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AWG Board Minutes:
Presented by: Henry Yeung, National University of
Singapore
Friday January 10; Smith 409
Refreshments at 3:30p.m. Smith 409
A number of you are already aware that the Association of Washington
Geographers is interested in greater interaction with the Geographers in
British Columbia from either your attendance at one of our meetings or
through reading our web page, http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/AWG/ .
At our last AWG board meeting we agreed to explore the possibility of
holding a joint meeting with BC Geographers at a lower mainland or
Vancouver Island BC site. But, I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, so for
the uninitiated allow me to back-up for a minute and provide some
background.
The Association of Washington Geographers, established in the 1960's, is a
loose organization of all Geographers in our State, but has mainly focused
on our community college and four-year college programs. It provides a
forum to trade information, build camaraderie, and provide college
students with their first opportunity to participate in an academic
meeting. We have two general meetings per year, Fall and Spring.
Based on our most recent board meeting we have decided to use our Fall
Meeting as an opportunity to build support within the field through social
events, field trips, opportunities for professionals in the field to
discuss their work and current employment prospects, and to build stronger
relationships with k-12 Geography teachers.
The Spring meeting will continue our trend towards having an annual
academic conference with emphasis on student participation. We have
chosen spring as the time when students have or are in the process of
completing projects and have much of interest in sharing. At present we
have few regular, local, low cost opportunities for such sharing across
campuses focusing at the student level. Faculty are of course also
welcome, and encouraged to participate in the sessions, but we are all
aware of their other opportunities. To encourage student participation,
we have even waived meeting registration fees for the students (yes they
can attend for free) and established a series of awards for best
undergraduate and best graduate paper and poster. The purpose of this
meeting is to both recognize excellent work being done by our students and
share these important developments.
To keep this spring meeting highly attractive and accessible to students,
as well as faculty, we want to keep expenses, travel, paperwork, and
bureaucracy low. The meeting is held on campus in classrooms, a local
keynote speaker (if desired) is recruited usually from the community and
perhaps at no expense, and meals are kept simple (for our recent meeting
at WWU participants had a choice of getting lunch through the cafeteria or
bringing it from outside, the keynote address was held adjacent to the
cafeteria and all were welcome). The main task is organizing sessions,
obtaining abstracts, and organizing the student paper and poster
competition including recruitment of judges.
To create a critical mass of interested students for such a meeting we
would like to invite our sister Geography programs in BC to join us on a
regular basis. As a matter of fact to kick-start the process we are
looking for a Canadian school that would be interested in hosting a joint
AWG/BC Spring meeting either this Spring or next. If you are interested
in exploring this possibility more, kindly contact and visit our web page.
Also, at present I realize that I don't have a complete e-mail list of all
BC Geography programs that might be interested, so feel free to forward
this invitation to others.
Thanks and look forward to working more closely across the border,
Dear Members,
University of Victoria Society Of Geography Students delegation did well
at the recent Western Canadian
Association of Geographers meeting at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. Soggie undergrad Julie
Bogdanowicz won best undergrad award for her presentation, "SURFURBIA IN VICTORIA", and Soggie grad
student Alexis Johnson won honorable mention in grad students category for her presentation with Dr. Dan
Smith, "DATING SNOW AVALANCHE EVENTS AT THE BLACKHORN IMPACT LANDFORM, B.C. COAST
MOUNTAINS". [More
here!]
PROGRAM, CALL FOR PAPERS, AND REGISTRATION
News from PGoPS: Lunch on Feb 8
Hope the new year is treating you well. Next Friday, the 8 th, we will
again meet for our informal lunch (second Fridays of the month) at
Bruno's (1417 Third Ave) . We meet at 11:45 AM . Go through the food
line and look for 6 or 8 of the usual suspects sitting together. We
usually sit straight back from the food line. Please read the
attachments regarding some interesting colloquia coming up at the UW.
Also one of our members would appreciate your help in finding work. See
you soon!
Mike (Alvine)
The Fall Meeting of the AWG was a huge success. The faculty and staff at
the U.W. did a great job of setting up and coordinating the activities
that are essential in putting together
a well-run conference. A special
thanks must go the J.W. Harrington for his
leadership and management
skills. J.W.'s effort was apparent in the way the meeting smoothly tracked
from one event to the next.
Since we had concurrent session, I was not able to attend all of the
presentations. However, the presentations I did attend were excellent. I
was particularly appreciative of the student presentations. The student
papers were all well thought out and informative.
This is the second time we have had awards for "best" student paper
presentations. This winners were:
While I was gratified to hear the student presentations, I was equally
happy to hear faculty members from various institutions talk about their
research. It is apparent that the faculty at our Washington institutions
of higher learning or on the cutting edge of geographic research.
During the business meeting we were able to complete the elections of
officers. We had three positions to fill-Vice President, Treasurer and
Secretary. The new officers will be
J.W. Harrington, Vice President;
Charles (Chip) Dodd, Treasurer and Todd Wright,
Secretary.
I informed the members present about the passing of
Fred Matteucci.
Everyone was in favor of looking into establishing an award for either a
deserving K-12 student or a geography teacher to be given in Fred's name.
Moses Lai liked the idea and made a very nice financial donation to get
the award off the ground. This item will be discussed at the next board
meeting.
Photos from the Meeting (Links to our Canadian Friends:)
The AWG 2003 Spring meeting, to be held on the Everett Community
College
campus, Saturday 12 April, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. (Registration shall
take place
from 9:a.m. - 10 a.m.)
Registration fees shall include the cost of coffee
and pastries in addition to a delivered lunch (pizza?). $5.00 or so was
the expected cost.
[More Details!]
"Hybrid capitalism: Chinese Business in a Global Era"
2:30 - 3:30p.m.
Smith 304
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:59:47 -0800
From: Ronan O'Mahony
Items discussed include:
September 27, 2002
An open invitation to Geography Departments of British Columbia:
Patrick Buckley
AWG President
Western Washington University
Patrick@cc.wwu.edu -- (360) 650-4773
A news-update from AWG President Pat
Buckley can be found here!
From: "Alvine, Michael" (Michael.Alvine@METROKC.GOV)
Subject: PGoPS - Hold these dates! April 12 and April 26
Once again we are meeting for our informal lunch (second Fridays of the
month) at Bruno's (1417 Third Ave) . We meet at 11:45 AM. Go through
the food line and look for 6 or 8 nearly normal looking people
sitting together - straight back from the food line.
We also have a brown bag lunch discussion planned for April 26th. It
will be in the Key Tower, Room 3403 (34th Floor). The entrance is at
Fifth and Columbia in downtown Seattle (700 Fifth Avenue)
Dr. William
Leon (Bill to his friends) has just returned from India where
he has been
working on a visionary community. Below is an excerpt from the
attachment describing this interesting effort. Hope to see you there!
Mike
Humanity has long been in search of an ideal city where people of all
nations can live in unity and where the human psyche can connect to its
deeper quest, a place where children can nourish their minds and souls
and where people of all races and philosophies can realize a deeper level
of consciousness within the beauty and harmony of nature.
John Newcomb
AWG member and
Uvic Geography course advisor
March 4, 2002
1) Geographic scholarship - refereed articles that reflect the diverse
interests of our membership. Submissions may include all regions,
sub-fields, and geographic techniques.
2) Geographic Chronicles - shorter items of general geographic interest,
including thesis abstracts and preliminary research findings, notices of
professional meetings, grant and study opportunities, travel advisories,
book reviews, discussions of current debates, literature and theory
related
to geography (subject to editorial review).
3) Geographic Education - articles, teaching techniques, innovative
classroom activities, and other items that stimulate geographic education
at all levels."
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS WESTERN
DIVISION:
2002 ANNUAL MEETING:
MARCH 15TH, 16TH AND 17TH [Click!]
HARBOUR CENTRE CAMPUS
515 WEST HASTINGS STREET
VANCOUVER, BC
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:18:07 -0500 (EST)
From: kerry lyste
January 16, 2002: Sustainability!
Department of Geography, University of Washington,
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 02:56:15
From: neil sorenson
From: "Alvine, Michael"
From: John Newcomb
To: AWG Board and Members
Subject: Report on the AWG Fall Meeting
These individuals were
presented with an AWG coffee mug and a ten-dollar check. The runners up,
David Paschane, U.W., and
Keltie Craig, U.V., were presented with AWG coffee
mugs.
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