Fall 2022
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Camilla Hawthorne, Department of Sociology/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California – Santa Cruz
Contesting Race and Citizenship: Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean
Dr. Laura Pulido, Departments of Geography and Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon
Monumental Denial: Cultural Memory, the Denial of White Supremacy, & U.S. Territory
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Weds., Oct. 12, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Kevin Omland, Department of Biological Sciences, UMBC
Conservation Biology of the Bahama Oriole: Successful Downlisting of a Critically Endangered Species
Dr. Catherine L. Kling, School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
The Social Cost of Water Pollution
Dr. Kandis Boyd, Director, EPA Chesapeake Bay Program
2025 and Beyond: Today, Tomorrow, Always
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Holly Michael, University of Delaware
Drivers and Impacts of Marsh Migration in the Coastal Critical Zone
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Keith Eshleman, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Detecting and Understanding Hydrologic Change in Developing Watersheds: Role of Environmental Site Design
Wednesday, Nov. 30, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Xuezhi Cang, Postdoctoral Researcher, UMBC Department of Geography & Environmental Systems
Modeling and Assessing Association by Comparing Spatial Heterogeneity
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
JCET/GESTAR Poster Session – Sondheim basement
Spring 2022
Dr. Bette Gebrian, Executive Director, Grand’Anse Health & Development Association, .Jèrèmie, Haiti
Haiti Resilience and Recovery
Dr. Deondre Smiles, Department of Geography, University of Victoria
Geographic Indigenous Futures
Sean Kinard, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Effects of Rainfall on Stream Fish Communities
Dr. Susan Sterett, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Warning of displacement in a changing climate: loss, choice, uncertainty
Dr. Patrick Bigger, Climate + Community Project
Debt Justice for Climate Reparations
Wednesday, Mar. 16, 12 noon – 1 pm
Dr. Jack Schmidt, Director, Center for Colorado River Studies, Utah State University
The Future of the Colorado River
Wednesday, Mar. 30, 12 noon – 1 pm
Dr. Luis Fernandez, Executive Director, Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, and Research Professor, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University
Calculating the True Price of Gold: Science and Conservation to Develop a Multidimensional Characterization of Ecosystem Degradation by Artisanal Gold Mining in the Amazon
Wednesday, Apr. 6, 12 noon – 1 pm
Dr. Kelly Kay, Department of Geography, UCLA
Scale, Labor, and the Los Angeles Green New Deal Plan
Wednesday, Apr. 13, 12 noon – 1 pm
Jeannie Lee, Senior Advisor for NEPA. White House Council on Environmental Quality
Jomar Maldonado, Director for the National Environmental Policy Act, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Big and Little NEPAs: Current and Past Regulatory Initiatives Affecting the National Environmental Policy Act and the California Environmental Quality Act
Wednesday, Apr. 20, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Naomi Schwartz, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Tropical forests in a changing world: impacts of land use and climate extremes on tropical second-growth forests
Wednesday, Apr. 27, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Tianna Bruno, Department of Geography & the Environment, University of Texas at Austin
Ecological Memory and Black Sense of Place in the Biophysical Afterlife of Slavery
Wednesday, May 4, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Lara Fowler, Senior Lecturer, Penn State Law; Assistant Director, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment; Affiliate Faculty, Penn State School of International Affairs
Working in the Valley of Death: Bridging Differences and Finding Solutions to Challenging Environmental and Societal Issues
Wednesday, May 11, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Camilla Hawthorne, Department of Sociology/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California – Santa Cruz
Contesting Race and Citizenship in the Black Mediterranean
Fall 2021
Dr. Johannes Quaas, Theoretical Meteorology, University of Leipzig.
The Recent IPCC Assessment Report, with a Focus on the Role of Clouds and Aerosols
Dr. Jennifer Fluri, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder
Farce Followed by Failure: The US Saving Afghan Women Trope
Dr. Matthew Fagan, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Forests We Need, the Forests We Create: Restoring a Degraded Planet with Ugly Maps and Space Lasers
Dr. Jeffrey Halverson, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
A Summer of Flash Flood Disasters in 2021: The New Normal in this Era of Climate Change?
Dr. Yusuke Kuwayama, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Integrating Hydrologic and Ecological Models into Economic Analysis of Water Resource Policy
Wednesday, Oct. 27 – Baltimore Ecosystem Study Annual Meeting, no seminar
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Megan Latshaw, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering
Mr. Samuel Jordan, President, Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition
Transit Equity and Environmental Health in Baltimore
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
no GES seminar, instead we are inviting people to attend the following seminar scheduled by Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies:
Dr. Elizabeth Rule, American University
Local Lands and Contemporary Indigenous Issues
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Brian Harvey, University of Washington
Climate, Fire, and the Future of Forests in the Western U.S.
Wednesday, Dec. 1, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Annual JCET-GES Poster Session
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Dr. Akira Drake Rodriguez, University of Pennsylvania
Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing
Spring 2021
Wednesday Feb. 3, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
A series of seven E-lightning presentations by our JCET Affiliate Research Faculty
Introduction – Dr. Ali Tokay
Dr. Lorraine Remer
UMBC’s Satellite in Space: HARP Cubesat
Dr. Amita Mehta
Inter-Comparison of Forest Cover Areas in Panama Based on Optical and SAR Observations in Support of UN-SDG 15.2.1
Dr. Petya Campbell
Diurnal and Seasonal Variation in Vegetation Photosynthesis and the Associated Fluorescence and Reflectance Properties, at Leaf and Canopy Scale
Dr. Fred Huemmrich
Examining Tundra Greening from Ground-based to Satellite Observations
Dr. Christopher Shuman
Visualizing Change with Landsat at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland, 1972 to 2020
Dr. Kevin Turpie with PhD student Nicole Trenholm
Subterranean Controls on Glacier Position, Croker Bay, Devon Ice Cap
Dr. Ali Tokay
Evaluation of Operational Radar Snowfall Estimate in Northern Great Lakes
Wednesday, February 10, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Meghan Avolio, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
Synthesizing Plant Community and Ecosystem Responses in Global Change Experiments
Tuesday, February 16, 4:00-5:30 p.m. ET
Dresher Center for the Humanities, Humanities Forum
Dr. Dawn Biehler, Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Sytems, UMBC
Embodying Empire Through Captivity: Geographies of Caged Animals, Human Domination, and Struggle in New York’s Central Park
Wednesday, February 24, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Timothy Thomas, Research Director, Urban Displacement Project, University of California, Berkeley
The Baltimore Eviction Study and Urban Displacement in U.S. Cities
Wednesday, March 10, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Claire Welty, Director, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education and Professor of Environmental Engineering, UMBC
Use of Groundwater-Surface Water Modeling as an Investigative Tool in the Urban Critical Zone
Wednesday, March 31, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Yolanda Valencia, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Being a Climate Musk Ox: Fighting Doomism and Despair with Harm Reduction, Feminist Leadership, and Ice Age Resilience
Wednesday, April 14th, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Yolanda Valencia, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Necropolitics of the War on Drugs and COVID19: How the Global Hurts the Intimate
Wednesday, April 28th, Time 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET
Organized with Center for Social Science Scholarship, Social Sciences Forum
Dr. Tracey Osborne, University of California Presidential Chair and Associate Professor of Management of Complex Systems, University of California-Merced
Playbook for Climate Justice: Our Best Hope for Solving the Climate Crisis
Thursday, April 29th, 4:00-5:30 p.m. ET
Dresher Center for the Humanities, Annual Daphne Harrison Lecture
Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Making Abolition Geographies
Wednesday, May 5th, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Gabriel Duran, Research Assistant, Woodwell Climate Research Centre, and
Dr. Phoebe Cohen, Associate Professor of Geosciences, Williams College
Unlearning Racism in Geoscience
Fall 2020
Wednesday, September 16th, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Emma Colven (she/her/hers), Assistant Professor, Department of International and Area Studies, David L. Boren College of International Studies, University of Oklahoma
The Production of Jakarta’s Water Crisis: A Political Ecology of Speculative Urbanism
Wednesday, September 30, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Michael Alonzo, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, American University
High Resolution Monitoring of Urban and Boreal Forest Ecosystems Using UAV and Planet SkySat
Wednesday, October 7, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Lawrence Brown, Associate Professor, Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Black Butterfly: the Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
Friday, October 16, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Karen Holl, Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dr. Matthew Fagan, Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Dr. Pedro Brancalion, Department of Forest Sciences, University of São Paulo
Keys to Improving Outcomes of Tree Planting Campaigns
Weds., Oct. 21, 12 noon – 1 pm ET
Dr. Joshua Caplan, Research Associate, Architecture & Environmental Design, Temple University
How Green Stormwater Infrastructure Design Can Induce or Prevent Plant Physiological Stress
October 28-29 – Baltimore Ecosystem Study Annual Meeting
Wednesday, November 4 – Day after election, no seminar
Wednesday, November 11, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Ming Li, Professor, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Fighting Surging Seas in a Changing Climate: Defending Coastlines at all Costs or Strategic Retreat to High Ground?
If you find the soundtrack difficult to understand you can watch this other recording from an earlier presentation of the same seminar:
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Wednesday, November 18, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Yolanda Valencia’s seminar is postponed until the Spring 2021 semester. Instead we have two short presentations:
Drs. Jim Smith and Mary Lynn Baeck, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Cloudbursts of the Mid-Atlantic
Dr. Andy Miller, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
What Can Floods in Baltimore-Area Urban Watersheds Tell Us About Climate Change?
Wednesday, December 2, 12 noon – 1 p.m. ET
Dr. Dawn Biehler, Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Urban Green Space and Belonging: Struggles for Justice and Nature in Central Park
Spring 2020
Wednesday, February 5, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Benjamin Zaitchik, Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University
Water, Food, Energy and Power in the Eastern Nile Basin
Wednesday, February 19, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Michael Alonzo, Associate Professor of Geography, American University
High Resolution Monitoring of Urban and Boreal Forest Ecosystems Using UAV and Planet SkySat
Wednesday, February 26, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Margaret Holland, Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
A Tale of Two Nature Reserves: Examining Efforts to Benefit Communities Through Conservation in Ecuador & Mozambique
March 4, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Ashante Reese, Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
The Carceral Life of Sugar: The Contemporary Food System and the Afterlives of Slavery
CANCELED
Cat Wars and the Demise of North America’s Bird Populations
Dr. Peter Marra, Professor and Director of the Georgetown Environment Initiative, Georgetown University
(cosponsored by GES, Biological Sciences, and UMBC Honors College)
Date: March 12, 2020Time: 4-5:30 pmLocation: Library Gallery
CANCELED
March 25, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Dawn Biehler, Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Urban Green Space and Belonging: Struggles for Justice and Nature in Central Park
Weds. April 1, 8 – TBA
POSTPONED
April 23, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Library Gallery
Dr. Tracey Osborne, Associate Professor of Management of Complex Systems, University of California-Merced
Engaged Scholarship for Climate Justice: Harnessing the Power of Colleges and Universities in the Age of the Anthropocene
April 28, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Dr. Karla Slocum, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of African American Research, UNC-Chapel Hill
Black Towns, Black Futures
April 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Location: Library Gallery
Making Abolition Geographies: Social Justice Organizing for Vulnerable Households, Workers, and Communities
Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
UMBC Humanities Forum, cosponsored by GES
May 6, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. James Carton, Professor and Chair of Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Maryland College Park.
Warming of the Oceans 1981-2016
Fall 2019
Wednesday, September 4, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Benton Taylor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Tropical Forests Getting Their Fix: The Patterns, Controls, and Effects of Symbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Trees in Regenerating Tropical Forests
Wednesday, September 18, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
GES 701 Faculty Panel – Navigating Sticking Points in the Research Process
Wednesday, September 25, 12:00 p.m.
Location: ITE 229
Dr. Erle Ellis, Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Bringing Social, Information, and Natural Sciences Together to Understand Human Transformation of Earth
The principal investigator of a UMBC-led “massively collaborative” project published in Science magazine will describe how archaeologists, geographers, and information science came together to show that human societies began transforming Earth thousands of years earlier than known by Earth scientists; evidence for an earlier Anthropocene.
Wednesday, October 2, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Anne Timm, USDA Forest Service, Baltimore
Redefining Aquatic Habitat Connectivity for Urban Catchments
Wednesday, October 9, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
GES 701 Faculty Panel – Scholarly Writing: Getting Started, Getting Through, and Knowing When You’re Finished
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Dena Aufseeser, Assistant Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Venezuelan Migration to Peru: Reworking Notions of Solidarity, Conflict and Deservingness in Lima
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Location: Fine Arts Recital Hall
Dr. Joel Scheraga, Senior Advisor for Climate Change Adaptation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Protecting Public Health and the Environment in a Changing Climate
Dr. Scheraga leads EPA’s work on climate adaptation to ensure the agency continues to fulfill its mission of protecting public health and the environment even as the climate changes. A central focus of this effort is supporting states, tribes, local communities, and businesses as they prepare for and increase their resilience to the impacts of climate change. In December 2015, Dr. Scheraga was honored with a Presidential Rank Award, the highest honor given to career members of the federal Senior Executive Service. Dr. Scheraga was a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
The following is an article from last September’s Brown Alumni Monthly about his work. https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2018-09-05/weather-warrior
Monday, October 28, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Renee Tapp, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
All the Way to the Bank: Urban Redevelopment and the Quest for Profits After the Crisis
This talk examines the relationship between banks and urban redevelopment after the 2008 global financial crisis. Focusing on the federal historic tax credit industry, I demonstrate how new ways to own property intersected with post-crisis financial regulations meant to limit banks’ reach into financial markets to ignite large-scale redevelopment projects in the urban core of many US cities. Banks increasingly switched their focus from ‘cash flows’ to extracting tax-benefits from these buildings. By positioning tax credits as a source of financial accumulation, this talk draws attention to the strategies and tactics that investors use to construct their investment portfolio, create liquidity in the built environment, and enrich their shareholders and executives with taxpayer-subsidized investments.
Wednesday, November 13, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
GES 701 Faculty Panel – Policy, Politics, and the Public: How Do/Should Scholars Get Involved?
Postponed to Spring 2020, 12:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
JCET Poster Session – Sondheim basement hallway
Wednesday, December 4, 12:00 p.m.
Dr. Alan Yeakley, Professor and Chair, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Plant Community Responses to Hydrologic Changes in Pacific Northwest Urban and Coastal Ecosystems
Spring 2019
Monday, February 11, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Nisrin Elamin, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford University
Contemporary Land Enclosures in Central Sudan: Troubling the Romanticization of the ‘Commons.’
Wednesday, February 20, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Carolyn Olson, USGS (retired)
The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Process and Summary Findings —- CANCELLED
Wednesday, February 27, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sherman 150
John-Henry Pitas, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Waste in Crisis: The Formation of Waste Disposal Networks in Post-Industrial Baltimore
and
Gina Lee, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Wednesday, March 6, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Nicole Voelker, PhD Candidate, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
The Role of Spatial Variation in Habitat Quality and Dispersal in Maintaining Diversity Across
Spatial Scales in the Urban Hydroscape of the Baltimore Metropolitan Region
Wednesday, March 13, 12:00 p.m.
Dr. Bianca Lopez, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Socio-Ecological Synthesis Center
Biodiversity in Urban Landscapes: Ecological Drivers and Social Benefits
Friday, March 29, 12:00 p.m.
Dr. Gillian Rose, Professor, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University
Data Bodies, Smart Bodies and Sensible Bodies: Post-Human Corporeality in the Digitally Mediated City
Wednesday, April 10, 12:00 p.m.
Nathan Swenson, Professor of Biology, University of Maryland College Park
Plant Geography Upon the Basis of Function: How Trait Data Help Address Classic and Unsolved questions
Wednesday, April 17, 12:00 p.m.
Dr. Bianca Lopez, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Socio-Ecological Synthesis Center
Biodiversity in Urban Landscapes: Ecological Drivers and Social Benefits
Friday, April 26,12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Amanda Huron, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, University of the District of Columbia
A Work of Imagination: Building Neighborhoods and Crafting Home in 1970s Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, May 1,12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Alan Yeakley, Professor and Chair, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Plant Community Responses to Hydrologic Changes in Pacific Northwest Urban and Coastal Ecosystems
Wednesday, May 8 12:00 p.m.
Location: Sondheim 001
Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi, Assistant Professor, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
More Trees Equals Less Crime: Dismantling Urban Ecology Tropes in Baltimore
Spring 2018
February 14
Danny Flier, NPS
February 21
Christopher Trisos, Postdoctoral fellow, SESYNC
Potential Consequences for Biodiversity of Climate Change and Climate Engineering
February 28
Dr. Heidi Heausermann, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University
The Politics and Health Implications of Unregulated Gold Mining in Ghana
March 7
Dr. Laura Ogden, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Forest Ethnography: An Approach to Study Environmental History and Political Ecology of Urban Forests
March 14
Dr. Grace Brush, Professor, Department of Environmental Health & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
A History of Sedimentation in the Chesapeake Bay and Tributaries
March 28
Dr. Heather Randell, Postdoctoral fellow, SESYNC
Too Hot for School: Climate Change & Education in the Global Tropics
April 4
GES Grad Students Lightning talks
April 18
Dr. John Weishampel, Professor, Biology Department, University of Central Florida
Using LiDAR to Understand the Landscape Archaeology of a Maya Polity & Its Environmental Legacies
Fall 2017
September 13
Michael Cove, North Carolina State University
September 20
GES Faculty Panel
Defining Your Research Project
September 27
Jim Fleming, Colby College
October 4
Chris Shuman, JCET
October 11
Colin Cuniff, AAAS Policy Fellow
October 18
Andy Miller, UMBC Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems
Spring 2016
February 24
Don Outen, Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability
March 23
Emily Billo, Department of Environmental Studies Goucher College
April 13
Aaron Ellison, Harvard Forest Harvard University
April 27
Faculty and Graduate Student Panel
Publishing: How to Survive Peer Review
Spring 2015
March 11
Lorraine Remer, UMBC-NASA Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET)
March 25
Stuart Aitken, San Diego State University
April 1
Shiloh Krupar, Georgetown University
April 8
JCET Research Posters
May 6
Thomas Crimson, Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida
Fall 2014
September 15
Rebecca Lave, Department of Geography, University of Indiana
Marketing Environmental Science and Management: Stream Mitigation Banking in the U.S.
September 24
Lee Blaney, Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering, UMBC
October 1
Paul Leisnham, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, UM-College Park
December 3
Graduate student panel on fieldwork: Anna Johnson, Sam Dupree, Molly Van Appledorn, Brooks Binau
Spring 2014
February 5
Dr. Christopher Shuman, Associate Research Scientist, Joint System for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC
Mass Balance of northern Antarctic Peninsula glaciers and their continuing response to ice shelf loss, 2001-2013
February 19
Dr. Joseph Mascaro, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
The World Makers: Ecologists as Ecosystem Designers
Dr. Mona Atia, Assistant Professor of Geography and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt
March 26
Dr. Elizabeth Selig, Director of Marine Science, Moore Center for Science and Oceans, Conservation International, Arlington, VA
Quantifying Ocean Ecosystem Health and Identifying Marine Conservation Priorities
April 16
Dr. Dena Aufseeser, Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Re-theorizing the Political: Peruvian Street Children’s Everyday Lives
April 23
Dr. Allen Gellis, USGS MD-DE-DC Water Science Center
Sediment Withdrawals and Deposits, Chesapeake Bay Watershed: It’s Not Just Banks!
April 30
Dr. Mark Bulmer, Owner and Director of Development of Roedown and Roedown Research R2
Earthquake Preparedness in Bangladesh
Fall 2013
September 11
Jonathan Dandois, Ph.D. candidate, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Ecosynth: A Personal Remote Sensing Toolkit for Ecologists
Molly Van Appledorn, Ph.D. candidate, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Discerning Community Structuring Mechanisms in Riparian Forest Ecosystems
September 25
Karyn Tabor, Director of Ecosystem Modeling and Early Warning Systems, Betty & Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans, Conservation International
A Near Real-time Decision Support System Improving Forest Management in the Tropics
October 16
Dr. James Pizzuto, Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Delaware
Suspended Sediment Transport Length Scales and Velocities for the Mid-Atlantic Region: Will it Take 1000 Years to Restore the Chesapeake Bay?
October 30
Dr. Donald Boesch, President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Updating Maryland’s Sea-Level Rise Projections
November 13
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC Poster Session
November 20
Dr. Raymond Danner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
The Geography of Thermal Ecology and Evolution in Bird
December 4
Dr. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Studies, Goucher College
The New American Farmer: Agrarian Questions and Immigrant Mexican Growers in The United States
Spring 2013
March 13
Dr. Sean M.C. Smith, University of Maine at Orono, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Bryand Global Sciences Center
The Recognition, Regulation and Research of Headwater Streams in the Contemporary Landscape
March 27
Dr. Jeffrey Halverson, UMBC Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems
Hunting Hurricanes In the 21st Century: NASA’s Hurricanes and Severe Storms Sentinel (HS3) UAV Program
April 8
Dr. Barbara Allen, Director, Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies, Dept. of Science and Technology in Society, Virginia Tech
Justice Matters: Measuring the Success of NGOs in Sustainable Disaster Rebuilding
April 24
Dr. Kevin Turpie, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, UMBC
Mapping Pelagic Autotrophs from Space – Converting Photons into Food for Plants and for Thought
May 8
Dr. Dawn Biehler, UMBC Department of Geography & Environmental Systems
Silent Spring in the City: Housing, Environmental Justice, and the History of Urban Pest Management
Fall 2012
September 5 – Three GES Ph.D. candidates present their research:
Anna Johnson
A Metacommunity Approach to Urban Plant Community Assembly
Jonathan Dandois
High Spatial Resolution Automated Three Dimensional Vegetation Structure Mapping Using Computer Vision
Yvette Williams
A Qualitative Study of Vacant Lot Management in a Southwest Baltimore City Neighborhood
September 19
Dr. Andrew Elmore, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
A River Runs Under It: Modeling the Distribution of Streams and Stream Burial in Large River Basins
October 3
Dr. Andrew Turner, Chief Technical Officer, ESRI DC R&D Center
Citizens and Scientists: Collaborative Geography for Better Understanding Our World
October 17
Dr. Nathaniel Hitt, Leetown Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Spatial Modeling to Predict Stream Sensitivity to Climate Change
November 7
Dr. Dana Fisher, Director, Program for Society and the Environment and Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, University of Maryland College Park
Citizens as the Missing Pillar in the Hybrid Governance of Urban Stewardship Regimes
November 14
Dr. T. Garrett Graddy, Global Environmental Politics, School of International Service, American University
Re-Centering In Situ: Policy, Epistemology & the Decentralization of Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation in the Peruvian Andes & Beyond
November 28
Dr. Dianna Hogan, Eastern Geographic Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey