PAPERS OF THE APPLIED GEOGRAPHY CONFERENCES, VOLUME 29, 2006

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Analyzing Water Quality of Normal Flow Conditions for Four Small Watersheds in North Central Texas

          1

 

David J. Wachal and Kenneth E. Banks

 

Long Term Precipitation and Water Supply Variability in South-Central Texas

11

 

Richard A. Earl, W. Dixon, and C. Andrew Day

 

An Assessment of Recent Normal Continentality Variation across the Western United States

23

 

Rich Snow and Mary Snow

 

Using GIS to Assess the Symmetry of Tropical Cyclone Rain Shields

31

 

Corene J. Matyas

 

Classifying Heat Stress Events in the Central United States

40

 

Erik H. Bowles

 

Climate Change and Presistence in Western Kansas: A Reanalysis

49

 

John Harrington, Jr.

 

Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Solar Radiation Across Louisiana

56

 

Michael U. Kemp and Robert V. Rohli

 

Quantifying Channel Planform Change

65

 

Joann Mossa

 

A Remote Sensing Assessment of Mississippi Coastal Change after Hurricane Katrina

71

 

Luke J. Marzen

 

Using LIDAR to Create Submarine Topography Maps for Dry Tortugas National Park

81

 

Kidd Patterson

 

Analyzing Historical Bathymetric Change in Tampa Bay, Florida: A Preliminary Study

87

 

Tao Zhang Xiaojun Yang

 

Where are the Dolphins? A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Dolphin Distribution in Southeastern North Carolina

96

 

Joanne N. Halls, Courtney L. Hanby, and Laela S. Sayigh

 

Geospatial Technologies to Identify the Nectar Corridor of Rufous Hummingbirds

106

 

Crystal M. Krause

 

The Persistence of Small Road-Killed Animal Carcasses and the Effect on Survey Results in Madison County, Illinois

115

 

Michael J. Starr

 

Geospatial Solutions to Bird Strike Mitigation and Hazard Identification

123

 

James K. Lein

 

Examining the Effect of Road Class on Vehicle-Related Florida Black Bear Mortalities Using GIS

133

 

Melissa Bennett and Paul Zandbergen

 

Continuous Soil Moisture Mapping Using MODIS NDVI and LST Products

140

 

J.M Shawn Hutchinson, Thomas J. Vought, Jt., and Stacy L. Hutchinson

 

Applying GIS and 3D Visualization to a University Campus Layout

150

 

Bradley A. Shellito, Roben Carter, Paul Gromen, and Jaime Webber

 

Coping with the Flood Hazard in the Nyando River Basin, Kenya

160

 

Charles G. Manyara

 

Vulnerability to Flooding in Columbia Country, Pennsylvania: The Role of Perception and Experience among the Elderly

168

 

Jennifer J. Webb

 

Hazard Vulnerability Assessment for Hays Country: An Application of the Hazards United States (HAZUS) Risk Assessment and Loss Estimation Method

177

 

R. Denise Blanchard and Lauren A. Dill

 

A GIS-Based Approach to Analyzing Warning Siren Networks: An Analysis of Riley and Wabaunsee Counties, Kansas

186

 

Mitchel J. Stimers

 

Calamity, Catastrophe and Horror: Representation of Natural Disaster , 1885-2005

196

 

Richard Salkowe, Graham A, Graham A. Tobin, and S. Elizabeth Bird

 

Satellite Imagery and Internet Mapping Services in Support of Science-based Adaptive Management of Grasslands in the Valles Caldera National Preserve

206

 

Richard P. Watson, Karl K Benedict, Theresa R. Watson, Kurt Menke, and R. Permenter

 

The Iraqi Marshlands: Is Environmental Rehabilitation Possible?

214

 

Hanne Kirstine Adriansen

 

Water Resource Utilization at the Qumran Archaeological Site Israel

224

 

Philip Reeder and Harry Jol

 

An Examination of Agricultural to Urban Land Conversation in Stanislaus County, California, 1994-2002

235

 

Toni Alexander

 

Evolution of Conflicts in Resource Use among Pastoralists, Conservationists, and Farmers: The Examples of Maasailand, Kenya

245

 

Monica Nyameange and Pin-Shuo Liu

 

Farmland Change in Florida: An Analysis of Metropolitan-Non-Metropolitan Differences

253

 

Pratyusha Basu and Jayajit Chakraborty

 

Guiding Growth in Mundy Township, Michigan

263

 

Richard Hill-Rowley, Eric Clark, and Leyla Sanker

 

Measuring Waterfront Revitalization and Land Use Change in Erie, Pennsylvania

272

 

Timothy C. Pitts and Susan Lucas

 

Urban Sprawl, Commuting, and Access to Public Transportation in Selected Southeastern Metro Areas

282

 

Joe Weber, Selima Sultana, and Isabelle Maret

 

In the Dark about Brownfields

292

 

Linda MsCarthy

 

A Dome Over Home: Dose San Antonio Need a Domed Baseball Stadium?

302

 

Rebecca P. Brown and Richard W. Dixon

 

Spatial Variation in the Growth in Number of Naturopathic Physicians in the United States and Canada

311

 

Donald Patrick Albert and Daniel Martinez

 

A Comparative Analysis of Diseases Associated with Mining and Non-Ming Communities: A Case Study of Obusai and Asanfrangwa, Ghana

321

 

Sumanth G. Reddy and Joseph R. Oppong

 

The Jesuit Missionaries as Applied Geographers in 18th Century China

331

 

Yu Zhou

 

Defining a Core Curriculum in Applied Geography

340

 

Richard G. Boehm and Audrey Mohan

 

Geographic Locales, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Public School Performance

350

 

Haifeng Zhang

 

Informing Teaching Practice: Using Knowledge of Students’ Perception of GIS and their GIS –Learning Strategies

360

 

Lene Moller Madsen

 

Factors Influences Corporate Equality

370

 

Bradley T. Vullen

 

Bio- Tech Innovation Clustering in Indianapolis

380

 

Gregory S. Meyer and Mark E. Reisinger

 

A Comparative Study of Retail Banking Supply-Demand Mismatch Using General Methodology: Illionis and New York

390

 

Bin Zhou

 

The Role of GIS in Economic Impact Studies

400

 

Michael C. Carroll and Bruce W. Smith

 

Income Growth in the Appalachian States, 1960-2000

408

 

Edward B, Reeves and Steven Parkansky

 

Wage Inequality in Japanese Manufacturing: An Examination of the “Shock Absorber” Thesis

417

 

Shawn Banasick

 

Unapplied Geography? GIS, Uneven Development, and Politics in Terre Haute, Indiana

426

 

Trevor K. Fuller and Jay D. Gatrell

 

A GIS-Based Job Accessibility Analysis

435

 

Fabiola Borel, Gustavo B. Menezes, and Wei-Ning Xiang

 

Nodal Attractions in China’s Intercity Air Passenger Transportation

 443

 

Wei Song