AAG Newsletter: November 2020
November 2020 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN Vote for Geography By Amy Lobben No matter what happens with this week’s election, the United States will pivot…We need leadership who understands that we cannot stay in the Stage of Anger/Expression without causing…
Ethical Research in the Age of COVID-19: A Participatory Forum
Introduction AAG assembled the following perspectives from the discussions during the AAG Participatory Forum on New Requirements for Ethical Geographic Science in Rapid Research held October 1st, 2020. We worked with AAAS’s Science and Human Rights Coalition to experiment with a format that could help us overcome the lack of face-to-face exchanges and networking. We…
Free Access: 49 Articles on Black Geographies and Racial Justice
In response to the call for more open access to vital scholarship on anti-Blackness and racism, issued by the Black Geographies Specialty Group last June and supported by 37 other AAG Specialty and Affinity Groups in their own letters, AAG and Taylor & Francis are providing free access to 49 articles from our journals through…
Resilience in GIS Education
COVID-19 Cases across the United States. Bang. The spring semester was cut short, everyone was sent home, and the fall semester is still morphing. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a reset in the way we think about teaching and learning. Distance learning is not new, of course, but forced distance learning on a global scale—that's…
Geographers Recognized for National Research on COVID-19
Projects address mobility patterns, access to health care and food systems, racial and disability disparities during the pandemic WASHINGTON, DC…Geographers have been recognized in 16 research and educational fellowships from The Geospatial Software Institute (GSI) Conceptualization Project. The fellowships support 14 projects that tackle COVID-19’s challenges for public health, social networks and contact tracing, housing…
AAG Newsletter: October 2020
October 2020 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN An Interview with AAG Executive Director Gary Langham (Part 2) By Amy Lobben Last month I shared Part 1 of an interview I conducted with AAG's Executive Director Gary Langham to help the membership…
AAG Highlights Advancing Discipline Diversity During Geography Awareness Week at Michigan State University
Photo 1 Yoruba Richen, filmmaker and director, speaks during the AAG ceremony at MSU during Geography Awareness Week in 2019. (Photo credit: Jacqueline Hawthorne) As part of its annual celebration of Geography Awareness Week, the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University (MSU), featured a screening of The Smithsonian Channel's The…
AAG Welcomes Fall 2020 Interns
Two new interns have joined the AAG staff this fall! The AAG would like to welcome Jenna and Mei to the organization. We are also grateful to have one of our summer interns, Sekour, continue working with us this semester. Jenna Pulice is a senior at Penn State University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in…
AAG Newsletter: September 2020
September 2020 Welcome to the Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers (AAG). For more up-to-date news, stories, and announcements, read PRESIDENT'S COLUMN An Interview with AAG Executive Director Gary Langham (Part 1) By Amy Lobben “While the AAG membership elects some of its governance ( president, vice president, Council), the temporal constant in leadership is the…
Welcome to Clancy Wilmott, and thank you to John Kelmelis: AAG representatives on the Board of Directors of the GIS Certification Institute
The GIS Certification Institute or GISCI was established in 2002 by member organizations: Association of American Geographers (AAG), Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA), National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC), University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), to provide the GIS community with a complete certification program, leading…
News from the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences (HEGS) Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF), September 2020
Update 9/15/2020: In response to concerns raised by members of the AAG, the NSF has clarified its announced changes to the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences program (HEGS), formerly known as the Geography and Spatial Sciences program (GSS). AAG appreciates the time many of our members have taken to bring questions and concerns about the program…
Participate in AAG’s New Career and Research Mentors Program
Within AAG’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Task Force, members proposed the creation of a mentoring program in a time when students and colleagues may have limited access to previous peer and professional contacts and mentors, while also facing new challenges. In response, the AAG has created a new program with the goal of facilitating more connections…