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The article discusses the value of human connection and community, drawing parallels to stories from literature and film. It highlights the success of the Southeastern Geographer journal, which receives exceptional contributions from scholars studying topics relevant to the American South. The journal's success is attributed to organizational support, positive experiences, and a nurturing editorial approach. The article also provides summaries of papers on topics such as office space developments following the COVID-19 pandemic, socioeconomic inequality among immigrant populations, the distribution of cooling centers in the Southeastern United States, and the relationship between gentrification and police-involved fatalities in Florida. Additionally, it discusses the strengths and roles of regional geography organizations, with the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG) being described as the most robust. [Extracted from the article]

• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has altered the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) river system. • Past and current Army Corps projects in the ACF contour legal conflicts between states. • Florida v. Georgia invites future geographic engagement with the history and practices of engineers in the ACF. This paper examines the role of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) in a recent Supreme Court case, Florida v. Georgia , concerning water allocation in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) river basin. Although several non-federal, run-of-the-river hydropower dams exist on the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers, the system of five federal dams operated by the Corps most profoundly impacts the flow regime of the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola rivers. While the Corps was not a party in Florida v. Georgia , findings throughout the legal proceedings demonstrated the centrality of the Corps to contemporary politics and conflicts in the ACF. We propose the results of Florida v. Georgia can serve as inspiration for geographers studying the ACF river basin and other transboundary rivers to analytically and politically engage with experts and technical knowledge in new ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historically, dense vegetation cover near buildings has caused power disruptions during weather phenomena. These types of severe storms impact the coast of Florida each year. However, challenges exist for obtaining both power outage data and calculating the impact of tree cover. NASA's Nighttime Lights, Black Marble, VNP46 product is utilized to analyze the natural and built environments. One aspect of the built environment that can be mapped with the Black Marble data is the megawatts of electricity used by the electrical power grid based on the magnitude of emitted nighttime light energy. This paper discusses using Black Marble data and other landscape variables within a probabilistic model to examine spatial patterns and map electricity outages with Bayesian networks. The research results indicate a high probability of a significant power outage when dense vegetation is present, but nuances in our natural and built environments like electric substations and land cover type alter the chance of reducing energy emissions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper recounts struggles over a Confederate monument in Tampa, Florida. Dedicated in 1911 to white supremacy and "undying love" of the Confederate cause, by 2017 the monument hung in the balance of contestations over landscape, power, and city form between anti-racist social justice movements, white nationalist neo-Confederates, and post-racial neoliberal boosters. Drawing on urban political economy, regional history, and discourse analysis, we read the fight over the monument as a flashpoint in ongoing struggles over the racialization of urban space and over regional political realignments. We trace differences among the monuments' opponents over whether its removal heralds a closing or opening of struggles for racial justice, and delineate tensions emerging among Southern white nationalists over a position with one foot searching for continued purchase in hegemonic cultures of American nationalism and militarism, and another newly planted among ascendant neoliberal-multicultural paradigms. Este artículo relata las luchas por un monumento confederado en Tampa, Florida. Dedicado en 1911 a la supremacía blanca y al "amor eterno" de la causa confederada, en el 2017 el monumento se coló en el balance de las disputas sobre el paisaje, el poder y la ciudad entre los movimientos de justicia social antirracistas, los nacionalistas blancos neo-confederados y los impulsores neoliberales pos-raciales. Usando la economía política urbana, la historia regional y el análisis del discurso, leemos la lucha por el monumento como un punto crítico en las luchas sobre la racialización del espacio urbano y sobre los realineamientos políticos regionales. Analizamos las raíces de los differencias entre los opositores de los monumentos que si su eliminación anuncia un cierre o apertura de las luchas por la justicia racial, y delimitamos las tensiones que surgen entre los nacionalistas blancos del sur sobre una posición con interés en busca de una compra continua en las culturas hegemónicas del nacionalismo y el militarismo estadounidense y otro recién plantado entre paradigmas neoliberales-multiculturales ascendentes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For the latter half of the twentieth century Florida was noted as a preferred destination for interstate migrants. However, during 2008–09, Florida had a net loss of 31,000 interstate migrants. This loss of interstate migrants followed the economic recession and housing collapse of 2007–08. This paper explores the effect of the housing collapse on in-, out-, and net interstate migration for the counties of Florida for 2008–09 and 2013–14 using the Internal Revenue Service Migration Files. Ordinary Least Squares Regression was applied to determine the variables that affected interstate in-, out-, and net migration for the two time periods. Net migration rates revealed that counties with the greatest housing value declines and the greatest loss in employment lost migrants during 2008–09. This loss could be attributed to the out-migration of interstate migrants from counties experiencing the housing crisis and the reluctance of interstate migrants to select counties that experienced the brunt of housing collapse. For 2013–14, the highest net migration rates accrued to counties experiencing the lowest housing value increases. This suggests that in the case of Florida, net migration favors counties that are less likely to experience rapid increases (as in 2013–14) and rapid decreases (2008–09) in housing values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on a peculiar event that occurred in Biscayne Bay in January 2011, when a grand piano appeared on a sandbar 200 yards (183 m) east of Miami Shores, Florida. After several days, a teen-aged art college applicant revealed to the press that he had placed the piano there as a piece of art. News coverage of the event shows that the mysterious placement of the piano on the sandbar was not universally appreciated, but was viewed as a highly controversial and provocative act relating to cultural discourses of nature and art, authority, public space, and transgression. The event provides an example of the ways in which the media designate events as noteworthy and influence the representation of places and people's relationships to them. Drawing upon the long-established links between art and geography, this paper discusses the piano bar in terms of the potential for intersections of modern art and geography to alter ordinary perceptions and experiences of everyday places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geographers have long been interested in Southern studies and social justice is a common theme in this literature. Traditionally, social justice writing has focused on the plight of the poor and ethnic minorities. Yet human-environment interaction, sustainability, and Florida seldom appear in studies of the American South. This paper advocates the development of a critical water geography of the South that expands the concepts of social justice/ social equity to include what I call "established residents" of a place. Much of the South (and especially Florida) has experienced significant population growth in recent years, and although such growth has benefited some people, it has brought negative consequences for many others-such as rising costs for water. State and local leaders in Florida and the rest of the South have long thought in terms of developing additional water supplies to meet the demands of growing populations. Such a stance now often requires investment in costly infrastructure and more expensive sources of water. Rather than assign these costs to their source (recent and future migrants to a place), such expenses are usually spread across entire regions in the form of higher rates for water. I suggest that geographers interested in Southern studies build a critical water geography based on an expansion of the concepts of social justice/ social equity to include not just people of color and the economically disadvantaged-but the plight of many established residents in the middle class who are asked to pay more for water to accommodate continuing population growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines Florida's response to the globalization of the shrimp industry. The U.S. shrimp market has been dramatically transformed by the expansion of aquaculture-produced shrimp in Asia and Latin America as processing and transportation technologies deliver this high-value food to U.S. markets. Florida shrimpers sell wild-caught shrimp sourced from the ocean and are experiencing great difficulty competing with the cheaper imports. The State of Florida developed the ''Wild and Wonderful Shrimp'' Program as a response to this situation and to aid Florida shrimpers. This program illustrates a role for the state as a promoter and facilitator—that is, a purveyor for the Florida shrimp industry. We examine the ''Wild and Wonderful Shrimp'' Program and its geographic strategy to influence how consumers think about shrimp as a way to shape the market to benefit Florida shrimpers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to answer several questions addressing the provision of health care services in the Jacksonville, Florida MSA. Previous literature in the field of medical geography has focused on describing potential accessibility to hospitals and healthcare services, but this study also models actual use of such services by using a hospital patient database. Findings from a GIS-based analysis using ESRI ArcGIS and the Business Analyst extension suggests that distance to the nearest hospital is not the best measure of access to hospital care because of the lack of consideration of hospital capacity. This study demonstrates that health services delivery can be better understood and planned when the potential accessibilities to services and the actual utilization of such services are jointly considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1999, Florida instituted a performance-based school accountability program for K-12 public schools that tied state funds to a formula heavily weighted towards standardized test scores. This paper discusses the educational and political issues in the debate and then quantitatively compares the stated goals with the program's actual award money flows through a combination of univariate and multivariate measures. This case study of the elementary schools in Jacksonville, Florida finds that the new system allocated public funds with a bias against predominantly African- American and poor neighborhoods while not necessarily meeting its own objectives of encouraging better teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several regular papers discussed at the 60th annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers held at the West Palm Beach in Florida from November 20-22, 2005 is presented. During the event, Steve Birdsall from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been chosen as the recipient for the Wheeler Award for the first paper submission.