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Featured Session Tracks
Historical GIS
This special track of sessions focuses on the challenges and opportunities presented by the growth of GIS into historical research. More than just a technology, GIS is helping to transform the discipline of history by allowing historians to ask new questions from new perspectives, allowing historians and other scholars to mine vast amounts of data that previously remained impervious to traditional historical methods alone. This special track examines and demonstrates the ways the geographic technologies can have a profound effect on historical research when coupled with traditional methods of historical analysis.
Approaching Historical Geographies Through GIS
Sunday, March 22, 3:10 p.m. – 4:50 p. m.
Room: Capri 103, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor (Paper Session)
Description: No description provided.
Organizer(s): Program Committee
Chair(s): Elijah Robison*, Missouri State University
3:10 Wyatt James Smith*, University of Western Ontario; Kevin Moon, Western Illinois University; Diana Mok, B.Math., B.E.S., M.Pl., Ph.D., (Toronto) Supervisor; Jason Gilliland, Co-Supervisor, Homeownership and Social Mobility in London, Ontario 1881.
3:30 R. Zane Price*, The University of Kansas, Virtual Ghost Towning.
3:50 Mehmet Karakuyu*, Fatih University; Süleyman Incekara, Fatih University, Historical Data's, Geographical Methods; Historical Geography of Manisa.
4:10 Elijah L. Robison*, Missouri State University, Assessing the Utility of Jamaica's Plantation-Era Land Records
Spatial Strategies of Indigenous Resistance III - GIS, Mapping and Representation (Sponsored by Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group)
Monday, March 23, 1:00 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Room: Royale Pavilion 2, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor (Paper Session)
Description: In most settler societies, indigenous peoples have been subjected to a range of spatial strategies aimed at dismantling culture and/or assimilating them into the mainstream society. Whether it is being relocated to reservations or having the structures and infrastructures of modernity imposed on Native societies, these "spatial strategies of incorporation" target everyday life in a way intended (consciously or otherwise) to disrupt indigenous socio-spatial structures and practices and align them with the mainstream.
At the same time, indigenous peoples engage various spatial strategies of resistance to retain cultural identity, if not a degree of sovereignty. This session focuses on the role that maps and mapping play in the assertion of indigenous space and place.
Organizer(s): RDK Herman, National Museum of the American Indian
Chair(s): Daniel Gerard Cole, Smithsonian Institution
1:00 Gwilym Lucas Eades*, McGill University, Indigenous Geographic Information Systems: (Re)configuring Geospatial Technologies for Local Productions of Space.
1:20 Jason C. Young*, Miami University; Michael Gilmore, George Mason University; FECONAMAI, Maijuna Communities, Repopulating Colonial Maps with Indigenous Places: A Qualitative and Participatory Use for GIS.
1:40 Javier Diaz*, Université Laval; José Gregorio, Head of San Martin de Amacayacu Community; Stéphane Roche, Université Laval, A critical analysis of a Participatory mapping exercise in the Colombian Amazonian context.
2:00 Deborah Kirk* - Haskell Indian Nations University, Mapping My Ancestors Footsteps: Historical GIS and the Trail of Tears.
Disscussant(s): Bjorn Sletto, University of Texas at Austin
Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Biogeography (Sponsored by Biogeography Specialty Group and Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group)
Wednesday, March 25, 3:10 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.
Room: Capri 116, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor (Paper Session)
Description: We are organizing a paper session at the AAG meeting in Las Vegas concerning remote sensing and GIS applications in biogeography. We envision the session appealing to a broad audience with papers meeting the following general criteria:
(1) Main research questions and theoretical underpinnings are relevant to biogeography.
(2) Remote sensing and GIS techniques comprise the heart of the methods.
We are particularly interested in papers addressing vegetation dynamics, but others meeting the general criteria would also be welcome.
Organizer(s): Marcas Stueve; Dawna L. Cerney, Youngstown State University
Chair(s): Kirk Marcas Stueve, Youngstown State University
3:10 Introduction by Kirk Marcas Stueve, Youngstown State University
3:15 Savitha Ganapathy, PhD*, The University of the West Indies, Forest fire dynamics and fire-risk mapping in tropical forests of Jamaica using GIS and remote sensing.
3:34 Kirk M Stueve, PhD Candidate*, Texas A&M University; Rachel E Isaacs, MS, Texas A&M University; Roseann V Densmore, PhD, USGS Alaska Science Center; Lucy E Tyrrell, PhD, Denali National Park and Preserve; Martin Wilmking, PhD, University of Greifswald, Treeline shifts in Denali's Outer Range: Influences of climate change and local site conditions.
3:53 Thomas P Albright*, University of Wisconsin – Madison; Chadwick D Rittenhouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Anna M Pidgeon, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Curtis D Flather, United States Forest Service; Patrick D Culbert, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Murray K Clayton, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Brian D Wardlow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Volker C Radeloff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Diverse responses of avian communities to heat waves.
4:12 Narendran Kodandapani, Ph.D.*, Grays Harbor College, Comparative analysis of forest fires in human dominated landscapes.
4:31 Alberto Giordano, Ph.D, Texas State - San Marcos; Dawna L. Cerney, Ph.D.*, Youngstown State University, Evaluation of the Extent and Nature of Human Induced Landscape Transformation on Nantucket, MA from 1887 to Present Day.
Exploring Cultural and Physical Aspects of the Holy Land with Bible Data and a New Spatially Interactive Literature Analysis System (Sponsored by Bible Geography Specialty Group)
Thursday, March 26, 1:00 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Room: Capri 112, Riviera Hotel, 1st Floor (Paper Session)
Description: The Holy Land, located on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, impacted and was impacted by its location within a salubrious climatic region, rich in natural resources, and unified by well developed transportation systems. Water served not only to maintain life, human and natural plant vigor, and social stability, it also enabled the Holy Land to be linked, via the Mediterranean Sea, to other parts of the Mediterranean cultural realm. Water is the most frequently mentioned natural resource in the Bible. To gain insights into water and other issues a new software has been created to employ GIS as a tool to study narrative landscapes in ancient texts and secure data for modern analysis--SILAS.
Organizer(s): William A. Dando, Indiana State University
Chair(s): William A. Dando, Indiana State University
1:00 William A. Dando*, Indiana State University, Bitter, Sweet, and Living Water in Ancient Israel: Treasured, Conserved, and Squandered in Human Acts or by Omissions.
1:20 Dorothy W Drummond, Retired*, Indiana State University, Ezekiel's Tyre: On the Brink of Expansion.
1:40 Stephen Benzek*, University of Redlands, The Spatially Interactive Literature Analysis System (SILAS): An Interactive Tool to Study the Narrative Landscape of Ancient Texts.
2:00 Alyssa King*, University of Redlands, Phase 2 of the Spatially Interactive Literature Analysis System.
2:20 Lillian I Larsen, PhD*, University of Redlands, Implementing SILAS: Exploring the Future of Using GIS to Study the Past.
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