Volume 45, Number 7 • July/August 2010 In This Issue AAG Seeks Annals Editor he Association of American Geographers area of contemporary American geography. The seeks applications and nominations for the AAG Council further expects that the Annals will People, Place, and Region section editor publish items that represent the very best thinking T in American geography. The section editor should for the Annals of the Association of American Geogra- phers. The new section editor will be appointed for be eager to act as an intellectual entrepreneur to a four-year editorial term that will commence on attract the very best work being produced. From the Meridian .................2 January 1, 2011. The appointment will be made In support of these goals, the editorial candidate President’s Column ................3 by November 2010. should possess demonstrated expertise within the Op-Ed ..........................................8 The AAG seeks an editor who will solicit, section subject area (People, Place, and Region), Washington Monitor .............9 review, and accept for publication articles in the a distinguished record of scholarly achievement, a Grants & Awards Received 11 People, Place, and Region subject area, within broad perspective on the discipline of geography, Books Received .....................12 publication-space limitations that will be deter- respect and affection for its diversity, and an ability Focus on the Pacific mined annually. to work constructively with authors during the Northwest ............................ 13 The AAG Council expects that the new editor review process. Institutional support for the new Grants & Competitions .......14 editor (especially some time released from teach- Specialty Group News ............14 will accept manuscripts from across the breadth Necrology .....................................15 and depth of intellectual activity in their subject ing) is desirable, but not mandatory. The AAG will Council Meeting Continued on page 5 Minutes .....................................18 Geographers in the News ..22 Jobs in Geography ...................23 Award Deadlines...................30 Seattle: No Ordinary Joe Events .......................................31 Coffee Capital is Jumping with Contradictions eattle, site of the forthcoming AAG Annual out a large share of poverty and deprivation. Meeting, is a city alive with contradictions. It also has an enviable, diverse age structure, S A brash place of boosters and entrepre- exceptional levels of education, and a skilled neurs, it is also an enduring stronghold of toler- labor force. Over time we have evolved a ance, cooperation and environmental concern. healthy, diverse and adaptable economy, and At some 3½ million people in the urban area, it constructed a reasonably attractive and well- seems too big and crowded to many of us who ordered built environment over a complex live here. Still, it is only a metropolis of mod- topography. est size by world standards. While achieving its historic goal of becoming a “global city,” Seattle Seattle's Microgeographies remains a smaller place than its position on the Seattle’s location, on the relatively pro- world scene would suggest. And while passing tected inland sea called Puget Sound, its historic rivals, Portland and Vancouver, in size is remote from national markets but at ICOMMONS K I and power, Seattle ironically still exhibits a kind the same time well-positioned for po- W : : it of inferiority complex—we are not somehow as tential trade with Alaska and East Asia. D re C civilized as our more sophisticated neighbors. Vancouver and Bellingham, to the north, This statue of Lenin is located in the Fremont Seattle is also a contradiction in compari- are at least as well situated, and within neighborhood. For more on Seattle’s left-leaning son with other U.S. cities in that it is highly what is now greater Seattle, early rivals culture, see page 13. Seattle will host the 2011 productive and relatively prosperous with- AAG Annual Meeting. Continued on page 10 AAG Annual Meeting Call for Papers is available on pages 16-17. www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 1 July/August 2010 From the Meridian AAG Newsletter Space-Time Integration of the Association of American in Geography and GIScience Geographers very year, the Association of American and geography are encouraged to partici- Geographers (AAG) identifies a particu- pate in this special symposium. larly timely or relevant set of themes to This special symposium will open with a E plenary panel session led by prominent theo- feature during its Annual Meetings. Last year Douglas Richardson, Publisher an over-riding theme was climate change, rists and pioneers in these fields. and Managing Editor for example, and previous years The AAG welcomes paper Jim Ketchum, Editor have included featured sessions abstracts in the following areas. AAG Voice 202-234-1450 on topics on as human rights, • Research advances and needs in AAG Fax 202-234-2744 landscape and literature, sus- space-time analysis and representa- [email protected] tainable development in Africa, tion, such as: geography of water, and many – collaborations among www.aag.org other topics. GIScientists and model- Among several special ers (systems, agent-based, USPS 987-380 ISSN 0275-3995 themes at its upcoming Annual network, etc.) Meeting in Seattle, April 12- – real-time GPS/GIS interac- The AAG Newsletter ISSN 0275- 16, 2011, will be multiple ses- tive systems 3995 is published monthly with July/ sions focused on the research – technological challenges August combined, by the Association status, recent advances and Richardson and R&D needs of American Geographers, 1710 16th research needs of space-time integration, – visualization of space-time Street NW, Washington, DC 20009- modeling and analysis in geography and in GIS 3198. The cost of an annual subscrip- GIScience. This special set of invited pa- – sharing discoveries and results with tion is $25.00. The subscription price pers will feature many leading GIScience decision-makers is included in the annual dues of the researchers from Asia and Europe as well – integrating analysis and results into Association. Not available to non- as from other regions of the world, and will web 2.0 members. Periodicals postage paid in form a three-day high-profile symposium – dealing with lag effects in space and Washington, DC. All news items and within the AAG Annual Meeting. time letters, including job listings, should be Space-time analysis is a rapidly growing – ontological frameworks sent to the Editor at the address below research frontier in geography, GIS, and – qualitative space-time analysis or to [email protected]. GIScience. Advances in integrated GPS/GIS – temporal scale and event representa- All Newsletter materials must arrive technologies, the availability of large datasets tion at the Association office by the 1st of (over time and space), and increased capacity – historical time and HGIS the month preceding the month of the to manage, integrate, model and visualize – computational algorithms publication. This includes job listings. complex data in (near) real time, offer the GIS – analytical tools for time constrained Material will be published on a space and geography communities extraordinary decision support systems available basis and at the discretion of opportunities to begin to integrate sophisti- – sensor integration – 3-D or 4-D representations of time and the editorial staff. cated space-time analysis and models in the space interactive data When your address changes, please study of complex environmental and social systems, from climate change to infectious – real-time geographic management sys- notify the Association office imme- disease transmission. tems diately. Six weeks notice is necessary This special symposium builds on mo- – uncertainty analysis to ensure uninterrupted delivery of mentum from a space-time analysis work- – community or participatory GPS/GIS AAG publications. To assist the AAG shop cosponsored by the AAG, ESRI, the and related systems (including “VGI”) office in your address change, include University of Redlands, and University of the address label with your change of Southern California in early 2010, as well as • State-of-the-Art applications of space-time model- address. several other initiatives during the past few ing and analysis in areas such as: Postmaster: Send address changes years. Geographers, GIScientists, modelers, – climate change response and adapta- to AAG Newsletter, 1710 16th Street computer programmers, GPS/GIS systems tion NW, Washington, DC 20009-3198, or scientists, climate change scientists, epide- – species migrations and habitat con- [email protected]. miologists, ecologists, planners, transpor- nectivity tation experts, and others with research expertise in integrating space–time in GIS Continued on page 4 2 AAG Newsletter www.aag.org President’s Column Volume 45, Number 7 Supporting Early Career Faculty ver the next year I will focus several an important rite of passage. But though in graduate curricula. But research seems to of my columns on strengthening and there is nothing intrinsically wrong with indicate that, when new hires are offered Oexpanding opportunities for profes- such a hidden curriculum, it can too easily help in these areas, not only do they do a sional development in geography. This is lead to inequalities and inequities. This is better job in the classroom, they are more an area in which I have been working for because factors like where a person