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Geography Events - Spring 2008

Wednesday, January 30th, 11:00AM in Grace Executive Conference Room

Morgan Grove (University of Vermont)
“The Path from Theory to Methods and to Applications in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES): Social Stratification, Lifestyle Preferences, Parcel Analyses, and a Doubling of Baltimore's Urban Tree Canopy.”
GSG Lecture Series & HERO

Wednesday, January 30th, 3:00PM in Jefferson Academic Center Room 222

Weiqi Zhou (University of Vermont)
"From Pixels to Patches: Object-based Image Analysis in Urban Ecosystems"
GSG Lecture Series & HERO

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Tuesday, February 19, 9am, Libby Lounge, Geography Building, Room 104

Thomas Millette (Mount Holyoke College)
"Precision Tasked Remote Sensing: Approaching Assessments with High Spatial, Temporal, and Radiometric Resolution Multispectral Imagery"

Tuesday, February 12th, 3pm, Lurie Conference Room

Marianna Pavlovskaya (Hunter College of The City University of New York)
"From a missing object to a mapping subject: Remaking the world with a GIS"
GSG Lecture Series

Friday, March, 28th, 3:30pm, Lurie Conference Room

Friday, May 2nd

Fall 2007

Monday, September 10th at 5:00PM in Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts

John Holdren
Geographical Concepts in the Academy: Sustainability, GIS and the World
"Science, Technology and the Sustainability Challenge"
President's Lecture
          Reception to Follow 

Tuesday, September 11th, 10:00AM in Grace Conference Room

Panel Discussion:  Sustainability Science
Moderator: David P. Angel
Remarks: Robert W. Kates, Ralph Cicerone
Panelists: Roger E. Kasperson, Susan E. Hanson, B. L. Turner II, John P. Holdren

Tuesday, September 11th, 1:30pm in Grace Conference Room

Panel Discussion:  Geographical Information Sciences for Sustainability
Moderator: Susan E. Hanson
Remarks: Michael F. Goodchild, J. Ronald Eastman
Panelists: R. Gilmore Pontius, Douglas Richardson, Jack Dangermond

          Biographies of Panelists
 

Friday, September 28th, 1:30pm in Lurie Conference Room, Higgins University Center

Cort Willmott (University of Delaware)
"Geostatistical: issues in estimating and mapping climate and climatic change from weather station records"
Graduate School of Geography Lecture Series  & IDCE
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Tuesday, October 16th, 7pm in Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center

Atwood Lecture
Ruth DeFries (University of Maryland)
"Transforming Landscapes from the Amazon to India"
Atwood Lecture Series
          Reception to Follow

Wednesday, October 17th, 12pm in Jefferson Academic Center, Room 218

Atwood Colloquium
"Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation: Science Meets Policy"
Atwood Lecture Series
 

Friday, November 2nd, 3:30pm Lasry Center for the Biosciences Room 237

Richard Walker (University of California Berkeley)
"The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area"
Reception to follow at Marsh Institute
GSG Lecture Series
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Thursday, November 29th,12:15pm Jefferson Academic Center Room 218

Mark Friedl (Boston University)
"Monitoring Global Land Cover Change with MODIS"
GSG Lecture Series
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Wednesday, December 5th 6pm  Jefferson Academic Center Room 218

Panel Discussion:  Resources Rights and Food Sovereignty: Linking Main South to the Global South
Featuring:  Luis Antonio Pasquetti (Project and Planning Sector, MST)
                 Matt Feinstein (The Food Justice Campaign/ Worcester Roots Project)
                 Dianne Rocheleau (Associate Professor of Geography, Clark University)
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