PAPERS OF THE APPLIED GEOGRAPHY CONFERENCES, VOLUME 32, 2009

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Self-Efficacy and Performance of College Students on a Map Skills Test-Format Survey

1

 

Gillian Acheson

 

Assessing 3D Web-Mapping and Topographic Maps in Physical Geographic

9

 

Shelrie Houlton, C. W. Cooper, S. Fuhrmann, J.L. Ostling, C. Perry, and A. Wranic 

 

Exploring the Sportscape of Toronto: Form, Function, and Facilities 

          19

 

Toney Hernandez, Ida Berger, Norman O'Reilly, Milena Parents, Benoit Seguin, and magnus Svindal

 

The Effects of Big-Box Stores on a Specialty Retailer

30

 

Lawrence Joseph

 

Branding and Growing Placed-Based Clusters: The Case of the Northwest Ohio Greenhouse Industry

40

 

Neil Reid, Bruce W. Smith, Dwight Haase, Paula Ross, Anastasia Mirzoyants, and Jay D. Gatrell

 

An Assessment of Road and Bridge Conditions in Four States

47

 

Jonathan C. Comer, Amy K. Graham, Stacey R. Brown

 

Urban Transportation in Beijing, China: Challenge, Causes and Implications

57

 

Fengjun Jin, Jiaoe Wang, and Teqi Dai

 

Determining a Least Cost Route for High Speed Rail in Ohio's 3C Corridor

67

 

Amanda N. Mullett, Amy E. Rock, Saad Algharib, ared Shaffer, and Jay Lee

 

Perceptions of Sustainable Community Development and Natural Resource Management: A Case Study of Two Montana Amenity Towns

86

 

Ryan D. Berstrom

 

Cap Town: A Future Queer International Destination?

96

 

Bradley T. Cullen

 

The Deployment of Ground Based Mid-Course Missiles in Central Europe: Regional Perception and Viability

105

 

Peter Siska

 

Attitudes toward Arsenicosis Victims in Rural Bangladesh: An Empirical Study

115

 

Bimal K. Paul

 

Assessing the Impact of Variable Weighting Strategies on the Spatial Pattern of Hazard Vulnerability

124

 

Lyndsey A. Abel and James K. Lein

 

Building Codes and Residential Structures : Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Hurricane Wind Damage

134

 

Graham A. Tobin and Jeff Burton

 

Comparison of the Atmospheric Environments Leading to the 1957 and 2007 Floods in Texas

144

 

Kent M. MsGregor

 

Geographical, Meteorological, and Climatological Conditions Surrounding the 2008 Interstate-4 Disaster in Florida

153

 

Jennifer M. Collins, Alicia N, Williams, Charles H. Paxton, Richard J. Davis, and Nicholas M. Petro

 

Heavy Rainfall from Tropical Cyclones in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

163

 

Michael J. Grossman and Masumi Zaiki

 

Treefall Evidence for High Wind Events at Hawn State Park, St. Francois Mountains, Missouri: A Case Study in Selective Field Data Collection

173

 

James R. Thomka and Luke J. Marzen

 

Traumatic Resin Ducts in Tree Rings: Advancing Tree-Ring Dating of Snow Avalanches in Glacier National Park, Montana

181

 

David R. Butler, Jacob A. Maas, and Carol F. Sawyer

 

The Water Budget, Climate Variability, and Climate Impacts Assessment in Northeast Kansas

189

 

Iris E. Wilson, John Harrington, Jr,. Kendra McLauchlan, Elias Martinson, and Stacy L. Hutchinson

 

A Parcel-Based Neural Network for Modeling Multicategorical Land Use Change

197

 

Kang Shou Lu, John Morgan III, and Jeffery S. Allen

 

An Assessment of the Historical hydroclimatology of the Animas River Basin at Durango, Colorado

207

 

C. Andrew Day

 

Environmental Conditions, Irrigation Reuse Pits, and the Need for Restoration in the Rainwater Basin Wetland Complex, Nebraska

217

 

Rex Robichaux and Lisa M. B. Harrington

 

Sediment Management and the Upper San Marcos River, Texas

226

 

Richard A. Earl, Tara M. Noah, and Jason D. Arbogast

 

MUMODIMO: Design of a Model for Studying Land Fragmentation Impacts on Plant Diffusion

233

 

John D. Waldron

 

Integration of GIS and Geosensors for Environmental Monitoring and Precision Viticulture in Northwestern North Carolina

243

 

Lauren A. Hunter and Christopher A. Badurek

 

The Use of Low Cost Data Logging Temperature Sensors in the Evaluation of an Urban heat Island in Tampa, Florida

252

 

JoAnn Sullivan and Jennifer M. Collins

 

Assessing the Social and Ecological Impacts of  Voluntary Simplicity

262

 

Rebecca A. Johns

 

Midwestern Corn Ethanol: Public Perceptions and the Changing Agricultural Landscape

272

 

Benjamin M. Munro

 

A GIS-Based Method to Predict County Corn Yield Based on Retrieved Landsat Reflectance Variability in Western Ohio

281

 

David L. Holllinger

 

Wild Food Plants: Balancing Conservation and Utilization

291

 

Maria Fadiman

 

Water Supply and Climate Change: Rethinking Growth Regimes in Texas

299

 

Kevin Roming and Laura Stroup

 

Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Water Use in E1 Paso County, Texas: An Assessment of the 1991 Water Conservation Ordinance

306

 

Jiao Wang and Nate Currit

 

Applying Geography for Species Conservation: The Case of the Endangered Indiana Bat (Myotis Sodialis)

314

 

Michael J. Starr and Shunfu Hu

 

Examination of Vegetation Intercepte-Transect Sampling in an Arid Environment

322

 

Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson

 

Indentifying Windbreaks in Ford County, Kansas Using Object-Based Image Analysis

332

 

Mike W. Dulin and J.M. SHawn Hutchinson

 

Variability Patterns and Outlier Smoothing of the Everglades Depth Estimation Network Digital Elevation Model in the Northern Everglades

342

 

Zhixiao Xie, Dale E. Gawlik, James M. Beerens, Zhongwei Liu, and Aaron L. Higer

 

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Analysis of Karst Environments near the Ancient Maya Center of Xuenkal, Yucatán, Mexico

352

 

Mandy J. Munro-Stasiuk and T. Kam Manahan

 

Semi-Automatied To Automated-Refined Method for Mid-Scale Glacial Landform Mapping

362

 

Kakoli Saha

 

Visualization of Land Survey Records Using GIS

372

 

Gang Gong

 

Using High-Resolution Thermal Infrared Data for Land Use and Land Cover Mapping the Atlanta Metropolitan Area

382

 

Paporn Thebpanya

 

Socio-Economic Characteristics of Different Land Use Areas in Austin, Texas 2000

392

 

Keith Bremer

 

Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis of the Relationship Between Sex Offender Residence and Treatment Service Accessibility in Kentucky

401

 

Timothy S. Hare, Paul D. Steele, and Lincoln B. Sloas

 

Rating Environmental and Socioeconomic Stressors to Violent Crime: Evaluating Three Major Cities in the Unites States

411

 

Richard R. Shaker, Greg A. Rybarczyk, and Jeffery Eno

 

Application of a House-Hold Level Accessibility Model to Assess the Change in Travel Time of New Route Implementation in Albuquerque, New Mexico

420

 

Calvin Reibby

 

The Role of Blacks in the Gentriffication of the 125th Street Corridor Area of Harlem, New York

427

 

Dulce M. Bueno

 

Urban Population Density in Three Intermediate Size Cities of South America

437

 

Betty E. Smith

 

Daylight Saving Time as an Expression of Rebellion in Chilón, Chiapas, Mexico

447

 

Eric L. Samson