52376_AAG_ACG.qxd 10/28/05 2:24 AM Page 1 Volume 40, Number 10 • November 2005 In This Issue Matthew Edney to Direct History of Cartography Project atthew Edney has come full Cartography Project serving from circle. After leaving UW- 1983-85 as a project assistant on M Madison in 1990 with a PhD Volume 1 as the illustrations editor. in Geography, Edney has returned to After graduating as a new PhD in From the Meridian ....................2 Science Hall as the new Director of 1990, Edney spent five years teach- President’s Column....................3 ing cartography and GIS at SUNY AAG Washington Monitor ........7 the History of Cartography Project, an Binghamton before securing a AAG Member Profile ..................9 effort on which he worked as a young teaching position at University of Op-Ed..............................................10 graduate student. The project is in the Award Deadlines........................15 process of producing the multi-volume Southern Maine in Portland as a map New Appointments ..................15 History of Cartography series, an historian, but he still maintained Call for Papers..............................17 examination of maps in the context of Matthew Edney close connections to the project Specialty Group News ............17 the societies that made and used them. and in 1998 became one of the Grants and Awards....................19 Edney received his MS in Cartography and his co-editors of the “History of Cartography in the Grants and Competitions ......20 PhD at the UW-Madison under the late David European Enlightenment, Volume 4.” But with Books Received ..........................20 Woodward. As one of David's students, he four of the six Volumes in progress, the Project Members of Note ......................21 worked on the initial efforts of the History of Continued on page 8 Quarter Century ........................21 Jobs in Geography....................26 New Members ............................53 Necrology......................................54 Events ............................................55 Chicago: Immigrant Metropolis ver a century-and-a-half ago, foreign-language media outlets and an emergency Chicago emerged out of the service system that can respond to phone calls in O marshy coast of the great twenty-seven languages. inland sea like an ungainly colos- In fancy multi-page advertising sections in sus. As the steady waves of human- targeted business journals, the city’s boosters point ity pressed upon its shores, the out that even the New York Times has hailed Chicago city’s population rose in dramatic as “the quintessential American city.” The ads spurts to become the teeming proclaim the city’s population is made up of “immi- immigrant metropolis of the mid- grants from everywhere—from 200 nations during continent. Each wave of immi- just the past thirty years” and that “there is no grants has left its distinctive majority race in metropolitan Chicago.” The marks on Chicago that has long purpose of such boasts is to underpin claims that enjoyed the nickname “City Chicago offers lifestyles “filled with an abundance of Neighborhoods.” Those who of cool, classic, global, and authentic options for travel to Chicago for the AAG cosmopolitan ways of life.” In March, geographers Annual Meeting, March 7-11, will have ample opportunity to taste their way 2006, will follow in the footsteps through evidence of Chicago’s cosmopolitan One of Chicago’s many ethnic neighborhoods, Chinatown is easily accessible from the AAG’s meeting site. of those immigrants, and will encounter a city that boasts 130 Continued on page 4 Make a Tax-Deductible Contribution to the AAG Advancing Geography Fund. See page 18. www.aag.org AAG Newsletter 1 52376_AAG_ACG.qxd 10/28/05 2:24 AM Page 2 November 2005 From the Meridian AAG Newsletter AAG Senior Associates of the Association of American Program Update Geographers he AAG Senior Associates Program, the AAG Senior Associates Program. In which was launched one year ago conjunction with AAG staff liaison T(see D. Richardson, “AAG Initiates Patricia Solís and Doug Richardson, she Douglas Richardson, Publisher Program for Senior Geographers,” provides core leadership and networking to and Managing Editor AAG Newsletter, September recruit Senior Associates, 2004), is designed to identify appropriate Megan D. Nortrup, make greater use of the projects and tasks, and Editor talent and resources seek sources of funding AAG Voice 202-234-1450 of our membership, in to support activities, AAG Fax 202-234-2744 particular of the large honoraria, and travel [email protected] cohort of academic and expenses. 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He is also connecting President Janice Monk helps coordinate Continued on page 5 2 AAG Newsletter www.aag.org 52376_AAG_ACG.qxd 10/28/05 2:24 AM Page 3 President’s Column Volume 40, Number 10 Hurricane Katrina: It’s All About Geography ave you ever known a time when On August 30, the day after Hurricane worked with GISCorps, FEMA, and other society needed geographic science Katrina struck the Gulf coast, USGS agencies to implement GIS technology at H and geographers more than in the research wildlife biologist Tommy Michot the Jackson, Mississippi, Emergency aftermath of the worst natural disaster in and USGS geographer Chris Wells Operations Center. our country’s history, Hurricane Katrina? conducted a post-hurricane flight to The AAG organized an online In the October 2004 issue of National photograph and assess damage. Their clearinghouse and established a fund to Geographic Magazine, an article titled “Gone primary focus was assessing the impacts support geography departments and with the Water,” by Joel K. Bourne, Jr., on ecosystems, including fish kills, the others impacted by the storm. All during described a hypothetical doomsday scenario destruction of rookeries, and the the Labor Day weekend, many of the for New Orleans posed by a severe August endangerment of seagrass beds that AAG staff worked straight through hurricane that kills those who do not provide habitats for fish, the weekend and holiday to evacuate as Lake Pontchartrain spills over birds, and shellfish. They create, maintain and staff the its levees. The article is chilling prophecy, documented the devastation Katrina Emergency Clear- right down to daring roof-top rescues