Program
Wednesday 7:00-9:00 Opening
Reception at the Powerhouse
Thursday – Center for Continuing
Education – Fayetteville Square
Registration 8:30-4:30
Session 1a : Social
Geography
Session Chair: Don Albert
8:30- 8:50 Donald P.
Albert, Sam Houston State University, Out-of-State Licensing
of Naturopathic Physicians: The straw that breaks the camel’s back?
8:50-9:10 Michelle Campbell Texas State University “California and Texas: A Turn of the Century Look at Spending for
Corrections in Relationship to Drug Arrests: A Proposal”
9:10-9:30 Theodore L. Goudge,
Northwest Missouri State University, “Giving it the Ole’ College Try: A Geography of Selected College Athletics.”
9:30-9:50 Tad Sours University of Arkansas “Perception of Turkish Membership in the EU;
Three Southeastern European Case Studies”
9:50-10:20 Break
Session
2a: Hurricane Katrina and coastal issues
Session
Chair: Kent McGregor
10:20-10:40 Anthony M. Filippi,
Shinichi Kobara, Andrey Mishonov, Christopher Graff, Robert Duckworth, Bing Shi,
Lei Meng Texas A&M University, “Post-Hurricane
Katrina and Rita Remote-Sensing Damage Assessment of National Park Service
Resources”
10:40-11:00
Robert M. Schwartz, Arkansas Tech University “Response Issues With
Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina Relocated to Pope County, Arkansas”
11:00-11:20 Darrel L. McDonald, James
Kroll, P.R. Blackwell, Stephen F. Austin State University, “The Role of Geospatial
Activities in Response to Hurricane Rita in East Texas.”
Session
2b: Applications of GIS and other spatial/visual techniques
Session
Chair: David Anderson
10:20-10:40 Xiaomin Qiu Texas State University-San Marcos “Population
Estimation in GIS and Remote Sensing- A Review”
10:40-11:00 Songgang Gu Texas A&M University “Short-term shoreline change analysis
using Aerial photos and LIDAR data”
11:00-11:20
John Fennessy and Dr. Mark Leipnik,
Sam Houston State University
Jennifer Lorca, University of Texas at Austin “Geospatial baseline water quality data
development project”
11:20-11:40 Zengwang Xu and Daniel Z. Sui Texas A&M University “Small-world network: a perspective from network
autocorrelation”
1:40-12:00 Wansang Ryu Texas A&M
University “The Study of Blowout Morphometry on the Texas Coast using Aerial Photographs”
12:00-1:30 Lunch
Poster Session 1:30-4:30
Sandra Metoyer, Jodicus Prosser, Christian Brannstrom, Courtney Harmon, Aya Oda, Kirk Oda, Zeng Cheng, and Bernie Kohman Texas A&M
University “The prevalence of “dead” Internet references in
leading geography journals: A case for concern?”
Kent M.
McGregor, Department of Geography, University of North Texas, “Reconstruction of Hurricane
Katrina with Ranalysis Data.”
Jonathan C. Comer, Department of Geography, Oklahoma State
University, Stillwater, OK 74078-4053.
Professional Sports Stadium Location Patterns into the 21st
Century.
Brad A. Bays & G Allen Finchum Oklahoma State University, “Green Country: The Origin, Diffusion, and
Anatomy of a Vernacular Region.”
Gregory Plumb, Robert
Newcomer, and Mark Micozzi, East Central University
“The Oklahoma Atlas Institute’s Web Atlas of Oklahoma.”
Noah
Hopkins, Texas State University-San Marcos, “Getting the Big Picture: An
Applied Spatial Approach to Allocating Resources in a State-Level Environmental
Regulation Agency”
Amanda Keen-Zebert Texas State University, “Spatial variation of channel reach type and in the
Guadalupe River, a mixed alluvial-bedrock river in central Texas”
Mark Giesken University of Oklahoma “Economic Impact of Wind Farms in Oklahoma”
Lucas Baze,
Janel Spaulding, John Gowan,
Steve Fieore, and Latice
Freeman, University of Oklahoma “Top Soil Attrition on Kessler’s Farm”
Stephanie Buway University of Oklahoma “Distribution, Demographics and Awareness of Wind
Power in Oklahoma”
Gabriel R. Burns, Russell
T. Evans, Anthony M. Filippi, Joni L. Kincaid, and Kevin E. Merritt Texas A&M University “Advancing Geospatial Skills in Science and
Social Science”
Colin E. Thorn & Robert G. Darmody
University of Illinois, John C.
Dixon University of Arkansas “A ten-year record of chemical weathering within Kärkevagge, Swedish Lapland.”
John C.
Dixon University
of Arkansas “Eolian Additions to the Weathering
System: A Neglected Component”.
Session 3a - Student Papers 1
Session Chair: Michael Yoder
1:30-1:50 Shuo-sheng Wu, Texas State University “Per-field Urban Land Use Classification Based on Tax Parcel
Boundaries”
1:50-2:10
William Flynn, Oklahoma State University “Drawn to Scale: A Case for Making Music
Cartography the 11th Theme of Music Geography”
2:10-2:30 Zheng Cheng & Hongxing Liu,
Douglas Sherman, So-Min Cheong Texas A & M
University “Investigation of Coastal Land Use Changes by Integrating Remote
Sensing Imagery and Population Census Data”
2:30-2:50 Poornima Pillai Oklahoma State University “Impact of Islamic Terrorism on the Travel and
Tourism Industry in Jammu
and Kashmir,
India”
Session 3b – Human-Environment Integration
Session Chair: Bret Wallach
1:30-1:50 Emariana S. Taylor
Texas State University-San Marcos “Geography Student
Perception of Bats and Austin Bat Colonies”
1:50-2:10 Bret Wallach,
University of Oklahoma, “Land-Use Changes in the
Traditional Upland Paddy Areas of Sri Lanka.”
2:10-2:30 Drew
Bennett University of Texas-Austin “Coffee, conservation, and livelihood strategies:
A case study from the coffee lands of Nicaragua”
2:30-2:50 Malcolm Cleveland
University of Arkansas “Use of Tree Rings in Solving a Homicide”
2:50-3:10 Break
Session 4a - Student Papers 2
Session Chair: Michael Yoder
3:10-3:30 Chie Sakakibara University of Oklahoma “Drowning Home: An Eroding Arctic Village and the Iñupiat Identity in the Time of
Climate Change”
3:30-3:50
Brenda Baletti, University of Texas-Austin “The
Social Production of Urban Forests: Development, Conservation, and Urbanization
in Belém, Brazil”
3:50-4:10 David
A Brockway, Oklahoma State University “Airport Remnants in an Urban Landscape: The Case
of Commercial Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma”
4:10-4:30
- Judges Meeting
Session 4b Economic Geography
Session Chair: Don Lyons
3:10-3:30 Brooks
Green, University
of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas “The Russian Far
East: Place of Plenty – People in Poverty.”
3:30-3:50
Murray D. Rice and Donald I. Lyons, University of North Texas “Regional Hosts of Next Wave Business Activity,
1982-2002.”
3:50-4:10 Donald
Lyons University of North Texas “Industrial Ecology,
material cycling and government policy:
A case study from Texas.”
Banquet at Uncle Gaylord’s Mountain Grill 7:00-10:00
Friday
– Center for Continuing Education – Fayetteville Square
Registration 8:30-12:00
Session 5a :
Energy Industry
Session Chair: Rod
Squires
8:30- 8:50 Emily Duda,
Bodo Kubartz and Andrew
Wood, University of Oklahoma
“Mapping the globalization of the US oil
industry.”
8:50-9:10 Rod
Squires, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota
Title “Where’s there’s
muck there’s brass.”
9:10-9:30 Dennis Ehrhardt, University of Louisiana-Lafayette “How Katrina And Rita Created A Geographic Awareness Of Our Energy
Supplies”
Session 5b: Urban Geography
Session Chair: Fred Shelley
8:30- 8:50 Bryant Evans Houston Community College “Bisbee, Arizona: A Golden Triangle or Bermuda Triangle?”
8:50-9:10 Chris Gaffney University of Texas at Austin “Comparative Cultural
Urbanism”
9:10-9:30 Shouhong Xie, York University, Canada and Lisa Drummond, York University “The
Development of Big Cities and the Formation of Metropolitan Areas in
Contemporary China”
9:30-9:50 Jeff Allender,
University of Central Arkansas, “Blending
Rock and Brick in the Ozarks of Arkansas: The Mixed
Masonry Buildings of Silas Owens, Sr., 1938-1956”
9:50-10:20 Break
Session 6a
– Cultural Geography
Session
Chair: Alyson Greiner
10:20-10:40 Sharon Wilcox University of Texas-Austin “The Garifuna Journey:
Representing Culture in
Documentary Film
10:40-11:00 Paul
L. Butt, University
of Central Arkansas, “Food-Place Associations: A Classification”
11:00-11:20 Alyson L. Greiner, Oklahoma State University, “The Geography of Public Art in Oklahoma, 1933-1944.”
11:20-11:40 Wagstaff, Jeremiah. Texas A&M University. The Impact of the Civil War in Sierra Leone on its Cultural Landscape
11:40-12:00 Jeff Roth University of Oklahoma “Long Lots in New Mexico and Texas: Reviving the Theories of Terry Jordan and Alvar Carlson”
Session
6b Physical Geography
Session
Chair: Paul Hudson
10:20-10:40 Kirk Stueve, Charles Lafon and Rachel Isaacs Texas A&M University “Spatial Patterns of Ice Storm Disturbance on a
Forested Landscape of the Appalachian
Mountains”
10:40-11:00 Paul F. Hudson, University of Texas, “Recent flood deposits
along the lower Guadalupe River, Texas”
11:00-11:20 Carol F.
Sawyer & David R. Butler Texas State University-San Marcos “Comparison of a
tree-ring chronology of snow avalanche occurrence with a historically based
avalanche record, Glacier National Park, Montana”
11:20-11:40 Jerry Reynolds University of Central Arkansas “Restrictive Usage Policies on Water Supply
Reservoirs and Watersheds: The Extremes of Source Water Protection in the United States”
11:40-12:00 Jennifer Hoss, Charles W Lafon Texas
A&M University, Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Georgina
D. Wright University of Tennessee “Stand Dynamics of Peters Mountain, Giles
County Virginia
12:00-1:30 Lunch
Session 7a – Education Geography
Session Chair: Lawrence Estaville
1:30-1:50 Lawrence E. Estaville, Texas State University "Ph.D. Programs in SWAAG
Geography Departments, 1994-2003."
1:50-2:10 Jim Norwine, Michael Bruner; Michael Preda;
and Allen Ketcham , Texas A&M University-Kingsville “15 Years of
Exploring Undergraduate Worldviews: What We Have Learned and, What Now?”
Session 7b – Economic Geography
1:30-1:50 H.
Jason Combs Arkansas State University “The Growth of Northwest Arkansas and the
Delta’s Decline”
1:50-2:10 Michael S. Yoder, Texas A&M International University, “Foreign Direct Investment and Commercial
Property Development in a US-Mexico Border City”
2:30-3:00 Break
Session 8 Panel on Student Diversity Moderated by Lawrence Estaville
3:00-4:30
4:45-6:00 SWAAG Business Meeting
Saturday
Women’s Networking Breakfast 7:30-9:00 –
Ella’s Restaurant
Field Trips have been cancelled