California Geographical Society
62nd Annual Conference
May 2-4, 2008 California State University Chico
Friday, May 2, 2008
9:00am – 4:00pm Sacramento River Float Chuck Nelson, Geographical Information Center Director, CSU Chico Meet at the east entrance to Holt Hall
9:00am - 3:00pm Butte Creek and Big Chico Creek Restoration Projects Scott Gregory, CSU Chico Meet at the east entrance to Holt Hall
9:00 am - 4:00pm Where City and Country Collide: Planning for Fire in the Butte County Foothills Mark Trembley, Instructor, CSU Chico and Butte College Meet at the east entrance to Holt Hall
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Innovations in Urban Planning and Design: Chico Pam Figge, CSU Chico Meet at Butte 503
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Tour of Sierra Nevada Brewery’s Sustainable Production Cheri Chastain, Sierra Nevada Meet at the front of the Chico State Police Station on Normal and First Streets
12:00 - 5:00pm Vineyards of Butte County Scot Hoiland, Butte College Meet at the Butte College Chico Center on Forest Avenue. (Take 20th Street east from Highway 99, and turn right on Forest Avenue; this is close to the conference hotel, Oxford Suites) 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Historic Chico Walking Tour John Gallardo, Chico Heritage Association Meet at Special Collections on the third floor of the Meriam Library, CSU Chico
2:30 – 4:00 pm Tour of Sierra Nevada Brewery’s Sustainable Production Cheri Chastain, Sierra Nevada Meet at the front of the Chico State Police Station on Normal and First Streets
12:00 — 4:00 pm Workshop – Butte 501 “Fundamentals of GIS for the Social Sciences” Chris Lewis, CSU Chico
5:00 — 6:30 pm Registration Foyer, Butte Hall 6:00 pm — 7:30 Kickoff BBQ Albert E. Warrens Reception Center (Julia Morgan House) 8:00 pm — 9:00 pm Keynote Address—Ayres 120 “Eco-Farming Methods & Sustainable Land Use” Jessica Lundberg, Chairperson of Lundberg Family Farms
Saturday May 3, 2008
7:30—2:00 Registration – Foyer, Butte Hall
7:30—9:00 Continental Breakfast – Foyer, Butte Hall
8:00—3:00 Vendors' Exhibits – Tehama 108
9:00-2:00 Map Sale – Foyer, Butte Hall
9:00—2:00 Mapping Session— Butte 505
Orson Bevins, San Diego State University “Fire Protection in Unincorporated San Diego County”
Mike Boruta, Humboldt State University “The Tourist Traps of Northwest California”
Sharon Caddy, CSU Chico “Migration Routes of the Blackpoll Warbler”
Sylvana Cares, CSU Chico “Invasion of the Tree of Heaven and the Historic Transcontinental Railroad”
Kuntat Chaicharn, CSU Chico “Population Density Map of Australia” Michael Commons, CSU Chico “Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace: Race to the Theory of Evolution”
Ryan Ek, Cal Poly Pomona “Owls of the United States”
Gregory Elwood, University of Southern California “Primitive, Dispersed Campsites at Cuddeback Dry Lake”
Ashleigh V. Hayes, Cal Poly Pomona “Malnutrition of Children in Africa”
Allan Lace, CSU Chico “The 1955 Mille Miglia”
Scott Mullin, CSU Long Beach “El Dorado Park Frisbee Golf”
Matthew Rosso, CSU Chico “Low-Lying Areas in the Region of Mexico's State of Tabasco”
Willie Shubert, Humboldt State University “The Modern Middle East: A Survey of Chaos and its Contributors”
Daniel Stauning, Humboldt State University “Manifest Destiny”
Anthony M. Sudderth, CSU Chico “James-Younger Gang Railroad & Stagecoach Robberies”
Janna L. Waligorski, CSU Chico “Shasta Valley Surface Geology”
Daniel Whitehorn, CSU Chico “Baja 1000”
Jared Wolfe, Humboldt State University “Distribution of Neotropical Migrants in Response to the El Nino Southern Oscillation in Costa Rica”
9:00 - 2:00 Poster Session — Butte 503
Kirk Anderson, CSU Chico “Community Fire Planning and the Absentee Problem in Butte County”
Tara Athan, University of Leeds “An Online Global Health Volunteering Opportunities Map”
José Cruz, Cal Poly Pomona “Identifying High-Risk Areas Where Los Angeles Meets the San Gabriel Mountains”
Orson Bevins, San Diego State University “Time to Retire Smokey the Bear?”
Marsha Bond-Nelson, CSU Stanislaus “Reshaping of Modesto’s Landscape: Transportation and the Decentralization of the Central Business District”
Mike Boruta, Humboldt State University “Using a 3D Model to Enhance Topographic Visualization of Arcata’s Community Forest” Sylvana Cares, CSU Chico “Invasion of the Tree of Heaven: Association between Presence of Tree of Heaven and the Historic Transcontinental Railroad”
Michael Commons, Kuntat Chaicharn, and Sharon Caddy, CSU Chico “Spatial Analysis of Centaurea solstitialis: A Geospatial Prediction Model”
Mia Christine Costa, University of Southern California “Indicators of Nutritional Affluence in Whittier, California”
Garrett Cunha, Cosumnes River College “Colorless Corals, Dead Fish & Lost Tourism Revenue: Climate Change’s Effect on the Great Barrier Reef”
Shawn Curley, CSU Fullerton “European Starling Population of the Pomona Valley”
Michelle Degmetich, CSU Chico “Influences on Black Bear Behavior in the Big Chico Creek Reserve”
Lauren DeWit, Cosumnes River College “United States Ethanol Leads to Deforestation in the Amazon”
Heather Downing, Cosumnes River College “How Much are You Willing to Pay for a Pear?” “Will They Sink or Swim?” “How Hot Is Too Hot?”
Ryan Ek, Cal Poly Pomona “Conditions Causing the Formation of Pygmy Forest Ecosystem in Coastal Mendocino Count”
Justin Gottfried, Cal Poly Pomona “Potential Business Sites in Alameda County: Hip Drinking Places”
Gregory A. Greene, Cal Poly Pomona “Topography Incarnate: Resurrecting an Ancient Indian Fortification”
Abbey Grimmer, University Of Nevada, Reno “Conservation Planning: A Clark County Management Area Assessment”
Cassie Hansen, University of Nevada, Reno “They Just Don't Make Storms Like This One Anymore: Analysis of the Anomalous Record Snowfall of February 1959”
Allan Lace and Rochelle Burright, CSU Chico “Sewer System Modeling for the City of Oroville”
Ngoc Ho, Orange Coast College “The Arctic Circle of Death: Suicides in Northern Canada, Scandinavia, and Siberia”
Victoria Huber and Siobhan Goodwell, UCLA “Species Richness and Forest Conservation of Tonga”
Laurilyn Kersten, Cosumnes River College “Costa Rica and Global Warming: How David is Fighting Goliath”
Nancy Madison, Marilyn Jacobs, Jack Jacques, Leticia Barrios, Jayme Greer, Penny Brennan, Andy Morgan, Jerimy Munroe, Tatiana Khoubiar, Josh Hollinger, James Fields, CSU Stanislaus “Community Geography: Mapping the Needs and Assets of the Airport Neighborhood in Modesto, California”
Alison McNally, CSU Stanislaus “Proposed Helicopter Emergency Landing Groomed Areas (HELGAs) Near Eagle Meadow Road, Stanislaus National Forest” Jonathan Nimis, Cosumnes River College “The Disappearing Amazon”
Marge O'Connor, Cosumnes River College “Gain Alternative Fuel Source, Lose Indonesia's Rain Forests?”
Denielle Perry, University of Nevada, Reno “Costa Rica's Rio Pacuare: Troubled Waters for a Cultural Icon”
Robert Predosa and Daniel Siegel, CSU Chico “Analysis of Mill Creek Watershed: Modeling Effects of Global Warming and Changes in Landscape using GIS”
Vicki Rabin, CSU Fullerton “The cause and conditions of the slums in Johannesburg, South Africa”
Heather Siler, CSU Chico “South American Viticultural Regions of Chile”
Siegrun Storer, CSU Long Beach “A Visual Representation of Wetlands Law in the Los Cerritos Wetlands”
Helene Seelye, University of Nevada, Reno “A Place for the Senses: La Provence”
Irene M Seelye, University of Nevada, Reno “The Changing Footprints of Downtown Reno”
Kathleen Sonesen, Cosumnes River College “Escaping Paradise: Changing Climate Destroying Fiji”
Brennan Wallace, CSU Fullerton “Newport Beach Groins”
Doug Weseman and William Martin, CSU Chico “Using ‘Drift Modeling’ to Combat the Threat of Adult Mosquitoes”
Daniel Whitehorn, CSU Chico “Amador Vintners”
Tamara Wagner, CSU Fullerton “Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone: Strung Out to be Puppets of a Diamond-Encrusted Civil War”
Alan A. Whipple, CSU Stanislaus “Redevelopment and Renaissance of 31 Channel Street” Session 1— 8:00 - 9:00
1A. Workshop [8:00 – 10:00]– Tehama 106 “Teaching Geography in the K-4 Classroom” Phil Gersmehl, Director of the New York Center for Geographic Learning
1B. Papers – Butte 104 Chair: Aubrey Rose
Mike DeVivo, Grand Rapids Community College “Empowering Third World Women: Key to Sustainable Development”
Carol J. Cox, Sierra College “Through My Student’s Eyes: A Photographic Interpretation of San Francisco’s Urban Geography” Aubrey Rose, Planner, City of Oakland “Planning for Sustainability with Infill Development and Density Bonuses: A Case Study of Arroyo Vista Senior Housing Facility in East Oakland”
1C. Graduate Papers – Butte 103 Chair: Vienne Vu
Calli-Jane Burch, CSU Chico “Geographic Content of Fire Safe Education Materials”
Janna L. Waligorski, CSU Chico An Examination of the Development of Activity Space and Spatial Knowledge amongst First Year College Students”
Vienne Vu, CSU Fullerton Changing Foodways of Vietnamese Americans”
1D. Undergraduate Papers – Butte 101 Chair – Steve Cunha
Megan Helms, Humboldt State University “The Ecological Importance of Fire: A Case Study Using Tree Ring Dating”
Orson Bevins, San Diego State University “The Effects of Climate Change on Fire Occurrence in California”
Christopher R. Haynes, Humboldt State University “Up in Smoke: Economic Effects of the Pigeon Fire”
Session 2 — 9:15—10:05
Presidential Plenary Presentation — Ayres 120 Ruth Mostern, University of California, Merced “From Geographic Information Systems to Historical Information Systems: Modeling the Past in the Digital Age” Session 3: 10:20—11:40 am
3A. Workshop [10:30 – 12:00] – Tehama 106 Teaching Geography: Grades 5-8 in History and Social Sciences Phil Gersmehl, Director of the New York Center for Geographic Learning
3B. Papers — Butte 104 Chair: Robert Voeks
Steve Cunha, Humboldt State University “The Changing Face of Vietnam”
James P. Allen and Eugene Turner, CSU Northridge “Mexican Status Variations across U.S. Counties”
Robin R. Lyons, San Joaquin Delta College “James Cook and the Myth of Terra Australis Incognito”
Robert Voeks, CSU Fullerton “African Diaspora Ethnobotany in the Americas: The Role of Anthropogenic Landscape Evolution” 3C. Graduate Papers— Butte 103 Chair: Michael McGrann
Andrew Isner, University of Southern California “GIS Suitability Model of Preferred Habitat for the California Spotted Owl in Sequoia National Park”
Michele M Tobias, UC Davis “Armed Beaches: Coastal Plant Communities May Respond to Trampling with Armor”
Amy M. McGrann, UC Davis “Floristic Resolution of Wildlife Habitat Relationships on the Pacific Crest Trail”
Michael C. McGrann, UC Davis “A Megatransect of California on the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail: Considering Foliage Height Diversity in Wildlife Habitat Relationships” 3D. Undergraduate Papers – Butte 102 Chair: Michael Hanes
Rachel Davis, UCLA “Ocean Desalination and its Role in California's Water Portfolio”
Wenjun Jin, San Diego State University “Population and Climate Change”
Michael Tower, San Diego State University “The Effects of Warming Hurricane Frequency and Intensity”
Michael Hanes, San Diego State University “Greenland: Impacts of Climate Change” 3E. Undergraduate Papers— Butte 101 Chair: Michael Commons
Jennifer Reynolds-Kusler, CSU Sacramento “A Reconstruction of Late Holocene Vegetation Productivity and Composition from Meadow Sediments at Diamond Lake in the Klamath Mountains”
Daniel Stauning, Humboldt State University “Mapping Native Dunegrass (Leymus mollis) at the Ma-le’l Dunes”
Jorge Sanchez Alarco, Humboldt State University “Thatch Ants: Interactions between Neighboring Mounds and Mound-Territory Distance Relationships”
Michael Commons, CSU, Chico “Environmental Controls of Centaurea solstitialis” 11:40 - 1:00 pm — Lunch Lunches will be distributed in the foyer of Butte Hall
Session 4: 1:00—2:20 pm
4A. Workshop [1:30 – 3:00]– Tehama 106 Teaching Geography: Grades 5-8 in Environmental Studies Phil Gersmehl, Director of the New York Center for Geographic Learning 4B. Papers—Butte 104 Chair: Chris Lukinbeal
Eileen O'Halloran, San Jose State University “The Current State of Geographic Education Requirements and Standards in California Schools”
John A. Carthew, Los Angeles Pierce College “Teaching Geography to Beginning College Students”
Narinder Bansal and William Harmon, Ohlone College “GIS for the Lower Division Geography Classroom at Ohlone Community College”
Chris Lukinbeal, Arizona State University “The Professional Master’s of Advanced Study in Geographic Information Systems (MAS-GIS) at Arizona State University” 4C. Graduate Papers—Butte 103 Chair: Cassandra Hansen
Sally Otton, CSU East Bay “The California State University, East Bay Carbon Report”
Mary E. Paulet, CSU Los Angeles “Global Warming, Water Usage, and California—Sustainability Issues”
Michael Farrell, San Diego State University “Assessing Hydrologic Impacts of Global Climate Change at Fine Spatial Scales”
Cassandra Hansen, University of Nevada, Reno “Correlative Synoptic Scale Weather Patterns and Large Slab Avalanches on Mt. Shasta”
4D. Undergraduate Papers — Butte 102 Chair: Gregory Elwood
Juliet Kahne, University of Southern California “Continuity in the Silver Lake Landscape: 'Alternative' Spaces as Cultural Representation”
Sarah Warnock, Humboldt State University “The New Face of the Foothills: Landscape and Residential Development Change in the Central Sierra Nevada.
Michael L. Owens, Humboldt State University “Past, Present, and Future: Transitions in Resource Use and Landscape in Shelter Cove, California”
Gregory Elwood, University of Southern California “Cuddeback Dry Lake; a Study in Recreational Land Use”
4E. Undergraduate Papers — Butte 101 Chair: Rachel Kesel
Dawn C. Albrecht, Humboldt State University “Alderpoint: An Analysis of Transportation and Settlement”
Mike Boruta, Humboldt State University “Erasing the Neatline: Collaborative Cartography in the Web 2.0 World”
Rachel Kesel, San Francisco State University “Paws in Parks: Off-leash Recreation in Natural Areas, Bernal Heights Park, San Francisco” Paper Session 5: 2:30-3:30 5A. Papers—Butte 104 Chair: Guy King
Peggy Hauselt, CSU Stanislaus “A Demographic and Health Overview of Aging Californians”
Joseph S. Leeper, Humboldt State University “Challenges Confronting Humboldt County Agriculture”
Guy King, CSU Chico “The Hottest and Coldest Places in California” 5B. Graduate Papers—Butte 103 Chair: Ranamaitreya M. Waterfall
Christine Zuhlsdorf, UCLA “Pollen Analysis of Little Lyman Lake: The Initial Journey of Vegetation Reconstruction in the Uinta Mountains”
Kevin Flaherty, CSU Long Beach “Public Participation GIS and Housing Advocacy”
Ranamaitreya M. Waterfall, CSU Chico “Parks and Rural Communities: Crain Park Redevelopment Plan”
5C. Undergraduate Papers — Butte 101 Chair: Steve Koletty
Jacob F. Vawter, University of Southern California “Geographical Perspectives on Regional Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion”
Colin Leslie, Humboldt State University “Influence of China's Development in Southeastern Tibet on Traditional Tibetan Economies”
Willie Shubert, Humboldt State University “Cuisine on the Plateau: Changing Patterns in a Globalized Setting”
5D. Workshop – Butte 501 “Digital Worlds: Learning with GIS” Gail Hobbs, Pierce College
Session 6—3:45-4:45 pm 6A. Workshop [3:30 – 5:00] – Tehama 106 Teaching Geography: Grades 9-12 History & Social Studies Phil Gersmehl, Director of the New York Center for Geographic Learning
6B. Panel Discussion — Butte 104 “Jobs in Geography: A Forum for Students” Panel co-coordinators: Lisa Fischer and Alison McNally
Panelists David Swenson, ESRI, Software Engineer Sally Swenson, ESRI, Education Consultant Pam Figge, Planning Focus, Land-Use Consultant and Business Owner Leah Gardner, Office of Mine Reclamation, CA Department of Conservation, Botanist Mark Trembley, Assistant Professor, CSUC 6C. Panel Discussion—Butte 103 “Strategies for Mentoring and Supporting Female Students and Faculty” Joy Adams, Corinne Cogger, Angela Crane, Anna Leeper, Diana Muncy, Humboldt State University
4:45 — 5:00 pm – Butte 101 CGS Business Meeting
6:00 — 9:00 pm -CGS Annual Awards Banquet Butte Creek Country Club Tom McKnight Paper Awards - Geosystems Award Mapping Awards - Joe Beaton Poster Awards David Lantis Scholarship - Outstanding Educator Award Distinguished Service Award - Certificates of Appreciation Student Travel Awards
Sunday, May 4, 2008 — Field Trips
8:00 - 3:00pm — Agricultural Landscapes of Butte County Scott Brady and Mark Stemen, CSU Chico Meet at the east entrance to Holt Hall
8:00 am - 12:00 pm — Rancho Llano Seco and the Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge Joseph Silviera, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Don Hankins, CSU Chico Meet at the east entrance to Holt Hall
9:00am - 1:00pm — Geography of Bidwell Park Guy King, CSU Chico Meet at the east entrance to Holt Hall
9:00 am - 12:00 pm — Public Art Walk of Chico Paula Busch, Local Artist Meet under the stage canopy in the City Plaza
9:00 am - 12:00 pm — Eco-Chico Bike Tour LaDona Knigge Meet at the south end of Butte Hall, near the creek