AAG Annual Meeting: Tampa 2014
Join the Association of American Geographers at the AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa, April 8 to April 12, 2014, for the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. The AAG Annual Meeting is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in geography and related disciplines. All scholars, researchers, and students…
Late-Breaking News Session on the Crisis in Ukraine
“Crisis in Ukraine: Background and a Report from Kyiv” will feature an up-to-date and informed presentation on current events in Kyiv from urban-social geographer Roman Cybriwsky of Temple University. Cybriwsky knows the scene well, and has authored “City of Domes and Demons,” an upcoming book on contemporary Kyiv. This late-breaking news session will be held…
Essential Meeting Information
Thank you for registering for the AAG Annual Meeting. We're glad that you will be joining us for our meeting and look forward to seeing you next week in Tampa where you'll enjoy several days of outstanding sessions and great networking opportunities with colleagues and friends. Please take a moment to review the information below…
A Tribute to Roger Tomlinson, Apr. 10
A special tribute in honor of Roger Tomlinson (1933-2014), will be held at the AAG Annual Meeting on April 10, at 4:40 in Ballroom D of the Tampa Convention Center. Comments and tributes will be made by attendees. A native of Cambridge, England, Roger F. Tomlinson is credited for coining the term geographic information system…
Tampa Blues Festival Kicks-off Apr. 11
The Tampa Bay Blues Festival offers three great days of blues music by the bay. This annual festival, now in its 20th year, is staged in the tropical setting of Vinoy Park on the shores of Tampa--an ideal setting to enjoy Florida's sunshine and warm spring Tampa Bay Blues Festival will be held April 11-13,…
The Geography of Environmental Destruction in North America
The following test is recommended for all those who plan on attending the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers next April, 2014, in Tampa, Florida. The test is voluntary and you are under no obligation to take it; you may stop at any time, or answer any combination of questions. Results will be…
Water, Growth and Tampa Bay
Florida is practically synonymous with water and at first blush it seems inconceivable that the Sunshine State could have water problems typical of drier western states. After all, Florida averages 54 inches of rainfall each year and despite more than a century of drainage, it still has more acres of wetlands than any state except…
Florida’s Tourism Industry
By Ray Oldakowski Florida, The Sunshine State, is a slogan designed to attract tourists. The nickname was officially adopted by the state legislature in 1970, although it had already appeared on license plates since the 1950s. Florida brings to mind sunny skies, sandy beaches, and warm waters. It is the place for fun in the…
AAG to feature “Geographies of Climate Change” at Annual Meeting
Climate change is the major environmental challenge facing humankind today. "Geographies of Climate Change," a featured theme for the upcoming AAG Annual Meeting in Tampa, Fla., highlights the complex spatial dimensions of climate change, including the observed and anticipated geographical differentiation in potential impacts and vulnerability. The Presidential Plenary that opens the Annual Meeting will…
AAG to feature theme on scale and sustainability
“Scale and Sustainability” is among the emerging themes being developed for the AAG Annual Meeting in April. This track of sessions will consider how scale matters for sustainability and at what scale sustainability should be examined. In these sessions, the queries are extended to all of sustainable development—the linking of environment and development to enhance…
I’ll Follow the Sun … to Tampa
By April, you are likely to be thinking that it’s been a long cold lonely winter. If you’ve booked your ticket to ride to our 2014 AAG annual meeting in Tampa, then a good day sunshine may very well be on the horizon. Florida’s peninsular shape, concave and convex coastal segments and location between the…
TAMPA!
Now is the time to begin planning for the AAG annual meeting, one of the largest venues in the world for sharing and communicating the broad range of contributions by geographers to basic and applied knowledge and to problem solving. The 2014 annual meeting will be held April 8-12 in Tampa, Florida. This is the…