Department Leadership
Dear geographers,
2019-2020
8/30 || WHAT WE DID WITH OUR SUMMERS :: The department
9/6 || KINDRED PHENOMENA: BLACK GEOGRAPHIES OF THE RURAL SOUTH :: Darius Scott, University of North Carolina
9/13 || DELIBERATIVE EMPATHY AND THE POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP IN HONG KONG :: Sharon Yam, University of Kentucky
9/20 || WILDLIFE GEOGRAPHY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE :: Jonathan Hall, West Virginia University
10/4 || GIFT OF ART/POWER OF PLACE: BOUNDARY-WORK FOR INDIGENOUS COEXISTENCE :: Soren Larson, University of Missouri
GEOPHYSICAL ADAPTATION
Can geophysical systems adapt to changing environmental conditions or to disturbances, in a way broadly analogous to biological adaptation, but independently of any biological components? Yes, according to my analysis using the example of hydrological systems. Just published in Ecohydrology, https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2567 and attached here.
Screening & Talk-Back: Before the Trees Was Strange
This event will consist in a screening of Mr. Derek Burrows' 2016 documentary film, Before the Trees Was Strange, which tells a complex story of how his family experienced race and racism in the Bahamas and the United States. The screening will be followed by a talk-back session, in which audience members are invited to share experiences and discuss meanings with a panel, including, Mr. Burrows, law professor Dr. Melynda Price, and philosophers Dr. Gregory Fried, & Dr. Arnold Farr. The keynote event is made possible by the co-sponsorships of the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, Peace Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Culture, & International Studies Program at the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Fried and Mr. Burrows lead the Mirror of Race project, housed at Boston College. It is an online archive of early American photography with interpretation that "serve[s] as an opportunity to reflect on what race means in the United States today—and what it can, should, and should not mean in the future." This screening and talk-back are part of the project's outreach efforts.
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Taylor Education Auditorium
Digital Mapping Student Wins National Cartography Award at CaGIS
Digital Mapping Graduate Certificate student Sirius Bontea won the David Woodward Interactive/Animated Digital Map Award at the 50th annual Cartography and Geographic Information Society's 2023 Awards. Link to Sirius's map - Mapping the Infrastructure of the Roman Empire and larger portfolio.
CLIMATE ATTRIBUTION IN GEOMORPHOLOGY
Just published, in Geomorphology (Vol. 403, article no. 108666): Landscape Change and Climate Attribution, With an Example From Estuarine Marshes.
Climate change and related effects such as rising sea-levels and increased frequency and severity of severe storms and fires is resulting in geomorphological, hydrological, ecological, and pedological change. But landscape change is influenced not only by climate and severe meteorological events, but also by a host of other environmental factors, not least human impacts. How can we sort out the effects of recent and ongoing anthropically-driven climate change amidst all the other signals (and noise)?