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From: "Alvine, Michael" 
Subject: PGoPS Needs You! & Bruno's Lunch next Friday!!!

Hello Members,
As you may have noticed, PGoPS has been rather inactive this fall because
several of the current officers have been caught up in the demands of
work and have not had time to arrange brown bag speakers or plan other
activities. 
 
It is an appropriate time to solicit new officer candidates.  The
steering committee recently combined the membership chair and treasurer
positions, to simplify those tasks.  Founding membership chair David
Fansler has agreed to continue to manage our database and membership
dues. 
 
The other two key positions are President and Meetings Chair.  Neither of
these is a big job, but each takes a small amount of attention at regular
intervals.  Current steering committee members/officers will be happy to
assist you in getting acquainted with these jobs.  In particular, we can
arrange meeting space without any trouble, which constitutes about half
of the Meetings Chairperson's job.
 
We feel it is important to draw new leadership into the organization to
keep it relevant and fresh.  Please consider volunteering for either of
these two positions, even if you have not been active in the past.  We
will have a no-host lunch at Bruno's Mexican/Italian restaurant (1417
Third Avenue in downtown Seattle) next Friday, December 14, from 11:45 am
to 1:00 pm.  Please come and meet your fellow members and learn more
about the leadership positions.
					Mike Alvine,  Outgoing President

From: John Newcomb 
Subject: "BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE PACIFIC PROVINCE: GEOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS"

Best of the Season to AWG Board!

Announcing release of new text below which might be worth considering 
for a BC or Canada-theme geography course that a Washington university
or college might be offering. 

Thanks!
John Newcomb
lab instructor, Geography Dept, UVic, and
Society of Geography Students adviser:
http://office.geog.uvic.ca/dept/undergrad/sogs/

"BRITISH COLUMBIA, THE PACIFIC PROVINCE: GEOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS"

Canadian Western Geographical Series 
Volume 36
Edited by Colin J.B. Wood
ISBN 091983826X
price: $32.00

This wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the geography of British Columbia.

Chapters, authors:
1. Introduction, Colin J.B. Wood
2. Mapping the Province: Past and Present, C. Peter Keller
3. Landforms and Natural Hazards, Harold D. Foster
4. Climate, Stanton Tuller
5. Water Resources, Sandra Smith
6. Vegetation, Michael C.R. Edgell
7. Geopolitical Development: An Overview, Paul F. Thomas
8. Geography and Treaty Negotiations, Frank Duerden
9 Chinese: The Changing Geography of the Largest Visible Minority, David Chuenyan Lai
10. Spatial Economy, Colin J.B. Wood
11 Land Recreation, Bruce Downie
12 Tourism, Rick Rollins
13 Land Use Planning, Colin J.B. Wood, Cimarron Corpe' and Laurie Jackson
14 Mineral Development, Jo Harris
15 Energy, John Newcomb
16 Forestry, Alan Vyse
17 Agriculture In Perspective, Colin J.B. Wood
18 Fisheries, Colin Wood and Cimarron Corpe'
19 Marine Conservation, Philip Dearden

Produced and published by 
The Western Geographical Press. 

FROM: Ron Abler (AAG)
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 1:21 PM
Subject: Details on 11 September 2001 Geography Community Fatalities

Bernard Brown, age 11, student at Leckie Elementary School in Washington,
DC. Bernard was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 from Dulles
International Airport to Los Angeles that was crashed into the Pentagon.

He was traveling to a four-day National Geographic Society field workshop
in the Channel Island National Marine Sanctuary off Santa Barbara,
California with teacher Hilda Taylor.

Sarah Clark, age 62, teacher at Backus Middle School in Washington, DC,
American Airlines 77 passenger en route to the National Geographic Society
workshop with student Asia Cottom.

Asia Cottom, age 11, student at Backus Middle School in Washington, DC., a
passenger on American Airlines flight 77 traveling to the National
Geographic Society workshop.

James Debeuneure, age 58, teacher at Ketcham Elementary School in
Washington, DC., going to the National Geographic Society workshop with
student Rodney Dickens.

Rodney Dickens, age 11, student at Ketcham Elementary School in
Washington, DC. Rodney was a passenger on American Airlines 77 traveling 
to the National Geographic Society workshop.

James Joseph Ferguson, age 39, Geography Education Division, National
Geographic Society in Washington DC. A geography graduate of Ohio
University, Joe had recently been appointed one of the Society's
representatives on the Geography Education National Implementation Project
(GENIP), an umbrella organization that embraces the four major geography
organizations in the United States. He was escorting the students and
teachers to a National Geographic sponsored field workshop involving
students, teachers, and scientist Sylvia Earle at the time of his death..

Ann Judge, National Geographic Society Travel Coordinator, a passenger on
American flight 77. She often accompanied student and educational groups
sponsored by the Society, as she was doing Tuesday. National Geographic
Society President and Chief Executive Officer John Fahey noted yesterday:

In many ways, the trip that Ann Judge and Joe Ferguson were leading was
the essence of the Geographic mission. They were escorting three
teachers and three students from the Washington area to California to hook
up with other participants in a marine biology field event in the Channel
Islands, as part of our Sustainable Seas program.

Through our educational outreach program, Ann and Joe were
going to make geography and the environment come alive for these
committed, talented teachers and their star students by putting them into
the field with scientists and researchers. It's hard to believe that
something created with such care and commitment to serve a noble purpose
could end so tragically. Certainly, the D.C. School District has lost six
extraordinary people. And we at the Society have lost two treasured
colleagues.

Robert G. LeBlanc, age 70, Professor Emeritus of Geography at the
University of New Hampshire was a passenger on United Airlines 175, the
plane that was hijacked en route from Boston to Los Angeles and crashed
into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. LeBlanc earned a
bachelor's degree at the University of New Hampshire and a doctorate at
the University of Minnesota.

He began teaching at the University of New Hampshire in 1963 and retired
in 1999. Before and after his retirement, he regularly attended meetings 
of regional, national, and international geographical organizations in the
United States, Canada, and abroad. On Tuesday he was on his way to attend
the annual meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (the
Pacific Coast Division of the Association of American Geographers) in
Santa Barbara, California.

Hilda Taylor, teacher at Leckie Elementary School, Washington, DC. She was
accompanying Bernard Brown to the National Geographic Society workshop.

Thu, 13 Sep 2001 
Subject: Charles Genther

According to the University of Washington Alumni Office, the victims 
of the Mexico sight-seeing crash included the PARENTS of Charles Genther, 
UW BA (Geog) '75.  

Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001
From: APCG 2001 (apcg2001@geog.ucsb.edu)
Subject: APCG 2001

Dear APCG Members & Friends,

Only three more weeks until APCG 2001!

Please consider joining us in Santa Barbara for
what looks to be a very memorable APCG conference.

The UCSB conference venue offers us excellent meeting
space and a prime location directly on the beach.  The setting
for this year's conference can be previewed here:

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/photo_pages_art/ucsb_1.jpg

Additional photos of our campus setting:

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/place/campus_photos.htm

APCG 2001, hosted by the UCSB Department of Geography, will
include 100+ papers and presentations and six field trips 
throughout the local area, including:

- Walking the Riviera: A Scenic and Historic View of Santa Barbara
- Santa Ynez Valley: Oak Woodlands and Agricultural Change
- Channel Islands National Park & Marine Sanctuary
- A Tour of Santa Barbara's Water History
- A Hiking Tour of the Santa Ynez Mountains
- Santa Barbara Coastal Wetlands Ecology

If you haven't registered yet, please take a look at our
website and register today.    We hope to see you soon.

sincerely,

Matt Rice  
(on behalf of the Organizing Committee)

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~apcg2001

apcg2001@geog.ucsb.edu

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Local Organizing Committee:

Michael Goodchild
Keith Clarke
Reginald Golledge
Donald Janelle
LaNell Lucius
Susan Baumgart
Xiaohang Liu
Matt Rice

Bellevue teen's victory of global proportions,
Seattle Times, Friday, August 03, 2001; by David Olson

The years of preparation paid off yesterday: Haddad-Fonda, 14, captained
the United States to a gold medal in the International Geographic 
Olympiad in Vancouver, B.C. 

Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:20:29 GMT
From: Joe Buchdahl 
Subject: climate change website

This is just a short e-mail to draw your attention to our new online
global climate change information guide, for students of environmental
sciences, geography and geology interested in global warming and
climate change.

The website replicates the paper copy resource written by the
Atmospheric Research & Information Centre (aric) in 1995.

Although some of the discussion of climate models is now somewhat
out-of-date, the majority of the text and figures remain based on
unchanging scientific principles concerning climate change, and
consequently the information resource continues to be a useful
reference for students in this field.

The website can be found at:

http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/gccsg/

If you or any of your colleagues maintain a website, please feel free
to add a link to our global climate change student information guide
website.

Yours faithfully,
Joe Buchdahl