Recent Visiting Scholars and Colloquim
Past University Visiting Scholars
Robert W. Christopherson, "The Power of Geographic Science in a Time of Global Change."
September 28, 2006 7:05-8:20 p.m. Seaton 63
Dawn Wright, "Spatial Reasoning at Sea and Ashore: Progress and Challenges of Ocean Informatics."
October 25, 2006 1:30-2:20 p.m. Little Theater, KSU Student Union (VPAST Geospatial
Technology Lecture Series)
Dr. Ruth DeFries, "Land Use Dynamics in Tropical Landscapes."
September 20, 2007 3:30 p.m. Fiedler Auditorium (Provost Lecture on Excellence in
Scholarship)
Jack Dangermond, "GIS Vision and Enabling Technology."
March 8, 2007 1:30-3:00 p.m. Fiedler Auditorium (Provost Lecture Series)
List of Past Colloquia and Other Presentations
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Dr. Matthew Rice, "Haptic and Auditory Design Guidelines for Multimodal Map Interfaces."
November 30, 2006 4:00-5:00 pm Union 207
Patricia Solis, "Heuristics, Serendipity, and Enlightened Opportunism: Making a Difference through
Geography."
November 17, 2006 3:30-4:20 pm Little Theater KSU Student Union
Dr. Isaac Brewer, "Exploring the Intersections of Emergency Management, Intelligence Analysis and GIScience:
A Cognitive Systems Engineering Approach Using Nightmare Scenarios."
November 14, 2006 4:00-5:00 pm Union 207
Rhett Mohler, "Historical Channel Change of Vermillion Creek, Kansas, 1857-2002."
November 10, 2006 3:30-4:20 pm Seaton 132
Dr. Xuwei Chen, "Agent-based Microsimulation of Evacuation Strategies."
November 6, 2006 4:00-5:00 pm Union 212
Peg Margosian, "Connectivity of the American Agricultural Landscape: A Graph Approach."
October 27, 2006 2:30-3:20 pm Seaton 132
Jacob Sowers, "An Exploration of Jackrabbit Homesteading."
September 15, 2006 2:30-4:00 pm Seaton 132
Matthew Gerike, "Rethinking Historiographies of Geography: Notes on the Continuous Construction of
Geographical Knowledge."
September 1, 2006 2:30-4:00 pm Seaton 132
Dr. Lary Dilsaver, "The Evolution of Management of the California Desert."
October 12, 2007 3:30 pm Seaton 132
Ben Champion, "Spaces, Places, and Geographies of Local Food in Eastern Kansas: Uneven Landscapes
of Development."
September 26, 2007 1:00 pm Seaton 164H (Geography Seminar Room)
Craig Beech, "The Role of GIS in Transfrontier Conservation."
September 20, 2007 11:30 am Seaton 164H (Geography Seminar Room)
Dr. Milton D. Rafferty, "Henry Schoolcraft's Tour of the Wilderness Ozarks, 1818-1819."
September 14, 2007 4:00-5:00 pm Big 12 Room, KSU Student Union
Dr. Maureen Reed, "The Geography of Environmental Care: Management Regimes in Canadian Biosphere Reserves."
February 1, 2008 3:30-5:00 pm Big 12 Room, KSU Student Union
Ms. Antoinette Satterfield, "Tutorial on the KSU Online Catalog."
February 15, 2008 3:30-5:00 pm Seaton 132
Dr. Kavita Pandit, "Building a Globally Engaged University: A Vital Role for Geographers."
February 29, 2008 3:30-5:00 pm Big 12 Room, KSU Student Union
Dr. Larry Rodgers, "Reading the Dustbowl: Other Views from Literature, Art, Photography."
March 7, 2008 3:30-5:00 pm Seaton 132
Dr. Stephen Walsh, "Land Use Dynamics and Drivers of Change along the Equator: Examples from the Ecuadorian
Amazon and the Galapagos Islands."
March 28, 2008 3:30-5:00 pm Little Theater, KSU Student Union
Dr. Paul Cloke, "Rural Turns: The Search for New "Rurals" in Geography."
April 22, 2008 4:00-5:30 pm Big 12 Room, KSU Student Union
Dr. Paul Starrs, "On Transhumance."
May 1, 2008 2:30 pm Big 12 Room, KSU Student Union
Dan Fieselmann, "Strategies for Safeguarding American Plant Resources."
September 4, 2008 3:00 pm KSU Student Union
Dr. Melinda Daniels, "Perceptions of Wood in River Landscapes: Implications for Geomorphology, Ecology,
and Future Research in Fluvial Systems."
September 5, 2008 3:00 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. Animesh Halder, "Planning and Development of Slums in Kolkata, India."
September 20, 2007 11:30 am Seaton 164H (Geography Seminar Room)
Dr. George Malanson, "Feedback and Complexity in Responses to Global Change."
September 19, 2008 2:30 pm Big 12 Room, KSU Student Union
Dr. Phil Gersmehl, "Geography Education as if Students Mattered: Spatial Thinking and Modern Neuroscience."
September 20, 2008 11:00 am Big 12 Room, KSU Student Union
Dr. Dallen Timothy, "Tourism and Political Boundaries: Stagnation and Change in a Transforming World."
February 29, 2008 3:30-5:00 pm Big 12 Room, KSU Student Union
Dr. Bradley Rundquist, "From Texas to North Dakota: My Journey along the 96th Meridian."
October 24, 2008 4:00 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. David Zurick, "Landscape and Imagination in the Himalaya."
October 31, 2008 3:00 pm Big 12 Room, KSU Student Union
Dr. Marcellus Caldas, "Settlement Formation and Land Use/Land Cover Change: A Case Study in the Brazilian
Amazon."
April 22, 2008 4:00-5:30 pm Big 12 Room, KSU Student Union
Dr. Kevin Price, "Using Multitemporal Vegetation Indices to Characterize Agro-Ecosystem Responses to
Climatic Variation."
November 14, 2008 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. C. Emdad Haque, "Public Policy Discourse and Planning toward Energy and Climate Securities: The U.S.
and Canadian Perspectives."
November 20, 2008 3:30 pm Room 207, KSU Student Union
Dr. Ben Champion, "Early Days in the Sustainability Transition at K-State."
November 21, 2008 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. Bimal Paul, "Modeling Evacuation Behavior: The Case of 207 Cycline Cidr, Bangladesh."
December 5, 2008 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. Thomas Baerwald, "Geography and Interdisciplinarity."
January 23, 2009 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. Subash Das, "Climate Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation in Bangladesh."
January 23, 2009 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. Don Mitchell, "Labor's Geography: Capital, Violence, Guest Workers, and the Post-World War II Landscape
in California."
March 6, 2009 3:30 pm Room 101 Bluemont Hall
Dr. Blake Gumprecht, "The American College Town."
March 28, 2009 1:30 pm Manhattan Public Library
Mr. James D. Harlan, "Back to the Future: A View through the Lens of the Missouri Historic Landscape Project."
April 23, 2009 3:00 pm Room 207 KSU Student Union
Dr. John A. Harrington, Jr., "The Climate of the Central North American Grassland: What We've Learned and Research
Questions for the 21st Century."
August 21, 2009 3:00 pm Big 12 Room KSU Student Union
Dr. Daniel Hirmas, "Soil Geomorphology of an Arid Mountain Bolson, Mojave Desert, USA."
September 11, 2009 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. Sarah W. Bednarz, "Spatial Thinking: Progress In and For Geography."
September 18, 2009 3:30 pm Little Theater KSU Student Union
Dr. Milan Shrestha, "A Comparative Analysis of Land Fragmentation and Socioecological Gradients."
October 9, 2009 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. Steven Kale, "Regional and Local Social Movements toward Renewable Energy Development and Energy
Self-Sufficiency in Marginal Areas of the Pacific Northwest."
October 23, 2009 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. Charles W. Martin, "Heavy Metal Storage in the Lahn River Basin, Central Germany: 15 Years and Counting."
November 6, 2009 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. Lisa M.B. Harrington, "Conceptions of Sustainability."
November 13, 2009 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall
Dr. Barney Warf, "Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Geographical Imaginations."
November 20, 2009 3:30 pm Room 132 Seaton Hall