WKU Geography Faculty, Students
Celebrate Geography Awareness Week
November 18, 2003
Bowling Green, Ky. - The Department of Geography and Geology at Western Kentucky University is celebrating Geographic Information Systems Day with an open house on Wednesday.
GIS Day is a part of Geography Awareness Week, which runs Nov. 17-21. This is part of a national movement to bring a geographic perspective to society's most pressing issues.
The open house at the GIS laboratory, located on the third floor of the Industrial Education Building, will focus attention on the power of Geographic Information Science as an analytical and problem-solving tool.
Inaugurated in 1986, Geography Awareness Week is designed to focus attention on how a geographic or spatial perspective can be applied to addressing and solving human-environment issues and problems.
Activities for Geography Awareness Week include a lecture by faculty member David Keeling on Chile at the Barnes and Noble bookstore on Campbell Lane at 7 p.m. Thursday. The lecture is part of the WKU Library's Far Away Places series, sponsored by Integra Bank.
Also, faculty member Chris Groves was interviewed by Dan Modlin on WKYU-FM's Midday Edition on Monday to discuss his research project in Alaska, and later this week Dr. Keeling can be heard on Midday Edition talking to Modlin about Iraq, the reconstruction of states and the problems of geographical ignorance.
Finally, two faculty members and three graduate students travel to Charlotte, N.C., this weekend to present their research at the annual conference of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers.
More information about Geography Awareness Week, GIS, and geographic research can be obtained from Dr. Keeling (david.keeling@wku.edu) at (270) 745-4555.
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