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Department of Geography
Colloquia Series 1998-99


Friday September 25th, 1.30 pm
Dr Robert Bailey, United States Forest Service, Fort Collins, Colorado
"Ecosystem Geography and Mapping"

Wednesday October 7th 1.30 pm
Dr Patricia Daugherty, Siegfried Professor of Marketing, University of Oklahoma
"Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Logistics Service: The Shifting Focus"

Friday October 16th, 1.30 pm
Dr Chris Mayda
"Hogs in Oklahoma: a comparison of two widely divergent Oklahoma pig production areas"

Friday October 23rd , 2.30 pm.
Dr Daniel Block, Assistant Professor of Geography, East Central University, Oklahoma
"Perfecting the Perfect Food: Milk, Risk, and Regulation, 1900-1940"

Friday November 6th, 1.30 pm
Dr David Mark, Associate Director, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and President, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science.
"GIS and Interdisciplinary Research"

Wednesday November 11th, 4.30 p.m.
Peter McCormick, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma
"Re-imagining New Mexico: Geography, Literature, and Rudolfo Anaya"

Friday November 13th, 1.30pm
Dr Ari Kelman, Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Honors, University of Oklahoma
"A Second Battle of New Orleans:" The Mississippi River Front Expressway Controversy"

Wednesday November 18th, 4.30 p.m.
Sherrilyn Reece, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma
"Guthrie, Oklahoma: An Analysis of Townscapes, 1889-1998"

Friday November 20th, 1.30 p.m.
José Quiñónez, Associate Director, International Programs, World Neighbors
"Eyewitness from Honduras: Impacts and Recovery after Hurricane Mitch"

Friday December 4th, 1.30 pm
Dr Anne Godlewska, Acting Chair of Geography, Queen's University, Ontario.
"Geography Unbound: When Description Fell to Theory"

Thursday, February 12, 1999
Dr. Nigel Allan, Department of Environmental Design, University of California-Davis
"The Nazi Era Origins of Landscape Ecology"

Thursday, February 18, 1999
Mr. Michael Benedetti, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Fluvial Geomorphology of the Upper Mississippi River: Sediment Transport and Overbank Deposition"

Monday, February 22, 1999
Dr. Aondover Tarhule, Department of Geography, Queens University, Ontario
"The Hydrogeologic Investigations of a Fadema Aquifer in Semi-Arid Nigeria"

Thursday, February 25, 1999, 3:00 pm, SEC P203
Dr. Jerry Miller, Department of Geology, Indiana University-Purdue University--Indianapolis, IN
"Influence of Prehistoric Hillslope Processes on Modern Channel Dynamics and Ecosystem Integrity within Upland Watersheds of Central Nevada"

Monday, March 1, 1999, 12:30pm, SEC N202
Steven Gordon, Department of Geography, Arizona State University--Tempe, AZ
"Weapons, Waste, and Weathering: Glass Dissolution at El Malpais National Monument, USA"

Tuesday, March, 2, 1999, 12:00pm, SEC P203
Dr. Xixi Lu, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario
"Sediment Yield Variability Modeling in the Upper Yangtze River, China"

Thursday, March 4, 1999, SEC P203
Dr. Shivaji Prasad, Sir Sanford Fleming College -- Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
"Non-Point Contributions to Water Pollution from Urban Areas"

Friday, March 26, 1999, 12:30pm, SEC N202
Dr. Vinay Dharwadker, Department of English, University of Oklahoma
"Language, Trade, and Colonization in the Indian Ocean Region, 1498-1835

Tuesday, March 30, 1999, 12:30pm, SEC, Room A235
Dr. Stephen Birdsall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Private Need and Public Response: A Geographic Lesson for Higher Education in the Next Half Century"

Thursday, April 1, 1999, 7pm, Oklahoma Memorial Union, Meacham Auditorium
Gilbert Grosvenor, Chair, National Geographic Society
"A Past Century of Progress-A Future Century of Promise"

Friday, April 9, 1999, 12:30pm, SEC N202
Dr. Bill Lyons, Advanced Research & Development Centre, Department of Agriculture, Forestry, & Fisheries Australia
"Turning Data into Understanding: The Role of Evidence in Formulating Sustainable Resource Utilization Policy for the Australian Government"

Friday, April 23, 1999, 12:30pm, SEC N202
Dr. Sally Gros, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma
"Development of a Geographic Information System for Land Allotments of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma"



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