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The Geography Department provides instruction and research in the broad discipline of geography, studying how physical, biological, and cultural processes shape the landscape in which we live and cause regions to differ from each other. We provide six different degree programs, an internationally known research agenda, and a long tradition of service and outreach in education and climatic data services.



 

 

2000 FALL SEMINAR SERIES

DATE: SPEAKER: TITLE:
September 8 Edmunds V. Bunkse
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
University of Delaware
"Wilderness Man: Alexander von Humboldt (BBC Film 2000)"
September 15 Paul T. Durbin
Professor
Department of Philosphy
University of Delaware
"Can Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica be Saved?"
September 22 Bernard L. Dworsky, Gerald Kauffman, and Martin Wollaston
Water Resources Agency
University of Delaware

"The Wonderful World of Water"
September 29 Robert W. Scarborough
Environmental Scientist
Delaware Coastal Programs DNREC/DSWC

"The National Estuarine Research Reserve System:  Research and Education Opportunities for University Faculty and Students"
October 6 Christopher Linn
Graduate Student in the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
University of Delaware
 "The Cloning of Ned Ludd:  Can Activists and Consumers Achieve a Sustainable and Equitable Vision for Agricultural Biotechnology?"
October 13 William J. Cohen
Adjunct Instructor
Department of Geography
University of Delaware
 "From GIS to Virtual Plan: Going Beyond the Spatial Edge"
October 20 Kim Gregg
Graduate Student
Department of Geography
University of Delaware
MASTER'S PRESENTATION:  "Paleoclimatic Implications of the Blockfields of the Central Appalachians"
October 27 Robert  P. Swierenga
Professor of History
A.C. van Raalte Institute
Hope College, Holland MI

"Place Matters: The Social Geography of Dutch Immigration"
November 3 Christopher Sherry
Research Director
Safe Energy Communication Council
Washington D.C.
"Economic Globalization, the Environment and the Electric Power Industry:  U.S. Foreign Direct Investment in the Greenhouse"
November 10 
****PLEASE NOTE ****
PLACE:  Rodney Room,  Perkins Student Center
TIME: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Governor Russell Peterson
Sponsored by the Department of Geography
and Center for Energy and Environmental Policy,
University of Delaware
 "We Can Save the Earth" 
November 17 Carol Krawczyk
Assistant Professor
Department of Plant and Soil Science
School of Agricultural and Natural Resources
University of Delaware
On "Streetscapes"  (exact title to be announced)
November 25  -----  Thanksgiving Break  -----  
December 1 John B. Byrne
Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
"Sixth Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (CoPs-6) held at the Hague, the Netherlands: A Report'

Seminar Series Coordinator: Schreuder

 
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