You are invited to attend any or all of our weekly series of presentations. We begin
gathering after 3:30 p.m. almost every Friday for conviviality, coffee, and other goodies, then settle down
to listen to our guest speaker from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in 112 Walker Building. All members of the Penn State and Centre
County community are welcome.
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September 15
Andrew Carleton
Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, Penn State
"Influence of the Land Surface on Midwest U.S. Summer Climate"
Preparatory Readings:
-Relations between Soil Moisture and Satellite Vegetation Indices in the U.S. Corn Belt
-Summer Season Land Cover - Convective Cloud Associations for the Midwest U.S. "Corn Belt" |
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September 22
Etien Koua
Research Associate, GeoVISTA Center, Penn State
"GIS and Visualization Tools for Monitoring Public Health Interventions: A Case of Rwanda HIV/AIDS and the Scaling up of Antiretroviral Therapy" |
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September 29
Michael Mann
Associate Professor, Department of Meteorology, Penn State
"The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, Climate Change, and Atlantic Hurricanes
Preparatory Readings:
-Atlantic Hurricane Trends Linked to Climate Change
-A Signature of Persistent Natural Thermohaline Circulation Cycles in Observed Climates
-Academy Affirms Hockey-stick Graph
-Report Affirms 'Hockey Stick' Climate Change Data; UMass Amherst Climate Scientist Comments
-CNN Fact Checks Inhofe’s Diatribe Against Global Warming Science
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October 6
No Coffee Hour - Study Day
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October 13
Sandra Morgen
Professor, Department of Geography and Department of Women's Studies, Penn State
"The Politics of Visibility and the U.S. Welfare State"
Preparatory Readings:
-The Agency of Welfare Workers: Negotiating Devolution, Privatization, and the Meaning of Self-Sufficiency
-The Anthropology of Welfare "Reform": New Perspectives on U.S. Urban Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
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October 20
Lakshman Yapa
Professor, Department of Geography, Penn State
"Will the Poor Always be With US? Reflections on Public Scholarship and Discourse Theory"
Preparatory Readings:
-“How the Discipline of Geography Exacerbates Poverty in the Third World.” |
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October 27
Miller Lecture
Barry Smit
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change, Department of Geography, University of Guelph
Title: "So What of Climate Change: The Science and Practice of Holistic Geography"
Preparatory Readings:
-"Adaptation, Adaptive Capacity, and Vulernability" |
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November 3
Mark Monmonier
Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
"Geospatial Technology: Tools, Weapons, and Unintended Consequences"
Preparatory Readings:
-"Faith-Based Cartography"
-"POMP and Circumstance: Plain Old Map Products in a Cybercartographic World" |
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November 10
Bob Gardner
Center for Environmental Science, University of Maryland
"Why Ecologists Love Geography"
Preparatory Readings:
-"Neutral Models for Testing Landscape Hypotheses"
-"Model Validation and Testing: Past Lessons, Present Concerns, Future Prospects"
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November 17
Alan MacEachren
Professor, Department of Geography, Penn State
"Turning Data into Knowledge through GeoVisual Analytics" |
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November 24
No Coffee Hour - Thanksgiving Holiday
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December 1
Bryan Grenfell
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Department of Biology, Penn State
"Infectious Disease Dynamics in Space and Time" |
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December 8
Bill Easterling
Professor, Department of Geography, Penn State
"Dirty Crystal Balls: Sources of Uncertainty Underlying Projections of Climate Change Effects on Human-Dominated Systems" |
