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 in the EMS Museum, then settle down
to listen to our guest speaker from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in 22 Deike Building. All members of the Penn State and Centre
County community are welcome. Click here for a .pdf version.
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January 19
Mark Gahegan
Professor, Associate Director of GeoVISTA, Department of Geography, Penn State Unviersity
"Utilizing Cyberinfrastructure to Support United Nations Disaster Relief Efforts"
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January 26
Andrew Scholl
Department of Geography, Penn State
"Reading Nature's History Book: Reconstructing 19th Century Vegetation Dynamics in Yosemite National Park" |
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February 2
Bruce Jones
Chief Scientist for Geography, United States Geological Survey
"Multiple scale relationships of landscape characteristics and Nitrogen concentrations in streams across a large geographic region"
NOTE: Reception will be held in 8 Deike
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February 9
Michael Saunders
Department of Entomology, Penn State University
"The Outreach of Knowledge: Extending specialized expertise to the non-specialist-NetWeaver"
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February 16
Richard Marston
Department of Geography, Kansas State University
"Geographers Collaborating to Solve Complex Environmental Problems"
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February 23
Ruth Gilmore
Associate Professor of Geography and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Title: "The Prison Industrial Complex after Twenty-Five Years"
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March 2
R. Gil Pontius
Department of Geography, Clark University
"Quantitative and Visual Map Comparisons for Geographic Model Validation"
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March 9
No Coffee Hour - Spring Break
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March 16
No Coffee Hour - Spring Break
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March 23
Michael Goodchild
Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara
"What Has GIS Done to Geography?"
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March 30
Julie Guthman
Department of Community Studies, UC Santa Cruz
"Putting Obesity in (Its) Place: Towards an Explanation of
Geographical Variation in US Fatness and Thinness"
Co-sponsored by Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
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April 6
Konrad Steffen
Director, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder
Miller Lecture:"Changes in the Arctic Ice Cover - Greenland Ice Sheet and Surrounding Oceans" |
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April 13
Jane Read
Department of Geography, Syracuse University
"Biodiversity dynamics and land-use changes in the Amazon: an interdisciplinary project"
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April 20
No Coffee Hour - AAG Conference in San Francisco
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April 27
Neil Brenner
Director, Metropolitan Studies Program, Departments of Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
Urban governance and the production of new state spaces in western Europe
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