Spring 2012 Coffee Hour Schedule
January 13 Steven Maruszewski, Assistant Vice President, Physical Plant,
Penn State’s Green Initiatives
January 20 Trish Miller, Penn State Ecology Ph.D Candidate,
“Golden Eagle Migration in the Eastern U.S.”
January 27 Research by Fixed Term Faculty (organizing with Denice Wardrop)
February 3 Travis Tennessen, University of Wisconsin
“Trouble in Paradise: Conflict over Introduced Wildlife on Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago”
February 10 Nora Newcombe and Thomas Shipley, Temple University
February 17 Tom Colledge, Penn State Engineering Design
February 24 No Coffee Hour, AAG Annual Conference in NYC
March 2 No Coffee Hour, start of Spring Break
March 9 No Coffee Hour, Spring Break
March 16 Melissa Y. Rock, Postdoctoral Fellow from Dartmouth College
March 23 Larry Gorenflo, Penn State, Department of Landscape Architecture
“Conserving Biodiversity: Human Impacts, and Benefits, at Different Geographic Scales.”
March 30 Brian King, Penn State Department of Geography
"States of Disease: HIV/AIDS and Political Ecologies of Health"
April 6 FRONTIERS IN EARTH SYSTEMS ECOLOGY LECTURE
Jon Foley, University of Minnesota
Solutions for a Cultivated Planet: How can we find ways to feed a growing, changing world, while sustaining the global environment? (Host: Erica Smithwick, Co-Sponsored with Ecology and EESI)
April 13 Spring 2012 MILLER LECTURE
Geraldine Pratt, University of British Columbia
Temporary Foreign Workers and Their Children: (Neo)Liberal Compromises and theViolence of Inclusion
April 20 Lisa Mosca, Sharat Somashekara, Heather Zimmerman
Growing community capacity for urban production in Philadelphia:
City Harvest case studies and the Penn State High Tunnels Project
April 27 No Coffee Hour, Geography Award Reception and last day of classes
