UNT geography faculty and students presented research at the Annual Association of American Geographers Meeting in New York City.

Faculty and students from the UNT Department of Geography presented their research in a variety of sessions at the Association of American Geographers Meeting in New York City, 24-28 February 2012.

This sample of presentations demonstrates the interdisciplinary and diverse nature of UNT geography.

Faculty

Wei Liu (Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, CEODE), Chinese Academy of Sciences), Pinliang Dong (UNT). LiDAR data and volunteered geographic information for automated detection of road blockage in post-disaster scenarios

Alexandra Ponette-González (UNT), Holly Ewing (Bates College), Kenneth R. Young (UT Austin), C. Reid Ferring (UNT). Land-use Legacies in the Andes: Fire, Grazing, and Soil Chemistry across Treeline.

Murray D Rice (UNT), Donald I Lyons (University College Cork). Fast-Growing Firms and Urban-Economic Evolution: Change in Canada's Headquarters City-System, 1987-2005.

Sean Tierney (UNT). Shifting Power Centers: a post-WWII economic tale using a Fortune 500 lens.

Harry Williams (UNT). Regional Distribution and Magnitude of Hurricane Ike Storm Surge Deposition in Texas and Louisiana Coastal Marshes.

Joseph R Oppong, Predicting the Spatial Pattern of HIV/AIDS in Texas

Chetan Tiwari, Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Gas Well Drilling in North Texas: A Case Study of Denton County

Students

Allyssa Sobey and Matthew Fry (UNT). North Texan Responses to Natural Gas Drilling.

Emily Denlinger and Harry Williams (UNT). Preservation of Hurricane Ike Storm Surge Deposition in Texas and Louisiana Coastal Woodlands and Marshes.

Emmanuel Aggrey-Korsah, Researching Urban Slum Health in Nima, Ghana

David Ferring, Environmental and Behavioral Risk Factors for Buruli ulcer in Ghana: A Multi-Scalar Analysis

Stephanie Heald, HIV/AIDS Survival in Dallas and Harris Counties, Texas

Mara Hedrich, Wealth Gap-Health Gap and HIV in Adults Over 50 Years in Texas

Abhishek K. Kala, West Nile virus disease prediction modeling using GIS techniques

Haruna Miyakado, Association between Neighborhood safety and food deserts in Dallas

Jonathan B Rodriguez, Epidemiology of HIV Prevalence in Texas in the 25-49 Age group

Warangkana Ruckthongsook, The Impact of Land Use and Land Cover on the Spatial Distribution of Buruli Ulcer in Southwest Ghana

Janthima Srisombat, HIV/AIDS diagnosis rate, testing facilities, and Socioeconomic Status in Texas