9:00

Welcome, coffee, refreshments

9:30

Keynote: Petra Tschakert (PSU Geography): "Geographers' role in knowledge production inside and outside of academia"

10:15

Human Geography
Maureen Biermann (PSU Geography): "Theatrical Space and Alternative Realities: Performance as a Research Tool for Social Change" [abstract]
Andrei Israel (PSU Geography), Raymond Tutu (PSU Geography), Yasong Wang (PSU, Recreation, Park and Tourism Management): "Challenges of International Students at Penn State: A Participatory Research Project" [abstract]
Edward Heath Robinson (The University at Buffalo, Geography): "What 'Is_a' State?" [abstract]
Peter D. Howe (PSU Geography): "Newsworthy spaces: media coverage of municipalities in a metropolitan area" [abstract]
Darrell Fuhriman (PSU Geography): "Dangerous Donations: discarded electronics in Accra, Ghana" [abstract]
Jessica Lehman (PSU Geography): "Environmental justice, health social services, and the voices of the marginalized: The case of health insurance for small-scale gold miners in Ghana" [abstract]

12:30

Poster Introductions and Lunch
M. Thomas Auer (PSU Geography): "Mapping Data-specific Avian Distributions Using Cartographic Techniques" [abstract]
Jared Oyler (PSU Geography): "The Effect of Wildfire Severity on Boreal Vegetation Succession in Interior Alaska" [abstract]
Neal Trump, Megan McIntosh (US Military Academy): "Political/Military geography themed poster of the Unified Command Plan" [abstract]
James Blackwell (US Military Academy): "Increasing lake effect snow in the Great Lakes region?" [abstract]

1:30

GIScience
Michael Stryker (PSU Geography): "Health GeoJunction: Web Portal for Tracking Infectious Disease Threats and Related Science" [abstract]
Rui Li (PSU Geography): "Does sex determine wayfinding abilities? The role of environment and sex-related spatial abilities on wayfinding in an unfamiliar environment" [abstract]
Adam Naito (PSU Geography): "An Ecological Assessment of Urban Sprawl in Unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado" [abstract]
Robert Roth (PSU Geography): "The involvement of uncertainty in the creation, representation, and use of geospatial data in the domain of floodplain mapping." [abstract]

3:00

Community and Development
Destiny Aman (PSU Geography): "The Mystery of the Mobile Home: A Geographic Investigation of Mobile Homes in Rural Pennsylvania" [abstract]
Nicole Laliberte (PSU Geography): "Conceptions of Community During Amenity-Based Development: A Case Study" [abstract]
Sean Bennett (Cornell University, City and Regional Planning) "Partnering with Neighborhoods: An Assessment of Binghamton, NY's Neighborhood Pact Initiative" [abstract]
Melissa Yang Rock (PSU Geography): "Commodification and Gentrification: Hutongs of 'Old Beijing'" [abstract]

4:30

Panel: Surviving Grad School
Jamison Conley (PSU Geography)
Tim Frazier (PSU Geography)
Jessica Hayes-Conroy (PSU Geography)
Valerie Sebestyen (PSU Geography)