Throughout the semester, the Department of Geography runs a Colloquium Series thematically tied to research and issues of a geographical nature but intended to attract faculty, staff and students from across the disciplines.
Unless otherwise specified, all Colloquia are at 3:15 pm in Fillmore 170.
All are welcome to join and attend. See the schedule below for further details.
Date | Name and Organization | Title/Interests | Faculty Host | |
| Aug 30 | Dr. D. Scott Mackay, Professor & Chair, Department of Geography | State of the Department
| N/A | |
Sep 6
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| Dr. Somayeh Dodge University of California – Santa Barbara | "Movement as a Marker: Understanding Interaction in Social and Ecological Systems" | Dr. Yingjie Hu |
Sep 20
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| Dr. Nina Ebner Colego de Mexico Centro de Estudios Demograficos Ubanos y Ambientales (CEDUA)
| "A Borderland Analytic" | Dr. Abigail Cooke |
| Sep 27 | Dr. Sardana Nikolaeva University of Toronto | “Indigenous Diamonds: Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia” | Dr. Meredith Palmer | |
| Oct 4 | Dr. Lu Liang University of California - Berkeley | "The 'Monitoring-Mapping-Modeling' Framework for Air Quality Prediction: Bridging Science and Practice" | Dr. Leo Wang | |
| Oct 18 | Dr. Sinead Farrell University of Maryland | "Exploring The World of Polar Sea Ice with Advanced Remote Sensing Techniques" | Dr. Julie Silva | |
| Oct 25 | Dr. Patrick Keys Colorado State University | "Designing Radical Anthropocene Scenarios to Navigate Our Turbulent Future"
| Dr. Adam Wilson | |
| Nov 1 | International Trade Panel Speakers include Matt Murray, U.S. State Department, Ambassador to APEC | "TBD" | Dr. Meredith Palmer
Dr. Jessie Poon
Dr. Bruce Acker | |
| Nov 15 | PhD Candidates | Lightning Talks | Dr. Scott Mackay | |
| Nov 22 | Dr. Adam Wilson | "Early Results from BioScape: NASA’s First Biodiversity-Focused Field Campaign" | Dr. Scott Mackay | |
| Dec 6 | Dr. Luis Alvarez Leon Dartmouth University
| "The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism" | Dr. Marion Werner |