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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

Climate Justice Demands an Integrated Geography

By Marilyn Raphael

In geography, there is an is an emerging body of work called Critical Physical Geography, which may be used as a lens and guiding framework for bringing climate justice into climate science. Critical physical geography advocates paying more reflexive attention to how knowledge is produced – how we conceptualize our research and the methods that we use. It argues that social inequalities and power relations are implicitly woven through what we study and should not be ignored if a thorough understanding of our science is our goal.

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ANNUAL MEETING

Toward More Just Geographies: AAG 2023 Theme

within our discipline and in the world, AAG invites abstracts, panels, posters, and discussions that examine the spatial dimensions, scope, and scale of racial and social justice, as well as obstacles to its realization.

AAG welcomes presentations and sessions that will confront injustice in its many forms, offer ways to embrace and support diversity, and contribute to a welcoming environment for all. In recognition that these concepts extend beyond the human realm and across the breadth of geographical study, we welcome presentations that examine ecologies and habitats through the lens of inclusiveness, equity, diversity, and justice.

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Upcoming Deadlines for #AAG2023

Several important dates are forthcoming for registering and submitting abstracts to the 2023 AAG Annual Meeting. Attendees wishing to submit an abstract for a paper presentation must do so before the deadline on November 10, 2022. Abstracts can be edited until February 9, 2023. As a reminder, the AAG accepts all submitted abstracts and organized sessions for presentation. Note: all abstracts for all presentation types are due on the same date – November 10.

Register and submit your abstract today

Support the AAG Student Travel Fund

How can you help the next generation of geographers? One way is to support the AAG Student Travel Fund. Your gift at any level will be a tremendous boost to a student who is keen to make a difference through this profession that we love and is eager to present their research, network with geographers from around the world, and connect with potential employers.

Make your gift now to help students offset their travel expenses to attend the AAG 2023 Annual Meeting. We hope to support at least 25 students with $500 grants, plus the cost of in-person registration. The more money that is raised, the more students we can support.

Thank you to all of those who have already made a gift and we invite many more of you to invest in the future of the discipline. Consider making a recurring donation that will have an even greater impact. Today’s the day to make a difference in the career trajectory of a young geographer.

Donate now

Are you a student seeking funds for attending #AAG2023 in Denver? Apply for AAG’s student travel grants by October 17, for a chance to receive $500 for travel and free in-person registration.

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Be a Career Mentor at #AAG2023

AAG currently seeks volunteers encompassing a wide range of professional backgrounds, interests, and experiences to participate as Career Mentors during the 2023 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. Career mentoring provides an open forum for students and job seekers to receive one-on-one and small-group consultation about careers in a variety of industries and employment sectors. To volunteer, please contact us at careers@aag.org with a brief note indicating your interest by December 1, 2022.

ASSOCIATION NEWS

New Paper and Educator’s Guide on Ethics of Locational Data

AAG has released a new white paper, “Locational Information and the Public Interest,” culminating an effort of more than a year by its Organizing Committee, and bringing together the insights of scholars and professionals in a breadth of disciplines throughout the humanities, social and computer sciences. Developed alongside our partners at the Center for Spatial Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara and Esri, as well as participants in a June 2022 summit, this white paper, and a companion Quick Start guide for educators, are a response to growing concern within the research community about the ethical implications in the application of geospatial technologies.

Download the white paper and guide

Broadening Participation in Geography

Faculty at geography programs in the U.S. regularly reach out to the AAG to ask which strategies they can use to attract more students, and especially how to reach students who have been underrepresented in their program(s). AAG worked on projects and efforts over the years to help us answer these questions… What these efforts have not been able to do yet is measure our overall progress toward including more perspectives and identities in our geography community and the effectiveness of certain strategies.

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Planning an Event for Geography Awareness Week? Get on the Map!

Share your Geography Awareness Week events on AAG’s GeoWeek map. The 35th annual Geography Awareness Week is November 14-19, 2022. Fill out our form to share your plans. Use hashtags #GeoWeek and #GeoWeek2022 so we can follow your posts.

Help AAG tell the world about geography. Sign up now to become a GeoAdvocate (individuals) or a GeoWeek partner (institutions and organizations). We’ll send you materials beginning in October to share with your networks on social media, your students, and your colleagues.

Learn more about GeoWeek

Upcoming AAG Grants and Awards Deadlines – October 15 and November 1

Please consider submitting applications or nominations to four AAG grants and awards with approaching deadlines, two for students and one for career geographers. The AAG Marble-Boyle Undergraduate Achievement Awards aim to recognize excellence in academic performance by undergraduate students from the U.S. and Canada who are putting forth a strong effort to bridge geographic science and computer science. The AAG Harold M. Rose Award for Anti-Racism in Research and Practice honors geographers who have served to advance the discipline through their research, and who have also had an impact on anti-racist practice.

Lastly, the AAG Community College Travel Grants support outstanding students from community colleges, junior colleges, city colleges, or similar two-year educational institutions to attend the next AAG Annual Meeting. Community College Travel Grant applications are due November 1, 2022 while nominations and applications for the two awards are due October 15, 2022.

See all grants and awards deadlines

PUBLICATIONS

NEW Annals Alert: Articles with topics ranging from health care data privacy to COVID-19 among migrant workers to the digital village

The most recent issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers has been published online (Volume 112, Issue 7) with 17 new articles on contemporary geographic research and two article commentaries. Topics in this issue include antifascism; social topic tracking; LGBTQ business support; irrigation infrastructure; urban violence; the historic Hogenberg Road Atlas; machine learning; dementia care; and the commons. Locational areas of interest include the Mississippi Gulf Coast; the South American Chaco; South Africa; Oman; and Australia. Authors are from a variety of research institutions including University of California, Los Angeles; University of Minnesota; and University of California, Berkeley.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Decolonial Geopolitics by Adam Moore and Nour Joudah for free.

Questions about the Annals? Contact annals@aag.org.

NEW The Professional Geographer Issue Alert: Articles with topics ranging from flexible qualitative methodologies to housing discrimination

The most recent issue of The Professional Geographer has been published online (Volume 74, Issue 4) with 15 new research articles on current geographic research. Topics in this issue include geography at Community Colleges; the geography academic job market; metropolitan area classifications; commuting time-gender gap; domestic mergers and acquisitions; geographic profiling; and 17th-18th century piracy. Locational areas of interest include California; the Sonoran Desert; Las Vegas, NV; and northern Burkina Faso. Authors are from a variety of research institutions including Maynooth University; Hunter College; University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read Changes to California Alfalfa Production and Perceptions during the 2011–2017 Drought by Alida Cantor, Bethani Turley, Charles Cody Ross & Mathern Glass Burnett for free.

Questions about The Professional Geographer? Contact profgeog@aag.org.

New issue of African Geographical Review

The latest issue of the journal of the Africa Specialty Group of the AAG, the African Geographical Review, has recently been published. Volume 41, Issue 3 is available online for subscribers and members of the Africa Specialty Group. This issue contains 8 new research articles on topics such as health emergency response vehicles; COVID-19; soil fertility assessments; electricity access; and more.

Note about AAG Journals

Beginning in 2023, both the Annals of the American Association of Geographers and The Professional Geographer will be increasing the number of issues published annually. The Annals will publish ten issues per year, beginning with Volume 113. The Professional Geographer will publish six issues per year, beginning with Volume 75. As part of this increase, the Annals will add a fifth ‘General Geography’ editor. AAG will issue a call for this editorship later this year, with the term for this editorship to be January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2027.

Check out the latest from the other AAG journals

Member News

October Member Updates

Hurricane Risk in a Changing Climate, a new book edited by Jennifer Collins and James Done, and inspired by the AAG-sponsored Symposium on Hurricane Risk in a Changing Climate, was recently published. The book contains 14 chapters, eight of which are available in open access format, and details the outcomes of new research focusing on climate risk related to hurricanes in a changing climate.

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RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Join American Geographical Society in New York City in November

The annual AGS Fall Symposium, Geography 2050, is back in person in New York City at the Columbia University campus after two years of hosting their symposia online. The event will be held November 17 and 18, 2022 and the AAG is one of the event’s sponsors. For the 9th installment of Geography 2050, the theme will be The Future of Food. The Symposium will explore how geography and the use of geospatial technology will affect and transform global food systems.

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National Council on Public History Award Deadlines

The National Council on Public History offers several upcoming opportunities for acknowledgement of work in public history. Nominations and self-nominations will be accepted for the NCPH Book Award through November 1, 2022. All other awards (the Outstanding Public History Project Award, Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis, Grassroots Public History Award, New Professional Award, Excellence in Consulting, and Student Awards) are due December 1.

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AAAS Science, Technology and Human Rights Conference

Registration for the 2022 AAAS Science, Technology and Human Rights Conference is now open. The conference will be held online October 17-19.

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GISCI Exam Period Opens in December

The next testing window for the GISCI Geospatial Core Technical Knowledge Exam® is December 3-10, 2022. Part of the GISP Certification, the exam will once again be administered by PSI Online through its worldwide testing facilities in a computer-based testing (CBT) format.

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In Memoriam

The AAG is saddened to hear of the passing of 50 year AAG member James R. Carter this past month.

EVENTS CALENDAR

• October 6-8, 2022 – Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG), Bellingham, WA
• October 14-15, 2022 – Great Plains/Rocky Mountain (GPRM), Denver, CO
• October 20-21, 2022 – Mid-Atlantic Division (MAD), Crownsville, MD and West Lakes (WLDAAG), Edwardsville, IL
• October 20-22, 2022 – Applied Geography Conference, virtual
• October 27-28, 2022 – East Lakes (ELDAAG), Muskegon, MI and Southwest (SWAAG), Fayetteville, AR
• October 28-29, 2022 – Middle States (MSAAG), virtual
• November 4-6, 2022 – New England – St. Lawrence Valley (NESTVAL), Salem, MA
• November 20-22, 2021 – Southeast Division (SEDAAG), Atlanta, GA

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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

Finally, a commitment to mitigate climate change and its effects

By Marilyn Raphael

On Wednesday August 10th, AAG alerted its US members to urge our representatives to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill that promised the most major investment in climate action that the United States has ever made. On August 16th 2022, President Biden signed that bill into law. It is being hailed as “the most ambitious climate bill in United States history.” This law has been a long time coming, is different in many ways from the original Build Back Better Bill, and has a number of controversial elements that can and should be debated. As its name suggests, it is more broadly focused than climate change but, of relevance to our society is that it provides $369 billion in funding to mitigate climate change and its effects.

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ANNUAL MEETING

Registration open for the 2023 AAG Annual Meeting

Join us for a meeting the will be a mile high and thousands of miles wide. The hybrid AAG 2023 will take place virtually and in person in Denver March 23-27. Two ways to experience the meeting will be available to attendees, in-person or virtual. The call for papers and registration is also open!

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ASSOCIATION NEWS

2023 Committee and Council Vacancies

Openings are available to serve on either the AAG Honors Committee or the AAG Nominating Committee. Nominations and self-nominations of members who wish to serve on these committees should email Candida Mannozzi.

The AAG Nominating Committee for the 2023 AAG Election seeks nominations for Vice President (one to be elected) for National Councilor (two vacancies), and for International Councilor (one vacancy) for the 2023 election. Those elected will take office on July 1, 2023. Nominations are due no later than September 15, 2022. The AAG encourages nominations of a broad range of colleagues who reflect different disciplinary specialties, regional locations, gender, race, ethnicity, diverse ability, stage in career, and institutional diversity (e.g., candidates at non-PhD-granting or 2-year degree-granting institutions, and/or candidates who serve in Historically Black, Hispanic Serving, and tribal colleges).

Nominators should, to the best of their ability, ascertain that nominees are AAG members with unrestricted rights to be eligible for these elected positions (i.e., persons who are known to be in compliance with the AAG’s Professional Conduct Policy).

Please submit the names and addresses of each nominee and your reasons for supporting the nomination to the AAG Nominating Committee, no later than September 15, 2022. As part of your nomination statement, please confirm that the person is willing to be considered for the position for which you are recommending them. Nominations by email are strongly preferred.

Nominations for Vice President should be directed to Sarah Blue, Nominating Committee Chair. Nominations for National Councilor should be directed to Danielle M. Purifoy, Nominating Committee Member. Nominations for International Councilor should be directed to Sara Smith, Nominating Committee Member.

AAG Honors and Awards: Recognize your Colleagues

There are only a few days left to nominate a colleague—or yourself—for an AAG Honor, as an AAG Fellow, or for several other awards. Most deadlines are September 15, so please respond soon.

AAG Honors are the highest awards offered by the American Association of Geographers, and AAG Fellows recognize geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography. Please note that both of these programs are now operating under recently revised guidelines. Individual AAG members, specialty groups, affinity groups, departments, and other interested parties are encouraged to nominate outstanding colleagues by September 15.

Deadlines for several other AAG Grants and Awards are also approaching:

Sept. 15

• AAG Diversity and Inclusion Award
• AAG Susan Hardwick Excellence in Mentoring Award

Sept. 22

• AAG Nystrom Award for Recent Dissertations

Sept. 30

• AAG Program Excellence Award – Associates-granting programs

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Get Ready for 35th Annual Geography Awareness Week

This year, AAG’s theme for Geography Awareness Week will be World of Possibilities: Geographers at Work. Celebrating the vast career possibilities for geographers, Geography Awareness Week (#GeoWeek2022) will showcase the work of geographers in strikingly diverse areas, from agriculture and food security to tracking illegal mining; from foregrounding the geographies of health to the work of correlating cancer and air quality and applying GIS to patterns of substance abuse; from assuring the integrity of population counts to safeguarding wildlife ecologies; from advising on climate resilience to protecting fair voting maps.

Make your plans now and let AAG’s resources and information help you celebrate GeoWeek in your workplace and at your school. Sign up now to become a GeoAdvocate (individuals) or a GeoWeek partner (institutions and organizations).

Learn more about GeoWeek

Policy Update

• Last week, the Consortium of Social Science Associations released its analysis of proposed Senate funding for federal science agencies, with increases that sometimes exceed even those proposed by the House. An agreement is expected by the end of the year.
• The White House’s new policy guidance on public access to federally funded research builds on 2013 guidance, but, notably, lifts the 12-month optional embargo on free access.

PUBLICATIONS

NEW Annals Alert: Articles with topics ranging from West German housing projects to urban agglomeration, from climate gentrification to sparsely populated areas

The most recent issue of the Annals of the AAG has been published online (Volume 112, Issue 6) with 17 new articles on contemporary geographic research. Topics in this issue include humanistic GIS; Goldman Sachs; super typhoons; geography program learning outcomes; social vulnerability models; robustness and transportation networks; gender and cross-border labor; air pollution and COVID-19 mortality; and aggregate mine decision-making. Locational areas of interest include Uganda; Anglo-Ethiopian borderlands; Miami; and Cambodia. Authors are from a variety of research institutions including University of Oxford; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Université Paris.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read Tracks of Death: Elephant Casualties along the Habaipur–Diphu Railway in Assam, India by Rekib Ahmed, Anup Saikia, and Scott M. Robeson for free.

Questions about the Annals? Contact annals@aag.org.

New Books in Geography — Fall Available

The Fall 2022 Edition of the New Books in Geography list is available online. The AAG compiles a quarterly list of newly published geography books and books of interest to geographers. The list includes a diversity of books that represents the breadth of the discipline (including key sub-disciplines), but also recognizes the work which takes place at the margins of geography and overlap with other disciplines. While academic texts make up most of the books, we also include popular books, novels, books of poetry, and books published in languages other than English, for example.

Some of these books are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Publishers are welcome to contact the AAG Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Debbie Hopkins, as well as anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles.

Check out the latest from the other AAG journals

Member News

September Member Updates

Dr. Chansheng He, professor of geography, environment and tourism and a Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Western Michigan University is the recipient of the Fulbright University of Leeds Distinguished Scholar Award, one of only 38 Distinguished Scholar Awards granted globally out of more than 440 Fulbright Scholar awards for 2022-2023 academic year. He will spend six months at the Water Center at Leeds University to advance the watershed science framework he and his colleagues have proposed; brainstorm approaches to support participatory policy and decision making; and compare and analyze the water resources policies between the U.K. and the U.S.

Bo Zhao, associate professor of geography at University of Washington, was interviewed on King5 News in Seattle about his study, published in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, showing a brief lift and then a decline in patronage of Black-owned businesses in the U.S. during the pandemic.

Borderless magazine interviewed Reece Jones, chair of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Department of Geography and Environment, about the findings from his new book, Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States.

RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Visiting Geographical Scientist Program Accepting Applications for 2022-2023

The Visiting Geographical Scientist Program (VGSP), which sponsors visits by prominent geographers to small departments or institutions with limited resources, is accepting applications for the 2022-2023 academic year. The purpose of this program is to stimulate interest in geography among students, faculty members, and administrative officers. A list of pre-approved speakers is available on the website, however participating institutions select and make arrangements with the visiting geographer. VGSP is funded by Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU), the international honors society for geographers. Questions and complete applications may be directed to Mark Revell.

Apply for this school year

AAAS Science, Technology and Human Rights Conference

Registration for the 2022 AAAS Science, Technology and Human Rights Conference is now open. The conference will be held online October 17-19.

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GISCI Exam Period Opens in December

The next testing window for the GISCI Geospatial Core Technical Knowledge Exam® is December 3-10, 2022. Part of the GISP Certification, the exam will once again be administered by PSI Online through its worldwide testing facilities in a computer-based testing (CBT) format.

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Featured Article

Enhancing Qualitative Social Science with GIS

Many people understand the power of GIS for quantitative research, but fewer know of its practical applications for qualitative social science work. In a broad effort led by Esri’s Chief Scientist, Dawn Wright, Ph.D., a number of researchers at Esri are looking at the many ways qualitative social science can benefit from GIS. While ArcGIS can help with an array of quantitative approaches, it also brings many capabilities to enhance qualitative methodologies to address longstanding issues of social and environmental concern. This article explores where and how common GIS approaches and common qualitative approaches intersect and provides resources for learning more.

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In Memoriam

The AAG is saddened to hear of the passing of Yi-Fu Tuan and Akin Mabogunje this past month.

EVENTS CALENDAR

• October 6-8, 2022 – Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG), Bellingham, WA
• October 14-15, 2022 – Great Plains/Rocky Mountain (GPRM), Denver, CO
• October 20-21, 2022 – Mid-Atlantic Division (MAD), Crownsville, MD and West Lakes (WLDAAG), Edwardsville, IL
• October 20-22, 2022 – Applied Geography Conference, virtual
• October 27-28, 2022 – East Lakes (ELDAAG), Muskegon, MI and Southwest (SWAAG), Fayetteville, AR
• October 28-29, 2022 – Middle States (MSAAG), virtual
• November 4-6, 2022 – New England – St. Lawrence Valley (NESTVAL), Salem, MA
• November 20-22, 2021 – Southeast Division (SEDAAG), Atlanta, GA

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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

Confronting the Extremes of Climate Change

By Marilyn Raphael

It is extremely hot. Again. Everywhere. To date, the 2022 northern summer has been defined by extremely high temperatures and extreme dryness… As scientists, geographers have been among those sounding the alarm that we are facing a disaster of potentially infinite proportions, one that will affect all of us, yet even we seem unable/helpless to act. How will we —all of us—, including those of us who have tried to act — rationalize the general, present inaction in 10 to 20 years from now when we are living with consequences?

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Make Your Voice Heard for Climate Action

This week, the Senate narrowly passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S.’s most important climate and consumer legislation yet. All told, the climate Investments in the bill are projected to reduce pollution by 40% from 2005 levels, by 2030.

Now it’s up to the House to pass its own version—and the bill is expected to move swiftly. If you live in the United States, please make your voice heard on climate action this week. Visit our advocacy page and use the template we have developed to write to your legislators in support of the Inflation Reduction Act.

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ANNUAL MEETING

Registration open for the 2023 AAG Annual Meeting

Join us for a meeting the will be a mile high and thousands of miles wide. The hybrid AAG 2023 will take place virtually and in person in Denver March 23-27. Two ways to experience the meeting will be available to attendees, in-person or virtual. The call for papers and registration is also open!

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Support our Students and Make a Gift to the Student Travel Fund

Registration has opened for the 2023 Annual Meeting, and that means that many students who want to attend are hesitating, wondering if they can afford to attend a premier research conference, With rising inflation, air fare, gas, hotel accommodations, and food, too many students might pass up their opportunity. You can help. Make your gift to the AAG Student Travel Fund today.

If you have already made a gift, we are grateful! Your generosity has created a fund of just over $12,000, which can support 24 students with a $500 travel grant. But we know that demand will be much greater.

One of the most vital ways to invest in the future of the discipline.is to help geography students be active participants in the AAG’s annual meeting. Many students present for the very first time at AAG, and they also make lasting contacts and connect with networks of other researchers in their area. This year, students have the first chance in three years to build their networks in person, find potential employers, and present their research to an in-person audience.

Your gift at any level will be a tremendous boost to Students who are just starting their careers.

Thank you again to all who have already made a gift. We invite many more of you to make a contribution. You might even consider making a monthly donation for greater impact. Today’s the best day to invest in tomorrow’s geographers. Donate here.

ASSOCIATION NEWS

Save the Dates for AAG Regional Division Fall Meetings

This fall will be a great time to reconnect with colleagues near you at one of AAG’s nine regional divisions’ annual meetings. Meeting dates and locations are:

• October 6-8, 2022 – Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG), Bellingham, WA
• October 14-15, 2022 – Great Plains/Rocky Mountain (GPRM), Denver, CO
• October 20-21, 2022 – Mid-Atlantic Division (MAD), Crownsville, MD and West Lakes (WLDAAG), Edwardsville, IL
• October 27-28, 2022 – East Lakes (ELDAAG), Muskegon, MI and Southwest (SWAAG), Fayetteville, AR
• October 28-29, 2022 – Middle States (MSAAG), virtual
• November 4-6, New England – St. Lawrence Valley (NESTVAL), Salem, MA
• November 20-22, 2021 – Southeast Division (SEDAAG), Atlanta, GA

AAG Honors, Awards and Service: Recognize, Affirm, Serve—and Shine

Take this opportunity to nominate a colleague—or yourself—for an AAG Award, Honor, committee position, or Council, Most deadlines are September 15, so please respond soon.

AAG Honors are the highest awards offered by the American Association of Geographers, and AAG Fellows recognize geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography. Please note that both of these programs are now operating under recently revised guidelines. Individual AAG members, specialty groups, affinity groups, departments, and other interested parties are encouraged to nominate outstanding colleagues by September 15.

Deadlines for several other AAG Grants and Awards are also approaching:

Sept. 15

• AAG Diversity and Inclusion Award
• AAG Susan Hardwick Excellence in Mentoring Award

Sept. 22

• AAG Nystrom Award for Recent Dissertations

Sept. 30

• AAG Program Excellence Award – Associates-granting programs

Learn more

2023 Committee and Council Vacancies

Openings are available to serve on either the AAG Honors Committee or the AAG Nominating Committee. Nominations and self-nominations of members who wish to serve on these committees should email Candida Mannozzi.

The AAG Nominating Committee for the 2023 AAG Election seeks nominations for Vice President (one to be elected) for National Councilor (two vacancies), and for International Councilor (one vacancy) for the 2023 election. Those elected will take office on July 1, 2023. Nominations are due no later than September 15, 2022. The AAG encourages nominations of a broad range of colleagues who reflect different disciplinary specialties, regional locations, gender, race, ethnicity, diverse ability, stage in career, and institutional diversity (e.g., candidates at non-PhD-granting or 2-year degree-granting institutions, and/or candidates who serve in Historically Black, Hispanic Serving, and tribal colleges).

Nominations for Vice President should be directed to Sarah Blue, Nominating Committee Chair. Nominations for National Councilor should be directed to Danielle M. Purifoy, Nominating Committee Member. Nominations for International Councilor should be directed to Sara Smith, Nominating Committee Member.

PUBLICATIONS

NEW Summer Issue of the AAG Review of Books Published

The latest issue of the AAG Review of Books is now available (Volume 10, Issue 3) with eleven book reviews and one book review essay on recent books related to geography, feminism, tourism, and more. The issue also holds one book review forum for the 2021 J.B. Jackson Prize recipient: Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs by David Havlick, Steven M. Radil, Yolonda Youngs, Joni M. Palmer, Kevin McHugh, and John Harner.

Check out the latest from the other AAG journals

Member News

August Member Updates

Rajiv Thakur from Missouri State University is one of 175 other scientists and engineers who have received American Association for Advancement of Science – Science and Technology Policy Fellowship for 2022-23. Thakur will be on sabbatical working with USAID – United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security as ‘International Research Advisor (Production Systems)’.

Past AAG President Derek Alderman was selected to serve on the Department of Interior’s Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names along with 16 others, including other geographers. Rectifying outdated and offensive place names is a small but important step in addressing the troubled legacy of public lands. Read more.

RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES

SciComm Identities Project Fellowship – New Deadline

The SciComm Identities Project Fellowship is a one-year professional development opportunity for pre-tenure faculty at U.S. institutions who identify as underrepresented racial or ethnic minorities. SCIP Fellows will gain science communication expertise and practice and build their professional networks in ways that may support new collaborations and research insights. New deadline to apply is September 12, 2022.

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2022 American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowships

The American Institute of Indian Studies announces its 2022 fellowship competition, and invites applications from scholars who wish to conduct their research in India. Junior fellowships are awarded to Ph.D. candidates to conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months. Senior fellowships are awarded to scholars who hold a Ph.D. degree for up to nine months of research in India. The application deadline is November 15, 2022. Applications can be downloaded from the website. Inquiries should be directed to 773-702-8638 or aiis@uchicago.edu.

In Memoriam

The AAG is saddened to hear of the passing of Edward Fernald this past month.

EVENTS CALENDAR

• August 11, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:15 PM ET – Let CAR (Community, Accountability, and Relevance) Drive your Instruction webinar
• August 19, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Planning the Arc of a Research Career webinar

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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

Silver Linings in a Mesoscale Convective Complex: Toward a Brighter Post-Pandemic World

By Marilyn Raphael

I begin this year of my presidency feeling thankful. Thankful that I survived the pandemic (so far!) and thankful for the opportunity to serve my discipline at this level. So, before I write another word, I want to say thank you for giving me this opportunity. I did not imagine, indeed, could never have imagined becoming president of this Association when as a child my interest in geography began to develop… This year as President I want to focus on bringing AAG to a sustainable post-pandemic state.

Continue Reading

ANNUAL MEETING

Save the Date for AAG 2023 in Denver

Save the date for the Mile-High meeting! AAG 2023 will take place March 23-27. Look for the call for papers and registration to open August 4. More information will come in a dedicated email soon.

PUBLICATIONS

NEW Annals Alert: Articles with topics ranging from field geomorphology to heat waves, from Postcolonialism to creative placemaking

The most recent issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers has been published online (Volume 112, Issue 5) with 17 new articles on contemporary geographic research. Topics in this issue include gamification; weather insurance; tax credits; geographically weighted regression; crater detection; algorithmic financial trading; food retail; the gravity model; and aging in place. Locational areas of interest include Alabama; Wuhan; the Colombia/Chile border; and Singapore. Authors are from a variety of research institutions including University of Windsor; University of Minnesota; University of Edinburgh; and University of Groningen.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read An Unthinkable Politics for Multispecies Flourishing within and beyond Colonial-Capitalist Ruins by Kathryn Gillespie for free.

Questions about the Annals? Contact annals@aag.org.

NEW The Professional Geographer Issue Alert: Articles with topics ranging from first-wave COVID mortality risk to urban homelessness to food retail

The latest issue of The Professional Geographer is now available (Volume 74, Issue 3) with 11 new research articles plus a five article focus on Working the Archives: Methodological Challenges of Doing Historical Research in Geography. Article topics include the advancing geography through diversity program; international student employment; immigration enforcement records; transit accessibility; drones; deep mapping; and antiprison activism. Study areas include the global south; Portland, Oregon; and Bronx, New York. Authors are from a variety of global institutions including: Dartmouth College; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; University of Toronto–Mississauga; and Université de Montréal.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Geography in the United States by Abigail H. Neely and Patricia J. Lopez for free.

Questions about The Professional Geographer? Contact profgeog@aag.org.

NEW GeoHumanities Issue Alert: Articles with topics ranging from civil rights activism to teaching place through poetry to geographies of trust

The most recent issue of GeoHumanities has been published online (Volume 8, Issue 1) with 20 new research articles and creative pieces on subjects within geography. Topics in this issue include the infrastructural turn; water infrastructure; the battle of Hastings; community arts centers; working-class mobility; geosophy; circular economy; urban reuse; sense of place; environmental literature; modern ruination; physical distancing; hitchhiking; and visualizing injustice. Articles also explore mediums such as literary cartography; stories; poetry; contemporary dance; and commercial newspapers.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of GeoHumanities through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. In every issue, the editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read Lived Experiences at the Intersection of Sediment(ation) Pollution, Gender, Ethnicity and Ecosystem Restoration from the Kaipara Moana, Aotearoa New Zealand by Leane Makey et al. for free.

Questions about GeoHumanities? Contact geohumanities@aag.org.

In addition to the most recently published journal, read the latest issue of the other AAG journals online:

• Annals of the American Association of Geographers
• The Professional Geographer
• GeoHumanities
• The AAG Review of Books
• African Geographical Review

New Books in Geography — Summer Available

The AAG compiles a quarterly list of newly published geography books and books of interest to geographers. The list includes a diversity of books that represents the breadth of the discipline (including key sub-disciplines), but also recognizes the work which takes place at the margins of geography and overlap with other disciplines. While academic texts make up most of the books, we also include popular books, novels, books of poetry, and books published in languages other than English, for example.

Some of these books are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Publishers are welcome to contact the AAG Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Debbie Hopkins, as well as anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles.

Browse the full list of new books

ASSOCIATION NEWS

Welcome to 2022-2023 Council and Volunteers

AAG is proud to formally announce this year’s elected Council and voluntary committee members for 2022-2023. You may find the information about our Council and Executive Committee at our Governance page. The list of our new committee members is here.

Make a Difference, Support the AAG Student Travel Fund

It may be the “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer,” but for many geography students, they’re thinking about their future, and how they might be able to cobble together the funds they will need to attend a major conference. You can help. Support the AAG Student Travel Fund. Your contribution will go directly to helping undergraduate, graduate, and post-doc students attend the AAG 2023 Annual Meeting in Denver.

Your gift at any level will be a tremendous boost to those who are completing their education and entering the job market. Building their network, making connections with potential employers, and having the opportunity, perhaps for the first time, to present their research in person, could not be more important.

Rising costs for air travel, gas, and hotels can be insurmountable obstacles for many students. But we can help. Don’t let the summer slip away. Please give today to support the next generation of geographers.

Summer Series for Grad Students and Recent Graduates

Registration is still open for our Graduate Forums and Seminars, which will continue throughout the summer.

Our Graduate Forums are led by the AAG Graduate Student Affinity Group and will offer graduate students with sessions that enable them to network and feel a sense of community.

Our Seminars target Master’s or Doctoral students in Geography programs and recently graduated geographers, and cover a wide range of practical topics.

Call for Nominations for AAG Honors and AAG Fellows

Please consider nominating outstanding colleagues for the AAG Honors, the highest awards offered by the American Association of Geographers, and the AAG Fellows, a program to recognize geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography. Please note that both of these programs are now operating under recently revised guidelines. Individual AAG members, specialty groups, affinity groups, departments, and other interested parties are encouraged to nominate outstanding colleagues by September 15.

More information about AAG Awards

Nominate Inspiring Geographers: September Awards Deadlines

AAG Grants and Awards make a huge impact on our community of Geographers and help maintain the legacy of geographers of the past while paying tribute to geographers thriving right now. Deadlines are already approaching starting in September. Don’t miss your opportunity to apply or nominate someone deserving! Learn more about the following grants and awards before their due dates:

• Sept. 15: AAG Diversity and Inclusion Award and AAG Susan Hardwick Excellence in Mentoring Award
• Sept. 22: AAG Nystrom Award for Recent Dissertations
• Sept. 30: AAG Program Excellence Award – Associates Program Excellence

Nominations Sought for Candidates to 2023 AAG Council

The AAG Nominating Committee for the 2023 AAG Election seeks nominations for Vice President (one to be elected) for National Councilor (two vacancies), and for International Councilor (one vacancy) for the 2023 election. Those elected will take office on July 1, 2023. Nominations are due no later than September 15, 2022. The AAG encourages nominations of a broad range of colleagues who reflect different disciplinary specialties, regional locations, gender, race, ethnicity, diverse ability, stage in career, and institutional diversity (e.g., candidates at non-PhD-granting or 2-year degree-granting institutions, and/or candidates who serve in Historically Black, Hispanic Serving, and tribal colleges).

Nominations for Vice President should be directed to Sarah Blue, Nominating Committee Chair. Nominations for National Councilor should be directed to Danielle M. Purifoy, Nominating Committee Member. Nominations for International Councilor should be directed to Sara Smith, Nominating Committee Member.

Get Ready for the 35th Annual Geography Awareness Week

This year, AAG’s theme for Geography Awareness Week will be World of Possibilities: Geographers at Work. Celebrating the vast career possibilities for geographers, Geography Awareness Week (#GeoWeek2022) will showcase the work of geographers in strikingly diverse areas, from agriculture and food security to tracking illegal mining; from foregrounding the geographies of health to the work of correlating cancer and air quality and applying GIS to patterns of substance abuse; from assuring the integrity of population counts to safeguarding wildlife ecologies; from advising on climate resilience to protecting fair voting maps.

Make your plans now and let AAG’s resources and information help you celebrate GeoWeek in your workplace and at your school. Sign up now to become a GeoAdvocate (individuals) or a GeoWeek partner (institutions and organizations).

AAG Welcomes 2022 Summer Interns

The AAG is excited to welcome two new interns coming aboard our staff for the Summer of 2022! Joining us this summer are Meghan Dilworth, a senior at Arizona State University (ASU) pursuing a B.A. in Geography and Urban Planning, and Samantha Hinton who currently attends Trinity College Dublin and is pursuing a B.A. major in Geography.

Meet the summer interns

Member News

July Member Updates

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, recipient of AAG’s 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, has been featured in major popular outlets Jezebel and Teen Vogue for her pioneering work in abolition geography.

AAG member Frank Magilligan, professor of geography and Frank J. Reagan ’09 Chair of Policy Studies at Dartmouth College, has co-authored a major study quantifying the impact of dam building and land use change on the world’s rivers.

RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES

New issues of Philosophical Transactions on resilient systems

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B: Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems compiled and edited by Daniela N Schmidt and Tayanah O’Donnell. The issue is published as a result of the third Commonwealth Science Conference, in February 2021, co-organized by the Royal Society and the African Academy of Sciences. An associated theme issue on ‘Developing resilient energy systems’ was published in Philosophical Transactions Aas well as a blog post accessible here.

Carceral geographers, criminologists and others – Call for Participants

The 5th International Conference for Carceral Geography will be hosted by the University of Melbourne – in-person and online – 14-15 December 2022. The conference theme is Confinement: spaces and practices of care and control. Individual or group presentations of scholarly, artistic or creative work that engages with one or more of the conference themes are invited (see the Call for Papers). Abstract submissions will close on July 29, 2022.

For more information, email the local organizing committee: carceral-geography22@unimelb.edu.au. Local conference organizing committee led by Dr Claire Loughnan, Dr Diana Johns & Dr Anton Symkovych.

Level up your science communication skills, access greater career opportunities, and connect with interdisciplinary scholars

The SciComm Identities Project Fellowship is a one-year professional development opportunity for pre-tenure faculty at U.S. institutions who identify as underrepresented racial or ethnic minorities. The Fellowship has a different thematic focus in each of its three one-year cohorts (Energy in 2023, Water in 2024, and Agriculture and Food Systems in 2025). Each of these foci relates, broadly, to climate change. SCIP Fellows will gain science communication expertise and practice and build their professional networks in ways that may support new collaborations and research insights. The deadline to apply is August 1, 2022.

Learn more

In Memoriam

The AAG is saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Harold Brookfield and Dr. Johannes Feddema this past month.

EVENTS CALENDAR

• July 19, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Building a Template for Graduate Funding Opportunities webinar
• July 21, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Writing Accountability Groups: Strategies for Graduate Students online
• July 29, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Strategies for Applying to Ph.D. Programs webinar
• August 4, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Visualizing Uncertainty on Maps
• August 9, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Geography Graduate Students Networking Workshop online
• August 11, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:15 PM ET – Let CAR (Community, Accountability, and Relevance) Drive your Instruction webinar
• August 19, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Planning the Arc of a Research Career webinar

Submit News to the AAG Newsletter. To share your news, email us!

Would you like to receive this newsletter in your email inbox? Sign up for a free AAG account now and select AAG Newsletter under your communication preferences.

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

Silver Linings in a Mesoscale Convective Complex: Toward a Brighter Post-Pandemic World

By Marilyn Raphael

I begin this year of my presidency feeling thankful. Thankful that I survived the pandemic (so far!) and thankful for the opportunity to serve my discipline at this level. So, before I write another word, I want to say thank you for giving me this opportunity. I did not imagine, indeed, could never have imagined becoming president of this Association when as a child my interest in geography began to develop… This year as President I want to focus on bringing AAG to a sustainable post-pandemic state.

Continue Reading

ANNUAL MEETING

Save the Date for AAG 2023 in Denver

Save the date for the Mile-High meeting! AAG 2023 will take place March 23-27. Look for the call for papers and registration to open August 4. More information will come in a dedicated email soon.

PUBLICATIONS

NEW Annals Alert: Articles with topics ranging from field geomorphology to heat waves, from Postcolonialism to creative placemaking

The most recent issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers has been published online (Volume 112, Issue 5) with 17 new articles on contemporary geographic research. Topics in this issue include gamification; weather insurance; tax credits; geographically weighted regression; crater detection; algorithmic financial trading; food retail; the gravity model; and aging in place. Locational areas of interest include Alabama; Wuhan; the Colombia/Chile border; and Singapore. Authors are from a variety of research institutions including University of Windsor; University of Minnesota; University of Edinburgh; and University of Groningen.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read An Unthinkable Politics for Multispecies Flourishing within and beyond Colonial-Capitalist Ruins by Kathryn Gillespie for free.

Questions about the Annals? Contact annals@aag.org.

NEW The Professional Geographer Issue Alert: Articles with topics ranging from first-wave COVID mortality risk to urban homelessness to food retail

The latest issue of The Professional Geographer is now available (Volume 74, Issue 3) with 11 new research articles plus a five article focus on Working the Archives: Methodological Challenges of Doing Historical Research in Geography. Article topics include the advancing geography through diversity program; international student employment; immigration enforcement records; transit accessibility; drones; deep mapping; and antiprison activism. Study areas include the global south; Portland, Oregon; and Bronx, New York. Authors are from a variety of global institutions including: Dartmouth College; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; University of Toronto–Mississauga; and Université de Montréal.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Geography in the United States by Abigail H. Neely and Patricia J. Lopez for free.

Questions about The Professional Geographer? Contact profgeog@aag.org.

NEW GeoHumanities Issue Alert: Articles with topics ranging from civil rights activism to teaching place through poetry to geographies of trust

The most recent issue of GeoHumanities has been published online (Volume 8, Issue 1) with 20 new research articles and creative pieces on subjects within geography. Topics in this issue include the infrastructural turn; water infrastructure; the battle of Hastings; community arts centers; working-class mobility; geosophy; circular economy; urban reuse; sense of place; environmental literature; modern ruination; physical distancing; hitchhiking; and visualizing injustice. Articles also explore mediums such as literary cartography; stories; poetry; contemporary dance; and commercial newspapers.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of GeoHumanities through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. In every issue, the editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read Lived Experiences at the Intersection of Sediment(ation) Pollution, Gender, Ethnicity and Ecosystem Restoration from the Kaipara Moana, Aotearoa New Zealand by Leane Makey et al. for free.

Questions about GeoHumanities? Contact geohumanities@aag.org.

In addition to the most recently published journal, read the latest issue of the other AAG journals online:

• Annals of the American Association of Geographers
• The Professional Geographer
• GeoHumanities
• The AAG Review of Books
• African Geographical Review

New Books in Geography — Summer Available

The AAG compiles a quarterly list of newly published geography books and books of interest to geographers. The list includes a diversity of books that represents the breadth of the discipline (including key sub-disciplines), but also recognizes the work which takes place at the margins of geography and overlap with other disciplines. While academic texts make up most of the books, we also include popular books, novels, books of poetry, and books published in languages other than English, for example.

Some of these books are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Publishers are welcome to contact the AAG Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Debbie Hopkins, as well as anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles.

Browse the full list of new books

ASSOCIATION NEWS

Welcome to 2022-2023 Council and Volunteers

AAG is proud to formally announce this year’s elected Council and voluntary committee members for 2022-2023. You may find the information about our Council and Executive Committee at our Governance page. The list of our new committee members is here.

Make a Difference, Support the AAG Student Travel Fund

It may be the “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer,” but for many geography students, they’re thinking about their future, and how they might be able to cobble together the funds they will need to attend a major conference. You can help. Support the AAG Student Travel Fund. Your contribution will go directly to helping undergraduate, graduate, and post-doc students attend the AAG 2023 Annual Meeting in Denver.

Your gift at any level will be a tremendous boost to those who are completing their education and entering the job market. Building their network, making connections with potential employers, and having the opportunity, perhaps for the first time, to present their research in person, could not be more important.

Rising costs for air travel, gas, and hotels can be insurmountable obstacles for many students. But we can help. Don’t let the summer slip away. Please give today to support the next generation of geographers.

Summer Series for Grad Students and Recent Graduates

Registration is still open for our Graduate Forums and Seminars, which will continue throughout the summer.

Our Graduate Forums are led by the AAG Graduate Student Affinity Group and will offer graduate students with sessions that enable them to network and feel a sense of community.

Our Seminars target Master’s or Doctoral students in Geography programs and recently graduated geographers, and cover a wide range of practical topics.

Call for Nominations for AAG Honors and AAG Fellows

Please consider nominating outstanding colleagues for the AAG Honors, the highest awards offered by the American Association of Geographers, and the AAG Fellows, a program to recognize geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography. Please note that both of these programs are now operating under recently revised guidelines. Individual AAG members, specialty groups, affinity groups, departments, and other interested parties are encouraged to nominate outstanding colleagues by September 15.

More information about AAG Awards

Nominate Inspiring Geographers: September Awards Deadlines

AAG Grants and Awards make a huge impact on our community of Geographers and help maintain the legacy of geographers of the past while paying tribute to geographers thriving right now. Deadlines are already approaching starting in September. Don’t miss your opportunity to apply or nominate someone deserving! Learn more about the following grants and awards before their due dates:

• Sept. 15: AAG Diversity and Inclusion Award and AAG Susan Hardwick Excellence in Mentoring Award
• Sept. 22: AAG Nystrom Award for Recent Dissertations
• Sept. 30: AAG Program Excellence Award – Associates Program Excellence

Nominations Sought for Candidates to 2023 AAG Council

The AAG Nominating Committee for the 2023 AAG Election seeks nominations for Vice President (one to be elected) for National Councilor (two vacancies), and for International Councilor (one vacancy) for the 2023 election. Those elected will take office on July 1, 2023. Nominations are due no later than September 15, 2022. The AAG encourages nominations of a broad range of colleagues who reflect different disciplinary specialties, regional locations, gender, race, ethnicity, diverse ability, stage in career, and institutional diversity (e.g., candidates at non-PhD-granting or 2-year degree-granting institutions, and/or candidates who serve in Historically Black, Hispanic Serving, and tribal colleges).

Nominations for Vice President should be directed to Sarah Blue, Nominating Committee Chair. Nominations for National Councilor should be directed to Danielle M. Purifoy, Nominating Committee Member. Nominations for International Councilor should be directed to Sara Smith, Nominating Committee Member.

Get Ready for the 35th Annual Geography Awareness Week

This year, AAG’s theme for Geography Awareness Week will be World of Possibilities: Geographers at Work. Celebrating the vast career possibilities for geographers, Geography Awareness Week (#GeoWeek2022) will showcase the work of geographers in strikingly diverse areas, from agriculture and food security to tracking illegal mining; from foregrounding the geographies of health to the work of correlating cancer and air quality and applying GIS to patterns of substance abuse; from assuring the integrity of population counts to safeguarding wildlife ecologies; from advising on climate resilience to protecting fair voting maps.

Make your plans now and let AAG’s resources and information help you celebrate GeoWeek in your workplace and at your school. Sign up now to become a GeoAdvocate (individuals) or a GeoWeek partner (institutions and organizations).

AAG Welcomes 2022 Summer Interns

The AAG is excited to welcome two new interns coming aboard our staff for the Summer of 2022! Joining us this summer are Meghan Dilworth, a senior at Arizona State University (ASU) pursuing a B.A. in Geography and Urban Planning, and Samantha Hinton who currently attends Trinity College Dublin and is pursuing a B.A. major in Geography.

Meet the summer interns

Member News

July Member Updates

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, recipient of AAG’s 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, has been featured in major popular outlets Jezebel and Teen Vogue for her pioneering work in abolition geography.

AAG member Frank Magilligan, professor of geography and Frank J. Reagan ’09 Chair of Policy Studies at Dartmouth College, has co-authored a major study quantifying the impact of dam building and land use change on the world’s rivers.

RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES

New issues of Philosophical Transactions on resilient systems

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B: Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems compiled and edited by Daniela N Schmidt and Tayanah O’Donnell. The issue is published as a result of the third Commonwealth Science Conference, in February 2021, co-organized by the Royal Society and the African Academy of Sciences. An associated theme issue on ‘Developing resilient energy systems’ was published in Philosophical Transactions Aas well as a blog post accessible here.

Carceral geographers, criminologists and others – Call for Participants

The 5th International Conference for Carceral Geography will be hosted by the University of Melbourne – in-person and online – 14-15 December 2022. The conference theme is Confinement: spaces and practices of care and control. Individual or group presentations of scholarly, artistic or creative work that engages with one or more of the conference themes are invited (see the Call for Papers). Abstract submissions will close on July 29, 2022.

For more information, email the local organizing committee: carceral-geography22@unimelb.edu.au. Local conference organizing committee led by Dr Claire Loughnan, Dr Diana Johns & Dr Anton Symkovych.

Level up your science communication skills, access greater career opportunities, and connect with interdisciplinary scholars

The SciComm Identities Project Fellowship is a one-year professional development opportunity for pre-tenure faculty at U.S. institutions who identify as underrepresented racial or ethnic minorities. The Fellowship has a different thematic focus in each of its three one-year cohorts (Energy in 2023, Water in 2024, and Agriculture and Food Systems in 2025). Each of these foci relates, broadly, to climate change. SCIP Fellows will gain science communication expertise and practice and build their professional networks in ways that may support new collaborations and research insights. The deadline to apply is August 1, 2022.

Learn more

In Memoriam

The AAG is saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Harold Brookfield and Dr. Johannes Feddema this past month.

EVENTS CALENDAR

• July 19, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Building a Template for Graduate Funding Opportunities webinar
• July 21, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Writing Accountability Groups: Strategies for Graduate Students online
• July 29, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Strategies for Applying to Ph.D. Programs webinar
• August 4, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Visualizing Uncertainty on Maps
• August 9, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Geography Graduate Students Networking Workshop online
• August 11, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:15 PM ET – Let CAR (Community, Accountability, and Relevance) Drive your Instruction webinar
• August 19, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Planning the Arc of a Research Career webinar

Submit News to the AAG Newsletter. To share your news, email us!

Would you like to receive this newsletter in your email inbox? Sign up for a free AAG account now and select AAG Newsletter under your communication preferences.

PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

Silver Linings in a Mesoscale Convective Complex: Toward a Brighter Post-Pandemic World

By Marilyn Raphael

I begin this year of my presidency feeling thankful. Thankful that I survived the pandemic (so far!) and thankful for the opportunity to serve my discipline at this level. So, before I write another word, I want to say thank you for giving me this opportunity. I did not imagine, indeed, could never have imagined becoming president of this Association when as a child my interest in geography began to develop… This year as President I want to focus on bringing AAG to a sustainable post-pandemic state.

Continue Reading

ANNUAL MEETING

Save the Date for AAG 2023 in Denver

Save the date for the Mile-High meeting! AAG 2023 will take place March 23-27. Look for the call for papers and registration to open August 4. More information will come in a dedicated email soon.

PUBLICATIONS

NEW Annals Alert: Articles with topics ranging from field geomorphology to heat waves, from Postcolonialism to creative placemaking

The most recent issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers has been published online (Volume 112, Issue 5) with 17 new articles on contemporary geographic research. Topics in this issue include gamification; weather insurance; tax credits; geographically weighted regression; crater detection; algorithmic financial trading; food retail; the gravity model; and aging in place. Locational areas of interest include Alabama; Wuhan; the Colombia/Chile border; and Singapore. Authors are from a variety of research institutions including University of Windsor; University of Minnesota; University of Edinburgh; and University of Groningen.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read An Unthinkable Politics for Multispecies Flourishing within and beyond Colonial-Capitalist Ruins by Kathryn Gillespie for free.

Questions about the Annals? Contact annals@aag.org.

NEW The Professional Geographer Issue Alert: Articles with topics ranging from first-wave COVID mortality risk to urban homelessness to food retail

The latest issue of The Professional Geographer is now available (Volume 74, Issue 3) with 11 new research articles plus a five article focus on Working the Archives: Methodological Challenges of Doing Historical Research in Geography. Article topics include the advancing geography through diversity program; international student employment; immigration enforcement records; transit accessibility; drones; deep mapping; and antiprison activism. Study areas include the global south; Portland, Oregon; and Bronx, New York. Authors are from a variety of global institutions including: Dartmouth College; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; University of Toronto–Mississauga; and Université de Montréal.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Geography in the United States by Abigail H. Neely and Patricia J. Lopez for free.

Questions about The Professional Geographer? Contact profgeog@aag.org.

NEW GeoHumanities Issue Alert: Articles with topics ranging from civil rights activism to teaching place through poetry to geographies of trust

The most recent issue of GeoHumanities has been published online (Volume 8, Issue 1) with 20 new research articles and creative pieces on subjects within geography. Topics in this issue include the infrastructural turn; water infrastructure; the battle of Hastings; community arts centers; working-class mobility; geosophy; circular economy; urban reuse; sense of place; environmental literature; modern ruination; physical distancing; hitchhiking; and visualizing injustice. Articles also explore mediums such as literary cartography; stories; poetry; contemporary dance; and commercial newspapers.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of GeoHumanities through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. In every issue, the editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read Lived Experiences at the Intersection of Sediment(ation) Pollution, Gender, Ethnicity and Ecosystem Restoration from the Kaipara Moana, Aotearoa New Zealand by Leane Makey et al. for free.

Questions about GeoHumanities? Contact geohumanities@aag.org.

In addition to the most recently published journal, read the latest issue of the other AAG journals online:

• Annals of the American Association of Geographers
• The Professional Geographer
• GeoHumanities
• The AAG Review of Books
• African Geographical Review

New Books in Geography — Summer Available

The AAG compiles a quarterly list of newly published geography books and books of interest to geographers. The list includes a diversity of books that represents the breadth of the discipline (including key sub-disciplines), but also recognizes the work which takes place at the margins of geography and overlap with other disciplines. While academic texts make up most of the books, we also include popular books, novels, books of poetry, and books published in languages other than English, for example.

Some of these books are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Publishers are welcome to contact the AAG Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Debbie Hopkins, as well as anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles.

Browse the full list of new books

ASSOCIATION NEWS

Welcome to 2022-2023 Council and Volunteers

AAG is proud to formally announce this year’s elected Council and voluntary committee members for 2022-2023. You may find the information about our Council and Executive Committee at our Governance page. The list of our new committee members is here.

Make a Difference, Support the AAG Student Travel Fund

It may be the “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer,” but for many geography students, they’re thinking about their future, and how they might be able to cobble together the funds they will need to attend a major conference. You can help. Support the AAG Student Travel Fund. Your contribution will go directly to helping undergraduate, graduate, and post-doc students attend the AAG 2023 Annual Meeting in Denver.

Your gift at any level will be a tremendous boost to those who are completing their education and entering the job market. Building their network, making connections with potential employers, and having the opportunity, perhaps for the first time, to present their research in person, could not be more important.

Rising costs for air travel, gas, and hotels can be insurmountable obstacles for many students. But we can help. Don’t let the summer slip away. Please give today to support the next generation of geographers.

Summer Series for Grad Students and Recent Graduates

Registration is still open for our Graduate Forums and Seminars, which will continue throughout the summer.

Our Graduate Forums are led by the AAG Graduate Student Affinity Group and will offer graduate students with sessions that enable them to network and feel a sense of community.

Our Seminars target Master’s or Doctoral students in Geography programs and recently graduated geographers, and cover a wide range of practical topics.

Call for Nominations for AAG Honors and AAG Fellows

Please consider nominating outstanding colleagues for the AAG Honors, the highest awards offered by the American Association of Geographers, and the AAG Fellows, a program to recognize geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography. Please note that both of these programs are now operating under recently revised guidelines. Individual AAG members, specialty groups, affinity groups, departments, and other interested parties are encouraged to nominate outstanding colleagues by September 15.

More information about AAG Awards

Nominate Inspiring Geographers: September Awards Deadlines

AAG Grants and Awards make a huge impact on our community of Geographers and help maintain the legacy of geographers of the past while paying tribute to geographers thriving right now. Deadlines are already approaching starting in September. Don’t miss your opportunity to apply or nominate someone deserving! Learn more about the following grants and awards before their due dates:

• Sept. 15: AAG Diversity and Inclusion Award and AAG Susan Hardwick Excellence in Mentoring Award
• Sept. 22: AAG Nystrom Award for Recent Dissertations
• Sept. 30: AAG Program Excellence Award – Associates Program Excellence

Nominations Sought for Candidates to 2023 AAG Council

The AAG Nominating Committee for the 2023 AAG Election seeks nominations for Vice President (one to be elected) for National Councilor (two vacancies), and for International Councilor (one vacancy) for the 2023 election. Those elected will take office on July 1, 2023. Nominations are due no later than September 15, 2022. The AAG encourages nominations of a broad range of colleagues who reflect different disciplinary specialties, regional locations, gender, race, ethnicity, diverse ability, stage in career, and institutional diversity (e.g., candidates at non-PhD-granting or 2-year degree-granting institutions, and/or candidates who serve in Historically Black, Hispanic Serving, and tribal colleges).

Nominations for Vice President should be directed to Sarah Blue, Nominating Committee Chair. Nominations for National Councilor should be directed to Danielle M. Purifoy, Nominating Committee Member. Nominations for International Councilor should be directed to Sara Smith, Nominating Committee Member.

Get Ready for the 35th Annual Geography Awareness Week

This year, AAG’s theme for Geography Awareness Week will be World of Possibilities: Geographers at Work. Celebrating the vast career possibilities for geographers, Geography Awareness Week (#GeoWeek2022) will showcase the work of geographers in strikingly diverse areas, from agriculture and food security to tracking illegal mining; from foregrounding the geographies of health to the work of correlating cancer and air quality and applying GIS to patterns of substance abuse; from assuring the integrity of population counts to safeguarding wildlife ecologies; from advising on climate resilience to protecting fair voting maps.

Make your plans now and let AAG’s resources and information help you celebrate GeoWeek in your workplace and at your school. Sign up now to become a GeoAdvocate (individuals) or a GeoWeek partner (institutions and organizations).

AAG Welcomes 2022 Summer Interns

The AAG is excited to welcome two new interns coming aboard our staff for the Summer of 2022! Joining us this summer are Meghan Dilworth, a senior at Arizona State University (ASU) pursuing a B.A. in Geography and Urban Planning, and Samantha Hinton who currently attends Trinity College Dublin and is pursuing a B.A. major in Geography.

Meet the summer interns

Member News

July Member Updates

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, recipient of AAG’s 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, has been featured in major popular outlets Jezebel and Teen Vogue for her pioneering work in abolition geography.

AAG member Frank Magilligan, professor of geography and Frank J. Reagan ’09 Chair of Policy Studies at Dartmouth College, has co-authored a major study quantifying the impact of dam building and land use change on the world’s rivers.

RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES

New issues of Philosophical Transactions on resilient systems

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B: Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems compiled and edited by Daniela N Schmidt and Tayanah O’Donnell. The issue is published as a result of the third Commonwealth Science Conference, in February 2021, co-organized by the Royal Society and the African Academy of Sciences. An associated theme issue on ‘Developing resilient energy systems’ was published in Philosophical Transactions Aas well as a blog post accessible here.

Carceral geographers, criminologists and others – Call for Participants

The 5th International Conference for Carceral Geography will be hosted by the University of Melbourne – in-person and online – 14-15 December 2022. The conference theme is Confinement: spaces and practices of care and control. Individual or group presentations of scholarly, artistic or creative work that engages with one or more of the conference themes are invited (see the Call for Papers). Abstract submissions will close on July 29, 2022.

For more information, email the local organizing committee: carceral-geography22@unimelb.edu.au. Local conference organizing committee led by Dr Claire Loughnan, Dr Diana Johns & Dr Anton Symkovych.

Level up your science communication skills, access greater career opportunities, and connect with interdisciplinary scholars

The SciComm Identities Project Fellowship is a one-year professional development opportunity for pre-tenure faculty at U.S. institutions who identify as underrepresented racial or ethnic minorities. The Fellowship has a different thematic focus in each of its three one-year cohorts (Energy in 2023, Water in 2024, and Agriculture and Food Systems in 2025). Each of these foci relates, broadly, to climate change. SCIP Fellows will gain science communication expertise and practice and build their professional networks in ways that may support new collaborations and research insights. The deadline to apply is August 1, 2022.

Learn more

In Memoriam

The AAG is saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Harold Brookfield and Dr. Johannes Feddema this past month.

EVENTS CALENDAR

• July 19, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Building a Template for Graduate Funding Opportunities webinar
• July 21, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Writing Accountability Groups: Strategies for Graduate Students online
• July 29, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Strategies for Applying to Ph.D. Programs webinar
• August 4, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Visualizing Uncertainty on Maps
• August 9, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Geography Graduate Students Networking Workshop online
• August 11, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:15 PM ET – Let CAR (Community, Accountability, and Relevance) Drive your Instruction webinar
• August 19, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Planning the Arc of a Research Career webinar

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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

Silver Linings in a Mesoscale Convective Complex: Toward a Brighter Post-Pandemic World

By Marilyn Raphael

I begin this year of my presidency feeling thankful. Thankful that I survived the pandemic (so far!) and thankful for the opportunity to serve my discipline at this level. So, before I write another word, I want to say thank you for giving me this opportunity. I did not imagine, indeed, could never have imagined becoming president of this Association when as a child my interest in geography began to develop… This year as President I want to focus on bringing AAG to a sustainable post-pandemic state.

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ANNUAL MEETING

Save the Date for AAG 2023 in Denver

Save the date for the Mile-High meeting! AAG 2023 will take place March 23-27. Look for the call for papers and registration to open August 4. More information will come in a dedicated email soon.

PUBLICATIONS

NEW Annals Alert: Articles with topics ranging from field geomorphology to heat waves, from Postcolonialism to creative placemaking

The most recent issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers has been published online (Volume 112, Issue 5) with 17 new articles on contemporary geographic research. Topics in this issue include gamification; weather insurance; tax credits; geographically weighted regression; crater detection; algorithmic financial trading; food retail; the gravity model; and aging in place. Locational areas of interest include Alabama; Wuhan; the Colombia/Chile border; and Singapore. Authors are from a variety of research institutions including University of Windsor; University of Minnesota; University of Edinburgh; and University of Groningen.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read An Unthinkable Politics for Multispecies Flourishing within and beyond Colonial-Capitalist Ruins by Kathryn Gillespie for free.

Questions about the Annals? Contact annals@aag.org.

NEW The Professional Geographer Issue Alert: Articles with topics ranging from first-wave COVID mortality risk to urban homelessness to food retail

The latest issue of The Professional Geographer is now available (Volume 74, Issue 3) with 11 new research articles plus a five article focus on Working the Archives: Methodological Challenges of Doing Historical Research in Geography. Article topics include the advancing geography through diversity program; international student employment; immigration enforcement records; transit accessibility; drones; deep mapping; and antiprison activism. Study areas include the global south; Portland, Oregon; and Bronx, New York. Authors are from a variety of global institutions including: Dartmouth College; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; University of Toronto–Mississauga; and Université de Montréal.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of the Annals through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. Each issue, the Editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read The Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Geography in the United States by Abigail H. Neely and Patricia J. Lopez for free.

Questions about The Professional Geographer? Contact profgeog@aag.org.

NEW GeoHumanities Issue Alert: Articles with topics ranging from civil rights activism to teaching place through poetry to geographies of trust

The most recent issue of GeoHumanities has been published online (Volume 8, Issue 1) with 20 new research articles and creative pieces on subjects within geography. Topics in this issue include the infrastructural turn; water infrastructure; the battle of Hastings; community arts centers; working-class mobility; geosophy; circular economy; urban reuse; sense of place; environmental literature; modern ruination; physical distancing; hitchhiking; and visualizing injustice. Articles also explore mediums such as literary cartography; stories; poetry; contemporary dance; and commercial newspapers.

All AAG members have full online access to all issues of GeoHumanities through the Journals section of the AAG Member Dashboard. In every issue, the editors choose one article to make freely available. In this issue you can read Lived Experiences at the Intersection of Sediment(ation) Pollution, Gender, Ethnicity and Ecosystem Restoration from the Kaipara Moana, Aotearoa New Zealand by Leane Makey et al. for free.

Questions about GeoHumanities? Contact geohumanities@aag.org.

In addition to the most recently published journal, read the latest issue of the other AAG journals online:

• Annals of the American Association of Geographers
• The Professional Geographer
• GeoHumanities
• The AAG Review of Books
• African Geographical Review

New Books in Geography — Summer Available

The AAG compiles a quarterly list of newly published geography books and books of interest to geographers. The list includes a diversity of books that represents the breadth of the discipline (including key sub-disciplines), but also recognizes the work which takes place at the margins of geography and overlap with other disciplines. While academic texts make up most of the books, we also include popular books, novels, books of poetry, and books published in languages other than English, for example.

Some of these books are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Publishers are welcome to contact the AAG Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Debbie Hopkins, as well as anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles.

Browse the full list of new books

ASSOCIATION NEWS

Welcome to 2022-2023 Council and Volunteers

AAG is proud to formally announce this year’s elected Council and voluntary committee members for 2022-2023. You may find the information about our Council and Executive Committee at our Governance page. The list of our new committee members is here.

Make a Difference, Support the AAG Student Travel Fund

It may be the “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer,” but for many geography students, they’re thinking about their future, and how they might be able to cobble together the funds they will need to attend a major conference. You can help. Support the AAG Student Travel Fund. Your contribution will go directly to helping undergraduate, graduate, and post-doc students attend the AAG 2023 Annual Meeting in Denver.

Your gift at any level will be a tremendous boost to those who are completing their education and entering the job market. Building their network, making connections with potential employers, and having the opportunity, perhaps for the first time, to present their research in person, could not be more important.

Rising costs for air travel, gas, and hotels can be insurmountable obstacles for many students. But we can help. Don’t let the summer slip away. Please give today to support the next generation of geographers.

Summer Series for Grad Students and Recent Graduates

Registration is still open for our Graduate Forums and Seminars, which will continue throughout the summer.

Our Graduate Forums are led by the AAG Graduate Student Affinity Group and will offer graduate students with sessions that enable them to network and feel a sense of community.

Our Seminars target Master’s or Doctoral students in Geography programs and recently graduated geographers, and cover a wide range of practical topics.

Call for Nominations for AAG Honors and AAG Fellows

Please consider nominating outstanding colleagues for the AAG Honors, the highest awards offered by the American Association of Geographers, and the AAG Fellows, a program to recognize geographers who have made significant contributions to advancing geography. Please note that both of these programs are now operating under recently revised guidelines. Individual AAG members, specialty groups, affinity groups, departments, and other interested parties are encouraged to nominate outstanding colleagues by September 15.

More information about AAG Awards

Nominate Inspiring Geographers: September Awards Deadlines

AAG Grants and Awards make a huge impact on our community of Geographers and help maintain the legacy of geographers of the past while paying tribute to geographers thriving right now. Deadlines are already approaching starting in September. Don’t miss your opportunity to apply or nominate someone deserving! Learn more about the following grants and awards before their due dates:

• Sept. 15: AAG Diversity and Inclusion Award and AAG Susan Hardwick Excellence in Mentoring Award
• Sept. 22: AAG Nystrom Award for Recent Dissertations
• Sept. 30: AAG Program Excellence Award – Associates Program Excellence

Nominations Sought for Candidates to 2023 AAG Council

The AAG Nominating Committee for the 2023 AAG Election seeks nominations for Vice President (one to be elected) for National Councilor (two vacancies), and for International Councilor (one vacancy) for the 2023 election. Those elected will take office on July 1, 2023. Nominations are due no later than September 15, 2022. The AAG encourages nominations of a broad range of colleagues who reflect different disciplinary specialties, regional locations, gender, race, ethnicity, diverse ability, stage in career, and institutional diversity (e.g., candidates at non-PhD-granting or 2-year degree-granting institutions, and/or candidates who serve in Historically Black, Hispanic Serving, and tribal colleges).

Nominations for Vice President should be directed to Sarah Blue, Nominating Committee Chair. Nominations for National Councilor should be directed to Danielle M. Purifoy, Nominating Committee Member. Nominations for International Councilor should be directed to Sara Smith, Nominating Committee Member.

Get Ready for the 35th Annual Geography Awareness Week

This year, AAG’s theme for Geography Awareness Week will be World of Possibilities: Geographers at Work. Celebrating the vast career possibilities for geographers, Geography Awareness Week (#GeoWeek2022) will showcase the work of geographers in strikingly diverse areas, from agriculture and food security to tracking illegal mining; from foregrounding the geographies of health to the work of correlating cancer and air quality and applying GIS to patterns of substance abuse; from assuring the integrity of population counts to safeguarding wildlife ecologies; from advising on climate resilience to protecting fair voting maps.

Make your plans now and let AAG’s resources and information help you celebrate GeoWeek in your workplace and at your school. Sign up now to become a GeoAdvocate (individuals) or a GeoWeek partner (institutions and organizations).

AAG Welcomes 2022 Summer Interns

The AAG is excited to welcome two new interns coming aboard our staff for the Summer of 2022! Joining us this summer are Meghan Dilworth, a senior at Arizona State University (ASU) pursuing a B.A. in Geography and Urban Planning, and Samantha Hinton who currently attends Trinity College Dublin and is pursuing a B.A. major in Geography.

Meet the summer interns

Member News

July Member Updates

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, recipient of AAG’s 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, has been featured in major popular outlets Jezebel and Teen Vogue for her pioneering work in abolition geography.

AAG member Frank Magilligan, professor of geography and Frank J. Reagan ’09 Chair of Policy Studies at Dartmouth College, has co-authored a major study quantifying the impact of dam building and land use change on the world’s rivers.

RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES

New issues of Philosophical Transactions on resilient systems

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B: Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems compiled and edited by Daniela N Schmidt and Tayanah O’Donnell. The issue is published as a result of the third Commonwealth Science Conference, in February 2021, co-organized by the Royal Society and the African Academy of Sciences. An associated theme issue on ‘Developing resilient energy systems’ was published in Philosophical Transactions Aas well as a blog post accessible here.

Carceral geographers, criminologists and others – Call for Participants

The 5th International Conference for Carceral Geography will be hosted by the University of Melbourne – in-person and online – 14-15 December 2022. The conference theme is Confinement: spaces and practices of care and control. Individual or group presentations of scholarly, artistic or creative work that engages with one or more of the conference themes are invited (see the Call for Papers). Abstract submissions will close on July 29, 2022.

For more information, email the local organizing committee: carceral-geography22@unimelb.edu.au. Local conference organizing committee led by Dr Claire Loughnan, Dr Diana Johns & Dr Anton Symkovych.

Level up your science communication skills, access greater career opportunities, and connect with interdisciplinary scholars

The SciComm Identities Project Fellowship is a one-year professional development opportunity for pre-tenure faculty at U.S. institutions who identify as underrepresented racial or ethnic minorities. The Fellowship has a different thematic focus in each of its three one-year cohorts (Energy in 2023, Water in 2024, and Agriculture and Food Systems in 2025). Each of these foci relates, broadly, to climate change. SCIP Fellows will gain science communication expertise and practice and build their professional networks in ways that may support new collaborations and research insights. The deadline to apply is August 1, 2022.

Learn more

In Memoriam

The AAG is saddened to hear of the passing of Professor Harold Brookfield and Dr. Johannes Feddema this past month.

EVENTS CALENDAR

• July 19, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Building a Template for Graduate Funding Opportunities webinar
• July 21, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Writing Accountability Groups: Strategies for Graduate Students online
• July 29, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Strategies for Applying to Ph.D. Programs webinar
• August 4, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Visualizing Uncertainty on Maps
• August 9, 2022, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET – Geography Graduate Students Networking Workshop online
• August 11, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:15 PM ET – Let CAR (Community, Accountability, and Relevance) Drive your Instruction webinar
• August 19, 2022, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM ET – Planning the Arc of a Research Career webinar

Submit News to the AAG Newsletter. To share your news, email us!