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Dear Colleagues, This is the Current Colloquium Schedule, sans some missing titles from speakers: Department of Geography Colloquium (GEOG 501) Schedule Fall, 2015 Aug 20 GTA Meetings Aug 27 No colloquium (Traditional GARG meeting) Sep 3 Dr. Anthony Mezzacappa, University of Tennessee's Department of Astrophysics, ORNL, & Joint Institute for Computational Science: Joint Institute for Computational Science Sep 10 Dr. Benjamin Preston, Deputy Director ORNL Climate Change Institute: Title TBA Sep 17 Dr. Washington-Allen, Dept. of Geography, University of Tennessee: A survey of remote sensing studies of land degradation with a bow to new technologies Sep 25 Future Faculty Visitor: Dr. Stephanie Deitrick, Arizona State University School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning: Title TBA Oct 1 Mr. Kurt Butefish, Tennessee Geographic Alliance, University of Tennessee Distinguished Alumnus Ceremony, Hodges Library Auditorium 3:30- 5:00 pm Oct 8 Dr. William Hargrove, Research Ecologist, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station: ForWarn, a National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System, and Other Diverse Uses of Phenology and Remote Sensing Data for Large-Scale Vegetation Monitoring Oct 15 Fall Break Oct 22 Dr. Tom Howard, Professor Emertia, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah Georgia: Recycled Geography in the North Cumberlands Oct 29 Dr. Wade Bishop, School of Information Sciences, College of Communications & Information, University of Tennessee: The IS in GIS Nov 5 Dr. Stan Wullschleger, Ecosystem Science Group, Environmental Sciences Division, DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Title TBA Nov 12 Professor Uriel Kitron, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, Tel: (404) 727-4253; fax: (404) 727-4448 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>; http://envs.emory.edu/home/faculty_staff/faculty/kitron_urie Title TBA Nov 19 Geography Awareness Week Speaker: Dr. Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Birds, Coffee, and Workers in India: Are the Geographies of the 21st century Sustainable? Kindest regards, Robert A. Washington-Allen Assistant Professor of Geography Environmental Tomography Laboratory Department of Geography University of Tennessee 304 Burchfiel Geography Building 1000 Phillip Fulmer Way Knoxville, TN 37996-0925 Cell: 979-571-4330 e-mail: washingtonra@<mailto:[log in to unmask]>utk.edu<http://utk.edu/> website: http://geography.utk.edu/about-us/faculty/dr-robert-washington-allen/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- "God has chosen the world that is the most perfect,that is to say, the one that is at the same time the simplest in hypotheses and the richest in phenomena." - Leibniz "I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people." --- Isaac Newton -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To review the archives of CLUBGGY or Join/Leave the list go to: http://listserv.utk.edu/archives/clubggy.html