Agenda
Check-in location: Bluffs Ballroom, Student Union, UW-La Crosse, Wis.
The conference is being held in an accessible facilities. If you need special accommodations, please send a written explanation to ex@uwlax.edu by October 25.
West Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers
Annual Meeting | November 1–3, 2018
University of WisconsinâLa Crosse | La Crosse, WI
Thursday, November 1 |
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5–6:30 p.m.
5:30–8:00 p.m. |
Registration
Welcome Reception / Meet & Greet |
Student Union
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6:30–7:30 p.m. |
Geography Bowl
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Cowley Hall 215 & 217 |
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Friday, November 2 |
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7:30–8:30 a.m. |
Registration and continental breakfast (supplies limited) |
Student Union |
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8:30 a.m.–8:30 p.m. |
Time and Place in Flyover Country: A photography exhibit by historical-geographic scholar Drake Hokanson, author of The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America |
Student Union Bluffs Ballroom |
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8:30–10:10 a.m. |
Critical Geographies of Health and Mind Session Chair: Georges Cravins A Visiting Scholar's Report from Azerbaijan Revealing Sanist Space Within a University Campus: Marginalization of Mad People at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Nancy Yang, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse When the Illiberal and the Illicit Meet Around Infectious Diseases: An Examination of the Botched MERS Response and Public Health Crisis in South Korea Sohyung Lim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Psychodynamics and Socio-Technical Systems An Examination of the Health Care Systems of France, Japan and Italy in View of the Major Health Care Delivery Issues of the United States |
Student Union Bluffs Ballroom
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8:30–10:10 a.m. FRIDAY |
Geographies of Latin America Session Chair: Eric Carter Analyzing Tourist Imaginaries Through Instagram: The Case of Machu Picchu Chacra Farming, Peasant Livelihood Portfolios and Wellbeing in the Peruvian High Andes Anna Bebbington, Macalester College “Buscando el Cuidado”: Spatial Mismatch of Health Services in Spanish for Latinx Immigrants in Suburban Chicago Community of Carpentersville Determinants of Housing Price in Quito, Ecuador Muddying the Waters: A Political Ecology of Mosquito-Borne Disease in Rural Ecuador |
Student Union 3310 |
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8:30–10:10 a.m. |
Human-Environment Interactions - I Session Chair: Reuben Heine Addressing Northwest Indiana’s Lack of Tree Cover with Communi-Tree A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Use of Optical Analysis to Locate Likely Shifts in Bed-Sediment Mineralogy of the Upper Mississippi River Mississippi River Floodplain Sedimentation: Distribution and Spatial Analysis in Pool 18 Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Main Channel Sand Dunes of the Upper Mississippi River Earlywood Vessel Area of Quercus Macrocarpa as a Potential Proxy for Climate in Minnesota |
Student Union 3314 |
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10:10–10:30 a.m. |
Break |
Student Union Bluffs Ballroom |
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10:30 a.m.–12:10 p.m. FRIDAY
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Critical River and Water Geographies Session Chair: Anya Kaplan-Seem Expanding Boundaries: The Waukesha and Foxconn Diversions, and Future Withdrawals from the Great Lakes Basin The Geography of a Controversy: Situating Kennewick Man within the Settler Colonial History of the Columbia River Sociohydrological Impacts of Water Conservation Under Anthropogenic Drought in Austin, Texas A Socio-Hydrology Profile Methodology: Including Human and Social Attributes Sediment and Slow Violence |
Student Union Bluffs Ballroom
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10:30 a.m.– 12:10 p.m. |
Urban Geographies - I Session Chair: Rebecca Shakespeare Placelessness and the Misuse of TIFs Within Chicago Development in Airport-Surrounding Areas in China Biking in St. Louis, Missouri: Equity-Driven Sustainability? Social Resistance to Waterfront Development in Portland, Maine Middle Income Renters in New York City |
Student Union 3310 |
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10:30 a.m.–12:10 p.m.
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Human-Environment Interactions - II Session Chair: Elizabeth Schneider Nitrogen Cycling in a Long-Term Controlled Burn Experiment: Insights From Tree-Ring N Isotopes Paleo Perspectives on Driftless Drought Spatial Synchrony of Fire Occurrence in the Upper Great Lakes Region of Minnesota The Riparian Renaissance: Redlining, Green Corridors, Brownfields, and the Colors of Gentrification along the Los Angeles River Catastrophe risk financialization, as told by geographers: exploring co-produced knowledge in a topological framework of governmentality Troy Brundidge, Northeastern Illinois University |
Student Union 3314 |
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12:10–1:30 p.m. FRIDAY
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Lunch |
Student Union Bluffs Ballroom |
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12:45–1:15 p.m.
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Plenary Address: Geographers as Impactful Storytellers: Making the Discipline REAL to Wider Publics Derek Alderman, University of Tennessee, and former President, American Association of Geographers |
Student Union Bluffs Ballroom |
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1:30–3:10 p.m.
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GIS Applications in Social Science Session Chair: Gargi Chaudhuri Respiratory Health and Land Use in Metro East St. Louis, Missouri-Illinois The Erosion of Democracy: Gerrymandering in the United States An Analytical Framework for Integrating the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Environmental Context and Individual Mobility in Exposure Assessment Mapping and Analyzing Health Care Provider Interdependencies: The Case of Primary Care Physicians and Audiologists in Chicagoland Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Violent Crime Trends |
Student Union Bluffs Ballroom
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1:30–3:10 p.m.
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Urban Geographies - II Session Chair: Melissa Heil From Top-Down to Bottom-Up: An Examination of Approaches to Smart Urbanism in the Twin Cities Affective Toponymy: Towards a Critical Understanding of How Emotion Plays a Role in Place-(re)naming Constructing the Region: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Regional Governance in Chicagoland, 1966-2018 Brave New Communities: Privatization and Public Space in New Towns, Conservation Subdivisions, and New Urbanist Developments in the Upper Midwest Debtor Spaces: Uncovering the Spatial Imaginaries of Austerity Governances |
Student Union 3310 |
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1:30–3:10 p.m. FRIDAY |
Geographies of Food, Tourism, and Sport Session Chair: Minji Kim Disney World or Bust?: The Impact of Family Composition on Travel Decisions Dining with the Mouse: The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival Rethinking Regional Food Systems: Universities as Champions of Progressive Food Policy Reinvented Substandard Settlements as ‘New Tourist Attractions’ and the Controversies over Neighborhood Change in South Korean Cities Pigskin Cult: The Geography of FBS College Football Player Production and Program Success, 2018 Jamie Ball, Northwest Missouri State University |
Student Union 3314 |
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3:10–3:30 p.m. |
Break |
Student Union Bluffs Ballroom |
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3:30–5:00 p.m.
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Upper Mississippi River System: Science to Inform Management Actions Session Chair: Molly Van Appledorn Spatial Patterns in a Water Clarity-Aquatic Vegetation Feedback Within a Large Floodplain River Ecosystem Has Winter Changed in the Upper Mississippi River? Trends in Ice Cover and Nutrients Across Riverine Habitats A Resilience Assessment of the Upper Mississippi River System Overview of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program: The First 30-years Inundation Dynamics of the Upper Mississippi River Floodplain: Mapping Spatial and Temporal Patterns of a Critical Ecosystem Process |
Student Union 3310 |
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3:30-4:55 p.m. FRIDAY |
Midwestern Agricultural Landscapes Suburban Agricultural Potential: Eau Claire, WI’s East Side Hill Neighborhood Wil Blouin, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Integrating an Agent-Based Model to Evaluate Livelihood Vulnerability of Farming Communities to Winter Storms in Iowa Semi-Automatic Detecting of Wild Rice (Zizania palustris) in Northern Wisconsin Using UAS Derived Imagery Institutional Structure and Diversity in Collaborative Watershed Governance: Comparative Analysis of Iowa’s Watershed Management Authorities The Role of Climate in the Abandonment of Aztalan by the Mississippian Peoples in A.D. 1250 |
Student Union 3314 |
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3:30-5:30 p.m. |
Poster Session |
Student Union Bluffs Ballroom |
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5:00-5:30 p.m. |
Panel: Geography careers in Federal Government Agencies Panel Chair: Matthew Hiett Panelists: Matthew Hiett, US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and |
Student Union 3310 |
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5:00-5:45 p.m. |
Wisconsin Geographical Society Business Meeting
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Student Union 3314 |
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6:00–8:30 p.m. |
Banquet Plenary Address: Return of the Repressed: Native Presence and American Memory in John Muir's “Boyhood Youth” Paul Robbins, Director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies |
Student Union Bluffs Ballroom |
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Saturday, November 3 |
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7:30–8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast (supplies limited) |
Centennial Hall of Nations |
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7:30–8:30 a.m. |
West Lakes Division AAG Business Meeting |
Centennial 1200 |
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8:30–10:10 a.m. SATURDAY |
Public Outreach Through Geography and Maps The Uneven Internationalization of American Geography Journals Environmental Issues and Climate Change Patterns on the Korean Peninsula Keeping it REAL: Using Weekly Media Maps as a Form of Community Outreach The Making of the National Atlas of Korea—From Conceptualization to Publication Prairie Springs Earth Science Laboratories Tour |
Centennial Hall of Nations |
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8:30–10:10 a.m.
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Political Geographies and Resource Conflicts The Inability of Oil and Water to Mix: The Anatomy of a Conflict George White, South Dakota State University U.S.A. Philanthropists Help Create New National Parks in Chile and Argentina The Rohingya Refugee Relocation Plan and Human Rights Perspective: A Case Study From Bangladesh Understanding the Current State of Partisan Gerrymandering and the Need for Geographers Wildlife Conservation in Kenya and Tanzania and Effects on Maasai Communities |
Centennial 1400 |
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9:00–10:00 a.m. |
Decoding the Driftless A new documentary film about the exciting physical and human geography of southwestern Wisconsin |
Centennial 1309 |
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10:10–10:30 a.m. |
Break |
Centennial Hall of Nations Lobby |
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10:30 a.m.–12:10 p.m. SATURDAY |
Cultural Geographies of the United States Session Chair: Julie Cidell Amish Settlements in Wisconsin: An Update A Demographic Deficit: The Politics of Nationalism and the Need for More Immigration in Wisconsin Twins Historical Roster: A Geographical Analysis Education for Acculturation: Jewish Self-Representation at Chicago’s 1933-1934 World’s Fair, A Century of Progress Representing ‘Home Sweet Home’ in U.S. Quilts |
Centennial Hall of Nations
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10:30 – 11:55 a.m.
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Vegetation and Environmental Dynamics Session Chair: Paul Reyerson Fire Regime Change and Implications for Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) Seed Delivery in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Preliminary Results The Potential and Challenges of Drones for Species Level Mapping of Vegetation Phytolith Content in Soils of the Columbia Basin, USA: New Results |
Centennial 1309 |
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10:30 a.m.–12:10 p.m.
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Teaching Geography Session Chair: Coline Dony FEATURED PRESENTATION: Encoding Geography Challenges in Teaching the AP Human Geography Course to Ninth Graders Addressing the Achievement Gap at the Classroom Scale: The Geography Curriculum as a Site of Equity and Inclusion UNI IDREHSI: Best Practices for Running an Undergraduate Research Experience Program A Qualitative Analysis of Suggested Methods and Content for Teaching Climate Change in the K-12 Classroom |
Centennial 1400 |
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12:15–12:45 p.m. |
Pick Up Boxed Lunch |
Centennial Hall of Nations Lobby |
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12:45–4:00 p.m. |
Field Trips – MEET AT PARKING LOT NEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS |
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