PSU | Department of Geography | Coffee Hour: Spring 2009 schedule

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Coffee Hour

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 319 Walker Building, then settle down to listen to our guest speaker from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in 112 Walker Building. All members of the Penn State and Centre County community are welcome.

	January 16 Tom Richard Director of the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment “After Abundance: Multi-functional Agriculture for a Carbon Constrained World”
	January 23 Kamini Singha, assistant professor Department of Geosciences, Penn State “Lies my hydrogeology teachers told me: Quantifying anomalous solute transport behavior in heterogeneous environments”
	January 30 Ben Marsh, professor Environmental Geography/Mapping Bucknell University “Revealing cryptic municipal discrimination: Applications in research and law”
	February 6 Andrew Carleton, professor Department of Geography Penn State “Refurb climatology: Polar lows, reanalyses, et la teleconnexion française”
	February 13 Ken Tamminga, professor Department of Landscape Architecture, Penn State “Off-road and engaged: Collaborative research for resilient Himalayan communities”
	February 20 Diane Austin, associate professor Department of Anthropology University of Arizona Community-Based Participatory Research: Linking Study to Action”
	February 27 David Schlosberg, professor Department of Politics and International Affairs Northern Arizona University “Environmental Justice, Capabilities and Community Functioning”
	March 6 Anthony Robinson Research associate, GeoVISTA Center Department of Geography, Penn State “Research and Reflection on Synthesizing Geographic Information”
	March 13 No Coffee Hour (spring break)
	March 20 Ruth DeFries, Denning Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology Columbia University ”Changing Dynamics of Tropical Deforestation and Implications for Atmospheric Carbon”
	March 27 No Coffee Hour (AAG)
	April 3 No Coffee Hour (Pennsylvania Geographic Bee)
	April 10 Erica Smithwick, assistant professor Department of Geography, Penn State “Influence of Disturbance and pattern on landscape C storage: Consequences for ecosystem models”
	April 17 Chris Uhl, professor Department of Biology, Penn State “Teaching as if Life Matters!”
	April 24 MILLER LECTURE Paul Longley, professor of Geographic Information Science Department of Geography, University College London “Some developments in the specification, estimation and testing of geodemographic models”
	May 1 Lorraine Dowler, associate professor Departments of Geography, Women’s Studies, Penn State “Frontlines: Gendered Traditions of War”

For more information, please contact Andrew Carleton or Petra Tschakert.