PAPERS OF THE APPLIED GEOGRAPHY CONFERENCES, VOLUME 27, 2004

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Plying our Trade: A Curriculum for Applied Geography

1

 

Richard G. Boehm

 

Communicating Geography through Newspaper Maps

12

 

Bruce W. Smith, Kefa Otiso, and Melissa M. Spirek

 

Geovisualization: The Challenge of Spatial-Temporal Visualization and Analysis

21

 

Tony Hernandez

 

Societal Vulnerability To Tornado Hazards: A Case Study of the Deep South Region, U.S.A.

31

 

Philip L. Chaney

 

Temporal Aspects of Tornadoes in the Vicinity of St. Louis, Missouri: 1870-2003

41

 

Mark. L Hildebrandt and Jennifer Arras Prather

 

Predictors for Public Response to Tornado warnings: The May 4, 2003 Tornado in Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee

51

 

Bimal Kanti Paul and Biquing Huang

 

Sinhole Mapping in Pinellas Country, Florida: Problems And Solutions

58

 

Robert Brinkmann, L. Don Seale, Kelly Wilson, and H.L. Vacher

 

Landslide Aspect: A Methodological Approach to Circular Data For Hazard Analysis

67

 

Carol F. Sawyer and David R. Butler

 

A Multivariate Spatial Model for Determining Urban Development Sties In Flood Prone Coastal Areas

75

 

Peter P. Siska

 

Chronic Hazards: Health Impacts Associated With On-Going Ash Falls Around Mt. Tungurahua in Ecuador

84

 

Graham A. Tobin and Linda M. Whiteford

 

Agricultural Producers' Perception and Uses of Sources of Water Quality Information

94

 

Mary Dobbs

 

An Evaluation of Landowner Attitudes Towards The Landscape And Conservation Efforts: Hurricane Creek Watershed, East-Central Illionis

100

 

Vincent Gutowsak and Godson Obia

 

Examining Montane Ecotone Change With Repeat Photography

111

 

Dawna L. Cerney and David R. Butler

 

Reconstructing The Size of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone: 1894-1984

122

 

Robert V. Rohil and Natalie A. Vines

 

The Use of Teleconnection Indices to Predict Temperatures in a Climate Transition Zone

131

 

Robert M. Simpson and Cahit Etkal

 

Analysis of Desertification Between 1970s and 2000s in Mesopotamia Using LandSat Data

141

 

Jeffrey L. Isom

 

The West Texas Wind: A Renewable Energy Source

150

 

Otis W. Templer and R. Gary Pumphrey

 

Evaluating the Wilderness Experience: Visitors' Attitudes Toward Management Zones

159

 

Leslie A. Duram and S. Douglas Gantt

 

Matching Winegrape Cultivars to Nebraska Landscapes

169

 

William J. Waltman, I.J. Cottingham, S. Gamet, P.E. Read, J.L. Holtz, and J.S. Peake

 

Surveying For Small Road-Killed Animals Along Rural Roads and State Highways

180

 

Michael J. Starr

 

Determining Landscape Structure and Heterogeneity Using Image Texture Indices

187

 

Jincheng Gao and Douglas G. Goodin

 

Logarithmic Enhancement of Color Stereoscopic Effect Cartography

198

 

John D.Klier and J. Ronald Eyton

 

Use of GIS Remote Sensing, and Virtual Reality in Flood Hazard Modeling, Assessment and Visualization

203

 

Shunfu Hu

 

Internal Delineation and Planning of Biosphere Reserves

212

 

Eliahu Stern

 

Changes in Urbanization of Northern Illinois From 1989 To 2001 Using LandSat and Census Data

223

 

David A. Brookman, Brandee P. Pang, Brent E. Pringle, and Bradley C. Rundquist

 

Quantifying Urban Encroachment in Dhaka, Bangladesh From 1989-2000

231

 

Selima Sultana and Luke J. Marzen

 

Urban Modeling and Landscape Predication: The Case Study of Nang Rong, Thailand

239

 

Pariwate Varnakovida and Joseph Messina

 

Grameen Bank's Housing Program For Rural Poor in Bangladesh: A Case Study

247

 

Neelopal Adri and Selima Sultana

 

Urban Growth Modeling on the Web: A Decision Support Tool For Community Planners

255

 

Eric D. compas and Ramanathan Sugumaran

 

Belvoir Ranch Site Development : Five Development Options For Cheyenne, Wyoming

270

 

William J. Gribb

 

Hispanic Migration Flows and Settlement Patterns For Berks County and Reading, Pennsylvania

283

 

Mark E. Reisinger

 

African Americans and Alabama'a 2003 Tax Referendum

293

 

Raymond Greene

 

Racial/Ethnic Groups: A Case of Selected Counties in Northern New Jersey

302

 

Monica Nyamwange and Pin-Shuo Liu

 

Socio-Spatial Polarization: A Case Study of St. Petersburg, Florida 

312

 

Jacqueline Salmond

 

The "Right" Denied Same-Sex Couples

322

 

Bradley T. Cullen

 

Exploring the Environmental Justice Consequences of Nulclear Power Plant Siting in the U.S. Southeast

332

 

Zlatoko Knezevic and Jayajit Chakraborty

 

A GIS-Based Systematic Approach For Hazardous Waste Site Risk Assessment

342

 

Shuo-sheng Wu

 

Patterns in Criminal Victimization: AN Assessment of Hot Spots and The Demographics of Property Crime Victims in San Antonio, Texas

353

 

Abigail Squires and Sharoyn Anderson

 

Geographic Analysis of the Impact of Texas House Bill 1 on the Texas Children's Health Insurance Program (TX CHIP)

364

 

Linda Hollingshad and Harry Williams

 

A Geography for Brain Injury Services

372

 

Denese Neu

 

Spatial Patterns in Kentucky's County-Level Mortality Rates and Related Socioeconomic Variables

379

 

Timothy S. Hare

 

Examining the Outcomes of a Rural Housing Assessment in Rowan County, Kentucky

390

 

Holly R. Barcus, Suzanne M. Robbins, and Travis Torrence

 

Apples and Oranges? Rural and Urban Poverty in Southwestern Ohio

400

 

Richard Wolfel

 

Evaluating Economic Development Programs: The Case of New Jersey

410

 

Samuel Thompson

 

Modeling the Influence of Highway Bypasses and Population on Business Activities 

420

 

Jonathan C. Comer and G. Allen Finchum

 

The Rise And Fall of St. Louis as a Regional Interstate Banking center in the United States

430

 

Bin Zhou

 

Spatial Dynamics of U.S. Manufacturing Activities

439

 

Hyun Joong Kim

 

The Changing Location and Characteristics of America's Poorest Counties

448

 

Wendy Shaw

 

A University Policy Center and Local Workforce Policy Board Partnership

458

 

Karen D. Johnson-Webb

 

Using GIS and Spatial Data Analysis as Tools in Alumni Donor Development

468

 

F. Andrew Schoolmaster, David Drury, and George Wood

 

Uncertainty Assessment in Landscape Metrics Derived From Image Enhancement

475

 

Hua Liu and Qihao Wang