Department of Geography - Speaker Series

All speakers take place on Wednesdays; from 11:00-12:30pm in the Geography Conference Room, 1922 F Street, Rm 219 (Old Main)

Fall 2009

September 23
Dr. Saud Amer - U.S. Agency for International Development
Office of Sustainable Development.

October 14
Dr. Jerome Dobson—Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas; President of the American Geographical Society; and a Jefferson Science Fellow (National Academies) serving as Senior Scientist in the Office of The Geographer and Global Issues, U. S. Department of State.
“Fixing America's Folly: The Purge and Resurgence of Geography.”

October 28
Dr. Ralph Buehler—Assistant Professor in the Urban Affairs and Planning Program at Virginia Tech’s Alexandria Center.

November 11
Dr. Firoz Verjee—Professorial Lecturer with GWU's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Senior Research Associate at GWU's Institute for Crisis, Disaster & Risk Management.
"Primary Applications of Spatial Analysis in Humanitarian Emergencies"

November 18
Dmitriy Streletskiy—Doctoral Candidate in the Permafrost Group, University of Delaware.

December 2
Amanda Huron--Doctoral candidate in geography at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
"Dwellers on the Brink: Solidarity Economies of Housing in Washington, DC."

Spring 2009

March 4
Harry Marshall, Department of Justice
"US-Russian Boundaries in the Bering Sea"

April 1
Bernadette Hanlon, UMBC
"The Decline of Inner Suburbs: the New Suburban Gothic in the Metropolitan U.S."

Fall 2008

October  1
Santiago Lopez
"From the household to the community: A spatially explicit model of Native Amazonian cultivation"

October 22
Melissa Keeley
"The Spatial Issues of Urban Green Infrastructure"

November 12
Greg Schnaar
Geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide