Keynote Speaker, Paul Routledge, "Climate Games: Power, Politics and Protest", Professor at the University of Leeds.
Dr. Elizabeth Shove, Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lancaster.
Paul Vincelli "Geographic Observations Regarding Genetically Engineered Crops (GMOs)", Extension Professor and Provost's Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Kentucky.
Dr. Jeffrey Mantz will go through the basics of NSF applications, talk about specific programs, and give some general grant writing advice. Mantz is Program Director in Cultural Anthropology and Human Subjects Research Officer at the National Science Foundation, where he has served since 2012. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and has previously taught at George Mason University, Cornell University, California State University at Stanislaus, and Vassar College. His own research takes him to the Caribbean and Central Africa, where he explores issues related to inequality, resource extraction, and commodity supply chains.
LaToya Eaves, “Racial Geographies of Progress in the Situated South”, Assistant Professor in the Global Studies and Cultural Geography Program at Middle Tennessee State University (Co-Sponsored by African American and Africana Studies)
Chris Fowler, “Segregation and Diversity as Multiscalar Phenomena: Why We Need Multiscale Measures to Understand Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Effects”, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Demography at Penn State University
Michael Samers, “Beyond the Banlieue: The Economic Lives of Young People of Immigrant Origin in a French City”, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky
Faculty and students sharing glimpses into their summer adventures.
The principle of gradient selection, along with a variety of “optimality” principles in geomorphology, geophysics, hydrology, and ecology (e.g., Patten, 1995; Fath et al., 2001; Lapenis, 2002; Ozawa et al., 2003; Kleidon et al., 2010; Quijano and Lin, 2014), is in essence a particular case of a broader principle of efficiency selection. Given this common behavior in many types of Earth surface systems, why do we not observe a general global trend toward ever more efficient routes and networks of flows?
First, note that gradient and efficiency selection are tendencies that (like natural selection in biological evolution) apply in the aggregate, and not to individual cases. Also recall from part 2 that gradient selection is imperfect even where it operates.
