Faculty and Graduate Student News Archive

News - 2011

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

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

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

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

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