AAG Past President’s Address by Julie Winkler
Julie Winkler will deliver her AAG Past President's Address at the AAG Annual Meeting in Chicago on Thursday, April 23, 2015. Embracing the Complexity and Uncertainty of Climate Change Climate change is one of the defining environmental concerns of our time, and will directly or indirectly affect every sector of society. The complexity of the climate system…
Glen MacDonald on Remembering John Muir
Remembering John Muir on the Centennial of His Passing: Writer, Naturalist, Scientist, Activist, Geographer? John Muir died in Los Angeles, California on Christmas Eve, 1914 with the pages of an unfinished manuscript on Alaska beside him in his hospital bed. As we mark the centenary of Muir’s passing what might we say about him from…
Symposium on Physical Geography at the 2015 AAG Annual Meeting
A special feature of the upcoming 2015 AAG annual meeting is the one-day Symposium on Physical Geography, scheduled for Thursday, April 23. The overall intent of the symposium is to raise the visibility of physical geography research at the AAG annual meeting, and provide additional networking opportunities to facilitate and enhance dialog among physical geographers…
Who’s got your back? Domestic Workers in Chicago
By the early 1980s, the introduction of neoliberal policies across urban America profoundly impacted its already declining industrial base. In Chicago, from 1972 to 2000, manufacturing employment plunged by nearly 260,000 jobs (and thus decent blue-collar wages). Soon the industrial economy was replaced with a service economy that consisted of low-wage service jobs with no…
GIS in Chicagoland
The prevalence of GIS and digital mapping in the Chicago region is nothing new. The footprints of GIS are everywhere. Local government offices were early adopters of mapping technology, using GIS and spatial analysis to maintain or improve their interests. Currently, it is difficult to find a local government office in the region that does…
Illinois Agriculture
It’s no secret, especially to its residents, that Illinois is a divided state. There’s Chicago, and then there’s not Chicago. However, Illinois’ rural farming region should not be overlooked when it comes to appreciating and understanding what makes this state tick. While calling oneself a farmer is as simple as being able to annually produce…
Geographers Study Chicago
When the AAG returns to Chicago in 2015 for its third annual meeting in 20 years, participants will be revisiting the site of a lively field of inquiry for the study of cities. Beginning with the famed "Chicago school sociologists" of the 1920s, the city has served as a model of urban form and function for…
MyCOE / SERVIR Capstone Fellows Describe Their Experiences
Joel Kowsky, NASAIn the spring, 14 students traveled from all over the world to Washington, , to discuss their efforts using satellite data and mapping technologies to address climate change issues in their regions. The efforts are part of the My Community, Our Earth (MyCOE) / SERVIR Fellowship Program. The student-led projects address a range of issues…
A Decade of Change: AAG Returns to Chicago
The AAG is pleased to be holding its next annual meeting April 21-25, 2015, in the world-class city of Chicago. The AAG last met in Chicago in 2006, and in the newsletter issues leading up to the 2015 meeting, the Local Arrangements Committee (LAC -- chaired by Professor Euan Hague, Chair of the Geography Department…
Esri Donates $1 Billion in GIS Software to US K-12 Schools
Responding to President Barack Obama’s call to help strengthen STEM education through the ConnectED Initiative, Esri president Jack Dangermond announced today that Esri will provide a grant to make its advanced mapping software running on cloud infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) available for free to the more than 100,000 elementary, middle, and high schools in the…
AAG Names Warren Washington its 2014 Honorary Geographer
The Association of American Geographers has chosen Warren M. Washington to receive the 2014 AAG Honorary Geographer Award for his contributions as a pioneer in the development of coupled climate models and recognizes him as a leading scientist in the area of climate variability and change. Coupled climate models are now a foundation of climate…