University of Delaware Geography Department

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.

2004 FALL SEMINAR SERIES

DATE:	SPEAKER:	TITLE:
September 10	Dr. T.W. Fraser Russell Vice Provost for Research University of Delaware	Research at the University of Delaware - General Comments and Specific Examples
September 17	Professor Cort Willmott and Dr. Kenji Matsuura Department of Geography University of Delaware	On the Use of Dimensioned Measures of Average Error in the Evaluation of Model Performance
September 24	Professor Juan Blejer University of the City of Mexico	Social and Political Effects of the Globalization Process in Latin America
October 1	NO SEMINAR
October 8	NO SEMINAR
October 15	Professor Oleg A. Anisimov State Hydrological Institute St. Petersburg, Russia	Permafrost, Climate, and Change: study of the feedbacks through emission of greenhouse gases from thawing Arctic wetlands
October 22	Elsa Cristina Nickl Department of Geography University of Delaware	Teleconnections and the climate of the Peruvian Andes
October 29	Dr. Nikolay I. Shiklomanov Associate Research Scientist Department of Geography University of Delaware	The State Hydrological Institute's Valdai Field Station: Land of Opportunity
November 5	Nancy Beller-Simms National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Climate Forecasts and Decision Making: Perspectives from NOAA's Human Dimensions of Global Change Research and NOAA's Climate Transition Programs
November 12	Dr. Doug Richardson Executive Director Association of American Geographers	Positioning the AAG to Support Geography in the 21st Century
November 19	Professor Yda Schreuder Department of Geography University of Delaware	EU Emissions Trading Scheme in the Corporate Greenhouse: Unresolved Tensions between Economic Globalization and the Kyoto Protocol
November 26	No Seminar-Thanksgiving Break
December 3	Professor Susan Millar Department of Geography Syracuse University	New York's Pleistocene Periglacial Environment