Association of Washington Geographers
Spring 2014 Meeting
May 17, 2014
The University of Washington Tacoma
PROGRAM
8:30 – 9:00
Coffee & Registration (Joy Building Lobby)
9:00 -9:10
Welcome: Ali Modarres, Director, UWT Urban Studies
9:15 – 10:30
Paper Session I (Joy Building 117)
Moderator: Yonn Dierwechter, Urban Studies/UWT
9:15-9:35 – Susan Digby & Marie Weichman, Olympic College
“Geography and Art Team Up: Marine Debris and the Grey Trash Whale”
9:35-9:55 – Christopher Zemp, Science Editor, Planet Magazine
“Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change: Future Projections
for Six Puget Sound Rivers”
9:55-10:15 – Shannon Tyman, Urban Studies/UWT
“Just Alterity?: Three Alternative Food Networks in Seattle, Washington”
10:15-10:35 – Aquila Flower, Environmental Studies/Western Washington
University
“Using Tree-Rings to Reconstruct Three Centuries of Western Spruce
Budworm Outbreaks in the Interior Pacific Northwest”
10:35 – 10:50
10:50 – 12:010
Break
Paper Session II (Joy Building 117)
Moderator: JW Harrington, Vice Chancellor, UWT
10:50-11:10 – Simon Springer, Geography/University of Victoria
“Earth Writing”
11:10-11:30 – John Bowen, Geography/Central Washington University
“Diaspora, The Overseas Chinese, and China’s Re-Emergence in
Contemporary Mainland Southeast Asia”
11:30-11:50 – Amy L. McCoy & Mathew Novak, Geography/Central
Washington University
“Fading Away: Historical Murals in Downtown Ellensburg”
11:50-12:10 – Patrick Buckley, Environmental Studies/Western Washington
University
“The Pig War and the Demise of Manifest Destiny”
12:20 – 1:20
Lunch
Speaker: David Boe, BOEarchitects &
Tacoma City Council Member
Visioning in Tacoma
1:30 – 2:30
Poster Session (Joy Building Lobby)
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Kirsten Allen, Nicolas Boye , & Carly Gilliland, Western Washington University
“The Future Landscape of Chinese Wind Power”
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David Anderson, Western Washington University
“Spatial Assessment of the Impact to the Land Bordering the Nooksack River with
the Re-establishment of a 2000 Foot Riparian Zone”
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Tyler Black, Western Washington University
“Determining Relationships Between Vulnerable Populations and
Infrastructure Through an Interpolated Population Surface”
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Ryan DeNoyer, Kelly Grady, Max Johnson, & Kaeli Wells, Western Washington Univ.
“Onshore and Offshore Water Pollution in China and Japan”
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Raymond Hall, Central Washington University
“Understanding Regional Athletics through GIS”
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Reed Skyllingstad, Central Washington University
“Land Use Change in Phoenix, Arizona 1990-2014”
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Sarah Thomas, Western Washington University
“An Analysis of Vegetation Distributions at Port Susan Bay, Washington”
2:30 – 4:00
Field Trip
Tacoma’s Waterfront:
Development Problems and Prospects
Stephen Atkinson,
Associate Planner, City of Tacoma
4:15
Business Meeting
Photo by Kim Davenport