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Geographers Fare Well in NSF Interdisciplinary Competitions Volume 39, Number 11 • December 2004 In This Issue Geographers Fare Well in NSF Interdisciplinary Competitions emonstrating clearly that geography is a million. (Geographers disciplinary perspective that promotes Robert Balling, Anthony interdisciplinary research, geographers Brazel, Andrew Ellis, From the Meridian ................2 D were critical parts of almost twenty interdiscipli- Michael Kuby, and Eliza- Washington Monitor ............2 nary teams that won awards during major cross- beth Wentz are senior Geographic Centers ..........14 foundation competitions in FY 2004. Following personnel.) Member Profile ....................19 Necrology ..............................20 are projects that received awards in three major • Robert Lempert (Rand Members of Note..................22 competitions. (To learn more about any of these Corporation), “DMUU: Grants & Awards ..................22 awards, visit www-livecds.nsf.gov/awardsearch/ Improving Decisions in a Gober New Members........................23 index.jsp.) Complex and Changing Specialty Group News ......24 World” received a five-year award expected to Call for Papers ......................24 Decision Making Under Uncertainty total about $2.4 million. (Oceanographer/geogra- Award Deadlines ................25 (DMUU) Center Award: pher David Siegel is one of the senior personnel.) Quarter Century ..................25 • Patricia Gober (Arizona State University), • Roger Pielke, Jr. (University of Colorado-Boul- Jobs in Geography..............26 “DMUU: Decision Center for a Desert City: The der), “DMUU: Science Policy Assessment and Grants & Competitions......53 Science and Policy of Climate Uncertainty” Research on Climate (SPARC) for Decision New Appointments............53 received a five-year award expected to total $6.9 Continued on page 16 Books Received....................54 Events ......................................55 Powwow in Denver ollowing the opening session of Powwow Basics the AAG Annual Meeting in Powwows are often touted as tradi- F Denver, the Indigenous Peoples tional Indian gatherings where ancient Specialty Group (IPSG) will sponsor a and sacred tribal traditions are demonstration powwow performance preserved; yet they are neither ancient as one of several events highlighting nor traditional. Instead, powwows are Indian culture and scholarship in the a relatively recent response to the region. While to the uninitiated, pow- post-conquest conditions in which wows can seem a confusing tangle of many Indian peoples have found them- arms, legs, and unfamiliar customs, selves. The powwow is a pan-Indian they in fact represent an important gathering that promotes “Indian” iden- spatial focus of Indian culture. This tity and culture (derived in large part article is intended to help those from Plains cultures) at the expense of attending the demonstration get more local, tribal cultures. With some fairly out of the experience by focusing on the basics of powwows and their minor regional variations, powwows geography. Continued on page 18 The Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group will sponsor a powwow demonstration at the AAG Annual Meeting in Denver. INSIDE: AAG Election and Candidate information Photo by Zoltan Grossman. on page 5. www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 1 December 2004 From the Meridian AAG Newsletter The AAG Washington Monitor of the Association of American t has been a draining campaign season, interdisciplinary and enhance the Geogra- Geographers but now that Election Day has come phy Program Division and the new I and gone and President Bush has won National Geospatial Programs Office. a second term, it’s important to think This latter office was created by USGS Douglas Richardson, Publisher about what the results will mean for geog- Director Chip Groat in August to allow and Managing Editor raphy and the scientific community as a the agency’s geography program to focus Megan D. Nortrup, whole. Among the most important on research and to enhance the survey’s Editor impacts of the election for researchers will geographic data leadership. It has been AAG Voice 202-234-1450 be federal funding issues and the budget charged with overseeing the National AAG Fax 202-234-2744 crunch. The president campaigned, Map. though he has not necessarily governed, [email protected] as a fiscal conservative, and the rumblings ROI of Basic Research www.aag.org in Washington are that with a few excep- Another major item worth watching is tions, domestic discretionary budgets are the continued implementation of the Pres- USPS 987-380 ISSN 0275-3995 going to be tightened significantly. This is ident’s Management Agenda. Since he due in large part to the record deficits the took office, President Bush has been The AAG Newsletter ISSN 0275-3995 government is currently facing. focusing on the effectiveness and the is published monthly with July/August return on investment (ROI) of all federal combined, by the Association of Amer- NSF outlays. To do this, the administration has ican Geographers, 1710 16th Street At the National Science Foundation been using the Program Assessment Rat- NW, Washington, DC 20009-3198. (NSF), small increases near the rate of ing Tool (PART), a set of thirty questions The cost of an annual subscription is inflation have become the norm in recent aimed at measuring the relevance, quality, $25.00 The subscription price is years. This is likely to continue over the and performance of all government pro- included in the annual dues of the next few years, though new Director grams on a yearly basis. The PART scor- Association. Not available to non- Arden Bement will push for as much ing is used primarily for setting budget members. Periodicals postage paid in funding as he can get. While NSF can be priorities. This has raised flags in the sci- Washington, DC. All news items and grateful that it likely won’t see the entific community, where concerns letters, including job listings, should be extreme budget cuts that other agencies abound about the difficulty of measuring sent to the Editor at the address below are facing, it is nonetheless disappointing the performance and ROI of basic or to [email protected]. that the significant increases called for research, the results of which may often All Newsletter materials must in the reauthorization act of 2002 will not be apparent for several years. arrive at the Association office by the never materialize. The Geography and Marcus Peacock, Associate Director 1st of the month preceding the month Regional Sciences program, under the at the U.S. Office of Management and of the publication. This includes job able leadership of Tom Baerwald and Budget has sought to reassure science listings. Material will be published on Greg Chu, has been successful at joint advocates, asserting that the PART sys- a space available basis and at the dis- funding with other programs and with tem doesn’t hold basic research to an cretion of the editorial staff. NSF cross-directorate initiatives of late, unrealistic standard. He has noted that When your address changes, please and hopefully that trend will continue. several of the PART questions are tai- lored for use in evaluating accounts that notify the Association office immediate- USGS fund basic research and has stated that ly. Six weeks notice is necessary to Things could be tough at the U.S. failure can sometimes be considered an insure uninterrupted delivery of AAG Geological Survey (USGS). For the past acceptable outcome of basic research. publications. To assist the AAG office in several years, the administration has been Furthermore, Peacock told a National your address change, include the address trying to hold the agency’s appropriation Academies committee that federal label with your change of address. around $920 million. While Congress has research and development programs Postmaster: Send address changes seen fit to increase this figure slightly on a generally get high PART scores and that to AAG Newsletter, 1710 16th Street year-by-year basis, the fact remains that the House Science Committee has sup- NW, Washington, DC 20009-3198, or the survey’s budget is likely to be flat-lined ported the use of PART to evaluate basic [email protected]. for the immediate future. This could hin- research spending. der the agency’s efforts to become more Continued on page 4 2 AAG Newsletter www.aag.org President’s Column Volume 39, Number 11 Geography and Interdisciplinarity – An Opportunity? t the Race/Ethnicity and Place Con- (December 2001 AAG Newsletter). She have geography departments and in the ference in DC this September, encourages us not to be defensive, but process, we can potentially expand the A Orlando Taylor, Dean and Vice- rather to pursue dual strategies of presence of geography in those places. Provost at Howard University, suggested strengthening the core of geographical This is not pure idealism. I already that we should be less concerned with our research in departments, while also mentioned the discussions between the disciplinary label “geography” and more embracing this trend. As we all know, AAG and Howard University above. In concerned about what geographical work geographers are working in a dizzying addition, several Ivy League universities brings to important thematic questions. array of programs: population institutes, have recently been in contact with the He suggested that Howard (and by impli- international and/or globalization studies, AAG as they are taking a second look at cation other institutions) might be more environmental studies, women
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