2020 Final E-Projects
Mining Activity and Population Trends in Appalachian Tennessee
The past century and a half of Appalachian history is deeply entwined with the coal industry. Over the course of the past century, coal has gone from being a burgeoning
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Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and 2020 Police Brutality Protests: Changes in Manhattan Policing Patterns
The COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 police brutality protests highlighted the disparities racial minorities face when interacting with social institutions, particularly police. New York City (NYC) operates the nation’s most extensive
Spatio-Temporal Trends in California Prescribed Burnings
California has consistently ranked number one for having the most wildfires per state. As droughts intensify and the rate of climate change accelerates, wildfires are growing more and more severe,
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Spatial Heterogeneity of Prostate Cancer Incidence Rate and its Predictive Model – A Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a major cause of disease and mortality among men, and we are interested in determining its explanatory variables and study how the relationships vary spatially. Specifically,
Topography and Depositional Patterns of Rockfall in a Martian Impact Crater
The HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captures high resolution satellite images of up to 25cm per pixel. To supplement our understanding of particle motion, I chose an image
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Geospatial Approach to Modeling Contaminant Movement
GIS Groundwater Modeling Project In 2018, students from Vanderbilt University conducting soil analysis at the Tennessee State University agricultural research farm discovered hydrocarbon contaminants in the soil. Since the initial
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Nourishing North Nashville: Refining Food Access Landscapes
Although mainstream food desert maps are useful in visualizing food access and the spatial inequities that stem from redlining, gentrification, and deindustrialization, they are also critiqued for oversimplifying community food
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Assessing Community’s Post-Disaster Social Fabric associated with Home Buyout Program
In this project, we use GIS to evaluate the community’s post-disaster social fabric condition associated with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) home buyout program. We found that while the
Disparity of Landfills in Urban and Rural Texas
Landfills are the byproduct of a society’s great industrial achievements. However, the placement of landfills has come under scrutiny due to the assertion that they are disproportionally placed in minority
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