WKU Students, Faculty To
Attend Geography Conference
March 04, 2004
Bowling Green, Ky. - Six geoscience graduate students and 10 faculty from Western Kentucky University's Department of Geography and Geology will attend this month's annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Philadelphia.
As the largest annual gathering of geographers in the world, this year's meeting celebrates the association's centennial and focuses on issues as sustainable development, geographic ignorance and new technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS).
"Western has always had excellent representation at the national geography conference and this year is no exception," Dr. David Keeling, Geography and Geology department head, said of the March 14-19 event. "With 16 faculty and students representing the department, the Western banner will be visible throughout the week."
In addition to presenting the results of current research, faculty and students have the opportunity to learn from other researchers about cutting-edge topics, to examine new books and technologies in the discipline, and to meet with friends and colleagues from around the country and the world. Several faculty also serve as session chairs, serve on committees and participate in workshops and other training sessions.
Graduate student presenters include:
Sara All of New Jersey, "Reducing mosquito-borne virus vulnerability in equine populations through GIS-based management strategies."
AJ Iovanna of Evansville, Ind., "Evaluating Uranium Depth Versus and Socio-economic Statistics for Residential Radon Vulnerability in Warren County, Kentucky."
Daniel Taylor of Scottsville, "Spatial Modeling of Precipitation in Kentucky at Multiple Time Scales."
Mark Graham of Penzance, England, "Interrelationships Between Transportation Preferences, Social Structures, and the Built Environment in Kentucky and England."
Jenna S. Medlin of Charleston, S.C., "Wetland Loss in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina -- Temporal Trends, Management Lapses, and Proposed Solutions."
Christina Henry of Sumpter, S.C., "A Hydrometeorological Assessment of an Eastern Kentucky Flash Flood."
Faculty presenters include:
Dr. John All, "Residential Radon Vulnerability Prediction in Karst Landscapes."
Dr. Rezaul Mahmood, "Assessing bias in evapotranspiration and soil moisture estimates due to the use of modeled solar radiation and dew point temperature."
Dr. David J. Keeling, "Qualitative Research Methods and the Puerto Madero Project, Buenos Aires, Argentina."
Dr. L. Michael Trapasso, "Tourism and the Ozone Hole: Varying Perceptions."
William P. Blackburn and Debra D. Kreitzer, "High Ground-Level Ozone Concentrations at Mammoth Cave National Park."
Dr. Richard Deal, "The Political Impacts of Depopulation in Niue."
Dr. Katie Algeo, "Threnody for Tobacco."
Glen Conner (Kentucky State Climatologist and Faculty Emeritus), "Weather During Kentucky's Civil War Battles."
Dr. Stephen Kenworthy, "Riverbed dynamics and benthic populations: the ecological significance of sediment mobilization during flow events" and co-author on "Comparing Observations of Near-surface Soil Moisture and Topographic Index Values in an Urbanizing Environment" and "Spatial Dynamics of Soil Moisture and Nutrient Cycling at Hillslope and Small Catchment Scales."
For more information, contact David Keeling at 745-4555. More WKU news is available on the World Wide Web at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via E-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
