Lecture Series
The Department of Geography Lecture Series features a variety of local, national and international speakers from across the full spectrum of the discipline. Lectures are Thursdays from noon-1pm in Saunders 443B, unless noted otherwise. All are welcome to attend.
For more information about the series please contact Reece Jones.
Spring 2012
Jan 12
Towards finding the world’s most endangered forest
Thomas Gillespie
Department of Geography, UCLA
Jan 19
Island to island, global to local: Whiteness and Puerto Rican migration to Hawai‘i
Ines Miyares
Department of Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York
Jan 26
Can tigers, pandas, and people coexist? The role of geographers in coupled human-natural systems modeling
Ashton Shortridge
Department of Geography, Michigan State University
Feb 7 Tuesday
Addressing spatial data uncertainty in land use planning
Alan Murray
School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Feb 16
Islands Are the New Continents
Jonathan Price
Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo
Mar 08
Pacific antagonisms: Conflicts over environmental governance in New Caledonia
Leah Horowitz
Department of Geography, Hawai'i Pacific University
Apr 5
Colonial urban development and the making of modern disasters
Andrew Rumbach
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Apr 12
Rainfall in Hawai‘i: Month-year maps and trend analysis from 1920-2007
Abby Frazier
Department of Geography, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Fall 2011
Sept 15
Public Acceptance of Wind Energy: Does Perceived Fairness of Process Matter?
Jeremy Firestone
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment and the Center for Carbon- Free Power Integration, University of Delaware
Co-Sponsered by the Graduate Ocean Policy Program
Oct 13
Feral Pig Management in Texas: A Landscape Genetics Approach
Johanna Delgado-Acevedo
Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Oct 20
Managing Marine Fisheries as a Social-Ecological System
Steven Gray
Department of Natural Resources, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Oct 27
Translating Research into Better Decisions about Risk
Melissa Finucane
East-West Center
Nov 10
Religion and the Ideology of Urban Governance: Ahmedabad City, India
Ipsita Chatterjee
Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Dr. Chatterjee’s talk is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian studies
Nov 16
Vertically Challenged—Climate Change in the Third Dimension
Henry Diaz
CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder
Wednesday, November 16, 3:00 pm
Dec 1
Evolutionary Biogeography of the Red Pencil Urchin in Hawai'i
Stacy Jørgensen
Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Dec 9
Are Creative Workers Happier? Evidence from China
Jessie Poon
Department of Geography, University at Buffalo-SUNY
Friday, December 9, 10:00 am in Saunders 704F (SSRI Conference Room)
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