WKU Faculty Member,
Graduate Student Travel To China

March 19, 2003

Bowling Green, Ky. - A Western Kentucky University faculty member and graduate student will participate in a conference on climate change this month in China.

Dr. John All, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Geology, and his wife, geoscience graduate student Sara All, will travel to Beijing for the International Symposium on Climate Change March 31-April 3.

During the conference, Dr. All will present details of "Improving Health in a Changing Climate and Environment: An Action Plan for the 21st Century," a conference he is helping organize that will be convened in Brazil in 2004.

The Alls will visit the Karst Dynamics Laboratory in Guilin, the department's research partner in China, and present seminars titled "Source Water Protection Techniques for a Changing Climate and Society" and "Using GIS Technology for Infectious Disease Vector Management in Livestock and Humans."

They also will visit the Sci-Tech University for Agriculture and Forestry at Yangling. The university coordinates research in Western China and is the home of the Sino-US Centers for Soil and Water Conservation and Environmental Protection.

For information on research collaborations in China, contact Dr. Chris Groves, director of the Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, at chris.groves@wku.edu or (270) 745-5974. For information on the department's international initiatives, contact Dr. David Keeling, department head, at david.keeling@wku.edu or (270) 745-4555.

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