Geography News and Events Archive
News and Events - Fall 2012
Professor Schwartz to talk to the Greater Milwaukee AMS Chapter
On Tuesday, November 13, UWM Distinguished Professor Mark Schwartz spoke to the Greater Milwaukee AMS Chapter with the title of “Changing Seasons: Plant Phenology as Indicator of Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions.” Details are available at http://www.facebook.com/MilwaukeeAMS
Professor Ghose invited to talk in the Netherlands
Professor Rina Ghose has been invited to give a talk entitled "Power and politics in the use of GIS in community decision making" at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Geography, Planning and international Development Studies. During the trip she will give another talk entitled "Addressing urban deprivation and inequalities through Public Participation GIS" at the conference on "Information Flows in Urban Governance Networks in India."
CIPR/SSI Research Lunch Series (Oct 19th)
Prof. Rina Ghose, Geography, UW-Milwaukee "Bridging the Geospatial Divide through Public Participation GIS" NWQ B, Student Lounge on the 1st Floor, 12:00-1:30pm. Contact Michael Zimmer in Center for Information Policy Research: zimmerm@uwm.edu for reservation.
Geography alumnus elected president of the national Council on Undergraduate Research
Professor Julio Rivera, who holds a PhD from the UWM Department of Geography and serves as Provost at Carthage College, has been chosen to lead the Council on Undergraduate Research for the 2013-2014 term.
Learn more about Professor Rivera's appointment and research:
Carthage News
Carthage Faculty
Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture by Dr. James McCarthy
Friday, Sept 28th, 2:30-3:30 PM
Dr. James McCarthy from the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University presented “Socializing urban environments? The case of Boston's Big Dig” for the Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture in the Golda Meir Library Conference Center
Phenology Conference
September 10-13, 2012
UWM co-sponsored Phenology 2012, the second international interdisciplinary conference on phenology. For details, please see the conference website.
Environmental geography course receives CUP Grant
The UWM Cultures and Communities Community-University Partnership Grant program has awarded a grant to support a service learning partnership between Geography 125 (Introduction to Environmental Geography) and the Milwaukee River Greenway Coalition. The partnership will also receive support from UWM's Cartography and Geographic Information Science Center.
Learn more about the grant: 2012 CUP Award Winners Milwaukee River Greenway.
News - 2011
Faculty News - Fall 2011
Mick Day
- Participated between November 12 and 23, 2011 in the International Geographical Union Regional Conference in Santiago, Chile, chairing a session on karst and presenting “Challenges to sustainability in the Central America karst”
- The abstract of Mick's paper at the October, 2011 Geological Society of America conference in Minneapolis, “The role of karst hydrology in the 18th Century Maroon Wars in the Cockpit Country, Jamaica.” is available in the GSA Abstracts with Programs
Woonsup Choi
- Had an article published in Physical Geography (http://bellwether.metapress.com/content/l11r1106t1570867/)
Rina Ghose
- Had an chapter entitled “Investigating Middle Class Migration and Rural Gentrification in Western Montana” published in the book Country Dreams and City Schemes: Utopian Visions of the Twentieth Century American West
- Had an chapter entitled “Politics and power in the use of GIS for community decision making” published in the book Handbook of GIS and Society Research
- Co-authored an essay entitled “PPGIS in Community Development Planning” published in the book Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica
- Co-authored an article entitled “Tracing the Historic Trajectory of GIS Development and its Impacts on Contemporary Practice” published in Journal of Urban Technology
- Had an article entitled “E-Planning through the Wisconsin land information program: The context of power, politics, and scale” published in International Journal of E-Planning Research
Ryan Holifield
- Had an article entitled “Environmental justice as a recognition and participation in risk assessment: Negotiating and translating health risk at a Superfund site in Indian county” accepted for publication in Annals of the Association of American Geographers
- Gave a guest lecture entitled “Representing the elusive ‘environmental justice community’: The politics and science of disproportionate impact in the U.S. EPA” at the University of Tennessee
Mark Schwartz
- Had a co-authored article entitled “Influences of the El Nino Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the timing of the North American spring” accepted for publication in International Journal of Climatology
Changshan Wu
- Had the following articles published:
- Wu, C. and Sharma, R., “Housing market classification: The role of spatial contiguity,” forthcoming in Applied Geography
- Mohapatra, R. and Wu, C., “Modeling urban growth at a micro level: A panel data analysis,” forthcoming in International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research
Faculty News - Spring 2011
Ryan Holifield
- Has teamed up with Associate Professor Tim Ehlinger (Biological Sciences) and Associate Professor Manu Sobti (Architecture) to study cross-border issues in the governance of water, with support from the first Center for 21st Century Studies Transdisciplinary Challenge Grant.
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Woonsup Choi
- Has been appointed the Awards Committee Chair of the Association of American Geographers Water Resources Specialty Group
- Was awarded a Faculty/Academic Staff Travel Award to Implement Overseas Field Research Experiences for Undergraduates in the amount of $3,000 by the Center for International Education
Kristin Sziarto
- Has been named a fellow at the Center for 21st Century Studies for the academic year 2011-2012
Linda McCarthy
- Has been appointed to the Professional Geography editorial board
Student News – Spring 2011
Jonathan Hanes
- Won the 1st place in the Association of American Geographers Climate Specialty Group 2011 student paper competition
Wei Huang
- Was invited to participate in the Asian Trans-Karst Disciplinary Conference 201 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Isaac Park
- Was tied for 3rd place in the Association of American Geographers Climate Specialty Group 2011 student paper competition
Carrie Philpott
- Has been awarded one of the Roberto Hernández Center Faculty and Graduate Applied Latino Research Grants for 2011-2012
Brad Willems
- Received a scholarship from the Wisconsin Association of Energy Engineers
News - 2010
Faculty News - Fall 2010
Woonsup Choi
- Was awarded $2,816 Salary for Undergraduate Research Fellows from the Office of Undergraduate Research for the academic year 2010-2011.
- Presented a poster at the Meeting of the Americas 2010 of American Geophysical Union held in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. The poster is entitled "Geographical and Temporal Variability of Temperature over Minnesota and Wisconsin Identified from North American Regional Reanalysis Data" and was co-authored by Anke Keuser at UWM.
- Traveled to Korea from late May to early June using the fund from the Faculty/Academic Staff Travel Awards to Develop/Implement Overseas Field Research Experiences for Undergraduates from the Center for International Education.
- Co-organized two consecutive paper sessions entitled "Climate Change and Water Resources: From Impact Assessment to Adaptation" at the 2010 AAG annual meeting with Dr. Heejun Chang at Portland State University
- Presented a paper at the AAG meeting entitled "Temperature Trend in North and Central Illinois from Weather Stations and North American Regional Reanalysis" and co-authored by Anke Keuser.
Michael J. Day
Was on sabbatical leave during Spring 2010, carrying out research on protected karst areas in the Caribbean and Central America.
Published following papers:
- Day, M.J. Human interaction with Caribbean karst landscapes: past, present and future. Acta Carsologica 39(1): 137- 146.
- Day, M.J. Challenges to sustainability of the Caribbean karst. Geologia Croatica 63(2): 63-68.
- Day, M.J. A speleological origin for the Leland Natural Bridge, Wisconsin? The Wisconsin Geographer 23: 50-66.
- Day, M.J. and Huang, W. Reflections on fengcong and fenglin. Cave and Karst Science 36(2): 49-51.
- Day, M.J. and Waltham, A.W. The pinnacle karren fields of Mulu. In: Karst Rock Features: Karren Sculpturing, ed. A. Gines, M. Knez, T. Slabe and W. Dreybrodt. ZRC Publishing, Ljubljana, Slovenia: 423-432.
- Mauel, S. and Day, M.J. Real-time delimitation of southwestern Wisconsin's karst boundaries using soils data, GIS and GPS. The Wisconsin Geographer 23: 67-86.
Christopher De Sousa
Published papers in the Carolina Planning journal and in Urban Studies
Changshan Wu
Published or had accepted for publication following papers
- Jose L. Silvan-Cardenas, Le Wang, Peter Rogerson, Changshan Wu, Tiantian Feng, and Benjamin D. Kamphaus, Assessing fine spatial resolution remote sensing for small area population estimation, International Journal of Remote Sensing.
- Rama P. Mohapatra and Changshan Wu, High Resolution Impervious Surface Estimation: an Integration of IKONOS and Landsat-7 ETM+ Imagery, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.
- Chengbing Deng, Changshan Wu, and Le Wang, Improving Housing Unit Method for Small Area Population Estimation Using Remote Sensing and GIS Information, International Journal of Remote Sensing.
Student News - Fall 2010
Jonathan Burkham
Returned to Milwaukee after six months of fieldwork in a small village in west central Mexico
Chengbin Deng
Received a studentship award for the 30th Annual ESRI International User Conference, an informative conference in the GIS industry attended by above 13,000 users in San Diego, California in mid-July.
Jeff Sponcia
Had a busy summer interning at Lutheran Social Services in Milwaukee in their Refugee Resettlement department.
Nicholas L. Padilla
Spent June and July living with a Quichua community in eastern Ecuador, attempting to speak Quichua, focusing on indigenous plant knowledge, and learning a different worldview.
Rama Mohapatra
Have accepted a pre-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Geography, Minnesota State University at Mankato.
I-Hui Lin
Made a trip to Minneapolis, MN during the summer for dissertation research about neighborhood parks
Faculty News - Spring 2010
Rina Ghose
Published the following papers:
Lin, W. & R. Ghose. (2010) Social Construction of GIS in China's Changing Urban Governance: The Case of Shenzhen, Cartographica 45(2), forthcoming.
Mukherjee, F. & R. Ghose. (2009) Complexities in GIS Spatial Knowledge Production in Dane County, Wisconsin. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 36(4): 299-314.
Mark Schwartz
Published the following papers:
Schwartz, M.D., & J.M. Hanes. (2010) Continental-scale phenology: warming and chilling. International Journal of Climatology (in press, published online DOI: 10.1002/joc.2014).
Schwartz, M. D., & J. M. Hanes. (2010) Intercomparing Multiple Measures of the Onset of Spring in Eastern North America. International Journal of Climatology (in press, published online DOI: 10.1002/joc.2008).
Student News - Spring 2010
Nick Padilla
Nick was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship through the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UWM. He will spend two months this summer in Ecuador studying beginning and intermediate Quichua language and culture through the Arizona State University Andes and Amazon Field School.
