CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH Geography 640-02: Seminar in Physical and Environmental Geography Spring 2019 Topic: Hazards W 7-9:45 p.m., PH1-230 Ticket #11013

Conferences in May 2019

Since one of the major "deliverables" of the seminar is an original research project, I would like you to share your work with a local professional society meeting. We are fortunate in that spring is the semester that a lot of these are available at the end of the semester, when you should, presumably, be done with the bulk of your work.

This semester, we have an embarrassment of riches on the first weekend of May. Three societies have their annual meetings in the area either on Friday the 3rd of May or from the 3rd through the 5th. Oy!

• Closest is the Los Angeles Geographical Society at L.A. City College (Vermont north of the 101), on Friday evening, 3 May. The LAGS is famous for its first Friday of the month lecture series, which is often a popular topic or travelogue. Several years ago, student members of the board proposed and launched a completely different experience for the last Friday of the annual series: They invited all students in the region who had given a paper for a professional society to re-give it to the LAGS. And so the May Student Research Symposium was born! Now, it consists of a major poster paper venue and usually three concurrent sessions in two time-banks in the evening, and it is now a free-standing professional conference (you don't have to have given your paper previously to the AAG, APCG, AGU, or whatever). You can learn more at http://lageography.org/ or at their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LAGeography/.

• A bit farther afield is the Southern California Academy of Sciences, which will meet at CSU Northridge (Nordhoff St. about 3 miles west of the 405 in the San Fernando Valley), also on Friday the 3rd of May, but in the daytime as well as evening. This is the first conference I ever presented at! It is also the venue for presentation of my Fall 2012 Biogeography seminar's original research (https://home.csulb.edu/~rodrigue/SCAS/). You can learn more at: http://scas.nhm.org/.

• Farther yet, but in a great resort locally, The Lodge at Big Bear Lake, we have the California Geographical Society. Their meeting will also be held that very weekend, starting Friday the 3rd and running through the 5th. I suspect most of the paper sessions will be on Saturday the 4th. For more information, see http://calgeog.org/.

If I become aware of others, I'll update this list.

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