Seminar Series
Our Departmental Seminar Series runs on Tuesday afternoons with lectures usually being held once a month. They begin at 3:00 p.m. in Mac-Corry, Room D214 (unless otherwise posted). Everyone welcome.
Our Fall 2012 Line-up...
Tuesday Sept. 25: Dr Dave Campbell, Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
"Conversion of native peatlands to agricultural ecosystems in New Zealand: “clean and green” or a national source of greenhouse gases?" |
Thursday Oct. 11: Professor Richard Dennis, Department of Geography, University College, London
"More Haste, Less Speed: On the nature of mobility in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cities"
Location: Mac-Corry E314, The Rutherford Room
Time: 4:00pm |
Monday Nov. 19: Dr. Mary Thomas, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University
“This place saved my life”: the myth of the savior prison and why it is so appealing to incarcerated girls
Location: Mac-Corry E314, The Rutherford Room
Time: 4:00pm |
Tuesday Nov. 20: Dr. Mat Coleman, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University
"Race, Place and the Re-militarization of US Immigration Enforcement" |
Our Winter 2013 Line-up...
Wednesday Jan. 23: Dr Scott Lamoureux, Department of Geography, Queen's University
"Hydrological and Sediment Transport Impacts of Permafrost and Climate Change in the Canadian High Arctic"
Location: Robert Sutherland Hall
Time: 6:00pm |
Tuesday Jan. 29: Dr. Scott Montross, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, Queen's University
"Living on the Edge: A Bipolar Perspective on Microbial Life in Frozen Environments" |
Tuesday Feb. 26: Dr. Audrey Kobayashi, Professor and Queen's Research Chair, Department of Geography
"Controversy over the Death Penalty: A Place-based Issue in the U.S." |
Tuesday March 19: Prof. Yuanzhi Zhang, Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
"Estimation of Chlorophyll - A Concentration in Estuarine Waters: A Case Study of the Pearl River Estuary" |
Tuesday March 26: Donald S. McLennan, Ph. D., Head - Monitoring Science/Gestionnaire Surveillance Canadian High Arctic Research Station
"A Role for CHARS in Long Term Monitoring of Arctic Communities and Ecosystems" |
Friday April 19: Dr. Joseph White, Professor of Biology and Director for the Institute of Ecological Earth and Environmental Science, Baylor University, Waco, TX
"Simulated Impacts of Climate Change and Management on Watershed Processes"
Location: Mac-Corry D214
Time: 11:00am |
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