tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57819215639074403292024-03-12T18:33:09.633-05:00UT Graduate Association of Geography Studentssounnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13095941808937540554noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-84695326134688457652013-07-31T09:49:00.000-05:002013-07-31T09:49:16.702-05:00From the Field: Paul Holloway in Botswana<i>Paul is a Phd student whose research applies movement pattern analysis to improve species distribution models (SDMs). He sent us this update from Botswana earlier this week.
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Much like Costa Rica, the roosters of Botswana also like to rise extremely early, three 3 hours before sunrise in fact. And when they are joined by the town dogs and the river's toads, it makes for an interesting morning alarm, and one that I'm not going to miss.<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L7xJlUzRxSM/UfkjS8buAhI/AAAAAAAAFkg/3LI9RaqMPig/s1600/paul_botsy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L7xJlUzRxSM/UfkjS8buAhI/AAAAAAAAFkg/3LI9RaqMPig/s400/paul_botsy.JPG" width="400" /></a>I've spent the last two weeks in the field travelling across northern Botswana, in an attempt to understand the landscape from a brown hyena's perspective. Several nights in Nxai Pans and Makgadikgadi National Parks in the east of the country showed me the barrenness of their habitat, driving through miles and miles of grasslands and savannas.I've collected near to 100 GPS points of that area, with corresponding photos, so I'm looking forward to comparing MODIS land cover to actual on the ground images. It was also noticeable that there was near to no natural water to speak of in the area, with all the wildlife clustered either the river or the artificial wells near the cattle posts. There was also a bounty of dead animals by the side of the only tarmac road in the area, a fact the hyenas must also be aware of...<br />
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I also had several exciting animal sightings. Having been lectured on the necessity of not straying beyond sight of the tents due to a high lion presence in the area, I'm not ashamed to say my heart did stop beating for a second when all I could hear was the sound of water being lapped at 2am one night when nature called and I had to leave my tent. Fortunately it was only a black backed jackal, which didn't look too blood thirsty.<br />
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I'm looking forward to getting back in front of my computer and making the shapefiles come to life through the images and landscape I've seen and collected. Thanks to my guides while I was out there, Thoralf, Kelley and Thomas. Hope it's not too hot in Austin, and I'll see y'all shortly.<br />
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And no, I didn't actually spot any hyenas. The perfect excuse for next year...Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02111690247926939431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-85386879706880081472013-07-22T12:31:00.000-05:002013-07-24T00:22:23.460-05:00[in print] Recent Publications from Molly Polk and Robert Bean<h3>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Doctoral students Molly Polk and Robert bean have new publications available. Follow the links below for the full text of each article.</i></span></h3>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pyJ3aGYvP2I/Ue1pSFGvB1I/AAAAAAAAFj0/Ws9kZdbeJLw/s1600/annals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pyJ3aGYvP2I/Ue1pSFGvB1I/AAAAAAAAFj0/Ws9kZdbeJLw/s200/annals.jpg" width="150" /></a> Bury, J., Mark, B. G., Carey, M., Young, K. R., McKenzie, J. M., Baraer, M., … Polk, M. H. (2013). <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045608.2013.754665#.Ue1mAcqrFFs" target="_blank">New Geographies of Water and Climate Change in Peru: Coupled Natural and Social Transformations in the Santa River Watershed. </a><i>Annals of the Association of American Geographers</i>, 103(2), 363–374.<br />
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Abstract: Projections of future water shortages in the world's glaciated mountain
ranges have grown increasingly dire. Although water modeling research
has begun to examine changing environmental parameters, the inclusion of
social scenarios has been very limited. Yet human water use and demand
are vital for long-term adaptation, risk reduction, and resource
allocation. Concerns about future water supplies are particularly
pronounced on Peru's arid Pacific slope, where upstream glacier
recession has been accompanied by rapid and water-intensive economic
development. Models predict water shortages decades into the future, but
conflicts have already arisen in Peru's Santa River watershed due to
either real or perceived shortages. Modeled thresholds do not align well
with historical realities and therefore suggest that a broader analysis
of the combined natural and social drivers of change is needed to more
effectively understand the hydrologic transformation taking place across
the watershed. This article situates these new geographies of water and
climate change in Peru within current global change research
discussions to demonstrate how future coupled research models can inform
broader scale questions of hydrologic change and water security across
watersheds and regions. We provide a coupled historical analysis of
glacier recession in the Cordillera Blanca, declining Santa River
discharge, and alpine wetland contraction. We also examine various water
withdrawal mechanisms, including smallholder agriculture, mining,
potable water use, hydroelectric power generation, and coastal
irrigation. We argue that both ecological change and societal forces
will play vital roles in shaping the future of water resources and water
governance in the region.<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j4xa_Pgc434/Ue1pVO9vu7I/AAAAAAAAFkE/w1OSY4rKOQQ/s1600/physical_geog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j4xa_Pgc434/Ue1pVO9vu7I/AAAAAAAAFkE/w1OSY4rKOQQ/s200/physical_geog.jpg" width="132" /></a>Lafrenz, M. D., Bean, R. A., & Uthman, D. (2013). <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723646.2013.799033#.Ue1mccqrFFs" target="_blank">Soil ripening following dam removal</a>. Physical Geography, (ahead-of-print), 1-12.<br />
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Abstract: The onset of pedogenesis in dewatered reservoir sediments following a
dam removal was evaluated using a ripening index that was initially
developed to describe the condition of drained, marine sediments behind
Dutch dikes. The drained reservoir exposed lahar terraces, mantled with
reservoir sediment, upstream of the former dam at a similar geomorphic
position to a downstream lahar terrace. Three years following dam
removal, the exposed sediment has physically ripened (<i>n</i>-values
are less than 0.7) over 1 m to the depth of a buried soil. However, the
sediment has only chemically ripened to a depth of approximately 16 cm,
the depth at which pH values become higher than those of the downstream
terrace soils. Even at the surface, the sediment has not biologically
ripened, as indicated by the low carbon-to-nitrogen ratios (13:1)
relative to those of the downstream soil surface (28:1). These results
indicate that chemical and biological ripening happen more slowly than
physical ripening. As such, dewatered reservoir sediments likely reach
field capacity before other crucial edaphic conditions have developed,
such as the accumulation of plant-available iron and nitrate. This
difference will greatly affect vegetation successional pathways in these
newly created upland environments.<br />
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Chang, H., Jung, I.-W., Strecker, A., Wise, D., Lafrenz, M., Shandas, V., Bean, R.,...Paris, M (2013). <a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VJpVjmHBvekDGa2Buakn/full#.Ue1oE8qrFFs" target="_blank">Water Supply, Demand, and Quality Indicators for Assessing the Spatial Distribution of Water Resource Vulnerability in the Columbia River Basin.</a> Atmosphere-Ocean, 1–18.<br />
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We investigated <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">resource</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">vulnerability</span> in the US portion of the <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">Columbia</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">River</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">basin</span> (CRB) using multiple <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">indicators</span> representing <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">supply</span>, <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">demand</span>, and <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">quality</span>. Based on the US county scale, <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">spatial</span> analysis was conducted using various biophysical and socio-economic <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">indicators</span> that control <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">vulnerability</span>. <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">Water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">supply</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">vulnerability</span> and <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">demand</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">vulnerability</span> exhibited a similar <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">spatial</span>
clustering of hotspots in areas where agricultural lands and
variability of precipitation were high but dam storage capacity was low.
The hotspots of <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">quality</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">vulnerability</span> were clustered around the main stem of the <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">Columbia</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">River</span> where major population and agricultural centres are located. This multiple equal weight <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">indicator</span> approach confirmed that different drivers were associated with different <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">vulnerability</span> maps in the sub-<span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">basins</span> of the CRB. <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">Water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">quality</span> variables are more important than <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">supply</span> and <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">demand</span> variables in the Willamette <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">River</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">basin</span>, whereas <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">supply</span> and <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">demand</span> variables are more important than <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">quality</span> variables in the Upper Snake and Upper <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">Columbia</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">River</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">basins</span>. This result suggests that current <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">resources</span> management and practices drive much of the <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">vulnerability</span> within the study area. The analysis suggests the need for increased coordination of <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> management across multiple levels of <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> governance to reduce <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">resource</span> <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">vulnerability</span> in the CRB and a potentially different weighting scheme that explicitly takes into account the input of various <span class="single_highlight_class searchToken">water</span> stakeholders.<br />
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I've now been in and around the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica for about a month now with three more weeks to go, based in the town of Puerto Jimenez. Each morning I'm awakened by a combination of howler monkeys, a resident rooster, and the beaming tropical morning sun. This area is home to one of the largest contiguous stands of primary tropical rainforest in the country, which I have wandered into several times and had many many animal sightings. Yet, it took the neighbor's pit bull here in town to log my first animal attack on this trip. No serious damage though. Otherwise, I'm doing lots of informal interviews and a few fully structured ones, resulting in lots of good contacts. I was even invited, then uninvited due to cost issues, to a beach wedding.<br />
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So far, I've found that the region's economy seems to be based, in descending order, on 1) tourism 2) African oil palm plantations & processing 3) Rice plantations 3) Payment for environmental services (government paying land owners not to cut down their trees) 4) government and/or NGO jobs and 5) gold mining (almost entirely illegal)<br />
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Can't wait to have some Home Slice pizza on South Congress :) See you all soon & have a great 2nd half of the summer !<br />
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02111690247926939431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-20838187970262473212013-07-07T00:34:00.001-05:002013-07-07T14:16:51.302-05:00Which States Drink the Most Beer?As Austinist <a href="http://austinist.com/2013/07/05/astoundingly_texas_is_not_no_1_in_b.php" target="_blank">noted</a>, despite how you may be feeling after the July 4th weekend, Texas does not rank first in beer consumption in the US. That title goes to North Dakota, which drank the equivalent of 488 beers per person in 2012.* You can explore how thirsty the rest of the America was in 2012 with our handy map. Of course, Texas will always have the highest per capita beer consumption in <a href="http://www.lonestarbeer.com/" target="_blank">The Republic of Texas</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>*per person aged 21+. 1 beer = 12oz. Data courtesy of <a href="http://www.beerinstitute.org/assets/uploads/2012_Beer_Consumption_By_State.pdf" target="_blank">The Beer Institute.</a> <br />
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02111690247926939431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-29028383701105711672013-04-25T10:17:00.003-05:002013-04-25T11:14:09.200-05:00Grads Participate in US-IALE<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">The 2013
Annual Symposium for the U.S. Regional Association of the International
Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) took place in Austin from April
14-18th. Co-chaired by leading landscape ecologist and faculty member Ken
Young, the event was a big success with over 250 papers and posters presented
within the three day period. Graduate and undergraduate students Molly Polk,
Xuebin Yang, Sara Diamond, Katherine Lininger, Thomas Christiansen, Paul
Holloway, Collin Roland and Emily Mixon represented the Department of Geography
and the Environment throughout the week. Geography grads also contributed to
the strong selection of research presented throughout the week, with Paul
Holloway presenting his work in the ‘Spatial Analysis: Movement’ session, and
Molly Polk a co-author on a paper in the ‘Landscape Change’ session. Thank you
to everyone who volunteered and was involved throughout the week. It would not
have been such a success without your help. See you all in Anchorage 2014!</span><br />
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and Mountain Mires in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca,<span class="text_exposed_show">” this Saturday,</span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> as part of the Center for Environmental Research's Ecological Literacy Volunteer Day.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Molly's lunchtime talk follows a four hour work and learn event in which volunteers conduct maintenance on </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">the trails, habitat gardens, and kiosks </span></span></span></span>at Hornsby Bend.</span></span></span></span><br />
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You can find the full event details on the <a href="http://www.austintexas.gov/cer" target="_blank">CER website</a><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">. Contact Kevin Anderson with any questions: Kevin.Anderson@austintexas.gov</span></span><br />
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Sensing (ASPRS). <br />
Founded in 1934, ASPRS is a scientific association serving over 7,000
professional members around the world. The mission of ASPRS is to
advance knowledge and improve understanding of mapping sciences to
promote the responsible applications of photogrammetry, remote sensing,
geographic information systems (GIS), and supporting technologies.
Members work in the fields of Agriculture/Soils, Archeology, Biology,
Cartography, Ecology, Environment, Forestry/Range, Geodesy, Geography,
Geology, Hydrology/water Resources, Land Appraisal/Real Estate,
Medicine, Transportation, and Urban Planning/Development.<br />
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Congratulations to everyone for their hard work getting the chapter started! The next meeting will be Monday, February 18, at 5 pm. Contact chapter president <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/geography/Graduate-Students/profile.php?id=rab3882" target="_blank">Robert Bean</a> for further details.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02111690247926939431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-15273159811408303912013-01-22T08:48:00.000-06:002013-01-22T08:48:12.304-06:00Students Represent Department at American Meteorological Society Meeting<span class="LS">Students Jennifer Alexander, Xuebin Yang, and Molly Polk represented the Department of Geography and the Environment at the <a href="http://annual.ametsoc.org/2012/index.cfm/weatherfest/">Weatherfest</a> event of the annual
meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)</span>. On participating in the event, which took place from January 6 - 10 in Austin, doctoral student Molly Polk said, "we were happy to spread the good word
about our department and about the beauty and importance of our fine
discipline."
The AMS meeting was co-chaired by meteorologist and faculty member Troy Kimmel. <br />
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UTGAGShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00230582508581076330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-7455455419141277322013-01-18T12:46:00.000-06:002013-01-18T12:46:52.057-06:00Students Present at American Geophysical Union MeetingGraduate students from UT's Department of Geography and the Environment recently presented posters at the <a href="http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/">American Geophysical Union's Annual Fall Meeting</a>, held from December 3rd-7th in San Francisco, CA. Christine Bonthius, Richard Knox, Katherine Lininger, and Edward Park presented in a session titled,"River Morphodynamics and Channel Patterns: How Do River Patterns Come to be Different?" Poster topics included: flooding patterns of the middle Araguaia River of Brazil (Lininger); morphodynamics of the Madeira River of Brazil (Bonthius); bedload transport and effective discharge of a segment of the Mississippi River (Knox); and, using remote sensing techniques to model suspended sediment concentrations in the Amazon (Park).<br />
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<br />Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02111690247926939431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-57646717854593648292013-01-16T10:08:00.000-06:002013-01-16T10:08:59.231-06:00Joomi Lee Wins Award from the American Institute for Maghrib Studies<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QTuh91LRyEc/T1Zm1UtPFNI/AAAAAAAAHiI/TJUnPtCntco/s1600/Lee_photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716869843270964434" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QTuh91LRyEc/T1Zm1UtPFNI/AAAAAAAAHiI/TJUnPtCntco/s320/Lee_photo.jpg" style="height: 90px; margin-top: 0px; width: 80px;" /></a><span style="color: #333333;">UT Geography doctoral candidate Joomi Lee has been awarded </span>the Mark Tessler Graduate Student Prize from<a href="http://aimsnorthafrica.org/fellowships/paperprize.cfm" target="_blank"> the American Institute for Maghrib Studies</a> for her paper, <i>The End of Local Craftsmanship: A Case Study of Sale's Disappearing Artisans.</i><b><i> </i></b>The award includes a cash prize, and the paper will be submitted for publication in The Journal of North African Studies.<b> </b>Congratulations to Joomi! Abstract below.<br />
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Invocation of tradition' is a popular discourse and practice in the on-going urban renewal of Islamic cities of the Arab world. Much effort is being put into the rehabilitation of the visual and tangible forms of cultural heritage over the course of the renewal. The rehabilitated architectural forms have become an important ingredient in the urban 'mis-en-scene', befitting the image of a modern Islamic city. With a case study of the Bouregreg project in Morocco, this paper criticizes this contemporary Arab urban renewal's obsession with creating an urban spectacle underlying the role of tangible forms of tradition. We argues that certain categories of tradition are actually privileged in the Project's stated strategic agenda of "revival of the glorious past" of the Bouregreg River, consequently resulting in structural negligence of others, particularly intangible ones such as local artisanship. In this inquiry, we are particularly attentive to the historical dynamics of the neighboring cities of Rabat and Salé in the River Valley. Salé, once described as 'a city of high Islamic civilization' comparable to Fez during the medieval age, has since French colonial rule descended to the status of a mere 'cite-dortoir' for Rabat. We argue that though the narrative of 'revitalization of Salé' is inscribed in the Project's agenda of cultural revival, Salé's artisans - both individuals and communities - are still caught up in a multifaceted trap of structural negligence, leaving many the city's traditional craftsmanship out of the proposed urban renewal which is now on the verge of extinction.<br />
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<br />Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02111690247926939431noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-54828326241367389662012-11-12T13:16:00.000-06:002012-11-12T13:16:37.282-06:00Plaid Avengers to be Remembered as Conscious, Plaid-Wearing<i>Plaid Avengers</i>, the GAGs trivia team and 2011 <a href="http://utgags.blogspot.com/2011/11/plaid-avengers-sweep-trivia-title.html" target="_blank">champions </a>of the McCombs Business School International Week Trivia Night<i> </i>declined
to defend their title this year, citing organizational and scheduling
issues. The team, who cruised somewhat effortlessly to victory last year after
garnering a satisfactory 88 points, will be remembered for their
characteristic patterned shirts of alternating colored threads and
continuous state of awareness throughout the competition. "In the
moment, I don't think we realized the gravity of our achievement,"
recalled team alumnus Jonathan Lowell, "I mean, each of us was experiencing coherent cognitive and behavioral responses to the external
world." Although the fully-conscious, tartan-clad bunch will, by
default, lose their status as reigning trivia champions when the 2012
competition kicks off on Wednesday, the <i>Plaid Avengers' </i>legacy endures. While noting that he preferred tweed, university president Bill Powers said of the teams' 2011 victory, "[<i>Plaid Avengers'</i>] complete wakefulness and indisputably crisscrossed attire will not be forgotten in the relatively near future."<br />
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Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02111690247926939431noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-47930486229577439952012-10-30T10:49:00.002-05:002012-10-30T10:49:45.597-05:00Students participate in Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference in San Juan, Puerto RicoDoctoral candidates Naya Jones and Bisola Falola co-organized and chaired two sessions at the <a href="http://rep-conference.binghamton.edu/" target="_blank">2012 Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference</a> (hosted in part by the Ethnic Geography Specialty Group of AAG) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<br />
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Both sessions were titled: <i>(En)countering Space, Place, and Agency: Everyday Youth Geographies</i><br />
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Naya presented: <b>Of Soul Food and Barbacoa: Black and Latin@ Youth, Food, and Intersubjectivity</b><br />
<b><br /></b>Bisola presented: <b>Entangled Emotions: Connecting the Links between Race, Emotional Landscapes, and Youths’ Future Expectations</b><br />
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The sessions were well attended and had engaging discussions!<br />
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<br />Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02111690247926939431noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-41496682093344251352012-10-28T13:06:00.002-05:002012-10-28T13:52:17.042-05:00Students and faculty present at annual SWAAG meeting in Las Cruces, NMDepartment of Geography and the Environment graduate students and
faculty members traveled to Las Cruces, NM, <span style="font-size: small;">last </span>week to present their research at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Division of
the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG). Congratulations to the
presenters for their hard work!<br />
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<b>The Case of the Missing Laureate: The Communication Geography of the 2010 Nobel<br />Peace Prize</b>; Dr. Paul Adams<br />
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<b>Rural-to-Rural Trading in the City: Artisanal Sugarcane Liquor Commercialization in<br />the Northeastern Peruvian Amazon</b>; Mario Cardozo<br />
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<b>Spatial Analysis of Woody Species in Northwest Botswana</b>; Thomas Christiansen<br />
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<b>An Evolving Home: Communal Vision and Changing Livelihood in an Amazonian<br />Religious Community</b>; Jonathan Lowell<span style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><br />
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<b>Land Cover Change in Seronga, Botswana Between 2003 and 2011</b>; Xuebin Yang<span style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><br />
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<br />Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02111690247926939431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-41651901977231281452012-10-08T14:01:00.000-05:002012-10-08T14:07:47.872-05:00[in print] Recent Publications from Matt LaFevor and Niti Mishra<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Doctoral candidates <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/geography/Graduate-Students/profile.php?id=mcl663" target="_blank">Matt LaFevor</a> and <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/geography/Graduate-Students/profile.php?id=nbm296" target="_blank">Niti Mishra</a> have new publications available. Follow the links below for the full text of each article.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VWM97JincEE/UHMdi03yHwI/AAAAAAAAFTc/7Z3yuoyVHk8/s1600/Matt_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VWM97JincEE/UHMdi03yHwI/AAAAAAAAFTc/7Z3yuoyVHk8/s200/Matt_2.png" width="133" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: #444444;">LaFevor, M.</span></b><span style="color: #444444;"> 2012. <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_latin_american_geography/v011/11.1.lafevor.html" target="_blank">Sulphur Mining on Mexico’s Popocatépetl Volcano (1820-1920): Origins, Development, and Human- Environmental Challenges</a>.<i style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </i><i><span style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal of Latin American Geography</span></i><i style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </i>11(1): 79-98.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This paper traces the origins and development of a little-known
extractive industry in nineteenth-century Mexico: volcanic sulphur
mining. Unpublished documents from Mexican archives, nineteenth-century
travel literature, reports from early scientific expeditions, and
historical newspapers provide the bulk of data. Documents show how both
Mexican and United States interests – indigenous sulphur miners
(azufreros) and venture capitalists – confronted the challenges of
mining sulphur from the crater of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano, at
5,426 meters (17,802 feet) elevation.
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>LaFevor, M.</b> 2012. <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2012.00143.x/abstract" target="_blank">Building a Colonial Resource Monopoly: The Expansion of Sulphur Mining in New Spain (1600-1820).</a> <i>Geographical Review</i>. 102(2): 202-224.<b> </b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The discovery, extraction, and monopolistic control of key natural
resources was a priority of New Spain's colonial administration.
Managing the region's abundant resources, however, often proved
difficult for the Spanish Crown. Human and environmental challenges
impeded protoindustrial growth and development, and monopolistic control
of resources often met resistance. In this article I examine these
processes in the context of New Spain's little-known monopoly on
sulphur—a yellow, powdery mineral the Crown jealously guarded as its
own. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t_XZcl2K07g/UHMdjkMW-KI/AAAAAAAAFTs/B1XjMFEE13E/s1600/niti_rev.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t_XZcl2K07g/UHMdjkMW-KI/AAAAAAAAFTs/B1XjMFEE13E/s200/niti_rev.png" width="137" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mishra, N. B</b>., Crews, K. A., & Neuenschwander, A. L. (2012).<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431161.2012.701348#preview" target="_blank">Sensitivity of EVI-based harmonic regression to temporal resolution in the lower Okavango Delta</a>.<i> International Journal of Remote Sensing</i>.
33(24), 7703–7726.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">In this study, we examined how satellite time-series-based
characterization of ecological cycles and trends is sensitive to the
temporal depth and spacing of the time series and whether the observed
sensitivities were cover and/or cycle specific. The results show that
as the temporal depth decreases, the sensitivity to both short- and
long-term ecological cycles was lost in the seasonally dynamic
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Critical discussions of food and the food system are on the rise in
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Black populations from transdisciplinary and community-based
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by enabling her to support a peer facilitator and expose the youth participants
to the discipline and related career paths. Her undergraduate peer facilitator will
share mapping/GIS knowledge with diverse juniors and seniors from East Austin as
part of the project.</span></div>Bisolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12558948162486435472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-39475805412075124472012-06-28T15:31:00.000-05:002012-06-28T15:31:05.273-05:00AAG Annual Meeting 2013 - Call for Papers<br />
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<br />Julio Postigo was awarded the 2012 Outstanding Dissertation Award for the study areas of Social Sciences, Business and Education. Julio began in the doctoral program in the Department of Geography & the Environment in 2007. Previously, he completed his M.A. degree in 2006 in Latin American Studies.<br /><br />His dissertation is entitled “Responses of Plants, Pastoralists, and Governments to Social Environmental Changes in the Peruvian Southern Andes.” He found that the ecological and social systems in the Andes Mountains are responding not only to climate change, but also to simultaneous changes in social, economic, and political factors. The fieldwork involved vegetation sampling, household and community interviews, and analyses of governmental responses. His dissertation supervisor was Dr. Kenneth Young. The other committee members were Drs. Kelley Crews, William Doolittle, Gregory Knapp, and Camille Parmesan.<br /><br />Julio continues to do research on global environmental change, as informed especially by social science and interdisciplinary approaches.The Outstanding Dissertation Award included a $3000 prize.<br /><br /><b><i>Abstract of his dissertation:</i></b> Anthropogenic global changes are altering properties and functions of social and ecological systems at multiple spatial and temporal scales. In addition to climate change, the Peruvian Southern Andes has also experienced dramatic political and social change. This dissertation addresses the responses of plants, humans, communities and sub-national governments to the impacts of these changes. Methods from both the social and natural sciences were used at three levels: 1) on the forelands of the Quelccaya ice cap a chronosequence approach was used and 113 quadrats (1m2) sampled the vegetation covering an altitudinal range from 5113 to 4830 m.a.s.l.; 2) with the households of herders in the Quelcaya community surveys, interviews, participant observation, and archival research were employed; and 3) with the three Regional Governments (Arequipa, Cusco, and Puno) interviews with officials and stakeholders were conducted. The results show an upward displacement of the elevational limit of plants and a trend towards homogenization of vegetation. Warming climate, a shortened rainy season, and longer dry and cold spells are the most relevant impacts of climate change in the study area. Responses to these changes occur within households, supra-household units and communities, through dynamic institutions, traditional knowledge, and flexible polycentric social organization. These responses originate from path dependencies generated by human-environment interactions in the Peruvian Southern Andes. For instance, pastoralists increased livestock mobility within their pastures, created wetlands through irrigation, and introduced agriculture of bitter potatoes. The women agriculturalists modified the productive calendar to adjust agricultural tasks to changes in the rainfall regime; they replaced maize for wheat and fava bean, because these crops are more resistant to cold spells. Agro-pastoralists increase institutional water governance and demand infrastructure to improve efficient water use. Synergies between local and regional adaptive responses to climate change may be led by projects like building irrigation infrastructure and strengthening local resource governance, although there are also disjunctions that limit adaption. Local social ecological systems are adaptive and resilient to multi-scale social environmental disturbances by a malleable forging of former strategies to face change, innovation, polycentric social organization, and a dynamic institutional body that promptly response to change.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Doctoral student Kathleen Shafer has received a residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Wendover, Utah site. Wendover was a stop on the Western Pacific Railroad and later home to the Wendover Air Force Base which trained B-17 and B-24 bomber crews. Much of the air base remains intact. Shafer will spend one month in Wendover this October/November.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The Center operates a residence program to support the development of new interpretive methodologies and ideas. The program is open to artists, researchers, theorists, or anyone who works with land and land use issues in an innovative and engaging manner. Residents primarily work out of the CLUI facilities at Wendover, Utah, and explore and interpret the landscape of that unique and inspiring geographic region, which includes the Great Salt Lake and its desert and salt-flat environs. More information can be found at the CLUI website at </span><a href="http://clui.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://clui.org/</a>.</span>Katherine Liningerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01255069600170436911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-42745848499447672242012-04-23T09:39:00.001-05:002012-04-23T09:39:26.623-05:00Graduate Students Receive Research Funds from the Latin American Studies InstituteTwo graduate students in the Department of Geography and the Environment received Summer 2012 Research Grants from the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LILAS). Ph.D. student Josh Rudow received a grant for preliminary dissertation research in Peru. He will investigate how small- to medium-sized farmers are adapting to the effects of climate change, including unpredictable weather conditions and loss of glacier melt. Master’s student Katherine Lininger also received a grant to conduct research on floodplain processes on the Araguaia River in the Brazilian Cerrado.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-27979488532746488482012-04-04T06:57:00.002-05:002012-04-04T06:57:35.852-05:00Students receive NSF AwardsTwo Texas Geography grads received the Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards from the National Science Foundation, securing two of the only twelve awards for Social Sciences in Geography. Only one other school received two of the NSF awards, ranking Texas among the top in the nation.
One award winner, Katherine Lininger, is a first year Master's student studying who received her undergraduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and will be working over the summer on river system hydrology in Brazil. Thomas Brandt, the second award winner, completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Texas-Austin, and will be beginning the Master's program in the Fall. His research will focus on the dynamics of fire, land management, and climate change and their effects on plant biomass quantities in the Botswana Kalahari.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-45287885097175684652012-04-02T13:44:00.012-05:002012-04-03T07:09:13.257-05:00Departmental Awards Given to Graduate StudentsThe Department of Geography and the Environment announced the 2012 departmental awards, three of which are awarded to graduate students. <span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>Niti Mishra received the Achievement Award for excellence in research, publication, and institution building. Jon Gehrig received the Leadership Award for leadership in departmental activities, and Sharon Adams was given the Teaching Award for teaching excellence, based on student evaluations and faculty recommendations. Vince Clause, who will be a geography graduate student in the fall of 2012, received the Undergraduate Award, which is given to a major in the department who excels through a combination of academic excellence and leadership.<br /><br />The recipients were chosen by the faculty, and the award winners will receive a monetary award. In addition, their names will be inscribed on the department plaque.Katherine Liningerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01255069600170436911noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-52127294681450689522012-03-09T09:46:00.002-06:002012-03-09T09:46:27.685-06:00Grads Win Veselka Field AwardFive Texas grads have received the Robert E. Veselka Endowed Fellowship for field work. The field grant--which was awarded to Marina Islas, Christine Bonthius, Jonathan Lowell, Richard Knox, and Katherine Lininger--helps to defray the high travel costs associated with summer field work and is administered annually by the Department of Geography. Students will be representing the University in a variety of countries, from Mexico to the Brazilian Amazon.
The award honors Robert E. Veselka, a 1993 Texas Geography PhD who passed away in 1994.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-24182341662663002032012-03-06T13:38:00.010-06:002012-03-06T14:09:15.624-06:00AAG Specialty Groups Award Field Research Grants to Graduate Students<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EPkPvwaaPR8/T1ZuG3dYmYI/AAAAAAAAHi4/iC9aZa3sKW4/s1600/Polk_photo.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 80px; height: 90px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EPkPvwaaPR8/T1ZuG3dYmYI/AAAAAAAAHi4/iC9aZa3sKW4/s320/Polk_photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716877841238890882" border="0" /></a>Ph.D. student Molly Polk was awarded the Chimborazo Student Research Grant from the Mountain Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). The award will help with the expenses for her fieldwork in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru, where she is researching high Andean wetlands and glacial recession. Molly was the only recipient of the Chimborazo Grant in 2012.<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g0DiyjQY1Ok/T1ZuOcCa_zI/AAAAAAAAHjE/r8PRPnqE5KQ/s1600/Bonthius_photo.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 177px; height: 115px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-g0DiyjQY1Ok/T1ZuOcCa_zI/AAAAAAAAHjE/r8PRPnqE5KQ/s320/Bonthius_photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716877971316997938" border="0" /></a>Master's student Christine Bonthius received the Field Study Travel Award (Master's level) from the AAG Latin American Specialty Group, which is intended to support preliminary or reconnaissance fieldwork for research in Latin America. Christine will use the award to support her master's thesis research on the Madeira River in Brazil.Katherine Liningerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01255069600170436911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5781921563907440329.post-74496468871334080132012-03-06T13:20:00.006-06:002012-03-06T13:38:10.056-06:00Graduate Students Win Awards from the Korean-American Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UPS_eNlbHdo/T1Zmuu0pucI/AAAAAAAAHh8/v8KowfaVXEw/s1600/Park_Photo.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 80px; height: 90px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UPS_eNlbHdo/T1Zmuu0pucI/AAAAAAAAHh8/v8KowfaVXEw/s320/Park_Photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5716869730022308290" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Edward Park, UT Geography master's student, won the Pixoneer Scholarship from the Korean-American Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences for his paper presentation at the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). The scholarship was established in 2008 by Pixoneer Geomatics, Inc. to provide financial assistance to graduate students in the research field of Geography, Geospatial Technologies and Environmental Sciences. Pixoneer Geomatics, Inc. is a GIS and remote sensing firm located at Daejon, South Korea, and the scholarship is awarded annually to students through the generous sponsorship of its CEO Jong Sik Yoon. 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The award was established in 2010 to support the work of students who implement GIS/RS/Geospatial techniques into his/her research.This scholarship is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to the annual meeting. Only two awards were provided in 2012.</span><br /><span style="mso-fareast-Times New Roman"font-family:";font-size:100%;" ></span></p>Katherine Liningerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01255069600170436911noreply@blogger.com0