2011 Program (Tentative)
Ground Floor, Deike Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
March 19th – 20th
Saturday, March 19th
8:30 am – 10:00 am
9:00 am – 10:20 am
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Registration Open, Earth and Mineral Sciences
Museum
Panel Discussion 1: Activism in Scholarship
(Sponsored by SWIG*)
Paper Session 1A: Urbanization and Migration
Deike Bldg
Paper Session 1B: Marginal Identities
25 Deike
22 Deike
2 Deike
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Paper Session 2A: Political Unrest and Resistance
2 Deike
Paper Session 2B: Tourism and Recreation
25 Deike
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Poster Session
4 Deike
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Keynote Address
26 Hosler
Deike Bldg
9:30 am – 10:40 am
Registration Open, Earth and Mineral Sciences
Museum
Paper Session 3: Medicine and Education
11:00 am – 12:40 pm
Paper Session 4A: Resources and Livelihoods
2 Deike
Paper Session 4B: Physical Geography and GIS
22 Deike
Sunday, March 20th
8:30 am – 10:00 am
12:40 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Panel Discussion 2: Publishing (Sponsored by
SWIG*)
* SWIG: Supporting Women in Geography
25 Deike
22 Deike
Saturday, March 19th
Panel Discussion 1: Activism and Scholarship, 9:00 am – 10:20 am
Lorraine Dowler, Associate Professor of Geography and Women's Studies, PSU
Peggy Lorah, Director of the Center for Women's Students and Affiliate Faculty in
Women's Studies, PSU
Melissa Wright, Associate Professor of Geography and Women's Studies, PSU
Paper Session 1A: Urbanization and Migration,10:30 am – 12:00 pm
10:30 am – 10:50 am “Close Neighbors are better than distant relatives”: Splintering
social networks within Beijing’s Neoliberal Urbanism
Melissa Rock* (G), Penn State
10:50 am – 11:10 am Puerto Ricans in Cleveland, Ohio: The Humanization of the
Place
Jose Cajigas-Flores (G), The University of Akron
11:10 am – 11:30 am Caribbean Drift: Exploring Brain Circulation as a means to
Sustainable Growth
Shanhai Heywood (G), Penn State
11:30 am – 11:50 am Micropolitan Urbanization Attempts in Rural Trans-Mississippi
South, 1900-2000
Patrick Hagge (G), Penn State
Paper Session 1B: Marginal Identities, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
10:30 am – 10:50 am White Male Feminism: Seeing From the Position of “The
Oppressor”
Patrick Hammons* (G), Penn State
10:50 am – 11:10 am Borders, Boundaries, and Bodies: Sex Trafficking in the United
States
Dana Cuomo (G), Penn State
11:10 am – 11:30 am Bosnian Refugees: Reconfiguring a Sense of Place in the Midst
of Transition
Meghan Kiernan (U), Emily Riley (U), Amanda Fernley (U), Adam Costello (U),
Penn State
11:30 am – 11:50 am Ethnicity, Boundaries, and Nationalism in a 'European' Croatia
Jennifer Titanski (G), Penn State
Lunch: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
* Denotes Session Chair
(U) = Undergraduate Student, (G) = Graduate Student
Paper Session 2A: Political Unrest and Resistance, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
1:30 pm – 1:50 pm The Flash, The Mob, and The Mass: What technology brings to
transformative political movements
Jim Thatcher* (G), Penn State
1:50 pm – 2:10 pm The Political Ecology of Cocalero Resistance: A Geographic
Analysis of Coca Farmer Mobilization in Andean Peru
Timothy Scott Pruett (G), West Virginia Univ
2:10 pm – 2:30 pm Heat, Wheat, and the Arab Street: The Relationships Among
Climate, Food Security, and Stability in Egypt
Mark Read (G), Penn State
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Landowner Coalitions in the Development of the Marcellus Shale: A
Political Ecology Perspective
Eleanor Andrews (G), Penn State
Paper Session 2B Tourism and Recreation, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
1:30 pm – 1:50 pm Using a Resilience Framework to Understand Sustainable Tourism:
The Case Dive Operators in the US Virgin Islands
Kevin Hillmer-Pegram* (G), Penn State
1:50 pm – 2:10 pm Philadelphia on Two Wheels in the Fast Lane
Dana Dobson (U), Temple Univ
2:10 pm – 2:30 pm Enhancing the environment of the historic city, Varanasi, India,
through architecture and urban planning strategies
Nanditha Veeraraghavelu (G), Penn State
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Examining Limits to use in Yosemite Valley: A Study of the
Numerical Limits on User Capacity Being Established in the Merced River Plan
Danny Kunches (G), Penn State
Poster Session, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
GIS-based Distributed SDR Model derived from DEM and soil loss map and
quantification of sediment yield on Matlab
Se Jong Cho (G), Johns Hopkins University
The Political Economy of Women’s Education in Asia
Ritu Dhungana (G), West Virginia University
Assessing the cumulative impact of disturbance on canopy nitrogen
Lindsay Deel (G), West Virginia University
* Denotes Session Chair
(U) = Undergraduate Student, (G) = Graduate Student
Public Perceptions of Spatial Analogs for Climate Change: A Survey of Centre Region,
Pennsylvania Residents
David Retchless (G), Penn State
Keynote Address, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Dr. Matthew Zook, Associate Professor, Department of Geography,
University of Kentucky
Saturday, March 19th
Paper Session 3: Medicine and Education, 9:30 am – 10:40 am
9:30 am – 9:50 am A Legal Framework for a Telemedicine Venture in Kenya
Chanda Turner (G), Penn State
9:50 am – 10:10 am What Has Geography Got to Do with It? Using GWR to Explore
Place-specific Associations with Prenatal Care Utilization
Carla Shoff (G), Penn State
10:10 am – 10:30 am Helping Haiti: Hope Comes in Many Colors (Interactive Short
Paper Format)
Chelsea Gilliam (U), Eileen Fresta (U), Penn State
Paper Session 4A: Resources and Livelihoods, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
11:00 am – 11:20 am An Argument for Methane Hydrates as a Transitory Fuel Source
Justin VanderBerg* (G), Penn State
11:20 am – 11:40 am Fluid political ecologies: Theorizing access and livelihood
systems within the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Jamie Shinn (G), Penn State
11:40 am – 12:00 pm Deforestation, Climate Change, Adaptation: Mixing Discourses
during Scenario Building for Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana
Kathleen Dietrich (G), Penn State
12:00 pm – 12:20 pm Environmental Monitoring in Tanzania: An Undergraduate's
Perspective
Jennifer Spinelli (U), Penn State
12:20 pm – 12:30 pm Understandings of Resource Management, and Consumptive
Behavior Across the Socio-Economic Spectrum: An analysis of methods (Interactive
Short Paper Format)
Anna Alcaro (U) and Melissa Harkavy (U), Penn State
* Denotes Session Chair
(U) = Undergraduate Student, (G) = Graduate Student
Paper Session 4B: Physical Geography and GIS, 11:00 am – 12:40 pm
11:00 am – 11:20 am Estimating changes in forest structure and fire behavior through a
comparison of pre-suppression and contemporary forest condition in the Tahoe Basin,
CA
Anna Vandervlugt* (G), Penn State
11:20 am – 11:40 am Geospatial Analysis of Barrier Island Beach Accessibility and
Availability to Tourists
Jinwon Kim, Michigan State, and Byungyun Yang, Univ of Georgia
11:40 am – 12:00 pm Hydroclimatic Regionalization in North-central Mongolia as
Inferred from Tree-rings
Cari Leland, West Virginia Univ, and Neil Pederson, LDEO, Columbia Univ
12:00 pm – 12:20 pm Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: Solutions for Natural Resource
Management
Raechel Bianchetti (G), Penn State
12:20 pm – 12:40 pm Assessing the Cognitive Adequacy of Topological Caculi-Scaling
vs. Translation
Jinlong Yang (U), Penn State
Lunch: 12:30pm – 2:00 pm
Panel Discussion 2: Publishing, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Cindy Brewer, Professor of Geography, PSU
James McCarthy, Associate Professor of Geography, PSU
Anouk Patel-Campillo, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, PSU
Erica Smithwick, Assistant Professor of Geography, PSU
* Denotes Session Chair
(U) = Undergraduate Student, (G) = Graduate Student