News / Events : Archive : Colloquia Series Spring 2008
The colloquia series welcomes speakers from across the campus and the world to discuss their research.
All colloquia are scheduled at 3:30pm in Storm Hall 337 most Fridays during the semester unless otherwise noted.
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Open Source and Spatial Analysis
January 25
Dr. Serge Rey
Professor of Geography
San Diego State University
Global Childhoods:
Globalization, Development and Young People
February 1
Dr. Stuart Aitken
Professor of Geography
San Diego State University
Negotiating Life, HIV, and Health in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Long Beach, California:
A Complex Geography of Care in "Oh-So-Different" Places
February 8
Dr. Vincent Del Castillo
Associate Professor of Geography
CSU Long Beach
Developing Grid-enabled Internet GIService Portals
to Support Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure:
A Pilot Study in Accessibility
February 15
Dr. Tong Zhang
Ph.D. Presentation
San Diego State University
Hydro-Ecological Linkages in Urbanizing Watersheds:
The Role of Small Streams in Controlling Nitrogen Export
February 22, 2:00pm
Dr. Luc Claessen
Ph.D. Presentation
San Diego State University
Unmasking State Exploitation in “Participatory” Tourist Development:
Gender, Race and the Renegotiations of Communal Power in Oaxaca, Mexico
February 22
Dr. Ramona Pérez
Associate Professor of Anthropology
San Diego State University
The World's Most Endangered Forest
February 29
Dr. Tom Gillespie
Associate Professor of Geography
UC Los Angeles
Proximate and Underlying Causes of Tropical Deforestation:
Evidence from Guatemala
March 7
Dr. David Carr
Associate Professor of Geography
UC Santa Barbara
Large Area Mapping of Land-cover Change and Forest Degradation in the Amazon
using Spectral Mixture Analysis and Decision Tree Classifiers
March 14
Dr. Dar Roberts
Professor of Geography
UC Santa Barbara
Legal Status, Sociospatial Context, and the Health of Two U.S. Immigrant Groups
March 21
Dr. Enrico Marcelli
Associate Professor of Sociology
San Diego State University
Working for Water in South Africa
March 28
Dr. Allen Hope
Professor of Geography
San Diego State University
Exploring Normative Scenarios of Land-Use Development Decisions
with an Agent-Based Simulation Laboratory
April 11
Dr. Arika Ligmannn-Zielinska
Ph.D. Presentation
San Diego State University / UC Santa Barbara
Integrating indigenous knowledge, customary sea tenure, and geographic tools
for marine environmental management in the Solomon Islands
April 25
Dr. Matt Lauer
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
San Diego State University
Progress Toward Conserving and Understanding the Biology of Snub-nosed Monkeys:
A Game of Inches
May 2
Dr. Chia Tan
Asia Conservation Program Specialist
Conservation and Research for Endangered Species
San Diego Zoological Society
There's a Fungus Among Us: Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Coccidiodes,
the Soil-Dwelling Fungus Causing the Valley Fever Epidemic
May 9
Dr. Stephen Yool
Associate Professor of Geography
The University of Arizona
Evaluation of Static and Animated Map Displays: An Eyewitness Report
August 1
Dr. Sara Irina Fabrikant
Associate Professor of Geography
University of Zurich, Switzerland