Over the course of the semester we were assigned to review and present three papers which were from each of the three main course topics. In conjunction with Camille Potier, my partner, we reviewed papers on the topics of patch isolation metrics, hot spots in drug mortality, and predictive mapping of sex offenders.
Paper Review 1-Landscape Ecology & GIS
Bender, D. J., Tischendorf, L., & Fahrig, L. (2003). Using patch isolation metrics to predict animal movement in binary landscapes. Landscape Ecology, 18(1), 17-39. 10.1023/A:1022937226820
Paper Review 2- Health Geography & GIS
Rossen, Lauren M., Diba Khan, and Margaret Warner. “Hot Spots in Mortality from Drug Poisoning in the United States, 2007-2009.” Health & Place, vol. 26, 2014, pp. 14-20.
Paper Review 3-Crime Analysis & GIS
Downs, J. A. (2016). Mapping sex offender activity spaces relative to crime using time-geographic methods. Annals of GIS, 22(2), 141-150. 10.1080/19475683.2016.1147495