• November 17, 18. Senior Thesis presentations. Schedule.
• November 18, 6:00 to 8:00. Building Michigan's Online Interactive Near-Real-Time Digital Atlas, A Private and Public Venture Making Common Space More Commonplace. Panel and Presentations. Room 101 Loutit, Allendale campus. Schedule.
• November 19. GIS Day. Many talks and demonstrations have been scheduled. Click here for the flyer. Contact Dr. Ma for more information. 
• November 19, 915 to 1:00. GIS Day Middle school activities. Alumni House, Allendale campus. Flyer.
• November 19, 1:15 to 4:15. GIS Day Conference. Presentations and discussion. Alumni House, Allendale campus. Schedule.

Thursday, October 2, 5:30-8:00. Geography and Planning Openhouse. Click => 

 Fall 2007

Tuesday, November 6. Dr. Gregory Veeck. A Quarter Century of Change on the Great Grass Sea: Herders, Prices, and Pasture Quality in Inner Mongolia, China. Keynote speaker for National Geography Week (Geography Awareness Week). 4:00 to 5:00 pm. 114 Lake Michigan Hall (LMH). See flyer. Dr. Veeck is Professor of Geography, Western Michigan University.

Tuesday, September 25. Ben Dangl, Resource Wars in Bolivia. 1:00 to 2:15. Cook-Dewitt Auditorium, Allendale campus. See complete flyer.

Tuesday, September 25. Matthew McPherson, The Effects of Tourism and Fisheries on the Environment in Central America. 2:30 to 3:45. Coolk-DeWitt Auditorium, Allendale campus. See flyer.

Spring/Summer 2007

Friday, July 13.  El cultivo de aguaje (Mauritia flexuosa) en la zona de amortiguamiento de la Reserva Comunal Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo: Estrategias, logros, y desafios en la conservación y producción de una especie de palmera para el manejo de un area protegida. Dr. James Penn. Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative (ACLI)program, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana (UNAP), Iquitos, Peru.

Thursday, June 7. 10:00 am. The aguaje palm (Mauritia flexuosa): A conservation and agroforestry project in northeastern Peru. Dr. James Penn. Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, Chicago Botanical Gardens, Lake Forest, Illinois.

Winter 2007

24 March. Planning Charette. 104 Kirkhof Center. Jan Johnson, Jeroen Wagendorp, area planners, and students focus on real planning problem. Photo 1, photo 2.

Fall 2006

November 13-17. Geography Action Week. Theme: Africa in 3-D: Demographics, Diversity, Discovery. Student presentation schedule.

Wednesday, November 15. GIS Day.

Senior Thesis Research Presentation schedule for Geography Action Week. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. 1134 ASH.

Oct 26. 2:30-3:45. European Union Universities and Sustainability Practices. Dr. Elena Lioubimsteva. GVSU Sustainability Week, Oct 23-28, Alumni House, GVSU.

Saturday, October 14. Demographic changes and urbanization in the Peruvian Amazon: Examining rural development in the face of resource flow to cities and towns. Dr. James Penn. Ninth Conference on the Americas (COA), Eberhard Center, Grand Rapids.

Saturday, Sept 30. 4:00-5:45.. Climate change,environmental vulnerability and adaptations: Assessment of policy driven scenarios for Central Eurasia. Dr. Elena Lioubimtseva. Seventh Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society Conference, Ann Arbor.

Friday, September 22. 2:30-4:00.. Conceptualizing Africa Regions, Representation, Realities, and Rationales: A Critical Review of Forty-two Geography of Africa Texts, 1953 to 2004 . Presentation by Dr. Roy Cole, CLAS Colloquium, 115/116 Kirkhof Center.