African Penguins atBoulder Beachsince the1980s anditisoneof onlythreepenguin populations onthemainland insouthern A h mpass The C Photo takenby MA studentMatthewDeCristofaro atBouldersBeachinSimon’s Town, South Africa. There has beenacolonyof Boulders Beach forms part ofthe Table Mountain National Park andis a popular tourist destination. Department of Geography frica.

SPRING 2011 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

We are happy to bring this Newsletter together for all our faculty, students, alumni, and friends. Since our last Newsletter was published, the department has seen several personnel changes. On a sad note, we have lost Vince Ebert and Alan MacPherson. Their presence is missed but their legacy will not be lost. The department continues to thrive. Marion Werner joins the International Trade faculty from the University of Minnesota. She is taking over Alan’s courses. We will be continuing to offer the hazards course made popular by Vince over several decades of teaching at UB.

As I write, we are admitting new majors, both undergraduates and graduates. This is the admission season! This past year, we experienced a signifi cant increase in the number of new international graduate students. Our faculty is now more international than ever with 12 members from different parts of the world, including fi ve Canadians!

The Geography Department is still located in Wilkeson Quad. The location continues to be gorgeous whether it is summer, fall, winter or spring. Moreover, we are fortunate to be considered an important department in the university and the discipline. Our interdisciplinary research and teaching efforts, and our outstanding service to the discipline, university, and community have brought us a lot of recognition from peers. The stories in this Newsletter will give you a taste of this success.

We continue to build our alumni network. One goal is to help current students become successful in the job market through information exchange in this network. We are also involving alumni as adjuncts in offering credit and non-credit bearing classes and workshops over regular semesters and the summer. Our plan is to reach the broader community with our knowledge in applied GIS and spatial analysis. Stay tuned!

I must end this column with my gratitude to Alan MacPherson who invited me to apply to Buffalo in 1991. I was thrilled to receive his message in 1991 and I continue to be excited everyday about my job in the Department of Geography.

Thanks to all alumni and friends for keeping in touch and supporting the department! Please visit us if you are in town or please visit us during one of the events sponsored by the Department of Geography.

Best wishes,

Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen

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1122 Research Spotlight

1166 Staff

1177 Alumni News

2299 Events and Event Photos

3344 Our Thanks

3366 New Undergraduate Award

3366 Obituaries

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John Baker, M.S. student, attended the Santa for Health and Social Research at Buffalo State Fe Institute’s 2010 Global Sustainability Summer College. He has received a BA/MA in Economics School. This program brought together experts and an MA from the University at Buffalo. He has in climate change, economics, technological also taught Economics, Business and Geography forecasting, and other diverse topics for a two- courses at Daemen College, Buffalo State College week, intensive course focusing on the interactions and the University at Buffalo. His dissertation between fi elds and complex systems approaches to research examines the spatial characteristics of problems in sustainability. undiagnosed diabetes and diabetic complications in Western New York. His research interests are Pat Braun, M.A. student, spent his summer focused in behavioral health and include the developing a project titled Laboratories for Urban geographies of alcohol availability and alcohol- Regeneration and Education (LURE) on the East related problems, as well as mental health- Side of Buffalo. This process involved working with related topics. inner city high school students preparing for the Earth Science and Living Environment Regents exam. Jeff Gower, doctoral student and IGERT Fellow, The project also provided hands-on experience reports that after spending most of the spring working on abandoned lot regeneration activities semester at the Technical University at Delft, including urban agriculture, cover cropping, and an the Netherlands, he was a visiting student at the art park. As a graduate student, Pat would like to Institute for Geoinformatics (IfGI) at the University of continue to pursue the issue of urban environmental Muenster in Germany in May and June. His stay management locally and internationally. there coincided with the 2010 World Cup, the world’s international soccer championship tournament, in Huicheng Chien, Ph.D. candidate is now a Post- which the German national team made a good run Doctoral researcher at the University of St. Louis. towards the title. He had two articles accepted for His new work is an extension of his Ph.D. work on publication over the summer. The fi rst, “As Dumb watershed water quality in small watersheds, but as We Wanna Be: U.S. H-1B Visa Policy and the now the spatial scope of his work includes the whole ‘Brain Blocking’ of Asian Technology Professionals,” state of Missouri. is scheduled to be published in Vol. 12, Issue 1 Jeffrey Chow, Ph.D. candidate is beginning (Spring 2011) of Rutgers Race and the Law Review. dissertation work on Islamic fi nance in Malaysia. A second paper, titled “North Korea: There are Reasons Why It Is Called the ‘Hermit Kingdom’”, is Sam Copeland, doctoral student and IGERT tentatively scheduled to be included in the May 2011 Fellow, visited China. In Beijing, he collaborated issue of Education About Asia, an offi cial publication with graduate students and research scientists of the Association of Asian Studies. In addition, he in the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, has three other papers submitted to journals that are Chinese Academy of Sciences to work on projects in various stages of review. Jeff also chaired a panel involving 3D virtual geographic environments. Sam

.buffalo.edu/ on “Globalization and Islam” at the 2010 New York also went to Lanzhou in mid-western China to work g Conference on Asian Studies. with graduate students and scientists in Lanzhou eo

g University on research issues relating to natural Joseph Holler’s (doctoral student and IGERT resources and environment. Sam’s China trip was Fellow) fi eld experience in Tanzania was an sponsored by the GIScience IGERT program at UB. extension of the Jane Goodall Institute internship www. Sam also won the Best Poster Award at this year’s completed from January to July 2009. The purpose UCGIS annual meeting for his work on “Fine scale of the fi eld experience was to process in-country simulation of infl uenza in an ER waiting room”. approval for research, re-establish relationships with stakeholders and communities on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Alan Delmerico is a doctoral student who also 4 and begin data collection in the study site Mweka works full-time as a Research Analyst at the Center Village. Data collection was to include geographic www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 55

uent!” fl eld trips to historical and fi , Ph.D. student is beginning nancial markets in China, she in China, she nancial markets fi is now at the University of Arizona is now at the University of , BA/MA student, reports that, “This , BA/MA , a PhD student, won the Best Paper , a PhD student, won the Best Paper rst. Aside from rst. fi while she did not spend time crunching numbers crunching numbers did not spend time while she the or studying was able to gain insight on the business behind the business behind to gain insight on was able as well as learn and on foreign relations the expo Chinese culture. Student more about contemporary randomly put into different Ambassadors were pavilion, the majority being in positions around the Operations). or General Pavilion operations (VIP operations gave her the most She feels that general giving her an opportunity interaction with guests, language skills, which was to practice her Chinese The visitors were thrilled exactly what she wanted. Americans, to interact with “real” to have the chance For learn about their lives, and share conversation. she met, it many of the Chinese citizens with whom ever have to may have be the only chance they will The interns introduced American. converse with an In addition, shows, their pavilion and themselves. summer), they worked outside (in the Shanghai “VIPs” in talking to the guests as they queued and the fast access line. Liang Mao the 2009 annual meeting of University at Award Sciences Consortium for Geographic Information strategies in a (UCGIS) for his work on ‘‘Vaccination mobile social network”. Bhaskar Mitra and water doing Post-Doctoral work on carbon This work cycling for NSF Critical Zone Observatory. water cycling builds on his Ph.D. work on carbon and in dryland systems. Deborah Naybor dissertation work on land tenure and gender development in Uganda. Deborah is the 2010 Chancellor’srecipient of the SUNY award for Achievement. Academic Excellence and Student Bridget Paul Capital Normal I returned to Beijing’s summer, University to study Mandarin. It was my second such trip and was, if anything, even more rewarding than my Forbidden cultural sites in China (the Great Wall, to name only a Warriors, Terracotta Palace, and few) I spent my days between the classroom and the streets of Beijing, interacting with those around me. and I hope to My Chinese has improved immensely, spend this next year becoming truly

ces, fi eldwork for fi ce internship, but fi rst-year doctoral student. She rst-year doctoral fi , undergraduate, was the only UB is a Ph.D. student in the Geography is a Ph.D. student in is a eld research in India, France and Vietnam. In Vietnam. eld research in India, France and student at the Shanghai Expo. She reports that it The application was was a fantastic experience. through University of Southern California (which designed and installed the program through the Around 1,000 US-China Institute at the University). students applied and only 160 were accepted. (2 years minimum of college level Chinese language The term study was required for the application). Ambassador”—some for the job title was “Student were grad students—others were undergrads (like Breana) or recent graduates. She says that this was obviously not a typical of Breana Limina received a MPH in Epidemiology from the Mailman received a MPH in Epidemiology from and a BA School of Public Health, Columbia University, Binghamton in Political Science and Geography from her Prior to returning to continuing University. in research graduate studies at UB, she was involved Research and training at the Earth Institute/Modi Monitoring, Group at Columbia University; the Center Evaluation, and Research Unit, International Programs at Columbia Treatment AIDS Care and for University; and the GIS Center of Excellence/Bureau City York of Epidemiological Services at the New Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Her public research interests are health geography, health surveillance, web-based information systems, and sustainable development. Susan S. Kum Her primary focus has been on women’s reproductive been on women’s Her primary focus has Prior to disease epidemiology. health and infectious she conducted at Buffalo, coming to the University fi DC addition, she worked in India and Washington, experience as a consultant, applying her research Currently, in international health and gender issues. of gender her research project examines the role dynamics in and stigma in tuberculosis transmission India using computational modeling. and climate data from government of data from and climate Lara J. Iverson is in international of Health. Her background anthropology and public health. development work, stakeholder interviews, and participatory rural participatory rural interviews, and stakeholder of groups with each and mapping focus appraisal has also Joe Village. in Mweka seven sub-villages doing more recently, Tanzania been in his dissertation. Kyle F. Reinson, Ph. D. Student in Urban & Heath Robinson, doctoral student and IGERT Regional studies, was invited to attend the New Fellow, spent 6 months in Germany gathering Media Academic Summit in June for the second information for his doctoral dissertation on year. The event was hosted by the global public spatial ontology and defended his dissertation in relations fi rm Edelman in New York City. Scholars November 2010. from around the world met up with people in the Jennifer Stoll, Ph.D. student is beginning fi eldwork news media and industry to discuss tech trends and on agricultural cooperatives in Alberta, Canada. the future of communication with respect to social media and commerce. Some highlights included an Diep Thai is fi nishing up her Ph.D. dissertation on energizing speech by MeetUp.com co-founder and female entrepreneurship in Vietnam. CEO Scott Heiferman. The summit was very helpful Andrew B. Trgovac, IGERT Fellow and a Ph.D. in terms of my research combining Geography and candidate in the Geography department, spent four Communication. If fellow grad students are interested weeks during the summer of 2010 in Singapore in seeing and hearing what was discussed, the working with Dr. Yi-Chen Wang, an assistant podcasts and speaker bios can be found by visiting: professor of Geography at the National University http://www.newmediaacademicsummit.com/ of Singapore and University at Buffalo alumna. Summit2010/agenda.asp. In August, he was Trgovac and Wang share a common research in Denver for the Association for Education in interest in the utilization of pre-European settlement Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) land survey records for the reconstruction of forest annual convention where he was elected teaching patterns in the United States. While there, Trgovac chair of the organization’s Cultural and Critical was invited to speak during the department’s weekly Studies Division, or as he says, “this just means seminar series and gave a talk entitled “The spatial more work for me to do!” But fortunately, he “enjoyed pattern of forest rank abundance distributions in a very short family vacation with my spouse and the eastern United States”. Trgovac also attended 3-year-old son to the family farm in Georgia. Too the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial much kudzu to describe!” Analysis (FOSS4G) conference in Barcelona, Spain David Roberts, M.S. student, began work as a spatial in September 2010. His poster demonstrated how R analyst with Resource Data Inc. in July 2010. This Statistical Software can be used in the examination of consulting fi rm specializes in spatial data analysis forest abundance patterns and was selected for one for both resource exploration and environmental of the forty academic tract spots at the conference. cleanup efforts. For example, they were involved Michael Widener, Ph.D. student became a fellow in the Exxon-Valdez cleanup effort and now the Gulf of the New England Complex Systems Institute oil cleanup. Dave’s permanent home base will be (NECSI) and will be supported under Sara Metcalf’s Houston, Texas, but since he started work he has new NIH grant, which also enabled them to attend been stationed at Gulf oil cleanup command posts, a summer simulation workshop hosted by AnyLogic. initially in Houma, LA., and now in New Orleans. His They will be working with a team of dental health work involves, among other activities, geocoding experts in NYC, at NYU and Columbia. aerial images of the Gulf Coast taken each day. He .buffalo.edu/ ingests these daily images into a GIS-based viewer g to provide support for cleanup operations planning, eo

g which is now focused on cleaning the coastal wetlands. He also operates the viewer during the planning sessions. Some of his work involves www. developing new code, and so Dave is putting both his Geography and Computer Science skills to good use. 6 www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 77

is part of a research FACULTY NEWS FACULTY rst cold, snowy months pursuing her passion for rst cold, snowy months pursuing her not prepping her courses). she’s lm (when group studying the transmission on dengue virus Thailand. 2.5 million people in Kamphaeng Phet, and it is are at risk for dengue infection annually, leading cause of hospitalization among children in The project is funded by NIH, and Asia. Southeast Armed collaborators include researchers from the Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, SUNY and the University of Upstate Medical University, The research employs geospatial California, Davis. Dominican border. She draws on the garment She draws on the border. Dominican in process to intervene restructuring industry’s on global production that contemporary debates shifts in the global South often read such production lens of economic change in the largely through the presented her dissertation in global North. Marion Autonomous geography at the the department of Domingo (UASD) and defended University of Santo in December of 2009. her dissertation in Minnesota to her dissertation work are Publications related of journal A Antipode: in published or forthcoming Place and Culture. radical geography and Gender, dissertation, In addition to publishing from her issue titled Marion has recently co-edited a special Bair “Rethinking commodity chains” with Jennifer The A). (forthcoming, Environment and Planning introduction issue includes a co-authored theoretical in and a paper on garment industry restructuring with north central Mexico. She recently collaborated discourses colleagues to write an article on racialized of the 2010 of humanitarian aid in the aftermath on Acme) and has a chapter Haitian earthquake (in America and the Caribbean in the new edition Latin of the Companion to Economic Geography. with her partner, Marion moved to Buffalo Yannick. Jaume, and her one year-old daughter, graduate She is teaching undergraduate and Geo 632) in courses on global trade (Geo 333 and ITC cluster and is pleased to join the department’s such a strong cohort of economic geographers. own Marion looks forward to learning about Buffalo’s post-industrial geographies and to spending these fi fi Aldstadt Professor Jared

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Following college, she in Latin America working on gender and lived in Central America labor rights, and then moved back to North American with Latin to participate in similar efforts immigrants in the U.S. Marion entered academic geography by pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Bristol where she focused on questions of trade and governance. Her research is concerned with understanding North- Her research is concerned with understanding a particular South trade and economic relations, with America. Her and Latin gender, interest in labor, childhood research interests were sewn in part in her Toronto, in home. Marion was born and raised Argentine parents. Dinner conversations Canada by crisis in Latin frequently covered the latest economic while America and the decline of the middle classes, welcoming table the range of guests at her parent’s arriving in periodically included new immigrants Canada after the latest economic upheaval. Dr. Marion Werner joined the department this January. the department this January. joined Marion Werner Dr. New Faculty Member – Marion Werner technology to perform cluster surveys of dengue virus Professor Ling Bian won an International Visiting transmission. The cluster survey technique spatially Scholar Award at Queen’s University and she and temporally links mosquito vector population visited Queen’s University in the fall of 2010. She levels and host transmission, and overcomes the will give presentations and lectures, and interact mismatch associated with many vector-borne with undergraduate and graduate students and disease studies. The cluster surveys allow our faculty members there to exchange research research group to capture dengue infections across ideas and engage in other academic activities. the clinical spectrum and evaluate the relationship As the associate editor of the ISPRS Journal of between mosquito density and dengue transmission. Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Professor The research will also examine the indirect Bian gave a workshop on how to develop effective protective effects of vaccination on unvaccinated papers at the XXI Congress of International Society individuals during a planned dengue vaccine trial in of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing held in Kamphaeng Phet. Beijing, China in Summer, 2008. The workshop was well received by more than 200 participating Professor Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen served as a scientists and students, and was ranked the highest member of the scientifi c committee for the Business of all Elsevier sponsored workshops in China. In the in Asia conference organized by the Institute for last few years, Professor Ling Bian has hosted two Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Gothenburg international visiting scholars from China to work on University, Sweden in December 2009. She was GIS related research issues. a visiting faculty at the Institute in May 2009 and will be visiting the School of Business, Economics, In recent years, Professor Bian and her students and Law again later this year. Her student Annitra have looked into modeling the spatial dispersion Jongsthapongpanth completed a dissertation on of communicable diseases. These diseases HIV and AIDS among youth population in Thailand are transmitted through close personal contact. and co-authored three journal papers with her, SARS, H1N1 fl u, and bird fl u are typical examples including one in the Annals of the Association of of them. Professor Bian’s research group uses American Geographers. Recently, she co-authored GIS, agent-based modeling, and social network three other papers with her doctoral student Peter analysis to simulate the transmission of the diseases Kedron, including another paper in the Annals of the between individuals at different times of day and Association of American Geographers. Sharmistha different locations. just completed her six year term as the editor of The Their work has received increasing attention from Professional Geographer. research communities. Professor Bian has been Professor Sean J. Bennett served (invited) on the invited to give keynote and plenary presentations scientifi c committees for the following conferences: about their research at a series of national and Fifth International Conference on Gully Erosion, international conferences and workshops. Most “Human Impact on Gully Erosion,” 20-25 April, recently, she was invited by the Public Health 2010, Lublin, POLAND and Fifth International Agency of Canada to present at the Mathematical Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics 2010 (River Modeling and Geosimulations for Disease Spread

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eo him were presented at the following international in GIS webinar series, by the National Institutes of g conferences: 14th Workshop on Physical Processes Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control in Natural Waters, University of Iceland, June 28- and Prevention (CDC) to present at the Institute on

www. July 1, 2010, Reykjavik, ICELAND; Human Impact Systems Science and Health. The responses to their on Gully Erosion, 5th International Symposium on research are enthusiastic. The host of the World Gully Erosion, April 20-25, 2010, Lublin, POLAND; Universities Network GIS Academy webinar series, and 33rd International Association of Hydraulic for example, wrote ‘Great talk, most interesting and 8 Engineering & Research (IAHR) Biennial Congress, I hope you enjoyed giving it as much as I enjoyed Vancouver, British Columbia, August 9-14, 2009, hearing it!’ CANADA. www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 99

rst fi rst Fellows fi as a Fellow of the UCGIS. as a Fellow of the . http://www.ucgis.org/ Additionally, from June-August he supervised an he supervised an from June-August Additionally, for Undergraduates’ Experiences NSF ‘Research at Stony Brook Freiss, a student student, Mary him with conducting Mary assisted University. on scaling up models of plant preliminary analysis to watershed scales. hydraulic strategies David Mark honored David Mark was announced as In February 2010, of Fellows of the University one of the initial class Information Science Consortium for Geographic with more than 70 colleges (UCGIS), and organization the United States as members. and universities in and higher education in UCGIS promotes research Mark Geographic Information Science. Professor in 1995, was instrumental in founding the UCGIS 1997-98. He and served as President of UCGIS in and also Chaired the UCGIS Research Committee He was their Policy and Legislation Committee. in 2004 and Award named as the UCGIS Research in 2009, becoming the Award their Education decided person to win both awards. Recently UCGIS organization, to establish a class of Fellows of the Art Getis of San Diego and along with Professors Usery of the University of Georgia, State and Lynn David Mark was named as one of the UCGIS, see of the organization. For more about

was on sabbatical was on sabbatical nished up manuscripts (5 published or in fi At Chapel Hill he began extending his work on plant hydraulics at tree and stand scales to watershed Mackay considered vegetation scales. In particular, strategies for coping with drought and how these are expressed over time along with soil moisture continually subject to topographic and climatic control. He also examined how these processes southern mixed forests, both at the Coweeta affect Ecological Research Station, and at Long-Term Duke Forest. Professor Mackay has initiated the development of a research proposal on this American subject, and is convening a session at the Geophysical Union Fall Meeting to enhance the visibility of this subject. His son (who is home-schooled) and wife traveled His son (who is home-schooled) their understanding of U.S. with him and deepened the site of Boston, Washington, history with visits to battle, and so forth. During the last major Civil War this time he Hole Professor Mackay worked on his At Woods change Department of Energy project on climate new work on impacts on carbon cycling, as well as information Bayesian techniques to maximize the in a gained from a limited number of observations presented spatially heterogeneous environment. He his work in the Center’s colloquium series, and learned about the Center’s green technology (wind, and geothermal power), which makes it perhaps solar, power the only research center with supercomputer to have essentially a zero-carbon footprint. Professor D. Scott Mackay Professor D. Scott work on new press); a refereed book chapter; began research manuscripts; developed ideas for future Interdisciplinary Science projects; served on a NASA for Associate Editor panel; and continued serving as Resources Research. Water As part of the research group, her students have her students have the research group, As part of In consecutive years. awards in two won national in continue their effort the group will the near future, this area of research. exploring splitting time 2010 semester, leave during the Spring Research Center Hole Woods equally between the the Institute for the Environment, in Falmouth, Mass., he also spent some Buffalo; UNC-Chapel Hill, and at the University of Wyoming. time with collaborators the role of nutrition in sustaining physical, mental, and ultimately dental health across the life course. Insights from these projects are being disseminated in scholarly outlets and at conferences oriented to the topics of urban agriculture and public health, as well as the methodology of systems modeling.

Dr. Jessie Poon’s paper (2009) written with P. Cheong, “Examining Internet Use and Communication among SaraSara MetcalfMetcalf Chinese Transmigrants” (Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 2(3): 189-207), Professor Sara Metcalf is currently supported by received the top three papers award from over a Drescher Diversity Award to advance two new 100 submissions by the Global Communication research agendas in systems modeling that are and Social Change, International Communication inter-linked by the role of food in community health: Association, 2009. (1) urban agriculture and (2) dental health among older adults. During Spring 2010, Dr. Metcalf She also edited a special journal issue on economic received a UB2020 Civic Engagement & Public development issues in Africa, Latin America and Asia Policy Fellowship to conduct participatory research that included a paper from reputable Asian scholars with the Massachusetts Ave Project (MAP), a local such as Anthony Reid. Professor Poon is Editor non-profi t organization emphasizing sustainable of Geography, International Section, for Ashgate urban agriculture and youth empowerment through Publishing and Senior Managing Editor of Eurasian its Growing Green Program. This partnership has Geography and Economics which publishes papers expanded to include a variety of actors involved on China, India, Central Asia, and Russia. She is in the Buffalo Growing coalition, which formed as collaborating on a research project with colleagues at a community gardening task force two years ago. the National University of Singapore that compares In March 2010, Buffalo Growing championed a non-profi t and faith organizations in Asia and the US resolution passed by the Buffalo Common Council and is also collaborating with colleagues at Peking to facilitate the transformation of vacant lots into University on China’s green industry. community gardens and other forms of urban Professor Le Wang was promoted to associate agriculture. Results from this engagement were professor with tenure in 2009; he also became presented during Geography Awareness Week, in Director of Graduate Studies in July 2009. He has a talk titled “Modeling the Local Food Movement”. recently received the following awards: Individual In collaboration with the dental schools at NYU and service award, the International Association of Columbia, Dr. Metcalf received an NIH exploratory Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information research grant in systems science, with funding Science (CPGIS); third place, John I. Davidson from both the Offi ce of Behavioral Sci & Social President’s Award for Practical Papers, American Research and the National Institute for Dental & Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Craniofacial Research. The award, “Leveraging (ASPRS); and the Early Career Award, Remote

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eo and Prioritizing Interventions, Programs, & Policies,” g was successful largely because of the quality of the Recent invited talks by Professor Wang include: causal hypotheses developed by Dr. Metcalf with “Invasive Species Modeling with Multi-Scale Multi-

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c committee fi ne land use regression- fi , in addition to her recent and presented “Joint space-time modeling of West and presented “Joint space-time modeling of West Nile virus vector mosquito abundance”, together with a former Ph.D. student. Currently, Trawinski, Patty of scale she is working on (1) Sorting out the effect and residential selection on bias in estimates of with former Ph.D. student Seth E. contextual effects Spielman (University of Colorado) and C. Linkletter housing Affordable (Brown University) and (2) with K. Patterson (University project in Buffalo at Buffalo). and kriging-based estimates of ambient air pollutant is a Co-PI on this project. Yoo exposures. Professor Drescher award, received a grant from NIH with her UB Drescher award, received a grant from NIH time-activity collaborators: “Use of cell phone-based which data for air pollutant exposure estimation” to collect aims to use GPS-equipped smart phones time-activity data used to re She also attended the 9th International Symposium Assessment in Natural Accuracy on Spatial Resources and Environmental Sciences, Leicester, UK, where she served on the Scienti Professor Enki Yoo Professor Enki Organizer of the workshop: CPGIS Go-Home CPGIS Go-Home of the workshop: Organizer East University, held in Nanjing Normal program, and Jiangxi Normal Technology, of China Institute Chair and Organizer, China; Session University, Using Remote Sensing and Population Estimation Annual Meeting of the 105th Technologies, GIS Las American Geographers, Association of the CPGIS GO- and Selected participant: NV; Vegas, and in Guangzhou University, Home program, held as the guest editor Le Wang, Henan University. University at Wu Changshan and together with Dr. has organized a special of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, journal of remote sensing, issue for the international Sensing and “Population Estimation Using Remote November, which appeared in Technologies”, GIS “Improving authored a book chapter, 2010. Le Wang resolution small area population estimation with high Remote remote sensing”, for the book Urban He Sensing, to be published by Wiley-Blackwell. “Remote Sensing authored another book chapter, Remote of Coastal Mangrove Forest” in the book, for Coastal Technologies Sensing and Geospatial Ecosystem Assessment and Management: Applications, which was published Principles and by Springer. RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT

TRINA HAMILTON with the transformation of industrial brownfi elds into high-rise housing developments). Even when Have you heard the one about the oil spill in greening initiatives are aimed directly at lower Brooklyn? Most people have spent the past few income populations, the goals remain recreational months following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, (increasing access to parks) and perhaps, in the but Assistant Professor Trina Hamilton has had case of urban gardening and agricultural projects, her sights on the oil plume under the Greenpoint food provision, but certainly not industrial. neighborhood in Brooklyn. The cleanup efforts surrounding the undergound This project was initiated a few years ago after I read oil plume and Newtown Creek do not reinforce the an article describing New York Attorney General inevitability of environmental gentrifi cation that Andrew Cuomo’s intent to “to sue ExxonMobil seems to be associated with Williamsburg and even and four other companies over millions of gallons other parts of Greenpoint. In this case, greening of of oil lying under the Greenpoint neighborhood the city doesn’t have to mean “parks, cafes and a in Brooklyn” (Confessore The New York Times 8 riverwalk” as one recent Newtown Creek boat tour February 2007). I immediately e-mailed a colleague participant proposed: at DePaul University -- whose research expertise is gentrifi cation and deindustrialization in Brooklyn “It’s extremely interesting to see it on a -- and we hatched the idea of combining our water level,” he said. “It looks ugly with all research expertise (mine being corporate social and the scrap metal around, but think about environmental responsibility) to study the following what it could be with parks, cafes and a question: How do toxic legacies affect the economic river walk.” (New York Times 2007). development trajectories of communities? The vision of most of the stakeholders involved, Greenpoint has gained national attention as the site including longtime resident activists and large of a decades old underground oil spill that is both environmental groups such as Riverkeeper, is not larger than the Exxon Valdez spill and more diffi cult spaces of leisure and consumption (exclusively) to attribute responsibility for, and hence clean up. or transformation of vacant toxic sites, but Several lawsuits (by the New York Attorney General’s rather cleaning up of a still-viable working class Offi ce, Riverkeeper, and private citizens) are now neighborhood in order to protect public health, targeting ExxonMobil to clean up the oil, and the initiate ecological regeneration, AND maintain and EPA has recently recommended Newtown Creek increase industrial uses of the area. (adjacent to Greenpoint, where the spill was fi rst We have begun interviewing government identifi ed) for Superfund designation. Environmental representatives, community activists, lawyers, and cleanup efforts in Greenpoint provide a unique non-governmental organizations involved in the oil counterpoint to the dominant green city narrative in plume and Newtown Creek cleanup issues, and we NYC. According to the Mayor’s PlaNYC 2030 vision are preparing (in tandem with a government-funded

.buffalo.edu/ and various other planning processes and projects, Brownfi eld Opportunity Areas (BOA) study) to g greening in the city, as it relates to toxic cleanup conduct a survey of businesses operating along the eo efforts, is focused on transforming previously

g Creek in order to better understand their perspective industrial spaces into new housing, recreation and/ on the future of the working waterfront, as well as or retail uses. This focus fi ts within the much-hyped cleanup plans such as the Superfund designation.

www. creative city strategy deployed in cities across the Through this work we also hope to uncover some globe and focused on creating an amenity and of the hidden green practices along the Creek (such consumption-rich environment to attract the so- as materials recycling and reuse, eco-product and called “creative class,” prompting recent discussions service provision, pollution control measures, etc.) of environmental gentrifi cation (i.e. cleanup 1122 that may be less visible to the public than large leading to displacement, most often associated www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 3 113 eld. fi elds. fi were: beech (37%), sugar maple (21%), and were: beech (37%), sugar maple (21%), eastern hemlock (8%) were: sugar maple (19%), ash (12%), and red were: sugar maple (19%), ash (12%), maple (11%) abundance between the 1790s and 1990s were: abundance between the 1790s and 1990s (-3%) beech (-30%), elm (-3%), and basswood abundance between the 1790s and 1990s were: abundance between the 1790s and 1990s and red red maple (9%), black cherry (7%), oak (7%) the three most abundant species in the 1790s the three most abundant species in the three most abundant species in the 1990s the three most abundant species in the three species with the largest decrease in the three species with the largest decrease the three species with the largest increase in the three species with the largest increase ∙ ∙ ∙ ∙ are responding to disturbances such as insect such as insect to disturbances are responding were 261 There and climate change. infestations (e.g. they had a natural origin that plots in WNY or orchards), which as plantations did not begin from more than 50 species. contained 4303 trees as triangles in plot locations are shown The FIA Figure 1. two datasets in Figure 1, you When you look at the To not have co-located points. can see that they do both datasets were spatially facilitate comparison, and then represented interpolated using geostatistics shown for the maps of beech in 6x6 mile grids, like 2. and red maple in Figure Key results are as follows:

The changes in abundance of species match well The changes in abundance of species species that known successional characteristics: shade- decreased in abundance were slow growing, tolerant, and long-lived, while species that increased in abundance were the opposite. For example, the of maps in Figure 2 show the decrease across WNY of red beech, and the increase over much of WNY The lack of change in abundance in sugar maple. maple may be due to it being actively maintained for maple sugar extraction. areas that When considered across WNY, had experienced the most land in agriculture also experienced the greatest change in forest This occurred because when the composition. large areas of farmland were abandoned, there were few individuals of late successional species such as beech to contribute their seeds to the In addition, early successional species such as ash and red maple have seeds adapted to travel far and were thus able to readily spread into the abandoned lms fi Barry (Assistant Professor, (Assistant Professor, and two of his former PhD and two of his former (Assistant Professor, George Mason George (Assistant Professor, Yi-Chen Wang Yi-Chen Dr. Chris Larsen Dr. rst European settlers arrived? Or did land clearance Major changes in the forests of Western New York York New forests of Western Major changes in the in three recent papers (WNY) have been described by CHRIS LARSEN greenspace initiatives but are an important part of an important part initiatives but are greenspace of the city dialogue. the greening students: Information on forest composition from the 1990s was obtained from the USFS Forest Inventory and This program was begun Analysis (FIA) program. forest in the 1920s to keep track of the nation’s to see how they resources and, more recently, and entered into a GIS by Wang as part of her PhD as part and entered into a GIS by Wang total of 8792 trees were recorded A dissertation. The surveyed tree locations from nearly 40 species. are arranged around the little dots distributed at half- mile intervals along the rectilinear grid in Figure 1. To answer these questions, they obtained records of To land surveys forests in the 1790s from presettlement Europeans. conducted to facilitate settlement by 6x6 miles, The boundaries of townships, typically and their had between one and four trees marked Amherst In species recorded at half-mile intervals. an example of one of these townships is the NY, Road, Sheridan Drive, and Transit square formed by Niagara Falls Boulevard and North French Road. The chief surveyor was Joseph Ellicott, the person for whom was named the Ellicott Complex within which These the UB Geography Department is housed. data were laboriously transcribed from micro They were motivated to discover if the forests that They were motivated in differ now cover approximately 45% of WNY, WNY composition from the forests that covered late 1880s, prior to settlement by Europeans. By the of WNY extensive forest clearance turned 75% was into cultivated farmland. Much of this farmland abandoned in the early 1900s, and has subsequently forests similar in Are today’s returned to forest cover. when the character to those that covered the region fi result and other activities in the intervening centuries ecology of in lasting and irreversible changes to the the region? University). This research was in part funded by the This research was University). of Singapore. National University Kronenfeld National University of Singapore) and National University To examine spatial patterns of change, the mix of forest types in each 6x6 mile grid cell was determined using linear unmixing methods (the same methods used to identify multiple land cover classes in a single pixel of a remote sensing image). This revealed a 64% decrease in Beech-Sugar maple forests across the region, and a 52% increase in Ash-Poplar forests. However, the spatial pattern of forest types was similar: the distribution of Beech- Sugar Maple contracted to a core region in the southern tier, while Ash-Poplar expanded around its base in the northern Lake Ontario plains.

There is evidence that the presettlement forest composition is returning. The older the existing forest in the 1990s, the more similar in overall composition it was to the presettlement forest. It Figure 1 appears that forests require more than 100, and maybe more than 200 years, of succession for the presettlement forest composition to return. However, it is possible that responses to climate change will defl ect the trajectory of change, and lead forests to a completely new composition. In ongoing research they are assessing the relative impact of future climate change and past land use change on forest composition in WNY. Stay tuned for more!

Kronenfeld, B.J., Wang, Y-C. and Larsen, C.P.S. 2010. The infl uence of the “mixed pixel” problem on the detection of analogous forest communities between presettlement and present in western New York. The Professional Geographer 62: 182-196.

Wang, Y-C., Kronenfeld, B.J. and Larsen, C.P.S. 2009. Spatial distribution of forest landscape change in western New York from presettlement to the present. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 76-88.

Wang, Y-C., Larsen, C.P.S. and Kronenfeld, B.J. Figure 2

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1144 www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 5 115 ume, at millimeter- ume, at fl elds to remove rills and gullies, ume containing eight tons of ume containing fi fl ume, they developed digital elevation models fl Bennett says that these high nutrient loadings of nutrient loadings that these high Bennett says eroding agricultural phosphorus from nitrogen and resources, causing aquatic areas destroy of algae, depletion growth of aquatic unmitigated the creation of “dead zones” dissolved oxygen and of Mexico. in places like the Gulf by Bennett demonstrated past research Ironically, that when farmers till accelerating erosion. they actually end up showed that you could reduce “Our numerical model if you adopt a no-till farming soil losses by 400 percent “This is because the gullies practice,” says Bennett. during grow to some maximum size on the landscape by tilling the a growing season. If farmers repair them much soil each spring, the practice actually causes greater soil loss over the long term.” physical model showed similar Bennett’s showed the phenomena. “Our laboratory landscape in time same thing,” he says, “rills grow and evolve and and space, erosional processes get arrested After that, they don’t produce reach an endpoint. much sediment.” model how rills and gullies form, Bennett and his To erecting students built a rainfall soil erosion facility, a 30-foot by 8-foot simulated soil, which allowed them to monitor their the soil and landscape, looking for disturbances in the creation of rills and gullies. above Using digital cameras positioned directly the of the topography across the scale accuracy. “Each set of images represents how the topography evolved at a discrete space and time during the The images reveal at simulated storm,” says Bennett. phenomena what point during the rainfall and runoff, called headcuts -- small intense areas of localized erosion -- begin to carve deep channels into the soil. “If we can predict where and when these headcuts and develop technology that allows us to occur, control them, then we can greatly improve soil resource management,” says Bennett. Such diversions, grass technologies include runoff The images also barriers and vegetated waterways. revealed with startling clarity the fractal patterns that the simulated storm created in the landscape. umes to study how fl “We have feet in two domains,” he have “We explains, “we’re studying processes similar to those that created Niagara Falls; at the same time, we’re studying how these processes degrade soil resources worldwide.” Rills and gullies also are a primary cause behind excess sediment and nutrients in waterways, which transports soil and chemicals further downstream. “Rills and gullies are the dominant erosion processes on agricultural landscapes today and the main contributor to soil loss,” says Bennett, PhD, UB Arts and professor of geography in the College of Sciences and an active researcher in the UB 2020 Strategic Strength in Extreme Events. The UB research is helping scientists better understand some of the key triggers of erosion, the complex formation of channels on the landscape, called rills and gullies. The purpose of his work is both exceedingly The purpose of his work is both learn how practical -- geared toward helping farmers to better to best prevent erosion -- and fundamental, over time. understand how planetary surfaces evolve water and grains of sand interact. That’s why University at Buffalo geographer Sean University at Buffalo why That’s to model Bennett has constructed various systems machine shop. His it, with assistance from UB’s like methods range from the deceptively low-tech, to the high- simulating rainstorms over sandboxes velocimetry tech, such as the use of particle image (PIV) in large, re-circulating But predicting where erosion occurs, and thus how But predicting where to prevent it, is a serious challenge. Buffalo, N.Y. -- Dead zones in critical waterways, -- Dead zones N.Y. Buffalo, land and massive famines. accelerated loss of arable the 24 billion tons of soil that They’re all caused by to erosion, a phenomenon that are lost every year as $40 billion annually. costs the world as much Ellen Goldbaum [email protected] [Originally Ellen Goldbaum [email protected] 21, 2009] October published by UB Reporter, By Simulating Gullies, Geographers Discover Discover Gullies, Geographers By Simulating Soil Erosion to Tame Ways SEAN BENNETT STAFF

“Fractal organization is one of the most compelling Betsy Abraham-Secretary for Student Services ideas in science,” says Bennett.”While I always Betsy has been with the Department of Geography knew that landscapes had fractal characteristics, I since 1996 and is the go-to person for any question never saw it demonstrated so clearly as when I saw or problem our students may have. She processes these treelike patterns in the images we took of our applications to all Geography programs and audits rill networks. To study sediment transport processes student records to verify they have completed all in rivers and how particles interact with the degree requirements. Betsy likes to be hands-on for turbulent fl ow, Bennett designed a 30-foot by 2-foot many of our “fun” activities, such as our May reception fl ume channel, which was constructed by the UB for graduating students and our annual Holiday Party machine shop. in December. In one experiment, the researchers fi ll the Jeanine McKeown-Assistant to the Chair channel with sand and water, fl atten the bed, and then turn on the centrifugal pump to initiate Jeanine McKeown is the current Assistant to the sediment movement. “Once the fl ow reaches a Chair. She just celebrated her one-year anniversary certain velocity, the entire bed erupts into ripples, in Geography on October 15th. Jeanine grew up created by the instability between the fast- locally and has a vast background. She holds a M.S. moving fl uid overlying the slow-moving sediment,” in Student Personnel Administration from SUNY Bennett explains. College at Buffalo, and a B.A. from SUNY College at Fredonia. Before Geography, Jeanine worked in “The PIV system can provide us with high-quality a variety of positions including UB’s Political Science images and data right at the bed surface while these Department, higher education, banking, and human bedforms are being created,” he continues. “By services. As Assistant to the Chair, Jeanine is mainly examining the physics of sediment transport in this responsible for Geography’s budgets, fi nances, and way, we can develop improved models for fl ow and scheduling. She also serves as the Department’s transport in rivers, allowing us to better manage our liaison for personnel and human resources-related river systems and aquatic ecology.” items. In addition, Jeanine is the contact person for Bennett hopes to use these fl umes and equipment infrastructure upgrades and issues. to expand his research on the interactions between Joe Murray-Department Secretary vegetation and river function and form. Such interactions are critical to the process of restoring Joe Murray started out in the Geography Department and stabilizing degraded streams, a primary thrust of about fi fteen years ago as graduate secretary. Currently, the National Science Foundation-funded “Ecosystem as Department secretary, his job is the “care and Restoration Through Interdisciplinary Exchange” feeding” of the faculty and students—tending to their graduate training program at UB, in which Bennett day-to-day needs such as making exams, assigning participates through research and training. His work proctors, buying supplies, troubleshooting problems

.buffalo.edu/ is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and in the GIAL, making calendars and schedules. He

g the National Science Foundation. assists the chair with reports and promotions. Like

eo many people who were not born or raised here, he g says he is in love with the city of Buffalo where he shares a house in the Cottage District with his partner

www. of forty years and their Jack Russell terrier. Outside of work, his passion is collecting: mostly books, but other collections run the gamut from luggage labels to crazy quilts, amber necklaces and polyglots. Unusual 1166 fact about Joe: he is a Buddhist. www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 7 117

ALUMNI NEWS ALUMNI ce and coordinates plan ce and fi t the broader organization. fi Network Planning analyst role and was responsible and was responsible analyst role Network Planning to optimize & grow & recommendations for analysis role evolved in in the U.S. Mike’s the branch network as he became increasingly responsibility & complexity American our North across involved in efforts acquisition projects, and sharing business, merger & our global operations. In 2008 best practices across a team responsible for a highly he was brought onto with direct interface to our visible growth initiative, That team. American executive regional & North in class across the work was deemed best team’s a template global operation, and is now regarded as as such for how to execute such a project, and for similar projects. In they are considered SME’s a new role, February of 2010, Mike transitioned to US Analysis, on our Manager Sales & Incentive team. branch network sales incentive compensation quite successful at HSBC, which is due been Mike’s learning in large part to his interest in continually interest in and challenging himself, as well as his globally, connecting with others in the organization to globally, and sharing best practices in the US and bene Alan Brown, BA 2008 Alan Brown, BA Alan took an internship with the City After graduation and now works full time in their Permits of Buffalo, in the and Inspections Department. He works Building Code Review Of approvals for projects. 2004 Catignani, MA Tanya is currently working for the Department of Tanya She had been at Defense in DC as a Cartographer. the Census Bureau, but left after about two years, looking for something with a little more adventure. She said the Dept. of Defense is very interesting and challenging and has been there for over a year now. 2004 Choice, BA Tiffany worked within the legal Tiffany After graduating realm, handling compliance, real estate law & now Currently corporate law within info technology. paralegal for Macquarie in is an IT Tiffany City. New York

rm, “Urban Thinker fi Gabriel Bailer, BA 2000 BA Gabriel Bailer, After years of being loyal Gabe moved State, to NY across the Hudson and now works and resides in NJ. He recently got engaged and will be rm. He worked there for fi rm and has now branched (Zone Information Map Access (Zone Information Map fi nancial services & utility clients. fi http://urbanthinkerassociates.com/. ZIMAS 2000-2010 rm at fi nishing his MA in 2001, Mike accepted a job nishing his MA fi ces prior to applying for permits. fi ve years being a Senior Planner for a private walking down the aisle in June, 2011. Gabe spent walking down the aisle in June, 2011. fi planning/consulting out on his own and formed his own Planning and Strategic Communications can get more information on Gabe You Associates”. and his After as a GIS / Market analyst working NY in Buffalo, a delivery network strategy & Company, at Verdi & planning consulting 4 years as lead geographer on over 150 client engagements for Mike Bastedo, MA 2001 Mike Bastedo, MA In 2004 he started at HSBC Bank, in a Delivery After graduation Shannon moved to Los Angeles Angeles Los After graduation Shannon moved to City of Los and she is currently working for the Specialist. Angeles Planning Department as a GIS She updates and maintains citywide geodatabases ordinances. for zoning, and planning cases and State parcel These layers, along with County and mapping information are displayed in their online system called Shannon Azzarelli, , BA 2004 , BA Azzarelli, Shannon Emilia lives in New York City and works for a York Emilia lives in New Import & Export Brokerage Customs Petroleum Charter Brokerage. company, Emilia Arestegui, BA 2004 Arestegui, BA Emilia System). It’s a one-stop-shop for property owners System). It’s visit several and developers, alleviating the need to of Shawnna (Stroke) Clark, MA 2010 publishing, conferences, and speaking, and is glad to be back in a geography department after Shawnna works as a biologist-soil conservationist having spent two years or so in a business school! with the USDA NRCS Big Flats Plant Materials Doug and his wife Kyounghee have been happily Center, in Corning NY. married for 13 years and enjoy life in Seoul! They Paola Csirke-Juliano, BA 1997, MA 2000 enjoy traveling to other parts of Asia and, according to Doug – “we have an exceptionally cool dog After graduation Paola took a job in international named Max”! marketing for a small computer hardware company in Buffalo, NY. She worked there full-time while Michael Fay, BA 2010 completing her MA. Currently, she is working as Michael moved back to Syracuse and is attending a Global Market Research Analyst at SAS Institute SUNY-ESF in their M.S. program in water resources (http://www.sas.com/), a business analytics software engineering (Department of Environmental company. Paola, along with her husband, two sons Resources Engineering). He is doing fi eld research and a dog live in North Carolina. looking at river restoration techniques and hyporheic Michael G. Davis, MA, 2010 exchange fl ows and also conducting experimental research with a recirculating fl ume. In summer Mike is currently working for Greater Buffalo-Niagara 2011 he plans to travel to Europe and visit Dublin, Regional Transportation Council in downtown Barcelona, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Pisa, and Paris. Buffalo. Chris Fiorillo, Brian Dudek, MA 2009 BA 2009 For the past year Brian has been working at After graduation Chris Connected Nation (http://connectednation.org/) as enlisted in the US Army a GIS Analyst. He is located in Bowling Green, KY. Reserves with civil Erika Gregory, BA 2010 affairs and, after seven months of training, After graduation Erika took a road trip across country returned to NY and coached a little league baseball to visit national parks and forests of the Western U.S. team. He is now attending the University of St. She is currently working full time as a GIS Specialist Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, MN. He has for Sixel Consulting Group in Portland, Oregon. not decided what type of law he’d like to go into yet, Douglas Gress, but will be studying abroad in either Rome or Tokyo PhD 2005 this summer.

After graduation Doug Jonathan Gregoire, BA 2009 took a tenure track After graduation Jonathan was lucky enough to get assistant professor an offer from the United States Border Patrol. He position with Ewha graduated from the U.S. Border Patrol Academy in Womans University

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g (College of Business) teaching Economic in El Paso, Texas. Upon completion, he will be Globalization, International Business, and eo permanently stationed in Buffalo.

g International Organizational Behaviour. Since 2008, he’s been an assistant professor of Andrew J. Hillery III, BA2004 Economic Geography at Seoul National University,

www. After graduation Andrew moved to Herndon, Department of Geography Education. Doug Virginia where he put his GIS skills to use working teaches Economic Geography, E. Asian Regional for GeoEye, one of the largest providers of high Geography, Comparative E. Asian Industrial resolution satellite imagery (www.geoeye.com). Systems, Economic Globalization, and World While there, he coordinated imagery collection 1188 Regional Geography. He has been active in in support of disaster response during both the www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 9 119 do geographic targeting of online content, among content, among targeting of online do geographic capabilities. Earlier of other Internet a broad range GIS for Earth was doing Web John in his career, DC-based remote a Washington, Satellite Corp., that specializes in geospatial sensing company This community. and Intelligence analysis for NASA aux shows John at L’Anse September 2010 photo Meadows, Newfoundland. 2001 John Leone, BA in Geography In addition to his BA BS in Business John also earned a same time. Management at the In July he launched, an online boutique for sensual items based The products in Niagara Falls, NY. are discreet, whimsical, high quality examples of the latest innovations According from the great minds in pleasure design. elegance to John, sexcuse moi is about “etiquette, and romance. Eunjung Lim, PhD 2009 Master of Elle is currently working for the Information Professional Studies in Geospatial of Sciences (MPSGIS) program at the Department University of Maryland. Geography, 2009 Ge (Grace) Liu, MA analyst with Grace is currently working as program NYC. American Italian Cancer Foundation in the no cost mobile mammograms This foundation offers to uninsured women over 40. Her duties include indentifying priority neighborhoods and generating reports and maps to outreach using GIS. 00, PhD 2008 Lee, MA Taesoo Texas Assistant Research Scientist at is an Taesoo TX. He is doing A&M University in College Station, hydrological modeling for water quality. 2000 98, MA John Mack, BA Inc. in John has been employed by Praxair, since June 1999, where he started NY Tonawanda, as a summer intern during graduate school. From Analyst in the 1999 to 2001, he worked as a GIS department and from 2001 to 2004 as a GIS IT Analyst in the National Logistics organization. Since Manager in 2004 he has worked as a Right of Way rst students to fi Haley (Davis) Huntress, 2005 BA/MA Haley was one of the graduate with our newly developed BA/MA After combined degree. graduating from UB in May of 2005 she got married and started a John Kavanaugh, 2002 BA John is currently Director of Platform Product for Synacor NY. here in Buffalo, His product enables Synacor’sbusiness After experiencing three harsh winters in North Dakota, Jin-Kyu and his wife Gunwha Oh (PhD where he 2010) recently moved to Seattle, WA, Arts & accepted a position in the Interdisciplinary Sciences program at the University of Washington Bothell. Jin-Kyu and Gunwha have two daughters, Tia. and Tate to and Qwest, Warner Time customers, such as Jin-Kyu Jung, PhD2007 Julie is currently living in Chicago teaching GIS Julie is currently living in Chicago teaching courses at DePaul University Sungsoon (Julie) Hwang, PhD 2005 Jacquie is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor Assistant a Visiting Jacquie is currently Oxford, Ohio University, of Geography at Miami Ella 4, Maya which includes three daughters- family, in Anna 9 months. Haley and her family live 3 and and Dora Snyder with a house full of princess, fairy, accessories! Jacqueline A. Housel, Ph.D. 2007 A. Housel, Jacqueline Indonesian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina events. Katrina events. and Hurricane Tsunami Indonesian New back to Western his wife moved Andrew and is He and start a family. to build a home in 2006 York Mortgage Corporation by HSBC currently employed happily in Lockport Analyst and living as a Reporting with his wife and daughter. Praxair’s Pipeline & Metering department. John and presented at the annual NYSCATE conference in his wife Cheryl reside in the Town of Wheatfi eld with Rochester. Currently Peri is taking classes at SUNY their 4 year old daughter, Kathryn and 8 month old Oswego in the Educational Administration program. son Liam. Davin Parrott, MA 2009 Craig Mandel, MA 2000 Davin is working for an environmental/engineering After graduating, Craig moved to New Hampshire consultancy, predominantly doing economic impact for a short period to work for a small vegetation assessments of proposed development schemes, management company helping to create customized and also doing some statistical analyses of survey GIS software for managing power company’s right responses. He is located in Leamington Spa, UK. of ways. Shortly after that, he moved to the New Will Poppe, Phd 2010 York City offi ce of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for fi ve years where Will lives in Toronto and he supported their conservation efforts in the region just started a two year post- by generating maps and creating customized GIS doc appointment at the City solutions for the staff to use in their day to day tasks. Institute at York University For the past fi ve years Craig has been working for the (CITY). New York City Department of Parks & Recreation’s Rich Quodomine, BA 1996, MA 2003 Natural Resources Group. His division is tasked with managing, maintaining monitoring, and restoring After vagabonding between New York City, the natural areas of New York City’s parks, such as Connecticut, and other places, Rich, his wife and two urban forests and tidal and freshwater wetlands. As children now reside in Clifton Park, NY. He is the GIS the GIS/Data manager for the group, he generates coordinator for the Public Transportation Bureau, maps, manages GPS data collection, creates analyzing the impact of public transportation routes and manages multiple GIS databases, and helps vis a vis state policy. Rich is the Co-Chair of the catalog and quantify the work they do in the fi eld for Mapping Workgroup for the State’s Environmental internal and external reports, grant writing, lectures, Justice Task Force. They are in the process of symposiums, and conferences. In early summer of developing pilot projects that analyze possible 2010 Craig and his wife Vanessa welcomed son impacts of multiple environmental and demographic Owen into their family. stressors in an area. In terms of volunteering, he teaches children the basics of maps and even a little Saint’Clair Martins Filho, BA 2008 GIS at local elementary schools. At the New England Saint’Clair moved to St. Louis, MO and works for AB ARCGis Users Conference in Newport, RI last Mauri Fleischmann’s (yeast and bakery ingredients November, he showed how to teach kids to teacher manufacturer). He currently holds a marketing/ themselves, focusing on encouraging the youngest sales position, working closely with technical, citizens to understand their world. Currently Rich is manufacturing, and supply chain departments on working on a chapter in an upcoming professional product realization, in addition to managing all book, “Practicing Geography”, a publication of the

.buffalo.edu/ ABMF’s exports. AAG and in addition, will be presenting at the AAG

g Annual meeting in Seattle, WA in April 2011 on Peri Nelson, BA 2000 eo Beyond the Ivory Tower: Careers in Geography. In g After graduating in 2000 with a BA in Geography, his “free” time, Rich is a Cub Scout leader for his two Peri went on to earn a M.Ed. in science education boys, and a Little League Baseball Coach.

www. at UB (2003). After teaching Science for 6 years in Vincent Rundo, BA 2007 public, parochial, & charter schools she now works at Oswego County BOCES as a Technology Education After graduation, Vincent returned home to Specialist under a Title iID Grant, teaching teachers Cleveland, Ohio and currently lives in North 2200 educational technologies to use in their classrooms Royalton, Ohio where he works for Dominion East and with their students. Last November she Ohio Gas as a Technical Specialist II for the Asset www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 1 221 nding ways to actively incorporate nding fi 1990s elds in fi liated with the National Geographic state Alliance liated with the National Geographic state fi Elliott Axinn, BA 1994 Axinn, BA Elliott Elliott worked for After graduation, and companies in Buffalo telecommunications to the classroom In 1998 he returned Rochester. Simon School at the from the and received his MBA Elliott is working Currently, University of Rochester. Virginia. Allen Hamilton in Northern for Booz 1995 Randy Bertolas, PhD at Wayne After graduation Randy took a position today he State College in northeast Nebraska where Department is professor of geography and chair of the addition, as In Politics, and Geography. of History, of Nebraska coordinator of the Geographic Educators (af education program), he promotes K-12 geography institutes, across the state by facilitating summer hosting participating in teacher consultant training, Bee, and the annual Nebraska State Geographic Randy will organizing statewide geography festivals. of Gamma as national President serve in 2011-12 honor Theta Upsilon, the international geography through society that recognizes academic excellence sponsor scholarship competitions and chapter two-time winner of the Outstanding A recognition. State College, award at Wayne Year Professor of the Randy especially enjoys helping education majors from all geography into their classrooms. 1996 Christine Plaza (Brugh) BA and works at GE Christine lives in Erie, PA COE as Highway Vehicle in the Off Transportation She recently entered the MBA a Planner/Buyer. program at Gannon University. Joel Deichmann, PhD 1999 Joel secured a position at Bentley University in 1999 (then Bentley College) and has been there ever since. Some of his milestones cate Program on fi lling services. fi Ukit Tangsubkl, 2000 MA/MBA Ukit is currently living in Bangkok, Thailand where he has an online media agency under the name “MintedImages”. They nishing classes Danny worked for Bergmann nishing classes fi Yifei has just been promoted to Full Professor, has just been promoted to Full Professor, Yifei University California State Department of Geography, Northridge. He is setting up a Certi Administration Technology Innovation, Science and (ISTA). provide online services such as professional consulting, multimedia productions, online marketing, and social media. In 2010 he contacted Jessie Poon and worked together Dr. his advisor, to set up an internship for one or our current students. MA Yifei Sun, PhD 2000, Yifei Seth is still in the Buffalo area, teaching geography Seth is still in the Buffalo as an at Medaille College, and also working in educational resource specialist at 3rdLearning In addition, he is vice-president of downtown Buffalo. a 501(c) public transit Transit, Citizens for Regional educational/advocacy group. Seth Triggs, MA 2004, PhD 2008 MA Seth Triggs, Erik is living in Buffalo, NY and working for ADP ADP for and working NY Erik is living in Buffalo, Inc.) in Williamsville. (Automatic Data Processing, for the small business He is a District Manager and tax division selling payroll AECOM and IVI Due Diligence, PC in Rochester, for Analyst. He currently works in NYC as a GIS Institute for Social and Columbia University’s Economic Research and Policy (iserp.columbia.edu) Project (beh. and the Built Environment and Health Analyst and GIS columbia.edu) as a Geographer, co-teaching a GIS class. Erik Schaefer, BA2009 Erik Schaefer, After Data Management Team. He oversees many He oversees Team. Data Management mapping, and data with compliance, projects dealing Pipelines. all East Ohio Gas integrity for 2008 Danny Sheehan, MA include earning tenure in 2005, a Fulbright in St. Florine Luhr, MA 1999 Petersburg, Russia in 2007, one year as interim Since her graduation in 1999, Florine has worked chair in 2008-2009, and one year as interim for a few local economic development organizations, associate dean of arts & sciences 2009-2010. including Buffalo Niagara Enterprise as a Business Joel fi nally took his fi rst sabbatical in Fall 2010 Development Manager; Empire State Development and travelled to Croatia and Bosnia for research. Corp. as Project Director on the Erie Canal Harbor He’s one of three geographers at Bentley, and a Project. She currently is employed at Advancing Arts & founding member of the Global Studies Department, Culture Buffalo Niagara as Executive Director. Florine where he teaches Global Regions, Cross-Cultural feels strongly that her MA degree from in Geography Communication, Geographic Perspectives on has helped tremendously. Contemporary Europe, Transition Economies of Europe, Global Transportation and Tourism. Joel Brian Mikelback, BA 1994 said the best part of his job is taking students on After getting his BA from UB, Brian went on to earn Short Term Programs, mainly in Central Europe his MA and PhD in geography from Ohio State. He (Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Croatia, and is currently an Associate Professor in Urban Studies Bosnia-Herzegovina). at Cleveland State University. Brian said he drives Paul E. Hinz, MA/MBA 1992 through campus every once in a while on his way to Syracuse and is amazed at the changes since ‘94! Paul is in San Antonio TX and works at Commercial Metals (www.cmc.com) in Accounting, and is Paul Rooney, MA 1997 excited about his son Alex attending UB later Paul spent 4 years working in Cambridge MA as a this year. GIS developer for a non-profi t Math and Science Jeff Janek, MA 1996 Education Organization called TERC (Technical Education Research Centers). In 1999 he went to After graduation Jeff took a job at an engineering work for Environmental Systems Research Institute company in Williamsville, NY doing IT work and (ESRI) and is still there. Currently based in Albany, NY, hoping to do GIS work later on. The GIS work never he is an account executive working with environmental materialized but a career in IT came about. Jeff, his and health/human services state agencies in the wife and two children live in Dallas, TX, where he Northeastern US. is a Systems Administrator (which includes ArcSDE administration) for a mapping company near Dallas. Chris Olney, MA 1997

Dann Karlson, Chris Olney is a native of the Finger Lakes region of BA 1997 New York State. At the University of Buffalo (SUNY UB) he received a Bachelor’s degree in biology Dann and his family and environmental studies and a Masters degree currently reside in in physical geography. His fi rst job after college Odenton, Maryland was working for the New York State Department of and he works at Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) as an Inland

.buffalo.edu/ the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where Fisheries Technician, for two fi eld seasons. In 1998 g he is the Chief of Staff for the National Oceanic Chris was hired full time by The Catskill Center for eo and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-

g Conservation and Development where he served as generation weather satellite program, called Director of Conservation for nine years. In that capacity “GOES-R”, which is scheduled to launch in 2015. he oversaw The Catskill Center’s Land Conservation

www. Dann became a fi rst-time dad earlier last year when he and Natural Resources Program, working to protect a and his wife Shawna adopted their son Gabriel from variety of important conservation lands in the Catskill South Korea. Mountain region, providing assistance to other land trusts and partner organizations, and being involved 2222 in a variety of issues pertaining to land use, land management, and general natural resources in the www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 3 223

rm, headquartered out of Rochester, New York. Jeff Jeff York. New rm, headquartered out of Rochester, rm. David has been working as a consultant ever and Jack says that has put his degree to good work. degree to good work. that has put his and Jack says for 6 years and has happily married He has been (4), Fiona (2) and children (Jackson 4 beautiful (1). Delaney and McKenna identical twins Jeffrey M. Volpe 1996 MA GISP, After graduating with in a Masters degree Geographic Information Jeff Systems in 1994, and began working GIS Business Segment Leader continues to work as Associates, an engineering consulting for Bergmann fi to 2006, a served as President of GIS/SIG from 2000 Region regional GIS user group in the Finger Lakes became President of the State. Jeff York of New is also Association in 2007. Jeff State GIS York New State GIS Coordinating York active with the New Research Board (TRB). Transportation Body and the have been married 14 years Amy wife and his Jeff Eva Jeffrey, and have four wonderful kids – Vienna, and Alivia. 1993 MA David Weiskopf, TN, After graduating David moved to Nashville, He earned University. where he attended Vanderbilt moved to a PhD in economics in 1999 and then DC to join an economics consulting Washington, fi since, with a focus on industrial organization, applied microeconomics, and antitrust. He currently works at Compass Lexecon, and also teaches a micro theory and policy course to master’s students at Johns Hopkins. 1999 MA Xin (Michael) Wu, Street as a Michael is currently working on Wall President, Royal Bank of Scotland, Senior Vice Stamford, CT. shing, hunting, hiking, fi nished his 10th year at AkzoNobel nished his 10th year at fi rst president of the Catskill Mountain Club (CMC), Catskill Mountain rst president of the After graduating with a degree in International Jack moved to Chicago, Trade, Business and World IL. He just Functional Chemical, as an account manager in Thermoset and Crosslinking Organic Peroxide the Akzo is Dutch based chemical company business. John “Jack” Joseph Stanek, BA, 1998 Catskill Park and Forest Preserve, the NY City the NY and Forest Preserve, Catskill Park Catskill region. While and across the Watershed, was the founder and Catskills, Chris living in the fi The other outdoor activities for led many hikes and the CMC, co-authored a book Catskill Center and The Inside the Blue Line - titled “The Catskill Park: Mountain Communities of Forest Preserve and co-wrote a regular First Wilderness”, America’s in two local newspapers, hiking and outdoor column Geographic Information and taught introductory at three local colleges. In Systems (GIS) courses as a Natural Resources Planner 2007 Chris was hired portfolio State’s at NYSDEC to help administer NY more of 150+ conservation easements protecting excitement than 750,000 acres of land. Despite the multiple-thousand-acre of being involved in major, Chris Adirondacks, land conservation deals in the region and felt the “call home” to the Finger Lakes with accepted the position of Director of Stewardship in October 2008, where Trust the Finger Lakes Land he is currently responsible for the administration totaling and stewardship of 30 nature preserves conservation nearly 4,000 acres, and more than 80 encumbering easements and deed restrictions the nearly 6,000 acres, all scattered throughout Chris greater part of a 12-county region. Wherever lives and works, he enjoys Templeton After graduation Seth went to work for Templeton Global Investors (part of the Franklin Analyst for their Emerging Funds) as a Portfolio Markets group in Fort Lauderdale Florida. He currently resides in Sharon, Massachusetts and for Robeco Trader Sr Equities works in Boston as VP, Investment Management. Seth Ruskin, BA 1992 Seth Ruskin, BA camping, canoeing, traveling, riding his motorcycle camping, canoeing, traveling, riding his his two little on beautiful back roads, and playing with kids Grace and Claire, Amy, girls. He and his wife NY. Trumansburg, and their dogs live in Korean Airline Flight 007 in 1983 as it is trying to understand what is going on in Afghanistan today. To 1980s understand much of history, look at the geography.”

Eugene Lee, BA 1980 David Cacner, BA 1986 Eugene is currently employed by GeoEye. David was recently appointed to the Defense William M. London, BA 1980 Intelligence Senior Leader position of Deputy Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency William M. London, Ed.D. M.P.H. is a professor in (NGA) Support Team to the National Reconnaissance the Department of Health Science at California Offi ce (NRO). He also serves as the Deputy Director, State University, Los Angeles. His previous faculty Systems Engineering Directorate at the NRO. In appointments include: associate professor and these positions he oversees systems engineering chair of the Department of General Studies in the activities at the NRO and provides outreach to College of Science and Health of The Charles Drew partners and enablers implementing available and University, where he initiated the College’s Master emerging technologies of value to the NGA and of Public Health in Urban Public Health Program; NRO missions. associate professor of health education at Kent State University; associate professor of health care Stephen A. Hirsch, MA 1980 management and director of the Graduate Program Stephen moved to northern Virginia in 1979 for a in Health Care Management of College of Saint position at the U.S. Geological Survey. Since then Elizabeth; professor of health science at Touro he’s worked in the geospatial intelligence arena and University International; and specialized faculty has been employed by the MITRE Corp in McLean, mentor in public health at Walden University. He VA since 1991. was also executive director of RAP, Inc., a private nonprofi t mental health and senior citizens service Glenn Johnston, MA 1987 agency in Genesee County, New York; the director After his 1987 graduation, Glenn was immediately of public health/public health editor of the American employed by Bell Aerospace Textron, where he Council on Science and Health; and the director of helped design the fi rst overland test track for air communications of Columbia University’s Mailman cushion vehicles (hovercraft) in the U.S. He went on School of Public Health. to teach secondary history in the NY public schools Dr. London is coauthor of the sixth, seventh, and and worked part-time with GIS Resource Group in eighth (2007) editions of the college textbook East Aurora, NY, primarily as a trainer. In 2007, Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions. he earned a Ph.D. at the University of North Texas He is the associate editor of Consumer Health (Denton) and then went on teach at the university Digest (a free weekly e-newsletter at http://www. level in Maryland. Glenn is currently employed quackwatch.org/00AboutQuackwatch/chd.html; a teaching Public History at Stevenson University near consultant to the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Baltimore where he is also the University Archivist. (formerly called CSICOP); and a founding fellow .buffalo.edu/ of the Institute for Science in Medicine (http://www.

g Glenn submitted this comment “My success at teaching history has been totally attributable to scienceinmedicine.org). He co-founded and served eo

g my background as a geographer. The Canadian as the fi rst president of the Ohio Council Against historian Donald Creighton once said that history Health Fraud, Inc. and later served as treasurer, vice is when circumstance encounters character. I president, president, and newsletter editor of the www. would argue that all too often chief among those National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc. circumstances is geography as well as its attendant Dr. London holds baccalaureate degrees in handmaidens of microclimate and weather. It was as biological sciences and geography; master’s true when Mike Woldenberg, David Mark, and I tried degrees in educational psychology and health 2244 to make sense out of the news of the shootdown of education; and a doctorate in health education from www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 5 225 eld in 1990. eld in 1990. fi cate Program where he is a Program where he cate fi Designation. He earned a He earned a Designation. ® 1970s t organizations throughout Western t organizations throughout fi Financial Planner Certi Financial faculty and advisor of their adjunct current member and Graduate Education. Adult of to their School the CFP He holds New York. New York. Chi Ho Sham, PhD 1984 and senior Chi Ho Sham is a vice president The Cadmus Group, Inc. in Watertown, scientist at degree Massachusetts. He received his doctoral He from UB in 1984 with a focus on hydrology. University’s was a faculty member at the Boston for Energy Department of Geography and the Center to 1992. He and Environmental Studies from 1982 joined the environmental consulting He is an adjunct professor at Clark University in He is an adjunct professor at Clark and he currently serves Massachusetts Worcester, Resource Sustainability as a trustee on the Water Standards Division and a member-at-large on the Association. Works American Water Council of the Ralph Blenn, BA 1974 Ralph Blenn, BA After graduation in 74, Glenn and his wife moved to where he earned his M.A.at San Jose San Jose, CA State University and also a California Community Also Credential. Teaching College Earth Science during that time he built a home in Morgan Hill, CA. In 1985 he began a career as a Quality Engineer for a major defense contractor -LM, in Sunnyvale CA., Telescope, where he worked on the Hubble Space AEHF and SBIRS satellite programs. Glenn Milstar, has three children; two have graduated from college and his youngest is in her fourth year at SJSU. Master’sThe College from of Science with honors Colorado. Bob in Denver, for Financial Planning 7, 6, 63, 26 life & accident maintains a series and NYS. He with FINRA and health licenses for inclusion into the 2009 was recently selected America “Guide Council of Research Consumers’ for a second Financial Planners” Top America’s to Who’s American Registry’s The consecutive year, Finance, and has been an Who in Banking and numerous active board and committee member for not-for-pro ed ow fi fl cer. He cer. fi c mentor. fi ce, where he fi nancial planning fi rst Director of the Certi ciency analysis, business fi fi Robert Romeo, BA 1983 Robert Romeo, BA Bob has 26 years of experience providing wealth management and advice to individuals and business owners specializing in investment planning, trust, estate and, cash suf succession and charitable was responsible for the management and expansion of existing client relationships and 5 years at M&T Of Trust President and Senior Bank as Vice was Medaille College’s Peter has been teaching in the Department of Peter has been teaching in the Department moved to Geography at UB since 1986, when he Professor positions in the Assistant his from Buffalo Engineering Departments of Geography and Civil three books He had at Northwestern University. Yamada, published in 2009, including one with Ikuho He a former Ph.D. student from the department. in 2010. completed a term as chair of the department Peter Rogerson, PhD 1982 giving strategies. Prior to joining First Niagara he President and head of the Private was Senior Vice of Buffalo America’s Bank of Bank of Jacqueline currently lives in Nashville, TN and Jacqueline currently lives in Nashville, In manager. works for Dell Inc. as a senior project in September 2010 she started a DM (Doctorate Management) with the University of Phoenix. Mary has been with the Canadian Consulate General Mary has been with in International Both the MA for more than 30 years. were instrumental in from U.B. and MBA Trade Trade position as achieving her current Mary’s She says that she will always Commissioner. James McConnell as a terri remember Dr. 1986 BA Jacqueline Randler, Mary Mokka, MA 1986 Mary Mokka, MA University at Buffalo, The State University of New University of New The State at Buffalo, University of public health degree his master He received York. Loma Linda University from in health administration Linda, California. Public Health in Loma School of in the Master of Science He is currently a student Program at Charles R. Drew in Clinical Research and Science. University of Medicine Susan Hadley, BA 1974 story of a Geology professor asking her to drop his class because she was the only “girl” in the class Sue currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and he thought she would be a distraction on the and is self-employed as a Patent Research Librarian. weekend fi eld class where the guys “camped out”. The majority of her clients are Patent Attorneys in the She said it seems so funny now that this situation Silicon Valley Area, and various Patent fi rms located could have even happened. Cecelia also earned an within the US. Our focus is Prior-Art Research, and Associate’s Degree in Business Management from Patent Law Library Management and Operations Bryant & Stratton and a BS in Environmental Studies Jim Mulvihill, from UB in 1988. 1968 & MA 1972 She married when she was 45 and became a stay In September at home Mom after adopting a 6 yr. old from Russia. 2099 Jim was She enjoys traveling and has been to Russia, invited by the Hawaii, England, Germany & Finland, as well as the Municipal People’s Caribbean area and many parts of the US. Government of Chongqing, PRC, and the Chongqing 1960s Planning Bureau, to a conference: “Western Development & Planning Towards a National Central Metropolis,” to present a paper entitled: Ralph Carestio, MA 1968 “Intensifi ed Corridor Development in a National Ralph was a National Central Metropolis,”. Jim is Professor Emeritus, Science Foundation Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Fellow in the Department California State University, San Bernardino. He of Geography and was an presents papers at most of the annual AAG meetings instructor of Economic and and plans to be in Seattle in 2011. This photo shows Physical Geography at the Jim outside the Olympic Stadium “Bird’s Nest.” evening school on campus, Jeffrey Riese, BA 1978 then called Millard Fillmore College. He entered the PhD program at Ohio State but left after one year After receiving his BA Jeff moved over to Civil to work for a consulting fi rm in Washington DC. The Engineering on Main St. where he received a company was Real Estate Research Corporation and MSCE in Transportation and Societal Systems. included a public affairs group Systemetrics. After 3 In 1980 he relocated to Gaithersburg Maryland years he went to MassMutual in Springfi eld, Mass. (Washington D.C.) where he spent three years with where he started an internal research group in the Planning Consultant fi rms and 27 years with the Real Estate Investment Division that morphed into Montgomery County Department of Transportation. MassMutual Research, doing economic feasibility, Jeff has been in Transportation Planning, Economic demographic and highest and best use studies for Development, Subdivision Review and for the

.buffalo.edu/ clients around the world and responding to public last 5 years has been the Chief of Engineering g sector economic planning RFP’s at local and national and Maintenance for the County’s Public eo levels. Ralph ultimately became responsible for

g Parking Program. the real estate equities area. Notable acquisitions Cecelia Schroeder Willhoff, BA 1970 included the Chrysler Bldg and Chrysler Bldg East,

www. the Kahala Hilton Hotel on Oahu and the Hyatt on Cecelia had some interesting comments on her Union Square in San Francisco. back-in-the-day experiences. She said there were very few female Geography majors at that time He was recruited away from MassMutual after nearly and sometimes she did not feel welcome in some eight years to start and head up the Commercial 2266 classes. We all got a chuckle when she told us the Real Estate Group at NCNB in Charlotte, NC. , www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 7 227

ce. fi ce and served ce fi Key in a survey number HXXXXX click on the Key in a survey number HXXXXX click Surveys Division ce of Coast Survey Hydrographic fi Survey ID which appears and students will see the Survey ID which appears and students His newest complete products list for that survey. Sheets. Dan creation is the NOAA/NOS Survey Rap capitol and is active in UB alumni in the nation’s recently enjoyed dining with the new UB football Quinn. coach Jeff 1964 BA Daniel N. Csizmar, Following graduation Daniel entered the insurance industry as a commercial insurance underwriter for of Insurance Company in the Buffalo CIGNA he moved on to marketing and years later, Twelve Agency in sales of insurance for Billings Insurance After sixteen years, the agency was Niagara Falls. where he Agency in Buffalo sold to Lawley Insurance worked as a large accounts marketer until retirement in 2006. Dan says he highly recommends retirement! http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/idb/struts/ results?t=101528&s=3&d=4 work using Students at UB can also see some of his below which is a link to the Maps the next URL Geophysical serrvice at our sister agency National Colorado. Center (NGDC) in Boulder, http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/hydro. html Geography fraternity Gamma Theta Upsilon. He Theta fraternity Gamma Geography the four years in and served was commissioned Air Force Strategic 15th Air Force United States of as a cartographic Air Command during Viet Nam. He began working for the National Nam. He began working during Viet (NOAA) as Administration Atmospheric Oceanic and and recently completed his a cartographer in 1974 in the Dan is currently senior IT 40th year with NOAA. Of Society Technology the Marine and also secretary for where he has published many Maryland Chapter many sessions on hydrographic papers and chaired survey metadata. provides a link to his work on survey This URL Hydrographic where he created the metadata display, and the Survey Metadata Database (HSMDB) interface to it.

ve fi rst work out bank for the FDIC. NCNB became rst work out bank for the Dan graduated from UB in 1967 as geography major from the old Main and Bailey Campus. Dr. Ebert was his mentor and he was treasurer for the Dan Neumann, BA 1967 Dan Neumann, BA So, in summation, Ralph says “That’s it. A good life A it. So, in summation, Ralph says “That’s St. for a kid from Sweet Home High School to Buff At each of those three places, one person, and UB. above all others, was instrumental in helping me to wise advice keep moving the ball forward by offering Dr. or cutting me a break or calming an anxiety. Ebert, then Chairman of the Geography Department was that person for me at UB.” In 1988 NCNB purchased the failed First Republic In 1988 NCNB purchased was chosen to be one of Bank in Dallas. Ralph team sent to Dallas to make for a management work. He was responsible this huge investment Energy and Natural Resource for all Real Estate, instrumental in establishing the activities and was fi the success Nationsbank and largely because of Bank investment, ultimately became Texas of the America for America. In 1992 Ralph left Bank of of all He was responsible for NY. Albany, Keycorp in operations non-bank businesses and investment Companies Trust which included Mortgage Banking, and the in 13 states, Investment Management which was their mutual fund platform, Funds, Victory the Niagara Key Brokerage, Key Insurance and FDIC in the Companies formed to work again with the in Buffalo, aftermath of the Gold Dome Bank failure Albany he served as a Foundation While in NY. State Foundation Board Member for the Buffalo (where he earned his Bachelor’s degree). In 1995 in a mission Ralph took early retirement and taught workers near school for the children of migrant farm continued to Lake Okeechobee in Indiantown. He Advisory Board of Fidelity Investments serve on the for several years and then moved to North Dallas, Ralph and his wife now TX to be closer to family. travel extensively spending a month each year in Italy and anywhere else “I can talk my wife into”. which evolved into one of the largest commercial real commercial real into one of the largest which evolved billions of dollars in the U.S, lending estate banks that is, investments old fashion way, he said “the were paid They lent, and sense”. that made on large ticket commercial back, billions of dollars loans mainly in the U.S. construction and interim 1950s

Charles Zandell, BA 1959

Upon graduation Charles went into the US Army via National Guard. After 6 months or so he attended Graduate School at the University of Kansas, receiving his master’s degree in 1962. His fi rst employment was with Sinclair Oil in Midland, Texas. Since then he has worked for several companies “Most of the Chinese offi cials I met were extremely and even was a consultant for a couple of years. friendly and open. They raised concerns over the In 1982 he decided to open his own company growing development disparities regionally, and which still operates as CZOR Oil and Gas, Inc. between cities and the countryside. In terms of In addition to the oil and gas industry, Charles wealth, most describe the sharp increases in auto owned and operated two self service car washes, ownership in the cities -- personally, the pollution an industrial spray painting company and two was beyond description, especially in Chongqing, marble and granite fabrication companies. In 2009 which is in a river valley at a major confl uence to the Charles and his wife Ilana celebrated 50 years of Yangtze, not unlike Pittsburgh.” marriage and last November his 75th birthday. He is currently retired and living in Centennial, Colorado Jim Mulvihill, BA 1968 & MA 1972, Beijing tour - where we enjoys golf, Tango dancing and seven Forbidden City wonderful grandchildren. Although retired, he still has his hands in the Oil and Gas Industry along with being a licensed real estate broker in the state of Colorado.

Ron Herdman, BA 1953

When Ron was at UB, it was not yet a SUNY school and offi cially there was not yet a Geography Department. (his BA is from the Geology Department) In 1954 Dr. Ebert, who was teaching Geography and Geology courses at that time, was instrumental in turning Geography into a separate Department. Ron went on to earn a MS in Geology from LSU in 1955. After that he was hired on with Humble Oil and Refi ning and moved to Crowley, LA.

.buffalo.edu/ A few transfers led Ron to New Orleans in 1957 and

g Houston in 1967 with Exxon Production Research

eo Co. In 1969 Ron moved to Exxon Production g and retired from there in 1994. He still lives in Houston, TX. www.

2288 www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 9 229 UGSA grilling up some awesome chicken-kabobs. UGSA Pete Horvath, Pete Rogerson, Phil Savoy, Mike Pete Horvath, Pete Rogerson, Phil Savoy, so some folk snuck inside! Chilly picnic day, Woldenberg. 2010 Spring Picnic 2010 EVENTS AND EVENT PHOTOS EVENT AND EVENTS coffee hour and other events coffee in November Reception in Spring and Fall Together in May Together of American Geographers’ York in New meetings. It’s in 2012! • December Holiday Party in • sponsored and UGSA GGSA • Geography Awareness Week Awareness • Geography • Series and Colloquia Weekly • Golf Get Alan MacPherson • Graduation in May • Association party at the Buffalo • and Fall Picnics Spring Yearly Events Yearly Reception for graduating students, May 2010

Celebrating completion of their Bachelors of Arts degree….. (l-r) Jeremy Tracy, Dan Gallagher, Ryan Dr. Ebert and Dr. James McConnell Mendieta, Matt DeCristofaro and Erika Gregory.

Drs. Peter Rogerson and David Mark

Dr. Mike Woldenberg presents PhD candidate Jorge Bajo Sanchez the 2010 Abrahams- Woldenberg Field Scholarship .buffalo.edu/ g eo g www.

3300 www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 1 331 Faculty at ease … (Enki, David, Mike, Leo and Jared) Children of Dr. Wang and Dr. Mackay and Dr. Wang Children of Dr. Children of Dr. Renschler and Dr. Bagchi-Sen. Renschler and Dr. Children of Dr. Holiday Party December, 2010 December, Party Holiday It’s a nail-biting experience. It’s Always plenty of food… Santa arrives! 2nd Alan MacPherson Golf Get Together May 14th 2011... PLEASE JOIN US!

ways) and had a good time after (particularly after the weather changed shortly after start to partly sunny, but still windy conditions; see photo). Pete Rogerson managed to claim the best score and received the “Alan MacPherson Trophy”. Alan’s wife, Valerie Randall, was so gracious to host us and some of Alan’s friends for a lunch potluck after the game at their place around the corner, before most of the payers headed back in time to attend the department’s graduation at the Center for Tomorrow at 3 pm. Thank you Valerie!

We are currently planning the 2nd “Alan Macpherson Friendly Golf Get-Together” on Saturday May 14th 2011 – the day of the Department’s Reception for All Graduates. The event will be in a similar format at the same venues (starting at 7:30 am) and will feature a close-by birding excursion lead by David Mark as well as a morning bowling event at Alan’s favorite lanes down the road starting at 8 am (this would be also the bad weather option for the golf The fi rst “Alan MacPherson Friendly Golf Get- and birding). All faculty, students, alumni, family and Together” took place on Saturday May 8th 2010 friends of the UB Geography community at all skill at Alan’s home course: the Ironwood Golf Course levels are invited to participate (please check the (approx. 1 hour south of Buffalo). Five players of department’s webpage for more details or contact various skill levels started the game at 7:00 am under Chris Renschler at [email protected]). Scottish weather conditions (windy and raining side- .buffalo.edu/ g eo

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www. (SUNY Brockport, Geography alumni), Rich Quodomine (NY State Dept. of Transportation, Geography alumni), Peter 3322 Rogerson (faculty), and Chris Renschler (faculty). www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 3 333 2010 Faculty/Staff 2010 (missing from photo: Thomas Bittner, Sara Metcalf, Joseph Murray, and Marion Werner) Sara Metcalf, Joseph Murray, Thomas Bittner, (missing from photo: Standing, L-R, Scott Mackay, Enki Yoo, Sean Bennett, Trina Hamilton, Leo Wang, Ling Bian, David Mark, Ling Bian, David Hamilton, Leo Wang, Trina Sean Bennett, Yoo, Enki Standing, L-R, Scott Mackay, Abraham Poon, Betsy Jessie Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Chris Renschler, Seated L-R, Jared Aldstadt, Peter Rogerson, Chris Larsen, Jeanine McKeown. Aldstadt, Peter Rogerson, Chris Seated L-R, Jared OUR THANKS

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Greg and Susan Aldrich Award for June 23, 1924—Dec. 30, 2010 Undergraduate Research In Memoriam, Charles H. V. The goal of this award is to provide funding to “Vince” Ebert, distinguished students who exhibit a need for funding to overcome UB professor barriers that obstruct their ability to perform meaningful research and or creative activities Published in the Buffalo News during their undergraduate enrollment at UB. Award January 1, 2011, 12:00 AM applications would be reviewed by a team of UB Geography faculty who will give consideration to Charles H. V. Ebert, distinguished teaching professor completed applications that show a true need for emeritus in geography at the University at Buffalo, award support to complete projects, pay for supplies, died Thursday in the Center for Hospice&Palliative attend conferences, and/or other intrinsic needs that Care, Cheektowaga. He was 86. must be overcome to complete a research project. Application information can be obtained from the Dr. Ebert, who began teaching at the University department’s website. of Buffalo in 1954, retired in 2000. But the award- winning professor taught as many as four courses a semester after retiring, including his popular and long-running undergraduate course, “Disasters: A Study of Hazards.”

The Amherst resident became an expert in the fi eld and wrote a textbook, “Disasters: Violence of Nature and Threats by Man.”

In one of his last interviews, Dr. Ebert warned about the widespread damage to the ecosystem and the economy from the exploded oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. But he cautioned against feeling hopeless and giving up.

“One duty is to stay informed,” he told The Buffalo News in June. “Nothing is more dangerous than an uninformed public.” He also urged people to support policies “that smell of some solution.”

At the time, he was already preparing to teach .buffalo.edu/ “Disasters: An Analysis of Natural and Human- g Induced Hazards” in the fall. eo g He spoke fi ve languages: German, Russian, Spanish, French and English. His fi eld work took

www. him to Switzerland as recently at 1996 to study pollution and the melt rate of a glacier. During his career, he traveled around the world, for fi eld work in Costa Rica, Russia, Poland, Greece, Peru and 3366 Afghanistan, among other countries, to study the effects of earthquakes, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, deforestation and soil erosion. www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 7 337

eld work in over 30 fi c papers at numerous c papers at fi JANUARY 5, 2011 5, 2011 JANUARY UNIV. OF DENVER OF UNIV. rst faculty members. In 1981 Vince and Ross rst faculty members. In 1981 Vince EULOGY AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE ON SERVICE MEMORIAL THE AT EULOGY fi BY DR. TERRY TOY, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, EMERITUS, PROFESSOR TOY, DR. TERRY BY rst Chair, he built the Department and selected he built the Department rst Chair, There are three components of professional life in a There are three components service and teaching. During University: research; professional published numerous his career Vince based on his research. articles and monographs here is the geographic and What is extraordinary the subjects represented in topical breadth of his research. He conducted York, New including Western states and countries, Nicaragua, Peru (Amazon Basin), Guatemala, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Greece, Afghanistan, West Iran, and Mexico, Jamaica Great Britain, Germany, volcanoes, Israel.* He published on climate, soils, man-made water resources and natural and entitled disasters. He was very proud of his book Analysis of Natural and Human- An Disasters: This book was published in 4 Induced Hazards. editions, the last in 2000. scienti presented Vince in the Soviet meetings and was an invited lecturer He served Taiwan. Union, Switzerland, Poland and entities in as a consultant for various government around the world. and York New Western of Service is another important component to the professional life-ranging from service and to the department the University, community, compiled a long list of lectures for students. Vince including various organizations in the community, one period where he gave 76 lectures in 7 years! lecture at the For 23 years he gave the lead-off Science Forum. He also gave York New Western lectures for the Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s Summer Education Program. was appointed to the Geology Department Vince few years later, A when he arrived in 1954. President Furnas asked him to found the Geography As its Department, and this was done in 1963. fi its MacKinnon saved the Department from extinction during a time when it was fashionable for universities The main to eliminate geography departments. th. fi eld research on the eld research on the fi eld from there. eld from fi He is survived by a daughter, Monica (Norman E.) He is survived by a daughter, Shuman, his grandson Kyle Shuman and two great grandchildren, Hayden and Maddox Shuman. He was the brother of the late Gisela Fleischmann and was the uncle of Esther Fleischmann Grif Dr. Ebert was born in Hamburg, Germany, and Ebert was born in Hamburg, Germany, Dr. attended private schools in Switzerland. He served in He earned a doctorate in geography Army. the U. S. at the University of North Carolina in 1957 after receiving a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in the “I was here during the riots, and whether a class “I was here during the riots, and whether got disrupted depended to a large extent on the he recalled. “It was not a matter of professor,” the professor being liked or not liked, but how the As some students overreacted, professor reacted. so did some professors.” When they said they wanted his students to join When they said they wanted his students Ebert said it was up to his students, their strike, Dr. The students voted and put the option to a vote. them for to stay in class, and the radicals joined lecture. Ebert’s Instead of calling security, like other professors did, like other professors Instead of calling security, could do for provoking clashes, Ebert asked what he the radicals. “A dozen of what could be called radicals invaded dozen of what could be called radicals invaded “A during my class, banging on trash cans,” he recalled The News in 2000. an interview with Closer to home, he conducted home, he conducted Closer to manner of One incident in the 1960s revealed his dealing with students. But Dr. Ebert will also be remembered for his Ebert will also be But Dr. of students enrolled in his teaching. Hundreds University at Buffalo He won the courses every year. 1975 Excellence in Teaching for Award Chancellor’s in 1965 and 1968; Award Faculty Mr. and 1976; UB’s for Excellence Award Teaching and the Distinguished from the National Council for Teaching in Geography Geographic Education in 1990. spread of toxic leachates at Love Canal, using soil Love Canal, using toxic leachates at spread of He once infrared aerial photographs. samples and a investigating County prosecutors assisted Erie ground conditions and homicide by correlating weather radar data. point here is that the opportunities that faculty and Professor. (This is a rank above Full Professor, students have today in the Geography Department awarded by the State University); (6) Distinguished were initiated and sustained for many years by Teaching Award from the National Council for Vince Ebert. Geographic Education.

Vince took graduate and undergraduate advising The words to describe Vince as a teacher include very seriously. I was one of his undergraduate gifted, creative, inspirational, polished, enthusiastic, advisees and he served as my main Master’s advisor. demanding but fair and consistent, and clearly He kept me headed in the right direction, always loves teaching. pushed me to improve my classroom performance, In his later years he taught a course for graduate and as a result I was unable to take advantage of students entitled “The Art of Teaching.” the “all expense paid, government-sponsored trip to Southeast Asia that was available during the mid and We all have our special memories about Vince. If late 60’s.” As a graduate student I can attest that he you would like to read some of these, go to Google had high standards but he was always available, with and enter: Charles H. V. “Vince” Ebert Guest Book. an open door, for research guidance and the writing Recurring themes are: (1) Best teacher ever; (2) of the thesis. Most signifi cant person in my college days; (3) One professor I’ll never forget; (4) More infl uence For many of you, teaching quality and effectiveness on my life than any other person; (5) Caused me is what defi ned Vince Ebert. Should I recount the to study geography; (6) Several mentions of his statistics of classes taught and numbers of students old Studebaker. taught? Should I start with the list of awards that he has earned over the years? Should I re-live the In addition to these sentiments many of us have stories that students, including myself, have about special memories. Once I was taking Prof. Ebert’s Vince as their teacher? The objective, simply stated, soils class that met at 8:00 a.m. It was the winter of is to describe a legend in the classroom, nothing less. 1968. When I awoke there was a Buffalo blizzard in progress. Although my fi rst instinct was to just roll over, The cold hard statistics are these: Vince taught at I knew he’d be there. So, I got up and drove the ‘57 UB from 1954 to 2010. That is 57 years. He taught Pontiac station wagon down Niagara Falls Blvd. to the approximately 15 different courses. He usually Ridge Lea campus. As I drove down Ridge Lea Road taught 3 or 4 courses. It is especially noteworthy I saw someone walking along the side of the road in that he maintained this teaching load during the eight a topcoat and arctic boots with the buckles. I thought years he was Department Chair and the six years this guy must be nuts and I drove on. When I got to the that he was the Undergraduate Dean. His classes Geography Department it was all locked up. I waited. ranged in size from nearly 500 to about 20, requiring Soon here came the fellow in the topcoat. It was Dr. various teaching styles. The smaller classes usually Ebert. I had driven right past him. I thought: “Oh included laboratory sessions and fi eld trips. A (expletive)!” but he never said anything. He probably conservative estimate of the number of students he never saw me because his eye lids were frozen shut. taught is about 44,600! Anyway, I was the only student who showed up so we

.buffalo.edu/ During his teaching career, Vince received eight went for coffee in the cafeteria. The point is that he

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g (1) U. B. Mr. Faculty Award--twice; (2) U.B. Milton Plesur Memorial Teaching Award; To conclude, in every facet of professional life, Dr. Ebert was an impact player. He conducted

www. (3) U.B. University Award for Distinguished meaningful research. He served his university, Achievements in Arts and Sciences; created a department and nurtured students and (4) SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in faculty. But it is as a teacher, that he is and will be Teaching--twice in back-to-back years, the only revered. Quite possibly, he was the best ever in 3388 person to do so. (5) SUNY Distinguished Teaching the classroom. www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 9 339

eld. Many fi -Nicole Gasparini http://www.legacy.com/ -C. Mysha Webber-Eakin uenced many to major in fl “Dr. Ebert’s stories of all of his amazing experiences stories of Ebert’s “Dr. a degree in across the globe inspired me to get His commitment to educating not Physical Geography. just students at UB but people around the world, was rare. It was an honor to be one of his students, and I hope I can be even a fraction of the Professor that he was….” Art of Teaching. His lectures were illustrated with were illustrated His lectures Teaching. Art of Vince Up until 1978, slides from his travels. kodachrome 30 countries; travel to approximately recorded research (We more than once. these were visited several of of his subsequent trips). It was do not have a record that he accumulated the very during his annual trips which he used in his courses. large collection of slides taught environmental predominantly While Vince a concern for the people living in topics, he projected and this empathy added to the regions he described were carefully organized and his appeal. His lectures by slides, stories and humor. up to date and illuminated he revised his Disasters Last spring and summer in June. He course. He had just turned 86 years old in the fall became ill but began teaching the course As he weakened in October, of 2010 nevertheless. notes to Prof. he had to hand over his newly revised Scott Mackay. advised students about their course often Vince selections and he in Geography and to go on to careers in this and his humor, students commented on his kindness, few comments his inspirational lectures. I will give a the Guest from students and friends taken from Roberts, Perna Funeral Home, Book at the Dengler, and found on the web at “…It was an inspiring undergraduate lecture with him that caused me to pursue undergraduate and My memories graduate studies in Geography. are of a vastly knowledgeable, always smiling, thoughtful, kind and wise tutor who took a genuine interest in students. He was always approachable and always patient. He was a real blessing in my life…” guestbook/buffalonews/guestbook.aspx?n=charles- ebert&pid=147522465

rst faculty members. fi uence ends. fl rst Chair, from 1963 to 1970, he built the rst Chair, fi Vince Ebert, a good friend, a superb teacher, and the a good friend, a superb teacher, Ebert, Vince founder and advocate of the Geography Department has left us with memories at the University at Buffalo came to UB as a of him and his wife, Ilse. Vince few A member of the Geology Department in 1954. President Furnas asked him to found the years later, Geography Department, and this was done in 1963. *This is a list of research trips as of 1978! Amazon Amazon *This is a list of research trips as of 1978! Basin, Afghanistan, Australia, Columbia, Costa Greenland, Rica, Ethiopia, Great Britain, Greece, Kenya, Guatemala, Iceland, Iran, Israel, Jamaica, Ebert: Some memories Professor Vince by Mike Woldenberg Ebert” was a superb, Students will tell you that “Dr. He was a fascinating lecturer charismatic professor. Soils (a sequence who taught Physical Geography, and Oceanography, of 3 courses), Climatology, Disasters. He once gave regional courses on America. Europe, the USSR, and Central and South And so as colleague, mentor and friend, we will And so as colleague, Ilse will welcome you but Vince, profoundly miss you and back. From all of us, thanks for the education the memories. Peru, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Africa, Spain, Arabia, South Saudi Paraguay, York, New Western Germany, West Tanzania, Yugoslavia. As its Department and selected its He was the Undergraduate Dean from 1970 to 1977. the Introduction to He also taught Cartography, The and a special course in Graduate Geography, As university professors, it is easy to focus on is easy to focus professors, it As university is because that grants and publication research, But tend to be. prestige and rewards where the Ebert, Vince of love surrounding with the outpouring rethink our priorities. Maybe perhaps we should each of those top. Remember, teaching is at the Those away a little of Vince. 44,600 students took teachers will give a little of students who became will, in turn, And the students of those teachers Vince. teacher never And so it goes; a take a little of Vince. her in knows where his or “By the end of each semester, Dr. Ebert knew the local environmental problems. He used false color vast majority of students’ names, …in a lecture hall aerial photography of vegetation to demonstrate of almost 300 students. At the end of two of his the impact of the seepage of pollutants in the Love classes, the students gave him a standing ovation Canal disaster. He advised politicians that the that brought tears to your eyes…” original rocks lining the Erie Canal Commercial Slip -William Priester, Jr. should not be covered up; they should be used in the reconstruction of the Slip, and his advice was taken. “I teach Geography at Temple University. I sometimes tell my students about Dr. Ebert’s I would like to conclude with the comments by Bill & immense slide collection and how I aspire to match Patty Wieczorek from the Guest Book: its breadth and depth…” “Dr. Ebert was my major adviser for my Master’s and -Robert Mason doctoral degrees in geography, which allowed me to “Dr. Ebert was simply wonderful. I was a student in benefi t tremendously from his extraordinary breadth the 60’s and honored to watch a master at his craft. of knowledge, but even more from his wisdom…. He motivated me to love learning and helped me to Even more infl uential was the loving guidance and maintain my motivation to graduate….” advice from him and his beloved Ilse to me and -Sandra Christ Patty throughout the years. Vince’s life work was an endless act of love for his community, for his “My wife and I had the absolute pleasure of living department, for science, for people close to him as across the street from Vince and his beloved Ilse for well as those who were often forgotten by others, many years. We will miss his quick wit, intelligence, and especially for the world and its intricate systems and wonderful stories….” that he taught us all about. He will forever be an -James and Regina Gallagher exemplar of an honorable man.” Vince and his wonderful wife Ilse supported the -Bill & Patty Wieczorek department in many ways. They invited new faculty into their home and these relationships continued over the years. Caroline and I went to Vince’s 80th birthday party, and he came to my 70th. Vince and Ilse attended the spring and fall picnics, and the Christmas parties. Ilse brought wonderful meatballs, and Vince often brought his harmonica and entertained. After he had a few beers or some wine he would dance Cossack style. He was able to do this when he was about 60 years old.

Vince and Ilse kept the informal lines of communication open with the university community, Ilse with the UB women’s club, and Vince with his peer group in the administration. It was through one .buffalo.edu/ of these informal contacts that Vince learned that the g University was going to eliminate the Department eo

g within days. This was late in 1981. Vince and the Chair (later Dean) Ross Mackinnon saved the Department. Among other things, they pointed out www. that some members of our faculty were editing three major geography journals at the time.

Vince contributed to the larger Buffalo community, 4400 frequently lecturing to organizations, often more than once a month. He also acted as a consultant for www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 1 441 rst word that comes to mind is the rst word ALAN MACPHERSON’S LIFE fi May 12, 2009 by James E. McConnell COMMENTS AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE CELEBRATION AT COMMENTS partnership that he and I had. Partner In Memoriam, Alan D. MacPherson In Memoriam, 6, 2009 Sept. 17, 1957—May SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus Teaching Distinguished SUNY Alan served as Chair of the Department of Geography Alan served as Chair of the Department of of SUNY- from 2001 – 2007. He was also Director Center Trade Canada-United States Buffalo’s Alan was born and raised in Inverness, (CUSTAC). master’sScotland. He earned bachelors and in the United degrees from the University of Dundee Kingdom in 1979, and a master’s degree in urban In Art in 1981. planning from Edinburgh College of 1982, he earned a master’s degree in geography also earned where he Toronto, from the University of principal research Alan’s his doctorate in 1988. between interests concerned the relationship economic technological innovation and regional on export development, with special emphasis His teaching development and Canada-U.S. trade. courses in included undergraduate and graduate international business and economic geography. I am very honored and pleased to say a few words Alan. this morning about When I thought about what I wanted to say to life and his many successes, several Alan’s celebrate words came to mind about him and the relationship that he and I had, and about the observations I made over the years regarding his personality and behavior. 1. The •

Dr. Ebert and Dr. Anthony Markello. Anthony took Anthony Markello. Ebert and Dr. Dr. class in 1955 Ebert’s Dr. Professors Emeritus Athol Abrahams and Ebert Vince

Dr. Ebert and Ken Munro. Ken was a student of Dr. Ebert and Ken Munro. Ken was a student of Dr. Dr. 60s in the Ebert’s Dr. Ebert’s 86th Birthday Ebert’s Dr. June 2010. 86th Birthday in Ebert’s celebrated Dr. We students. from a few “old” He got a surprise MacPherson Alan D. • I was chair of the Department of Geography in slowed down doing it!! His enthusiasm and 1988 when Alan arrived from the University of success provided a superb example not only to Toronto as an Assistant Professor. Because his students but also to his faculty colleagues. he and I had similar research and teaching 3. Mentor interests, we quickly formed a partnership. As a result, we co-authored papers, prepared • A praiseworthy attribute of Alan’s was his research grants, and created and oversaw mentoring of students. He was always very the Canada-U.S. Trade Center from 1988 generous and helpful in providing assistance to to the present. Of course, much of our time students. was spent thinking through various strategies • For example, I was always intrigued by the way to keep the UB administration from closing he would ask questions of graduate students the Center. during their oral exams. Typically, he would • I always valued wise counsel and his dedication provide them with small clues that would send to our joint efforts. signals to them about what he expected them to include in their responses. (Some students 2. Scholar got his message, and, unfortunately, some • One of the most revealing words that I associate did not!!) with Alan is scholarship. • He was also very demanding of his students, • He was a consummate scholar and prolifi c expecting them to be innovative, accurate, writer. Whenever he presented his research and careful in articulating the results of their papers at national meetings of the Association research. In short, he had very high standards, of American Geographers, the room would but at the same time he was always helpful and be packed with colleagues and students from supportive—two very important traits! North America and elsewhere who had come to 4. A fourth word is suit-less fi nd out what he was up to and to benefi t from the nature of his current research. • Alan really didn’t like to wear suits. In fact, the only time I ever saw him in a suit was on two • Working with him on joint research projects rare occasions: was always exciting. He had an extraordinary gift of conceiving relevant problems, carrying 1. One was when we went to talk with a out the research, and writing the results of UB administrator—and even on these the investigations. occasions, the person had to be really high up in the administration before Alan would • He was also excellent writer, and anyone who put on a suit. has read his publications will be treated to the writing skills that he possessed. 2. The second occasion was when we would travel to downtown Buffalo to talk with people • I always kidded him about his creative writing at the Canadian Consulate. skills—emphasis upon “creative.” For example, .buffalo.edu/ we would conclude an analysis of data and he

g • What was more likely, especially in the winter, would create a paragraph about some aspect of would be to see Alan in a Buffalo Bills jacket. eo

g our research. I would read over the paragraph This refl ected, of course, his pleasure in joining and say: “Gee, I didn’t realize we found that David Mark in attending home games of the out.” That is what I mean by creative— Buffalo Bills football team. www. the paragraph was accurate, but I hadn’t 5. Humble appreciated the signifi cance of the fi nding that he had generated. • A fi fth word is humble. Alan never bragged about or exaggerated his many accomplishments. In • In short, Alan clearly enjoyed undertaking 4422 fact, just the opposite. He could easily have research, he was good at it, and he never www.geog.buffalo.edu/ 3 443 , nancial fi . His book, , a series of essays on nance. Shortly after, he nance. Shortly after, fi Shinsuke Yatomi Shinsuke Shinsuke (Ryan) Yatomi, MA 1987, MBA 1987 1987, MBA MA Yatomi, Shinsuke (Ryan) Study Department Leader and Living SGI-USA deceased, May 31, Buddhism Managing Editor, 2007, age 45. was born on November 29, 1961, in Yatomi Shin in 1987 with Osaka, Japan. He graduated from UB degrees, specializing in Geography and MBA joint MA in international trade and institute went to work for an international banking in Manhattan. the In 1989, not content with a life in of economic world devoted solely to the pursuit moving gain, Shin decided to pursue a new path, the to accept a position with to Santa Monica, CA (Buddhist organization) Soka Gakkai International’s Knowing his English- (SGI) book publishing center. language skills were weak—Shin read voraciously, American literature, took classes in English and even studied Latin—with the purpose of developing his writing to make Buddhism understandable to a audience. Western publishing center for He worked in the SGI-USA making writer and editor, 18 years as a translator, immense contributions to advancing Buddhist study in the United States. Shin authored dozens of articles that appeared in SGI journals such as and Living Buddhism The World Tribune Buddhism in a New Light adapting Buddhism as a practical philosophy for daily life, has sold tens of thousands of copies, and is read and discussed every day of the week all around the world. In Memoriam, In Memoriam, Yatomi Shinsuke 29, 1961— Nov. May 31, 2007 with Shin Yatomi, surfboard, at the beach in Southern California death is more purposely took it eld as a farmer. eld as a fi , it is often said the than life; everyone dies but not everyone on me not only because he recognized on me not only because about our farming experiences. For me, those about our farming experiences. For me, with stories related to my experience as a youth for two sets of grandparents living on farms; Alan, those stories were about his present-day farming activities on farms around his home. the hay crop in the farms was affecting proceed surrounding his home. He would then many to tell me in very precise terms how cuttings of hay could be expected that summer, hay for and how that would enable him to get horses. Valerie’s university work, he would probably end up spending his days in the one that may seem odd, at least to some of you, one that may seem odd, at least to some Alan as “Farmer.” and that is clearly evident to me whenever he and I played to me whenever clearly evident that he tennis. I always felt easy but also age difference, our twenty-some-year the better player. because he was clearly playing abilities. different talked about his successes, but he chose not to his successes, but talked about do that. Farmer In summary I would ask him how the weather • For instance, Alan ever left In short, I always thought that if • • I had many conversations over the years He and Alan is • word that I associate with the last Finally, to me about our he never said anything Yet, • 6. was of his humbleness personal example A • lives. Alan certainly had a full and productive lives. life, and I will greatly miss our joint activities, our candid assessment of students, and, especially, our friendship. universal Shin was a “yon dan” level practitioner of the martial art of kendo and started surfi ng when he was in high school. Being outside, in nature, he said, recharged his batteries. On October 31, 2006, doctors confi rmed that Shin had advanced stage cancer. That was the beginning of a new campaign for him—not against death but as Shin wrote, “to live fully each day.” He fought a valiant battle against the disease, continuing to write and encourage his readers up to the moment of his death.

Shin Yatomi is survived by his wife, Carolyn, mother, Kazuko, and sister, Aiko. For anyone seeking more information about the life and writings of Shin Yatomi, his family invites you to visit his virtual memorial at: http://www.shinyatomi.com/index.html. .buffalo.edu/ g eo g www.

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