Yining Tan, University of Arizona, “Im/mobility of Skilled U.S. Migrants in China: A Capital-mobility and Intersectional Analysis”

Changzhen Wang, University of Alabama, “Overlapping Cancer Service Areas: Delineation and Implications”

Gengchen Mai, University of Georgia, “Towards General-Purpose Representation Learning of Polygonal Geometries”

Hilary Faxon, University of California Berkeley, Welcome to the digital village: networking geographies of agrarian change.

Daniela Aiello, Queen’s University, “A colonial genealogy of eviction: racialized dispossesion in Atlanta and Vancouver.”

Ziqi Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “Computational Improvements to Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression.”

Marynia Kolak, University of Chicago, “Distilling the Effect of the Great Recession on Food Access in a Segregated City: A Spatial, Quasi-Experimental Approach”

Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson, California State University – Sacramento, “Paleolandscape modeling support for a potential pre-Columbian Anthropocene in the southern Sierra Nevada, California”

Pronoy Rai, Portland State University, “Seasonal Masculinities: Seasonal Labor Migration and Masculinities in Rural Western India”

Bisola Falola, Ph.D., Univerrsity of Texas – Austin, “Terrains of Trauma – Urban Youth and Policies of Disinvestment”

Qunshan Zhao, Ph.D., Arizona State University, “Impact of tree locations and arrangements on outdoor microclimates and human thermal comfort in an urban residential environment”

Case Watkins, Ph.D., Louisiana State University, “Complex landscapes in the African diaspora: Five centuries of palm oil development on Bahia’s Dende Coast”

Kimberley Thomas, Ph.D., Rutgers University. “The River-Border Complex: Governing Flows in South Asia”

John Paul Catungal, Ph.D, University of British Columbia. “Therapeutic spaces as political geographies: performing ethno-specificity in sexual health promotion.”

Martha Bell, Ph.D, Pennsylvania State University. “Historical Political Ecology of Water: Municipal Water Governance in Colonial Lima, Peru (1578-1700).

Joseph Holler, PhD, University of Buffalo. “Is Sustainable Adaptation Possible? Determinants of Adaptation on Mount Kilimanjaro.”

Daehyun Kim, PhD, University of Kentucky. “Fluvial-Geomorphic Processes of Salt Marsh Creeks Shape Spatial Trends in Vegetation by Complicating Environmental Stress Gradients.”

Clark Gray, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008. “Environment, Land and Rural Out-Migration in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes.”

Tina Mangieri, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007. “African cloth, export production, and secondhand clothing in Kenya.”

Chris S. Duvall, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006. “Settlement ecology and chimpanzee habitat in Mali.”

Lawrence Kiage, PhD, Louisiana State University, 2007. “Vegetation Change and Land Degradation in the Lake Baringo Basin, Kenya, East Africa: Evidence from the Paleorecord.”

Xuwei Chen, PhD, Texas State University, San Marcos, 2006. “Microsimulation of Hurricane Evacuation Strategies of Galveston Island.”

Julie Silva, PhD, Rutgers University, 2005. “Neoliberalization and inequality in Mozambique: A Case study in the use of iterative mixed methods.”

Matthew Peros, PhD, University of Toronto, 2005. “Middle to Late Holocene Environmental Change and Archaeology on the North Coast of Central Cuba.”

Lynn M. Resler, PhD, Texas State University, 2004. For her dissertation research concerned with the dynamics and processes that influence alpine treeline spread across multiple spatial scales.

David Carr, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2002. “Examining the Proximate and Underlying Causes of Tropical Deforestation: Migration and Land Use in the Sierra de Lacazndon National Park, Guatemala.”

Martin Doyle, PhD, Purdue University, 2002. “Geomorphic and Ecological Impacts of Dam Removal.”

Jennifer Miller, PhD, San Diego State University and University of California Santa Barbara, 2003. “Incorporating Spatial Dependence in Predictive Vegetation Models: Residual Interpolation Methods.”

Carl Reese, PhD, Louisiana University, 2003. “A 25,000 Year High Resolution Pollen Record from the Sajama Ice Cap, Bolivia.”

Deborah Feder, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2001. “Rethinking U.S. Energy Use with End-Use Analysis and Regional Geography.”

Shanti Gamper Rabindran, PhD, Rockefeller University, 2001. “The Role of Large and Small Landholders during Indonesia’s Land Fires: A GIS-Econometric Analysis of Satellite, Land Use, and Spatial Data.”

Wendy Wolford, PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 2001. “This Land is Ours Now: Social Movement Formation and Struggle for Land in Brazil.”

Douglas Deur, PhD, Louisiana State University, 2000. “Traces of Plant Cultivation on the ‘Non-Agricultural” Northwest Coast.”

Honorable mentions to Betsy Donald, PhD, University of Toronto, 2000. “The Permeable City: Toronto’s Spatial Shift at the Turn of the Millennium;” and to Martin Roberge, PhD, Arizona State University, 1999. “Bridge Design along the Lower Salt River.”

Derek H. Alderman, PhD, University of Georgia, 1998. “A Street Fit for a King: Naming Places and Scaling Memory in the American South.”

Donald A. Friend, PhD, Arizona State University, 1997. “Evolution of Desert Colluvial Boulder Fields, Eastern California.”

Wei Li, PhD, University of Southern California, 1997. “Spatial Transformation of an Urban Ethnic Community: From Chinatown to Chinese Ethnoburb in Los Angeles.”

Karen E. Till, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996. “Place and the Politics of Memory: A Geo-Ethnography of Museums and Memorials in Berlin.”

Meghan Cope, PhD, University of Colorado, 1995. “Households and Structuration of Place: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1920 1939.”

Stephen E. Silvern, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995. “Spatial Ideologies and the Politics of Wisconsin Ojibwe Treaty Rights: Negotiating State Tribal Relations.”

Steve Herbert, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, 1995. “Territoriality and the Police.”

David McGinnis, PhD, Penn State University, 1994. “Downscaling Techniques for Snowfall Prediction in Global Change Studies.”

Francis Harvey, PhD, University of Washington, 1996. “Geographic Integration: From Holism to System.”

Normand E. Bergeron, PhD, SUNY Buffalo, 1994. “Stream Bed Roughness and Resistance to Flow in Natural Gravel Bed Streams.”

Andrew J. Herod, Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1992. “Workers as Geographers: The Production of Space in the East Coast Longshore Industry Since 1955.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1994)

Anne K. Knowles, Ph.D., University Wisconsin Madison, 1993. “The Making of Ethnic Capitalists.” Usha Natarajan, Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1992. “Economics of Screening for Pesticides in Ground Water.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1994)

Andrew C. Comrie, Ph.D., Penn State University, 1992. “Tracking the Ill Wind of Ozone that Blows Pennsylvania’s Forests No Good: A Climatology of AirMass Trajectories.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1993)

Cynthia Brewer, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1991. “Prediction of Surround Effects on Map Color Appearance: Model Evaluation.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1992)

John Wolcott, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1990. “Flume Studies of Gravel Bed Surface Response to Flowing Water.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1992)

Norman Meek, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 1990. “Evolution of the Mojave River Drainage Basin: Implications for Regional Landscape Development.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1991)

Anne E. Mosher, Ph.D., Penn State University, 1989. “Environmentalism, Corporate Capital, and the Creation of a Model Town.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1991)

Jan Nijman, Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1990. “A Political Geography of US Soviet Competition, 1948-1988: The Value of A Spatial Perspective.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1991)

Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Ph.D., University of Canterbury, 1989. “The Age, Origin and Pathway of Subsurface Stormflow.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1990)

Bernard Bauer, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1988. “Process Response Relationships in a Lacustrine Nearshore.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1989)

Karen A. Lemke. Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1988. “An Evaluation of Box Jenkins Models of Suspended Sediment Concentration.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1989)

David W. May, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Madison, 1986. “Holocene Alluviation and Erosion in the South Loup Valley, Nebraska.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1988)

Katherine K. Hirschboeck, Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1985. “Temporal and Spatial Implications of Mixed Distributions in Arizona Flood Series.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1987)

Patrick McGreevy, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1984. “Visions at the Brink: Imagination and Geography at Niagara Falls.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1986)

Valerian Titus Noronha, Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 1985. “Functional Regions and Spatial Interaction: the Black/White Model.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1986)

John F. O’Leary, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles. “Environmental Factors Influencing Post Burn Vegetation in a Southern California Shrubland.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1986)

Carl G. Amrhein, Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo, 1984. “The Effects of Job Advertising Policies on Interregional Labor Migration.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1985)

Nancy Ettlinger, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1984. “Towards a Clarification of Regional Economic Change: The United States as a Case Study, 1962 1980.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1985)

Margaret I. Fitzsimmons, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 1983. “Consequences of Agricultural Industrialization: Environmental & Social Change.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1985)

Douglas J. Sherman, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1983 “Longshore Currents: A Stress Balance Approach.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1985)

Rebecca Lou Smith, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1982. “Creating Neighborhood Identify Through Citizen Activism.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1984)

Frank H. Weirich, Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1982. “The Use of An Integrated, Three Dimensional Instrument System to Study Sedimentation Processes in a Glacial Lake.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1984)

David R. Butler, Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1982. “Late Pleistocene Paleoenvironments as Interpreted from Palynological Analysis of Glacial Tills.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1983)

Kam-Biu Liu, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1982. “Post Glacial Displacements of the Boreal Forest of Great Lakes St. Lawrence Forest Ecotone in Northern Ontario.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1983)

Susan M. Macey, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1982. “A Causal Model of the Adoption of Home Heating Energy Conservation Measures.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1983)

Peter A. Rogerson, Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo, 1982. ”Aggregate Approaches to Migration Modeling.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1983)

Morton E. O’Kelly, Ph.D., McMaster University, 1981. “The Impact of Multistop Multipurpose Trips on Spatial Interaction and Retail Distribution.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1982)

Rebecca S. Roberts, Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1982. “The Effects of LargeLot Zoning on Housing Prices.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1982)

A. Stewart Fotheringham, Ph.D., McMaster University, 1980. “Spatial Structure, Spatial Interaction, and Distance Decay Parameters.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1981)

Mickey Lauria, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1980. “Marxian Rent Theory and Strategies for Neighborhood Redevelopment.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1981)

Richard A. Marston, Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1980. “The Geomorphic Significance of Log Steps in Forest Streams.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1981)

Hazel A. Morrow Jones, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1980. “The Spatial Impact of Federal Mortgage Insurance.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1981)

Daniel A. Griffith, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1978. “Towards A Theory of Spatial Statistics.” Robert S. Hayden, PhD, University of Georgia, 1979. “Road Drainage and Equilibrium in Small Stream Basins.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1980)

Robert S. Hayden, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1979. “Road Drainage and Equilibrium in Small Stream Basins.” (J. Warren Nystrom Award, 1980)