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K-State Today

February 12, 2020

University of Texas geography professor to discuss water management from ancient Maya to ancient Romans

Submitted by Chuck Martin

Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach

The K-State geography and geospatial sciences department continues a long tradition of hosting the immediate past president of the American Association of Geographers for a spring semester colloquium.

Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Raymond Dickson Centennial professor of geography at the University of Texas at Austin, will present "Hydraulic Societies and Water Management: From the Ancient Maya of Mesoamerica to the Ancient Romans of the Mediterranean" at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14, in the Big 12 Room of the K-State Union.

Luzzadder-Beach's talk is part of the geography and geospatial sciences department's visiting scholar series and is sponsored by the Beta Psi Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon, the international geographic honor society and the geography and geospatial sciences department.