Saarinen Award & AAG Travel Grants

Conference Travel Awards and 2013 Saarinen Student Paper Competition

The Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group announces its specialty group travel awards and the 2013 Saarinen Student Paper Competition. Students with accepted abstracts for the 2013 AAG meeting are invited to apply. Please note the deadline to submit an abstracts for the AAG Meeting in Los Angeles is Oct. 24, 2012

Travel grants. Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply for travel grants of $100 to support travel to Los Angeles for the 2013 meeting.  To apply, students should submit a copy of their accepted abstract and complete the online application form.    Preference will be given to students competing in the Saarinen paper competition and student members of the EPBG specialty group, although any student presenting relevant work is welcome to apply. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2013. Attendance at the EPBG meeting is required to receive the travel award.

Travel grant application

Saarinen Student Paper Competition. The EPBG Specialty Group will award one $250 prize for the best student paper, illustrated paper, or poster (graduate or undergraduate) presented in either environmental perception or behavioral geography at the 2013 AAG meeting in Los Angeles, CA. Entrants in the Saarinen Student Paper Competition must submit a maximum 25-page (double-spaced) paper in support of their conference presentation. Shorter papers are welcome.  Papers must be based upon original research done as an undergraduate or graduate student and must be written entirely by the applicant. All submissions will be judged on written clarity, methodological soundness, contribution to the field of EPBG, and their presentation at the meeting. The Academic Directors of the EPBG specialty group will judge all entries. The deadline for the full paper for the Saarinen Student Paper Competition is March 1, 2013. To apply for the Saarinen Student Paper Competition, fill out an application form here.  Email a single pdf file containing (1) your accepted AAG abstract and presentation session, (2) a letter from your research adviser verifying your status as a student and confirming that you are the author of the manuscript submitted and (3) a copy of manuscript, including figures and references to bcutts@illinois.edu with “2013 Saarinen Paper Competition” in the subject line.

The deadline for applicants is March 1, 2013.  The winners will be announced at the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group business meeting during the 2013 AAG meeting. Attendance at the EPBG meeting is required to receive the travel award.  Attendance is not required to receive the Saarinen Student Paper Competition award.

 

Full link to travel grant application:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dEc5X20xaGx2UHd1X2RUUEJaNlpiRWc6MQ

Saarinen Student Paper Contest 2012

Greetings Members of the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group!

The Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group announces the 2012 Saarinen Student Paper Competition. The deadline for the full paper for the Saarinen Student Paper Competition is January 31, 2012.

The EP&BGSG will award a $250 prize for the best student paper, illustrated paper, or poster (graduate or undergraduate) presented in either environmental perception or behavioral geography at the 2012 AAG meeting in Washington, D.C.

Entrants in the Saarinen Student Paper Competition must also submit a maximum 25-page (double-spaced) version of their work. Papers must be based upon original research done as an undergraduate or graduate student and must be written entirely by the applicant. The winner will be announced at the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group business meeting at the 2012 AAG meeting. Attendance at the EP&BGSG meeting is not required to receive the Saarinen Student Paper Competition award.

All submissions will be judged on written clarity, methodological soundness, contribution to the field of EP&BG, and their presentation at the meeting.

The Academic Directors of the EP&BGSG will judge all entries.

To apply for the Saarinen Student Paper Competition, fill out an application form available from the EP&BGSG website and send the completed application form and manuscript to:

Dr. Bethany Cutts, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, MC-047, 1102 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61810

In addition, Travel Awards are available for students presenting papers at the AAG Meeting in New York on the topics of environmental perception or behavioral geography.

Thank you,

Chris Badurek

Chair, Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group, AAG

Saarinen Paper Contest 2011

The Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group announces the 2011 Saarinen Student Paper Competition. The EP&BGSG will award a $250 prize for the best student paper, illustrated paper, or poster (graduate or undergraduate) presented in either environmental perception or behavioral geography at the 2011 AAG meeting in Washington, D.C..

Entrants in the Saarinen Student Paper Competition must also submit a maximum 25-page (double-spaced) version of their work. Papers must be based upon original research done as an undergraduate or graduate student and must be written entirely by the applicant. The winner will be announced at the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group business meeting at the 2011 AAG meeting. Attendance at the EP&BGSG meeting is not required to receive the Saarinen Student Paper Competition award.

All submissions will be judged on written clarity, methodological soundness, contribution to the field of EP&BG, and their presentation at the meeting. The Academic Directors of the EP&BGSG will judge all entries.

To apply for the Saarinen Student Paper Competition, fill out an application form available from the EP&BGSG website here and send the completed application form and manuscript to:

Kathleen Sherman-Morris
P.O. Box 5448
Department of Geosciences
Mississippi State, MS 39762

You can also send a pdf of the manuscript and entry form to kms5@geosci.msstate.edu

The deadline is 25 February, 2011.

Additionally, a maximum of two Travel Grants of $100 each are available to qualified applicants. Preference for the awarding of a Travel Grant will be: 1) any student who competes in the Saarinen Paper competition; 2) any student presenting a paper or poster in either environmental perception or behavioral geography at the annual meeting who is not competing in the Saarinen Paper competition. Travel grant awardees MUST be in attendance at the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group business meeting at the 2011 AAG meeting.

To apply for a Travel Grant, fill out an application form available from the EP&BGSG website here and send the completed application form to:

Kathleen Sherman-Morris
P.O. Box 5448
Department of Geosciences
Mississippi State, MS 39762

The deadline is 25 February, 2011.

AAG 2011 Call for Participation

Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 2011

Seattle, Washington

Call for Participation

Sessions: Cognition, Behavior, and Representation

Organizers: Sarah Battersby (University of South Carolina), Sara Irina Fabrikant (University of Zurich), Amy Griffin (University of New South Wales), Scott Bell (University of Saskatchewan), and Kirk Goldsberry (Michigan State University)

Specialty Group Sponsors: Cartography, GIS, and Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography

Content

We invite papers on cognitive aspects of geographic research to be included in a series of sessions at the 2011 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Specifically of interest are theoretical and empirical contributions exploring computation, geovisualization, navigation and wayfinding, cartography, education, and methods specific to cognitive research. This includes (but is not limited to):

~ geovisualization design, implementation and use (technical and/or cognitive issues)

~ application of geovisualization displays & tools to understanding spatial cognition

~ methods for and application of cognitive theories and methods to understanding issues in geographic research (including fMRI)

~ human-geovisualization interaction research

~ cognition of space-time representations
~ wayfinding and navigation

~ cognitive map design research

~ usability of digital geographic displays

Participants

In addition to geographers, GIScientists, cartographers, and cognitive or behavioral geographers we are also looking for speakers from a broad range of disciplines, including but not limited to psychology, cognitive science, education, HCI, etc.

To be included in this session, please:

1. Register and submit your abstract online following the AAG Guidelines (http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/).

2. Email your presenter identification number (PIN), paper title, and abstract to Sarah Battersby by October 13, 2010.

Job Opening: University of Arizona

The Department of History at the University of Arizona invites applications for an advanced Assistant or Associate faculty position in U.S. environmental history/history of environmental science, to begin August 2010.

This position is part of a new university-wide hiring initiative in environmental science and policy. The University of Arizona, one of the most fertile campuses in the country for the study of regional to global environmental change, is seeking to deepen its interdisciplinary strength in environmental research. For more information see the UA Institute for the Environment, http://www.environment.arizona.edu/home.

We seek an established scholar with an excellent record of peer-reviewed publications, grants, and teaching. Ph.D. in history, or a relevant discipline, is required before date of hire. Preferred qualifications include expertise in 19th-century U.S. History; experience in graduate training and mentoring; and experience in working on collaborative interdisciplinary grants.

The successful candidate will be expected to pursue an active research agenda leading to publications in peer-reviewed scholarly venues; collaborate on interdisciplinary grants and research related to environment topics, especially with UA faculty associated with the Institute of the Environment; effectively teach undergraduate and graduate history courses; advise and mentor graduate students; and actively contribute to department, college, and university service committees and participate in professional organizations and public engagement.

The department seeks individuals who are able to work with diverse students and colleagues and who have experience with a variety of teaching methods and curricular perspectives. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, the University of Arizona recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds M/W/D/V.

Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. To apply, please go to http://www.hr.arizona.edu (job number: 44430), complete the on-line faculty application, and attach a letter of application describing research and teaching interests and experience, curriculum vitae with the names of three professional references. To ensure consideration, candidates must apply to this on-line posting. The additional materials - CV and Letter of Application- may either be included with the on-line application, or may be mailed directly to the Search Chair at the address below. Review of applicants will begin 2/15/10 and will continue until the position is filled.

2010 Saarinen Student Paper Announcement

Saarinen Student Paper Competition

The Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group announces the 2010 Saarinen Student Paper Competition. The EP&BGSG will award a $200 prize for the best student paper, illustrated paper, or poster (graduate or undergraduate) presented in either environmental perception or behavioral geography at the 2010 AAG Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Entrants in the Saarinen Student Paper Competition must also submit a maximum 25-page (double-spaced) version of their work. Papers must be based upon original research done as an undergraduate or graduate student and must be written entirely by the applicant. The winner will be announced at the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group business meeting at the 2010 AAG meeting. Attendance at the EP&BGSG meeting is not required to receive the Saarinen Student Paper Competition award.

All submissions will be judged on written clarity, methodological soundness, contribution to the field of EP&BG, and their presentation at the meeting. The Academic Directors of the EP&BGSG will judge all entries. The deadline for receiving your Saarinen Competition application form and your paper submission is Friday, February 12, 2010.

To apply for the Saarinen Student Paper Competition, fill out an application form available here.

Send completed application form and manuscript to:

Dan Montello
Geography Department
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060

For questions contact Dan Montello via telephone (805 893-8536) or e-mail.

AAG Washington Call for Participation 2

*Session: EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES OF CONFINEMENT*

Movement and mobility have long been at the forefront of an 'ableist' geographical tradition. However, with the recent proliferation of geographies of difference, new attention is being directed toward human experiences of immobility and confinement, in which 'normal' rhythms of movement have been disrupted or disabled. The aim of this session will be to explore how emotion is constituted in the spaces and subjects of confinement across a broad range of contexts. This session seeks to accommodate papers exploring the emotional subjectivities of confinement as well as the spaces, flows, and networks of affect in situations of confinement. By conceptualizing confinement in its most abstract sense, as a condition of being constrained by boundaries and limits (/con fines/), this interdisciplinary session seeks to induce unifying threads of affect and emotion from diverse experiences of confinement. These experiences could include imprisonment, institutionalization, mental illness, physical disability, impairment, and similar forms of spatial isolation or social difference.

Questions that could be considered in this session include:

· How does confinement reflect upon the relationships of (dis)unity in such dialectics as inside/outside, mind/body, known/knowable, and thoughts/things?

· How are emotional experiences of confinement expressed and communicated? To what extent are they representable?

· What role do borders, boundaries, limits and frontiers play in the emotional worlds of confinement? How might those in confinement cope with, rearrange, or transcend these constraints?

· What is the significance of spaces and times 'beyond' confinement? How do memory, imagination, and affect mediate containment and allow for extension of the self into these 'beyonds'?

Please submit an abstract conforming to AAG guidelines *by **Wednesday,

**October 14, 2009*, to Mason McWatters: masonmcwatters@mail.utexas.edu

AAG Washington Call for Participation

Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers Washington D.C., April 14-18, 2010

Call for Participation

Sessions: Geovisualization / Geovisual Analytics, Cognition, Behavior, and Representation

Organizers: Sara Irina Fabrikant (University of Zurich), Amy Griffin (University of New South Wales-ADFA), Kirk Goldsberry (Michigan State University), Sarah Battersby (University of South Carolina), and Jin Chen (GeoVISTA Center, Penn State University)

Specialty Group Sponsors: Cartography, GIS, and Environmental Perception and Behavior

Content
We invite papers on computational, statistical and cognitive aspects of geovisualization, geovisual analytics and geographic research to be included in a series of sessions at the 2010 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.

Specifically of interest are theoretical and empirical contributions exploring computation, geovisualization, navigation and wayfinding, cartography, education, and methods specific to cognitive research.

This includes (but is not limited to):

1. Geovisualization and geovisual analytics design, implementation and use

2. Application of geovisualization and geovisual analytics displays and tools to understand spatial cognition, reasoning, and inference and decision making

3. Methods for and application of cognitive theories and methods to understanding issues in geographic research (including fMRI)

4. Human-geovisualization interaction research

5. Wayfinding and navigation

6. Cognitive map design research

Participants
In addition to geographers, GIScientists, cartographers, and cognitive or behavioral geographers we are also looking for speakers from a broad range of disciplines, including but not limited to psychology, cognitive science, education, HCI, etc.

To be included in this session, please:

1. Register and submit your abstract online following the AAG Guidelines (http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/).

2. Email your presenter identification number (PIN), paper title, and abstract to Kirk Goldsberry (kg@msu.edu) by October 21.

2009-2010 Officers

President:

Kathy Sherman-Morris Ph.D.
Mississippi State University
Email

Secretary/Treasurer:

Jon Malinowski, Ph.D.
United States Military Academy
Email

Academic Directors:

Dan Montello, Ph.D.
UC Santa Barbara
Email

Chris Badurek
Appalachian State University
Email

Student Director:

Rui Li
Pennsylvania State University

EPBG Facebook Group

At the recent Las Vegas business meeting, some members suggested creating an EPBG Facebook Group to help members share ideas, report publications, etc.. Well, here it is:

EPBG Facebook Group

Las Vegas EPBG Sessions

Click here for a pdf listing of all behavioral geography and environmental perception sessions at the upcoming AAG annual meeting in Las Vegas. We promise that anything that happens at an EPBG session stays at an EPBG session.

2009 EPBG Sessions

2009 Saarinen Student Paper Announcement

Saarinen Student Paper Competition

The Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group announces the 2009 Saarinen Student Paper Competition. The EP&BGSG will award a $200 prize for the best student paper, illustrated paper, or poster (graduate or undergraduate) presented in either environmental perception or behavioral geography at the 2009 AAG meeting in Las Vegas.

Entrants in the Saarinen Student Paper Competition must also submit a maximum 25-page (double-spaced) version of their work. Papers must be based upon original research done as an undergraduate or graduate student and must be written entirely by the applicant. Awardees must be in attendance at the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group business meeting at the 2009 AAG meeting.

All submissions will be judged on written clarity, methodological soundness, contribution to the field of EP&BG, and their presentation at the meeting. The Academic Directors of the EP&BGSG will judge all entries. The deadline for receiving your Saarinen Competition application form and your paper submission is Friday, February 13, 2009.

To apply for the Saarinen Student Paper Competition, fill out an application form available here:

2009 Entry Form

Send completed application form and manuscript to:

Dan Montello

Geography Department

University of California

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060

For questions contact Dan Montello via telephone (805 893-8536) or e-mail (montello@geog.ucsb.edu)

2010 Student Travel Grants

Environmental Perception & Behavioral Geography Specialty Group Travel Grants 2010

A maximum of five Travel Grants of $145 each are available to qualified applicants.

Preference for the awarding of a Travel Grant will be:

1) any student who competes in the Saarinen Paper competition;

2) any student presenting a paper or poster in either environmental perception or behavioral geography at the annual meeting who is not competing in the Saarinen Paper competition.

Awardees must be in attendance at the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group business meeting at the 2010 AAG meeting.

Application deadline: Friday, February 12, 2010.

To apply for a Travel Grant, fill out an application form available here:

2010 Travel Grant Application

Send completed application form (electronically is preferred) to:

Dan Montello (email montello@geog.ucsb.edu)

Geography Department

University of California-Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060

For questions contact Dan Montello via telephone (805 893-8536) or e-mail (montello@geog.ucsb.edu)

Call for Papers

Geographies of Sustainable Lifestyles

Session Organisers: Stewart Barr (University of Exeter) and Frances Fahy (University of Ulster). Sponsored by the Environmental Perception and Behavioural Geography Specialty Group of the AAG

The start of the 21st century has been characterised by urgent calls to examine the role of consumption in driving global environmental change and framing responses to these ecological dilemmas. Indeed, the ways in which consumption has been constituted and influenced by environmental, technological, economic, social and political processes have become critical issues for geographers. The convergence of these two research agendas has therefore provided geographers and other social science researchers with a range of opportunities to explore the emerging contexts for ‘sustainable lifestyles’ and the growing political importance of behaviour change. These have been undertaken at a range of scales (from individuals and households, to organisations and institutions) and have examined numerous environmentally-related practices that encompass consumptive, habitual and ‘post-consumption’ behaviours. Indeed, research in this field is characterised by a range of theoretical and applied approaches. Accordingly, this session aims to bring together geographers and other social scientists who are engaged in research on sustainable consumption, lifestyles and behaviour change. The session will provide an opportunity to explore the range of approaches towards sustainable consumption and will enable delegates to share theoretical and practical experiences from their research. We welcome contributions from researchers who are exploring this wide field, including those working on issues such as energy conservation, water resources, waste management, travel and transport, leisure and tourism and the broader field of ethical and green consumption. Contributions are welcome from those working at different scales (e.g. individual, household, organisational) and in a range of contexts (socio-economic, cultural, environmental).

Please forward expressions of interest and abstracts (250 words) for contributions to the session organisers: Stewart Barr (S.W.Barr@exeter.ac.uk) or Frances Fahy (f.fahy@ulster.ac.uk).

Survey Request

Nadine Schuurman is conducting a survey on the balance between work and life amongst academic geographers. This is an issue of interest to many of us as our lives are increasingly sped up - and our inboxes are permanently overfilling. Nadine is keen to discern what common threads link our experience of work and stress in our discipline. The survey is completely anonymous and has ethics approval. There are no personal identifiers and the results will be automatically collated. Nadine offers her thanks in advance for filling out the survey and requests that you do not hesitate to contact her with any questions.

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Call for Papers: AAG 08

Weather and Society*Integrated Studies (WAS *IS) Session

Co-sponsored by the Climate Specialty Group, and the Environmental Perception and Behavioral Geography Specialty Group

Organizers: Jennifer Cox (City University of New York Graduate Center) and Carlie Lawson (Natural Hazards Consulting)

WAS*IS engages in identifying and pursuing research opportunities in addition to improving or facilitating the ongoing relationships among practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders in meteorology and the social sciences. This panel session seeks theoretical, empirical, or practical applications that demonstrate the integration of weather research and societal impacts.

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Quantitative or qualitative methodologies for improving understanding, communication, and use of weather and climate information,
• Communicating uncertainty and forecasts,
• Intersections of warnings, response and emergency management,
• Research in mitigation, preparedness, and sustainability,
• Role of technology for modeling or mapping hazards and vulnerability.

We invite papers exploring new approaches to study weather, climate, and society.

Please submit your abstract (250 words or less) and PIN to one of the organizers, Jennifer Cox (jennrcox@gmail.com) or Carlie Lawson ( naturalhazard@gmail.com) by November 27, 2007.

WAS* IS Climatology and Hazards of Severe Weather Session

Co-sponsored by the Climate Specialty Group, and Hazards Specialty Group

Organizer: Walker Ashley (Meteorology Program, Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University)

Severe weather poses a significant threat to societies around the world. Improving the forecasts and warnings of these events is a result of advancements in analysis and forecasting techniques, technologies, dissemination methods, and the new scientific understanding that develops from basic and applied research such as descriptive or synoptic climatologies. This paper session will explore the climatology and hazards of tornadoes, hail, high winds, lightning, floods, and/or severe winter-weather phenomenon. Contributors are encouraged to provide descriptive or synoptic climatologies of severe weather phenomena, assess past hazards or illustrate the future risks and potential vulnerabilities of societies to severe weather events, and/or present novel techniques in overcoming issues related to severe weather reporting procedures.

Please submit your abstract (250 words or less) and PIN to the organizer, Walker Ashley (washley@niu.edu) by November 27, 2007.

If you have any questions about the sessions, please contact the organizers.

Abstract instructions are available from the AAG website at:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/papers.htm#abstracts