United States of America National Section
of the Pan American Institute of
Geography and History:
2010 Annual Report
http://www.aag.org/cs/paigh
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Introduction
The United States of America National Section (USNS) of the Pan American Institute of Geography and
History (PAIGH) is pleased to submit this report of the activities of the Section for 30 September 2009
through 1 October 2010. Included are reports from the Geography, History, Cartography, and
Geophysics Commission representatives from within the USNS. Summaries of significant activities and
meetings are included in each of the Commission reports. Also included in this report is the USNS
roster.
Mr. Mark DeMulder and Ms. Jean Parcher continue to serve as the USNS President and Vice President,
respectively, as does Ms. Maria O’Brien as the Executive Secretary of the USNS. Dr. Patricia Solís of
the Association of American Geographers (AAG) was appointed as the Principal US Representative to
the Commission on Geography, and Dr. Chris Castro of the University of Arizona was appointed as the
Principal Representative to the Commission on Geophysics. Leslie Armstrong continues to serve as the
Principal US Representative to the Commission on Cartography and Erik Langer continues to serve as
the Principal US Representative to the Commission on History. The USNS is pleased to acknowledge
that Bruce Presgrave of the U.S. Geological Survey was selected to serve as Vice President of the
Institute for the term beginning in November, 2009.
The US National Section was well represented at the General Assembly Meeting held in Quito Ecuador
and was pleased to co-host a cocktail party with the US Ambassador to Ecuador for all of the delegates.
The development of a new US National Section webpage will aid in promoting the US activities within
PAIGH and facilitate communications both within our National Section and with the general public.
The new website has been developed by Maddy Mengler, Geography student at the University of
Richmond and is hosted by the Association of American Geographers. It can be found at
http://www.aag.org/cs/paigh.
During the reporting period, Ambassador Carmen Lomellin, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS,
arranged for payment of our assessed contribution to PAIGH in the amount of US$323,900.00, fulfilling
the U.S. annual quota of PAIGH's budget, set at 59.47%.
The Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Ken Salazar, received a thank you letter from U.S.
Congressman Sam Farr congratulating the Department of Interior for providing support to the U.S.
National Section of PAIGH. The letter was received on February 17, 2010 and names the U.S.
Geological Survey representatives that are members of the U.S. National Section.
USNS Annual Meeting: Redlands, California, March 30 through April 1, 2010
Our three-day meeting focused on discussing the accomplishments, developing project proposals, and
future collaborative strategy between US National Section representatives. All commissions expressed
a strong desire to promote projects and collaboration to aid Haiti to rebuild their technical capacity.
Bradley Coleman, of the History Commission provided an overview of his time spent in Haiti after the
earthquake. Greg Badger provided examples of the co-production process used to create accurate
topographic maps of Haiti by member countries in the Americas.
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The Annual Meeting focused on the collaborative development of project proposals. This resulted in the
US National Section submitting seven project proposals to PAIGH. Besides the reoccurring proposals
for Geographic Names course and Geophysics Scholarship, new proposals ranged from technical
assistance for preserving Haiti’s historical archives to capacity building for hydrologic charting
workshop in Haiti, crisis mapping, multi-national cooperation on data development and development of
a Portal for the Americas. PAIGHs Secretary General, Dr. Santiago Borrero Mutis, joined the meeting
via phone and spoke of the Pan-American Agenda for 2010-2020, which will focus on sustainable
development in the Americas, especially in Haiti, and reinvigorating member participation, among other
things.
Mark DeMulder, Bradley Smith, Joseph Sanchez, Paul Cooper, Christopher Castro, Bruce Presgrave,
Patricia Solis, Carmelle Terborghm, Jean Parcher, Gregg Badger, Betty Smith, Merril Lyew, Maria
O’Brien, Maddy Mengler
ESRI Headhquarters, Redlands, California, April 1, 2010
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Cartography Commission
Leslie Armstrong (Representative)
Technical Committees and Working Groups
The members of the U.S. Cartographic Commission were involved with many activities relating to
several natural disasters this past year, especially the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti. Many products
derived from image maps, geologic and seismographic data were provided to the response community.
The Disaster Assistance Program, ESRI provided many resources and software to those who were
responding to the crisis including UN organizations, humanitarian NGOs, and local agencies. For more
information, please refer to: www.esri.com/haiti. In addition, ESRI Staff spent two weeks in Haiti
assisting many of these organizations.
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. It was 1653 and the epicenter was
located 15 km southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti at a depth of 10km. The NGA response to the Haiti
Earthquake was rapid and strong. By 1800, key personnel were designated to provide immediate support
to NGA elements stationed at the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) Headquarters in
Miami, FL. Additionally, NGA deployed it Domestic Mobile Integrated Geospatial-Intelligence
(GEOINT) System (DMIGS) to Miami, FL along with two flyaway kits to enable complete GEOINT
support on the ground in Haiti.
During the first days of the crisis, GEOINT was often the sole source of situational awareness for the
U.S. government as telecommunications were down throughout the city and many of the hardest hit
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areas were inaccessible. As the response progressed, GEOINT increasingly provided information on the
status of ports, extent of building damage and the locations of internally displaced persons. Some of the
key GEOINT included multi-purpose atlases for search and rescue efforts, full motion video to monitor
food distribution points, and maps of beach landing sites for the U.S. Marine Corps. Over the course of
the support to Haiti, a majority of the GEOINT products were produced at the unclassified level and
were rapidly shared with international responders, non-governmental organizations, and the military.
ESRI GeoViewer (http://geoss.esri.com/geoviewer) with Haiti data and imagery integrated from the
UN (MINUSTAH), GeoEye, OpenStreetMap, etc.
Geographic Names (Working Group)
The José Joaquín Hungría Morell Geographic Names Course, offered under the auspices of the Pan
American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH), was not held during the calendar year 2010 as
scheduled because of scheduling conflicts between and among the host country of Belize and the team
of three instructors. The course, using funding carried over from 2010 to 2011 as prescribed by PAIGH
procedure, is now scheduled to be offered sometime during the month of February or the month of
March 2011 in Belize. It will be the first time that the course will be presented in English. The
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Working Group on Geographic Names’ primary objective is to foster and continue to offer the highly
successful geographic names course. Of primary interest and thrust is to assure that each member nation
(and potential member nations) experiences the course. Thus far, Argentina, Uruguay, Nicaragua, and
Costa Rica have not yet hosted the course (Belize is scheduled).
The Working Group has six objectives during the next four-year period:
1. Continue to offer the two-week geographic names training course.
2. Prepare an online version of the geographic names course in Spanish & English.
3. Use every means to foster and assist in the development of an integrated geographic names database
for the Latin American community.
4. Provide advice and consultation services to the Latin American Division of the United Nations Group
of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN), and to provide the same to the geographic names
working group of PC-IDEA.
5. Offer more advanced training and consulting services to individual countries.
6. Encourage participation by interested individuals (beyond the three active members) in the Working
Group on Geographical Names.
Additionally, the teaching team and the working group have assigned a high priority and are working
actively to provide PAIGH with an online version for the course. At present, there are almost 500
elements in the existing PowerPoint presentation that exist in both Spanish and English. The teaching
team is vigorously editing these PowerPoint elements as a preliminary step to presenting to PAIGH the
course for online application. It is a goal to have this completed during calendar year 2011.
Hydrography (Technical Committee)
Hydrography Technical Committee (HTC) Principal
Coordinator for PAIGH is Peru. The current Committee
Chair is unoccupied.
The Chairman of the National Section of Peru should
designate the HTC Chairman and provide that information
to the Cartography Commission Chair. The last HTC Chair
was Mexico.
The HTC has not met for 2 years and no meetings are
scheduled.
In Quito November 2009 the Mission statement of HTC
was changed to include Ocean Observations. We consider
that an important addition because the quality of life on
earth is determined in large part by an incomplete
understanding of the interacting system that operate in the
world’s oceans and coastal areas. The system controls our climate in that it influences rainfall and sea
level; it controls access to major resources and raw materials and holds vast amounts of energy potential
while supporting an explosion of population growth. Increased understanding and control of this system
can be accomplished through development of a robust and active program of real time observations, data
capture and evaluation, data management, data sharing, exchange and improved access to information to
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underpin modeling and visualization of the underwater and coastal environment – in short the
development of a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI).
In May 2007 the 17th International Hydrographic Conference directed the establishment of a Marine
Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) working group to identify the hydrographic community inputs to
National Spatial Data Infrastructures (NSDI). By October 2009 this working group had developed a
procedural guide to establishing the role of a national hydrographic authority in MSDI. At the 1st
meeting of the Hydrographic Services and Standards Committee in Singapore Oct 2009; Spatial Data
Infrastructures: “The Marine Dimension” – Guidance for Hydrographic Offices IHO Publication C-17
was approved.
In order to be able to address the growing need for ocean information it is key to the overall
development of PAIGH to re-establish a working HTC with a mandate to include the Marine Spatial
Planning which derives from MSDI as well as safety of navigation issues.
Despite the lack of a working HTC there are some initiatives in action to include Hydrography in the
work of PAIGH. Those efforts are noted below. This work is done through Institutional Strengthening
and Technical Cooperation Committee.
We’ve been coordinating PAIGH capacity building activities with the IHO Capacity Building Sub
Committee (CBSC) - Attended IHO CBSC meeting 13 – 15 June in New Orleans to introduce PAIGH
Capacity Building .efforts to IHO CBSC. 12 IHO Member States attended.
IHO CBSC agreed to cooperate with PAIGH ISTC in developing a Hydrography and Nautical Charting
Workshop in Haiti in 2011. A Haiti Donor’s Conference is planned for Suriname November 2010 to
organize the WS. If approved PAIGH Convocatoria funding and IHO CBSC funding will be combine to
fund the WS. ISTC is supporting the formalization of an MOU with IHO. We believe this is relevant
because of the Member state overlap that exists between IHO and PAIGH. 12 Member States and two
observers of the PAIGH are IHO members including: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican
Republic (suspended membership), Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti (IHO accession in progress), Mexico,
Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, France (PAIGH Observer) and Spain (PAIGH Observer).
We attended IHO Meso American Caribbean Hydrographic Commission, Bridgetown, Barbados and
made an introduction of PAIGH to the committee. A multi organizational Capacity Building Workshop
was conducted. Contributors to the project were private industry CARIS and Kongsberg: United
Kingdom Hydrographic Office, and Port of Bridgetown, Barbados.
Aeronautic Charting (Technical Committee)
We especially appreciate Ms. Viviana Barrientos assuming the lead of the Technical Committee on
Aeronautical Charting. Mr. Robert Goodson will continue to support her as the U.S. representative.
The new Aeronautical Work Group will be transitioned from Mr. Goodson to Mr. Fred Calfior over the
next year. Mr. Calfior is an employee from the National Geospatial -Intelligence Agency, currently in
Iraq until October. In the meantime, Mr. Goodson is working with Ms. Barrientos to develop a
coordinated plan of work.
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Mr. Robert Goodson participated as a member of the International Civil Aeronautical Organization
(ICAO) Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) sub group of GREPECAS that has tangential
responsibility for ensuring the safe and expeditious exchange of digital/published aeronautical
information used in producing aeronautical charts. The most recent initiative is to develop a global
strategy to plan, manage and facilitate global transition from paper based aeronautical information
exchange to a digital data base exchange. This transition will depend upon individual states abilities to
evolve through technological advancement enhance the exchange of digital aeronautical information.
As such the plan provides for a graduated development that is internationally harmonized and integrated
while improving the quality, availability and punctuality of the data managed via the systems.
Mr. Robert Goodson continues to participate in (ICAO) Electronic Mapping task force for the
CARSAM region working on organizing a standardized framework for regional production of electronic
aeronautical charts. To include, a reference file catalog, quality control and evaluation process,
metadata, geospatial data infrastructure, zymology, naming conventions, and applicable international
standards.
Geospatial Data Infrastructure
During 2010, the Geospatial Data Infrastructure efforts of the USNS include the following;
Assembling and sharing a listing of geospatial data and applications that exist within international,
regional, and (some) national organizations. Many of these are now linked to the new USNS website on
the right side of the main page. Preparation of a proposal to PAIGH for the development of a GeoPortal
of the Americas interfacing with the Inter-American Culture and Development Foundation (ICDF) to
become partners in this portal through their GeoAmericas site – www.geoamericas.org.
Collaborating with the GeoSUR project of PAIGH and Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and
looking at ways to expand it to other sub-regions beyond South America.
Institutional Strengthening and Technical Cooperation Committee (ISTC)
The PAIGH Member State responsible for Institutional Strengthening and Technical Cooperation
(ISTC) is the United States, chaired by Mr. Paul Cooper. His alternate representative is Mr. Gregg
Badger. ISTC operates under the authority of the Cartographic Commission to promote and increase the
transfer of technologies, applications of those technologies, development and capacity building in the
geosciences disciplines and GSDI in the Americas. The ISTC is currently developing a questionnaire to
poll Member States for Capacity Building requirements that will be used to plan future activities such as
the following:
2010 – 2011 Assess Capacity Building requirements within PAIGH Member States via survey
questionnaire.
2011 – 2012 Promote Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure development within PAIGH through series of
regional and national workshops.
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2010 – 2013 Cooperate with International Hydrographic Organization in development of Capacity
Building and Technical Cooperation Work Shops in Haiti for Hydrographic Surveying and Nautical
Charting.
2011 Execute PAIGH and International Hydrographic Organization technical cooperation Memorandum
of Understanding.
2010- 2014 Continue to look for opportunities to develop hemispheric cooperation and capacity
development.
2010 -2014 Continue to support Canadian re-entry into PAIGH.
2010-2011 Revitalize Hydrography Technical Committee
2011 Participate in establishment of Electronic Navigation Chart (ENC) Technical committee.
The Committee also urges PAIGH attention on the subjects of IberoAmerican Network of Geographic
Information Infrastructures, which is an EU Program that remains a good possibility to develop capacity
building and production initiatives in our hemisphere, and Group on Earth Observations. ISTC
recommends that PAIGH join Group on Earth Observations (GEO) as a Participating Organization (PO).
There are currently 56 PO. 11 PAIGH MS are Members of GEO. GEO is constructing the Global Earth
Observation Systems of Systems (GEOSS) to address a broad range of societal benefit.
Capacity Building and Data Integration Workshop
Mr. Badger has provided (below) the multi-year plan for Large Scale (density) Multinational Geospatial
Co-production Project which will yield High Resolution Vector Data (HRVD) for member states at the
1:50,000-1:100,000 scale. The completed data will be held in a central database managed by PAIGH,
accessible to all participating nations, based on their contributions. This data set will be particularly
useful for trans-boundary applications and studies such as environmental change, and for support of
natural disaster relief efforts. HRVD data can also be used to produce hardcopy maps.
First workshop – Guatemala, November 2010
Agenda items include: Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program (MGCP) models, standards and
specifications, software and hardware requirements, imagery, and creating products from the produced
data. Using the Haiti crisis as an example, participants will be shown how multinational production of
large scale data can prove critical in times of crisis. The workshop participants will develop an
implementation strategy, to include development of a Memorandum of Understanding. A test phase will
establish MOUs and productions schedules for 2010 – 2011. A second workshop will be held in late
spring 2011. A multinational data production schedule will be made and populated in a database by
2011. During 2011 – 2017, the goal is to develop a PAIGH geospatial database.
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Central America Data Integration and Technical Capacity Building Workshop
The U.S. National Section representative Jean Parcher received funds from the Geography, Cartography,
and Geophysics commissions to undertake the Central America Data Integration and Technical Capacity
Building Workshop in collaboration with Mexico (Instituto Nacional De Estadística y Geografía –
INEGI). The principal activity and product of the workshop is to apply participatory cartography
methods to harmonize and integrate their digital mapping data for the region at the 1:250,000-scale or
better. The goal of the meeting is to foster collaboration between Geographic Information System (GIS)
specialists and environmental scientists within Central America, devise a working plan to harmonize the
datasets, and provide hands on capacity training for new data products to the member nations.
Status of the Workshop to date: Each National Section in Central America received a letter requesting
them to forward qualified candidate resumes to INEGI and USGS for selection of participates to the
workshop. Fourteen candidates from countries in Central America and Colombia were selected for the
workshop. The workshop was scheduled for August 16 -27, 2010, but due to unforeseen circumstances
with the reorganization of the management at INEGI, the workshop has been postponed until 2011.
Meanwhile the U.S. National Section is maintaining communication with the participants and
conducting an informal survey concerning their data sources. This will better prepare us of the
workshop in 2011.
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Geography Commission
Dr. Patricia Solís (Representative)
This past year, the US Geography Commission has made significant strides towards increasing activity
and engagement among commission members, with the national section, and around the geography
community more broadly. This included the identification of a number of priorities that support the
goals and efforts of the US National Section as a whole as well as integrate with the overarching
direction of PAIGH. Thus the role of the US Geography Commission is to help foster collaboration
among geographers of the Americas through its member activities and its participation in PAIGH
programs. The geography commission has been the lead in providing the technical infrastructure for the
new US National section website. - The geography commission tab of the website is facilitating
communication and visibility of these priorities - http://www.aag.org/cs/paigh/geography_commission
The US Geography Commission Activities over the past year include those which:
1) Highlight the value of geographic research and practice for achieving the PAIGH strategic
agenda as well as its linkages with other OAS specialized organizations
To this end, this year, the US PAIGH Geography Commission sponsored an Institutional Meet-andGreet. A group of officials and national representatives of various specialized organizations of the
Organization of American States gathered to broaden understanding of various institutional initiatives,
to consider priorities affecting the hemisphere, and to strengthen collaboration among the respective
interests of the specialized organizations of the OAS. This Meet-and-Greet event was held during the
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in Washington, DC on Friday,
April 16, 2010. Among the attendees were representatives of the Geography, Cartography, and History
commissions of PAIGH as well as special guests from sister specialized organizations of OAS. The
conference itself attended by an estimated 8,200 scholars and practitioners from more than 75 countries.
Special attendees were: Dr. Wanda K. Jones, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, US
Department of Health and Human Services, President of the Inter-American Commission of Women
(CIM) of the Organization of American States (OAS); Gianni Paz, Specialized Organizations Officer,
Department of State, US Mission to the Organization of American States; Ayesha London, Senior
Specialist for Strategic Partnerships, InterAmerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture of the OAS;
Dr. Régilo de Souza, Specialist in Health Information Systems, PanAmerican Health Organization of the
OAS and the Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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USNS PAIGH Meet and Greet, Washington, DC, April 16, 2010
2) Foster cooperation among national and international geography organizations and public
agencies across the Americas
The AAMIGA project (Advancing Academe: A Multidimensional Investigation of Geography in the
Americas) began in 2007 with a systematic investigation of the dynamics of international research
collaboration (IRC) through a multi-dimensional study of geography in the Americas. The aim is to
better understand the nature of IRC within a particular context, looking through the window of an
“interdisciplinary discipline”, geography, onto a region, the Americas. The project itself was conducted
as an internationally collaborative research project, by the AAG with funding the from US National
Science Foundation, and in conjunction with the City of Knowledge (CoK) in Panama. Santiago Borrero
of IPGH served as an advisor to the project. In the years since, the project’s results have been used to
suggest recommendations for geographers for fostering collaboration as well as for improving
mechanisms and quality of AAG programs oriented towards international research collaboration.
This past year, there has been renewed outreach around the findings of the project and its ongoing
support mechanisms. More information is available through the new webpages on Spotlight on Latin
America
(http://www.aag.org/cs/projects_and_programs/developing_regions_programs/spotlight_latin_america.)
The US Geography Commission will be able to leverage and utilize the clearinghouse of resources,
contacts and programs begun by this earlier work in the coming years.
3) Promote the coordination and publication of Pan American studies in geography
The members of the US Geography Commission have been active and successful in pursuing research
and studies in geography. These individual accomplishments are reported in two main categories:
published research and conference participation (presentations, posters):
Published Research
C. Simmons, R. Walker, S. Perz, S. Aldrich, Marcellus M. Caldas, R. Pereira, Luiz C. Fernandes. Doing
it for thesemselves: Direct Action Land Reform in the Brazilian Amazon. World Development.
R. Walker, N. Moore, E. Arima, S. Perz, C. Simmons, Marcellus M. Caldas, D. Vergara, C. Boher. Can
Protected Areas Protect the Amazon? Proceedings of National Academy of Science.
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R. Walker, J. Messina, E. Arima, S. Perz, Marcellus M. Caldas, D. Vergara. "The Human Drivers of
Forest Fragmentation in Amazônia: The Case of Logging." Landscape Ecology.
R. T. Walker, J. Browder, E. Arima, C. Simmons, R. Pereira, Marcellus M. Caldas, R. Shirota, S. de
Zen. Saying Goodbye to the Amazonian Forest: Ranching and the New Global Range. GeoForum
(Elsevier Editorial System)
E. Brondizio, A. Cak, Marcellus M. Caldas, R. Bilsborrow, E. Moran, C. Mena. T. Ludewigs, C.
Futemma, M. Batistela. Deforestation and Small Holders in Amazonia. In : Amazonia and Global
Change, Eds. Michael Keller, John Gash, Pedro Silva Dias. LBA/NASA (Book).
C. Simmons, R. Walker, E. Arima, S. Aldrich, Marcellus M. Caldas (Press). A Guerra Amazônica pela
Terra no Sul do Pará. In: A Guerra Amazônica pela Terra no Sul do Pará. Sociedade, Territórios
and conflitos: BR 163 em questão. Eds. Edna Castro. Universidade Federal do Pará Press/NAEA
(Book).
Walker, R., M. Diniz, Marcellus M. Caldas, L. Chermont. In: Amazônia: natureza e sociedade em
transformação Ed.s M. Batistella, E.F.Moran, D.S. Alves. University of São Paulo Press: EDUSP
(Book).
Salisbury, David S., Antelo Gutiérrez, A. L., Pérez Alván, C., and J. W. Vela Alvarado. 2010. Fronteras
Vivas or Dead Ends? The Impact of Military Settlement Projects in the Amazon borderlands of
Peru. Journal of Latin American Geography 9, no. 2: 49-71.
Solís, Patricia, Michael Solem, and Noris Martínez. 2009. Geographic Collaboration in the Americas:
Pathways and Prospects. Chapter in Geography Education: Pan American Perspectives,eds. MuñizSolari & Boehm, San Marcos: Texas State University Press, (pp. 345-367.)
Solís, Patricia. 2009. Preparing Competitive Research Grant Proposals. Chapter in Aspiring
Academics: A Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty. Prentice-Hall.
Translated into Spanish, available free online at : http://www.aag.org/galleries/project-programsfiles/AAG_AspirantesAcademicos.pdf
Smith, Betty E. 2010. “Local Land Use Development Agreements in California.” Papers of the Applied
Geography Conferences, Burrell Montz ed., V 33: 392-401. (in press for Oct 2010)
Smith, Betty E. 2010. “Population and Urbanization in Latin America and the Caribbean,”
Geographische Rundschau International Edition, 6(3): 30-34. (Braunschweig, Germany)
Smith, B.E. and Craig, C.D. 2010. "Ecuador: A First Class Adventure." Tempestas et Caelum
Productions, Inc. and the Department of Geology/Geography, Eastern Illinois University. Video. 10
minutes.
Smith, Betty E. 2009. “Urban Population Density in Three Intermediate Size Cities of South America,”
Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences, Burrell Montz ed., V 32: 437-446 (Oct 2009).
Smith, Betty E. 2009. “Ancient Trail Mapping in Highland Ecuador,” GIS in the Field, Digital
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Education User
Conference, CD published July 2009.
Conference Participation
Weinstein, B., Salisbury, D. S., Klinker, K., and University of Richmond Spatial Analysis Lab. 2010.
“An Analysis of the Conservation Importance of Amazon Borderlands using Geographical
Information Systems.” Poster presented at Association of American Geographers Conference.
Washington, DC.
Salisbury, D. S., Vela Alvarado, J. W., and C. R. Franko. 2010. “The Changing Contexts and
Transboundary Dynamics of Reconciling Conservation and Development in the Amazon
Borderlands.” Poster presented at the LIX Annual Center for Latin American Studies Conference:
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Bridging Conservation and Development in Latin America and Africa: Changing Contexts,
Changing Strategies. Gainesville, FL.
West, L. A., Ríos Sánchez, A. I., Salisbury, D. S., and J. W. Vela Alvarado. 2010. “Gender and Species
Use in Amazonian Home Gardens: the Social and Economic Context of Biodiversity Conservation.”
Poster presented at the LIX Annual Center for Latin American Studies Conference: Bridging
Conservation and Development in Latin America and Africa: Changing Contexts, Changing
Strategies. Gainesville, FL.
Salisbury, D. S., Borgo López, J., and J. W. Vela Alvarado. April, 2010. “Transboundary Political
Ecology in the Amazon Borderlands,” Presentation for the Association of American Geographers,
Washington, DC.
Salisbury, D. S., Klinker, K., and University of Richmond Fall 2009 GIS class. November, 2009.
“Biocultural Diversity in the Amazon borderlands: A basin scale GIS analysis,” Presentation for
the Southeastern Association of American Geographers, Knoxville, Tennessee.
West, L. A., Ríos Sánchez, A. I., Salisbury, D. S., Vela Alvarado, J. W. November, 2009. “The
Importance of Biodiversity, Subsistence, and Gender in Amazonian Home Gardens,” Presentation
for the Southeastern Association of American Geographers, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Hoogakker, F., Ríos Arenas, R., Salisbury, D. S., Vela Alvarado, J. W. November, 2009. “Amazon
Fisheries: Threats, Uses, and Dynamics,” Presentation for the Southeastern Association of
American Geographers, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Salisbury, D. S. “Las Fronteras Amazónicas: Diversidad Cultural y Ecológica,” October, 2009. XVIII
Technical Meetings of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH), Quito,
Ecuador.
Solís, P. “Ecosystem Conservation Priorities in the Americas,” Symposium Organizer and Roundtable
Panel Moderator, supported by the JRS Biodiversity Foundation and with representatives from the
Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network, National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica,
Neotropical Bat Risk Assessments Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Organization of American States (OAS), and University of Texas at Austin. AAG Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC, 2010.
Solís, P. “Geography in the Americas Resources for Supporting International Collaboration” Panelist
and Organizer with representatives from the American Council of Learned Societies, Organization
of American States, Inter-American Foundation, Office of International Research Programs at
USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Executive Director of LASPAU, Academic and Professional
Programs for the Americas, Fulbright Program, affiliated with Harvard University, and Americas
Program, Office of International Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation. AAG
Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2009.
Cruz Baez, Angel David. “Puerto Rico´s new challenges: a call to geographers” paper presented in
session on Planning Challenges in the New Millennium, AAG Annual Meeting, Washington, DC,
2010.
Sayre, Roger. United States Geological Survey, Chaired Paper Session on Geographical Studies of
Climate Changes Using GIS, and Remote Sensing Data, AAG Annual Meeting, Washington, DC,
2010.
Marcellus Caldas, M. “The Political Economy of Sugarcane Expansion: the case of the Brazilian
Savanna” paper presented in session Food, Economic Institutions, and Markets in Latin America,
AAG Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2010.
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Smith, Betty E. 2010. “Local Land Use Development Agreements in California,” Papers of the Applied
Geography Conferences Program, (October 2010), Ft. Worth, Texas.
Smith, Betty E. 2009. “Urban Population Density in Three Intermediate Size Cities of South America,”
Applied Geography Conferences Program, (October 2009), Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Smith, Betty E. 2009. “Ancient Trail Mapping in Highland Ecuador,” 2009 ESRI Education User
Conference Program (July 2009), San Diego, California.
Smith, Betty E. 2009. “Urban Population Density in Three Intermediate Size Cities of South America,”
Applied Geography Conferences Program, (October 2009), Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Smith, Betty E. 2009. “Ancient Paths of Highland Ecuador” California Geographical Society
Conference Program, (May 2009), Santa Ynez, California.
Smith, Betty E. 2010. “Local Land Use Development Agreements in California,” Applied Geography
Conferences, Ft. Worth Texas, October 2010.
Smith, Betty E. 2010. “Urban Population Density in Three Intermediate Size Cities of South America,”
Applied Geography Conferences, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 2009.
Smith, Betty E. 2010.“Ancient Trail Mapping in Highland Ecuador, GIS in the Field,” Ninth Annual
ESRI Education User Conference, San Diego, California, July 14, 2009.
4) Conduct or encourage joint research, development, and training in geography and related
fields that benefit the Pan American community
The members of the US Geography Commission have also been active and successful in pursuing
educational and training activities in geography through courses in universities, study abroad field
courses, international visits and workshops, and others:
Solís, P. 2010. “Geography in the Americas Bilingual Workshop: Publishing Across National,
Institutional, and Linguistic Borders / Geografía en las Américas: publicando más allá de las
fronteras nacionales, institucionales y linguísticas” Co-Instructor with O. Muñiz of Texas State
Unviersity San Marcos. AAG Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Smith, B. 2009. Guest lecture, “Galapagos Islands and Ecuador,” EIU Botany Club, December
2009
Smith, B. 2010. Supervision of Student Research of Areeya Tivasuradej, “Big business versus locals:
Perceptions of tourism business in the Galapagos Islands” and related research paper presented at
conference of the Pacific Coast Geographers, San Diego, California, October 2009 and of
Student Marlalynn Yourell, “Cultural geography of Afro-Ecuadorians Living in the Chota
Valley”and related research paper presented at conference of the Midwest Association of Latin
Americanist Studies, Dallas, Texas, November 2009.
Smith, B. 2010. New Course Development - Proposed and approved March 2010 two new courses to
replace one course on Latin America: GEG 3070 Geography and Culture of Middle America
(Mexico, Central America, Caribbean) and GEG 3080 Geography and Culture of South America
Salisbury, D. 2010. Fulbright Fellow in Universidad Nacional de Ucayali, Peruvian Amazon
Salisbury, D. 2010. Teaching: Ordenamiento Territorial in the School of Environmental Engineering,
Forestry Department, Universidad Nacional de Ucayali
Salisbury, D. 2010. Research: Amazonia for Amazonians: Territory, Natural Resource Management,
and Capacity Building in the Peruvian Amazon.
Salisbury, D. S. “ Dinámicas fronterizas: Un Análisis del Desarrollo, Conservación, e Integración en
la Frontera Ucayali-Brasil.” August, 2010. Invited Talk for Workshop: Consolidación de una
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Agenda Común para la Región de la Sierra del Divisor para Apoyar la Gestión del Territorio y
Fortalecer la Integración Acre-Ucayali: Conservación, Desarrollo Económico y Pueblos
Indígenas, Pucallpa, Peru.
Salisbury, D. 2010. “Climate Change: Payment for Ecosystem Services and REDD for Indigenous
Leaders.” August, 2010. Participated in course by the Initiative for the Conservation of the
Andes and the Amazon, Pucallpa, Peru.
Salisbury, D. S., Vela Alvarado, J. W., Klinker, K., and University of Richmond Fall 2009 GIS class.
April, 2010. “The Amazon Borderlands: Reconciling Conservation and Development in a
Transboundary Context,” Invited Talk for United States Agency for International Development
(USAID) Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, Washington, DC.
Solís, P. 2009. International Field Course: Sustainable Development Strategies, Ecotourism, and
Security in Panama as Assistant Professorial Lecturer (adjunct) for The George Washington
University
In addition, the US Geography Commission Representative (Solís) served as the Principal Investigator
for the US National Science Foundation (PASI) Institute for the Integration of Research on Climate
Change and Hazards in the Americas. A group of four dozen experts, scholars, and competitively
selected researchers and practitioners from different disciplines across the Americas (Canada, US,
Mexico, Panama, Trinidad, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil)
came together to generate discussions on how to better bridge the gap between their respective sciences
about climate change and hazards in the Americas. These discussions generated ideas on how to better
educate the public sector about these hazards, information on how to improve current scientific tools,
strategies pertaining to better management techniques for these hazards in the present and in the future,
and a more thorough understanding of hazards in the Americas related to climate change. The
complexities and uncertainties of climate change science were addressed in these discussions and
became one of the major themes of the institute. Participants self organized into five different working
groups to generate ideas about potential future studies based on climate change hazards in the Americas.
Working groups were composed of individuals from different parts of the Americas and from different
disciplines. Each of these five groups prepared a draft research manuscript from these ideas and
presented them publicly on the Technological University of Panama campus. The draft research
manuscripts identified new areas of research in geography, urban planning, engineering,
communication, and other disciplines. An integrated research agenda based on these manuscripts and on
the discussions that ensued over the two-week institute will be published and made available to the
public in the fall of 2010.
The event was funded by the United States National Science Foundation under their PanAmerican
Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) program. The Institute for the Integration of Research on Climate
Change and Hazards in the Americas thus convened in Panama City, Panama from June 14-25, 2010,
and was organized by the Association of American Geographers in conjunction with the PanAmerican
Institute for Geography and History of the Organization of American States, the US Geological Survey,
the National Communication Association, and the United Nations Environment Program for Latin
America and the Caribbean. The Technological University of Panama was the official local host of the
institute, contributing logistics, venue, and most importantly, engaging university research staff as
participants. Technical training at the university also familiarized participants with advanced scientific
technologies such as Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing. Lectures, workshops, and
group discussions spanned a range of topics over the two weeks that crossed national borders and
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interdisciplinary boundaries. The group addressed how advanced scientific technologies and internet
mapping tools can be improved to benefit scientific research on climate change and hazards as well as
how they can be utilized in informing the general public of what challenges they will face due to a
changing climate. Hands-on sessions also addressed how to better convey climate change information to
the general public in areas where access to these technologies is limited. Participants practiced different
teaching methods which could be used in both formal and informal education in the Americas to better
inform the public of what climate change is, and what they can do to better prepare for it. The sessions
were conducted in both English and Spanish in a way that encouraged sharing perspectives and
experiences from across the Americas. Many more scholars and students participated in the institute as
lectures and workgroup presentations were broadcasted online via webcast and through the
collaboratively authored (wiki) knowledge environment
(https://sites.google.com/a/aag.org/c2heke/home). In the days leading up and during the event the
knowledge environment received over 10,000 page views and 1,740 visits by more than 446 persons
from 20 countries.
PanAmerican Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) Meeting, Panama, June 14-25, 2010
5) Participate in the transfer of technology and data, particularly geographic technologies and
geospatial data infrastructure, through the various scientific and technical programs of
PAIGH, the US National Section, and the Pan American Geography Commission
For co-sponsored Commission on Geography funded 2010 project promoting the transfer of technology
and data, see Cartography Commission: Central America Data Integration and Technical Capacity
Building Workshop U.S. National Section Annual Report – 2010 on page 11
The US Geography Commission participated in the discussion about an PAIGH response to the
aftermath of the disaster in Haiti. One suggestion was to explore the possibility of mechanisms that
would assist university level students to resume their studies, particularly undergraduate or graduate
students in strategic fields (geography, history, cartography, geophysics, urban studies, planning, and
related majors). In particular, a bridge to US degree programs or departments might avoid the loss of a
generation and human resources during the disruptive period of immediate recovery, prior to the
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reestablishment of university functions. While plans are under development, the AAG has been
participating in various international conversations with a concern for rebuilding the geographic and
geospatial capacity in Haiti. AAG member Robert Maguire testified before the US Congress and
provided the documentation of his testimony as well as a commentary that was published and circulated
by the AAG Newsletter. Most recently, the AAG has joined the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy,
the AAAS Caribbean Division, the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), the College of Natural Resources
at the University of Idaho to sponsor a workshop in July 10-12, 2010 with the overarching goal to
identify a plan to build Haitian science capacity to address specific Haitian challenges, including new
investment needed in science education, research, and information technology to further Haiti’s
sustainable development and prosperity. The report’s recommendations are expected in Fall 2010 (see
also 27 August 2010 Vol. 329 SCIENCE, www.sciencemag.org.)
Looking forward to the coming year, the US Geography Commission will continue to pursue
appropriate activities within these priority areas in ways that add value to and support both the US
National Section work and the direction of PAIGH in Mexico.
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History Commission
Dr. Erick Langer (Representative)
In October 2009, U.S. National Section history commission representative Dr. Erick Langer
(Georgetown University) and associate representative Dr. Bradley Coleman (U.S. Southern Command)
attended PAIGH technical meetings and general assembly in Quito, Ecuador. A number of issues were
discussed, including the various publications of the History Commission of PAIGH and new ideas for
publications and other activities. Dr. Langer proposed that the Commission take into account the
Program for Latin American Libraries and Archives (PLALA), of which he is a member. PLALA,
funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides funds for the preservation
of libraries and archives. A number of delegates from other countries later approached Langer and
PAIGH members from the History Commission are promoting projects for PLALA within their
respective countries.
Among key issues in Quito, Coleman and Langer discussed, with PAIGH leaders, strategies for
engaging PAIGH member states, such as Haiti, who have not historically participated in the full range of
PAIGH activities. The January 2010 earthquake created opportunities for greater PAIGH involvement
in Haiti.
Bradley Coleman, Command Historian, U.S. Southern Command, at Toussaint
Louverture International Airport, Port-au-Prince, 22 January 2010.
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The Office of the Command Historian, U.S. Southern Command, provided historical support to U.S.
military forces during the humanitarian assistance/disaster response mission in Haiti. Led by Coleman,
the historians collected key documents, conducted oral history interviews, and produced research papers
for U.S. commanders and policymakers. To accomplish this work, Coleman built and deployed a team
of historians, photographers, and writers. At one point, the U.S. government employed eleven (11)
historians in the Haiti joint operating area, supporting approximately 24,500 U.S. military personnel.
In March, Coleman represented the History Commission at the annual meeting of the U.S. National
Section in Redlands, California. He delivered to attendees a presentation on U.S. humanitarian
operations in Haiti, including his experience supporting U.S. forces. At the meeting, the U.S. National
Section decided to develop a proposal for PAIGH to fund a conference on the reconstruction and
rehabilitation of the National Archives of Haiti.
After the Redlands meeting, Coleman discovered that international archivists had already identified the
earthquake-related challenges in Haiti. The National Archives of Haiti did not need a conference.
Instead, it required technical assistance to organize and preserve vulnerable collections. With approval
from section president, Coleman re-oriented the proposal toward the acquisition and instillation of
electronic equipment (computers, scanners)—and technical training for Haitian archival personnel. In
its final form, the multinational proposal, sponsored by U.S. Southern Command, involved the National
Archives of Haiti, Pedro Henríquez Ureña National Library (Dominican Republic), Digital Library of
the Caribbean (United States), and University of British Columbia (Canada). The U.S. National Section
submitted the history commission proposal, “Technical Assistance to the National Archives of Haiti,” to
PAIGH on 19 April 2010. It was hoped that PLALA might also work together with PAIGH on this
project so as to multiply the funds and use the technical assistance already available in the most efficient
fashion. Langer put the administrator of PLALA, Dr. Dan Hazen (Harvard University) in touch with
PAIGH and the Haitian archives to work out a plan.
Dr. Langer began a discussion of consolidating the multiple sections in the History Commission for the
United States, since the U.S. government does not provide funds for travel or other support for
individuals not in U.S. government agencies. This has provided a disincentive for participation in events
and meetings, since the monies that historians can use to go to other conferences must be used for
PAIGH. This problem has become especially acute over the past few years, as the financial crisis has hit
both public and private universities (where the vast majority of historians are employed), limiting even
more travel funds and support for these kinds of activities. The problem is that the U.S. section needs to
maintain a parallel structure with that of other national commissions.
Coleman put together a fact sheet for the U.S. History Commission so that we might distribute it among
colleagues and other interested parties, to get people to know the History Commission and PAIGH so
that they might contribute to it.
Unfortunately, the possibility of creating a permanent office for the History Commission at Vanderbilt
University fell through because of the diminution of funding at Vanderbilt University.
Dr. Langer also participated in other activities, giving lectures in a tour of Bolivia in July, 2010. He
provided a series of lectures on frontiers and on indigenous commerce and the integration of the nationstate in the Andes to audiences at the Instituto de Estudios Bolivianos in La Paz, at the Sociedad
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Tarijeña de Etnohistoria y Geografía in Tarija, where he was inducted as an Honorary Member, at the
Asociación de Antropólogos del Sur (ASUR), in Sucre, and on U.S.-Bolivian relations at the
Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz. Langer also conducted research in Sucre and Santa
Cruz during his time there.
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Geophysics Commission
Dr. Christopher L. Castro
This year, the US Geophysics commission has undergone a transition in representation, as Bruce
Presgrave has left the US National Section to become PAIGH vice-president. The new US
Representative for Geophysics is Dr. Christopher L. Castro, and I am an assistant professor in the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona. I was just recently appointed to this
position following the PAIGH Consultation meeting in October 2009 in Quito, Ecuador. Thus, the
majority of activities reported here with respect to the Geophysics Commission in my first report reflect
my own efforts toward increasing awareness of PAIGH within the context of weather and climate
related research. Though these have been substantial, particularly with respect to increasing research
collaborations and student recruitment from Latin America, they are necessarily still limited in scope as
I am still in the process of becoming oriented to this new position. My goal for the commission within
the next year is to work toward increasing awareness of PAIGH within the broader geophysics
community and to countries that heretofore have little involvement with the organization, especially
those in the Caribbean. Thus, it is anticipated that several PAIGH proposals will likely emerge from
these efforts in the coming year, and is noted as relevant within the report.
US Geophysics Commission Activities for the past year include:
1) Conducting a PAIGH-sponsored session on Natural Hazards of Monsoon Systems in the
Americas at the 2010 American Geophysical Union meeting of the Americas in Foz do
Iguassu, Brazil.
In 2009, PAIGH approved funding for a project to sponsor a meeting on natural hazards of monsoon
variability in the Americas. The principal investigators (PIs) of this project were Drs. Jimmy Adegoke
from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Dr. Tereza Cavazos, from Centro de Investigación y
de Educación Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Baja California, Mexico. This project was extended in
2010 and it was decided, in lieu of a meeting, to host a special session on this topic at the 2010
American Geophysical Union Meeting of the Americas in Foz do Iguassu, Brazil. Dr. Christopher
Castro provided substantial assistance to the project PIs in helping to organize this special session at the
meeting. In spite of being only a poster session, the presentations were very well attended through the
four hour session. Presentations topics included: use of regional atmospheric modeling to improve
monsoon seasonal forecasts and climate change projections in North America, impact of historical
drought in Brazil, use of climate information for water resource decision making in the state of Sonora,
Mexico, and impacts of tropical cyclones and climate change in Central America. The featured invited
presentation was by Dr. Eric Alfaro, from the University of Costa Rica, who presented on the latter
topic.
See Cartography Commission: Central America Data Integration and Technical Capacity Building
WorkshopU.S. National Section Annual Report - 2010
2) Recruitment of Latin American students at the University of Arizona
Following the PAIGH General Assembly Meeting in Quito, Ecuador, Mr. Eric Rivera, a student from
the University of Costa Rica, will to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences
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at the University of Arizona, with the support of Drs. Jorge Amador and Walter Fernandez of the
University of Costa Rica. Mr. Rivera was recruited by Dr. Castro following the presentation of his
master’s research within the Geophysics Commission meeting that related to the use of regional
atmospheric models for climate diagnosis and projection in Central America. It is anticipated that the
presence of Mr. Rivera at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences will help foster sustained research
collaboration between the University of Arizona and the University of Costa Rica in the areas of
regional atmospheric modeling and climate change projection. Similarly, another Latin American
student, Mr. Carlos Carillo was also recruited to the department and will likely study the climatology
and paleoclimatology of the North American monsoon, as revealed by the instrumental and tree-ring
record. It is hoped such fruitful student recruitment efforts may be expanded to help build capacity in
the area of weather and climate within Latin America, particularly in Central America and northern
South America where there is a lack of expertise and infrastructural capacity in comparison to the other
non-English speaking PAIGH countries, namely Brazil.
3) Facilitating geophysical information exchange between the U.S. and Mexico
The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona continues its strong commitment
toward capacity building in the area of weather in climate in Mexico. Dr. Castro presented an invited
presentation (in Spanish) at the University of Sonora in the spring of 2010 on the subject of the use of
regional atmospheric model information to improve seasonal forecast capability and climate change
projections of the North American Monsoon. This visit was sponsored by the state of Sonora as part of
their efforts to improve climate change projection capacity in the region. A strong collaboration with
U.S. universities is critical in this regard because 1) the region of northern Mexico is generally not a
strong focus of weather and climate research currently ongoing in the country and 2) the impacts of
climate change in northern Mexico will have large ramifications for the United States, in terms of the
management of binational water resources, agricultural production, economic stability, and human
migration. As of fall of 2010, the University of Sonora and the University of Arizona are now in the
process of agreeing to a memorandum of understanding that would permit the sharing of regional
climate model seasonal forecast and climate change projection information, facilitate the development of
a global positioning system (GPS) network in northern Mexico for long-term environmental monitoring,
and sustain and strengthen existing collaborative relationship between the two institutions. The latter
may include potential student and faculty exchanges in the future. Another specific, broader endeavor
that is helping to foster cooperation more broadly in geophysics between the U.S. and Mexico is a NSFCONACYT sponsored meeting on the use of global positioning system (GPS) devices for environmental
monitoring, that will take place in Puerto Vallarta in September 2010. This meeting will bring together
a diverse group of earth scientists from both countries that will investigate the possibilities for using
these relatively cheap sensor devices for monitoring earthquakes, atmospheric moisture associated with
summer rainfall, the upper atmosphere, and soil water. For example, it is anticipated that this meeting
will likely lead to several sustained binational research projects sponsored by NSF and/or CONACYT.
A PAIGH supported grant is a logical path toward pursuing collaborative projects in this regard.
4) Broadening outreach to Caribbean nations
In October 2010, Dr. Christopher Castro will travel to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic to give talks
on the subject of climate change in the Caribbean. These presentations are being supported by the U.S.
Department of State as official visits and arranged through the U.S. embassies both countries. The
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presentation in Jamaica will take place at the University of the West Indies and the one in the Dominican
Republic as yet to be determined. Talks, presented in English and Spanish, will focus on the use of
regional atmospheric modeling for climate change projection and the specific risks for the Caribbean
region (drought, possible increase in hurricane intensity, and sea level rise). In addition to the talks to
both the public and local scientific investigators, Dr. Castro will travel to “climate distressed” regions
within the countries, for example a Jamaican farming community in the interior of the country that has
experienced drought and a Jamaican beach community that has suffered the effects of recent sea level
rise. These visits address the articulated need of increased outreach to countries in the Caribbean in prior
reports by this commission. Such countries may only have observer status in PAIGH (as is the case for
Jamaica) and relatively little infrastructural capacity for scientific research coupled with an urgent need
for scientific information. This will likely be a fruitful avenue for PAIGH projects in the future.
For funded 2010 project co-sponsored by the Commission on Geophysics, see Cartography
Commission: Central America Data Integration and Technical Capacity Building Workshop U.S.
National Section Annual Report – 2010 on page 11
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DIRECTORY
U.S. National Section
Pan American Institute of Geography and History
(PAIGH)
September 2010
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PAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
Vice President
Bruce W. Presgrave
U. S. Geological Survey
National Earthquake Information Center
P. O. Box 25046, MS 966
Denver, CO 80225
E-mail:presgrave@usgs.gov
Tel: (303) 273-8461
Fax: (303) 273-8450
UNITED STATES NATIONAL SECTION
PAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
NATIONAL SECTION OFFICERS
President
Mark L. DeMulder
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Mail Stop 511
Reston VA 20192-0002
E-mail: mdemulder@usgs.gov
Tel: (703) 648-5569
Fax: (703) 648-4722
Vice President
Jean Parcher
U.S. Geological Survey
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Mail Stop 590
Reston VA 20192-0002
E-mail: jwparcher@usgs.gov
Tel: (703) 648-4158
Fax: (703) 648-5755
Executive Secretary
Maria Alexandra O'Brien
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
4600 Sangamore Road
Bethesda, MD 20816-5003
E-mail: maria.a.obrien@nga.mil
Tel: (703) 482-9805
Fax: (703) 482-6831
Department of State Liaison
Mr. Daniel Cento
U.S. Mission to the OAS
Specialized Organizations Advisor
2201 C Street, NW Room 591
Washington, D. C. 20520
E-mail: CentoDW@state.gov
Tel: (202) 647-9378
Fax: (202)647-0911
Representative
Cartography Commission
Leslie Armstrong
U.S. Geological Survey
Denver Federal Center
Bldg. 810, MS-150
Denver, CO 80225
E-mail: larmstrong@usgs.gov
Tel: (303) 202-4746
Fax: (303) 202-4742
Representative
Geography Commission
Dr. Patricia Solís
Director of Outreach and Strategic Initiatives
Association of American Geographers
1710 Sixteenth Street NW
Washington DC 20009-3198
E-mail: psolis@aag.org
Tel: (202) 558-7491
Fax: (202) 234-2744
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Representative
Geophysics Commission
Christopher L. Castro
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Arizona
Physics and Atmospheric Sciences Building,
Room 520
1118 E. Fourth St.
Tuscon, AZ 85721
E-mail: castro@atmo.arizona.edu
Tel: (520) 626-5617
Fax: (520) 621-6833
Representative
History Commission
Dr. Erick Detlef Langer
Department of History
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 22207-3401
E-mail: langere@georgetown.edu
Tel: (202) 687-7386
Fax: (202)687-7245
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Commission on Cartography
Representation
Representative
Leslie Armstrong
U.S. Geological Survey
Denver Federal Center
Bldg. 810, MS-150
Denver, CO 80225
E-mail: larmstrong@usgs.gov
Tel: (303) 202-4746
Fax: (303) 202-4742
Alternate Representative
Liam O’Brien
National Geospatial
Intelligence Agency
4600 Sangamore Road
Bethesda, MD 20816-5003
E-mail: liam.p.obrien@nga.mil
Tel: (301) 227-3049
Fax: (301) 227-3315
Policy Committees
Advisory Committee of the Commission
Principal Member
John Tomasovich
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Peru Regional Office
Email: nga_peru@speedy.com.pe
Tel: 011-511-226-0400
Fax: 011-511-224-1205
Alternate Member
John Gates
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
4600 Sangamore Rd.
Bethesda, MD. 20816
Tel: 301 227-9891
Geospatial Data Infrastructures Committee
Principal Member
Merrill Lyew
Tel: (909) 793-2853 Ext. 1-1705
International Regional Manager, Latin America
ESRI
380 New York Street
Redlands, CA 92373-8100
E-mail: mylew@esri.com
Alternate Member
Carmelle J. Terborgh, Ph.D.
ESRI Federal/Global Affairs Team Lead
8615 Westwood Center Drive
Vienna, Virginia 22182 USA
E-mail: cterborgh@esri.com
Committee on Institutional Strengthening and Technical Cooperation
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Tel: 703-506-9515 Ext 8013
Fax: 703-506-9514
Principal Member
Paul R. Cooper
Vice President CARIS USA
415 N Alfred St
Alexandria, VA 22314
E-mail: paul.cooper@caris.com
Tel: (703) 299-9712
Fax: (703) 299-9715
Alternate Member
Gregg Badger
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Source Mission Integration Division
Chief of International Activities
4600 Sangamore Road
Bethesda, MD 20816-5003
E-mail: gregg.r.badger@nga.mil
Tel: (301) 227-3805
Fax: (301) 227-6427
Alternate Member
JP Roa
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Source Mission Integration Division
4600 Sangamore Road
Bethesda, MD 20816-5003
E-mail: john.p.roa@nga.ic.gov
Tel: (301) 227-9327
Fax: (301) 227-6427
Communications Committee
*No U.S. Representation on this committee
Technical Committees and Working Groups
Reference System for the Americas (SIRGAS) (Working Group)
Principal Member
Steve Kenyon
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
3838 Vogel road, SN, L-41
Arnold, MO 63010
E-mail: steve.c.kenyon@nga.mil
Tel: (314) 263-4080
Fax: (314) 263-5741
Alternate Member
James Slater
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
12310 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20191
E-mail: james.a.slater@nga.mil
Tel: (703) 735-3944
Fax: (703) 735-3960
Geographic Names (Working Group)
Principal Member
Roger Payne
U.S. Geological Survey
1462 Gleasons Landing Drive
Saint Helena Island, SC 29920
Email: rpayne@usgs.gov
Tel:
(843)838-2884
Alternate Member
George Troop
Tel:
(301) 227-2077
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
4600 Sangamore Road
Bethesda, MD 20816-5003
E-mail: george.g.troop@nga.mil
Fax: (301) 227-5515
Tactile Cartography (Working Group)
*No U.S. Representation on this committee
Global Map of the Americas (MGA) (Working Group)
Principal Member
Jean Parcher
U.S. Geological Survey
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Mail Stop 590
Reston VA 20192-0002
E-mail: jwparcher@usgs.gov
Tel: (703) 648-4158
Fax: (703) 648-5755
Alternate Member
Gregg Badger
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
MS D-198
4600 Sangamore Road
Bethesda, MD 20816-5003
E-mail: gregg.r.badger@nga.mil
Tel: (301) 227-3805
Fax: (301) 227-6427
Hydrography (Technical Committee)
Principal Member
Alternate Member
Eric L. Villalobos
Tel:
(228) 688-4529
USSOUTHCOM Regional Coordinator
Naval Meteorology & Oceanography
Fax: (228) 688-5332
Command 1100 Balch Blvd., CODE N53
Fleet Interaction Stennis Space Center,
Paul R. Cooper
Vice President USA Operations
CARIS USA / 503 2nd St NE
Washington, DC 20002
E-mail:paul.cooper@caris.com
MS, 39522
Tel: (703) 299-9712
Fax: (703) 299-9715
Aeronautic Charts (Technical Committee)
Principal Member
Robert L. Goodson
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
3838 Vogel Road
Arnold, MO 63010
E-mail: robert.l.goodson@nga.mil
Alternate Member
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Tel: (314) 263-8067
Fax: (314) 676-7029
Fundamental Data (Working Group)
Principal Member
Jean Parcher
U.S. Geological Survey
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Mail Stop 590
Reston VA 20192-0002
E-mail: jwparcher@usgs.gov
Tel: (703) 648-4158
Fax: (703) 648-5755
Alternate Member
Robert Wimer
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
U.S. Northern Command
JIOC North 570 Suffolk Street
Peterson AFB, CO 80914-1680
E-mail: Robert.wimer@northcom.mil
Tel: (719) 554-0274
Fax: (719) 554-8585
Thematic Cartography and Applications (Working Group)
Principal Member
Vacant
Alternate Member
Vacant
Editor of the Revista Cartografica (Technical Committee)
*No U.S. Representation on this committee
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Commission on Geography
Representative
Alternate
Dr. Patricia Solís
Director of Outreach and Strategic Initiatives
Association of American Geographers
1710 Sixteenth Street NW
Washington DC 20009-3198
E-mail: psolis@aag.org
Dr. Betty Smith
Department of Geology and Geography
600 Lincoln Avenue
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL 61920-3099
E-mail: besmith@eiu.edu
Tel:
Fax:
(202) 558-7491
(202) 234-2744
Tel: (217) 581-6340
Committee Members: US Geography Commission
Member
Dr. Andrew Sluyter
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
E-mail: asluyter@lsu.edu
Tel: (225) 579-4261
Fax: (225) 578-4420
Member
Dr. James Biles
Department of Geography
Indiana University
701 E. Kirkwood Ave
Bloomington, IN 47405
E-mail: jbiles@indiana.edu
Tel: (812) 856-4447
Fax: (812) 855-1661
Member
Dr. Marcellus Caldas
Department of Geography and Environ Studies
Kansas State University
118 Seaton Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-2904
E-mail: caldasma@k-state.edu
Tel: (785) 532-1244
Fax: (785) 532-7310
Member
Dr. David J. Keeling
Department of Geography and Geology
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101-3576
E-mail: david.keeling@wku.edu
Tel: (270) 745-4555
Fax: (270) 745-6410
Member
Dr. David Salisbury
Department of Geography and the Environment
University of Richmond
Tel: (804) 289-8661
Fax: (804) 287-6833
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28 Westhampton Way
Richmond, VA 23173
E-mail: dsalisbu@richmond.edu
Member
Dr. Roger Sayre
Senior Scientist, Geographic Analysis
And Monitoring Program
US Geological Survey, 519 National Center
12201 Sunrise Valley Dr.
Reston, VA 20192
E-mail: rsayre@usgs.gov
Tel: (703) 648-4529
Fax: (703) 648-5542
Member
Dr. Ángel David Cruz Báez
Director, Departamento de Geografía
Universidad de Puerto Rico- Río Piedras
Apartado Postal 23345
San Juan, PR 00931-3345
E-mail: angeldavid.cruz@gmail.com
Tel: (787) 908-6404
Fax: (787) 773-1709
Member
Tim Trainor
Chief, Geography Division
US Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Road - Mail Stop 7400
Washington, D.C. 20233-7400
E-mail: timothy.f.trainor@census.gov
Tel: (301) 763-2131
Fax: (301) 763-4710
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Commission on History
Representation
Representative
Erick Detlef Langer
Department of History
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 22207-3401
E-mail: langere@georgetown.edu
Tel: (202) 687-7386
Fax: (202) 687 7245
Executive Secretary
Bradley Coleman
Tel: (305)-437-2659
USSouthCom
Fax: (305)-437-1296
3511 NW 91st Ave.
Miami FL 33172
E-mail: bradley.coleman@hq.southcom.mil
Alternate Representative
Lawrence Clayton, Chair
History Department
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa AL 35487-0212
E-mail: lclayton@simplecom.net
Tel: (205) 348-7103
Archeology Committee
Principal Member
William Fowler
Department of Anthropology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37235
E-mail: william.r.fowler@vanderbilt.edu
Alternate Member
Daniel Rogers, Chair
Department of Anthropology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution, box 37012
Washington DC 20013-7012
E-mail: rogersd@si.edu
Tel: (615) 343-6123
Tel: (202) 633-1920
Anthropology & Ethno-History Committee
Principal Member
Vacant
Cultural History Committee
Principal Member
Linda Curcio-Nagy
Department of History
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Tel: (775) 784-4079
University of Nevada
Reno, NV 89557
E-mail: lcn@unr.nevada.edu
Economic and Social History Committee
Principal Member
N. David Cook, Chair
Department of History
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199
E-mail: noble.cook@fiu.edu
Tel: (305) 348-3966
Historiography Committee
Principal Member
Barbara A. Tenenbaum
Hispanic Division
Library of Congress
Washington, DC 20540
E-mail: bten@loc.gov
Tel: (202) 707-4298
Fax: (202) 707-2005
History Teaching Committee
Principal Member
Felix Almaraz
Tel: (210) 435-3305
History Department and Bejar Historical Society
University of Texas
San Antonio TX 78207-4415
E-mail: falmaraz@utsa.edu
Specialized Libraries and History Archives Committee
Principal Member
Joseph Sanchez, Director
Spanish Colonial Research Center
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
E-mail: jpsa@unm.edu
Tel: (505) 346-2890
Principal member
Jurgen Buchenau, Professor
History Department
University of North Carolina
Charlotte NC 28223-0001
E-mail: jbuchena@email.uncc.edu
Tel: (704) 687-4635
Fax: (704) 687-3218
Alternate member
Frank Robinson, Professor
Department of History
Vanderbuilt University
Station B, 351802
Nashville TN 37235-1802
William.f.robinson@vanderbilt.edu
Tel: (615) 322-2575
Fax: (615) 322-2527
Member
Michael Conniff, Director
Global Studies Initiative
San José State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0135
E-mail: michael.conniff@sjsu.edu
Political History Committee
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Tel: (408) 924-7196
Fax: (408) 924-7203
Commission on Geophysics
Representation
Representative
Christopher L. Castro
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Arizona
Physics and Atmospheric Sciences Building,
Room 520
1118 E. Fourth St.
Tuscon, AZ 85721
E-mail: castro@atmo.arizona.edu
Tel: (520) 626-5617
Fax: (520) 621-6833
Alternate Representative
Jean N. Weaver
Regional Specialist for Central America/
South America/Caribbean International Programs
US Geological Survey
MS 917, National Center
Reston, Va. 20192
jweaver@usgs.gov
Tel: (703) 648-6012
Fax: (703) 648-4227
Geomagnetism and Aerometry Committee
Principal Member
Vacant
Seismology and Volconology Committee
Principal Member
Jean N. Weaver
Regional Specialist for Central America/
South America/Caribbean International Programs
US Geological Survey
MS 917, National Center
Reston, Va. 20192
Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics Committee
Tel: (703) 648-6012
Fax: (703) 648-4227
Principal Member
Tel: (816) 235-2978
Fax: (816) 235-5535
Jimmy Adegoke
Dept of Geosciences
420K Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
5100 Rockhill Road
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
E-mail: adegokej@umkc.edu
Environment Geophysics Committee
Vacant
Gravimetry Committee
Principal Member
Daniel Winester
National Geodetic Survey
NOAA
Table Mtn. Gravity Observatory
8600 North 39th Street
Longmont, CO 80503-9050
E-mail:daniel.winester@noaa.gov
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Tel: (303) 497-7405
Fax: (303) 497-7406