Over 30 students, faculty, and alumni converged on Philadelphia during the week of March 15 to attend the AAG’s Centennial Meeting. The contingent presented a four by eight foot poster in the special history exhibit, staffed an information booth, and through the sponsorship of the department’s alumni group, hosted a reception for faculty, students, alumni, and participants. In addition many department attendees presented papers, posters, and lead or participated in panel discussions (see below). History of map making in the department poster. Faculty, students, and alumni attended a special reception sponsored by the alumni group and the department.

Student presentations included:

• Cathy Carter, “This Is Holy Land: The Black Hills as Native American Sacred Space.”
• Elizabeth Groff, “Disaggregating the Journey to Homicide.”
• Claire Jantz, “Towards an Integrated Approach for Modeling Sprqwl in the Mid-Atlantic Region.”
• Barbara Kearney, “Who Holds the Power? Stakeholder Negotiations in the Tusayan Land Exchange Discourse.”
• Tatiana Loboda, Jamie Whitacre, Joyanna Priest, along with lecturer Mila Zlatic, presented a poster on “How Are We Informed About the World?”
• Ronald Luna, “Transforming Cultural Spaces iinto Espacios Culturales.”
• Jessica McCarty, “Identifying Seasonal Fires in the Southeastern United States.”
• Femke Reitsma, “Ontologies for Modeling Geographic Processes,” and “Time and Change in GIScience Modeling.”
• Louis Giglio, “Active Fire Detection and Property Retrieval from ASTER for the Evaluation of MODIS Fire Products.”
• Jose Roa was coauthor with U. Kamp, T. Bolch, J. Olsenholler of a study accepted by AAG on “Using ASTER DEMs for Studying Geomorphology and Glaciers in Subtropical and Tropical High Mountains.”
• Brian Van Pay, “The Accuracy of International Land Boundaries”

• Jochen Albrecht, “Assessment of Public Transportation Services in Rural South Carolina.” Dr. Albrecht also organized and chaired the panel on Time in Modeling and Analysis of Geographic Information
• Harold Brodsky, served as a panelist on Jerusalem: The Dilemma of Management and Control of its Sacred Sites and Holy Places
• Ruth DeFries, “Land cover Changes in Mato Grosso Brazil: Secondary Transition from Pasture to Mechanized Agriculture,” presented at the panel on Monitoring the Earth’s Land Cover
• Catherine Dibble, “Theory in a Complex World: GeoGraph Computational Laboratories.”
• Hongliang Fang (Research faculty), “Estimatiing Leaf Area Index from Satellite Observations: New Algorithm and Results.”
• Martha Geores, “Power Sharing in the National Forest: Paradigm Shift or Window Dressing?”
• Michael Kearney, “Using Spectral Indices in Spectral Mixture Modeling of Marsh Condition with Landsat Data:
• Shunlin Liang, “Mapping Incident Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) from MODIS Data.” Dr. Liang also organized and chaired two sessions on Quantitative Techniques in Optical Remote Sensing
• Laxmi Ramasubramanian (Adjunct), “E-Planning with Youth: Creating Spaces of Engagement”
• John Townshend, “Characterization of Changes in Global Land Cover.” Dr. Townshend also organized and chaired a panel on Monitoring the Earth’s Land Cover: A Final Solution?

• Frank Galgano, “The Impact of Climate on Military Operations: Post Neo-Glacial Winters and the American Civil Ware 1861-1865”
• James Harmon, “GIS-Based Locational Analyses of Native American Settlement Systems: An Example from the Late Prehistoric Chesapeake”
• Deborah Metzel, “Disability and the Locations of Vocational Rehabilitation Offices and One-Stop Career Centers: A GIS Analysis”
• Keqi Zhang, “Three-Dimensional Visualization and Animation of Storm Surge Flooding.”