Previous Meetings

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009, at 5:30pm. Locatoin: room 300A, Geography-Geology Building. Speaker: Matt Miller - "Changes in forest coverage and fragmentation in the Georgia Piedmont for the past 30 years".

Tuesday October 28th, 2008 at 5:30pm. Location: room 300A, Geography-Geology Building.
Speaker: Hwahwan Kim - "Classification of spatio-temporal data using temporal signature of local spatial association - data mining approach."

Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 5:00pm. Location: room 300A, Geography-Geology Building.
Speaker: Sergio Bernardes - Principles and application of laser based systems (LiDARs) in remote sensing.
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008. Location: room 300A, Geography-Geology Building.
Speaker: Hunter Allen - talk: "Using photorealistic geovisualization to understand and convey geographic information."
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008. Location: room 300A, Geography-Geology Building.
Speaker: -
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Previous Events

GIS/Remote Sensing Rendezvous

Have a geospatial question? Want some free feedback on your GIS or Remote Sensing research?
Come to a roundtable discussion and GIS/Remote Sensing help session. All disciplines and skill levels are welcome! Bring data, a research question or just come with an open mind. Questions, comments and concerns may contact: asprs@uga.edu

Tuesday • February 19, 2008 • 5 - 7 PM / Location: Geography/Geology Building Lab 321

Tuesday • April 15, 2008 • 5 - 7 PM / Location: Geography/Geology Building Lab 321

Previous News

Dr. Marguerite Madden was the keynote speaker at Florida State University Remote Sensing Conference, on March 29th in Tallahassee, Florida.
Call for papers and registration

The application deadline for the ASPRS Volunteer Program, allowing students to attend the 2008 Annual Conference with the registration fee waived is March 3rd, 2008.
Application Form

The application deadline for the National Science Foundation SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant for Geography and Regional Science is February 15, 2008.
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Previous Local Events

Thesis proposal: "“An Exploratory Study of the Spatial Distribution of Madagascar's Deforestation and Food Insecurity"
Candidate:Leah Sandmann
Friday, November 20, 2009 , Geography/Geology, Room 147, 2:30 PM

Dissertation defense: "Effects of watershed land use and geomorphology on stream baseflows in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains"
Candidate:Katie Price
Friday, September 18th, 2009 , Geography/Geology, Room 147, 8:30 AM

Thesis defense: "Investigating the Wildland-Urban Interface and Potential Impacts Surrounding Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
Candidate:Ashley Scruggs
Wednesday, December 01, 2008 , Geography/Geology, Room 147, 1:30 PM

Dissertation defense: "Biogeographic study of the Polylepis forest remnants of the northeastern Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador and implications for their conservation"
Candidate:Sheika Aragundi
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 , Geography/Geology, Room 215, 2:30 PM

Dissertation defense: "Water Quality and Remote Sensing Investigation of Shortnose Sturgeon Habitat in the Savannah River"
Candidate:Laura Knight
Wednesday, April 25nd, 2008 , Geography/Geology, Room 147, 1 2:30 PM

Thesis defense: "An investigation of Warm Season Spatial Rainfall Variability in Oklahoma City: Possible Linkages to Urbanization and Prevailing Wind"
Candidate:Lauren Hand
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2008 , Geography/Geology, Room 215, 2:30 PM

Colloquium Series of the Department of Geography: "Environmental Public Health Surveillance for Exposure to Respiratory Health Hazards: A Joint NASA/CDC Project to Use Remote Sensing Data for Estimating Airborne Particulate Matter Over the Atlanta, Georgia, Metropolitan Area”
Speaker: Dr. Dale A. Quattrochi
Friday,April 11th, Geography/Geology, 3:30 PM

Seminar : "An Inter-comparison of High Resolution Satellite Precipitation Products”
Speaker: Matthew Sapiano
Friday,April 8th, Geography/Geology, 11:30 PM, room 153

Colloquium Series of the Department of Geography: "Global warming, hurricanes, and insured losses: Anticipating the hurricane peril in the United States"
Speaker:Dr James Elsner
Friday,March 28th, Geography/Geology, 3:30 PM

Meeting: American Meteorological Society, March 19, 6:15pm Geography/Geology Building, room 200D

Colloquium Series of the Department of Geography: "Second Annual James O. Wheeler Lecture"
Speaker:Dr. Winston Grady-Willisl
Friday,March 21st, Geography/Geology, 3:30 PM

Colloquium Series of the Department of Geography: ""Precipitation and Radar Reflectivity Associated with Natural Wildfire Ignitions in Arizona and New Mexico"
Speaker:Dr. Beth Hall
Friday,February 29th, Geography/Geology, 3:30 PM

Colloquium Series of the Department of Geography: "Estimating the Hydraulic Characteristics of Large Rivers Using Remotely Sensed Information: an application in the Congo River"
Speaker: Dave Bjerklie, United States Geologic Survey (USGS):
Friday,February 15, Geography/Geology, Room 200C, 3:30 PM

Dissertation defense: "Erosion and Sedimentation Modeling of the Lake Lanier Watershed"
Candidate:J.B. Sharma
Wednesday, February 20, Geography/Geology, Room 147, 3:00 PM

Conferences

ASPRS/MAPPS 2009 Fall Conference
San Antonio, Texas
November 16 – 19, 2009
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ASPRS Annual Conference
San Diego, California
April 26-30, 2010
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AGU 2008 Fall Meeting
San Francisco, California
December 15-19, 2008
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2009 Annual ASPRS Conference
Baltimore, Maryland
March 8-13, 2009
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PECORA 17 - The Future of Land Imaging
Denver, Colorado
November 18-20, 2008
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IGARSS'08 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Boston, Massachusetts
July 6-11, 2008
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ASPRS 2008 Annual Conference
"Bridging the Horizons:  New Frontiers in Geospatial Collaboration"
Portland Oregon
April 27 - May 2
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AAG 2008 Annual Conference
"Bridging the Horizons:  New Frontiers in Geospatial Collaboration"
Portland Oregon
April 27 - May 2
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Florida State University Remote Sensing Conference
Tallahassee, Florida
March 28-30, 2008
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GIS in Teaching & Research 2008 @ Georgiatech
Atlanta, Georgia
February 13-15 (February 13 is an optional workshop day)
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