FALL 2009 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Wednesdays from 12 to 1 PM
Room 001 Sondheim Hall

September 9 - Riverine Landscapes: Exploring Connectivity, Extinction Risk and Biogeography in an Alternative Geometry
DR. BILL FAGAN, Professor
Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park

September 16 - Hurricanes in the Mid Atlantic: Freshwater Flooding In the Past and in Recent Times
DR. JEFFREY HALVERSON, Associate Professor
Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

September 23 - Incorporating Urban Modeling into Environmental Planning: Examples from the Local to Regional Scales in the Mid-Atlantic Region
DR. CLAIRE JANTZ, Assistant Professor
Geography & Earth Science, Shippensburg University


October 7 - Integrating Science and Conservation Management: A Structured Decision-making Approach
DR. JAMES D. NICHOLS, Senior Scientist
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center


October 21 - Environmental Justice and Planning for Sustainable Communities
DR. EILEEN MCGURTY, Associate Chair
Environmental Sciences & Policy, Johns Hopkins University


October 28 - Nutrient Discharges from Watersheds of the Chesapeake and the Search for the Missing Nitrogen
DR. THOMAS JORDAN, Nutrient Laboratory
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)


November 11 - Geographic Profiling of Crime and Terrorism
DR. KEITH HARRIES, Professor Emeritus
Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC


December 2 - Predicting Factors that Impact Crop Productivity within and Outside Centers of Crop Origin
DR. LAURA LEWIS Assistant Professor
Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC

For more information and updates contact:
Dr. Erle C. Ellis, Associate Professor
Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems
211 Sondheim Hall
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Tel: (410) 455-3078
email: ece@umbc.edu
2/16/2009