K-State geography department to present lecture as part of geospatial technology lecture series

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Friday, October 20, 2006

K-STATE GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT TO PRESENT LECTURE AS PART OF GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGY LECTURE SERIES

MANHATTAN -- The Kansas State University department of geography and the office of the vice provost for academic services and technology will sponsor a lecture as part of the Geospatial Technology Lecture Series. The lecture will feature Dawn Wright, professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University, and will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, in the K-State Student Union's Little Theatre.

Wright will present "Spatial Reasoning at Sea and Ashore: Progress and Challenges of Ocean Informatics." She is a leading geographic information scientist whose research interests include benthic terrain and habitat characterization, tectonics of mid-ocean ridges, and the processing and interpretation of underwater videography and photography. Benthic refers to the bottom of seas, lakes or deep rivers.

Wright serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Transactions in GIS and Geospatial Solutions. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data and is a national councilor for the Association of American Geographers and research vice chair for the University Consortium for Geographic Science.

Wright received her bachelor's degree in geology from Wheaton College in Illinois, her master's degree in oceanography from Texas A&M University, and her doctorate in physical geography and marine geology from the University of California-Santa Barbara. She has been at Oregon State since 1995.