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Lago Tanguro, a little piece of heaven. (Photo by: Amy Thissell) Read her blog for more on her
fieldwork in the Amazon this summer.
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Anna Brendle Kennedy (B.S. ’02) ) started a new job in July 2013 as the Executive Director of the Lancaster Osteopathic Health Foundation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, focusing on children's behavioral health. Read more.
NEWS
Wilbur Zelinsky memorial service
A memorial service to celebrate the life Wilbur Zelinsky is scheduled for Saturday, October 26, 2013 at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the Penn State University Park campus. After the service there is a gathering at the home of Karen Zelinsky Kite. For more information.
Fall Coffee Hour schedule
The schedule for the fall 2013 Department of Geography Coffee Hour has been announced. The Friday afternoon lecture series will kick-off on September 13 with Sue Brantley, distinguished professor of Geosciences and director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute. Her talk will focus on Sharing Water Quality Data in Pennsylvania: From the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory to Areas of Marcellus Shale Development.
Fall Coffee Hour Speaker list.
Energy Exchange seminar begins
The Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) Energy Institute Energy Exchange Seminar Series begins on Sept. 4. Tom Richard, director, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, will give a talk titled "Diet, Land Use and the Biofuel Nexus." The seminar will discuss the role of diet on land requirements for food production. Results from this study suggest a potentially large reduction in food-land requirements for the U.S. that could translate into a large biofuel supply. For dates and speaker information.
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LOCAL EVENTS AND DEADLINES
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August 27 and every Tuesday Millennium Café, 10:00–11:00 a.m.
on the 3rd floor of the Millennium Science Complex
August 28 Geography undergraduate program meeting at 7:00 p.m. in 319 Walker BuildingSeptember 6 Department "Congratulations and Welcome" Reception, The Nittany Lion Inn
September 12 Postdoctoral Research Exhibition 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Nittany Lion Inn.
September 13 Coffee Hour: Sue Brantley "Sharing Water Quality Data in Pennsylvania ..."
September 15 Pennsylvania Forest FestSeptember 15–18 Zero Waste Conference, The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel
September 16 Indigenous Geography workshop, 1:00-4:00 p.m., Mann Assembly Room,
Paterno Library on the University Park Campus
October 26 Wilbur Zelinsky Memorial Service and Reception
CONFERENCES
(New additions to this list are highlighted.)2013
August 27–30 International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning in Bremen, Germany
September 2–6 Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) Scarborough, United Kingdom
September 27–28 Internationalizing the Campus, College and Classroom, Penn State
University Park CampusOctober 7–8 Susquehanna Water Science Forum, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
October 9–11 NACIS Conference in Greenville, South Carolina
October 9 –12 Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and
Landscapes (PAS:APAL) Utica, New York.
October 13–16 GEOINT Symposium, Tampa, Florida
October 18–19 AAG Middle States Division Annual Meeting
October 25–26 Pennsylvania Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaOctober 24–26 Geographies of Labor, 35th Annual North American Labor History Conference
at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
October 27–31 Imaging and Mapping for Disaster Management: From the Individual to the
Global Community, joint conference of the CaGIS and ASPRS
October 30–November 2 AAG Middle Atlantic Division Regional Meeting
(jointly with AAG Applied Geography Specialty Group, Annapolis, Maryland
November 1–3 Graduate Climate Conference at Woods Hole, Massachusetts
November 6–8 International Greening Education Event in Karlsruhe, Germany
December 7 IEEE ICDM Workshop on Data Mining for Geoinformatics and Environmental Hazards
(DMG-EH) in Dallas, Texas2014
April 8–12 AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida
May 18–21 ISCRAM at Penn State
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