EAST LAKES DIVISION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 2015 Kent State University Hotel & Conference Center 215 S. Depeyster Street, Kent, Ohio 44240 PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS Welcome On behalf of Kent State University, Kent State University Department of Geography, and the East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, I am pleased to welcome you to beautiful Kent, Ohio. The 2015 ELDAAG conference promises to be exciting with nearly 100 presentations from faculty and students from all corners of Ohio and Michigan, representing all aspects of the discipline of geography. We invite you take the opportunity to explore downtown and the Kent State University Campus. Check out Kent’s $110 million award-­‐winning transformation and explore the area via the many walking paths and bike trails. Visit the Cuyahoga River and its parks, only blocks away from the hotel. Walk, or bike, across the Kent State campus via the esplanade that connects downtown to the campus. You can explore on your own or join us on the walking tour hosted by Jennifer Mapes and Anne Jefferson early Friday evening. Kent State University is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places in th
remembrance of the events of May 4 , 1970. Four students were killed and nine were injured by the Ohio National Guard who opened fire on a group of students peacefully protesting the invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. We offer a th
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panel on the May 4 events, and we also invite you to visit the May 4 Center on Saturday afternoon with Christopher Post. Again, welcome to Kent State University, and I hope you have a memorable time on this beautiful Fall weekend. Mandy Munro-­‐Stasiuk President of the East Lakes Division of the AAG Professor of Geography Interim Associate Provost, Kent State University 2
SCHEDULE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9TH 5 PM Registration Desk Opens in Kent State Hotel and Conference Center Lobby Poster Participants may set up posters 6 PM Walking tour of Kent (Meet in Kent State Hotel Lobby, near the registration desk) Learn about the history of the City of Kent, from railroad town to college town. The tour will focus on the recent $110 million redevelopment of downtown and the restoration of the Cuyahoga River. Your tour guides will also direct you to the best eating, drinking and music venues to visit during your stay here. Guides: Jennifer Mapes (Geography) and Anne Jefferson (Geology) 7 PM Opening reception in the Kent State University and Conference Center Lobby 3
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10TH 8 AM registration opens Posters should be up all day. Prepare to stand by your poster on the morning and afternoon break. 8.40 AM – 10 AM ETHNIC AND NATIONAL IDENTITY Chair: Louie Kiskowski McGilvrey 8.40 am Cromley, G.A.; Devadoss, C.A. Fighting for Identity: The French Indochina War and the Politics of Unit Insignia 9.00 am Hannum, K. Economic Convergence and Societal Impact in Galicia, Spain 9.20 am Kiskowski, W.L. Arab American Communities in suburban Detroit 9.40 am Rhodes, M.. Post, C. Geographical Metaphors and Music: The River as Division, Power, and Unity GEOGRAPHY AND EDUCATION Chair: Stanley Toops Kent 8.40 am Decker, A. The Spatial Relationship Between Recorded Addresses of GED Students in the YouthBuild Program and Infrastructure Improvement Projects in Waukegan, Illinois During August 2014 though August 2015 9.00 am Knisley, C.R.H. Student Playgrounds: Alliances of Entrepreneurial Governance in the Creation of Student Spaces at Two Universities 9.20 am Moore, A.; DeChano-­‐Cook, L.M. Motivations for Learning among Different Science Courses 9.40 am Toops, S.W.; Skryzhevska, L. and Green, J. Atlas Use in Teaching Geography in Higher Education in the U.S. and Canada 4
GEOSPATIAL APPLICATIONS I Chair: Mandy Munro-­‐Stasiuk Parta East 8.40 am Munro-­‐Stasiuk, M.; Tyner, J.; Rice, S. and Sirik, S. A classification of Khmer Rouge Irrigation Schemes 9.00 am Liu, Q.; Wu, L.; Ye, X.; and Tsou, M-­‐H. Detecting spatial patterns of controversial topics online: a case study of death penalty topic on Twitter 9.20 am Lumpkin, J. Mapping the Aviation Trail 9.40 am Zhu, J., and Ye, X. The Performance Evaluation of Public Cultural Services Empirical Research Based On DEA Method URBAN GEOGRAPHY Chair: Brad Austin Parta West 8.40 am Raleigh, K.N., Kinsella, C., and McTague, C. Uncovering Geographic Polarization: Precinct Analysis for of Presidential Elections in Greater Cincinnati from 1976 to 2008 9.00 am Winslow, S. R. Regress without Reason: A Study of Urban Planning and Crime Prevention in Cincinnati, Ohio 9.20 am Austin, B.J. Turn downstream for what? Using text mining to map dimensions of Pennsylvania conservation groups 9.40 am Oswald, J.F. The lines that divide: applying research strategies from divided cities across the world to seemingly normal urban areas in the United States 8.40 AM PANEL DISCUSSION: DOING FIELDWORK INTERNATIONALLY Dix Session Organizer: Weronika Kusek Participants: Weronika Kusek, Beth Schlemper, Sarah Smiley, Nicholas Crane. 10 AM to 10.20 AM Coffee Break and Poster Session 5
10.20 AM – noon URBAN GROWTH AND DECLINE Chair: Dave Kaplan McGilvrey 10.20 am Abayateye, P. Spatial patterns in house patterns in Baltimore 10.40 am Burrell, J.L. THE IMPACT OF RENTAL PROPERTIES ON BLIGHTED NEIGHBORHOODS OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO 11.00 am Kaplan, D.H., Turner, V.K., and Mapes, J. Kent’s Downtown Renaissance: How it Happened, Where is it Going? 11.20 am Tokosh, J. Declining retail establishments: The case of Century III Mall ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN CHINA Chair: Gregory Veeck Kent 10.20 am Luci Xi Lu A geographic analysis of Tibetan herders’ vulnerability and adaptation strategies in Gansu, Western China 10.40 am Veeck, G. Commodity Pricing and Production Trends for Grains in China: 1978 – 2013 11.00 am Wang, Z. Re-­‐examining Environmental Kuznets Curve for China's Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Evidence from City-­‐level Data 11.20 am Jie L. Low-­‐carbon city development in western China—
Ningxia GEOSPATIAL APPLICATIONS II Chair: Eric Shook Parta East 10.20 am Ajayakumar, J., Curtis, A., Curtis, J., and Shook E. Web-­‐based Framework for Geonarrative Mapping 10.40 am Chen, Z. 11.00 am Dong, W. Efficiency Evaluation Of Information Diffusion On Social Networks: An Experiment Of Agent-­‐Based Modeling A Network Study: Examine Relationship between Nonprofit Organizations Considering Board Member Affiliation 6
11.20 am Shook, E., Ajayakumar, J. and Zhang, C. CLIMATOLOGY PCML: A New Parallel Programming Language for CyberGIS Chair: Scott Sheridan Parta West 10.20 am Smith, E.T. Applications of the Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index 10.40 am Kirk, J.P. The El Niño Southern Oscillation as a Driver of North American Monsoon Variability 11.00 am Allen, M. J. Heat Waves and Cold Spells: Frequency, Duration, and Seasonal Timing Changes (1948 -­‐ 2012). 11.20 am Sheridan, S.C. and Dixon, P. G. Decreased rates of heat-­‐related mortality in the US, 1975-­‐2010 11.40 am Islam, M. R. Self-­‐Organizing Map: The South Asian Monsoon Onset 10.20 AM GTU: ENGAGING, RECRUITING AND KEEPING ACTIVE, EXCEPTIONAL UNDERGRADUATES IN THE GEOGRAPHY HONORS SOCIETY Dix Organizers: Lucius, F. Hallett, IV and Lisa DeChano-­‐Cook Noon – 1.20 PM CHAIRS LUNCH @ THE KENT STATE HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER For all other participants, there is a list of restaurants in your conference package 7
1.20 PM – 3 PM HAZARDS, PREPAREDNESS, AND RECOVERY Chair: Rob Schwartz McGilvrey 1.20 pm Paganini, Z. B Underwater: Contesting Neoliberal Disaster Recovery through Counter-­‐Resilient Practices in Canarsie, Brooklyn 1.40 pm Phillips, M.C.K. Lightening and hurricane safety knowledge and the effects of education modes on elementary school children 2.00 pm Schwartz, R.M., Willett, S. L. and Neal, D.M. Preparedness and Response to Ebola Threat in Northeast Ohio 2.20 pm Paulikas, M.J., Schmidlin, T.W. and Marshall, Timothy, T.P. The stability of passenger vehicles at tornado wind intensities of the (enhanced) Fujita Scale URBAN FORTUNES IN NE OHIO Chair: Brian Mikelbank Kent 1.20 pm Broadway, M. Whither Cleveland? Changing Media Representations of Cleveland’s Urban Fortunes, 1985 to 2015 1.40 pm Chretien, N. S. and McCartney, R. Youngstown's Opportunity Sites Catalog 2.00 pm Chretien, N. S. and Wolfe, J.M. YSUscape -­‐ Students for Revitalization in Youngstown, OH 2.20 pm Mikelbank, B.A. Historic Preservation and Neighborhood Stability 8
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Chair: Patrick Lawrence Parta East 1.20 pm Lawrence, P. L. Why are there so many Golf Balls in that Dredged Sediment? Golf Courses and Environmental Impacts to the Ten Mile Creek/Ottawa River in Toledo, Ohio 1.40 pm McCool, J-­‐P. P Soil moisture assessment as a proxy for sediment/soil depth in shallow profile arid settings 2.00 pm Amador, N. Relating Supraglacial Melt Lake Count to Local and Synoptic Atmospheric Patterns 2.20 pm Rahman, Md., T., Uddin, Md., N; Islam, AKM, S; Hossain, Md., N and Hossain Md. A. Analyzing the variability of Rainfall Threshold Values for Drought Prognosis in Bangladesh ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Chair: Kelly Turner Parta West 1.20 pm Li, Q., and Ye, X. Measuring and Analyzing the Mixed Land Use of Shenzhen from 2009 to 2012 1.40 pm Schuch, L., Curtis, A. and Davidson, J. Providing context to childhood lead poisoning through novel geospatial methods 2.00 pm Sharag-­‐Eldin, A., and Ye, X. Predicting public perception on natural gas fracking operations 2.20 pm Vander Hulst, D.R. The Adoption and Diffusion of LEED Certification in the Great Lakes Region: 2008-­‐1015 2.40 pm Turner, V.K. and Rice, S. Social Network Analysis of Lake Erie HABs Organizations and Initiatives PANEL DISCUSSION: Commemorative Process of May 4, 1970, at Kent State Dix Organizer: Christopher Post Participants: Christopher Post , James Tyner, and Jerry Lewis 9
MAY 4TH TOURS 2.45 PM: GROUP 1 TO LEAVE FOR MAY 4TH CENTER Meet by registration desk 3.15 PM: GROUP 2 TO LEAVE FOR MAY 4TH CENTER Meet by registration desk 3 PM to 3.20 PM Coffee Break and Poster Session 3.20 PM – 5 PM HYDROLOGIC STRUCTURES OF VIOLENCE Chair: Jim Tyner Dix 3.20 pm Sirik, S. Everyday experiences of Cambodian Genocide Survivors in Landscapes of Violence in Cambodia 3.40 pm Kimsroy, S. Assessing the Impacts of a Hydropower Plant on the Livelihoods of Residents in Cambodia: The Case of the Sambor Project 4.00 pm Stasiuk, D. D. Structural Violence: The Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam, Guatemala. 4.20 pm Tyner, J. Cold War Geopolitics, Water Management, and the Khmer Rouge, 1975-­‐1979 4.40 pm Rice, S. Making capital hold water: theorizing structural violence through new ontologies of water 10
TRANSPORTATION ISSUES Chair: Tom Schmidlin Parta East 3.20 pm Akter, T., Ousky, J. and Alam, B. Route Restructuring of TARTA at Downtown Loop in Toledo, Ohio 3.40 pm Hasan, Md. M. Examining the Distributive Equity of Chicago's Divvy Bike-­‐share System: A comparative case study using multiple measures of accessibility 4.00 pm Hossen, Md. S. Sharmin, N., Mahmud, S., Hossain, Md. T. Analysis of on-­‐street parking Scenario of Motijheel Commercial Area 4.20 pm Schmidlin, T.W., and Rahman, M.K. Patterns of motorcycle ridership and helmet use in Dhaka, Bangladesh HAZARD SIMULATION Chair: Patrick Zhao Parta West 3.20 pm Zhao, H. Simulating Natural Distaters – An Integration Of Netlogo And R Statistical Environment 3.40 pm Yuxi Z. and Li, S. GIS-­‐Based Housing Design to Reduce Earthquake Risks 4.00 pm Zhu, L. Guikema, S. and Igusa, T. An agent-­‐based model simulating hurricane wind damage risk and people’s mitigation behaviors 5 PM – 6 PM Reception in hotel lobby 6 PM – 8 PM Conference Banquet and Awards Ceremony Guest Speaker: Sarah Bednarz, President of the AAG 11
POSTER PRESENTATIONS Adams, R., Neale, R. Alshammari, B.O. Szell, A.B. Anim-­‐Preko, S., Baker, K., Curtis, A., Kwasnik, M., Paul, R. Baltes, J., Cox, M., Gratonic, R., Lumpkin, J., Perkins, C., Simonis, M., Vance, J., Barnes, L.E. Chohaney, M., Panozzo, K. Devadoss, C., Fang, F., Ferrari, A., Kirk, D., Harris, T. Macqueen, E. Gates, C., J., Curtis, J.W. Grote, T., Donovan, V. Hill, A.L., Turner, K. Kofi-­‐Opata, E. Understanding the 2013 Boulder Flood: Assessing Extreme Precipitation Events and Future Climates in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Trends and patterns of Saudi Arabia outbound tourism Virtual streetscape audits using archival Google Street View imagery Spatial patterns in Medicaid funded disease screening rates across Michigan: The role of health plans Wright-­‐Dunbar Neighborhood The Geography of Chicago's Heat Island from 1995 to today Put your money where your mouse is: An extracurricular foray into the spatial dimension of Ashley Madison users’ monetary transactions and profile characteristics Toward sensuous GIS and immersive geospatial representations of place All Mapped Out: Land Use/Land Cover of Aquinas College Understanding adolescents’ perception of health in their communities using sketch maps A preliminary assessment of streamflow variability and associated atmospheric conditions in the Great Lakes Basin Expert and public perceptions of risk from toxic algae bloom outbreaks in Lake Erie: An analysis of conventional and social media Spatial patterns and trends in energy use and consumption in Africa: The case of biomass reliance in Ghana 12
Luke, J.A., Luke, B.T. Maghrabi, A.T. Hornyak, M. Murray, A.R.,Weaver, J.R; Kremer, F., Blackwood, K., McElmurry, A. Owusu, C., Baker, K., Curtis, A.B., Paul, R., Back, Y. Schoenherr, J., Baltes, J.; Cox, M.; Simonis, M.; Vance, J.; Martineau, A.; Hecht, S. Twum,E.A. Business Adherence to Level 3 Snow Emergencies in Toledo, Ohio during the Super Bowl Network Analysis of Police Station and Assault Crime Chicago, Illinois Education, Segregation, and Correlations in R. Estimating Private Domestic Well Use in The United States: A Pilot Study in Oklahoma Spatial and temporal patterns of chlamydia in Kalamazoo County using GIS ring map visualization technique Walkability Site suitability analysis for waste disposal facilities, Washington County, Vermont. 13