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Geography & GIScience Seminars

Other SNR Seminars are listed here.

Current Schedule - Spring 2012

Friday 2:00 pm, 228 Hardin Hall (unless noted)
Leader: Dr. James Merchant (jmerchant1@unl.edu)

Geography/GIScience Seminars are held during Fall and Spring semesters. All seminars are open to the public. The schedule of speakers is listed below. Get a printable schedule.

Dangerous Encounters: Exotic Pet Attacks in the USA

Date Speaker Affiliation Title

January 13

Brian Baskerville

Geography Graduate Student

Morocco: The Crossroads of the World

January 20

R. Maxwell Baber

PhD, Director of Academic Programs, U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation

Geospatial Intelligence: Deriving Knowledge from Data for National Security and Beyond1

January 27

Adonna Fleming

Associate Professor and subject librarian for Geosciences, GIS, Maps, Mathematics and Computer Science

Library Resources for Geography and Natural Resource Sciences

Joan Konecky

Associate Professor and subject librarian for Natural Resources, Biological Sciences, Dentistry and Nursing, UNL Libraries

February 3

 

Presentations by students preparing for AAG

Reconstructing Middle Holocene Environments in the Central Great Plains through the Analysis of the Archaelogical Record

Dangerous Encounters: Exotic Pet Attacks in the USA

February 10

 

Presentations by students preparing for AAG

Non-invasive Estimation of Relative Water Content in Soybean Leaves Using Infrared Thermography

An Improved TWO-Q Algorithm for Computing One-to-one Shortest Paths to Road Networks

The Positive Influence of Brain Drain on the Socio-economic Development of Nigeria: a Case Study of the City of Ogbomosho

March 9

Alice Kang

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies (African and African American Studies)

Bringing International Women's Rights Home: Issue-Specific Mobilization in Muslim and Non-Muslim Africa

April 6

Monica Haddad

Assistant Professor and GIS Specialist, Department of Community and Regional Planning Iowa State University

Planning for Open Space: A Spatial Analysis of Subdivisions in Des Moines

April 25

Scott Josiah

State Forester and Director, Nebraska Forest Service

Fire, Floods and Bugs: Nebraska's Forests - Past, Present and Future1


1These seminars will be held in room 901