Annual Geography Department Symposium

Wednesday April 15 2009

Morning Presentations in Monroe 301

9:00:  Emily Fornof (2009):  Which Came First - Peace or Tourism? (Based on a senior seminar paper that won a UMW Writing Center Award)

9:25:  Katie Andree (2009):  Wilderness Tourism in the United States National Parks

10:00:  Jonthan Trenary (2009):  How We See Theming Then and Now:  A Synopsis of the Theme Town Discourse

10:25:  Kate Malpeli (2009): Tourism on Native American Reservations

11:00:  Kyle Hitzelberg (2009):  Violent Forced Migration: A Case Study of the Jews in Nazi Germany as Represented by Watership Down

12:00 - 2:00: Poster Session in Monroe 305

James Blacker (2009): Modeling Climate in GIS: the 2 degree Isotherm in the La Sal Mountains, Utah.

Allyson Thomposon (2010) and Arianna Drumond (2009):  Mapping and GIS at Belmont.

Joseph Nicholas, James Blacker (2009) and Michael Harrison (UT San Antonio):  Modeling the Limit of Discontinuous Permafrost in the La Sal Mountains, Utah

Jacqueline Gallagher and Joseph Nicholas:  200 Year of Human Intervention:  Assessing Impacts on a Fluvial System, Hazel Run, Fredericksburg, VA

Afternoon Presentations in Monroe 301

2:00 Hope Slagsted (2009): Global Media: Witnessing and Activism in Israel/Palestine

2:25 Arianna Drumond (2009):  Gangs and Globalization: Clandestine Aspects of the Global Economy

3:00 Brittany Cook (2009):  Hookahs in the USA:  Globalization and Transnational Commodities

3:25  Matthew Holden and SEDAAG participants: The World Geography Bowl at SEDAAG and the AAG.

Geography Department's 50th Anniversary Lecture Series Speaker in Monroe 104

4:00  Dr. Carolyn Gallaher (MWC 1991): Geography and Post-Conflict. Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland