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The
graduate program in Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia
Research
A diversity of research interests may
be found among the students and faculty of the MU Department of Geography,
but they are generally focused around several core areas:
Human Geography
Human geography emphases within the Department
include cultural ecology, indigenous peoples, historical geography,
population change, and demography. For example:
| Rural poverty and migration |
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Foulkes M, Newbold
K B. (2005)"Geographic mobility and residential instability
in impoverished rural Illinois places" Environment
and Planning A 37: 845 – 860
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| Foulkes, M.W. and Newbold,
K. B. (2000) "Migration propensities, patterns, and the
role of human capital: Comparing Mexican, Cuban, and Puerto
Rican Interstate Migration, 1985-90." Professional
Geographer 52: 133-145 |
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| Politics of place
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| Larsen, SC (2006)
The future’s past: Politics of time and territory among Dakelh
First Nations of British Columbia. Geografiska Annaler
88B: 311-321. |
Larsen, S.C. and
T. J. Brock (2006) Great Basin imagery in newspaper coverage
of Yucca Mountain. Geographical Review 95: 517-536.
Larsen, SC, C. Sorenson, D. McDermott,
J. Long, C. Post. (2007) Place perception and social interaction
on an exurban landscape in central Colorado. Professional
Geographer 59: 421-433. |
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Rice, G and Urban, M.A.
(2006) Where is River City, USA? Measuring community attachment
to the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Journal of
Cultural Geography 24:1-35.
Larsen, S.C. (2004) “Place identity
in a resource-dependent area of British Columbia.” Annals
of the Association of American Geographers 94: 944 –
960.
Larsen, S.C. (2004) “Place, activism,
and development politics in the Southwest Georgia United
Empowerment Zone.” Journal
of Cultural Geography 22:
27 – 49.
Paul Hammond (2006) “Lilong housing
in Shanghai, China and community eclipse.” Masters
Thesis, University of Missouri.
Dittmer, Jason and S. Larsen (2007)
"Captain Canuck, audience response, and the project
of Canadian nationalism," Social & Cultural Geography
8(5): 737-755.
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Historical landscapes
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W.A. Schroeder (2002)
Opening the Ozarks: A Historical Geography of Missouri's
Ste. Genevieve District, 1760-1830. University of
Missouri Press.
W.A. Schroeder (1982) Presettlement
Prairie of Missouri. Natural History Series,
No. 2, Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson
City, Mo.
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| Wilford-Hammett,
Rebecca (2002) "Finding Meaning In a Landscape of Stone:
The Women of Bellefontaine Cemetery" Masters Thesis,
University of Missouri.
Urban, Michael A. (2006)
" The Historical American Tallgrass Prairie as Boundary",
in Crossing America’s Internal Borders: Proceedings
of the 41st Annual International Conference of the American
Studies Association of Korea. 155-172
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| Nomadic peoples and
environmental issues |
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Hobbs, J. (2005) Guidelines for the Involvement
of Pastoral Nomads in Conservation and Development Efforts. In Dawn
Chatty, ed. Nomadic Societies in the Middle East and North
Africa: Entering the 21st Century. Leiden: E.J. Brill, pp. 785-201 |
Hobbs, J. (2001)"Exploration
and Discovery With the Bedouin of Egypt." Geographical
Review 91:1-10.
Hobbs, J. and F.Tsunemi ( 2007) “Bedouin Tourist
Stations as a Response to Drought in Egypt’s Eastern Desert.”
Human Ecology 35 (2): 209-222.
Hobbs, J. (1995) Mount Sinai. Austin:
University of Texas Press.
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Cultural ecology of caves in
Belize, Madagascar and Malaysia
Hobbs, J. (2004) "Problems in the
Harvest of Edible Birds Nests in Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysian
Borneo." Biodiversity and Conservation 13:
2209-2226
Hobbs, J. (2001) People and Caves in
Madagascar. American Geographical Society Focus
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Nature/Society
Relationships
The interface of environment and humans
- particularly the political, social, philosophical and economic
implications of environmental change - is a major faculty and student
interest. Faculty working in this area include Urban, Hobbs, Larsen,
Li and Cowell.
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| Politics and ethics
of environmental management |
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Wilson, E.W. (2003) "Politics
and the Land Ethic: A case study of the elk reintroduction
in Missouri." Masters Thesis, University of
Missouri.
Larsen, S.C. (2003) “Promoting aboriginal
territoriality through interethnic alliances.” Human
Organization 62: 74 – 84.
Larsen, S.C. (1999) “The Cheslatta
redevelopment project: economic development and the cultural
landscape of the Cheslatta T’en.” Research in Economic
Anthropology 20: 49 – 78.
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Urban, M.A. (2005) "Values
and ethical beliefs regarding agricultural drainage in Central
Illinois." Society and Natural Resources 18:
1-17.
Cowell, C. M. (1993) "Ecological
restoration and environmental ethics." Environmental
Ethics 15: 19-32.
Lozano, Victor W (2003) “Power relations
in the historical development of the Colorado-Big Thompson
Project.” Masters Thesis. University of Missouri.
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| Scientific Conceptualization
of Nature |
Urban, M. A. (2002)
"Conceptualizing anthropogenic change in fluvial systems:
Drainage development on the Upper Embarras River, Illinois."
The Professional Geographer 54: 204-217.
Urban, Michael A. 2006. Open Space,
in The Encyclopedia of Human Geography, ed. Barney
Warf. 342-343. London: Sage.
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Urban, M. A. and B. L.
Rhoads. (2003)"Conceptions of Nature: Implications
for an Integrated Geography," in Contemporary
Meanings in Physical Geography: From What to Why?, ed.
S.T. Trudgill and A. Roy. 211-231. London: Edward Arnold.
Cowell, C.M. and and Parker, A.J. (2004)
Biogeography in the Annals. Annals of the Association
of American Geographers 94: 256-268.
Cowell, C.M. (2003) Geographic Isolation:
Origins of the Guns, Germs and Steel model. Antipode
35: 808-813. |
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| Contested natural landscapes |
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Cooper, R. M. (2003) "Meaning
in the Making: Landscape Representation of the Current and
Jacks Fork Riverways in Missouri" Masters Thesis,
University of Missouri.
Rhoads, B. L., D. Wilson, M.A. Urban,
and E. E. Herricks (1999) Interaction between scientists
and nonscientists in community-based watershed management:
Emergence of the concept of stream naturalization. Environmental
Management. 24: 297-308.
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Larsen, S.C. (2003) “Collaboration
geographies: Native-White partnerships during the re-settlement
of Ootsa Lake, British Columbia, 1900-52.” BC Studies
138-139: 87-114.
Urban, M. A. (2005). "An uninhabited
waste: The transformation of environmental imagery and the
Grand Prairie through agricultural drainage in nineteenth
century Champaign County, Illinois." Journal
of Historical Geography 31
Larsen, S.C. (1997) “Divergent views
of the landscape in the settlement of Illinois.” Bulletin
of the Illinois Geographical Society 39: 20-31. |
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Physical-Environmental Systems
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| Physical geography in the Department focuses
on environmental processes and their modification by humans, particularly
for biogeographic and geomorphic systems. For example:
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The
human role in changing the physical landscapes
of the American Midwest
Urban, M. A. and B. L. Rhoads (2003) "Catastrophic
human-induced change in stream channel planform and geometry
in an agricultural watershed, Illinois, USA." Annals
of the Association of American Geographers 93: 783-796.
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Rouse, Karen (2005) “The
impacts of dam closure on downstream wetlands: A headwater
perspective.” Masters Thesis, University of Missouri.
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| Vegetation of the Midwest
from presettlement to present |
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Cowell, C.M. and
Jackson, M.T. (2002) Vegetation change in a forest remnant
at the eastern presettlement prairie margin. Natural
Areas Journal 22: 53-60.
M.J. Batek, A.J. Rebertus, W.A
.Schroeder, T.L. Haithcoat, E. Compas, and R.P. Guyette.
(1999)"Reconstruction of early nineteenth-century vegetation
and fire regimes in the Missouri Ozarks." Journal
of Biogeography 26:397-412. |
Cowell, C.M. and Hayes,
J.J. (2007) "Structure, history and dynamics of a mature
oak-beech forest in western Indiana." Journal
of the Torrey Botanical Society 134: 215-222.
Holmes, Trent (2006) "Four Decades
of Change in an Old-growth Beech-Maple Forest in Indiana"
Masters Thesis, University of Missouri.
Hamilton, Jennifer (2003) "Historic
Distribution of Shortleaf Pine in the Missouri Ozarks"
Masters Thesis, University of Missouri.
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| Modification
of rivers and its ecological impacts |
Cowell, C.M. and Dyer,
J. M. (2002) Vegetation development in a modified riparian
environment: Human imprints on an Allegheny River wilderness.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
92:189-202.
Cowell, C.M. and Stoudt, R. (2002) “Dam-induced
modifications to upper Allegheny River streamflow and their
biodiversity implications,” Journal of the American
Water Resources Association 38: 1-10. |
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Urban, Michael A.,
and M. Daniels (2006) "Exploring the links between
Geomorphology and Ecology." Geomorphology
Special Issue - Linking Geomorphology and Ecology, ed. M.A.
Urban, M. Daniels, and M. Doyle. 77): 203-206.
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| Soil erosion and Land
use change |
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Li, Y.K., Ni, J.R., Yang
Q.K. and Li, R. 2006. Human impacts on soil erosion identified
using land-use changes: A case study from the Loess Plateau,
China. Physical Geography 27, 109-126. |
| Ni, J.R. and Y.K.
Li (2003) Approach to soil erosion assessment in terms of
land-use structure changes.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
58: 158-169. |
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| Glacial geomorphology
and cosmogenic nuclides |
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Li,
Y.K., Liu, G.N., and Cui, Z.J., 2001. Glacial valley cross
profile morphology, Tian Shan Mountains, China.
Geomorphology 38, 153-166.
Li, Y.K., Harbor, J., Stroeven, A.P.,
Fabel, D., Kleman, J., Fink, D. Caffee, M. and Elmore, D.,
2005. Ice sheet erosion patterns in valley systems in northern
Sweden investigated using cosmogenic nuclides. Earth
Surface Processes and Landforms 30, 1039-1049.
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Darmody, R.G., Thorn, C.E., Seppälä,
M., Campbell, S.W., Li, Y.K. and Harbor, J. (in press).
Age and weathering status of granite tors in Arctic Finland
(~68°N). Geomorphology.
Ma, X.Z., Li, Y.K., Bourgeois, M., Caffee,
M., Elmore, D., Granger, D., Muzikar, P., and Smith, P.
2007. WebCN: A web-based computation tool for in-situ-produced
cosmogenic nuclides. Nuclear Instruments and Methods
in Physics Research 259, 646-652
Harbor, J., Stroeven, A.P., Fabel, D.,
Clarhall, A., Kleman, J., Li, Y.K., Elmore, D., and Fink,
D. 2006. Cosmogenic nuclide evidence for minimal erosion
across two subglacial sliding boundaries of the late glacial
Fennoscandian ice sheet. Geomorphology 75, 90-99.
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| Application of Geographic
Information Sciences |
| Remote
sensing of vegetated environments |
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Wang, C., J. Qi, S. Moran
and R. Marsett. (2003) Soil Moisture Estimation in Semi-arid
Rangeland Using ERS-2 and TM imagery, Remote Sensing
Environment 90: 178-189.
Wang, C., Z. Lu, and T. L. Haithcoat,
2007. Detecting forest dynamics responding to oak dieback
in the Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri. Forest
Ecology and Management. 240, 70-78.
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Lea, Ronald D. (2005)
"A Comparison of Forest Change Detection Methods and
Implications for Forest Management" Masters Thesis,
University of Missouri.
Zhou, Bo (2007) "Application of Hyperspectral
Remote Sensing in Detecting and Mapping Sericea lespedeza
in Missouri" Masters Thesis, University
of Missouri. |
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GIS
and ice sheet modeling
Napieralski, J., Harbor, J. and Li Y.K.,
(in press). Glacial Geomorphology and Geographic Information
Systems. Earth Science Reviews.
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| Napieralski, J., Hubbard,
A., Li, Y.K., Harbor, J., Stroeven, A.P., Kleman, J., Alm,
G., and Jansson, K.N. 2007. Towards a GIS assessment of
numerical ice sheet model performance using geomorphological
data. Journal of Glaciology 53, 71-83.
Li, Y.K., Napieralski, J., Harbor, J.,
and Hubbard, A., 2007. Identifying temporal patterns of
correspondence between modeled flow orientations and field
evidence: an automated flow orientation analysis. Computers
and Geosciences 33, 141-150.
Napieralski, J., Li., Y.K., and
Harbor, J., 2006. Comparing predicted and observed spatial
boundaries of geologic phenomena: Automated Proximity and
Conformity Analysis (APCA) applied to ice sheet reconstructions.
Computers and Geosciences
32, 124-134.
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Reconstructing and
visualizing the Missouri river at the time of the Lewis
and Clark Expedition
Harlan, J.D. and Denny, J.M. (2003)
Atlas of Lewis and Clark in Missouri. Columbia:
University of Missouri Press. |
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| Biodiversity inventory
and management planning |
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Drobney, Haithcoat and Diamond
(2000). Missouri Gap Analysis Project. USGS Biological
Resources Division |
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