Presentations by: grads, undergrads, and certificate students! The symposium provdies a venue to see what other students are doing in the department! Coordinated by your Geography Student Symposium Committee: Michelle Schenck and Amanda Peterson .

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Schedule of Presenters 

Welcoming Address: 9:00-9:10

Jim Burt, Department Chair

Session I: 9:10-10:30

9:10-9:30 Yen-Chu Weng
Spatiotemporal Changes of Landscape Pattern in Response to the Process of Urbanization

9:30-9:50 Matt Liesch
Promotion of Place, Landscape and Regional Identity (Re)Invention: Gogebic Range as Case Study

9:50-10:10 Peter Augello

10:10-10:30 Nicholas Bauch
Food and Place: Consuming Parma, Italy

Break 10:30-10:40

Session II: 10:40-12:00

10:40-11:00 Robert Roth
Locating Optimal Lands for Reforestation in the Baraboo Hills

11:00-11:20 Reece Jones
Sacred Cows and Thumping Drums: Claiming Territory as ‘Zones of Tradition’ in British India

11:20-11:40 Kevin Spigel
Preliminary interpretations of sediments from a varved lake in south-central Wisconsin using environmental magnetism and loss-on-ignition

11:40-12:00 Gordon Robertson
The environmental legacy of historic human agriculture in western Scotland

Lunch Break 12:00-1:00

Session III: 1:00-2:20

1:00-1:20 Pete Witucki
Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Wildlife fencing and agriculturalist response in Aberdares Conservation Area, Kenya

1:20-1:40 Melanie McCalmont
Communicating the Historical American West through Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Websites

1:40-2:00 Travis Tennessen
Exploitation, Stewardship, and the Shaping of North Dakota’s Little Missouri Badlands

2:00-2:20 Anu Vaidyanathan

Break 2:20-2:30

Session IV: 2:30-3:50

2:30-2:50 Marie C. Peppler (cancelled)
Evaluation of the Role of Native and Nonnative Vegetation for Streambank Stabilization in Great Lakes Tributaries

2:30-2:50 David Heyman (substitute)
Ballot | Bank

2:50-3:10 Noah Rost
(De)centralizations of Power and Meaning: The Yugoslav Nationalities Question and the Symbolic Place of a Museum 1970-1990

3:10-3:30 Eric D. Carter
Socio-environmental dynamics of malaria control in Northwest Argentina, 1890-1950

3:30-3:50 Kim Coulter
Good Bye, Lenin!: A tale of a unified Germany, for a unified Europe

Keynote Address: 4:15-5:15

M. Beth Schlemper, Assistant Professor of Geography, Illinois State University
"The Making and Unmaking of Wisconsin’s Holyland"

Reception

Sponsored by the Undergraduate Geography Club