Featured Presentations

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Jasmine Arpagian (SDSU/UCSD PhD student) presentation for Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 20, 2020, “UNICEF’s Child Friendly Cities Project in La Mesa, CA,” (10:00).

Corrie Monteverde (SDSU/UCSD PhD student) presentation for Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 20, 2020, “A Personal Journey into Geography and Climate Science,” (15:04).

Sam Orndorff (SDSU/UCSD PhD student) presentation for Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 20, 2020, “Indigenous Resistance to a Hydroelectric Dam Project in Nayarit, Mexico,” (12:08)

Thomas Smith (SDSU MS student) presentation for Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 20, 2020, “Introduction to Physical Geography and Remote Sensing,” (10:17).

Candice Mays presentation for Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 18, 2020, “‘Mapping Black California’: Geo-journalism, the Black Press, and Racial Equity,” (27 mins.).

Krista West (SDSU/UCSD PhD student) presentation for Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 18, 2020, “Using Satellite Imagery and Remote Sensing Technologies to Learn About Wildfire,” (19:19).

Dr. Timothy Barney keynote lecture for 2015 Midway Summer Teacher Institute, July 1, 2015, “The Rhetorical Lives of Cold War Maps,” (50 mins.). Dr. Barney discusses how one specific  map was created and used as a diplomatic weapon by the United States as it positioned itself in relation to the Soviet Union.  This is a great resource for having students in history and geography courses think about maps as complex texts. Examine and interpret the map first, and then hear about how it came into being.

Dr. Joseph Kerski Colloquium at SDSU Department of Geography, September 12, 2014, “Sleepwalking into the Future: The Case for Spatial Analysis Throughout Education,” (in 3 parts). Dr. Kerski is an amazing geo-educator and an eloquent speaker on the value of using geographic information systems in geography instruction.