Geography Departmental Colloquia
Fall 2012
Friday September 28, 4:00pm Brewster D-202
Department of Geography, East Carolina University
"Winter Weather Woes: Networks, Nodes, and Needs in School Decision-Making"
Friday October 19, 3:30pm Brewster D-202
Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University
"Shallow aquifers and surface water connections: Implications for coastal water quality'"
Friday November 30, 3:30pm Brewster C-206
Planning Program, Department of Geography, East Carolina University
"Transformed urban social morphology in the era of housing crisis...?: A case study of Cuyahoga County, Ohio'"
Spring 2012
Friday January 27, 4:00pm Brewster D-202 (co-sponsored with the Center for Sustainable Tourism)
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, University of Utah
"Exploring Fijian's sense of place after exposure to tourism development"
Friday February 3, 4:00pm Brewster D-202
Department of Geography, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
"Mainstreaming environment and development at the WTO? Fisheries subsidies and the elusive 'triple win'"
Friday March 23, 3:30pm Brewster D-202 (co-sponsored with the Center for Sustainable Tourism)
Department of Geography, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
"The economic geography of the tourist industry by U.S. metropolitan area: Can tourism leverage the creative class?"
Friday April 20, 4:00pm Brewster D-202
Department of Geography, East Carolina University
"Bridge over troubled water: Linking physical and human geography epistemologies to assess climate change and agriculture in Jamaica"
Fall 2011
Friday September 16, 3:00pm Brewster C-206
Department of Geography, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
"Bridging Environmental and Transportation Planning: Lessons from the Mid-Currituck Bridge Project"
Friday September 30, 3:00pm Brewster C-206
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
"Enhancing temporal resolution of satellite imagery for public health studies: A case study of West Nile Virus outbreak in Los Angeles in 2007"
Friday October 21, 3:00pm Brewster C-206
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"TBD"
Friday November 4, 4:00pm Brewster C-206
Duke University, Durham, NC
"Summer Rainfall Anomalies over the Southeast US"
Spring 2011
Friday January 21, 3:00pm Brewster C-206
Rodger Lentz, AICP
Director of Planning and Development Service, Wilson, NC
"Revitalizing Wilson's center city: A planning and economic development challenge"
Friday February 18, 3:00pm Brewster C-206
Dr. Qingfang Wang
UNC Charlotte Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and UNCC Urban Institute
"Ethnic entrepreneurship, immigration, and place: From a multi-scaled and comparative approach"
Friday March 18, 3:00pm Brewster C-206
Dr. Tom Birkland
WIlliam T. Kretzer Professor of Public Policy, North Carolina State University
"Will we ever learn from disasters? Disturbing trends and hopeful signs"
Friday April 1, 3:00pm Brewster C-206
Dr. Tom Rickenbach
Department of Geography, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
"Monsoon in the Americas: Comparing water resource strategies in the western U.S. and in southern Brazil"
Fall 2010
Wednesday September 8, 3:30pm Brewster B-102
Dr. Jennifer Mandel
Director of Research and Evaluation, Internews Haiti
"Disaster Relief, Recovery, and Community Response: The critical role of Information in Haiti"
Friday October 22, 3:30pm Brewster C-206
Dr. Keqi ZhangFlorida International University, Co-Director of the Laboratory for Coastal Research, International Hurricane Research Center
"Nonlinear Sea Level Rise Inundation and its Policy Implication for South Florida"
Friday November 12, 3:30pm Brewster C-206
Dr. John KupferUniversity of South Carolina, Department of Geography
"Linking floodplain inundation modeling to ecosystem patterns and processes in southern floodplain forests"
