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Fall 2010 Events

Colloquia

  • Sep 03 (Friday), Noon - CDS 15 (see map)
    “Tracking the Mean Center of the U.S. Population: Pushes and Pulls of the Demographic Components of Change, 1990-2009” - David Plane, University of Arizona

  • Sep 10 (Friday), Noon - CDS 15 (see map)
    “Vulnerability, Resilience and Tradeoffs in Sustainability Science” - B. L. Turner, ASU, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning

  • Sep 17 (Friday), Noon - SCOB 150 (see map)
    "Community Economic Development Indicators and Quality of Life" - Rhonda Phillips, ASU, School of Community Resources & Development

  • Sep 24 (Friday), Noon - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    "Living in Legal Limbo in Phoenix, AZ" - Cecilia Menjivar, ASU, School of Social and Family Dynamics

  • Oct 01 (Friday), Noon - ART 220 (see map)
    “How to Monitor Drought” - Andrew Ellis, ASU, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning

  • Oct 11 (Monday), Noon - SCOB 150 (see map)
    “The Changing Face of GIS” - Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography

  • Oct 15 (Friday), Noon - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    “Identifying and Bounding Ethnic Neighborhoods: New Approaches to Point Data” - John Logan, Brown University, Department of Sociology

  • Oct 22 (Friday), Noon - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    "Environmental Change, Sustainability, and Tourism in Nepal's Khumbu Valley" - Alan Lew, Northern Arizona University, Department of Geography, Planning & Recreation

  • Oct 29 (Friday), Noon - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    "Planners in the Board Room: Corporate Responsibility and Real Estate Investing" - Gary Pivo, University of Arizona, Professor of Urban Planning, Professor of Natural Resources, Senior fellow with the Office of Economic Development

  • Nov 19 (Friday), Noon - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    “Response of Colorado River runoff to dust radiative forcing in snow” - Tom Painter, Jet Propulsion Lab - Cal Tech, University of California, Los Angeles

  • Dec 03 (Friday), Noon - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    "The impact of the Phoenix Light Rail on Real Estate Prices and Development" - Aaron Golub, ASU, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning

  • Jan 21 (Friday), 3:30 pm - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    "Making geographical sense of the Greek austerity measures: compositional and equilibrium effects" - Dr. Vassilis Monastiriotis, Hellenic Observatory, European Institute, LSE

  • Jan 28 (Friday), 3:30 pm - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    “West Coast 'Hurricanes': A 300-Year Record of Pacific Northwest Windstorms” - Paul Knapp, University of North Carolina - Greensboro, Department of Geography

  • Feb 09 (Wednesday), Noon - CDN 60 (see map)
    “Groundwater as a Strategic Resource: Managing Overdraft or Planned Depletion?” - Chris Scott, University of Arizona, School of Geography and Development

  • Feb 25 (Friday), 3:30 pm - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    “Assessing Local Spatial Statistics with Optimal Spatial Weights” - Peter Rogerson, State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Geography

  • Apr 01 (Friday), 3:30 pm - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    "Insects and Institutions: understanding disease hazards in southwest metropolises using modeling, participation, and political ecology" - Paul Robbins, University of Arizona, School of Geography and Development

  • Apr 08 (Friday), 3:30 pm - COOR 174 (see map)
    Student talks for AAG - Geography students, ASU, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning

  • Apr 29 (Friday), 3:30 pm - Coor L1-74 (see map)
    “Management Institutions and the Spatial Decision-making of Fishermen” - Joshua Abbott, ASU, School of Sustainability & Global Institute of Sustainability

  • Sep 02 (Friday), 12:00 - 1:30 pm (lunch will be served) - Wrigley Hall, Room 101 (new location) (see map)
    Mediterranean-type ecosystems of the world: evolution and conservation of biodiversity in extra-tropical hotspots - Richard Cowling, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

  • Sep 09 (Friday), Noon - ART 220 (see map)
    Applications in Geovisual Analytics: Syndromic Surveillance and Crime Mapping - Ross Maciejewski, ASU, School of Computing, Informatics & Decision Systems Engineering

  • Sep 22 (Thursday), 3:00 pm - Coor 4403 (see map)
    Religion and Ethnic Conflict: Observations from the Shatter Zones of Southeastern Europe and the Caucasus - John O’Loughlin, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Sep 23 (Friday), Noon - ART 220 (see map)
    The Climate Change-Conflict Controversy: The Evidence from East Africa, 1990-2009 - John O’Loughlin, University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Sep 30 (Friday), Noon - ART 220 (see map)
    Reserve Urban Spaces and the Geography of Uneven Development in 21st Century United States - Nabil Kamel, ASU, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

  • Oct 14 (Friday), Noon - ART 220 (see map)
    Overcoming Range Anxiety: Spatial Optimization and Survey Research for Planning the Transition to Alternative-Fuel Vehicles - Michael Kuby, ASU, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

  • Oct 28 (Friday), Noon - ART 220 (see map)
    After Fukushima? Germany's Changing Power Generation - Wolfgang Brücher, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany

  • Nov 04 (Friday), Noon - ART 220 (see map)
    Student talks - Graduate students, ASU, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

  • Nov 18 (Friday), Noon - ART 220 (see map)
    Two-strategy games on the lattice - Nicolas Lanchier , ASU, School of Mathematics & Statistical Sciences

  • Dec 02 (Friday), 3:30 pm - ART 220 (see map)
    The Problem a (non) City Is: The Spatial Distribution of Creative Workers - Kevin Stolarick , University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

  • Jan 19 (Thursday), 3:30 pm - Coor 5536 (see map)
    "Immigrant geographies of North American cities" - Audrey Kobayashi, Queen's University, Department of Geography

  • Jan 27 (Friday), Noon - Coor 5536 (see map)
    "Visualizing and Exploring Events from Sensor Networks" - Kate Beard-Tisdale, University of Maine, National Center for Geographic Information Analysis

  • Feb 03 (Friday), Noon - Coor 5536 (see map)
    "Water Sustainability in a Warming World: A Paleo-Perspective" - Wallace S. Broecker, Columbia University, The Earth Institute

  • Feb 10 (Friday), Noon - Coor 5536 (see map)
    "Linking population to environment: Using census data for climate change analysis" - Jose Miguel Guzman, Population and Development Branch, United Nations Population Fund

  • Feb 17 (Friday), Noon - Coor 5536 (see map)
    Student Talks for AAG - Geography graduate students, ASU, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning

  • Feb 21 (Tuesday), 3:30 pm - Coor 5536 (see map)
    "Spatio-Temporal Linkage of Real and Virtual Identity" - Paul Longley, Department of Geography, University College London

  • Mar 01 (Thursday), 3:30 pm - Coor 5536 (see map)
    Comeaux Lecture: "A New View of the Irish Famine through Geographic Information Science and Geographically Weighted Regression" - Stewart Fotheringham , School of Geography & Geosciences, University of St Andrews

  • Mar 05 (Monday), 3:00-4:00 pm - Coor 5536 (see map)
    Megaherbivores leave a molecular trail in a tree species? Insights into the evolution and ecology of the Albany Subtropical Thicket of South Africa - Alastair J. Potts, Claude Leon Postdoctoral Fellow at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa

  • Mar 15 (Thursday), 3:30 pm - Coor 5536 (see map)
    "Germany's Regional Policy of Support to Industry - A Microeconometric Evaluation of the Impact of Firm Subsidies" - Bastian Alm, Department of Economics, Technical University Dortmund, Germany

  • Mar 29 (Thursday), 3:30 pm - Coor 5536 (see map)
    "The Complex Systems Framework - Enabling Collaboration and Decision Making" - Robert Pahle, ASU, Decision Theater

Colloquia
Comeaux Lecture

Other Events

  • Aug 12 (Thursday), 9:00 am - Coor L1-88
    Graduate Student Orientation

  • Oct 13 (Wednesday), 2:00 pm - PURL, 234 N. Central Ave, Phoenix (see map)
    Planning in the 21st Century - Andres Duany, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Architects & Town Planners

  • Oct 13 (Wednesday), 9:00 am - MU 220, Turquoise Meeting Room (see map)
    Agrarian Urbanism - Andres Duany, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Architects & Town Planners

  • Oct 15 (Friday), - Oct 17 (Sunday) - Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ - Memorial Union
    Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainability in an Urbanizing World

  • Oct 17 (Sunday), - Oct 19 (Tuesday) - Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ - Memorial Union (see map)
    Land Systems, Global Change and Sustainability

  • Oct 17 (Sunday), - Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ - Memorial Union
    Sustainable Land Systems in the Era of Urbanization and Climate Change

  • Oct 20 (Wednesday), Noon - Coor 5501
    Brownbag: Modeling Urban Growth that Reduces Emissions and Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts

  • Apr 19 (Tuesday), 7:30 pm - KAET - Channel 8
    "Ethnoburbs" on KAET's Horizon - Wei Li, ASU, Schools of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning and Asian Pacific American Studies

  • May 13 (Friday), 12:30 pm - Wells Fargo Arena (see map)
    College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Convocation

  • Jul 05 (Tuesday), - Tempe campus and online

  • Apr 12 (Thursday), through Apr 13 (Friday) - Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory, downtown Phoenix
    Retrofitting Sprawl Symposium

  • May 21 (Monday), - Tempe campus and online
    Summer Sessions begin