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Source: Richard Marston, 785-532-6727, rmarston@k-state.edu

Friday, Sept. 19, 2008

K-STATE GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS PRESENT WORK AT REGIONAL CONFERENCE

MANHATTAN -- Several Kansas State University graduate and undergraduate students in geography presented their work at the 2008 meeting of the Great Plains-Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers.

The meeting, Sept. 12-13, was in Grand Forks, N.D. K-State students participating, all geography majors unless otherwise noted, and their presentations included:

From Manhattan: Erik Bowles, doctoral student, "Preliminary Results for Classifying Heat Waves in the U.S."; Sohini Dutt, doctoral student, presented "Missing Women: Case Study of Urban India" and co-presented "Hazard Warning and Response to Evacuation Orders: The Case of Bangladesh's Cyclone Sidr"; Michael Dulin, master's student, co-presenter of "Visualizing Geographical Practices"; Elias Martinson, master's student, co-presented "Trees of Sentinels of Environmental Change: A Tool for Ecological Forecasting" and "Detecting change in the Onset of Spring: An Analysis of Growing Degree Days for the Central U.S"; and Iris Wilson, senior, co-presented "Trees of Sentinels of Environmental Change: A Tool for Ecological Forecasting."

Nicole Wayant, senior in mathematics and geography, Topeka, co-presented "Malaria Occurrences in Paraguay: Correlating Malaria and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index."

From out of state: Julie Commerford, master's student, New Ulm, Minn., "Brown County, Minnesota: The Land and its People"; Matthew Gerike, doctoral student, Columbia, Mo., co-presented "Visualizing Geographical Practices;" Mark Gossard, doctoral student, Willow Springs, Mo., co-presented of "The Spatial Extent and Causes of Channel Incision in the Black Vermillion Watershed of Northeastern Kansas"; Ryan Bergstrom, doctoral student, Bozeman, Mont., co-presented "The Geographic and Economic Importance of Hunting in Southwestern Montana, USA"; Benjamin Munro, doctoral student, Dickinson, N.D., "Geopolitics of Wheat Farming in North Dakota: 1862-2002"; Benjamin Meade, master's student, Amherst, N.H., co-presented "The Spatial Extent and Causes of Channel Incision in the Black Vermillion Watershed of Northeastern Kansas" and was selected to the Great Plains Rocky Mountain Regional Team to compete at the World Geography Bowl at the March 2009 meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Las Vegas; Tyra Olstad, doctoral student, Tonawanda, N.Y., "Cultivating Space, Place and Beauty on the Great Plains"; Christopher Laingen, doctoral student, Columbus, Ohio, "Pheasants, Farming, Weather and the Almighty Dollar"; and Linnea Sando, master's student, Lake Norden, S.D., "Finnish Saunas in Hamlin County, South Dakota."