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Friday, April 7, 2006
Science Hall

The Annual Geography Student Symposium showcases the breadth of student research in our department.

Presentations will be 15 minutes followed by a 5 minute question and answer session.

Dr. Samantha Kaplan (Madison PhD '03) will be the keynote speaker at 4:15 pm, Room 180 Science Hall.

This year's Student Symposium organizers are:

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2006 Schedule of Presenters print a symposium schedule

Welcoming Address: 9:00-9:10 Rm 444, Science Hall

Karl Zimmerer, Department Chair

Session I: 9:10-10:30 Room 444, Science Hall  view abstracts

9:10-9:30 Travis Tennessen
The Unfortunate Legacy of Conservation in the Little Missouri Badlands

9:30-9:50 Melanie McCalmont
Science for the People: A Retrospective on A Science Community

9:50-10:10 Jesse Papez
Traveler’s Perception of Space: Travel Space in the Coterminous United States

10:10-10:30 Corey Werner
Non-linear Dune Response to Holocene Climate Change in the High Plains

Break 10:30-10:40

Session II: 10:40-12:00 Room 444, Science Hall   view abstracts

10:40-11:00 Po-Yi Hung
Contested Images for Symbolized Tribe: Tourism and Agricultural Transformation in Fataan

11:00-11:20 Chris Limburg
Tibetan Spiritual Landscape: Networks of Articulated Subjectivity

11:20-11:40 Jian Liu
Mapping with Words: Utilizing Descriptive Soil-Landscape Knowledge to Automate Soil Survey

11:40-12:00 Shawn Higgins
Recent Channel Adjustments to Hydrologic Changes in the Kickapoo River Basin

Lunch Break 12:00-1:00

Session III: 1:00-2:20 Room 175, Science Hall   view abstracts

1:00-1:20 Michael Shepherd
Enclosing the Oasis: Metabolic Rift, Cyclical Nature and the Modern Relationship to Water

1:20-1:40 Kara Dempsey
Constructing Contemporary European Regional Identities: Spanish-Galicia’s “Cidade da Cultura”

1:40-2:00 Colin Belby
Historical Floodplain Sedimentation Along the Upper Mississippi River, Pool 11

2:00-2:20 Robert Roth
Ground False: How Inaccuracy Enters Into Ground Truthing

Break 2:20-2:30

Session IV: 2:30-3:50 Room 175, Science Hall   view abstracts

2:30-2:50 Genevieve Schaad
The European Union: The Booming Demise to European Identity

2:50-3:10 Lindsay Theis
Holocene Bankfull Flow Estimates from Paleo-channel Geomorphology, Lemonweir River, Central Wisconsin

3:10-3:30 Dan Warshawsky
Scale and Food: The Restructuring of Emergency Food Service in Chicago

3:30-4:10 Break

Keynote Address: 4:15-5:15 Room 180, Science Hall   view abstract

Samantha Kaplan
UW-Madison PhD ‘03     background
Center for Climatic Research, UW-Madison

"When a tree falls in the forest… if no one was there, does it still tell a story? Or, a summary of recent tree-ring applications to climate science in the central U.S."

Keynote Speaker's Reception

Third Floor Lounge, Science Hall

 

 

 

 

 

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