Session Details
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Schedule of Papers, Posters, and Events
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Main Gallery: https://aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/regional_meetings/solicitations/59/sessiongallery
Schedule: https://aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/regional_meetings/solicitations/59/sessiongallery/schedule
Gallery Schedule Grid: https://aag-meetings.secure-platform.com/regional_meetings/solicitations/59/sessiongallery/schedulegrid
Friday Virtual Paper Sessions - 8AM
Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Schooner Room
Date:10/20/2023
Time: 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Session Chair (s)
Patrick Buckley Western Washington University
Steve Graves, APCG - on site
8:00 John Menary - California State University, Dominguez Hills (Faculty)
Words Have Geographical Meaning - The Case of 'Extreme'
8:15 Seth Gustafson-California State University, Monterey Bay (Faculty)
Oral Histories from Restored Landscapes: Lessons in Community-Based Landscape Restoration from the Habitat Stewardship Project
8:30 Patrick Buckley-Western Washington University
Exploring a living wage, Isolated Islands, and possible macro monopsony using a CGE
8:45 Kylie Yuet Ning Poon - University of California, Los Angeles
Home Sweet Home? Constructions of Home and Perceptions of Urban Redevelopment among South Asian migrants and Hong Kong residents in the contested space of Sham Shui Po
9:00 Aila Bandagi Kandlakunta-University of Nevada, Reno
Gendered right to the city: mobility and infrastructure in Hyderabad, India
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Friday Concurrent Sessions - 10 AM
Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Clipper East & West
Date:10/20/2023
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Session Chair:
Kris Bezdecny
California State University, Los Angeles
10:00 Kris Bezdecny - California State University, Los Angeles
What happened in Florida? A follow-up and implications of Florida's dissolution of the RCID
10: 15 Mike DeVivo - Grand Rapids Community College
African Wildlife Conservation, Transformational Leadership, and Pragmatic Decolonization of the Safari
10:30 Bryant Evans - Houston Community College
To Visit or Not to Visit? That is the Question...
10:45 Deseret Weeks - University of California, Merced
Visualizing the limits to growth and the metabolic rift in the neoliberal nexus
11:00 Christine Rodrigue - California State University, Long Beach
New insights from old software: Gridview brings out hidden tectonic features of Mars
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Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Clipper North
Date:10/20/2023
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
10:00 Bruce Hall-Olympic College - Bremerton, Washington
A Learning Narrative: Japanese American Internment Camp Survivors as a Teaching Tool in Geography
10:15 Michael Pretes-University of North Alabama
William Montgomery McGovern: The Real Indiana Jones?
10:30 Robert Voeks-California State University, Fullerton
A TALE OF TWO TULES: BIOGEOGRAPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA’S SPANISH PLACE NAMES
10:45 Kitty Connolly-Friends of the Fiscalini Ranch Preserve
Putting Protected Areas into Practice: Fiscalini Ranch Preserve
11:00 Stuart Sweeney-University of California, Santa Barbara
Representative sampling off the rural road: Lessons from a sampling design and survey implementation effort in Rwanda
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Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Schooner Room
Date:10/20/2023
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
10:00 Jasmine Arpagian - California State University, Sacramento
Cultural Landscapes in Bucharest: Analyzing the Intersection between Historic Preservation and Informal Housing
10:15 Elena Givental - California State University, East Bay
Who Is Your Neighbor? Latvia in Russia’s Sphere of Interest
10:30 Matt Rosenberg (not in AAG Session Gallery)
From Dingemans and Davis to Divinity, a Geographer's Journey
10:45 Paul Starrs - University of Nevada, Reno (emeritus)
Obsessive Oligarchs and Ravaged Rangelands: The Emerging Figments of “California Forever.”
11:00 Daniel Arreola - Placitas, New Mexico
Mujeres Olvidadas Fronterizas: Forgotten Women Entrepreneurs in Mexican Border Towns
11:15 Robin Datel-California State University, Sacramento
"Geography Is a Big House with Many Doors and Windows: Honoring Professor Dennis Dingemans, 1945-2023" - Discussant
Friday Lunch - 11:30 to 1 PM
Great Opportunity
Network with other grad students - undergrads and MA students to meet and discuss the challenges and rewards of graduate study.
Session Type: Special Event
Room: Alexander's Harborview - Restaurant in Hotel
Date:10/20/2023
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
Lunch Options Abound in Ventura Harbor
Friday Keynote - 1PM to 2:15PM
Room: Ballroom
Professor Dilsaver, Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of South Alabama, and a longtime APCG member, is a leading expert on the nearby Chanel Islands.
Dr. Dilsaver will discuss findings from his latest book, Restoring Nature: The Evolution of Channel Islands National Park (America’s Public Lands) available from the University of Nebraska Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/100286
Friday Afternoon Paper Sessions - 3PM
Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Clipper East & West
Date:10/20/2023
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Session Chair:
Lily House-Peters
California State University, Long Beach
Zoom Replay
3:00 Lily House-Peters-California State University, Long Beach
Unearthing the Microbial-Mineral Archive: More-than-Human Geographies of Iron Ore
3:15 Michael Beland-California State University, Los Angeles
Ultra-High-Resolution Mapping of River Habitat and Geomorphic Features using UAVs, Structure from Motion, and Machine Learning
3:30 Achituv Cohen-SPAR Lab, Geography Department, UCSB
Simplifying OpenStreetMap Data: Reducing Multi-Lane Streets to Single Lanes
Xi Gong-University of New Mexico ** Moved to Session 7A
Measuring air pollution exposure: A pruned feed-forward neural network (pruned-FNN) approach
Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Schooner Room
Date:10/20/2023
Time: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Session Chair:
Terrance Young
CSU, San Bernardino
3:00 Jeffrey Jenkins-University of California, Merced
Visitation to national parks in California shows annual and seasonal change during extreme drought and wet years
3:15 Selima Sultana-University of North Carolina Greensboro
Transportation, (Im)Mobility, and the National Parks
3:30 Terence Young-California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Diffusing Conservation to Post-Colonial Africa
3:45 Yolonda Youngs, California State University San Bernardino (Session Organizer)
Third Views: The Value of Repeat Photography for Long Term Environmental Monitoring in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Saturday Concurrent Sessions - 8AM
Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Clipper East & West
Date:10/21/2023
Time: 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Session Chair:
William Selby
Santa Monica College
8:00 Ray Sumner-California State University, Dominguez Hills
Discovering the Quinkans: Adventures of a Young Geographer, Long Ago, in a Place Far Away
8:15 John Harrington, Jr.-Independent Scholar
The Three-Body Problem and Geographic Thought
8:30 Cindy Nance-Mt. San Jacinto College
Desert Landscape Art - "Looking Awry"
8:45 William Selby-Santa Monica College
Solving and Celebrating Weird and Wild Weather Pattern Puzzles
9:00 Clark Akatiff-Palo Alto * ONLINE - VIRTUAL
Was there a "Berkeley Moment" in Geography?
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Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Clipper North
Date:10/21/2023
Time: 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Session Chair:
Mitchell Snyder
University of California, Davis
Zoom REPLAY LINK.
8:00 Jiahua Chen-UCSB
Quantifying relationship between bike connectivity and safety vary with percentage of Hispanic
8:15 Leah Shamlian-University Centre of the Westfjords
Rainbow Sheens and Headlines: Using news framing analysis to identify spatial patterns of oil spill communication in the Puget Sound region
8:30 Mitchell Snyder-University of California, Davis
The Missing Middle of Disaster Displacement: Migration, Place attachment and Satisfaction following the 2018 Camp Fire
8:45 German Silva-University of California, Santa Barbara
Remote Predictors of Changing Soil Salinity in an Intermittently Tidal Wetland
9:00 Caitlyn Linehan-University of California, Santa Barbara
Improving the denominator of safety rankings for bicycle and pedestrian safety
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Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Schooner Room
Date:10/21/2023
Time: 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
Session Chair:
Sophia Borgias
Boise State University
8:00 Sophia Borgias - Boise State University
Unlikely Alliances in Action: Balancing Alignment and Autonomy in Rural-Urban Water Conflicts
8:15 Gabriel Granco - California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Hands-on learning of artificial intelligence for social good
8:30 Scott Warren-Independent
The Imagination of Place in The Ajo, Arizona Company Townsite
8:45 Rhea Presiado Pasadena City College
An online diversity module increases students sense of belonging and identity safety in Physical Geography classes
9:00 Yan Lin-University of New Mexico
Advancing Community Driven Environmental Health Equity Research with Indigenous Communities Using Geospatial Big & Small Data
9:15 -
Saturday Concurrent Sessions -10 AM
Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Clipper East & West
Date:10/21/2023
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Session Chair:
Alana Rader
California State University, Northridge
Zoom Replay
10:00 Maya Weeks-California Sea Grant
Death, Gender, and Disposability: Telling a Story of Feminist Ecotoxicology under Petrocapitalism in the Santa Barbara Channel
10:15 Xi Gong-University of New Mexico (Moved from 5A)
Measuring air pollution exposure: A pruned feed-forward neural network (pruned-FNN) approach
10:30 Alana Rader-California State University, Northridge
Successional Clustering: Structural and compositional recovery in a seasonally dry tropical forest after hurricane disturbance in Southeastern Mexico
10:45 Monika Calef-Soka University of America
Changes Above, Below, and at Waterline in Laguna Beach, CA: Seastars, Birds, and Sea-Level Rise
11:00 Paul Knapp-University of North Carolina Greensboro
21st-century droughts are different: Increasing radial growth in old-growth high-elevation conifers in southern California, USA during the exceptional “hot drought” of 2000–2020
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Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Clipper North
Date:10/21/2023
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Session Chair:
Chevon Holmes
University of California, Davis
10:00 Kate Prell - California State University, Long Beach
Cannabis Equity: Analyzing interests, policy, and spatial outcomes in Long Beach, California
10:15 Benjamin Marcovitz - California State University, Northridge
The Andy Warhol Fantasy: Creativity, Industry, and Gentrification in Downtown Los Angeles
10:30 Danielle Juarez - Northern Arizona University
Navigating Protections: Spatial and Policy Analysis of River Conservation Policies in the U.S.
10:45 Heather Bloom - University of Nebraska
“Free Parking” and Population Shifts: Clothing Retailers Flock to Suburbia, Omaha, Neb., 1955-1981
11:00 Chevon Holmes - University of California, Davis
Geography of Cannabis: Do (de)criminalization studies assay legal weed fairly?
11:15 Mengya Xu - University of Southern California
New Insights Into Grocery Store Visits Among East Los Angeles Residents Using Mobility Data
Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Schooner Room
Date:10/21/2023
Time: 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
10:00 Jake Rowlett-San Diego State, University of California Santa Barbara
"Why Are You Here, Rey from Nowhere?": The Hero's Journey, Island Storytelling, and the Gendered Roles of Heroes in the Star Wars Saga
10:15 Stuart Aitken-San Diego State University
Hope Through Creation: Celtic Kids and Tomm Moore’s "The Secret of Kells"
10:30 Pascale Joassart-Marcelli-San Diego State University
Cinematic Counter-Cartographies of Black and Brown Girlhood in the French Banlieue
10:45 Fernando Bosco-San Diego State University
Anita: Journeying Through Landscapes of Loss and Hope
11:00 James Craine - California State University, Northridge (Virtual)
Towards a Deterritorialized Nomadism: The Transversal Role of Children in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987) and Life and Nothing More
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POSTERS
Session Type: Poster Session
Room: Ballroom
Time: 10 AM to 11:30 AM
For virtual presenters
Zoom Link:
GRAVES ZOOM ROOM
LINK:
https://csun.zoom.us/j/81908259882?pwd=bW9BTDJvZmcvSE1kY2dscjBpOGhvQT09
Meeting ID: 819 0825 9882
Security passcode: apcg
Note: Poster presenters will have a number of rolling, tack-boards on which they may hang their posters. See background image.
You may begin hanging your posters at
9:30 AM on Saturday.
Presenters may be able to hang posters on walls, present on various media (not supplied) or make other arrangements.
The APCG will have tape and tacks available. Other supplies may not be available.
Lisa Harrington-(Independent)
Connecting Art and Science: Participation in Art x Climate
Peter Soule-Appalachian State University
The Evolution of “Hot” Droughts in Southern California, USA from the 20th to the 21st Century
Steven Pedroza-California State University, Fullerton
Food for Thought: A GIS Analysis of Food Deserts in San Bernardino, California
John Adrian-California State University, Long Beach
Machine Learning Meets Martian Geomorphology: A GPT-4 Approach to Image Alignment
Soheil Boroushaki-California State University, Northridge
CRITIC Objective Weights in Spatial Decision-Making
Gwenyth Greco-California State University, Northridge
Preliminary research into the relationship between sea otter (Enhydra lutis) foraging and disturbance on eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows in Morro Bay, California
Caroline Baumann-California State University, Northridge
Spatial Accessibility to Primary Healthcare Providers in Yucatán, Mexico
Hiba Al Hasani-California State University, Northridge
GIS based location allocation analysis for potential bike-sharing stations in San Fernando Valley.
Said Al Rawahi-California State University, Northridge
Measuring Spatial Accessibility to Bus Routes in San Fernando Valley.
Carl de Joya-California State University, Sacramento
Community Formation and Resistance in Sacramento’s Filipino Ethnoburb
Tiffany Green-California State University, San Bernardino
Low Income Residents Are Disproportionately Exposed to Diesel Pollution
David Hartman-California State University, San Bernardino
Arctic Cyclones, Climate Change, and Potential Impacts on Human Settlement and Navigation
Luis Cortes-California State University, San Bernardino
The Economic Geography Analysis of Fontana Using GIS
Lindsey Most - California State University, San Bernardino
Ecological Assessment into Burial Practices
Virtual Only: Poster Link
Caitlin Berry-Pasadena City College
An Analysis of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s System Hardening Efforts
Madison (she/her) Heffentrager-UCSB Geography
Historical Surface Cover Analysis of the Point Conception Headland Bypass Dune System at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, CA
Esau Casimiro Vieyra-University of California, Santa Barbara
Origin-Destination Dyads in Mexico-U.S. Migration Flows
Sophia Arabadjis-University of California, Santa Barbara
Error Measurement and Propagation: Understanding the Reliability of the Wildfire Resilience Index
Saturday Keynote Speaker: Gary Langham American Association of Geographers
1PM to 2:15 PM
1PM to 2:15 PM
Room: Ballroom
Join us in welcoming Gary Langham, the Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers as he discusses the current state of Geography as a discipline, recruiting and retention, diversity and equity, and a host of other issues that are of concern to faculty and students.
Zoom Link (Graves):
Geography Bowl 2:30PM to 3:45
Saturday Afternoon Concurrent Paper Sessions 4 PM to 5:30 PM
Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Clipper East & West
Date:10/21/2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Session Chair:
Samantha Becaria
UC Berkeley
4:00 Dani Savinon-California Polytechnic State University, Pomona
From Green Lawns to Green Gentrification, A Look at Shifting Landscapes
4:15 Svetlana Babaeva-Santa Monica College
Paleogeographical features of the Eocene amber placers of the Sambia Peninsula
4:30 Samantha Becaria-UC Berkeley
LA Heat Risks in a Warming World
4:45 Chris Guo-University of California, Irvine
Hydraulic Modeling of the LA River from UAV Photogrammetry
5:00 Isolde Pierce, Soka University
Sea Star Wasting Syndrome on the California Coast.
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Session Type: Paper Session
Room: Clipper North
Date:10/21/2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Session Chair:
Christopher Swindell
San Diego State University
4:00 Christopher Swindell -San Diego State University
Changing Retail Foot Traffic Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Endemic Periods
4:15 Dylan Skrah -San Diego State, University of California Santa Barbara
Comparing Urban Fragmentation Results Between Neighborhood Delineation Methods
4:30 MONICA PECH-CARDENAS -School of Earth and Sustainability, NAU
Social-ecological Drivers of Watershed Modification and their Influence on Mangrove Protection and Restoration Efforts
4:45 Yuyan Che - University of California, Santa Barbara
Relative to Who Has Access, Who Actually Uses the Bicycle Infrastructure? Comparative Analysis of Bicycle Commuting Origin-Destination Patterns in Santa Barbara County.
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