, School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Denielle | Perry | Director, Free Flowing River Lab, School of Earth and Sustainability, Northern Arizona University | denielle.perry@nau.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | 27513 | In-Person Paper | YES | 7B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@10) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/81203084082?pwd=aWE0QWZuUGtYMm1kcVZBa1ZLNXBRdz09 | 4 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Heather | Bloom | Ph.D. candidate, University of Nebraska | hbloom3@huskers.unl.edu | Doctoral Student | “Free Parking” and Population Shifts: Clothing Retailers Flock to Suburbia, Omaha, Neb., 1955-1981 | Retail geography depends on land use and location decisions. In 1955, Omaha was one of the few major American cities without a regional shopping mall. That changed when a local developer found a site within 15 minutes from more than 300,000 people, calling it The Center Mall. Less than 5 years later, a second regional shopping center, Crossroads, developed 5 miles northwest along Omaha’s major thoroughfare. After a lengthy zoning legal battle, a third regional shopping center, Westroads Mall opened along the intersection of West Dodge Road and Interstate 680 in 1968. Progressively, these three regional malls siphoned off retailers from Omaha’s central business district. During this time period, every local and national department store closed their downtown Omaha location. Articles from the Omaha World-Herald will be compared to information gathered from Omaha City Directories and U.S. Census data to determine the influence of parking on the deterioration of Omaha’s central business district versus suburban population shifts. | population geography, urban geography, retail geography, transportation geography, historical geography, automobile, shopping, parking, central business district, downtown, Omaha, Nebraska | Heather L Bloom Ph.D. candidate, University of Nebraska Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Heather | L | Bloom | Ph.D. candidate, University of Nebraska | hbloom3@huskers.unl.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | 27586 | In-Person Paper | YES | 7B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@10) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/81203084082?pwd=aWE0QWZuUGtYMm1kcVZBa1ZLNXBRdz09 | 5 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Chevon | Holmes | University of California, Davis | ccholmes@ucdavis.edu | Doctoral Student | Geography of Cannabis: Do (de)criminalization studies assay legal weed fairly? | The people and places transitioning to legal cannabis production are directly impacted by the contexts and characteristics of the complex socio-ecological systems (SES) where they are located. These systems may be partially defined by a language that elicits credibility or distrust, but little is known about the relationship between language and legalization, especially in its infancy. The vernaculars and typologies used in cannabis literature may reveal insights into the potency of clandestine framing found in research today. The rise in legal cannabis regimes provides new pathways to study cannabis as both practice and industry, and this study presents a novel framework for a systematic literature review (SLR) and analysis of the vernacular embodied within the cannabis legalization corpus. The bibliographic database was curated using stepwise selection criteria (n=2,348) applied to all of peer-reviewed articles published since 2012, the year Colorado state passed widespread legalization laws. Contextual differences in lexical associations can be made as well as quantified with data science techniques. In this framework, the methodological suite includes statistical analysis of word frequencies and associations, and natural language processing (NLP) word embeddings to contextualize and describe them. Although widespread legalization campaigns are increasing, we hypothesize that a systematic approach to analyze post-prohibition cannabis literature may demonstrate that regulations cannot change historical worldviews. New regulatory regimes may have (de)criminalized acts of cannabis production; however, if the ecological, economic, and social dialect of the cannabis industry evokes a tone of distrust and discrimination, what does it really mean to be legal? | Cannabis, legalization, regulation, land use, social ecological systems, implementation | Chevon C Holmes University of California, Davis Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Chevon | C | Holmes | University of California, Davis | ccholmes@ucdavis.edu | Tommy Pham University of California, Davis Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Tommy | Pham | University of California, Davis | Rebecca R Hernandez~ University of California, Davis~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Rebecca | R | Hernandez | University of California, Davis | |||||||||||||||||||
54 | 27807 | In-Person Paper | YES | 7B - Grad Student Paper Session (Saturday@10) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/81203084082?pwd=aWE0QWZuUGtYMm1kcVZBa1ZLNXBRdz09 | 6 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Clipper North | Mengya | Xu | University of Southern California | mengyaxu@usc.edu | Doctoral Student | New Insights Into Grocery Store Visits Among East Los Angeles Residents Using Mobility Data | Grocery stores are a key source of affordable, healthy foods. Neighborhoods with poor access to these stores are often labeled "food deserts". However, this concept provides limited information on where people do their grocery shopping. In this study, we employed spatially aggregated mobility data, generated from mobile phone locations in 2021, to investigate patterns of grocery store visits among residents east and northeast of Downtown Los Angeles, 60% of which had previously been designated as "food deserts". Further, we examined whether store visits varied with neighborhood socio-demographic and grocery store accessibility. Our findings revealed that only 15% of these visits were within home census tracts, and 44% were within home and neighboring tracts. We also found that people were likely to visit grocery stores more frequently and visited more different grocery stores when they lived in neighborhoods with higher percentages of Hispanics/Latinos, renters, and foreign-born residents, higher poverty levels, and a greater number of grocery stores. This research highlights the utility of mobility data in elucidating grocery store access, use, and potential barriers, as well as the limitations of using geographically constrained metrics like food deserts. | activity spaces, food environment, grocery shopping, mobile phone data, modifiable areal unit problems (MAUPs) | Mengya Xu University of Southern California Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Mengya | Xu | University of Southern California | mengyaxu@usc.edu | John P Wilson University of Southern California Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | John | P | Wilson | University of Southern California | jpwilson@usc.edu | Kayla de la Haye~ University of Southern California~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Kayla | de la Haye | University of Southern California | delahaye@usc.edu | ||||||||||||||||||
55 | 28025 | In-Person Paper | YES | 7C - Special Paper Session: The Film Landscapes of Global Youth: Imagining Young Lives (Saturday@10) | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Schooner Room | Jake | Rowlett | San Diego State University & University of California Santa Barbara | jrowlett2341@sdsu.edu | Doctoral Student | "Why Are You Here, Rey from Nowhere?": The Hero's Journey, Island Storytelling, and the Gendered Roles of Heroes in the Star Wars Saga | The first "Star Wars" film came out in 1977 and was the third feature film written and directed by George Lucas. Lucas’s style formed as an amalgamation of every cinematic influence he’d ever had: Westerns, Saturday matinee serials, Akira Kurosawa samurai movies, and more. The connective tissue that held all of this aesthetic together was Lucas’s story structure adapted from Joseph Campbell’s work on “The Hero with A Thousand Faces” which outlined the “The Hero’s Journey” as well as the “monomyth.” The young hero for Lucas’s trilogy of films was “Luke Skywalker.” In 2012, Disney purchased the Lucasfilm production company and the rights to Star Wars from Lucas and began production of new films. The newest protagonist of these films would be a teenage girl named “Rey.” In this paper, I analyze the structure of the “Hero’s Journey” as it relates to these two protagonists as well as to the corporate media realities of franchise filmmaking. I examine the gendered roles of “Heroes” in genre storytelling and explore the call for a “Heroine’s Journey” in narrative fiction. I ground this on-screen/off-screen conversation to the island planet that Rey and Luke meet on: known as Ahch-To on-screen, doubled by the Irish island Skellig Michael for filming. By geographically grounding this work of film and literary analysis, we begin to see the shape of the hero’s arc form a cyclical pattern that mirrors both the natural cycles of the island as well as the cultural cycles of returns to franchise storytelling. | Media, Film, Pop Culture, Islands, Ireland | Jake Rowlett San Diego State University & University of California Santa Barbara Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Jake | Rowlett | San Diego State University & University of California Santa Barbara | jrowlett2341@sdsu.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | 28029 | In-Person Paper | NO | 7C - Special Paper Session: The Film Landscapes of Global Youth: Imagining Young Lives (Saturday@10) | 2 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Schooner Room | Stuart | Aitken | San Diego State University | saitken@sdsu.edu | Faculty or Professional | Hope Through Creation: Celtic Kids and Tomm Moore’s "The Secret of Kells" | Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells was created by a multi-national team of artists using mostly hand-drawn, 2-D animation, to tell an Irish story that weaves children, community, nature and contestation into and through interlaced Celtic swirls, whorls, runes, spirals, eddies and churns. The story focuses on twelve-year-old Brendan, a novice monk. Set sometime in the 8th Century, the story of The Secret of Kells is ostensibly one of a small Irish community faced with imminent invasion by Vikings. When Brother Aidan arrives from the Scottish Island of Iona he is in possession of a mysterious book that needs ‘illumination’. Brendan can help Aidan by gathering plants and berries for the book’s colorful graphics. To do so, Brendan sneaks out of the relative safety of the monastery to find the necessary materials in the nearby forest. Here he meets Aisling (Gaelic for ‘dream’), a silver-haired sprite. With Aisling’s help, Brendan finds the berries but then has to battle his fears in the form of the worm/snake demon Crum Cruach. Moore and his team base this enchantment in Celtic myths and lore through the art of animation, language and music. In the meantime, the Vikings sack the community. With this paper, I take a deep dive into how the Secret of Kells creates a landscape encapsulating the wonder, enchantment and brutality of 8th Century Ireland. I end with a consideration of enchantment and wonder as a conceptual basis for creating a world anew through and with children. | Ireland, Kells, Myth, Enchantment, Children, Nature | Stuart C Aitken SDSU Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Stuart | C | Aitken | SDSU | saitken@sdsu.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | 28041 | In-Person Paper | NO | 7C - Special Paper Session: The Film Landscapes of Global Youth: Imagining Young Lives (Saturday@10) | 3 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Schooner Room | Pascale | Joassart-Marcelli | San Diego State University | pmarcell@sdsu.edu | Faculty or Professional | Cinematic Counter-Cartographies of Black and Brown Girlhood in the French Banlieue | In the western world, Black and Brown girlhood is typically approached through frames of deficit and vulnerability related to their gender, race, and class, which are inseparable from the arguably dangerous and dysfunctional spaces they often inhabit. In this presentation, I focus on two recent French films, Divines (Benyamina 2016) and Girlhood (Sciamma 2014), that challenge narrow understandings of the spatiality of girlhood through the stories of teenage girls of African descent who navigate everyday life in the marginalized, isolated, and heavily stigmatized periphery of Paris. I show how the films provide cinematic counter-cartographies of Black and Brown girlhood in French banlieues. Specifically, I focus on three counter-cartographic contributions that the films and their main protagonists make: (1) locating the banlieue within relational space, (2) navigating the violence and suffering that comes with the racism, misogyny, poverty, and social exclusion embedded in the banlieue; and (2) charting what might be interpreted as “fugitive spaces” for self-knowledge, self-love, and healing through friendship. The latter emphasizes the importance of refusing what is and disengaging with oppressive structures, at least temporarily. I conclude with a discussion of how such practices of refusal and disengagement relate to the political notion of resistance as different forms of place-based responses to oppression and suffering. | Girlhood, Race, Gender, Urban Segregation, Cinema | Pascale Joassart-Marcelli San Diego State University Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Pascale | Joassart-Marcelli | San Diego State University | pmarcell@sdsu.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | 28037 | In-Person Paper | NO | 7C - Special Paper Session: The Film Landscapes of Global Youth: Imagining Young Lives (Saturday@10) | 4 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Schooner Room | Fernando | Bosco | San Diego State University | fbosco@sdsu.edu | Faculty or Professional | Anita: Journeying Through Landscapes of Loss and Hope | This paper traces young people’s urban experiences of loss and hope through an engagement with the film Anita (Argentina, 2009). Anita is a young woman with Down syndrome who gets lost in Buenos Aires after the bombing of the Argentine Israeli Association in 1994. I draw on the notion of journeying to explore young people’s spatiotemporal relationships to the everyday geographies of a global Latin American city. Anita’s journey cuts across different parts of the city characterized by racial, gender, and class inequality. I identify key themes that tie the film together: fatherhood, motherhood and family, urban poverty and the informal economy resulting from neoliberal reforms, the transformation of Argentina into a multicultural society, and the trauma and legacy of terrorism (both state-sponsored and otherwise) on the fabric of urban life and politics and Argentine society. By documenting Anita’s encounters with people who are also experiencing their own losses or misfortunes, I describe the physical, social, and emotional ways in which young people relate to others in the city, and how Anita herself becomes a source of hope and agent of change for those she interacts with in her own unexpected journey. | Argentina, film, journeys, landscape, young people | Fernando Bosco San Diego State University Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Fernando | Bosco | San Diego State University | fbosco@sdsu.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | 28092 | Virtual Paper | NO | 7C - Special Paper Session: The Film Landscapes of Global Youth: Imagining Young Lives (Saturday@10) | 5 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Schooner Room | James | Craine | California State University, Northridge | jwc53531@csun.edu | Faculty or Professional | Towards a Deterritorialized Nomadism: The Transversal Role of Children in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987) and Life and Nothing More | Abbas Kiarostami made his reputation in the pre-revolutionary era making children’s education films for the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults. Although Kiarastomi’s films during this period weresympathetic to the plight of schoolchildren under the repressive regimes of both the Shah and the Ayatollah, it was only in his semi-documentary features such as Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987) and Life and Nothing More… (1992) – the first two films in the so-called ‘Koker trilogy – that Kiarostami utilized the role of children as a dynamic spatial and temporal vector that transformed established social and ideological hierarchies. As Ronald Bogue describes the phenomenon in Deleuze’s Way: Essays in Transverse Ethics and Aesthetics, ‘The transverse way is the path in between, the diagonal across the grids of horizontal and vertical coordinates, the zigzag of a line of continuous variation. Its time is that of the entre-temps, the meantime or meanwhile, and its space is the middle, in medias res, always underway among things. The transverse way connects by affirming differences, constructing transversals that set the incommunicable in communication. Its transversals are agents of transversality, forces with the social and political function of bringing forth group subjects and inventing a people to come.’ . In Kiarostami, it is the children who act as the catalyst for such a transversality, breaking down the co-ordinates and hierarchies of education, culture and geography to create a process of poetic and ethical becoming. | Kiarostami, film, Deleuze, transversality, children | James Craine California State University, Northridge Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | James | Craine | California State University, Northridge | jwc53531@csun.edu | Colin Gardner University of California, Santa Barbara Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Colin | Gardner | University of California, Santa Barbara | colingradner@comcast.net | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | 28110 | In-Person Poster | NO | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | John | Adrian | California State University, Long Beach | john.adrian01@student.csulb.edu | Master's Student | Machine Learning Meets Martian Geomorphology: A GPT-4 Approach to Image Alignment | The precise alignment of high-resolution Context Camera (CTX) imagery with a resolution of 6 m/px and the lower-resolution Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) global mosaic at 100 m/px is a persistent issue in Martian geology and geography. Although both datasets use a Mars-centric simple-cylindrical (plate Carrée) projection and come with preset georeferencing, misalignment between individual CTX images and the THEMIS base layer is common. To address this, we harnessed the capabilities of GPT-4 for Python script development tailored to this geospatial challenge. The first script leverages the Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorithm to identify keypoints in both image sets, which are then serialized into .npy files for subsequent processing. The second script, optimized for a system equipped with an i7-4930K CPU and an RTX 2080 Super GPU, employs the Facebook AI Similarity Search (FAISS) library to match these keypoints based on their unique descriptors. A third script, currently under development, intends to utilize these matched keypoints to calculate an affine transformation for georeferencing correction in ArcGIS Pro. A distinguishing facet of this project is the iterative consultation with GPT-4. Through focused Q&A sessions, we honed the chatbot's understanding of the complexities involved in geospatial alignment. This led to the generation of skeleton Python scripts, which were further refined with the help of GPT-4 to include error logging, improved computational efficiency, and contingency plans for potential failures. This approach not only expedites script development but also offers a novel problem-solving paradigm in planetary science and GIScience. | Mars, geomorphology, planetary, georeferencing, image alignment, automation, machine learning, GPT-4, GPT, Chat GPT | John N Adrian California State University, Long Beach Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | John | N | Adrian | California State University, Long Beach | John.Adrian01@student.csulb.edu | Christine M Rodrigue California State University, Long Beach Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Christine | M | Rodrigue | California State University, Long Beach | CM.Rodrigue@csulb.edu | Robert C Anderson~ Jet Propulsion Laboratory~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Robert | C | Anderson | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | robert.c.anderson@jpl.nasa.gov | |||||||||||||||||
61 | 27875 | In-Person Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Hiba | Al Hasani | California State University, Northridge | hiba.alhasani.33@my.csun.edu | Undergraduate Student | GIS based location allocation analysis for potential bike-sharing stations in San Fernando Valley. | In the San Fernando Valley, where there is presently no bike-sharing system in place, this study uses Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to conduct a location-allocation analysis with the goal of determining the best locations for possible bike-sharing stations. Recognizing the growing significance of bike-sharing systems in sustainable urban transportation, this study integrates many geospatial datasets and uses spatial analytic tools to evaluate suitable station sites. It aims to give useful insights and recommendations to urban planners, local governments, and bike-sharing program operators to guide the prospective development of an eco-friendly transportation infrastructure in the San Fernando Valley. The findings will add to current efforts in the region to improve urban mobility and encourage sustainable commuting alternatives, with possible implications in other metropolitan regions facing similar transportation challenges. | GIS, Location-Allocation, Bike-sharing, Bike-sharing Stations | Hiba S Al Hasani California State University, Northridge Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Hiba | S | Al Hasani | California State University, Northridge | hiba.alhasani.33@my.csun.edu | https://aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/file/153029/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJtZWRpYUlkIjoxNTMwMjksImFsbG93Tm90U2lnbmVkVXJsIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJpZ25vcmVPcGVuV2F0ZXJNZWRpYVVybEdlbmVyYXRpb25Nb2RlIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJmb3JjZURvd25sb2FkIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJleHAiOjE3ODMxODM0Nzd9.Q0EBBKktdVu8wpF0V6371YyX65xvBItYDUaOmwMgaag?Conference.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | 27874 | In-Person Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Said | Al Rawahi | California State University, Northridge | said.alrawahi.893@my.csun.edu | Undergraduate Student | Measuring Spatial Accessibility to Bus Routes in San Fernando Valley. | This study investigates the critical issue of spatial accessibility to bus routes within the urban landscape of the San Fernando Valley (SFV), California. Spatial accessibility, a fundamental aspect of urban transportation planning, directly influences mobility, social equity, and environmental sustainability. Utilizing Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and the Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) method, this research aims to map and assess the accessibility of SFV residents to bus stops and routes. By analyzing factors such as population distribution, travel times, and transit network coverage, the study endeavors to identify areas with varying levels of transit accessibility. The results are anticipated to offer helpful guidance to urban planners, policymakers, and transportation authorities for improving public transportation infrastructure, promoting equitable access, and enhancing the overall quality of living in the San Fernando Valley. In Addition, adds to the ongoing discussion about accessible and environmentally friendly transportation options as urbanization continues to influence the region. | GIS,Spatial Accessibility, SFV, 2SFCA | Said Al Rawahi CSUN Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Said | Al Rawahi | CSUN | said.alrawahi.893@my.csun.edu | https://aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/file/153032/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJtZWRpYUlkIjoxNTMwMzIsImFsbG93Tm90U2lnbmVkVXJsIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJpZ25vcmVPcGVuV2F0ZXJNZWRpYVVybEdlbmVyYXRpb25Nb2RlIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJmb3JjZURvd25sb2FkIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJleHAiOjE3ODMxODM0Nzd9.vU5yPB_6c_M1jBPmD40pbQHMt8J7vYjB71ubs64A7_k?poster.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | 28048 | In-Person Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Sophia | Arabadjis | University of California, Santa Barbara | sarabadjis@ucsb.edu | Doctoral Student | Error Measurement and Propagation: Understanding the Reliability of the Wildfire Resilience Index | Background: As wildfires continue to grow in scale and intensity, larger and larger populations are at-risk of experiencing a wildfire. Population demographics play an important role in the recovery and preparedness of communities in wildfire prone areas. As such, it can be useful to have social vulnerability indices to understand the potential risk for communities and make appropriate decisions about resources and emergency management. The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis has recently published a “wildfire resilience index” that aims to capture local wildfire risk, preparedness, and social vulnerability. Purpose: we investigate the sensitivity of the WRI to the error of its component parts (American Community Survey, etc.) to better understand the range of possible outcomes and value as an interpretative / decision-making tool. Methods: we use statistical resampling methods to appropriately propagate errors from underlying data structures through to the final index and assess. Conclusion: While this work is preliminary, we suspect that the WRI will be highly sensitive to changes in the underlying data assumptions, and less reliable for decision making. Further, inattention to characterization of sampling variability in components of the WRI will lead to false statements of precision about the location and level of vulnerable populations. This paves this way for the development of new, targeted indices for wildfire resilience and social vulnerability. | Wildfire, social vulnerability index, demography, uncertainty, resampling | Sophia D Arabadjis University of California Santa Barbara Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Sophia | D | Arabadjis | University of California Santa Barbara | sarabadjis@ucsb.edu | Stuart H Sweeney University of California Santa Barbara Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Stuart | H | Sweeney | University of California Santa Barbara | Sweeney@ucsb.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | 27790 | In-Person Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Caroline | Baumann | California State University, Northridge | caroline.r.baumann@gmail.com | Undergraduate Student | Spatial Accessibility to Primary Healthcare Providers in Yucatán, Mexico | This poster examines spatial accessibility to primary healthcare facilities in the state of Yucatán, Mexico by employing the Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) method. Access to primary healthcare plays an important role in enhancing overall health outcomes, especially due to preventative care measures. 2SFCA is used to first calculate a provider-to-population ratio using network analysis, and then aggregate these ratios within population catchment areas. The end result is a spatial accessibility index, which is a valuable metric to evaluate relative spatial accessibility of population points to primary healthcare locations. This research helps quantify accessibility, with potential applications aiding in policy development and service planning, ultimately resulting in improved health outcomes for the population. | Spatial Accessibility, Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA), Mexico | Caroline Baumann California State University, Northridge Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Caroline | Baumann | California State University, Northridge | caroline.r.baumann@gmail.com | Soheil Boroushaki California State University, Northridge Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Soheil | Boroushaki | California State University, Northridge | soheil.boroushaki@csun.edu | Edward Jackiewicz~ California State University, Northridge~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Edward | Jackiewicz | California State University, Northridge | ed.jackiewicz@csun.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||
65 | 27910 | In-Person Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Caitlin | Berry | Pasadena City College | caityberry123@gmail.com | Undergraduate Student | An Analysis of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s System Hardening Efforts | Pacific Gas and Electric, the largest electric service utility in California, has caused some of the largest wildfires in California history by neglecting records and maintenance. After PG&E’s second bankruptcy in 2019, the company made strides in their wildfire mitigation and prevention efforts. The company now publishes incremental Wildfire Mitigation Plans (WMP) detailing how they intend to reduce the risk of power- line-related wildfires in their service area. PG&E primarily focuses mitigation efforts on high risk areas. My research suggests that PG&E’s system hardening is applied in areas with high fire risk, but not necessarily in areas with a high number of wildfires attributed to power lines between the years 2014 and 2022.* I conclude that PG&E should implement system hardening strategies in areas with a high density of power line fires. | Wildfires, Pacific Gas and Electric, Risk, Power line Wildfires | Caitlin E Berry Pasadena City College Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Caitlin | E | Berry | Pasadena City College | cberry9@go.pasadena.edu | https://aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/file/154287/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJtZWRpYUlkIjoxNTQyODcsImFsbG93Tm90U2lnbmVkVXJsIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJpZ25vcmVPcGVuV2F0ZXJNZWRpYVVybEdlbmVyYXRpb25Nb2RlIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJmb3JjZURvd25sb2FkIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJleHAiOjE3ODMxODM0Nzd9.GYXkie0E-HQzg81JU9t_0ooZ2XvfDJS9Eb0Et8dVbFU?PG%26E%20Research%20Poster.pptx.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | 27632 | In-Person Poster | NO | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Soheil | Boroushaki | California State University, Northridge | soheil.boroushaki@csun.edu | Faculty or Professional | CRITIC Objective Weights in Spatial Decision-Making | This poster presents an integration of CRITIC objective-based weights algorithm within a spatial multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA). Geospatial multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) problems typically involve a set of spatially feasible alternatives that are evaluated by multiple and conflicting evaluation criteria that vary in importance to the decision-maker(s). However, often in complex spatial decision-making problems the decision-maker(s) may not be able, or not willing, to provide cohesive and exact numerical judgments regarding the relative importances or weights of criteria. CRITIC object weighting scheme determines the weights for a set of criteria by quantifying the relatice importances of each criterion within the decision matrix. | GIS, MCDA, Objective Weights | Soheil Boroushaki California State University Northridge Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Soheil | Boroushaki | California State University Northridge | soheil.boroushaki@csun.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | 28018 | In-Person Poster | NO | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Esau | Casimiro Vieyra | University of California, Santa Barbara | ecasimirovieyra@ucsb.edu | Master's Student | Origin-Destination Dyads in Mexico-U.S. Migration Flows | In this study, we investigate recent Mexico-U.S. migration patterns by analyzing origin-destination dyads based on their histories as sending and receiving areas, and propose an updated categorization of Mexican origin-states. We leverage a Mexican nationally representative survey, the National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), which includes six survey waves spanning from 1992 to 2018. Our primary objectives include a data-driven update of previous typologies of Mexican migrant-sending states based on various migration metrics, specifying origin-destination dyads, and examining the sizes of flows between dyads. This classification of Mexican migrant-sending states results in a four-category typology: Established, Secondary, Emerging, and Minor origin states. Meanwhile, for U.S. destinations, we adopt an existing state-level categorization: Established, New, and Minor destinations. Preliminary findings indicate a notable decline in the total emigrant population across all years and origin-state categories in Mexico, with the most significant decline observed among Established-origin states. We find that, during this decline, Established, Secondary, and Minor origin-sending states exhibited relative stability in their emigration populations and share, while Emerging states displayed more fluctuation during certain time periods. Finally, the dyad flows between Established-origin states in Mexico to Established-destination states in the U.S. were the most prominent in both absolute emigrant population flow sizes and share, while Secondary-origin to Established-destination and Emerging-origin to Established-destination as the subsequent dominant streams. These findings shed light on the dynamic nature of Mexico-U.S. migration flow diversification and are suggestive of evolving roles of origin and destination state contexts in shaping these patterns. | migration flows, origin-destination dyads, Mexican-migration, U.S.-destinations | Esaú Casimiro Vieyra UC Santa Barbara Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Esaú | Casimiro Vieyra | UC Santa Barbara | ecasimirovieyra@ucsb.edu | Elizabeth Ackert, Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Elizabeth | Ackert, Ph.D. | UC Santa Barbara | ackert@ucsb.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | 27973 | In-Person Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Luis | Cortes | California State University, San Bernardino | 007789022@coyote.csusb.edu | Undergraduate Student | The Economic Geography Analysis of Fontana Using GIS | The city of Fontana is a thriving suburb in the Inland Empire located 45 miles east of Los Angeles. According to a local profile report published by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), Fontana has a thriving local economy with its logistics industry and access to major business centers. A location quotient statistical analysis using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and American Community Survey (ACS) illustrates an industry specialization value of 2.8 in transportation and warehousing and values less than 0.8 for higher-paying industries such as finance, entertainment, professional, and technology services. A regional growth projection forecast by SCAG indicates the city of Fontana will surpass a population of 260,000 by 2035. With low economic diversity and survey data indicating median home prices of $560,000 and 89.7 percent of Fontana residents commuting to other places to work, can the city of Fontana sustain its population growth? This poster presents research that addresses several factors in Fontana’s growing pains including development plans, zoning policies, and industry recruitment that are necessary to diversify the city’s economy and meet housing demand. Using shift-share analysis, location quotient statistical analysis, ArcGIS Pro, Storymaps, and a case study analysis of regional economic development the findings of this research suggest that Fontana’s city policies should implement demand-side economic strategies, mixed-multi use (MMU) and medium-density zoning to sustain forecasted population growth. | Inland Empire, population growth, GIS, shift-share analysis, economic diversity | Luis Cortes California State University, San Bernardino Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Luis | Cortes | California State University, San Bernardino | 007789022@coyote.csusb.edu | https://aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/file/154499/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJtZWRpYUlkIjoxNTQ0OTksImFsbG93Tm90U2lnbmVkVXJsIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJpZ25vcmVPcGVuV2F0ZXJNZWRpYVVybEdlbmVyYXRpb25Nb2RlIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJmb3JjZURvd25sb2FkIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJleHAiOjE3ODMxODM0Nzd9.Dda8z_TlXRu3F_ylwoE4-tBSXZIszFzmIKMHmZqDWzw?Luis%20Cortes%20Poster.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | 28039 | In-Person Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Carl | de Joya | California State University, Sacramento | carldejoya@csus.edu | Undergraduate Student | Community Formation and Resistance in Sacramento’s Filipino Ethnoburb | Despite not being an initial port of entry for Filipinos, Sacramento has had a historically important role for Filipino American political activism. As early as the 1930’s, organizations like the Filipino Federation of America, the Filipino Catholic Federation of America, and the Legionarios del Trabajo all held conventions and established chapters in the region. Along with the United Farm Workers movement and other Filipino enclaves in San Francisco, Stockton, Salinas, and Los Angeles, these groups were largely concerned with improving the social well-being and labor rights of Filipinos in the US. After immigration reform, Filipinos came over in numbers that dwarfed the pre-reform era. Unlike their predecessors, this group was comprised of college-educated and relatively wealthy professionals who settled in the suburbs. Between 1950 and 2010, the Sacramento area Filipino population grew from a few hundred to more than 50,000. Simultaneously, more than 80% of the developed metropolitan area was suburban residential. This new generation’s socio-political motivations became much more transnationally focused, dealing with both the Marcos dictatorship and labor discrimination in the US. Based on archival research and oral interviews in the Sacramento and Davis area as well as GIS analysis, I argue that the structure and settlement patterns of Filipino migrant families during the height of post-war suburbanization allowed Filipinos to resist the otherwise socially isolating aspects of the suburbs. As a result of this strong social network, the Sacramento Filipino community continues to grow despite lacking traditional ethnoburb supports like restaurants, banks, or language schools. | Filipino diaspora, Filipino American, Sacramento geography, migration, suburbanization, labor rights, social organizations, mutual aid | Carl G de Joya CSU Sacramento Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Carl | G | de Joya | CSU Sacramento | carldejoya@csus.edu | Patrick Oberle CSU Sacramento Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Patrick | Oberle | CSU Sacramento | patrick.oberle@csus.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | 27897 | In-Person Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Gwenyth | Greco | California State University, Northridge | gwenythgreco@gmail.com | Master's Student | Preliminary research into the relationship between sea otter (Enhydra lutis) foraging and disturbance on eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows in Morro Bay, California | Eelgrass meadows in Morro Bay are ecologically significant, providing habitat and ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling, coastal erosion buffering, and carbon flux storage. Sea otter presence creates a positive feedback within eelgrass meadows through bioturbation, a process in which organisms disturb sedimentary deposits, thus increasing genetic diversity and allelic variation as seafloor sediment is modified by otter behavior such as foraging and clamshell depositing. These occurrences create the foundation for a more productive and diverse estuarine landscape, promoting the ability for eelgrass to better adapt to changes within its environment, particularly amidst anthropogenic climate change. Understanding the sea otter-eelgrass relationship is critical for conservation efforts within the Morro Bay Estuary. Despite the research being in its initial phases, objectives include identifying knowledge gaps and establishing a foundation for future research guided by data analysis. At this stage it is also imperative to conduct a comprehensive review of existing literature regarding sea otters and eelgrass interactions in analogous ecosystems. Additionally, identifying experts actively researching eelgrass conditions in Morro Bay is taking place, as well as determining best practices for data collection. | eelgrass, sea otters, Morro Bay, marine ecology, marine conservation | Gwenyth A Greco California State University Northridge Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Gwenyth | A | Greco | California State University Northridge | gwenythgreco@gmail.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | 27964 | Virtual Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Tiffany | Green | California State University, San Bernardino | tiffany.green4601@coyote.csusb.edu | Undergraduate Student | Low Income Residents Are Disproportionately Exposed to Diesel Pollution | As consumers’ needs for goods continue to grow, so does the demand for warehouses and distribution centers. California historically included open spaces that provided economic, environmental, and human health benefits such as preventing flood damage, providing native species habitat, and offering wellness opportunities. However, open spaces in the Inland Empire of southern California also attract industries that develop these sites into distribution centers. Distribution centers can increase local and regional jobs to the area, but they also bring rise in impacts from multimodal transportation networks including increases in diesel trucks and diesel emissions. This can negatively affect air quality in neighborhoods near warehouses and distribution centers. In this poster, I present the results of an initial analysis of transportation networks, distribution center locations, population density, income levels, and racial and ethnic census data from the U.S. Census Bureau in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and supplemental indexes such as traffic proximity from the EPA’ Environmental Justice screening and mapping tool (EJScreen) to better understand the geography and impact of distribution centers in southern California. My findings reveal that these distribution centers are in low-income neighborhoods where they may have a large influence on the air quality, traffic, and open space availability. This research will be of interest to geographers interested in the spatial relationship between distribution centers, transportation networks, open space, and human health. | Diesel pollution, Land use, environmental health | Tiffany Green California State University San Bernardino Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Tiffany | Green | California State University San Bernardino | tiffany.green4601@coyote.csusb.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | 27531 | In-Person Poster | NO | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Lisa | Harrington | (Independent) | lmbharrington@gmail.com | Faculty or Professional | Connecting Art and Science: Participation in Art x Climate | In early 2023, a “call for art” was announced in conjunction with the Fifth National Climate Assessment. The project, Art x Climate, is meant to connect art(ists) with the NCA through “creatively visualizing climate change in the United States: its causes, impacts, and manifestations; our shared vulnerabilities; and the strength of our collective response.” Although art was separated from science in western thought some time ago, there are now efforts to reconnect these ways of interpreting knowledge of our surroundings. According to Blaeser et al. (2023), there are “several different modes of art-science collaboration.” These include 1) science communication, 2) using “elements of science as inspirational seeds or media for artistic expression,” and 3) “artists and scientists working together in transdisciplinary ways to ask questions, design experiments, and formulate knowledge.” Art x Climate primarily falls into the first type of art-science association. According to the call for relevant artistic works, the project “seeks to strengthen partnerships between science and art and demonstrate the power of art to advance the national conversation around climate change,” and selected submissions will potentially be used in the NCA report and “may also be used in case studies, in public events, or in communication materials.” As an academic geographer transitioning to artist, I was fortunate in having one of my works selected for this NCA project. My poster will include a copy of this work and describe its connection to the Art x Climate purpose. | Art, science, climate change | Lisa Harrington (Independent) Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Lisa | Harrington | (Independent) | lmbharrington@gmail.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | 27963 | Virtual Poster | NO | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | David | Hartman | California State University, San Bernardino | 007668642@coyote.csusb.edu | Undergraduate Student | Arctic Cyclones, Climate Change, and Potential Impacts on Human Settlement and Navigation | Abstract: An increasing presence of cyclones within the Arctic Circle may be linked with an increased rate of melting ice sheets in this region, caused by rising temperatures associated with climate change. As temperatures increase, pressure cores of Arctic cyclones drop, resulting in stronger winds, larger temperature variations, and heavier precipitation. Not only are cyclones intensifying in the winter, but they potentially continue intensifying in the spring too, which can lead to later summer melting of sea ice. These storms threaten marine navigation and human settlements in the Arctic Circle. Cyclones generate higher waves that lead to increased coastal erosion. If projected climate conditions are realized, devastation from cyclones could intensify. This poster aims to present a series of overlaid maps within a Geographic Information System (GIS) to display human settlement patterns, projected cyclone-induced coastal wave height, and precipitation amounts in the Arctic Circle. The findings of this project will benefit geographers and environmental scholars alike who are intrigued by the impacts of Arctic Cyclones on the human geography and activity of this region. | Arctic Circle, Arctic Cyclones, Climate Change | David E E Hartman California State University, San Bernardino Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | David | E | E Hartman | California State University, San Bernardino | davyhartman@yahoo.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | 27517 | In-Person Poster | NO | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Madison (she/her) | Heffentrager | UCSB Geography | mlheffentrager@ucsb.edu | Doctoral Student | Historical Surface Cover Analysis of the Point Conception Headland Bypass Dune System at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, CA | Aerial imagery from 1929-2023 shows increasing vegetation cover across the surface of the Point Conception headland bypass dune system (HBDS) at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve (JLDP). Ice plant (Carpobrotus edulis), an invasive succulent, currently has widespread surface cover and likely has expanded since 1929. The rate of vegetation expansion and amount of surface cover change across the HBDS had yet to be quantified, though the results provide important context to an ongoing restoration project at the JLDP. Increased vegetation cover is hypothesized to have stabilized the dunes which limits aeolian activity, sediment transport from the northern source beach to downwind southern beach, and related ecological processes. The purpose of this work is to map and calculate areal and percent surface cover changes in vegetation, bare sand, and infrastructure from 1929 to 2023. Aerial images were georeferenced to selected ground control points for comparison of surface classifications over time. Each image surface classification was trained in ArcGIS Pro using 30 samples for each surface type. Pixels were classified using the Image Classification tool where a supervised classification was run for each image. Faulty pixels were manually corrected and change detection maps were generated using the Raster Calculator. The results of this work provide insight to the current and historical stability trends of the HBDS. These results are important to inform the efforts of a dynamic dune restoration at the JLDP, as knowledge of past dune mobility can provide context for current restoration performance and goal expectations. | restoration, coastal, GIS, dunes, headland bypass dune system, surface classification | Madison L Heffentrager UCSB Geography Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Madison | L | Heffentrager | UCSB Geography | mlheffentrager@ucsb.edu | Ian J Walker UCSB Geography Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Ian | J | Walker | UCSB Geography | ianjwalker@ucsb.edu | Ava Marks~ UCSB Geography~ Co-Presenting Author (this author will co-present the paper at the session)~ | Co-Presenting Author (this author will co-present the paper at the session) | Ava | Marks | UCSB Geography | avamarks@ucsb.edu | Lukas Olesinski~ UCSB Geography~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Lukas | Olesinski | UCSB Geography | lukasolesinski@ucsb.edu | ||||||||||||
75 | 27953 | In-Person Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Lindsey | Most | California State University, San Bernardino | 007550394@coyote.CSUSB.edu | Undergraduate Student | Ecological Assessment into Burial Practices | Our death’s can have a greater impact on the environment than we realize. Traditional ground burials are the most common way Americans say goodbye to their loved ones. This practice causes harm to groundwater supplies. An estimated 800,000 gallons of formaldehyde slowly leeches into the ground annually along with other embalming fluids such as glycerin, phenol, and menthol. As bodies decompose, necroleachate is leached into the groundwater, releasing pathogenic bacteria and viruses. Coffins can also contaminate the soil with metal and varnishes. Pesticides and fertilizers used during cemetery maintenance also pose a threat to groundwater contamination. Human composting is a new form of burial that aims to prevent harm to the environment. This process involves composting human remains into nutrient rich soil through a 5 to 7 week process and the body lays in a chamber filled with oxygen and organic materials such as wood chips and alfalfa. This poster will present a review of news and literature concerning human composting and wetlands restoration in Washington state. Results include testimonials from families who have participated in this practice and their decision making process for choosing human composting. This presentation will be of interest to geographers and environmental scholars interested in the social, cultural, and environmental effects of alternative burial practices. | Composting, Groundwater Contamination, Soil Restoration | Lindsey Most Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, California State University San Bernardino Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Lindsey | Most | Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, California State University San Bernardino | 007550394@coyote.csusb.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | 27975 | In-Person Poster | YES | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Steven | Pedroza | California State University, Fullerton | stevenp13@csu.fullerton.edu | Master's Student | Food for Thought: A GIS Analysis of Food Deserts in San Bernardino, California | Food deserts are areas where residents do not have easy access to healthy and nutritious food. Food deserts tend to be predominantly located in lower-income communities, resulting in food insecurity and health problems that disproportionately affect these communities and their residents. In 2012, The Planning Center|DC&E used a GIS model to study food insecurity in San Bernardino, CA, finding nine unhealthy-food stores for every one healthy-food store. The distinction between healthy and unhealthy foods done through the us of NAICS codes which are used by the Public Health department of San Bernardino County when discussing this subject. My poster identifies contemporary food deserts in San Bernardino, CA, and compares their number and distribution with the results of the 2012 study. I used ArcGIS Pro's business analyst tool to gather business location data to map the distribution of fast food and nutritional food sources, such as grocery and fresh food markets, in relation to median household income. My analysis reveals that the ratio of unhealthy food stores to healthy food stores has changed relatively little over the past 9 years; this ratio is currently 11:1 (compared to 9:1 in 2012). The results indicate that areas with a higher density of unhealthy food options are associated with low-income neighborhoods, and that healthy options tend to cluster in areas of higher income. Identifying food deserts in San Bernardino will increase awareness of this issue and give citizens information that they can present to civic leaders to demand positive change. | Food Insecurity, Human Geography, San Bernardino, Unhealthy, Healthy | Steven Pedroza California State University, Fullerton Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Steven | Pedroza | California State University, Fullerton | stevenp13@csu.fullerton.edu | https://aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/file/154488/eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJtZWRpYUlkIjoxNTQ0ODgsImFsbG93Tm90U2lnbmVkVXJsIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJpZ25vcmVPcGVuV2F0ZXJNZWRpYVVybEdlbmVyYXRpb25Nb2RlIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJmb3JjZURvd25sb2FkIjoiRmFsc2UiLCJleHAiOjE3ODMxODM0Nzd9.RKoL3LvKLWLe5YWSqH1SqclxufUK2O_U5Nl7vD4ISuw?StevenAPCG23.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | 27622 | In-Person Poster | NO | 7D-POSTER SESSION | 1 | Saturday | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Ballroom | Peter | Soule | Appalachian State University | soulept@appstate.edu | Faculty or Professional | The Evolution of “Hot” Droughts in Southern California, USA from the 20th to the 21st Century | Drought intensity and duration in southern California, USA during the 21st century has been exceptional, and the changing climate dynamics of drought in this arid and semiarid region of North America have been linked to anthropogenic warming. We examine the frequency, intensity, and persistence of drought conditions in southern California’s two climatic divisions during 1900–2022 and use the monthly instrumental record of the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) to track how drought events have changed. We introduce an empirical definition of “hot drought” by combining mean summer PDSI values with standardized scores of mean summer minimum temperature. By all measures we examined, droughts in southern California, USA have become increasingly more severe, frequent, and long-lived in the 21st century. Our decadal analysis showed that moderate drought conditions (PDSI < -2) were recorded during more than half of the months in the decade ending in 2020, and one drought event in this decade persisted for 4.6 years. Similarly, hot droughts, droughts associated with both water deficits and significantly above-normal temperatures, have become increasingly frequent in recent decades. The first hot drought in southern California was not recorded until 1959, but by the 21st century, hot droughts were occurring in approximately half of the summers. Our findings support the idea that anthropogenic warming results in a changing drought climatology for arid and semiarid regions of southern California and that hot droughts will likely become the dominant drought type if trends toward warmer and drier conditions continue for western North America. | Drought, Hot droughts, Southern California USA, Palmer Drought Severity Index, 500 hPa geopotential height anomalies | Peter Soule Appalachian State University Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Peter | Soule | Appalachian State University | soulept@appstate.edu | Paul Knapp University of North Carolina Greensboro Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Paul | Knapp | University of North Carolina Greensboro | paknapp@uncg.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | 27537 | In-Person Paper | NO | 8 Saturday Keynote Speaker: Gary Langham American Association of Geographers | https://csun.zoom.us/j/82953705248?pwd=b2pPZGg5dThqdDRRbEtqVHcrcjJQZz09 | Saturday | 01:00 PM - 02:15 PM | Ballroom | Gary | Langham | American Association of Geographers | Other | Gary Langham: AAG Talk | Gary will discuss the State of Geography and initiatives aimed at increasing enrollment, diversity, equity and inclusion. | AAG, State of Geography, Keynote | Gary Langham - AAG | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | 28109 | In-Person Paper | YES | 9A - Undergrad Paper Session (Saturday@4) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/89490564872?pwd=SWQvMWRCZkFWd1lBQ1FNRGtTVVB0QT09 | 1 | Saturday | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Clipper East & West | Dani | Savinon | California Polytechnic State University, Pomona | dsavinon@cpp.edu | Undergraduate Student | From Green Lawns to Green Gentrification, A Look at Shifting Landscapes | Gentrification is a well documented topic; however, tree usage in landscape development trends and gentrification have not been well documented. From the 1900s to the post World War II suburbanization boom, the contemporary manifestation of green gentrification can be traced through the history of plant integration in America. This research will study the vegetation sown—specifically non-native plants—in urban developments and how it parallels plant integration during the suburban boom with developments in a region currently experiencing green gentrification. The city of focus is Santa Ana, Orange County, California. We will elaborate on how developers utilize non-native plants for the beautification of new developments and how water resources are used in comparison to prior urban renewal. Utilization of environmental impact reports, USGS national water dashboard data, and landscape development designs will be used to infer how resources are being used and how it relates to gentrification. Moreover, we will look over designated timelines of water consumption in Santa Ana, with aerial imagery and relate new plant integration with landscape designs and the current landscape. Anticipated results are expected to show that landscapes have temporal trends with non native plants. The African Sumac and Brisbane Box are tree species being integrated into contemporary gentrified landscapes, and other specific non-native vegetation may be an indicator of gentrification. | Gentrification, Non-Native Plants, Water, Urban Development, Santa Ana, Landscape, Orange County | Dani Savinon Cal Poly Pomona Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Dani | Savinon | Cal Poly Pomona | Savinondani@gmail.com | Gabriel Granco California Polytechnic State University, Pomona Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Gabriel | Granco | California Polytechnic State University, Pomona | ggranco@cpp.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | 28026 | In-Person Paper | YES | 9A - Undergrad Paper Session (Saturday@4) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/89490564872?pwd=SWQvMWRCZkFWd1lBQ1FNRGtTVVB0QT09 | 2 | Saturday | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Clipper East & West | Svetlana | Babaeva | Santa Monica College | sveta.babaeva@gmail.com | Undergraduate Student | Paleogeographical features of the Eocene amber placers of the Sambia Peninsula | At present there are nearly 200 known amber deposits throughout the world and new ones are being discovered every year. The best-known type of amber is Baltic amber. Baltic amber accounts for about 98% of all the amber on the market today. In some of the countries that surround the Baltic Sea amber is industrially mined and exported in large quantities. Gem-quality amber accounts for less than 20 per cent of total production. Less perfect samples – “pressed” amber are used for costume jewelry. The rest of the amber is used for amber oil, amber acid, amber varnish, and other amber products. About 90% of the world's extractable amber is in Sambia Peninsula. There are two types of amber placers here. The first type includes the ancient Eocene placers, which are located below sea level. The largest amber (succinite) deposits formed in the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene and were being eroded by seabed abrasion. Succinite occurs in the "light blue earth” - sandy glauconite clay. The formation of primary deposits succinite took place in different conditions (various mineral fossil resin species and paleorelief) in deep parts of the Eocene sea paleoshelf. The average concentration of the succinite productive layer has been estimated 600-1500gm3. At the base of this layer are Lower Paleocene phosphoritte's lenses. The second type of placers is represented by the modern seabed accumulations of amber. These placers are still forming today. | Paleogeographic conditions, Amber, the Baltic sea | Svetlana Babaeva Santa Monica community college Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Svetlana | Babaeva | Santa Monica community college | sveta.babaeva@gmail.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | 28103 | In-Person Paper | YES | 9A - Undergrad Paper Session (Saturday@4) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/89490564872?pwd=SWQvMWRCZkFWd1lBQ1FNRGtTVVB0QT09 | 3 | Saturday | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Clipper East & West | Samantha | Becaria | UC Berkeley | sbecaria@berkeley.edu | Undergraduate Student | LA Heat Risks in a Warming World | The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is a growing concern as heat waves intensify, particularly in densely populated urban areas like Los Angeles (LA). This phenomenon causes significant elevated temperatures within cities compared to its surrounding rural areas. In Los Angeles, factors such as prevalence of heat absorbing surfaces, the removal of vegetation, and air pollution all play a significant role on UHI. The UHI effect in Los Angeles has significant implications for public health, often associated with heat-related illnesses, cardiovascular issues, respiratory problems, and risks during pregnancy, especially with vulnerable populations like the elderly and children. As the relationship between health and heat continues to deepen, it is necessary to identify which regions in Los Angeles will be the most impacted. Using GIS technologies we can plot the most significant factors of UHI as health data to understand more about the groups who are experiencing the brunt of the effect. All data was sourced directly from the City of Los Angeles, CalEPA’s Urban Heat Island Index and the California Healthy Places Index. We found there to be a correlation between median household income and heat related health illnesses. However, more research must be done on other factors such as the UHI during different times of day (late nights, early mornings) as well as seasons (winter vs. summer). We hope to display our findings in a public dashboard that can be used by non-profit organizations and other agencies when prioritizing where to distribute resources during extreme heat events. | urban heath island effect, heat, public health, heat related illnesses, GIS, Los Angeles | Samantha Becaria California State University, Los Angeles Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Samantha | Becaria | California State University, Los Angeles | sbecaria@berkeley.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | 28035 | In-Person Paper | YES | 9A - Undergrad Paper Session (Saturday@4) | https://csun.zoom.us/j/89490564872?pwd=SWQvMWRCZkFWd1lBQ1FNRGtTVVB0QT09 | 4 | Saturday | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Clipper East & West | Chris | Guo | University of California, Irvine | cguo12@uci.edu | Undergraduate Student | Hydraulic Modeling of the LA River from UAV Photogrammetry | In the past century, the natural landscape of the Los Angeles River has faced ecological destruction due to urbanization and channelization. Recently, public interest in revitalization and restoration of the river ecosystem has grown, resulting in project proposals that call for an increase in vegetation and recreational areas. Current modeling of the LA River relies on construction plans featuring its simple trapezoidal silhouette, which may not be sufficient for the organic silhouettes outlined in project proposals. To address the limitations of current models, this study explores an inexpensive channel mapping approach that uses imagery gathered from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to create hydraulic models using the Hydrologic Engineering Center’s River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) software. We used UAV-derived photogrammetry to generate detailed land-classification and terrain data of a 2-mile, soft-bottom reach of the LA River. With that data, we created a hydraulic model in HEC-RAS. Using the model, we derived the maximum steady and unsteady flow rates for the channel, and compared our results to a computationally derived maximum flow rate using the Manning’s Equation. We found our model created outputs that closely aligned with the computation method currently used. However, it could be improved with integration of a flow gauge and a water-penetrating camera, as our model did not account for dry flow and could not show the actual river bottom. In the future, this method of modeling could be used in the management of river restoration projects to provide accurate assessments of flood risk for changing river channel silhouettes. | hydraulic modeling, Los Angeles River, urban hydrology | Chris Guo Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Chris | Guo | Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine | cguo12@uci.edu | Michael Beland Department of Geography, Geology, and Environment, California State University, Los Angeles Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Michael | Beland | Department of Geography, Geology, and Environment, California State University, Los Angeles | mbeland2@calstatela.edu | Alireza Farahmand~ Department of Geography, Geology, and Environment, California State University, Irvine~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Alireza | Farahmand | Department of Geography, Geology, and Environment, California State University, Irvine | afarahm2@calstatela.edu | Alexander Purdom~ Department of Geosciences, Middle Tennessee State University~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Alexander | Purdom | Department of Geosciences, Middle Tennessee State University | abp5f@mtmail.mtsu.edu | |||||||||||||
83 | 28114 | In-Person Paper | YES | 9B- Grad Papers (Saturday@4) | 1 | Saturday | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Clipper North | Christopher | Swindell | San Diego State University | cswindell5992@sdsu.edu | Doctoral Student | Changing Retail Foot Traffic Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Endemic Periods | COVID-19 policies changed where consumers traveled both during the height of the pandemic and the subsequent relaxation of travel restrictions, but the changes were not uniform. Identifying which retail businesses groups saw sustained consumer foot traffic in the pandemic may assist policymakers and business leaders to better allocate resources in future pandemics. Further, identifying groups that experienced permanent changes in consumer foot traffic (when combined with other data) may provide insights for other policy priorities, e.g. pollution reduction measures. Using SafeGraph footfall data for San Diego County, California as a case study, consumer movements were examined for changes in traffic patterns through the pandemic and endemic periods. Businesses were subdivided by type according to industry standards. They were then grouped according to changing footfall patterns and assessed to determine the common characteristics of each industry group. The data were further decomposed for trend analysis and compared by regions within the county and other characteristics like length of stay at a location. The analysis found a continuum where foot traffic at businesses that provide highly differentiable goods or services rebounded more quickly from the lockdowns. Additionally, businesses that require customer presence saw a quicker rebound in foot traffic where businesses with goods that could be delivered or services offered online saw lower retail visits that persisted post-pandemic. These findings indicate that in future pandemic situations, policy makers should focus on working with retailers with highly differentiable products or that require consumer presence to devise strategies to minimize contact. | COVID-19, pandemic, health, consumer behavior, mobility | Christopher Swindell San Diego State University / UC Santa Barbara Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Christopher | Swindell | San Diego State University / UC Santa Barbara | cswindell5992@sdsu.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | 28078 | In-Person Paper | YES | 9B- Grad Papers (Saturday@4) | 2 | Saturday | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Clipper North | Dylan | Skrah | San Diego State University & University of California Santa Barbara | dskrah5938@sdsu.edu | Doctoral Student | Comparing Urban Fragmentation Results Between Neighborhood Delineation Methods | Fragmentation is an important concept across urban sociology and landscape ecology, but different methods are employed across these fields. Recently, Delmelle (2019) analyzed neighborhoods of large MSAs in the United States using edge density, a patch fragmentation measure commonly used in landscape ecology. We replicate these methods using a spatially-constrained neighborhoods delineation approach and compare the fragmentation rankings in each neighborhood scheme using rank correlation statistics. We find a relatively high degree of concordance within time periods, but a low degree of concordance when compared over time. In addition to contributing to the larger debate about neighborhood delineation methods, we discuss the implications of the variations and similarities across fragmentation rankings with regards to national fragmentation patterns. We discuss the use of edge density as a metric of fragmentation in cities as opposed to ecological landscapes, arguing for the relevance of the outer boundary of a study area in urban applications. | landscape metrics, neighborhoods, fragmentation, spatial analysis, regionalization | Dylan Skrah San Diego State University & University of California, Santa Barbara Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Dylan | Skrah | San Diego State University & University of California, Santa Barbara | skrah@ucsb.edu | Sergio Rey San Diego State University Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Sergio | Rey | San Diego State University | srey@sdsu.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | 28098 | In-Person Paper | YES | 9B- Grad Papers (Saturday@4) | 3 | Saturday | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Clipper North | MONICA | PECH-CARDENAS | School of Earth and Sustainability, NAU | mp2564@nau.edu | Doctoral Student | Social-ecological Drivers of Watershed Modification and their Influence on Mangrove Protection and Restoration Efforts | There is a possible policy mismatch in global climate governance, calling for mangrove conservation on one hand and increased hydropower development on the other. Mangrove forests provide a variety of ecosystem services that can mitigate and help adapt to climate change. Meanwhile, dams are being promoted as a source of renewable energy and increased water resources among growing demands. Yet, upstream dams can change water quality, quantity, and sedimentation affecting coastal zones with mangroves. Thus, it is imperative to consider upstream activities to advance long-term sustainable management of mangroves and sustainable climate mitigation. Research pertaining to effects of dams on mangroves mainly focuses on water/sediment fluxes and coastal morphology changes, and less on the loss of habitat connectivity and ecosystem functions. To that end, this study, using Mexico as a case study, asks: 1. What social-ecological factors influence spatial and temporal coverage of mangrove forests in Mexico?; 2. How are competing climate change mitigation strategies understood and reconciled in the context of coastal watershed governance? Through spatial analysis, preliminary results reveal 18 watersheds where dams could be affecting the ecological integrity of mangrove forests. Surveys targeting these watersheds aim to understand whether upstream-downstream interactions are being taken into consideration in decision-making over dam operations and mangrove protection and restoration efforts. Conclusions will advance discussions about the tradeoffs between climate change mitigation measures and adaptive management of watersheds. | connectivity, freshwater fluxes, climate governance, integrated river basin management | Monica A Pech School of Earth and Sustainability, NAU Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Monica | A | Pech | School of Earth and Sustainability, NAU | mp2564@nau.edu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | 28101 | In-Person Paper | YES | 9B- Grad Papers (Saturday@4) | 4 | Saturday | 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM | Clipper North | Yuyan | Che | University of California, Santa Barbara | yuyanche0328@gmail.com | Master's Student | Relative to Who Has Access, Who Actually Uses the Bicycle Infrastructure? Comparative Analysis of Bicycle Commuting Origin-Destination Patterns in Santa Barbara County. | GIS measures of access often focus on proximity which can be an idealized representation, such as influence of household proximity to cycling infrastructure on bicycle ridership, cycling network planning through census tracts population data. GIS measures that represent realized, or actual access need to include data on observed use to be nuanced to reflect the social and economic aspects of access. Our goal is to demonstrate the need for realized measures of access in GIS by comparing idealized and realized measures of bicycling. To meet our goal, we measure ideal accessibility using OpenStreetMap data categorized by Canadian Bikeway Comfort and Safety metrics to classify bicycle infrastructure by three comfort levels in Santa Barbara County, and realized access through origin and destination data collected by Strava Metro – a physical activity mobile application tracking users’ cycling records. To compare ideal and realized usage, we use GIS to reveal their spatial patterns, apply ordinal ranking to rank and map the difference, and use Local Moran’s I to determine where the discrepancy is. Findings include there are big discrepancies in the City of Lompoc and Santa Maria where median household income is relatively low and percentage of hispanic population is relatively high, while small discrepancies aggregated in the City of Santa Barbara which has middle-level median household income and percentage of hispanic population. Realized measures of access in GIS can complement numerous existing idealized measures with social and economic aspects, and can be applied to other regions and promoted to general transportation networks. | GIS, access, bicycling, realized, idealized | Yuyan Che University of California, Santa Barbara Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Yuyan | Che | University of California, Santa Barbara | yuyanche@ucsb.edu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | x | In-Person Paper | NO | Friday Keynote Address | https://csun.zoom.us/j/89772449275?pwd=L3ZvdUh1L1FQK3BxbDMvU3R5R09zQT09 | 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Ballroom | Lary | Dilsaver | University of South Alabama - Emeritus | Faculty or Professional | Restoring Nature: The Evolution of the Channel Islands National Park | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | 27926 | In-Person Paper | NO | z REGRETS | z | z | z | z | Jingjing | Li | California State University, Los Angeles | jli104@calstatela.edu | Faculty or Professional | Assessing Flood Susceptibility for the North Orange County Watershed | As climate warms, California is likely to experience more extreme events, such as a megaflood. It is imperative for communities to develop resilient plans and identify areas that need to be cautious for floods. A preliminary flood susceptibility map of the North Orange County (NOC) was created in this study using multiple factors influencing the build-up of floods through geospatial analysis. These factors include precipitation, stream channel distances, land use/land cover, topographic elevations, and slopes. The study utilized 30-year (1991-2020) period of monthly precipitation data during the winter seasons and the most recent satellite imageries provided by the United States Geological Survey. We found that 68% of the NOC watershed is at high risk of flooding, which locates in the central region extending to the coastlines. The high-risk area of flooding is also along the vicinities of water channels, indicating that channel proximity is a significant factor to the creation of a flood susceptibility map. | Flood mapping, Remote sensing, Geospatial application, Watershed analysis | Jingjing Li California State University Los Angeles Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Submitting Author / Primary Presenter | Jingjing | Li | California State University Los Angeles | jli104@calstatela.edu | Jawara C Alihan California State University Los Angeles Co-Author (this author will not present) | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Jawara | C | Alihan | California State University Los Angeles | Jian Peng~ Orange County Environmental Resources, Orange County Public Works~ Co-Author (this author will not present)~ | Co-Author (this author will not present) | Jian | Peng | Orange County Environmental Resources, Orange County Public Works | |||||||||||||||||||||
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