"Post-Imperial Third Romes: Resurrections of a Russian Orthodox geopolitical metaphor."

"Marijuana cultivation in National Forests and Parks, environmental impacts, and policy failure: Disaster by management."

"Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox geopolitics of the Cold War."

"Urban runoff and the hydrosocial cycle: From asset to liability and back again"

"Accuracy versus shape: An assessment of LiDAR interpolations "

"Mobility, homelessness, and gender: Travel among homeless adults in Long Beach, CA"

"Organizing the virus: The body politic, HIV, and the molecular geographies of surveillance"

With Dr. Christine Jocoy, he is also second co-author on another paper:

"Mobility, homelessness, and gender: Travel among homeless adults in Long Beach, CA"

"Touch as resonance: Examining the substance and shadows of place-based feeling"

"Orders of relief and the regional geography of Mars"

She is also the organizer and chair of a special session co-sponsored by the Remote Sensing and the Political Geography specialty groups:

"Geography of Mars"

"Representing and negotiating uncertain exurban concepts with user evaluation."

She is also serving on a panel sponsored by the Graduate Student Affinity Group and the Population Specialty Group addressing:

"Geography's diversity, coherence, prospects"

"Homelessness as an industry: A case study of Los Angeles."

"Changes in the North Palisade Glacier, Sierra Nevada, since the Little Ice Age."

"Interconnecting spaces: Networking away diesel pollution from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles"

"Long Beach in context."

"Ethnic diversity in geography undergraduate departments."

"'That obscure object of my desire': The Islamic Republic of Iran and das Ding."

"New directions in the political ecology of Madagascar."

"Two wheel mpas: Maps in bicycle travel narrative."

"Statistical relationships among proxies of climate, productivity, and the carbon cycle across climatic regimes, Santa Barbara Basin, California."

"Landed property ownership for women in the urban informal sector in India: Negotiating closed doors and windows of opportunity."

"Energy services for the urban poor: Public-private-NGO partnerships for slum electrification in India."

"Composite learning objects in geographical sciences: Experience from on-line collaboration."

Ms. Wranic wishes to thank the Department of Geography at TSUSM for funding her participation in this conference.

"Optimizing stream daylighting project locations for groundwater recharge in Compton, California."

Dr. Dallman notes that the annual Headwaters to Oceans (H₂) conference is sponsored by the California Shore and Beach Preservation Association (CSBPA), the California Coastal Coalition (CalCoast), the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project (SCWRP), and the Western Chapter of the Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS).

"Gender and globalization: Challenges and opportunities faced by women in the construction industry in India."

"Two wheel maps."

She reports a pleasant perk of her attendance there was getting to tour the Adventure Cycling cartography operation!

"Public-private-NGO partnerships for urban basic services in India."

"Low cost start-up GIS for cities."

He has also been asked to chair a session on "GIS and Planning"

"Visualizing Eastern Europe and Russia in North American world regional geography textbooks: Teaching as engaging."

"GIS modeling for stormwater and groundwater management."

"Collaborative mapping: A social atlas of Long Beach, CA."

"An anthropogenic escape route for young trees in the savanna of Mali, West Africa."

"Disaster by management: Marijuana cultivation in National Forests and National Parks."

She chaired the session, "Invasive, Exotic & Disturbed: Geographies of Vegetation"

Dr. Rodrigue was also an invited panelist in the "Shifting Patterns of Illicit Crop Cultivation" session, presenting "Marijuana cultivation in National Forests and National Parks: American market, post-9/11 border securitization, and global in-sourcing of production."

"A Postcapitalist Politics, J. K. Gibson-Graham."

She also gave a panel presentation in the "On the Political and Territoriality" special session

As well, she served as chair for two sessions, Graduate Perspectives on Women, I and II

"The 'YouTube Nation' and the body politics of sexuopharmaceuticals."

He also served as introducer in the special session, "Author Meets the Critics: Arun Saldanha's Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race"

Additionally, he served as discussant in a special session, "Critics Meets Author: Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism "

Dr. Del Casino was also a discussant in another special session, "Subversive cartographies 1"

"A 34,000-yr record of the Mojave-Colorado desert ecotone at Joshua Tree National Park."

She also co-organized two special paper sessions: Advances in Paleoclimatology I and IV

Additionally, she chaired the "Advances in Paleoclimatology I" session

"From martyrs to hopefulness: The changing popular relevance of Iran's revolutionary murals."

"For sale or for rent? Why aren't lofts and condos selling in downtown Los Angeles?"

"Public participation GIS and housing advocacy."

"Visualizing the Japanese American internment experience: Weaving emotional geographies into a GIS environment."

"GIS on the margin: Contextualizing the non-expert user."

"The politics of pasting: A spatial inquiry into the practice(s) of wheatpasting, power, and representation."

"'The Day I Became A Woman': Hejab and Iranian New Wave Cinema."

"Geographies of everyday death: US militarism and America's war on Vietnam."

He also served as discussant in the "Mapping the Black Presence" session and panelist in "The Geopolitics of American Empire" panel.

"Geography of Ilya Glazunov's eternal Russia."

"GIS modeling for stormwater and groundwater management."

"Rethinking stormwater management: The Los Angeles Basin Water Augmentation Study"

"The stable isotope composition of taxon-specific higher plant biomarkers in ancient packrat middens: Novel proxies for seasonal climate in the southwest U.S."

"The 'YouTube Nation'! and the body politics of sexuopharmaceuticals."

"The politics of homeless mobility in Long Beach, CA."

"Careers in community college geography."

"Doing it all: Experiences of female junior faculty in physical/environmental geography."

"Mars in the geography classroom."

"The West in Russian Orthodoxy-inspired geopolitics."

"The flip-side of drought: Wet intervals in Yellowstone National Park over the last 1400 years."

"Twenty-five years later: 'On not excluding half the human in human geography.'"

"Geographic scale and racial formation: The U.S. Census in California and the creation of the 'Asian American' racial category."

"Ethnic Neighborhoods of Los Angeles and Orange Counties"

"Careers in community college geography."

"The (dis)functionality of public transit in Downtown Los Angeles."

"Port of Long Beach Tour"

"Bastion on the border: The political geographies of defending and securitizing a gated community within a gated community."

"Blue nights in Corsica. Boundedness and island identity."

"Discourse analysis and web-based data: Examining the analytic possibilities of internet resources."

"Assessment of wildfire frequency and coastal sage scrub vegetation dynamics in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California."

"Searching for speculation within the residential housing market."

"The politics of pasting: A spatial inquiry into the practices of wheatpasting, power, and representation."

"The urban question revisited: The importance of cities for social movements."

"Careers in community college geography."

"Making the most of graduate school: Differing perspectives."

"Visualizing the Japanese American internment experience."

"Disaster by management: International drug cartels and the North State National Forest lands"

"A long-term vegetation history of Joshua Tree National Park from fossil rodent middens"

"Men and masculinities in gender and development programs: A new way forward?"

"Gender and development in South Asia: Are theory and practice out of synch?"

"Women and multiple vulnerabilities: Opportunities and constraints in landed property ownership in the informal sector in urban India"

"Low-cost startup GIS for cities"

"Russian Cold War culture? Post-Soviet historicization of the East/West dichotomy."

"Spaces of depression."

She also organized a special event for the Geographical Perspectives on Women Specialty Group, held in the Alexander Bookstore:

"GPOW Book Event and Wine and Cheese Reception."

"Qualitative feminist research -- ethics and practice."

"The spatial politics of homeless mobility and the negotiation of transportation in Long Beach, CA."

"The 'legacy landscape' of fire and long-term fallow in the savanna landscape of Mali."

"The Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project at CSULB and the Legacy of the Building Information Technology Skills Project at Temple University"

"Women in Twentieth-Century academic cartography."

"Sex, drugs, and the sexuo-spatial politics of HIV prevention in the U.S.."

He also made a panel presentation in the special session,

"Geographies of sexualities: Theory, practices and politics."

He also made another panel presentation in the session,

"Research design and methodologies for critical GIS research - I"

"Lofts vs. tents: the contested residential space of downtown Los Angeles."

"Creating a new place for animals in Iran."

She also chaired a paper session on:

"Middle East - Environments."

Additionally, she also co-organized and served as a panellist in the special session

"Current issues in Iran"

"The AAG Diversity Task Force: Final report and recommendations for the Association and for geography departments as agents of change."

"Understanding housing needs in San Francisco."

"A comparative geographic analysis of European Union and United States governmental foreign aid."

• Mr. Chris Barry
• Ms. Thanh Duoung
• Mr. César Espinosa
• Mr. Kevin Flaherty
• Ms. Jennifer Langdon
• Ms. Michelle Lynch
• Ms. Fern Nueno
• Additionally, recent M.A. alumna (and current USC Ph.D. student), Ms. Julienne Gard was also spotted

"Corporatization of urban space and the emergence of civil society in post-Soviet Moscow"

"Plant functional variabililty in response to late-Quaternary climate change recorded in ancient packrat middens."

"The East in contemporary Russian Orthodox geopolitics"

"Persuasive cartography revisited"

"A geographic analysis of graduates of California State University, Long Beach"

"Earning her keep and keeping what she earns: Women and grassroots economic movements in India and the Caribbean"

"Residential security management: Theories, techniques, and technology for securing the condo-tower"

"Geography in a diverse world"

Dr. Rodrigue's presentation is entitled:

"Geography Diversity Initiatives at California State University, Long Beach: The Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Program"

She is also an invited co-author/panellist, with Jenny Zorn, Vicky Lawson, Dolly Freidel, and Richard Aspinal for the special session:

"Strategies for healthy departments"

Her presentation on this panel is entitled:

"Growing Geography: A View from 'The Beach'"

"Neoliberal subjectivities, the 'new' homelessness, and struggles over spaces of/in the city"

"Grants and grantsmanship: Strategies for funding research in physical and human geography"

"Where is the social in social and cultural geography in the United States?"

"Potatoes to poppies in the Apple Isle"

"The residential renaissance of downtown Los Angeles: Too hip to last?"

"Performing the city: The intersection of music, space, and racialized identity in Leimert Park Village"

"Lidar and imagery acquisition and analysis for the port complex"

"LAX Noise Contours & El Segundo residential sound insulation program eligibility"

"Los Angeles Area G emergency response facilities"

"Lakewood Infrastructure Map"

"Lakewood Traffic Accidents"

"Tribal trust lands in California"

"Tribal cultural landscape of Southern California"

"Impacts of tribal gaming in California"

"Land status of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation"

The purpose of the symposium is to develop a northern research program, including the capacity to explore northern places and their unique needs in the critical areas of gender and of care issues. To learn more about the conference, click on its name above or contact Dr. Thien.

"Threads and ink: 19th century schoolgirl mapping, 1770s-1840"

"Geography through the needle's eye"

"Inferences about winter temperatures and summer rains from the late Quaternary record of C4 perennial grasses and C3 desert shrubs in the northern Chihuahuan Desert."

"Persistent discourses in the construction of homeless policy."

He is the co-organizer (with Mary Gilmartin, University College Dublin), chair, and a panellist on the special session,

"On the Geographies of Health and Sexuality "

He is also the co-organizer and chair of another special session, "Author Meets Critics: A Critical Engagement with Judith Halberstram's In a Queer Time and Place"

"The biogeographical implications of indigenous fire regimes in the humanized savanna landscape of southern Mali."

He is also the co-organizer (with Chris Duvall, University of Wisconsin, Madison) and chair of the session, "Applied Biogeography and Cultural Ecology in Semi-arid Africa"

"Best Practices in Graduate Supervision/Advising."

She is also the organizer, chair, and a panellist in the session, "Gender Interventions in Research, Teaching, and/or Practice "

"Katrina/Rita and risk communication within FEMA."

and "Geography diversity initiatives at California State University, Long Beach: Interdisciplinary and interinstitutional partnerships," as an invited panellist on the AAG Diversity Task Force session: "Collaboration and Outreach"

"Long Beach City College," in the special session, "Getting the Best Start...Community College Geography!" sponsored by the Community College Affinity Group

She is also serving as an invited panellist in the AAG Diversity Task Force session: "Collaboration and Outreach"

"Keeping up with the Joneses': New residential towers in Orange County, California compete with the Los Angeles skyline."

"The para-gated communities of Berlin: A methodical analysis of newly constructed securitized residential development in the newly reconstructed capital city."

"National imaginary and privileged migration: The political mobilization of Iranian expatriates."

"Healthy cartographies: The social implications of disease mapping."

She is also an invited panellist on the "Diversity in Geography Departments: Student Perspectives" session.

"Geosciences Student Recruitment Strategies at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB): Earth System Science/Community-Research Based Education Partnerships"

"Gay Cultural 'Meanings of Self' Versus Past Public Health 'Notions of Disease; as a Basis for Present Effective HIV Prevention among Gay Men"

"A Club Drug/HIV Intervention for Gay and Other MSM in Long Beach, CA"

"Knowledge Attitude and Behavior Change in an Evidence-Based Club Drug Intervention for Gay Men."

"Copy and paste plagiarism: Addressing academic integrity in online geography education"

"Movin on up: Residential living rises to new heights in Orange County"

"On the challenges of qualitative inquiry and analysis"

He is also the chair of a special session:

"Meet the Editors"

"Factors in the adoption of geographic information systems into sports marketing"

"Threads of geography"

is a participant in the "Map Off Contest," a mapping under pressure competition. Participants are given a data set and must create a map within two weeks, which is then judged at NACIS.

"Moscow, the Third Rome: Resurrections of a Russian Orthodox geopolitical metaphor"

"Sexuality/Health/Geography"

"The state of geography and its cognate disciplines in the California State Universities."

She also organized and chaired the special session the CGS invited her to put together to discuss her results (which had been shared by e-mail with the other CSU chairs earlier).

"Enhancing diversity in the geosciences."

"Visualizing post-Soviet Russia."

"A tribute to Joan Clemmons."

"Persistence of culture: Remnants of the Mexican land tenure system in Los Angeles and Orange County."

"Geography back in high school? Assessing GIS and technology for teaching geography. Case Study: West Covina High School."

"Garmin GPS and geoCaching workshop."

"Reconstructing 31,000 years of vegetation dynamics in the northern Chihuahuan Desert: A packrat midden study from the Peloncillo Mountains."

"Geography of construction wars in Moscow: Infill high-rise constructions and the emergence of municipal civil society."

"The social and spatial contexts of corporate learning: Practices for balancing diverse and shared knowledges."

She is also presenting "Teaching economic geography: Surviving the first time through," as an invited panellist in the "'Practices' for Teaching Economic Geography I" (Sponsored by the Economic Geography Specialty Group)

"Three views of a burned land: how issues of scale and narrative affect mapping and monitoring anthropogenic savanna fires in West Africa."

He is also the organizer of the session, "New Perspectives on Environmental Narratives"

"Queering the spaces of HIV outreach: Rethinking the discourses and practices of 'prevention for positives'."

He is also the co-organizer, chair, and a panellist on the special session, "The Silent Third: Service Responsibilities and Academic Obligations"

"Long Beach, California: America's most diverse city?"

"Nineteenth century schoolgirl cartography"

"The construction of Mediterranean scrub in biogeography and ecology."

"A new method for generating quantitative expert recommendations, applied to fires in California watersheds."

"Higher than the Matterhorn: The struggle to erect a high-rise tower in Santa Ana, California."

"Using an astrocompass to demonstrate some concepts in introductory physical geography courses."

"The lost constellations of European celestial cartography."

"Creating health in a Native American sweat lodge: The production of an alternative healing space."

"Geography back in High School? Assessing GIS and Technology for teaching Geography. Case Study: West Covina High School."

"Exploring the scale issue in nature-society geography through a study of mosaic fire regimes in West Africa"

"Bloody maps: The role of maps in detective fiction"

"The use of digital elevation models (DEMs) in managing natural habitats in the South Coast Wilderness""

"Discourses of Responsibility Dividing HIV Prevention Efforts between the 'Positive' and the 'Negative'"

"Manipulating Multiple Life Identity-Shifts: Points of HIV Risk in Overlapping Drug Cultures and Gay Cultures in Long Beach, CA."

"Staid in school and worked on my map: 19th century schoolgirl maps"

"Hazard Vulnerability, Media Construction of Disaster, and Risk Management"

"Hunting for Students: Outreach and Retention Strategies in a Competitive Urban Market"

"Rethinking Regions and Regionalization in the Context of World Regional Geography"

He also chaired a session entitled, "Theorizing and Teaching the Region."

"Tom Down Under: McKnight's Relationship with the Fifth Continent," a tribute to the late Dr. Tom McKnight, Prof. Clemmons' husband.

She also chaired a session entitled, "Historical Geography and Evolving Cultural Landscapes."

"Disaster by Management: Managerialism and Normal Accident Theory in the Columbia Accident and FBI Headquarters' Response to Field Office Concerns before 9/11"

She also facilitated the "First-Timers Orientation" to the Workshop.

"Discourses of Responsibility Dividing HIV Prevention Efforts between the 'Positive' and the 'Negative'"

"Social Identity and the Geographies of HIV-Related Risk among Gay and Bisexual Club Drug Users in Long Beach, California"

"GDEP (Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Program): An NSF-OEDG Program Emphasizing Interdisciplinary Earth System Science Research."

"GDEP (Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Program): An NSF-OEDG Program Emphasizing Integrated Geoscience Research in Urban Areas."

"How Well Does a Digital Elevation Model Represent Terrain?"

"Corporate Re-Scaling of the city: The Geographical Construction of Urban Lightscapes in Soviet and Post-Soviet Moscow"

"Web Reports and Maps: Student Collaborative Research Online."

"Lessons in Silk:A 19th Century Teaching Tool"

"Using Remote Sensing and GIS to Monitor the Marine Mammal Strandings along the California Bight," for which she received a Joe Beaton Poster Award

"GPS."

"The Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve."

"The Night Life of Long Beach."

"Dengue Fever Among Australia's Aboriginals: Traditional versus Western Prevention and Response Methods."

"Paleoevironmental Time Series from Postglacial Lake Basins on the Kola Peninsula, Russia."

He is also co-chair of the Biogeography Specialty Group-sponsored special session, "Fire, Climate, and Biogeographical History in North America and Eurasia"

"Mysterious Maps: The Role of Maps in Detective Fiction"

She also served as an invited panelist discussing "Women in Cartography I: A Peek into the Past" to a special session on the accomplishments of women in geography, which is sponsored by the Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group and the Status of Women in Geography Specialty Group.

She is also serving as Chair of the Cartography Specialty Group and chaired its business meeting.

"Optimized Prescribed Burning of California's Mediterranean-Type Vegetation: A New Multiobjective, Analytic Network Process Technique"

He also served as an invited panelist discussing "Lonely Geographers: Adjuncts, What Is Their Status?" to a special session organized by the Geography Education Specialty Group and the Community College Affinity Group.

"Use of the Internet as a pedagogical tool in a junior-level environmental geography course."

"'I'm as integrated as I wish to be:' On being an American in Brussels, Belgium."

She also served as an invited panelist discussing "Lonely Geographers: Adjuncts, What Is Their Status?" to a special session organized by the Geography Education Specialty Group and the Community College Affinity Group.

"Security Habitation in the New Berlin: Landscapes of Defensible Residential Space in Berlin's Newly Built Urban Environment."

"Disaster by Management: The Columbia Accident and September 11th" in the "Hazards and Disasters: Management and Mitigation" session, sponsored by Hazards Specialty Group.

She also served as an invited panelist to the special session, "Quick Response Research and Scholarship in Geography," which is sponsored by the Hazards Specialty Group, the Qualitative Research Specialty Group, and the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group.

"Where's the 'culture'?: An interrogation of ethnographic practice within a framework of cultural geography"

He also served as an invited panelist to the "Centennial Sexualities III: Looking back and forward" panel, which is sponsored by the Sexuality and Space Specialty Group and the Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group.

He also organized the special session, "Author Meets Critic: A Critical Engagement with Michael Brown's Closet Space," and served as the session chair and as a panelist. This session is sponsored by the Sexuality and Space Specialty Group.

"Cognitive Maps, Mobility Patterns, and Drug Use among MSM."

"Oakland Berkeley Firestorm 1991."

"Missing the 'Good' Fires and Detecting the "Bad" Ones: Problems with Detecting Patch-Mosaic Fire Regimes Using 1-Kilometer Data in Savanna Environments."

"Risky Gay Living: Identity Manipulations as Indicators of Risk to Health and Well Being in the Gay Drug World of Long Beach, CA"

"Constructing Eternal Optimism: The Geography of Stalin's Palace of the Soviets."

"Mysterious Maps: The Role of Maps in Detective Fiction."

presented:

"Seasonal-Mosaic Burning in West African Savannas: Linking Human Practices and Biogeographical Theory"

"Expat Culture."

"GDEP (Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project): Hazards-Related Projects"

She also facilitated the "First-Timers Orientation" to the Workshop.

"Miracle Cures, Local Wisdom, and Biomedical Care: Mapping the Competing Discourses and Practices of AIDS Care in Thailand."

"Patch Mosaic Burning: Exploring the Linkages between Human Practices and Biogeographical Theory."

"The Corporatization of Public Space in Post-Soviet Moscow."

"Tracing 50 years of academic cartography: Robinson's Elements of Cartography."

"Centroid Hunting: The Truth Is out There -- or Is It?"

"Mapping Multi-Ethnic Households in Los Angeles."

"Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Project: Student Responses."

"Measuring Chaparral Fuel Type, Biomass, and Moisture for Fire Danger Assessment in Southern California."

"Race and Identity among California's Pacific Islanders."

Additionally, Dr. Koletty, with Drs. Jim Allen (CSUN) and Wei Li (Arizona State University), has organized two paper sessions, "Ethnic Identity and Community: Patterns and Change I & II," one of which he chaired.

"Assessment of Interpolation Methods and Spatial Resolutions on Urban Digital Surface Models Derived from LiDAR."

"Satellites, Census, and the Quality of Life."

"International Cooperation with GIS."

"Discretization of HRUs in a Mixed-Use Subtropical Watershed: Hydrologic Modeling in Windward Oahu, Hawaii Using SWAT"

"The Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Program (GDEP): Building an Earth System Science Centered Research, Education, and Outreach Effort in Urban Long Beach, California"

Dr. Ambos was the presenting author

"Elements of Cartography: Tracing 50 years of academic cartography."

"Creating a Participatory Framework in Community Health and AIDS Care in Chiang Mai, Thailand"

"Spatializing the RBA"

"GDEP (Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Program): An Interdisciplinary Summer Research Program to Increase the Diversity of Geography, Geology, and Archaeology Majors"

Dr. Wechsler was the presenting author.

"General Education Student Perceptions of the Geosciences"

Dr. Rodrigue was the presenting author.

"What Census 2000 doesn't tell us about California's Pacific Islanders"

"Diurnal live fuel moisture change in Adenostoma faciculatum (Chamise) in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California"

"Gateway Cities 2000: Visualizing Land Uses in 27 Cities in Los Angeles County"

"GDEP (Geoscience Diversity Enhancement Program): Creating a Community-based Summer Geoscience Research Program"

Dr. Francis was the presenting author.

"Highest, biggest, tallest: Architecture and power in Moscow, then and now."

"On the social construction of animals."

"Negotiating Time and Space: The Necessity and Challenge of Early World Historical Geography."

"What's Happening in Higher Education? Student Needs and University Response."

"Media coverage of the events of 9/11."

"Developing controversies in the Mars Sample Return program."

"GIS articulation: Addressing the issue, sharing experiences and moving forward."

"Centralizing Corporate Assets with GPS Technology at Southern California Edison."

"The GIS curriculum at CSULB."

"Citatel of sovereignty: The territorial administration and defense of a private residential gated community."

"Assessment of an experiment in teaching geography online."

"Operating at the Center and Margins: Analyzing the Geography of NGOs in Northern Thailand."

"Evaluation of the potential of Hyperion for fire danger assessment by comparison to AVIRIS."

"Southern California Wildfire Hazards Center: A Regional Earth Science Applications Center."

"Cultural geography: An experiment in hypermedia."

"Wildfire hazard in Southern California."

"Tourism Workers and the Reproduction of Heritage in 'America's Most Historic City.'"

"Climatic Effects on Eggplant Production in California."

His daughter, Ms. Denise Behrens (a math major here, but we're workin' on 'er -- and, late-breaking news: She has seen the light, becoming a geography major in May 2004!!!), ALSO presented a paper! Her paper was entitled,

"Los Angeles Chinatown and its New Business Improvement District."

"Development as a Tension-Driven Process."

"Effect of Interpolation Method and Grid Cell Resolution on DEM Accuracy."

"Gold in Them Thar Hills: Assessing the Need for Establishment of Hydrothermal Vent Protected Areas in the Global Ocean."

"East L.A. Moves South."

He also served as a discussant in a session on "Latinos and Latino Space in the U.S.," which was organized by Dan Arreola at Arizona State.

"The Social Construction of Authenticity and Attitudes toward Animals."

"Media and Hazards" panel (other speakers included Drs. Eugenie Rovai [CSU Chico, who chaired the session], Eve Gruntfest [University of Colorado, Colorado Springs], and Ben Wisner [formerly of CSULB and now at Oberlin College]).

"Media and the Terrorist Attack of 11 September 2001" panel (with the same panel of speakers, but Dr. Rodrigue chaired this panel).

The poster presentation was entitled: "Media Coverage of the Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon."

She gave a paper, "A Typology of Embroidered Maps."

She organized a panel session, "Quilts and Samplers in Geography," for which Dr. Kit Salter served as discussant.

She made an invited panel presentation in a session on "Women in Geography -- Inclusion and Exclusion."

She gave a panel presentation in a round-table panel on "Cartographic Education."

"GIS and Public Participation Planning: Recommendations from Hollywood, California."

"GIS Articulation" panel on coördinating GIS curricula among universities and community colleges.

"Where Should I Go? Locating Health Care Options for People Living with HIV and AIDS in Chiang Mai, Thailand"

"Highest, biggest, tallest: Architecture and power in Moscow, then and now"

"Patterns of Media Coverage of the Terrorist Attacks on the United States in September of 2001."

"Risk Representation in the Space Program: The Internet and the Social Amplification of Risk."

"Social Protest, Spatial Praxis, and Radical Geography in the Teaching of World History."

"Representation as Work: The Everyday Production of Heritage in Fredericksburg, Virginia."

"Making Space for Organic Intellectuals: A Neo-Gramscian Analysis of Non- Governmental AIDS Activism in Thailand."

"A Methodology for Examining Alternative Cartographies: Researching Embroidered Maps."

"Quilts: An Alternative Cartography."

"Southern California Surf Culture Through the Construction and Deconstruction of Surf-Place Images in Huntington Beach, California."

"Using GIS in Urban Planning -- Updating 27 General Plan Maps in Southern California."

"The Media, the Internet, and Disasters." Her paper for this session is entitled, "The Internet in Risk Communication and Hazards Activism."

Her invited poster was entitled, "The Internet in the Social Amplification and Attenuation of Risk."

"The Plazas of Manaus, Brazil."

"Environmental and Natural Resource Applications of GIS: Course Development."

"GIS and Remote Sensing at California State University Long Beach: By Example."

"Working the 'Middle Ground': NGOs, Health Care, and AIDS in Chiang Mai, Thailand."

"Integrated Assessment of Fire Hazard in Southern California using Remote Sensing, GIS and Wind Models."

"Organizational Ethnographies and the Politics of Fieldwork."

Dr. Del Casino also served on a panel, which he co-organized. The title of the session is:

"Interrogating Tourism Maps: New 'Guides' to Space and Identity."

"Urban Structure in Ensenada and La Paz, Mexico."

Dr. Curtis also chaired a session, entitled:

"Latin American Urban and Economic Geography."

"Effect of Digital Elevation Model Uncertainty and Scale on Topographic Parameter Estimators."

"Millie the Mapper II: Experiences of Women Geographers and Cartographers in WWII."

"Construction of Hazard Perception and Activism on the Internet."

Dr. Rodrigue also chaired a session, entitled:

"New Departures in Research on the Human Dimensions of Technological Hazards."

"Geography of the Last Moment." Or so he insisted right up to the very last moment. Actually, he co-presented (with Dr. Roni Wade of Stanford University) "Using GIS to Model At-risk Populations for Emergency Planning and Response" and, yes, the real abstract is now available by clicking on Dr. Gossette's name above.

"Changing cityscape of (post) Soviet Moscow: Putin's 'administrative Revolution' and the politics of scale"

"Cultural Diversity and the Construction of Marine Animals."

"Tiki L.A. -- Geography of an Urban Exotica."

"Across the Borderline: U.S.-Mexico Borderlands as Locus of Transformation in North American Popular Music."

Mr. Huefe is working on his thesis with Dr. James Curtis.

"The Waning Berlin Wall: Topography of a Relict Boundary."

Mr. Frazier is presently working on his doctorate at the Geographic Institute of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He noted that his AAG presentation was based on research he started while doing his master's thesis here (under Dr. Gary Peters, now at Chico State) and he wants to say hello to everyone here and be considered an unofficial member of our huge AAG delegation this year! We got to catch up a bit there, Tom (and regards to Dr. Marlies Schulz, who spoke here last year)!

"Study and Teaching abroad as Part of the Liberal Arts Experience."

"Using GIS to Update 27 General Plan Maps."

"In the Line of the Fire: An Investigation into the Relationship between Aspect and Fire History in the Santa Monica Mountains, 1925-1997."

"Modeling campus populations at risk with GIS."

"The Use of the Internet and Web-Based Technology for Space and Geoscience (Mis)Education: New Media in Natural and Technological Hazard Debates."

In addition, Dr. Rodrigue chaired a session at the AGU:

"New Tools and Perspectives on Understanding Natural Hazards Worldwide."

"Applications of a Methodology For Digital Elevation Model Uncertainty Simulation Within ArcView Spatial Analyst."

"The Hidden Cartographers: The History of Women in Cartography."

"HIV/AIDS in Thailand."

"Public Perception and Hazard Policy Construction When Experts and Activists Clash in the Media."

Dr. Rodrigue also made a poster available at that conference:

"Internet Recruitment and Activism in the Cassini Controversy."

"The Political Economy of Hazards: More Limits to Growth?"

"Delineating the southern borders of the Chihuahuan Desert."

"Outreach and 'Inreach': Development of a Geography Internship Program.Outreach and "Inreach": Development of a Geography Internship Program."

"Visualizing Flood Hazard with GIS."

"Folk Maps, Cartoons, and Map Kitsch: The Role of Cartographic Curiosities."

"Urban Social Vulnerability in Six World Megacities: Lessons and Proposals."

"Internet Recruitment and Activism in Constructing Technological Risk."

"Across the borderline: North American popular music and musico-imagery of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands."

"Making Connections: Development of an Internship Program to Ensure Undergraduate and Graduate Student Success."

"Ensenada: A Mexican Border Town?"

"Public, Expert, and Activist Perceptions of the Plutonium on Board the Cassini-Huygens Mission."