Chauncy Harris Distinguished Lectureship at BYU

Volume 39, Number 1 • February 2004 In This Issue Chauncy Harris Distinguished Lectureship at BYU

n the fall of 2003, former AAG President and geography. He was Chauncy Harris, his wife Edith, their daughter BYU’s first Rhodes Scholar I Margaret, and her husband Phillip A. Strauss and the valedictorian of his Jr. endowed the Chauncy Harris Distinguished graduating class; he later From the Meridian ...... 2 Lecture at Brigham Young University (BYU). earned a second B.A. from President’s Column ...... 3 The lectureship is an annual lecture given by a Oxford and a Ph.D. in geog- Grants & Competitions ...... 7 distinguished geographer who spends a few days raphy from the University Member Profile ...... 11 on campus lecturing, teaching, advising, and of Chicago. Professor Harris Specialty Group News ...... 14 visiting with students and faculty in the BYU Harris taught at Indiana University, Geographic Centers ...... 15 geography department. It provides an excellent the University of Nebraska, and the University of Award Deadlines ...... 15 opportunity for geography faculty and students to Chicago, where he served as the Samuel N. Harp- Members of Note...... 16 interact with other geographers, and for non- er Distinguished Service Professor, Chair of the Grants & Awards ...... 16 geographers to become better acquainted with Geography Department, Dean of the College of Necrology ...... 17 the geography program. Social Sciences, and Vice President for Academic Call for Papers ...... 19 Chauncy Harris graduated from BYU in 1933 Resources. Harris is best known for his work on Books Received...... 20 at the age of nineteen with a degree in geology Continued on page 5 Quarter Century ...... 20 New Members...... 21 Jobs in Geography...... 22 Events ...... 31 Philadelphia: Beyond the Liberty Bell

housands of geographers worldwide are preparing to converge on the T City of Brotherly Love for the Centennial Conference of the Associa- tion of American Geographers March 14-19, 2004. Many will take this opportunity to see such Philadelphia classics as Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, the Betsy Ross House, and Elfreth’s Alley. The Marriott Hotel conference site at Twelfth and Market streets is five blocks east and one block north of Independence Hall. Great sites to be sure, these famous colonial landmarks and the history that surrounds them have cast such monumental shadows as to virtually blot out every other aspect of the city. Despite its storied colonial history, Philadelphia matured as the industrial Take time to explore Philadelphia and environs while attending the AAG Centennial “Workshop of the World.” By 1900, Philadel- Meeting. To register and sign up for field trips see page 8. phia’s population exceeded 1,200,000, Continued on page 4

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Thoughts on Geography’s Diversity

glance at the program for the more diverse than other disciplines. Per- how and why they relate to one another, upcoming annual meeting confirms haps this assumption made some sense sev- and how and why they come together to A the obvious: geography is a diverse eral decades ago, but it seems much less produce distinctive places and landscapes. discipline. Some believe that geogra- convincing today. Of course, one might This geographical perspective can tran- phy’s diversity works against its accept- protest by pointing out that sociology does scend the physical and human, and it opens ance as a discrete discipline worthy of not have a physical component to it, just as the door to studies that range from the attention and support in the modern the traditional physical sciences do not geospatial to the ethnographic. academy. Yet this view is arguably based have a human component. Yet to sustain This is all common sense to most geog- on a conception of diversity that is both such an argument, one’s conception of raphers, of course, but we tend not to give dated and overly narrow. diversity must be narrowly focused on top- it its full due. To my mind, we should be The idea that geography is more ics of study, as opposed to less ready to concede the diverse than many other disciplines dates the perspectives from which diversity point than we often back to a time when the conceptual lines inquiry proceeds. are, for it is not at all clear to among the various social and physical Yes, geographers work me that our diversities give us sciences were relatively sharply drawn. on very diverse topics (even any less coherence than most Sociologists studied society, economists though, as I have already other disciplines. And in some the economy, biologists the living world, argued, that can easily be ways our commonalities of and chemists the components of the mate- exaggerated). But what perspective may give us an rial world. In recent decades, the bound- about the matter of per- edge. (Indeed, various new aries between these categories of inquiry spective? One doesn’t have initiatives are headed in pre- have come under increasing scrutiny. How to buy into a neat Kantian Murphy cisely this direction—witness can we study society without economy and compartmentalization of form, time, and the Earth Systems Science initiative that politics? How can we unravel the secrets of space to recognize that geography’s seeks to promote topical diversity around a the living world without moving across the integrative spatial perspective gives it a set of interrelated themes.) divide between biology and chemistry? certain integrity that is lacking in tradi- Of course, any effort to advance geog- As questions of this sort have come to tional disciplines whose topical foci raphy in this way will be unsuccessful the fore, the disciplinary matrix that was appear increasingly fuzzy. (I hasten to unless it is accompanied by a sense of the forged around the turn of the twentieth note that I am using the term spatial per- substantive value of the discipline’s point century has come under attack. One spective in a broad sense—one that of entry on the world. And I hope noth- response has been the founding of interdis- encompasses not just spatial science, but ing I have said will be interpreted as an ciplinary programs and institutes: molecular the differential character of places and effort to stake out disciplinary turf vis-à- biochemistry, environmental studies, inter- landscapes and the relations of humans to vis other disciplines; much interesting national studies, etc. Another response has the environment; cf. Bill Turner’s recent work happens at the intersection between been an explosion of what happens under article in the Annals of the AAG, which uses disciplines, and exercises in disciplinary the umbrella of certain disciplines. This the term in a narrower sense. To my mind boundary drawing are usually counterpro- came home to me a year ago when I served questions of human-environment relations ductive. But if one believes that important as an outside member of a search committee are a necessary part of a broadly based insights and ideas will be missing if for a senior position in sociology. I would integrative spatial concern.) geography is not part of the mix, then it is be very hard pressed to explain why the dif- The point is that, however great the useful and important to argue that the ferent applicants to the position were topical diversity of our discipline, much discipline has a discernable core. We do, grouped within the same discipline. geographical work proceeds from an inter- and we ought to make the most of it. ■ I mention this anecdote not to pick on est in the variable character of the earth’s sociology, but to call into question the surface—including how and why things Alexander B. Murphy assumption that geography is significantly are organized on the surface of the earth, [email protected]

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Beyond the Bell from page 1 well beyond the 53,000 that made the to the west in 1911 with a neoclassical Center, a modernist grouping of office city the largest on the continent after the edifice containing an impressive five story buildings and pedestrian concourses that American Revolution. interior court designed by Daniel H. opened West Market Street to high rise At the turn of the twentieth century, Burnham. commercial development. In the last, Philadelphia led all other American cities Central to the district, and across great downtown building boom during in the production of locomotives, ships, Twelfth Street from the Marriott, the the 1980s, a gang of postmodern sky- streetcars, saws, textiles, carpets, hosiery, Reading Railroad built the world’s largest scrapers rose from the West Market Street hats, leather, and cigars. Industrial corri- single span train shed for its downtown neighborhood forever changing the dors followed the railroads, and stretched terminal in 1893. Although no longer Center City skyline. along the Delaware and Schuylkill River sheltering trains, it still stands as the last This boom included One Liberty Place, waterfronts where oil and sugar refineries arched train shed in the country. whose blue glass spire broke the ceiling of operated amid distillers, shipyards, power During the same time period, the William Penn’s hat to become the city’s plants, warehouses, and terminal rail yards nation’s largest municipal building was tallest building. In 1989, construction belonging to the Pennsylvania, Baltimore under construction two blocks west at began on the Pennsylvania Convention and Ohio, and Reading railroads. As early Broad and Market streets. Finished in Center, a major anchor in the Philadel- as 1840, the Reading Railroad was moving 1901, the Second Empire City Hall took phia’s post-industrial economy. The con- anthracite from northeastern Pennsylvania thirty years to build. It contains 141/2 vention center incorporated the Reading to what would become the nation’s most acres of floor space, and a masonry tower Terminal train shed, and pre-staged the extensive coal docks at Port Richmond. (a mere seven feet shorter than the construction of the Marriott Hotel. By the By 1825, the Schuylkill River Fall Line Washington Monument) topped by a time the Marriott opened, structural village of Manayunk had attracted so twenty-seven ton, cast iron statue of changes in the retail industry had radical- many water-powered textile mills that it William Penn, the most massive sculpture ly altered Market Street East. was proclaiming itself to be the ”Lowell of on any building in the world. The city was Not one of the three department stores Pennsylvania.“ Later steam powered mills so enamored by its municipal seat that for that clustered around Eighth and Market would anchor acres of working class row the next three quarters of a century an survive today. Lit Brothers went bankrupt home neighborhoods in Germantown, unwritten tradition kept the height of in the 1980s, but the building was saved Kensington, Frankford, and North every subsequent building below the level and recycled into office space. The Philadelphia. From 1832 to 1870, the of Billy Penn’s hat. Strawbridge and Clothier building awaits Baldwin Locomotive Works produced Across Market Street from the Marriott, a similar conversion, and a giant hole 2,600 engines, and would continue to the monolithic Philadelphia Saving Fund gapes where Gimbel’s once stood, the out-produce all competitors from its Society (PSFS) Building (now the Loews result of a failed Disney entertainment Broad and Spring Garden streets shops Hotel) foreshadowed the postwar Interna- center. Lord and Taylor operates the old until 1928. tional style despite its 1932 completion Wanamakers store, and the Gallery at The Market East Retail District within date. A year later, the Pennsylvania Market East anchors the district as a which the Marriott Hotel sits is itself a Railroad opened its Thirtieth Street Station multi-level suburban type mall. Hard Rock product of the Industrial Age. Between on the west bank of the Schuylkill River. Cafe has moved into the Reading Termi- 1895 and 1907 Lit Brothers unified an The train station and adjacent post office nal where the ground floor market still entire block of buildings behind a Renais- are stylistically paired in their melding of retains the flavor of the old retail district. sance Revival facade for their downtown neoclassicism and art moderne, a popular Independence Hall, Betsy Ross’s department store on the northeast corner look for monumental buildings in Philadel- House, and the Liberty Bell await the of Eighth and Market. Gimbel’s depart- phia. The station’s cavernous waiting room March arrival of 4,000 geographers. One ment store opened around the same time still serves its intended purpose, and stands step beyond these hallowed halls of histo- on the southwest corner, and Strawbridge as the city’s most impressive interior space. ry, however, another universe beckons. and Clothier christened their neoclassical West of City Hall, the Pennsylvania’s Load up the camera. ■ moderne emporium on the northwest cor- elevated terminal yard (infamously known ner in 1931. John Wanamaker’s at 1300 as the Chinese Wall) and Broad Street Kevin J. Patrick Market Street anchored the retail district Station were razed in 1953 for Penn [email protected]

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Meridian from page 2 an organization as diverse in its interests and dreams as is ours. I would like to thank String Quartet at the them all, and in particular Duane Nellis, AAG Centennial who as AAG president during this time of transition understood clearly the ith an opening session featur- composition entitled ”Scenes From a fundamental needs facing the Association ing a keynote address from River“ honoring the AAG’s Centennial. and was exceedingly generous with his W NSF Director Rita Colwell, few The quartet, comprised of some of the time, support, good advice, and friendship. would ask for more to give a proper top talents in classical music, has per- Of course, the point of financial success start to the 2004 Annual Meeting of the formed together since 1980. The con- is not the bottom line figure on an auditor’s AAG. But because we have reached the cert will also include music written at report. It is instead the new initiatives that centennial of the AAG, there will the time of the AAG’s founding and we can undertake, the strengthening of our indeed be more. music that evokes geographical themes. Association to deal with a rapidly changing Following Colwell’s address, the All Centennial Meeting registrants environment, and the ability to move renowned Rittenhouse String Quartet are invited to attend the opening ses- geography forward on a dozen varied will perform a concert that includes sion from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Sunday frontiers. It is having the means to enhance a specially commissioned musical March 14. ■ diversity, provide support for departments, strengthen scholarship, attract top students, engage public policy, advance research, and develop new opportunities Reserve Hotel Rooms Now to facing geography in both society and in Receive Discounted Rates! the university as the AAG begins its second century. This is the worthwhile part, and iscounted hotel rates are available Downtown at 21 Juniper Street in the fun part, of financial progress. ■ until February 23, 2004 at the Philadelphia. The Courtyard is offering D Philadelphia Marriott, the head- rates of $151 plus tax per single room, Doug Richardson quarters hotel for the AAG Centennial and $166 plus tax per double room to [email protected] Meeting. Located in downtown Philadel- all AAG attendees. Call 800-321-2211 or 215-496-3200 and mention you are Harris from page 1 phia, it offers discounted rates of $160 with AAG to reserve rooms at the urban geography and the geography of per single room plus tax and $176 per Courtyard. the Soviet Union/Russia. double room plus tax to all AAG atten- For further information on registra- On November 21 and 22, 2003, AAG dees. Call 800-228-9290 and mention tion and hotels, please visit www.aag. President and Professor of Geography at you are with AAG to reserve now. org/annualmeetings. ■ the University of Oregon, Alexander Discounted rooms are also available Murphy gave the inaugural lecture nearby at the Courtyard Philadelphia of the series. Murphy’s lecture entitled, “Coping with a Changing World,” focused on the relevance of political geography Philadelphia Preliminary in understanding current political issues at all spatial scales of analysis. Murphy Program Now Available also presented a lecture, co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe, on searchable and downloadable day). transboundary issues in Europe and met version of the preliminary Other events not to be missed are the with faculty and students to discuss A program for the Philadelphia AAG Past President’s address, given by the prospects for geography and graduate Annual Meeting is now available on M. Duane Nellis on Wednesday, March education in the coming years. ■ the AAG website. 17 at 8:30 p.m., and the AAG Awards Over 3,000 paper and poster Luncheon on Friday, March 19, from J. Matthew Shumway sessions have been scheduled for the 11:40 a.m.–2:00 p.m. [email protected] meeting. Following the opening ses- To reserve banquet or luncheon tickets, use the form on page 8 of this [Editor’s Note: Subsequent to this inaugural sion, four major plenaries featuring distinguished geographers will cap each issue or visit the AAG website at lecture, Chauncy Harris died on December 26, ■ 2003. A tribute to Professor Harris appears in the day of the conference (except the final www.aag.org. Necrology section of this issue.]

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Celebrating a Century of Physical Geography

his year’s Centennial Meeting of recent AAG President, the late John University), Ellen Mosley-Thompson the AAG will be host to a series of (Russ) Mather. (Ohio State University), Mary Lynne T paper sessions devoted to the his- The series of seven sessions entitled, Bird (American Geographical Society), tory of physical geography. Organized “Celebrating a Century of Physical John Schroder (University of Nebraska), by Dorothy Sack (Ohio University) Geography,” was developed by the Jerry Brown (International Permafrost and Frederick E. Nelson (University AAG’s Geomorphology, Cryosphere, Association), and Cort Willmott of Delaware), the sessions contain Climate, Water Resources, and (University of Delaware). Many of thirty-five papers concerned with Biogeography Specialty Groups, with the papers will be published as a geomorphology, human-environment support from the AAG Archives, special collection in 2004 issues of the interactions, permafrost, glaciology, Association History Committee, and journal Physical Geography under the climatology, and the roles of individuals American Geographic Society. guest editorship of Dorothy Sack. and paradigms in several subdisciplines. Among the session highlights will A reception is planned to mark the A pair of sessions organized by be talks by Hugh French (University event, featuring several informal presenta- David Legates and Cort Willmott of Ottawa), Antony Orme (UCLA), tions about physical geographers and their will focus on the contributions of a H. Jesse Walker (Louisiana State contributions over the past century. ■

Ron Abler To Be Honored Now Available at Centennial Meeting The onald F. Abler, immediate past grateful to be recognized with the Executive Director of the Morse Medal because of the key Guide to Geography R Association of American Geogra- role Morse played in the development of Programs in phers, will be honored at the AAG one of my long-standing interests, the North America Centennial Meeting Awards Banquet geography and history of telecommuni- in March 2004, by the American Geo- cations technologies.” 2003-2004 graphical Society. The American Geographical Society is now available! Abler will be awarded the Samuel normally presents its awards in New Finley Breese Morse Medal, which is York City. However, the Centennial given “for the encouragement of Celebration of the AAG’s founding in geographical research.” The medal Philadelphia seems like the right time and was established in 1902 with funds place for a sister organization to honor To place your order, bequeathed to the Society by Professor the outstanding leadership Abler has use the form Morse, inventor of the recording given, not just to the AAG for fourteen on page 30 telegraph, upon his death in 1872. The years, but to the entire geographical of this issue or visit medal was first awarded in 1928 to community for many more decades. www.aag.org/Publications/. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who used This award will be made at the in “geographical research” a means of AAG Banquet on Wednesday March 17 transportation unknown in Morse’s day – at 7:00 p.m. ■ the airplane. It has been given only seven times since 1928. Mary Lynne Bird Order Today Abler has written that he is “especially [email protected]

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John J. and Nancy Lee Roberts and information visit www.irex.org/ In Phase I of the award process up to Fellowship Program programs/roberts/index.asp. Application fifty student design projects, each with a This program supports cutting-edge deadline is March 15, 2004. $10,000 grant, will be supported during research in Europe, Eurasia, the Near East, the 2004-05 academic year for research and Asia by awarding a single grant each The EPA P3 Award and development of their sustainable year for up to twelve months in length. In This national student design competi- design. Phase II begins in spring 2005, 2004 applications will be accepted for tion is an opportunity for college when the teams will be invited to bring research only on primary, secondary, and students to research, develop, and design their designs to Washington, DC to com- higher education in the Middle East. sustainable solutions to environmental pete for the P3 Award. To be eligible, the principal investigator challenges of the developed and devel- Contact Julie Zimmerman, U.S. EPA, must be a U.S. citizen or permanent oping world. It highlights the three Office of Research and Development, resident who has earned a Ph.D. or equiv- components of sustainability: People, Washington, DC; phone 202-564-1589; alent terminal degree. Studies involving Prosperity and the Planet. fax 202-564-2446; or email julie. more than one country and collaborative Challenges to be considered include: [email protected]; or visit the P3 Web research programs involving international water quality and quantity; energy pro- site at www.epa.gov/ncer/P3. colleagues are strongly encouraged. Eligi- duction and distribution; green chemistry ble countries of research focus are and engineering; biotechnology; conser- Woodrow Wilson Center Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Pakistan, vation of materials and energy; product Fellowships and Saudi Arabia. design; mobility; information technology; The Wilson Center is currently The maximum award is $30,000. Eligi- and delivery of resources (i.e., education- accepting applications for the 2004-05 ble expenses include travel and associated al, medical, etc.). Challenges related to fellowship competition. The Center expenses; stipends; honoraria; materials; population growth and medical care are awards academic year residential fellow- meeting and conference expenses; and not included in this competition. ships to individuals working on national publication expenses. Limited equipment The competition is open to teams of and/or international issues and on topics may also be authorized if needed to con- students attending U.S. post-secondary with relevance to public policy. duct research. institutions. Application procedures and The deadline for receipt of fellowship To apply, submit a completed application further criterion may be found at applications is October 1, 2004. For form, a research proposal, budget, timeline, http://es.epa.gov/ncer/P3. The competi- more information contact fellowships@ and curriculum vitae. For application form tion closes March 25, 2004. wwic.si.edu or visit www.wilsoncenter.org. ■

Geography of Wine

s geography the most important vari- In addition you can experience the President of Education for Banfi Vintners, able in producing good wine? The tastes and smells of geographically distinct presents a workshop on “The Influence of I impact of the physical and cultural wines in two separate workshops showing Terrain and Microclimatology in Building a environment, or what the French call terroir, the importance of terroir in wine produc- Montalcino Super Tuscan Wine.” A barrel is widely claimed to be the most important tion. One workshop, ”A Comparative sample tasting of wines from different vine- factor in wine production. But take the Tasting of the Influence of Terroir on Wine yards will identify terrain and microclimat- opportunity to find out for yourself by Characteristic“ allows participants to ic characteristics and show how these participating in two paper sessions, two sample several wines made from the same attributes influence the final blend. workshops, and a panel discussion, all on grape variety, as grown in five different Both workshops and the paper sessions the geography of wine at the 2004 AAG regions of the world, and attempt to dis- are suitable for the expert or the neophyte. Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. cern the regional characteristics. The six The activities are part of the organization Two paper sessions will present research varieties to be sampled and their respective of a Geography of Wine Specialty Group. on terroir in specific wine regions, using expert discussion leaders are: Sauvignon If you are interested in becoming a charter GIS to differentiate wine appellations, Blanc by Artimus Keiffer, Chardonnay by member, please contact Percy Dougherty while a panel discussion, “Terroir: The Geo- Tim Unwin, Riesling by Robert Seachrist, at [email protected]. ■ graphical Imprint on Wine or a Marketing Pinot Noir by Gregory Jones, Merlot by Myth,” presents both sides of the argument George F. McCleary, Jr., and Cabernet Percy H. Dougherty on terroir with panelists Harm deBlij, Tim Sauvignon by William Crowley. [email protected]. Unwin, William Crowley, Gregory Jones, Conduct a virtual tour of the vineyards Barbara Carmichael, and Percy Dougherty. of Tuscany as Sharron McCarthy, Vice

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I. REGISTRATION III. WORKSHOPS Quantity Price Through 23 Feb. After 23 Feb 1. Hands on GPS Workshop (3/15) ____@ $25 $______AAG Member $260 $295 $______2. Exploring Spatial Data w/ GeoDa (3/15) ____@ $50 $______Student/Retired Member $130 $160 $______3. GIS - Bringing Out of Back Office (3/15) ____@ $65 $______Nonmember $375 $415 $______4. GIS for the Classroom (3/16) ____@ $65 $______Nonmember Student $190 $220 $______5. Spatial Anal. & 3D Vis. w/ ArcGIS (3/16) ____@ $65 $______Companion/Spouse $ 75 $125 $______6. Geog of Wine/Six Wines (3/16) ____@ $30 $______One day registration $210 $225 $______7. Hyper-Realism Photog (3/17) ____@ $25 $______8. Creating a Teaching Portfolio (3/17) ____@ $10 $______TOTAL REGISTRATION FEE $______9. Geog of Wine/Montalcino (3/17) ____@ $10 $______10. Writing & Pub. for Early Career (3/17) ____@ $20 $______II. FIELD TRIPS Quantity Price 11. ARGWorld (3/18) ____@ $35 $______1. Landform Regions of Eastern PA (3/13) ____@ $50 $______TOTAL FEES FOR WORKSHOPS $______2. Longwood Gardens (3/13) ____@ $45 $______3. Fairmount Waterworks (3/14) ____@ $25 $______IV. SPECIAL EVENTS Quantity Price 4. Coalmining Region of PA (3/15) ____@ $85 $______5. Carnivals & Cranes (3/15) ____@ $75 $______Banquet - individual ticket (3/17) ____@ $55 $______6. Delaware River Basin (3/15) ____@ $80 $______Banquet table - 10 tickets (3/17) ____@ $530 $______7. Churches & Cemeteries of Philly (3/15) ____@ $50 $______Awards Luncheon - individual ticket (3/19) ____@ $40 $______8. Exploring Masonic Philly (3/16) ____@ $10 $______Awards Luncheon table - 10 tickets (3/19) ____@ $380 $______9. Art-adelphia (3/16) ____@ $40 $______TOTAL FEES FOR SPECIAL EVENTS $______10 Hist. Geog. of NJ Seashore (3/16) ____@ $85 $______11. Manayunk (3/16) ____@ $60 $______V. ABSTRACT BOOK/CD Quantity Price 12. Sci. & Med. Philly 1803-1804 (3/16) ____@ $65 $______(Abstracts are available online to all registrants at no charge. If you also wish to 13. Phys. Geog. of NJ Pinelands (3/17) ____@ $95 $______purchase a printed abstract book or an abstract CD, sign up here.) 14. Brandywine & Valley Forge (3/17) ____@ $70 $______15. Post-Industrial Philly (3/17) ____@ $75 $______2004 Meeting Abstract Book ____@ $25 $______16. Farming On the Edge (3/17) ____@ $75 $______2004 Meeting Abstract CD ____@ $10 $______17. Rethinking Poverty/West Philly (3/17) ____@ $75 $______VI. RECAP/PAYMENT 18. Fairmount Park (3/17) ____@ $30 $______19. Planning Downtown Philly (3/17) ____@ $10 $______Registration Fee $______20. Sci. & Med. Philly 1803-1804 (3/18) ____@ $65 $______Field Trips $______21. Beaches & Marshes of NJ (3/19) ____@ $100 $______Workshops $______22. Mine Fires in Central PA (3/19) ____@ $85 $______Special Events $______23. Confined Space: Prisons (3/19) ____@ $85 $______Abstract Book/CD $______TOTAL FEES FOR FIELD TRIPS $______GRAND TOTAL (US Dollars Only) US$______

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Fieldtrips and Workshops in Philadelphia

ext month’s Centennial Meeting locomotives, textiles, clothing, ships, ating a teaching portfolio, spatial analysis boasts a record number of special chemicals, paper, leather, machinery, rail and 3-D visualization with ArcGIS, and N events including a whopping twen- cars, drugs, steel, liquor, armaments, sugar, even a geographical wine-tasting. ty-three fieldtrips and eleven workshops. beer, saws, hats, shoes, and food of all To sign up for field trips and work- While there is not room enough to kinds, should give you plenty to chew on. shops, please use the form at left. A com- describe all of these events here, they are In addition, workshops are being offered plete description of each event is available described in detail on the AAG website, covering topics such as hands-on GPS, cre- at www.aag.org/meetings/. ■ and a brief sampling follows. Join fieldtrip leader Percy Dougherty in exploring the coastal plains through the Blue Ridge Province to the Pocono Plateau in “Landform Regions of Eastern Pennsylvania and Their Impact on the Cultural Landscape.” Or see some of the city’s many works of public art on Kevin Patrick’s “Art-adelphia: Neighborhoods, Place Meaning and Expression” fieldtrip. (See mural at right.) To learn more about agriculture in the Delaware Valley’s Chester County, take a trip to an organic mushroom growing operation and a sheep farm with “Farming on the Edge: Mushrooms and Moo.” And if mushrooms and mutton do not stir your The fieldtrip “Art-adephia” will visit some of the more than 2,000 murals in Philadel- interest, the fieldtrip “Post-Industrial phia’s Mural Arts Program. Philadelphia: Dismantling the Workshop Photo by Edward Savaria, Jr., ©Philadelphia CVB of the World” looking at the production of

Gaia Gala

Register for the elebrations for the AAG’s 100th And if you’re not in the mood AAG birthday will reach their for dancing, wallflowers can enjoy C pinnacle at the once-in-a-life- some of the hors d’oeuvres, drinks, Annual Meeting time “Gaia Gala” in the Grand and huge birthday cake that will be Ballroom on Tuesday evening, March served together with conversation by February 23, to 16th. Entertainment will feature and reflection at this great gathering some of Atlantic City’s top musicians, of geographers young and old. avoid higher fees. the Rita Stafford Band. This nine- All Centennial Meeting registrants piece ensemble featuring both male are invited to attend this free extrava- and female vocalists, and a ganza that will be the premier powerful horn section has a set list social event of the Philadelphia Register online at the AAG that covers Alternative, Swing, meeting. The ball begins at 8:00 p.m. website (www.aag.org) Motown, Rhythm & Blues, Classic with a colorful and rowdy kick-off or use the registration form Rock, Jazz, Big Band, and Romantic from a Philadelphia Mummers band. on page 8 of this issue. Ballads. Bring your dancing shoes! Don’t miss it! ■

www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 9 CONFERENCE ASSISTANT FORM

Donate some time at the Annual Meeting as a Conference Assistant and earn $8 per hour and a 50% registration refund if you work for a minimum of 8 hours. FIRST ______M.I. ______LAST ______UNIVERSITY ______ADDRESS ______CITY ______STATE ______ZIP ______COUNTRY ______DAYTIME PHONE ( ) ______FAX ( ) ______E-MAIL ADDRESS ______Please tell us the times/positions you would like to work: ___Friday, March 12, 8am - 12pm: Registration Set Up(4 hours) ___Friday, March 12, 8am - 6pm: Totebag Stuffing (10 hours, less 1 hour for lunch and breaks) ___Friday, March 12, 1pm - 6pm: Registration Set Up(5 hours) ___ Saturday, March 13, 7am - 2pm: Totebag Stuffing (7 hours) 4reg- ___ Saturday, March 13, 8am - 3pm: Registration Set Up (7 hours, less 30 minutes for lunch) ___ Saturday, March 13, 12pm - 6pm: Registration (6 hours) ___ Sunday, March 14, 7am - 12pm: Registration (5 hours) istra- ___ Sunday, March 14, 12pm - 6pm: Registration (6 hours) ___ Monday, March 15, 7am - 12pm: Registration (5 hours) ___ Monday, March 15, 12pm - 6pm: Registration (6 hours) tion ___ Monday, March 15, 7am - 8am: Geogram Distribution (1 hours) ___ Monday, March 15, 8am - 12pm: Session Area Monitor (4 hours) ___ Monday, March 15, 1pm - 7pm: Session Area Monitor (6 hours) form ___ Tuesday, March 16, 7am - 12pm: Registration (5 hours) ___ Tuesday, March 16, 12pm - 6pm: Registration (6 hours) ___ Tuesday, March 16, 9:30am - 12:30pm: Silent Auction (3 hours) ___ Tuesday, March 16, 12:30pm - 5:30pm: Silent Auction (5 hours) ___ Tuesday, March 16, 7am - 8am: Geogram Distribution (1 hours) ___ Tuesday, March 16, 8am - 12pm: Session Area Monitor (4 hours) ___ Tuesday, March 16, 1pm - 7pm: Session Area Monitor (6 hours) ___ Wednesday, March 17, 7am - 12pm: Registration (5 hours) ___ Wednesday, March 17, 12pm - 6pm: Registration (6 hours) ___ Wednesday, March 17, 7am - 8am: Geogram Distribution (1 hours) ___ Wednesday, March 17, 8am - 12pm: Session Area Monitor (4 hours) ___ Wednesday, March 17, 9:30am - 12:30pm: Silent Auction (3 hours) ___ Wednesday, March 17, 12:30pm - 5:30pm: Silent Auction (5 hours) ___ Wednesday, March 17, 1pm - 7pm: Session Area Monitor (6 hours) ___ Thursday, March 18, 7am - 12pm: Registration (5 hours) ___ Thursday, March 18, 12pm - 6pm: Registration (6 hours) ___ Thursday, March 18, 7am - 8am: Geogram Distribution (1 hours) ___ Thursday, March 18, 8am - 12pm: Session Area Monitor (4 hours) ___ Thursday, March 18, 9:30am - 12:30pm: Silent Auction (3 hours) ___ Thursday, March 18, 12:30pm - 3:00pm: Silent Auction (2.5 hours) ___ Thursday, March 18, 1pm - 7pm: Session Area Monitor (6 hours) ___ Friday, March 19, 7am - 12pm: Registration (5 hours) ___ Friday, March 19, 7am - 8am: Geogram Distribution (1 hours) ___ Friday, March 19, 8am - 12pm: Session Area Monitor (4 hours) ___ Friday, March 19, 1pm - 6pm: Session Area Monitor (5 hours) ___ Friday, March 19, 10am - 2pm: Tear Down and Box Packing (4 hours)

Reimbursement/Payment If you have not already done so, please register for the meeting and pay the full conference rate in advance. You will be reimbursed by mail for 50% of the conference fee after the meeting, when we verify that you have worked the minimum 8 hours required to receive the discount. Your pay for the hours you work will also be included in this check. PLEASE NOTE: all checks will be payable in US dollars. AAG is unable to remit payment or reimbursement in any other currency. IN ORDER TO BE A CONFERENCE ASSISTANT, YOU MUST BE REGISTERED FOR THE 2004 AAG ANNUAL MEETING.

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AAG Member Profile: Yvette Pye

Yvette Pye is The Salem Baptist Church of Chicago, brings a whole new set of considerations— a licensed elemen- led a major community revitalization and barriers even. For us not to pay attention to tary teacher from education effort to combat Roseland’s decay. those areas is a neglect which really does Chicago turned I wanted to understand how this com- have ramifications globally. geography Ph.D. munity transformation prioritized local AAG: What does this mean for geogra- student at the youth development. My questions now lean phy education? University of toward how urban ministries—faith-based Minnesota (M.A. organizations—affect academic achieve- Yvette: We should think about real ways 2000). Winner of ment of youth, particularly youth of color. to introduce geographic concepts in ele- Pye a fellowship from mentary schools, rather than lumping AAG: How did you end up in them in with social studies, and we should the MacArthur Foundation’s International geography? Program of Peace and Cooperation, Yvette recruit in inner city schools. researches urban social geography, youth Yvette: Reflecting on my own life and how I approached those critical self-defining AAG: What else can we as AAG mem- development, and faith-based community bers do? movements. In addition to her course- questions of: Who am I? What has been my Yvette: Another issue to talk about as a work, she is an administrative assistant in life’s trajectory and how is it that I was born the Borchert Map Library and a graduate where I was born, the color I was born? discipline, is what can we do to address research assistant with the African Ameri- How did the ghetto get its form? How did the isolation of graduate students of color. it come to be—this black belt where I can Task Force at the Center for Urban AAG: How do you deal with the lived, and what forces colluded to create it? and Regional Affairs. She resides in St. isolation? Paul with her husband and two sons. I think I wound up in geography because I was asking questions about my region, my Yvette: As a member of AAG, I can build AAG: What inspired your research in community, and myself. professional relationships. And it’s refresh- urban social geography? ing to know I have a venue to share my AAG: Does geography bring a unique research and develop questions—it’s a net- Yvette: The question I pursued in my mas- perspective to research on education? work. We need to think intentionally ter’s thesis grew from curiosity about a Yvette: Geographers pay more attention to about how to encourage diversity in our groundbreaking revitalization project in the the connectedness between the individual membership. Starting with networking Greater Roseland Community of Chicago to community to region to nation to and support might go a long way towards that got national publicity. global. We tend to think about how those the persistence of people of color in their Although Roseland is twelve miles south things are interconnected. One thing my [higher education] programs. of Chicago’s Central Business District work points out is that the struggles of the (CBD) it was cut off from the rest of Chica- marginalized in urban areas are ultimately AAG: What will you do after you finish go’s South Side due to ”block busting,” those of our global society. Put another your Ph.D.? ”redlining,“ ”white flight,“ and the construc- way, when one suffers we all suffer. Yvette: I hope to be a development tion of a major expressway. research specialist for educational and AAG: How does that understanding ministerial institutions, to develop best AAG: What were some of the problems contribute to education? there? practices in youth development and share Yvette: It is to the advantage of all that them with educational and faith-based Yvette: Given Greater Roseland’s proximi- youth living in urban areas have the tools community organizations. ty to the CBD, in strictly spacial terms it and resources needed to develop to their full wouldn‘t be considered an inner city area— potential, regardless of race or class. As AAG: Do you see yourself as a role but it had inner city characteristics includ- global citizens it should matter to us what model? ing a disadvantaged and segregated minori- happens in the inner city. Young people Yvette: I hope to be. I really do. I hope ty population, increasing household there are marginalized on several fronts that I’m proficient enough in what I impoverishment, a 4% residential vacancy [including age and race]—for me as a geog- do that it can help somebody and rate, and many abandoned residential and rapher, I see they are also marginalized inspire somebody to transcend their commercial properties. spatially. Their location in the inner cities given geography. ■

Editor’s Note: Suggestions for members to profile are welcome. Please send names and contact information to Patricia Solís at [email protected].

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Nominations Invited for AAG Honors

he Honors Committee of the AAG they reside elsewhere the membership provide justification for the award and invites nominations for AAG requirement is waived. In some cases may include a proposed citation of no T Honors to be conferred in 2005. professionals from other disciplines or more than 200 words. Solicitation of AAG Honors are given in recognition of professions are eligible for consideration. support letters from additional nominators outstanding contributions to the advance- Geographers or other professionals is welcome and should be limited to no ment or welfare of the profession in previously honored may be nominated more than five. five categories: Lifetime Career Honors, again for distinction achieved since their Other members of the Honors Distinguished Scholarship Honors, first awards. See the handbook section of Committee are: Robert W. Morrill, Distinguished Teaching Honors, Ronald F. a recent issue of the Guide to Geography Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State Abler Distinguished Service Honors, and Programs in North America for a complete University, [email protected]; Kim England, Gilbert Grosvenor Honors for Geography list of past honors award recipients. Department of Geography, University Education. Normally no more than one The deadline for nominations is April of Washington, [email protected]. award will be made in each category. No 30, 2004. edu; Gary Gaile, Department of Geogra- more than six individuals may be recom- Send six copies of the nominating phy, University of Colorado, Boulder, mended for AAG Honors in a single year. letter and the candidate’s CV to the Hon- [email protected]; James Wheeler, In addition to honors, the committee may recommend a Publication Award and a ors Committee Chair: Geraldine Pratt, Department of Geography, University of Media Achievement Award each year. University of British Columbia, Vancou- Georgia, [email protected]; and Julie Nominees must be AAG members if ver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada; gpratt@ Winkler, Department of Geography, they are residents of the United States; if geog.ubc.ca. Email submissions are Michigan State University, winkler@ acceptable. The nominating letter should msu.edu. ■

DePaul Geographical Society Combats Geographic Illiteracy eading the fight against geographic Now: The Missouri River Sites of the nominal $10 fee to attend the 2003-04 illiteracy in the Chicago region, Lewis and Clark Expedition.” series. The lectures, as well as local and L every year for the last forty-three Moderator and Professor Emeritus international tours, are arranged with years, the DePaul Geographic Society has at DePaul University, Richard J. Houk, assistance from the Geographic Society of produced monthly geographic lectures founded the society shortly after founding Chicago and are available to anyone with geared towards the general public and the Geography Department at DePaul. His an interest in geography. students of all disciplines. Part of the goal was to invigorate the new department DePaul University, was the first 2003-04 series includes lectures with such and to involve students from all disciplines Catholic university to offer a B.A. in geog- colorful titles as “Biker Meets in learning on geographic subjects. raphy. At present DePaul and Villanova Buddha: Riding Through Thailand and Ten lectures are held during each are the only two Catholic universities Indo-China”, “Mysterious Madagascar, academic year. They are well attended, offering a degree in the discipline. ■ The Great Red Island”, and “Then and with some 230 individuals having paid a

February 23, 2004 WHY IS THIS DATE IMPORTANT? Because this is the last day that you can make discounted hotel reservations in Philadelphia, and it is also the last day for obtaining discounted, early registration fees for the AAG Centennial Meeting! Register for the meeting and make your hotel reservations before February 23, to save money. Register at www.aag.org. Hotel rooms can be reserved at 800-228-9290.

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William Morris Davis: the First American Coastal Geomorphologist? ver one hundred years ago the formidable intellect William Morris O Davis, who spearheaded the founding of the Association of American Geog- raphers, produced the classic study, "The Outline of Cape Cod" in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science, 1896. Having studied this and Davis’s other seminal articles in coastal geomorphology and having worked for his grandson (Hugh C. Davis), I feel that I know Davis, at least vicariously. Hugh Davis, a regional planner in the Ian McHarg tradition, was the Director of the Environmental Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst during the late 1970s and early 1980s, where I worked as a laboratory director. Hugh and I had a number of discussions about his famous grandfather who he described as stern man, steeped in tradition, and totally devoted to geographic science. While Hugh was only vaguely familiar with his grandfather’s scientific contributions, he knew that W. M. Davis was one of the foremost geographers of his time. W. M. Davis is perhaps most famous for his discipline building notion of the cycle of erosion; he conceptualized a time-man- dated evolution of coastal morphologies. Figure 1. The primordial Cape evolved through the erosion of glacial sediments that were transported by longshore currents to form today’s coastal features (from W.M. Davis, 1896, The Outline of Cape Cod, For Davis, structure, process, and stage Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, V. 31, p.303-332). (youthful, mature, and old age) were the principal components of his time classification of landform features. While the cape that we recognize today (see Fig- W. M. Davis was a strong willed and his geographical cycle of coastal ure 1). Davis even theorized about the broad scientific thinker who greatly development was a step forward at the fine-scale development of the Province- advanced our profession. Even without time, geographers eventually realized that town spit (Province Lands), but the modern scientific capabilities such coastal evolution could be interrupted or technology did not exist at the time to as kinematic GPS and airborne laser greatly altered by certain catastrophic substantiate his interpretation of the technology combined with GIS and 3-D events so that the so-called ultimate grade geomorphic evolution during the past computer animation, Davis was able to might never be realized. 5,000 years. My own compilation of theorize and make astute observations of Davis, a powerful and influential historical records revealed that settlers in Cape Cod’s geomorphology. For his professor at Harvard, often took his stu- the 1700s and early 1800s caused massive contributions to coastal geomorphology dents on field trips to nearby Cape Cod, destruction of the sand dunes by allowing and for founding the Association of one of my prime research areas. Combin- free-range grazing of cattle and sheep; American Geographers, we all owe a ing keen field observations with coastal the migrating sand tended to blur tremendous debt to W. M. Davis. ■ geomorphic principles, Davis showed the indicators of geomorphic develop- how this glacially generated landform was ment (as well as partially burying the Stephen P. Leatherman, sculpted by waves and currents to form Provincetown schoolhouse). [email protected]

www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 13 February 2004 Specialty Group News

Applied Geography SG, to the address below; and 5) contact tition is based on evaluation of a Praxis Awards information (preferably email) should be written manuscript, to be eligible The Applied Geography Specialty included along with the name of the for this competition, papers must be Group (AGSG) announces two new school, department, and the professor presented at the 2004 AAG Annual awards for outstanding achievement in who taught the class or supervised Meeting, regional geography meetings, applied geographical research. the research. or another professional conference. The Praxis Award--Public Sector, recog- Papers will be judged by a panel of Papers will be evaluated by IPSG nizes outstanding research studies that experts within the PSG. Send papers to officers and board members, (which demonstrate the practical application of Dennis Conway, Department of Geogra- includes both faculty members and geographical concepts, methods, tech- phy, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN graduate students) based on their overall niques, and/or technologies to the investi- 47405. Phone 812-855-6303 or email contribution to new knowledge and gation or implementation of government [email protected]. understanding in the geographies of policies, plans, programs, or projects. indigenous peoples. That contribution The Praxis Award--Private Sector, recog- Indigenous Peoples SG—Gradu- may be theoretical, empirical, or nizes outstanding research studies that ate Student Paper Competition methodological in nature. The award demonstrate the practical application The Indigenous Peoples Specialty for the top student paper will include of geographical concepts, methods, Group (IPSG) invites submissions for its $150 and a one-year honorary student techniques, and/or technologies to the investigation or implementation of private annual Graduate Student Paper Competi- membership in the IPSG. Interested enterprise policies, plans, programs, tion. Graduate student papers eligible for students should submit a copy of or projects. this competition will address geographic their paper electronically or in person no The deadline for submitting materials research, education, cartography, theory later than March 15, 2004 to Kate Berry, for the 2004 Praxis Awards is December and/or applications by, for and/or about co-chair of the IPSG at kberry@ 31, 2004. For more information about the indigenous people(s). While the compe- unr.nevada.edu. ■ Praxis awards see the AGSG web page at www.aag.org.

Population SG— Geographer in the News: Student Paper Competition The Population Specialty Group (PSG) Extreme Peace Mission is again sponsoring a student paper competition for 2003-04. The winner receives geographer, Avihu Shoshani, To learn more about Extreme Peace a $250 prize, an engraved plaque, a ticket took part in the 2004 Extreme Mission Antarctica, visit www. to the AAG awards banquet, and formal A Peace Mission to Antarctica. The breaking-the-ice.de/bti_home.htm. ■ recognition at the banquet and in the AAG mission took a team of four Israelis and Newsletter. There is also a prize of $100 for four Palestinians, by sailboat across the the second-place finalist, who will also Drake Passage to Antarctica on Janu- receive an engraved plaque noting this ary 1, 2004. The team then moved achievement. along the coast some 500 km before Requirements: 1) the topic must be on trekking inland about twenty kilome- some aspect of population geography; 2) ters to climb a mountain together. the paper must have been written while This Antarctic Survivor is intended the student was enrolled at a college or to show that these two peoples can university, and completed between Janu- cooperate in peace for their common ary 2003 and January 2004; 3) the text survival. Several of the eight partici- should be double-spaced and not exceed pants have been directly involved in twenty pages; total paper length should the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. not exceed thirty pages; 4) the student Shoshani is an Israeli who earned a bachelors degree in geography as well authors should either submit their paper Israeli-Palestinian peace expedition members on their way via the Internet (in MSWord format) or as a law degree, and now runs his own to Antarctica. Shoshani is at far left. Photo by Harris. send three hard copies of the paper, to be law firm. ©Breaking the Ice/ABACA. received no later than February 15, 2004

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University of Miami procedures please see the departmental Lt. Col. George L. Simpson Jr., was The University of Miami (UM) Depart- web page at www.as.miami.edu/geography/ born in 1923 in Eau Claire, and attended ment of Geography and Regional Studies or contact the department’s Director of UW-Eau Claire (then the Eau Claire State has reinstated its master’s degree program, Graduate Studies, Ira Sheskin at 305-284- Teachers College) in the early 1940s. He for fall 2004. The program will offer tracks 6693 or [email protected]. left Eau Claire to serve with the U.S. Army in development studies; environmental in World War II. analysis; and globalization and urban University of His father, Lt. Col. George L. Simpson change. A limited number of graduate Wisconsin-Eau Claire Sr., was one of the original twenty facul- assistantships will be available to students, The son of a deceased geography pro- ty members at UW-Eau Claire (then to be awarded on a competitive basis. fessor who retired more than a half century called the Eau Claire State Normal The department also recently upgraded ago has given the Department of Geography School). He was a professor of geogra- its GIS lab and maintains current licenses and Anthropology at the University of phy from 1916-51, taking leaves from for ArcGIS, ERDAS IMAGINE, Cartalinx, Wisconsin-Eau Claire a gift estimated at $2 the university to serve during both Idrisi, and several statistical packages million. The gift comes from the estate of World Wars. (e.g., SPSS) to support faculty and Lt. Col. George L. Simpson Jr., whose The geography department at UW- student research. father, Col. George L. Simpson Sr., taught Eau Claire is currently home to fourteen For more information about the depart- geography at the university for thirty-one faculty members and close to ninety geog- ment, funding possibilities, and application years before retiring in 1951. raphy majors. ■ Award Deadlines

FEBRUARY Grants. www.macfound.org/programs/gss/ 1. Political Geography SG, 2004 Disser- 1. Asian Geography SG Distinguished research_writing.htm. tation Enhancement Award. Contact Erin Service Awards. Contact hamery@ Hogan Fouberg at erin_fouberg@ 2. Community Forestry Research Fel- mines.edu. sdstate.edu. lowships. www.cnr.berkeley.edu/community 1. Environmental Perception and _forestry/ 1. ESRC/SSRC Collaborative Visiting Behavioral Geography SG Student Paper Fellowship in the U.K. www.ssrc.org/ 12. CSG/National Geographic Award in Competition. Contact Jon Malinowski at fellowships/esrc/. Cartography. http://nationalgeographic. [email protected]. 1. Collaborative Action Research Grants com/maps/caward. on Globalization, Natural Resources, 1. Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship 13. Ethics, Justice and Human Rights and Violent Conflict. www.ssrc.org/ for Dissertation Research. Contact Ruth SG Student Paper Competition. Contact fellowships/gsc/grants.page. Shirey at [email protected]. Malcolm Cutchin at [email protected]. 15. Indigenous Peoples SG Graduate 1. Geomorphology SG, Graduate Stu- 15. GORABS SG David E. Sopher New Student Paper Competition. Contact Kate dent Research Grants. Contact Michael Scholar Award. http://gorabs.org. Berry at [email protected]. Slattery at [email protected]. 15. John J. and Nancy Lee Roberts Fel- 15. Newberry Library Fellowships in 1. Regional Development and Planning lowship Program. www.irex.org/programs/ the Humanities. Contact research@ SG Graduate Student Paper Award. Con- roberts/index.asp newberry.org. tact [email protected]. 17. NSF Geoscience Education Program 15. Population SG Student Paper Awards. www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf 1. Regional Development and Plan- Competition. Contact Dennis Conway at 03515. ning/Asian Geography SG Student Paper [email protected]. 3 Award. Email [email protected]. 25. EPA P Student Design Competition. 24. GPOW Janice Monk Service Award http://es.epa.gov/ncer/P3. 1. Remote Sensing SG, Early Career and Glenda Laws Student Paper competi- Award in Remote Sensing. Contact Tim tion. Contact Deborah Martin dgmartin@ Warner at [email protected]. APRIL uga.edu. 2. IGU Travel Grants. www.aag.org/ 1. Water Resources SG Student Com- Grantsawards/igutravel.html. petitions. Contact Roxane Fridirici at MARCH [email protected]. 1. Ethnic Geography SG Student OCTOBER 2. The MacArthur Foundation Pro- Paper Competition. Contact Ira Sheskin at 1. Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow- gram’s Global Security and Sustainability [email protected]. ships. www.wilsoncenter.org. ■

www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 15 February 2004 Members of Note

M. Gordon "Reds" Wolman received a the American Geological Institute. Wol- educator or educa- Lifetime Achievement Award from the man has chaired many committees on tional organization National Council for Science and the water, geosciences, and public policy. His that best exemplifies Environment for a lifetime of distin- book Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology, Cyrus R. Vance‘s guished and innovative leadership in co-authored with Luna Leopold and John dedication to the science and service to society. Wolman is P. Miller and originally released in 1965, understanding of B. Howell Griswold Jr. Professor of remains a classic text in the field. international issues Geography and International Affairs at and affairs. A native Johns Hopkins University. Two geographers, Brian J.L. Berry and of Clarksburg, Vance Wolman's groundbreaking contribu- Karl W. Butzer, are listed among the mem- devoted nearly fifty Joshi tions to the study of watershed and river bers of the newly created Texas Academy years of his life to public processes have helped structure interna- of Science, Engineering and Medicine. service, particularly in the areas of tional discussions on landscape evolution Membership is restricted to the state's international diplomacy and peacekeep- and sustainable development. He was eleven Nobel Laureates and members of ing. A $5,000 gift is made to advance among the first scientists to seriously the National Academies of Science and the winner's endeavors in the field of consider how human activity combines Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. international education. with natural processes to affect the Berry was elected to the NAS in 1975 and Joshi a native of Nepal, has been a environment, and his work has been Butzer in 1996. Of the initial membership professor at Fairmont State for more than extremely valuable for informing policy- of sixteen, only five come from the behav- thirty years, covering a variety of interna- makers. Wolman has also advanced water ioral, social or economic sciences: one tional topics. science through his remarkable teaching, brain researcher, two archaeologists, and which has inspired generations of students Berry and Butzer, both of whom are mem- Assistant Professor of Geography at who have become leaders in their fields. bers of the Academy's Section 64, ”Human Okanagan University College in British Wolman was inducted into the National Environmental Science.“ Columbia, Carlos Teixeira recently Academy of Sciences in 1988 and the gave an interview to the Toronto National Academy of Engineering in Tulasi Joshi, Professor of Geography at Star (Canada’s largest circulation newspa- 2002. He is Past President of both the Fairmont State College, West Virginia, per). The resulting article entitled, Geological Society of America, and the has been honored by the West Virginia “Toronto’s Immigrant Reception Area” Hydrology Section of the American Office of the Secretary of Education and appeared December 21, 2003 and Geophysical Union. He has been recog- the Arts with the Cyrus R. Vance Award focused on the evolution of Toronto’s nized with numerous awards, including for International Education. Tulasi was Kensington Market. Teixeira researches the 1989 John Wesley Powell Award from one of twenty educators and education migration processes, community and the U.S. Geological Survey, the 1993 Dis- organizations nominated for the award. neighborhood change, ethnic entrepre- tinguished Career Award from the AAG, Since its creation in 2001, the award neurship, and the social structure of and the 1997 Ian Campbell Medal from has been presented each year to an Canadian cities. ■ Grants and Awards

The National Science Foundation magnitude and nature of the interactions and the University of Nairobi in Kenya; has awarded a $1.75 million, four-year between land use and climate change at the University of Dar es Salaam in grant under the Biocomplexity in the regional and local scales in East Africa. Tanzania; Makerere University and the Environment Coupled Natural and The team also includes Marianne governmental Department of Meteorol- Human Systems Program to Michigan Huebner (MSU Statistics and Probabili- ogy in Uganda; and North Carolina State University (MSU) geographers ty), Bryan Pijanowski (Purdue University) State University. David Campbell, Jeff Andresen, David and Brent Lofgren (GLERL and NOAA) Lusch, Jennifer Olson, and Jiaguo Qi. as well as colleagues at the Climatic Michael R. Greenberg received the The research project, “An Integrated Research Unit, University of East Anglia Distinguished Achievement Award for Analysis of Regional Land-Climate and Edinburgh University in the UK; the the year 2003 from the Society for Risk Interactions,” will illuminate the International Livestock Research Institute Analysis. ■

16 AAG Newsletter www.aag.org Necrology Volume 39, Number 2

George F. Beatty, Professor Emeritus, State and OSS, Professor Harris returned membership in the American Academy of Department of Geography, Ball State Uni- to the University of Chicago where he Arts and Sciences, and medals from the versity, Muncie, Indiana died on December remained for the rest of his career. His American Geographical Society, Royal 3, 2003. He was born in Cowan, Indiana early publications on urban functions and Geographical Society, and Berlin Geo- on June 9, 1918. Beatty received his B.S. industrial location in the United States graphical Society. With his natural dignity, from Ball State University in 1949 and resulted in prompt recognition by the four language fluency, and unfailing M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Illinois geographical profession and rapid promo- courtesy, Chauncy Harris acted in many in 1951 and 1958 respectively. From 1943- tion at the University of Chicago. While ways as a diplomat as well as a scholar. 54 he worked at the Department of Geog- still in raphy at Calcutta University, India on a military service in Washington, he began John F. Lounsbury, born in Perham, Fulbright research grant. Before coming to to study Russian and developed what Minnesota, passed away on December 26, Ball State, George worked for the Univer- would be a life-long interest in the Soviet 2003, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at the age of sity of Tennessee at Martin and Northern Union. The extraordinarily rapid urban- eighty-five. Illinois University. He joined Ball State in ization of the USSR was the focus of John received his 1958 and retired in 1983. many articles and his much acclaimed B.A. and M.A. book ”Cities of the Soviet Union,“ pub- degrees from the Rabindranath “Raba” B. Gunasekara, lished in 1970. The ethnic complexity of University of Illi- died of a heart attack August 3, 2003, dur- the Soviet realm was an additional major nois, and his Ph.D. ing a visit to his hometown of Colombo, subject of investigation. Soon recognized from Northwestern Sri Lanka. A geography doctoral student as a serious and objective scholar, he was University in 1951. and campus opportunities development well received during his many trips to the He began his career officer at University of California, Davis, USSR and made a persistent effort to at Antioch College, he was forty-three. bring the work of Soviet geographers to and later taught at Lounsbury Raba earned his bachelors in interna- the attention of western colleagues. Eastern Michigan tional relations and master's in history Together with Theodore Shabad of the University. John joined Arizona State Uni- from UC-Davis. From 1995 until 2001 he New York Times he played a key role in versity as chair in 1969 and remained in worked as program coordinator at the launching and writing for the journal that position until 1977. He remained in Center for South Asia Studies at the Uni- ”Soviet Geography: Review and Transla- the department until retiring in 1987. versity of California, Berkeley before tion.“ He also found time to pursue an During his tenure at Arizona State, returning to UC-Davis. At Davis, he stud- interest in bibliography and produced Lounsbury was instrumental in establishing ied geography as a doctoral student under reference works of enduring value. a Ph.D. program in 1972 and through his the supervision of Janet Momsen and also In addition to his research and teaching, sociable personality did a great deal to bring worked full-time for the Office of Out- professor Harris served for several years as harmony to a fractionalized department. reach and International Programs. Secretary-General of the International He authored or co-authored several Geographical Union, a position that books, chapters, and many journal articles Chauncy Dennison Harris, former permitted him to make good use of his abil- in areas including physical geography, eco- President of the AAG, died on December ity to speak French, German, and Russian. nomic geography, planning, agricultural 26, 2003. At the time of his death, he was At the University of Chicago he served not geography, gaming, and land use policy. the Samuel N. Harper Distinguished Ser- only as a professor but also as Dean of the John's greatest contribution to the dis- vice Professor Emeritus at the University Social Sciences Division, Director of the cipline, however, was as a mediator and of Chicago. Program of International Study, and Vice consensus builder. This is reflected in his Awarded a Rhodes scholarship in 1934, President for Academic Resources. After various roles as director of projects he studied geography at Oxford and the reaching mandatory retirement age in including the "Spatial Analysis of Land London School of Economics and then 1984, he continued to be active in research Use Project,” the "Environment-based completed his training at the University and wrote articles on German unification Education Project," and the "Commission of Chicago where he received the Ph.D. and the ethnic composition of Eastern on College Geography." In the period degree in 1940. His dissertation study of Europe and the successor states of the 1957-80 he was personally engaged in, or Salt Lake City was an early example of former Soviet Union. supervised, a series of grants from various urban as opposed to rural or environmen- Professor Harris received many tributes sources that totaled in excess of tal focus in American geography. After during his long and productive career, $2,700,000. wartime service in the Department of including several honorary degrees, Continued on page 18

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Necrology from page 17 His duty as an officer during World War II was a defining experience. He was Info Sought for Biographies among the first to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Badly wounded, for the rest of of State Department his life he walked with a limp. He received numerous awards and medals for his mili- Geographers tary service. Lounsbury had an easy teaching style, iographical information related recently reprinted). He worked in the and was famous for injecting humor and to Stephen B. Jones, Samuel U.S. State Department from 1942 to anecdotal stories in his lectures. An B Whittimore Boggs, and other 1943 under geographer Samuel Whitti- excellent mentor, he guided numerous former employees of the State Depart- more Boggs, who provided stimulation graduate students. ment’s Office of the Geographer, and encouragement to the young Jones. A student scholarship fund was estab- is being sought by AAG member In addition to biographic informa- lished in John's name at Arizona State Ray Milefsky. tion and stories about Jones and Boggs University. Contributions may be sent to Milefsky is writing short biogra- (1924-54), personal accounts of other the ASU Geography Department, phies on these individuals and other deceased State Geographers including Tempe, AZ 85287-0104. (Make checks notable employees in the State Colonel Lawrence Martin (1919-24), payable to: ASU Foundation-Lounsbury Department's Office of the Geograph- G. Etzel Pearcy (1957-69), Robert D. Travel Fund.) er and would appreciate any reminis- Hodgson (1971-79), and Lewis M. cences and biographic information fel- Alexander (1980-83), are welcome. Raymond Peterson, seventy-nine, low members of the AAG would be Please contact: Ray Milefsky, Spe- Professor Emeritus, Department of willing to share. cialist, International Boundaries and Geography, Ball State University, in Professor Stephen B. Jones of the Global Issues, Office of the Geograph- Muncie, Indiana died in Ocala, Florida University of Hawaii is perhaps best er and Global Issues, U.S. Department on November 20, 2003. Peterson was known for the 1945 guidance handbook of State, Washington, DC 20520-6510. born in Galesburg, Illinois. He received on crafting borders in the post-World Email [email protected] or ■ his Ph.D from the University of Florida War II era, "Boundary-Making," (pub- phone 202-647-1205. in 1967 and immediately joined at Ball lished by the Carnegie Endowment and State. He retired in 1984. Peterson was in the U.S. Navy during WW II in the Pacific Theater. Cartography Internships at Meera Schoen, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, Ball State the New York Times University, Muncie, Indiana died on November 18, 2003 in Minneapolis, pplications are now being accepted Graphics applicants should send a Minnesota. Born in West Bengal, India, for Thomas Morgan Internships in resume, writing samples, maps, and graph- Meera received her Ph.D. in 1951 from A Graphics and Maps at the New York ic design to Steve Duenes, Deputy Graph- the London School of Economics and Times. Interns will work with staff graphics ics Director, Graphics Department, 4th joined Ball State University in 1970. editors and cartographers to develop the floor, The New York Times, 229 W. 43rd Before her arrival to Ball State, Meera skills to present the news visually through St., New York, NY 10036 or duenes@ worked at Western Washington State charts, diagrams, and maps. The goals of nytimes.com. For further information call University, Calcutta University, and the the internship are to develop fresh, to- Steve Duenes at (212) 556-1839. Indian Institute of Management and the-point informational graphics and to Materials should be received by February Social Welfare in Calcutta. Schoen identify future graphics specialists and 20, 2004. retired from Ball State in 1988. ■ cartographers for the Times.

18 AAG Newsletter www.aag.org Call for Papers Volume 39, Number 2

CITSA and ISAS 2004 Each article, ranging from 350 to 4,500 European Journal of Spatial Authors are invited to submit materi- words, is signed by the contributor. The Development als to the joint conferences—the 10th general editor for the encyclopedia is The European Journal of Spatial Devel- International Conference on Information Robert W. McColl, (University of opment is soliciting articles. This refereed Systems Analysis and Synthesis and the Kansas), who will review each article for journal offers high-quality scientific International Conference on Cybernetics content and consistency. research on spatial development (i.e. spa- and Information Technologies, Systems There is a small honorarium paid for tial analyses, physical planning, and and Applications. Papers are welcome each article, depending on article length. regional development) to all prospective that are original and unpublished Each contributor needs to write five to fif- users through free online distribution. works, innovations, ideas based on ana- teen articles (many are quite short) by Academic areas covered range from logical thinking, problems that require May 1, 2004. spatial and environmental analyses to solutions, position papers, case studies, A list of articles is already prepared; physical planning and regional develop- etc., in the fields of computer, communi- contributors can select unassigned topics ment. Side by side with the academic cation, and control, as well as in the that best fit their expertise and schedule. content of the journal, interesting relationships between these fields. If you would like to contribute to the contributions with a more practical Researchers, scholars, consultants, and encyclopedia, please provide a brief sum- content are also welcomed. These can practitioners are also encouraged to mary of your background to Geoff Gol- include discussion pieces, book reviews, organize invited sessions: organizers have son, Golson Books, Ltd., 914-271-6390, and conference advertisements. autonomy in numerous aspects of arrang- or [email protected]. For further information and contributor ing these invited sessions. guidelines visit www.nordregio.se/EJSD/. Submitted papers must describe work Capitalism, Nature, Socialism not previously published and must not The editors of Capitalism, Nature, First International Workshop be submitted concurrently to another Socialism (CNS) welcome contributions on the Human Dimensions of conference with refereed proceedings. for the 2004 Volume. CNS is an interna- Climate Change in Central Asia Accepted papers will be published in the tional red-green journal of theory The climate and environmental change proceedings, both in hard copy and in and politics and publishes papers on the interdisciplinary committee and the CD. The best ten percent of the papers key themes of the dialectics of human Geography and Planning Department at will be published in the Systemics, Cyber- and natural history; labor and land; Grand Valley State University invite netics and Informatics Journal. workplace struggles and community paper proposals for the first International For further information on the confer- struggles; economics and ecology; and Workshop on Human Dimensions of ence visit www.infocybernetics.org/ the politics of ecology and ecology of Climate and Environmental Change in citsa2004/WebSite/Default.asp. politics. The journal is especially con- Central Asia. The workshop will be cerned to join (and relate) discourses on held in Grand Rapids, Michigan on May Encyclopedia of labor; ecology; feminist and community 21-22, 2004. World Geography movements; and on radical democracy The goal of this workshop is to discuss Academic editorial contributors are and human rights. human-environmental interactions in arid invited for the new Encyclopedia of Submissions in the following areas are and semi-arid environments of the world World Geography. This three-volume ency- welcomed: red-green politics and the anti- at various scales in the context of global clopedia to be published by Facts globalization movement; environmental climate and environmental change, and On File, is designed for public, high history; workplace labor struggles and more specifically, to assess the human school, and college libraries. Its 800 some land/community struggles; political econ- dimensions of climate and environmental articles cover human, political, and physi- omy of ecology; and political ecology. change in Central Asia. cal geographies of countries, states, cities, CNS can receive submissions either The call for papers may be found at land features, climate, and other subjects, electronically or by mail on disk. Files www4.gvsu.edu/lioubime/CentralA_files/ as well as biographies, profiles, and should be saved as word documents Elec- a_call_for_papers_and_participat.htm. descriptions of historical events affecting tronic files can be sent to [email protected] or For further information contact Elena geography. Additionally, the articles cover by mail to CNS, P.O. Box 8467, Santa Lioubimtseva at [email protected]. numerous international subjects, from eco- Cruz, CA 95061. The CNS website is See also events under www.gvsu.edu/ nomic associations to political structures. http://members.cruzio.com/~cns/. geography. ■

www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 19 February 2004 Books Received

Baker, Alan R.H. Geography and History: Bridging the Divide. New York: Johnston, Ron and Michael Williams, eds. A Century of British Geography. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 279 and 14 pp., $26.00 paper, ISBN New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2003. 674 0-521-28885-1. and 17 pp., n.p., ISBN 0-19-726286-4.

Driver, Felix and David Gilbert, eds. Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Livingstone, David N. Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Identity. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2003 (paperback Knowledge. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 234 and 12 pp., version of 1999 original). 283 and 17 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-7190-6497-X. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-48722-9.

Hambleton, Robin, Hank Savitch, and Murray Stewart, eds. Globalism Mackay, Anson, Rick Battarbee, John Birks, and Frank Oldfield, eds. and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America. New Global Change in the Holocene. London: Arnold, 2003. 528 and 16 pp., n.p., York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 258 and 16 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-333- ISBN 0-340-76223-3. 99373-X. Oxford Atlas of the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 11 rev. ed., Hart, John Fraser. The Changing Scale of American Agriculture. Char- 2004. 304 and 8 pp., $80.00, ISBN 0-19-521986-4. lottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2003. 286 and 16 pp., $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-2229-1. Padron, Ricardo. The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire in Early Modern Spain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 287 and Hillstrom, Kevin and Laurie C. Hillstrom. Latin America and the Caribbean: 15 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-226-64433-2. A Continental Overview of Environmental Issues. Ann Arbor, MI: ABC-CLIO, 2004. 266 and 26 pp., n.p., ISBN 1-57607-690-3. Sheppard, Eric and Robert B. McMaster, eds. Scale and Geographic Inquiry: Nature, Society, and Method. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004. 272 and 16 pp., Jackson, Philip L. and A. Jon Kimerling, eds. Atlas of the Pacific Northwest. $34.95, ISBN 0-631-23070-X. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2003 (9th revised edi- tion). 152 pp., $39.95 cloth; $24.95 paper, ISBN 0-87071-560-7. Wright, Angus and Wendy Wolford. To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Move- ment and the Struggle for a New Brazil. Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 2003. 368 and 31 pp., $15.95, ISBN 0-935028-90-0. ■ Quarter Century

mongst the news items of the that I am feeling better every day. I am in planning in the Netherlands and February 1979 issue of the AAG now back in the office on a full-time Belgium was being organized by Ashok A Newsletter, was a note of apprecia- basis. I hope to see and talk with K. Dutt, Professor of Geography tion and thanks written by Warren J. you at the annual meeting in and Urban Studies, University of Nystrom saying, “I would like to Philadelphia.”…as of 1 January 1979, Akron, Akron, Ohio… and the publi- express my deep appreciation to all my Donald R. Deskins, Chairman, cation Recent Population Change in geographer friends who sent me get Department of Geography, University the United States: A Series of Maps, by well messages during my recent illness. of Michigan, became Associate David J. Borchert and James D. I am happy to report that the Dean of the Graduate School at the Fitzsimmons was newly available. ■ open-heart surgery was successful and University…a 1979 Summer program

AAG to Offer Travel Grants to IGU Meeting

he AAG has applied to congress will be held in Glasgow, For applications and information on the National Science Founda- Scotland, August 15-20, 2004. The AAG eligibility, please refer to www. T tion for funding to defray hopes to provide twenty travel grants aag.org/Grantsawards/igutravel.html. the expenses of participation by of $1,750 each to junior scholars, Applications should arrive at the U.S. scientists in the 30th Interna- and twelve awards of $1,000 each to AAG office no later than April 2, tional Geographical Congress. The senior scholars. 2004. ■

20 AAG Newsletter www.aag.org New Members Volume 39, Number 2

AAG welcomes these new members whose memberships were processed during the last month.

Aranguiz, Maria, Rancho Hannon, Amy, Chapel Hill, NC Peneva, Elitsa, Hattiesburg, MS Cucamonga, CA Hedstrom, Keldah, Corvallis, OR Perkins, Sid, Washington, DC Arnold, Martin, Cary, IL Hertz, Carly Pfleckl, Brandon, Gainesville, VA Aycock, William, Wilson, NC Himel, William, South Riding, VA Plummer, Paul, Bristol, England Baldwin, Robert, Falls Church, VA Ivy, Bartley, La Mesa, CA Pyke, Christopher, Alexandria, VA Barrington, Tyler, Chico, CA Jacobson, Justin, Minneapolis, MN Reed, Philip, Manakin-Sabot, VA Bear, Christopher, Aberdeen, U.K. Jones, Lonnie, New Orleans, LA Rehkopf, Sarah, Cordova, TN Bekaert, Todd Judd, Dennis, Chicago, IL Reminiskey, Gerard, Highland, CA Bercaw, Susan, Brooklyn, NY Karacas, Cary, Los Angeles, CA Robertson, Gordon, Madison, WI Boerger, Matthew, Columbus, OH Kim, Yunju, Seoul, Korea Rose, William, San Francisco, CA Bremner, Jason Koets, Steven, Stillwater, MN Rover, Jennifer, Chester, SD Brenneman, Cari, Cos Cob, CT Krishnamurthy, Vyas, Columbus, OH Rowe, Leif, Carson, CA Brogan, Loona, Montpelier, VT Kritzky, Banette, Blaine, MN Royle, Denise, New Brunswick, NJ Brulle, Joseph, Alexandria, VA La Kose, Laura, Morgantown, WV Sabin, Billy Callahan, John, Newark, DE Larson, Evan, Knoxville, TN Shimota, Thomas, Contoocook, NH Cantway, Christopher, Ellensburg, WA Leadbeater, Richard, Laurel, MD Smith, Jonathan, Reston, VA Carter, Aaron, Yorba Linda, CA Leap, Rebecca, Fresno, CA Solomon, Madeline, Berkeley, CA Christman, Zachary, Worcester, MA Lee, Jee-Sun, Urbana, IL Stein, Guido, Somerville, MA Cirafesi, Craig, Collegeville, PA Lingis, Alphonso, Lutherville, MD Stemmerman, Erick, Corvallis, OR Cogar, Lisa, Poway, CA Lundgren, Michael, Van Nuys, CA Swarts, Gregg, Buffalo, NY Compton, Anna, Knoxville, TN MacGregor, Alexander, Syfert, Mindy, Denver, CO Cooper, Evelyn, Laurel, MD Peachtree City, GA Tedrick, James, College Park, MD Dalberth, Lauren, Newtown, PA Madaras, Kenneth, Bayville, NY Van Eyck, Kim, Bellingham, WA Davis, Scott, Gorham, ME McDermott, Jacquelyn L., Knoxville, TN VanNatta, Lisa, Corvallis, OR Dierkes, Leah, El Monte, CA Michael, Smith, Madison, WI Wakeman, Adeline, Missoula, MT Dobbs, Mary, Manhattan, KS Milton, Sarah, Champaign, IL Warner, Jessica, Alexandria, VA Donovan, Brian, Verona, NJ Mohler, Thomas Webb, Cindy, Omaha, NE Ennis, James, Philadelphia, PA Nattagh, Nima, Laguna Hills, CA Wellman, Melanie, Macomb, IL Fitzpatrick, Gary L., Alexandria, VA O'Connor, Christopher, Albany, NY Wilder, Edward, Savage, MN Fletchall, Ann, Tempe, AZ Ogneva-Himmelberger, Yelena, Woodrich, Matthew, Navarre, OH George, William, Lovettsville, VA West Boylston, MA Wright, William, Palisades, NY Gilstrap, Justin, Washington, DC O'Neill, Michael, Washington, DC Zhang, Lixun, Iowa City, IA Hall, John, Washington, DC Parker, Corwin, Coral Gables, FL Hallett, Lucius, Lawrence, KS Pavluchuk, David, Boca Raton, FL

www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 21 February 2004 Jobs in Geography

UNITED STATES website at web.uccs.edu/geogenvs, and website *CONNECTICUT, STORRS 06269-4148. for NISSC at web.uccs.edu/nissc/. The Department of Geography, University of CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO. Assistant GES offers a BA in geography and environ- Connecticut, Storrs is accepting applications for a Professor of Urban Studies, San Francisco State mental studies and an MA in applied geography, one-year (potentially renewable for a second year) University (SFSU). The SFSU Urban Studies and was the recipient of the state-wide Program Assistant Professor in Residence appointment, Program seeks to fill a tenure track faculty posi- of Excellence Award in 2000. UCCS is part of beginning August 2004. Area of specialization: tion at the Assistant Professor level to begin Sep- the 4-campus University of Colorado System Physical/ Environmental Geography. Teaching tember 2004. and is one of the fastest growing universities and research specialties will be considered The successful candidate will regularly teach in the nation. The geographic setting at the within any of the principal subfields of physical undergraduate courses in Urban Studies and base of Pikes Peak is spectacular. Applicants geography including environmental change and graduate courses in city and regional planning if should send a curriculum vitae, statement of Quaternary studies. Candidates should have a a proposed graduate MCRP program is approved. research and teaching interests, and contact strong physical science background. Teaching Required qualifications are a Ph. D. in City and information for three references to the address responsibilities will include introductory physical Regional Planning, Urban Studies or a related below. FEB 04-27. geography, cartography, a course on human discipline. San Francisco State University is an Apply: Search Committee Chair, Department modifications of natural environments, and other Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Employer. of Geography and Environmental Studies, courses consistent with the successful applicant's Members of historically underrepresented groups University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, interests and qualifications. The candidate should are strongly encouraged to apply. Full position Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150. Review of demonstrate a strong commitment to quality description at http://bss.sfsu.edu/urbs/URBS% applications will begin February 31 and continue undergraduate education. Ph.D. preferred, though 20Position%20Description.htm. JAN 04-24. until position is filled. The University of ABD candidates will also be considered. Colorado at Colorado Springs is an equal Letter of application discussing research and *COLORADO, COLORADO SPRINGS opportunity/affirmative action employer and teaching interests, CV, and names and addresses 80918. The Department of Geography and encourages a diversity of applicants. of three references should be sent (post or email) Environmental Studies (GES) at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) invites applications for a tenure track position (rank “Jobs in Geography” lists positions available with US institutions who are Equal Opportunity open) in Geographic Information Science, Employers seeking applications from men and women from all racial, religious, and national origin beginning August, 2004. Candidates must pos- groups, and occasional positions with foreign institutions. sess a strong background and track record in GIS Rates: Minimum charge of $150. Listings will be charged at $1.25 per word. Announcements run for two consecutive issues unless a stated deadline permits only one listing. The charge for running applications and organization. Responsibilities an announcement more than twice is one-third the original charge for each subsequent listing. We will be to build upon the existing GIS curriculum will bill institutions listing jobs after their announcements appear in JIG for the first time. through development of advanced courses in Deadline: JIG announcements must reach the AAG before the first of the month to appear in JIG for the areas such as (but not limited to) spatial data following month (eg: 1 January for February issue). Readers will receive their Newsletter copies between models, database design, spatial analysis, the 5th and the 15th of the month. Schedule job closing dates with these delivery dates in mind. customized web delivery, and visualization. Format: Announcements should be sent as an attachment or in the body of an e-mail to Other teaching options depend on individual [email protected]. The announcements must be saved in Microsoft Word 5.0 or greater, or Corel WordPer- areas of expertise. Candidates must maintain an fect 6 or greater. No job announcements accepted by phone. Follow format and sequence of current active research agenda and strong commitment JIG listings. All positions are full-time and permanent unless otherwise indicated. State explicitly if towards procuring external funding. We seek a positions are not firm. Employers are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of their listings. candidate to foster cross-campus collaborations, JIG will not publish listings that are misleading or inconsistent with Association policy. Employers should notify the Editor to cancel a listing if the position is filled. The Editor reserves the right to and bridge the link between the university and a edit announcements to conform with established format. All ads must be in English. very active regional GIS community. The Display ads are also available. Ads will be charged according to size: 1/6 page (2 1/4” x 5”) $335; 1/3 candidate also will work in conjunction with the page vertical (2 1/4” x 10”)$475;1/3 page square (4 3/4” x 4 3/4”) $475; 1/2 page horizontal (7” x 5”) $625; Network Information and Space Security Center 2/3 page vertical (4 3/4” x 10”) $750; Full page (7” x 10”) $900. Display ads run for one month only. (NISSC) on campus. NISSC facilitates basic and Affirmative Action Notice: The AAG Affirmative Action Committee requires job listers to send applied research into homeland security planning to the JIG Editor the name, academic degree, sex, and rank of each person appointed as a result of and response with U.S. Northern Command, an announcement in JIG. located at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Geographer Available. A service for AAG members only. Send personal listings of 50 words or Springs, as well as with other local and national less, following the format of current listings. Listings run for two consecutive issues. Enclose $25 agencies. The appointment will be in the Depart- with listing. A blind listing service is available - the editor will assign a box number and forward ment of Geography and Environmental Studies, inquiries to the member listed. with some portion of responsibilities towards * Indicates a new listing research and projects through NISSC. See GES

22 AAG Newsletter www.aag.org Volume 39, Number 2 to the address below. Review of applications will research agenda and an interest in international including internet-mapping, and data base man- begin in early January and continue until the business are highly desirable. The minimum agement. Preference will be given to applicants position is filled. FEB 04-31. qualification for this position is a Ph.D. in Geog- who additionally can demonstrate teaching Apply: William H. Berentsen (wberents@ raphy by the time of appointment. Applicants expertise is some combination of the following: uconn.edu; 860-486-3664) or Melinda Daniels should submit a letter of interest, a curriculum computer cartography, quantitative methods, ([email protected]; 860-486-2117) vitae, transcripts, at least 3 letters of recommen- landscape ecology, biogeography, and or Department of Geography, University of dation, teaching evaluations, and a sample of GIS/remote sensing applications in natural Connecticut, Unit 4148, 215 Glenbrook Rd., scholarship. Applications must be postmarked resource assessment/monitoring. The successful Storrs, CT 06269-4148. Fax: 860-486-1348. by February 15, 2004 in order to be considered. applicant will be expected to provide collabora- The University of Connecticut actively solicits JAN 04-23. tive support in geo-spatial analysis to various applications from minorities, women, and people CONTACT: Dr. Louis A. Woods, Chair, interdisciplinary faculty research initiatives. with disabilities. Geography Search Committee, Department of Position 2. A tenure track, assistant Economics and Geography, University of North professor in Natural Resources Management CONNECTICUT, STORRS 06269. Assistant Florida, 4567 St Johns Bluff Road South, /Land use planning, to begin August 2004. Professor, Socio-Economic Rights. Joint Hire Jacksonville, Florida 32224-2675. E-mail The successful applicant is expected to teach between the Human Rights Institute and Depart- [email protected]. Telephone: (904) 620-2640. introductory and advanced undergraduate and ments of Anthropology, Economics, Geography, graduate level courses in areas of expertise related History, Political Science, or Sociology. Tenure *IDAHO, MOSCOW 83844-3021. The some combination of the following specializa- track position beginning August 2004. Department of Geography at the University of tions: natural resources management (coastal/ The newly established Human Rights Pro- Idaho seeks applicants for Assistant or Associ- marine policy preferred), land use planning, gram at the University of Connecticut [Storrs ate Professor to begin August 2004. This is a environmental impact assessment, and geo-spatial campus] seeks a specialist in socio-economic tenure-track appointment in a small but active technologies (e.g., computer cartography & GPS). rights with a strong commitment to both under- department in the new College of Science. Area The candidate should be willing to engage with graduate and graduate studies. Socio-economic of specialty is open, but preference will be community, state and federal planning and rights are understood broadly and applications given to candidates who can enhance our resource management issues in Hawai`i. from candidates with an international and com- current focus areas in both teaching and The successful applicants for both positions parative perspective are encouraged. Substantive research, including biogeography and an will be expected to contribute to the develop- areas and regions for comparison are open. integrative approach to human dimensions of ment of new interdisciplinary undergraduate/ Candidate must have a Ph.D. in hand at time global climate change. We offer BS, MS, and graduate programs in geography (BA/BS in Envi- of appointment and record of excellence in Ph.D. degrees in Geography, a GIS certificate, ronmental Studies, and a MS degree in Tropical research and teaching. and are active partners in the interdisciplinary Conservation Biology and Environmental Review of applications will commence Febru- Environmental Science program. Ph.D. is Science). A strong commitment to scholarly ary 15, 2004 and continue until a suitable candi- required at time of appointment and ability to research and grantsmanship is expected. Experi- date is found. Send curriculum vita, brief state- teach introductory and advanced courses in GIS ence, ability and dedication to teaching at the ment of research and teaching interests, with three is required. Applications will be accepted until undergraduate level and working with students letters of recommendation to the address below. the position is filled, but screening will begin on from diverse cultural backgrounds are required. A Apply: Professor Richard A. Wilson, Director, March 1, 2004. Applicants should send a letter PhD in geography or related field is required at Human Rights Institute, Dodd Research Center, stating their research experience and plans, time of appointment. FEB 04-35. University of Connecticut, 405 Babbidge Rd., teaching experience and interests, current CV, Apply: James Juvik, Chair, Department of Unit 1205, Storrs, CT 06269. JAN 04-21. and contact information for three references. Geography and Environmental Studies, Universi- In keeping with our commitment to build a cul- FEB 04-34. ty of Hawaii-Hilo, 200 W. Kawili, Hilo Hawaii turally diverse community, the University of Con- Apply: Harley Johansen, Department of 96720 ([email protected]). Review of applica- necticut invites applications from women, people Geography, University of Idaho. Email: tions is currently ongoing and will continue until with disabilities and members of minority groups. [email protected]. For information about positions are filled. the university and the department, see For further details see: http://www.uhh. FLORIDA, JACKSONVILLE, 32224. The www.uidaho.edu/geography. To enrich education hawaii.edu/~geograph/ University of North Florida. The Department of through diversity, the University of Idaho is an Economics and Geography invites applicants for equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. MICHIGAN, SAGINAW 48710. The depart- a tenure-track Assistant Professor position ment of History and Geography at Saginaw beginning in August, 2004, contingent on budg- *HAWAII, HILO 96720. University of Hawai`i- Valley State University is seeking a geographer et approval. We seek a broadly trained geogra- Hilo. Department of Geography and Environmen- at the assistant professor level to teach introduc- pher with fields in GIS and Physical Geography. tal Studies invites applications for 2 positions: tory courses and advanced courses in his/her area Experience with GIS, GPS and Remote Sensing is Position 1. A tenure track, assistant professor of specialization. Introductory courses include required. The candidate should also be able to in Geographic Information Sciences, to begin world regional geography and introductory teach undergraduate courses in conservation and August 2004. The successful applicant is expect- physical geography. Applications from urban cultural geography. As the department is housed ed to teach introductory and advanced under- and social geographers, and those with regional in the Coggin College of Business, an active graduate and graduate level courses in GIS, specializations outside of sub-Saharan Africa or

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North America are especially invited to apply. Cloud, Minnesota, 56301-4498. All materials geomorphology and coastal studies. Candidates The ability to teach introductory survey courses must be received by March 1, 2004. E-mailed or are expected to demonstrate the application of in world history would be especially desirable. faxed applications will not be accepted. For GIS to their research and advise graduate stu- The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. at the complete position description and more informa- dents on GIS and physical geography applica- time of appointment, and should exhibit a strong tion contact Dr. Rigopoulou at arigopoulo@ tions. Candidates would be expected to teach commitment to undergraduate teaching. SVSU stcloudstate.edu. Saint Cloud State University is introductory and advanced GIS, cartography, offers excellent benefits package and retirement an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Introductory Physical Geography and courses in program. For full consideration, please submit a their systematic field of specialization. letter of application, specifying the position of MINNESOTA, ST. PETER 56082. Gustavus The candidate will be expected to sustain interest with curriculum vitae and contact infor- Adolphus College. The Department of Geogra- research, publications, and grants in GIScience mation of three professional references to the phy invites nominations and applications for a and area specialization. The candidate will also be address below. JAN 04-03. one-year visiting Assistant Professor position in expected to support the department’s strong Apply: Employment & Compensation Ser- Physical-Environmental Geography, to begin programmatic emphasis in Geographic Informa- vices, Saginaw Valley State University, 7400 Bay September 1, 2004. tion Technology and be centrally involved in Road, University Center, Michigan 48710 or We seek candidates who, preferably, have building upon departmental/university strengths in email to [email protected]. Screening of applicants an earned doctorate, although ABD will be physical/environmental geography. The candidate will begin immediately and will continue until considered. We welcome applications from a will also be expected to support and contribute to the position is filled. For more information about wide variety of specializations. Teaching respon- the university's mission of economic development. SVSU, visit our website at www.svsu.edu . sibilities include physical geography and other The Department of Geography at The SVSU is an EO/AA employer. courses in the candidate's area of specialty. University of Southern Mississippi offers a Expertise in climatology, water resources, and/ B.A./B.S. and M.S. in geography. The department *MINNESOTA, SAINT CLOUD 56301- or GIS is preferred, but not required. The was established in 1912 and is the oldest contin- 4498. Saint Cloud State University. The department features a well-equipped map library, uously operating undergraduate geography Community Development Program (in the weather station, and GIS lab, and supports a program in the United States and offers the only Department of Community Studies) and the thriving Environmental Studies program Baccalaureate and Masters degrees in geography Department of Geography invites applications To apply, send letter of application, curricu- in the state of Mississippi. The University of for a person to teach planning and planning- lum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, and Southern Mississippi has 16,600 students and is related coursework. This will be a joint appoint- three letters from professional references to the the largest university in Mississippi. ment tenure-track position at the Assistant address below. JAN 04-15. The University maintains a teaching and Professor level to begin in late August 2004. We Apply: Dr. Mark Bjelland, Chair, Depart- research partnership with NASA’s Stennis Space are seeking qualified candidates with expertise to ment of Geography, Gustavus Adolphus College, Center. The Department houses a GIS/RS lab and teach classes (primarily undergraduate) in urban 800 West College Avenue, St. Peter, MN is actively involved in the Mississippi Space and regional planning, land use and zoning, and 56082-1498. For more details, contact Dr. Commerce Initiative. The Department is also in urban/community design. Ability to teach class- Bjelland at 507-933-6283 or mbjellan@ the process of establishing a Center for Geospa- es on GIS, historic preservation, and community gustavus.edu or www.gustavus.edu/oncampus/ tial Studies on the Hattiesburg campus and research methods also preferred. Evidence of humanresources/ index.cfm. Review of applica- currently offers undergraduate and graduate strong communication and teaching skills to tions will begin on February 20, 2004, and contin- concentrations in Geographic Information encourage student involvement in the classroom ue until the position is filled. Gustavus Adolphus Technology, as well as a GIT Certificate. The is highly desirable. Ph.D. in Urban & Regional College is a coeducational, private, Lutheran Geography Department maintains a strong Planning, Geography, Community Develop- (ELCA), residential, national liberal arts college of alliance with the university’s Department of ment, Urban Affairs/Studies, or related field 2500 students. It is the practice of the College to Coastal Science and with Biology and Geology. required by appointment date. provide equal educational and employment The faculty of the Department of Geography Community Development is a growing opportunities for all. We specifically encourage have a strong focus upon international program dedicated to the study, development, applications from women, minorities, and persons research/field programs in Jamaica, Cuba, France, and enhancement of sustainable communities with disabilities. Great Britain, Andean South America and Central and to training students for successful careers in America, as well as the U.S. South. community development and planning. The MISSISSIPPI, HATTIESBURG 39406-5051. Applicants must have a Ph.D. at the time of Department of Geography, one of the largest in The University of Southern Mississippi. Depart- appointment. Applications should include a the upper Midwest, houses majors in Geogra- ment of Geography. The Department of personal statement of background and experi- phy, Land Surveying, Travel and Tourism, a Geography invites applications for a full-time, ence relevant to the position, especially research minor in GIS, and a masters degree program. tenure-track faculty at the rank of Assistant and teaching support, a dated curriculum vitae, Candidates should send a letter of applica- Professor/Advanced Assistant Professor and names and addresses (including e-mail) of tion, vita, transcripts and three current letters of commencing August 2004. The department seeks three referees. The review of applications will reference to the address below. FEB 04-39-1. to hire a Geographic Information Scientist with commence on January 30, 2004 and continue Apply: Dr. Aspasia Rigopoulou, Search systematic interests in Physical Geography. A until a suitable candidate is appointed. All mate- Committee Chair, Community Development broad range of sub-specialties is welcomed, rials should be sent to the address below. JAN Program, Saint Cloud State University, Saint our goal, however is to build strength in 04-07.

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Apply: Dr. Clifton Dixon, Chair, Depart- The successful candidate will be required to located 20 km west of Manhattan, providing ment of Geography, Box 5051, The University of teach introductory courses in physical geography ready access to the sites of environmental con- Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406- and meteorology, upper division and graduate cern in the New York metropolitan area. 5051. E-mail: [email protected], voice: (601) courses in GIS and image analysis, and other 266-4729, Fax: (601) 266-6219. The University regional or systematic courses in her/his area of NEW JERSEY, NEW BRUNSWICK 08901. of Southern Mississippi is an equal opportunity specialty. The faculty member will be expected to Rutgers University, the Department of Geography employer; diversity is highly valued. Minorities teach a full course load and provide service to The invites applications for a full-time tenure track and women are encouraged to apply. Visit the University of Montana and to the community. Assistant Professor position with specialization in Southern Miss Web site at http://www.usm.edu. Enthusiasm for teaching at the undergraduate the biogeosciences (e.g. biogeography, ecology or AA/EOE/ADAI. level; a commitment to enhancing our Cartogra- a related field). The ideal candidate will possess phy/GIS, Community and Environmental Plan- strong skills in Geographic Information Science, MONTANA, MISSOULA 59812-5040. ning, and Physical Geography programs; and an be involved in multidisciplinary collaboration and The Department of Geography seeks a human active scholarship/research agenda are expected. A demonstrate commitment to a research program geographer with expertise in planning to fill a regional interest in the Rocky Mountain West that focuses on contemporary environmental tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of and/or Central Asia and the Middle East is pre- issues. Compatibility with existing departmental Geography, beginning August 2004. A Ph.D. ferred. Applicants should forward their curriculum interests in: environmental change; hazards, in Geography is required, although ABD candi- vitae, a statement of interest, official transcripts, health and security; or the political ecology of dates nearing completion are also encouraged to proof of teaching excellence, and the names and development is highly desirable. We seek to apply. The salary is competitive. addresses of three references to the address below. increase the participation of women and minorities The successful candidate will be required to JAN 04-09b. in Geography and would especially welcome teach introductory courses in human geography Apply: Paul Wilson, Chairman, Department applications from these underrepresented groups. and/or world regional geography, upper division of Geography, The University of Montana, Please submit letters of application, curriculum courses in planning principles and processes, a Missoula, Montana 59812-5040. Voice mail: vitae and three letters of reference to the address graduate seminar in planning, and other regional or 406-243-4302. Email: [email protected]. below. JAN 04-05. systematic courses in her/his area of specialty. Review of applications will begin December 1, Apply: James K. Mitchell, Chair, Department Enthusiasm for teaching at the undergraduate level, 2003 and will continue until the position is filled. of Geography, Rutgers University, 54 Joyce a commitment to enhancing our community and This position announcement can be made Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8045. environmental planning program, and an active available in alternative formats upon request. Review of applications will begin on January 20, scholarship/research agenda in the field of commu- The University of Montana is an equal oppor- 2004. For further information, consult the depart- nity planning are expected. A regional interest in tunity/affirmative action employer. Finalists for ment's webpage at http://geography.rutgers.edu. the Rocky Mountain West is preferred. Applicants all positions at The University of Montana will Rutgers University is an Equal Opportunity, should forward their curriculum vitae, a statement be subject to a criminal background check. Affirmative Action employer. of interest, official transcripts, proof of teaching excellence, and the names and addresses of three NEW JERSEY, MONTCLAIR 07043. The NEW YORK, HAMILTON 13346. Colgate references to the address below. JAN 04-09a. Doctoral Program in Environmental Manage- University. One year visiting appointment at Apply: Paul Wilson, Chairman, Department ment (D.Env.M.) at Montclair State University is assistant professor rank effective fall 2004. Com- of Geography, The University of Montana, pleased to announce the Catherine McMullen pleted PhD preferred. We seek applicants with Missoula, Montana 59812-5040. Voice mail: Blake Doctoral Fellowship. This four year teaching and research interests in climatology 406-243-4302. Email: [email protected]. fellowship will be awarded to an exceptional new, who have expertise in environmental applica- Review of applications will begin January 1, full-time student beginning Fall 2004. The tions of geographic information systems. The 2004 and will continue until the position is filled. Fellowship provides a $20,000 annual stipend successful applicant should be prepared to teach This position announcement can be made avail- (12 months), full tuition waiver, and campus introductory physical geography, a more able in alternative formats upon request. housing as needed. Please see http://www.csam. advanced weather and climate course and an The University of Montana is an equal oppor- montclair.edu/denvm/ for admission criteria and introductory GIS course. With 2,700 students tunity/affirmative action employer. Finalists for program information. The complete application and more than 250 faculty Colgate combines the all positions at The University of Montana will including letters of reference must be received by intimacy of a liberal arts college with the breadth be subject to a criminal background check. Feb. 10, 2004. Applicants must note that they and depth of a research university. The Geogra- are applying for the McMullen Blake Fellowship. phy Department has six full-time positions and MONTANA, MISSOULA 59812-5040. The Candidates not chosen for the Fellowship will contains a well equipped GIS lab. For additional Department of Geography seeks a physical automatically be considered for a Graduate information see (http://departments.colgate.edu/ geographer with expertise in climate and weath- Assistantship ($15,000 annual stipend and tuition geography). Colgate University is an Equal er, water resources and/or global change to fill a waiver). JAN 04-18. Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Contact Dr. Michael Kruge, Associate Dean, Developing and maintaining a diverse faculty and Geography, beginning August 2004. A Ph.D. in College of Science & Mathematics, Montclair staff further the University’s academic mission. Geography is required, although ABD candidates State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. nearing completion are also encouraged to apply. ([email protected]). Montclair State Send CV, email address, a detailed statement of The salary is competitive. is the second largest university in New Jersey, professional experience as well as research and

www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 25 February 2004 teaching interests, and three letters of recom- informed and advanced with problem focused a stimulating teaching and research environ- mendation by February 1, 2004. JAN 04-13. projects in South and South East Asia, Sub-Saha- ment, strong undergraduate, professional and Apply: Linda Rauscher, Administrative Assis- ran Africa and in Latin America, partnering with graduate programs, and is recognized as one of tant, Department of Geography, 13 Oak Drive, appropriate experts for the problem and region. the leading institutions for scholarly activity in Hamilton, NY 13346. Voice 315-228-7534. Associate Research Scientist—Economics of the field of environmental science and policy. A Fax 315-228-7038. Email (lrauscher@mail. Public Policy: http://iri.columbia.edu/aboutiri/ full description and application instructions can colgate.edu). job/html/ARS-economicspolicy_20031114.html be found at http://www.env.duke.edu/faculty/ Associate Research Scientist—Economic jobs.html. JAN 04-20. NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10011. Eugene Lang Modeling and Climate Risk: http://iri.columbia. College, of New School University, invites appli- edu/aboutiri/job/html/ARS-economicrisk_ *NORTH CAROLINA, GREENVILLE 27858- cations for a full-time faculty position in Urban 20031114.html 4353. East Carolina University, Department of Studies. Seeking a teacher/scholar within urban Associate Research Scientist—Climate Geography, Brewster A-227. Applications are anthropology/urban geography/urban sociology Impacts Research: http://iri.columbia.edu/ invited for a tenure-track position in atmospheric or related fields, whose interests focus on immi- aboutiri/job/html/ARS-impactsresearch_2003 science or climatology at the assistant professor gration, race/ethnicity, gender, urban cultures, 1114.html level available August 23, 2004. Competitive urban planning and development, politics and Post-Doctoral Research Scientist—Climate salary and teaching load in a progressive depart- questions of power and space. The ability to teach Related Losses and Risks: http://iri.columbia. ment with a developing program in atmospheric a basic urban research methods course would be an edu/aboutiri/job/html/PDR-lossesrisks_ science. PhD in geography or related field advantage. More information about this position is 20031114.html is required at the time of appointment. The available at www.lang.edu/teaching. Associate Research Scientist—Satellite successful candidate will demonstrate commitment Initial appointment is 3-year term, renewable, derived environmental proxies: http://iri. to excellence in teaching and research. Preference with possible eligibility for graduate-level columbia.edu/aboutiri/job/html/PDR-satellite will be given to candidates who can contribute to appointments. The faculty is unranked, but we proxies_ 20031114.html the continued development of the Center for seek candidates at the level equivalent to Research Scientist—Program Leader for the Geographic Information Science and exhibit a advanced assistant or associate professor. Must Americas: http://iri.columbia.edu/aboutiri/job/ strong potential for external funding in support of have a commitment to teach undergraduates in a html/RS-PLAmericas_20031114.html instructional and research programs. Teaching seminar format. Ph.D. required. Senior Staff Associate for Projects in the responsibilities may include undergraduate Send CV, cover letter, one-page statement of Americas:http://iri.columbia.edu/aboutiri/job/ and graduate courses in synoptic meteorology, teaching philosophy, sample of written work, and html/ SSA-Americas_20031114.html climatology, and applied GIS. Appropriate three letters of recommendation to the address Senior Staff Associate—Asia Program Coor- professional service is also expected. Screening of below. JAN 04-12. dination: http://iri.columbia.edu/aboutiri/job/html/ applicants will begin March 15, 2004 and will Apply: Scott Salmon, Chair, Urban Studies, SSA-Asia_20031114.html continue until the position has been filled. Send Search #22378, Eugene Lang College, 65 West Instructions on how to apply will be stated in letter of application that details teaching and 11th Street, New York, NY 10011, or e-mail to: each job link. JAN 04-14. research interests, curriculum vitae, and arrange for [email protected]. Indicate Search Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity at least three letters of recommendation to be sent. #22378 and discipline in subject line. and Affirmative Action Employer. ECU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Only qualified candidates will be contacted. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply. University that accommodates individuals with Eugene Lang College is committed to building a disabilities. Individuals requesting a disability diverse community for learning and teaching. NORTH CAROLINA, DURHAM. Duke accommodation should call the ECU Office of AA/EOE. University’s Nicholas School of the Environ- Disability Support Services at 252-328-6799 Applications received by January 30 will be ment and Earth Sciences invites applications for (Voice/TTY/Relay). Proper documentation of assured of consideration; however, all applica- an Assistant Professor of the Practice of identity and employability are required at the time tions will be accepted until the position is filled. Geospatial Analysis position (9 month, regular of employment. FEB 04-30. rank, non-tenure), beginning August 2004. We Apply: Dr. Patrick Pease, Chair, Search Com- NEW YORK, PALISADES. Research Positions are searching for an individual interested in mittee. Voice: 252-328-6624. Fax: 252-328-6054. Open. New opportunities at the International developing graduate level curricula and a E-mail: [email protected]. Find our web-site Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI: focused research program that directly joins at http://www.ecu.edu/geog. http://iri.columbia.edu) at the Lamont-Doherty geospatial analysis tools and technologies with Earth Observatory of Columbia University in environmental science and management *OHIO, GRANVILLE 43023. The Environ- Palisades, NY, just 20 miles from New York City, research and practice. Responsibilities are pri- mental Studies Program at Denison University New York, USA. marily graduate instruction, with a secondary invites applications for a full-time, three-year, Our mission is to enhance society's capability emphasis on research and research support. The non-tenure track position in environmental to understand, anticipate and manage the impacts Nicholas School has particular strength in the geography beginning September 1, 2004. The of seasonal climate fluctuations in order to areas of conservation science, ecosystem man- successful candidate will have competence in improve human welfare and the environment, agement, watershed ecology, environmental geographic information science (GIS) sufficient especially in developing countries. In this con- health, environmental economics and policy, to teach Introduction to Environmental Mapping text, we undertake fundamental research that is and earth sciences. The Nicholas School offers and Advanced GIS Analysis and to manage the

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GIS lab at Denison. All specialties involving diverse faculty to bridge the social and earth sci- responsibilities include participation on depart- environmental applications of GIS will be ences. The department has 43 graduate students. mental, college-wide, and university committees. considered; expertise in areas such as remote Applicants should send letters of application California University of Pennsylvania is an equal sensing, biogeography, earth surface processes, that review the applicant's teaching experience, opportunity/affirmative action employer. landscape ecology, global change, environmental research accomplishments, research-funding Minorities, women, and individuals with disabili- management and environmental health would history, and administrative experience. Appli- ties are encouraged to apply. Also, in complement the present ENVS faculty. In addi- cants should also send a curriculum vita, other accordance with the terms of the collective bar- tion to GIS and specialty courses, the candidate supporting materials, and contact information for gaining agreement between the State System of will be expected to teach an introductory course three referees. Review of applications will begin Higher Education and APSCUF, the successful in the ENVS curriculum. A Ph.D. in geography, April 1, 2004, and will continue until the position candidate might be assigned to perform work environmental studies/science or a related field is is filled. FEB 04-37. at off-campus sites, in the evening/weekend desirable; ABD candidates will be considered. Apply to Dr. Scott Greene, Search Commit- college and/or provide instruction through Denison is a selective liberal arts college strongly tee Chair, Department of Geography, University distance education. committed to and supportive of excellence in of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019. Send letter of application, full curriculum teaching, and active faculty research that The University of Oklahoma is an Equal vitae, official transcripts and military discharge involves undergraduate students. For more infor- Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. papers (if veteran) and the names, addresses, mation about Denison’s Environmental Studies Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. phone numbers and e-mail addresses of three Program visit: http://www.denison.edu/enviro/. professional references to the address below. JAN Please submit a letter of application, a statement PENNSYLVANIA, CALIFORNIA 15419. 04-04. of teaching and research interests, a curriculum California University of Pennsylvania seeks Apply: Dr. Chad Kauffman; Box 55; 250 vitae, and contact information for three refer- applications for an assistant professor of earth University Ave.; California University of PA; ences to the address below. FEB 04-32. sciences in the geosciences concentration. The California, PA 15419. For more information on Apply: Tod Frolking, Director of the Environ- Department of Earth Sciences, California the Meteorology concentration, visit (http:// mental Studies Program, Denison University, University of Pennsylvania, is seeking applica- www.cup.edu/weather). Review of the applica- Granville, OH 43023 ([email protected]). tions for a tenure-track appointment beginning in tions begins January 23, 2004 and will continue Review of applications will begin on March 1, the Fall semester of 2004, approximate 9-month until the position is filled. 2004 and continue until the position is filled. salary range for this rank: $44,301.55 - Cal U is M/F/V/D/AA/EEO. Denison is an affirmative action/equal opportuni- $55,194.87. A candidate with a background ty employer, women and minorities are encour- and/or Ph.D. in the Geosciences-related *PENNSYLVANIA, EAST STROUDSBURG aged to apply. discipline is preferred. A Ph.D. is required by 18301. East Stroudsburg University’s Depart- time of appointment. ABD's will be considered ment of Geography invites applications for a full- *OKLAHOMA, NORMAN 73019. The during the interview process, only if they can time, tenure track, position at the Assistant Pro- Department of Geography at the University of demonstrate that they are in the final stages of fessor level beginning August, 2004. East Oklahoma invites applications for the position of degree completion. Stroudsburg University is part of Pennsylvania’s department chair with appointment at the rank The department of Earth Sciences seeks an State System of Higher Education (SSHE), and of Full Professor, starting 1 July 2004. Specializa- outstanding faculty member to contribute to the offers competitive salaries with excellent benefits. tion open. A Ph.D. is required. Candidates must existing concentrations in meteorology and Responsibilities: Include teaching in the fol- demonstrate a record of excellence in research, geography/GIS. The successful candidate should lowing areas: Physical Geology, Physical Geog- teaching, mentoring graduate students, and in be able to demonstrate experience with and raphy, Geomorphology and an appropriate competing for external research funds. Adminis- proficiency in the atmospheric & geographic regional specialty. Additional duties include trative experience is highly desirable. Candidates sciences, as well as skill in working with advising students and active participation in should also have exposure to the breadth of undergraduate students, a commitment to advancing department and university goals. geography and a commitment to the diversity of community service, and the ability to properly Qualifications: An appropriate Ph.D. and the discipline. This is a 12-month appointment at advise undergraduate students in Earth Sciences. teaching experience in higher education are a nationally-competitive salary and with a The successful candidate would be asked to teach required. Final determination will be based upon reduced teaching load. The successful candidate various upper and lower-division courses in successful interview, which may include a teach- will be expected to take Geography at the atmospheric sciences & geography. ing demonstration. University of Oklahoma to a higher level in Experience with both atmospheric sciences & Preferences: GIS training and experience national prominence. GIS software is desirable. In order to be a working with diverse populations are preferred. The Department of Geography has 11 leading candidate in this search, in addition to All candidates must furnish proof of eligibility tenured or tenure-track faculty and three instruc- meeting the aforementioned requirements, the to work in the U.S. upon appointment. Official tors. Its faculty focuses on the analysis of the candidate minimally must be fluent in the transcripts required at time of employment. human-environment interface with particular English language, be able to communicate well, Apply by mail (electronic submissions are not strengths in cultural-historical geography, perform well in a teaching demonstration and suc- accepted) Send letter of application, copy of applied physical geography, and geographical cessfully complete the interview process. graduate transcripts, vita, and the names, address- information science. Located in the College of A demonstrated commitment to teaching, es, and phone numbers of three references to the Geosciences, Geography capitalizes on its research, and publication is expected. Additional address below. FEB 04-38.

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Apply: Jeffrey W. Hardy, Search Chair, Geog- Department of Geography/Earth Science, 1871 and three letters of recommendation to the raphy Dept., East Stroudsburg University, East Old Main Drive, Shippensburg University, Ship- address below. JAN 04-22. Stroudsburg, PA 18301. Full consideration will pensburg, PA 17257. Apply: Human Resources, Austin Peay State be given to applications received by March 15, Shippensburg University is an Equal Oppor- University, Attn: Faculty Applications, SOAG, 2004. tunity Employer. Box 4698, Clarksville, TN 37044. APSU is an ESU is an equal opportunity employer. AA/EO Employer. Minorities and women are strongly encouraged SOUTH CAROLINA, COLUMBIA 29208. to apply. Visit our homepage at www.esu.edu. University of South Carolina. The Department of TEXAS, AUSTIN 78712-1098. The University Geography invites applications for a tenure track of Texas at Austin. The Department of Geography *PENNSYLVANIA, EDINBORO 16444. position in GIScience/Geocomputation at the invites applicants for an anticipated position in Edinboro University of Pennsylvania seeks appli- rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 15, Cultural and Historical Geography, beginning cations for a Full-Time Tenure Track Instructor/ 2004 or January 1, 2005. PhD in geography or Fall 2004. Rank open, commensurate to Assistant Professor in Human Geography closely allied discipline required at the time of qualifications and/or expertise. Research on North beginning August 2004. Responsibilities: Teach appointment. The Department seeks a colleague America and Europe is especially welcome. World Geography, Societal Issues, and upper with research interests, expertise, and application Position will require research, teaching of under- division courses in candidate’s area of expertise. in some combination of the following: spatial sta- graduate and graduate courses, as well as service to Qualifications: PhD in Geography expected tistics, spatial data modeling and geocomputation, the department, college, and university. (ABD considered). Open to any specialization in spatial data mining, spatial database design and Applicant must hold a Ph.D. in Geography or social geography (such as rural or medical geog- management and spatial decision support systems. related field, have a proven research record, and raphy), geographic education and/or regional Successful candidates will join a 19-member present evidence of teaching excellence or poten- interests in Europe, Russia or South Asia that will department that offers bachelors, masters, and tial for the same. complement the program’s existing strengths. PhD programs in integrative geography. The For more information about the department Salary: Very competitive; commensurate with screening process will begin on January 31, 2004. see geography’s web site at http://www. qualifications/experience. The search process will continue until the posi- utexas.edu/cola/depts/geography/. Send letter of In addition to teaching responsibilities, facul- tion is filled. To apply, send letter of application, application, curriculum vitae, statement of ty members are expected to maintain a record of curriculum vitae, and the names and addresses research and teaching interests and expertise, and scholarship, perform additional duties such as (including e-mail addresses) of three referees to names of three referees. Position is contingent on student advising, and contribute positively to the address below. E-mail applications accepted. funding. Applications will be considered begin- departmental/university activities, etc. in compli- JAN 04-17. ning February 16 2004 and will continue to be ance with a collective bargaining agreement. Apply: John R. Jensen, Search Committee considered until the position is filled. Women In order to be a finalist in a search, in addition Chair, Department of Geography. E-mail and minorities are encouraged to apply. AA/EEO. to the aforementioned requirements, the candi- [email protected];Voice 803-777-5234; fax 803- JAN 04-06. date minimally must be able to communicate well 777-4972. For additional information, visit our Apply: Dr. Gregory W. Knapp, Chairman, and perform well in an interview and/or teaching departmental web site at www.cla.sc.edu/geog. Dept. of Geography, University of Texas at demonstration. The University of South Carolina is an Equal Austin, Austin, Texas 78712; email: Specify Position #170-1324 and submit a letter Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. [email protected]. of application, CV, copies of transcripts, and names/addresses/telephone numbers of three cur- TENNESSEE, CLARKSVILLE 37044. School TEXAS, DENTON 76203-5279. University rent references to the address below. FEB 04-29. of Agriculture & Geosciences (Agriculture, of North Texas. Tenure-track, Assistant Profes- Apply: Dr. Eric Randall, Dean of Science, Geography, Geology, GIS Center, and Environ- sor beginning Fall 2004. The Department of Management and Technology, Department JIG, mental Education Center) at Austin Peay State Geography seeks an individual with demonstrat- Edinboro University of PA, Edinboro, PA 16444. University is accepting applications for two ed excellence in or potential for teaching Application Deadline: March 22, 2004. positions: 1) Director of the School at the level applied GIS, whose research demonstrates Edinboro University of Pennsylvania is of Associate Professor or higher. Teaching the application of GIS, and who can work effec- building a diverse academic community and responsibilities are six hours per semester in tively in an interdisciplinary teaching and encourages people of color, women, veterans human and regional geography. Candidate must research environment. PhD required at time of and persons with disabilities to apply. AA/EOE. have a Ph.D. in Geography and ability to work appointment. Computer programming, database Visit our home page at http://www. constructively and collegially with faculty from a management, and/or industry experience edinboro.edu. variety of disciplines. 2) GIS/GPS Specialist at desired. See www.geog.unt.edu for additional Assistant or Associate Professor level. Teaching information. Send application letter including PENNSYLVANIA, SHIPPENSBURG 17257. responsibilities include physical geography, teaching philosophy and research interests, Shippensburg University. Temporary, fulltime intermediate and advanced GIS, GPS, and curriculum vita, teaching evaluations, and three position in Geography/Earth Science beginning possibly remote sensing. Candidate must have a letters of reference to above address. JAN 04-10. Fall 2004. Complete position announcement at: Ph.D. in Geography. Possibility exists for work UNT is an AA/ADA/EOE. http://www.ship.edu/HR/index.html. Submit with GIS Center, perhaps with summer stipend applications to the address below. JAN 04-16. or reduced teaching load. Submit letter of *WASHINGTON, BELLINGHAM 98225- Apply: Dr. William Blewett, Acting Chair, application, curriculum vita, graduate transcripts, 9085. The Department of Environmental

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Studies: Policy, Planning, Education and Geogra- opportunities in an array of interdisciplinary pro- include statements of career objectives, research phy invites applications for a tenure track posi- grammes including City Studies, Health Studies, interests, and the applicant’s approach to teach- tion at the assistant professor level, beginning International Studies, International Development ing and learning. Applicants must include with 9/04. Candidates must have a demonstrated Studies and Policy Studies. the letter of application a curriculum vitae and expertise in the geography of Canada and pro- Applications including curriculum vitae and the names (with contact information) of four vide evidence of their potential for teaching and the names, postal, and electronic addresses of referees. The first stage in the review of appli- research excellence in the area of environment four referees should be sent directly to the cants will be based on the letter of application and resources geography, with a focus on Cana- address below. JAN 04-25. and the C.V. Referees will be contacted for da-US resource and environmental policy. ABD Apply: Professor Michael Lambek, Chair, those being considered in the second stage of in geography or related field by 9/04 required. Search Committee, CRC Chair in Urban Cultur- the review. The review of applications will Ph.D. in geography or related discipline strongly al Diversities, University of Toronto at Scarbor- commence on Monday, March 1, 2004 and con- preferred. Courses to be taught will include ough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario tinue until the position is filled. FEB 04-28. Geography of Canada, courses in Canada-US M1C 1A4, CANADA. Applications should be sent to: Chair, Faculty transboundary resource and environmental poli- Any electronic communication should be care Search Committee, Department of Geography, cy, and other introductory and advanced courses. of Audrey Glasbergen at glasbergen@utsc. Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of The position requires active participation in utoronto.ca. Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1. Western's Center for Canadian-American Stud- First consideration of applications will begin The University of Waterloo encourages appli- ies, which works closely with Huxley College of on March 1, 2004. Applications will be accepted cations from all qualified individuals, including the Environment. View full announcement at until the position is filled. Please visit out website women, members of visible minorities, native http://www.acadweb.wwu.edu/hr/Jobs/faculty.asp. at http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci. persons, and individuals with disabilities. All Priority Date 3/1/04. AA/EOE. FEB 04-33. The University of Toronto is strongly com- qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; mitted to diversity within its community. The however, Canadians and permanent residents will INTERNATIONAL University especially welcomes applications be given priority. This appointment is subject to from visible minority group members, women, the availability of funds. CANADA, ONTARIO, TORONTO M1C Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, 1A4. The Department of Social Sciences at the members of sexual minority groups, and others *NEW ZEALAND, CANTERBURY. Lecturer University of Toronto at Scarborough invites who may contribute to further diversification of in Physical Geography and Lecturer in Geogra- applications for a Tier 1Canada Research Chair ideas. This is an international search and all phy. Closing date: 20 February 2004. in Urban Cultural Diversities. This position is qualified candidates are encouraged to apply. The Department of Geography is looking for funded under the Canada Research Chair pro- two appointees to complement and extend its gram (http://www.chairs.gc.ca) and is part of the *CANADA, ONTARIO, WATERLOO N2L existing research and teaching programmes. The University of Toronto's Urban Society, Culture 3G1. The Department of Geography at the Uni- department has a commitment to teaching quali- and Economy research cluster. This research versity of Waterloo invites applications for a ty and a strong record of research productivity. involves addressing theoretically and empirically tenure-track position in Geography at the Asso- The departmental research strategy has three the cultural, historical, and social experiences of ciate or Assistant Professor level specializing in themes: Earth-Atmosphere Processes, Health and urban communities and citizens and exploring Remote Sensing. Preference will be given to Environment, Culture and Society. Its teaching the linkages among such dimensions as race, applicants who emphasize the applied aspects of curriculum has four pathways: in physical geogra- ethnicity, gender, and class in contemporary remote sensing, have experience with the use of phy; human geography; GIS and remote sensing; cities. Optimally, it would examine the relation- remote sensing in environmental modelling, and and resource and environmental management. ship between cultural patterns, city spaces, and are knowledgeable in other areas of geomatics The department has excellent relationships with urban lifestyles. (GIS, spatial statistics, cartography, GPS). The Research Centres on campus: Gateway Antarctic, Appointment will be made at the rank of Pro- ability to contribute to teaching and research the National Centre for Research on Europe fessor The position will be filled as a tenured in physical geography would be an asset. The (both housed in the Geography buildings), the position with a primary appointment in one of successful candidate is expected to be a strong Centre for Atmospheric Research and the the following disciplines: Anthropology, Geogra- contributor to research and teaching at both the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies. For phy, Political Science or Sociology. Candidates graduate and undergraduate levels. more information visit our website at http:// must have a doctoral degree and an extensive and The Department of Geography is part of the www.canterbury.ac.nz/hr/vc/vcintro.htm. outstanding record of scholarship and impact on Faculty of Environmental Studies, which consists Lecturer in Physical Geography: Vacancy No the field that is internationally recognized. They of the School of Architecture, the Department of GO157. The successful applicant will be expect- will be expected to provide leadership in an inter- Environment and Resource Studies, the Depart- ed to contribute to and supervise teaching physi- disciplinary environment and to develop research ment of Geography, and the School of Planning. cal geography at undergraduate and graduate lev- projects of relevance to what has become one of For additional information about the Department els and to supervise research students. This role is the most diverse metropolitan centres in the see: http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/. open to applicants of any specialty. Current world. The successful candidate will teach in the Applicants must have a Ph.D. Start date for departmental teaching strengths include: Atmos- graduate and undergraduate programmes of the the appointment is open to negotiation, but the pheric science, coastal studies, alpine and Antarc- appropriate discipline. 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Quaternary research, fluvial geomorphology and department's existing teaching and research pro- its field. After five years as North American Edi- landforms, biogeography and hydrology. grammes. It is anticipated that appointees will tor, Cindi Katz has decided to step down. We are Lecturer in Geography: Vacancy No GO158. begin duties at the beginning of Semester II 2004 therefore seeking a new North American Editor A geographer is required to teach at undergradu- (12 July 2004), or as soon as possible thereafter). to start in April 2004 for an initial four year term. ate and graduate levels and research in the area of FEB 04-26. Candidates should have a broad knowledge of Resource and Environmental Management. The Apply: The main email address for applica- the fields of social and cultural geography, be successful applicant should be prepared to develop tions is [email protected] or telephone enthusiastic and open-minded, and have good a teaching and research programme in New 03-364 2147. Applications must be mailed to communication skills. Applications should con- Zealand which supports the university's commit- Human Resources, University of Canterbury, sist of a letter detailing the candidate’s editorial ment to the Treaty of Waitangi. The appointee Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, to arrive by the experience, and their vision and ambitions for the must be willing to work with both human and closing date shown. Please quote the relevant journal, plus a short CV. physical geographers. The post would suit some- Vacancy Number in all correspondence. Any queries about the post should be directed one who is familiar with Maori tikanga and the The University has excellent childcare, recre- to Rob Kitchin ([email protected]), David Sib- practice of kaitiakitanga, or who has ation and staff club facilities on campus. Staff ley ([email protected]) or Gill Valentine had research, teaching or practical experience of enjoy generous annual leave, study and superan- ([email protected]). JAN 04-11. working with First Nations in an overseas nuation benefits. Closing date for applications is February 28, context (e.g. Canada, Australia, Scandanavia or 2004. We hope to meet shortlisted candidates at the United States). NORTH AMERICA. Social and Cultural Geography the AAG meeting March 14-19, 2004 in Philadel- Applicants for both posts must have complet- seeks new North American editor. Social and phia prior to making a decision. ed PhDs and should indicate how they see their Cultural Geography, published by Routledge, has areas of expertise and interest aligning with the quickly established itself as a leading journal in

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