2008 Geography Student Symposium
The 7th Annual Geography Student Symposium Schedule:
Wecoming Address 9:00 am
Matthew Turner, Dpeartment Chair
Session I:
9:10 Henry Loope – Late Wisconsin optical age chronology
of fluvial incision and eolian activity in the Upper Mississippi Valley- 9:30 Jake Fleming – Tenure and Transition: Pastoral Land Management in Kyrgyzstan and the Soviet Legacy
- 9:50 Julia Ferguson – Reconstructing historic floodplain conditions for practitioners: A case study in Iowa County, Wisconsin
- 10:10 Yen Chu Weng – Diverging interests, diverging knowledges: Democratize ecological restoration? Rethinking the expert-laypeople relationships through volunteering
Session II:
- 10:40 Jacquelyn Gill – Were no-analog plant communities during the late Pleistocene driven in part by herbivory release following the North American megafaunal extinction?
- 11:00 Paul Reyerson – Terrestrial silica cycling: Controls and mechanisms
- 11:20 Anthony Beauchaine – Constraining the timing of late glacial events in the lower Wisconsin River valley using optical (OSL) dating of eolian and fluvial sediment
- 11:40 Colin Belby – Floodplain Sedimentation and Nutrient Sequestration, Upper Mississippi River
Lunch with Biogeography Candidate Geography Lounge, 12:00-1:00
Session III:
- 1:10 Chris Muellerleile – Dislocating Boeing: A story of financialization and embeddedness at the world's iconic manufacturer of "amazing flying machines."
- 1:30 Richard Donohue – Emerging Mapping Technologies: Implications For Knowledge Spaces
- 1:50 Jeremiah Marsicek – Local vs. Regional Responses to Climate Change: Comparing the Lake Productivity in Spicer Lake and Appleman Lake, IN
- 2:10 Karen Russ – Expansion of the North American Plant Macrofossil Database
- 2:30 Adam Mandelman – Historical and Cultural Representation on Hawai'i's Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail
Keynote Address Science Hall 180 3:30 PM:
Faith Fitzpatrick (1998 University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Geography Graduate)
Effects of urbanization on channel characteristics and implications for aquatic habitat degradation
Reception in 3rd Floor Faculty/Student Lounge following the lecture.