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2011
Los Angeles Geographical Society Annual Student Presentations
- Kalli Fullerton "Sense of Place, Performance Art and Pedestrian Malls: Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica CA" (Paper)
- Jade Dean "Follow the Leader – The Advancement of Native Shrubs into Non-native Grasslands in La Jolla Valley CA" (Paper)
- Stacie Townsend "Abstractions of Activism: Editorial Cartoon Portrayals of Egypt During the 2011 Revolution" (Poster)
- Alfonso Martin " Muslim Activism Strategies Post 9/11" (Poster)
- Gregory Ziolkowski "Palisade Glacier Since the Little Ice Age" (Poster)
- Siegrun Storer "So What’s the Big Deal About Plastics?" (Poster)
- Carin Tabag "Spatial Analysis of the Tort Reform Debate" (Poster)
- Kalli Fullerton "The Tea Party: An Imagined Community Maintained by Emotional Labor" (Poster)
California Geographical Society Annual Meeting
- Stacie Townsend "Abstractions of Activism: Editorial Cartoon Portrayals of Egypt During the 2011 Revolution" (1st Place Poster Competition).
- Flavio Mercado (CSULB Geography Alumni) "The Populations Exposure to Flood Hazard in Southern Los Angeles County" (1st Place Paper Map Competition).
- Jade Dean "Follow the Leader- A study on the Advancement of Native Shrubs into Non-Native Grasslands in La Jolla Valley, California" (1st Place, Undergraduate Geosystems Award)
- Kyra Engelberg (CSULB Geography MA Alumni) "The Long Term Impacts of Grazing and Cultivation on Coastal Sage Scrub Biogeography in Southern California."
- Kalli Fullerton "Street Performers and the Sense of Place: A Case Study of Third Street Promenade Shopping Center, Santa Monica, California."
Southern California Academy of Sciences
- Adrienne Bosler "Perching preferences of raptors in three southern California salt marshes."
International Cartographic Conference, Paris, France
- Hyowon Ban Geographical Counterpoint of Spatio-Temporal Data, the Dance" (invited paper).
Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea, Graduate Program, Invited Speaker
Hyowon Ban "Geovisualization of Uncertainty in Geographical Concepts using GIScience and Fuzzy-Set Theory."
Assocation of American Geographers Annual Meeting
- Hyowon Ban and Ola Ahlqvist "The role of advanced computational tools in visualizing spatiotemporal complexity."
- Vincent Del Casino, Hyowon Ban, Jacqueline Mills, Deborah Thien "Mapping an epidemic?: HIV disease and the sexual politics of geoconfidentiality"
- Kyra Engelberg Anthropgenic disturbance regimes and coastal sage scrub recovery: comparing the long term impacts of grazing and cultivation in Southern California
- Christine Jocoy "Redeveloping military bases: not-for-profit homeless service providesr and the local state"
- Mary Ngo "Political ecology of emotion and sacred space: the Winnemem Wintu struggles with California water policy"
- Annette Quintero "Feeding the market: an analysis of household food accessibility in Cañas, Gunacaste, Costa Rica"
- Samantha Roth "Wildfire hazard perception and risk communication in the San Bernardino National Forest"
- Deborah Thien "'Welcome home our Military Sisters': sexual difference, emotion and (post) traumatic spaces for female veterans with PTSD"
- Gregory Ziolkowski "Glacial change since the Little Ice Age, Palisade Glacier, Sierra Nevada, CA"
- Kat Koppel "Deaf Space, Signed Languages, and d/Deaf Culture"
2010
Assocation of American Geographers Annual Meeting
- Hyowon Ban and Ola Algvist "Multi-group user evaluation of interactive geovisualization tool for communication of uncertain urban ontologies"
- Suzanne Dallman "Living within our means: developing a sustainable water budget for the Los Angeles region"
- Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. "Having tea with the Lorax: a wide-ranging conversation about nature-society relations and the role of children's literature in the (co)production of geographic knowlege"
- Kyra Engelberg When nature attackes: physical geography research disasters
- Jason Page and Christine Jocoy "Rationalizing land development in urban wetlands: shifting pro-development discourses in Playa Vista, CA"
- Paul Laris "Thinking beyond climate: biogeomorphology and biotic drivers of landscape evolution"
- Ellen Shiau, Bryce Lawry, David Sloane, Karen Hennigan, and Jacqueline W. Mills "Mapping youth fear in Los Angeles gang neighborhoods: managing methodological uncertainties"
- Christine M. Rodrigue "Detection of secondary craters to improve Martian surface regionalization through the crater size-frequency distribution"
- Deborah Thien "The militarization of trauma: a feminist analysis of post-traumatic stress disorder"
- Suzanne P. Wechsler Integrating Rapa Nui (Easter Island) research into geoscience-based curriculum: a sustainability approach for geosciences diversity enhancement project (GDEP) Track 2"
- Angela Wranic "Technology use in the geography classroom: development of a composite learning object assessment of student learning outcomes"
- Sheridan Wright Kennedy "Historical mapping: three-dimensional mapping of the Antietam Creek Battlefield"
- Sergio Ramirez "Impacts of Shasta Dam height raise: a case study of the McCloud River arm, Northern California"
- Katherine Koppel, "Between Life stages and Cultures: the identities of children of deaf adults"
- Kevin Flaherty, "Spatial Data Provision and Ontological Consistency within The New Geography"
- Mary Ngo "Loss of sacred spaces: the Winnemem Wintu struggle against a cultural genocide by California water demands"
- Kalli Fullerton and Samantha Roth "Developing local identity in tourist places: a look at the permanent residents of Mammoth Lakes, California"
- Gregory Ziokowski "Palisade Glacier: reconstruction of the climatic signal since the end of the Little Ice Age"
- Annette Quintero "Famine or feast: a geo-political analysis of Costa Rica's food security"
