Association of
Pacific Coast Geographers
64th Annual Meeting (2001)

University of California
Santa Barbara, California
September 12 – 15, 2001

Program | Paper Sessions & Abstracts | Closing Events | Credits

Program

Wednesday, September 12

Registration:

5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Corwin Pavilion Lobby at University Center

Reception:

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Corwin Plaza

Plenary Session:

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Multicultural Center Theatre
Keith C. Clarke, Professor of Geography and Chair, Department of Geography, UCSB
France A. Cordova, Vice Chancellor for Research, UCSB
Joel Michaelsen, Professor of Geography, UCSB
Jim Neuman, Santa Barbara Region Economic Community Project

Daily Transportation:

We encourage participants to consider car rentals and ride sharing where possible. Vans will provide limited pick-ups at selected Santa Barbara and Goleta hotels in the morning and return service in the evening, starting on Wednesday at 4:30 - 5:30pm. Check the conference web page and conference registration table for details. UCSB visitor parking permits are available at entry kiosks and are needed 6:30am - 5:00pm weekdays. No permit is required after 5:00 pm weekdays and on Saturday. Weekday visitor parking permits are valid in Lots 16, 21, 22, 23 and 27.

   

Thursday, September 13

Registration:

8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Corwin Pavilion Lobby

Field Trips:

8:30 am - 5:00 pm (some field trips end earlier)
Departure from Corwin Pavilion Plaza; return either to UCSB or to Santa Barbara

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
2620 Ellison Hall

Barbeque:

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Santa Barbara Zoological Gardens

Transportation to campus:

Vans will depart from selected Santa Barbara and Goleta hotels, between 7:00 - 8:30 am.

Transportation to BBQ:

A bus to the Barbeque will leave the Corwin Plaza at 5:00 pm and stop at selected Goleta hotels along the way. Visitors staying in Santa Barbara may walk or take the city shuttle bus to the zoo. Visitors with cars are encouraged to offer rides.

 

 

Friday, September 14

APCG Executive Committee Breakfast:

7:30 am - 8:30 am
Multicultural Center Lounge

Registration:

7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Corwin Pavilion Lobby

Exhibitors:

10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Corwin Plaza

8:30 am - 10:10 am
Perspectives on Economic Policies and Practices
Politics and Environment
Alaska - The Image

10:30 - Noon
Alaska - The Land
Through an Image Darkly
Networking for the Future: A Panel Discussion Focused on the Needs, Goals, and Challenges of Women Geographers

12:10 - 1:20 pm
Santa Barbara Harbor Room
Bernard Nietschmann: Geographer and Fourth World Activist

Box lunch distribution:

12:00 - 1:30 pm
Corwin Plaza

Women's Network Luncheon:

12:00 - 1:30 pm
University Center, Lagoon Patio

Informal UCSB Campus and Department Tour:

12:15 - 1:15 pm
Corwin Plaza

1:30 pm - 2:50 pm
Cultural Transitions: Place Identity and Regions
GIS and Cartography on the Web and in Research
Data Analysis in Human Geography
Physical Processes of Environmental Change I

3:00 - 4:15 pm
Corwin Pavilion
Address by The Honorable Walter J. Hickel, former Secretary of the U.S Department of the Interior and former Governor of Alaska.
Topical introduction, "The Santa Barbara Oil Spill" by Robert Sollen, Journalist and Author.

Arrangements are underway to have the Honorable Walter J. Hickel, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and former Governor of California, address the conference via either video or audio communication.

4:30 - 6:30 pm
University Center Mezzanine
Note: Facility will open for set up of posters and equipment at 1:30 pm. 4'x6' poster boards are available for mounting displays.

 

 

Saturday, September 15

Registration:

8:00 am - 10:00 am
Corwin Pavilion Lobby

Exhibitors:

10:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Corwin Plaza

8:30 - 10:10 am
Interpreting California: Past and Present
Political Transitions
Physical Processes of Environmental Change II
Health and Society

10:30 - Noon
The 'New' Ethnic Geography: Theory, Method, Analysis
Urban Sprawl: Policy, Promotion, and Planning
Urban Landscapes in Arizona: Real and Imagined
The Endangered Species Act in California

Box lunch distribution:

12:00 - 1:30 pm
Corwin Plaza

Chair's Lunch:

12:00 - 1:30 pm
Multicultural Center, Lounge

Informal UCSB Campus and Department Tour:

12:15 - 1:15 pm
Corwin Plaza

1:30 pm - 3:10 pm
Measuring, Monitoring, and Modeling Change in Vegetation Cover
Geographers Build Learning and Research Resources for the Social Sciences
Species Distribution, Diversity, and Habitat Planning
Boas and Nietschmann: The Cultural Tradition in American Geography

Geography Bowl:

3:30 - 4:45 pm
Multicultural Center Theatre

Annual Business Meeting:

4:45 - 5:45 pm
Santa Barbara Harbor Room

Social Hour (cash bar):

5:30 - 8:00 pm
Corwin Plaza

Annual Awards Banquet and Presidential Address:

7:00 - 9:00 pm
Corwin Pavilion
Entertainment, Santa Barbara Treble Clef Women's Chorus, directed by LaNell Lucius followed by speaker, Dr. Roger W. Pearson, President, APCG.
Local Guest of Honor: UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang

Paper Sessions & Abstracts

Friday, September 14
Paper Session I
8:30 - 10:10 am

Perspectives on Economic Policies and Practices
State Street Room

Chair: Dennis Dingemans, University of California, Davis

8:30

JungWon Son
The Spatiality of Technological Innovation

9:10

James Keese
International NGOs and Agricultural Development in Highland Ecuador: Are the Results Sustained Five Years Later?

9:30

Lay James Gibson, Bryant Evans, Andrew Grogan, Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel, Jason Laros, and Malia Vail
Seasonality of Demand: Implications for Regional Economic Investment

 

 

Politics and Environment
Corwin Pavilion East

Chair: Bob Patrick, Simon Fraser University

8:30

Bryant Evans, Lay Gibson, Andrew Grogan, Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel, Jason Laros, and Malia Vail
Finding Economic Opportunity in Environmental Preservation

8:50

John Heppen
A Spatial Analysis of the Green Party in California from 1996 to 2000

9:10

Barbara Walker
Contentious Social and Physical Geographies in the Establishment of Marine Protected Areas in the Pacific

9:30

Jonathan Taylor
Political Ecology and U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa, Japan

 

 

Alaska - The Image
Corwin Pavilion West
Meditations on Alaska Geography: Presentations to Honor Professor Roger W. Pearson's Contributions to Alaska Geography and to Geographic Education

Organizers: Thomas Eley and Cheryl Northon, University of Alaska
Chair: Thomas Eley

8:30

Donald Lynch
Where is Alaska in the 21st Century?

8:50

Cary De Wit
The Perceptual Geography of Alaska

9:10

Cheryl Northon
N.A. 1 Revised-Repeat Photography of the Alaska Highway

9:30

Roger W. Pearson, Discussant

   

Friday, September 14
Paper Session II
10:30 - Noon

Alaska - The Land
Corwin Pavilion West
Meditations on Alaska Geography: Presentations to Honor Professor Roger W. Pearson's Contributions to Alaska Geography and to Geographic Education

Organizers: Thomas Eley and Cherie Northon, University of Alaska
Chair: Cherie Northon

10:30

Thom Eley
Hudson Stuck, Alaska's First Resident Geographer

10:55

Michael Sfraga
Mapping the Void: Bradford Washburn and the Mapping of Alaska

11:20

Donald Lynch, Discussant

   

Through an Image Darkly
Santa Barbara Harbor Room

Organizer and Chair : Stuart C. Aitken, San Diego State University

10:30

David Lulka
Meat, Autonomy and Control: Representing Bison

10:50

Christina Kennedy, Tiànna Kennedy, and Mélisa Kennedy
From Wilderness to City: Vilification, Idealization, and Parody

11:30

Stuart C. Aitken and Jim Craine
Creating Soundspaces of Lust and Despair

   

Applied Geography: Water Resources Management
State Street Room

Organizer and Chair: Terry Simmons, Center for Global Policy Studies

10:30

Philip Pryde
What the Babbitt Water Initiatives Mean for Southern California

10:50

Keith Warner
A River Might Run Through it Again

11:10

Terry Simmons
Geography and Law: Theory and Practice

   

Networking for the Future: A Panel Discussion Focused on the Needs, Goals, and Challenges of Woman Geographers
Corwin Pavilion East

Chairs: Jennifer Helzer, California State University, Stanislaus
Dorothy Freidel, Sonoma State University

Panelists:

 

Susan Hardwick, University of Oregon

 

Teresa Bulman, Portland State University

 

Joan Clemons, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Dolly Freidel, Sonoma State University

 

Jennifer Helzer, California State University, Stanislaus

   

Friday, September 14
Paper Session III
1:30 - 2:50 pm

Cultural Transitions: Place Identity and Regions
Santa Barbara Harbor Room
Starts at 1:50 p.m.

Chair: Joan Hackeling, University of California, Los Angeles

1:50

Kyle Evered
Place, Tradition, and Identity in Constructs of Ankara

2:10

Dennis Dingemans and Robin E. Datel
Europe's California: Iberia in Transition

2:30

George Nasse
Albanians and Ethnic Albanians

   

Data Analysis in Human Geography
State Street Room

Chair: Sandra Holland, The University of Arizona

1:30

Rachel Burke and Gordon Mulligan
Quality of Life Changes in the U.S. States, 1970-2000

1:50

Andreas Molin and Gordon Mulligan
Shift-Share Analysis of Southwestern Towns, 1980-1990

2:10

Maxwell Ruckdeschel and Natalie Ward
Elevation and its Effect on Land Use in Syracuse, New York

2:30

Waldo Tobler
The Long-Latency Illness Problem

   

GIS and Cartography on the Web and in Research
Corwin Pavilion West

Chair: Ann Ricchiazzi, University of California, Santa Barbara

1:30

William Bowen
Instructional Map Distribution on the Web

1:50

Ray Sumner and Janet Hund
Alcohol and Social Problems in Long Beach, California:
Findings of a Project Incorporating Applied Sociology, Geography and GIS

2:10

Steve Demers, David Jones, Andrea Nuernberger, and Matt Rice
Raster and Vector Mapping Applications: From GIS to the Web

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Ron Morgan
Agricultural Soil Type Utilization in Oraibi Wash Basin of Northeastern Arizona

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Loretta Gale Morgan
Groundwater Information Systems Database for the Hopi Tribe

   

Physical Processes of Environmental Change I
Corwin Pavilion East

Chair: Gerald P. Hannes, California State University, Fullerton

1:30

Helen Cox
Polar Stratospheric Clouds and their Role in Ozone Depletion

1:50

Ross Meentemeyer
The Role of Drought Severity in Structuring Vegetation Patterns in California Chaparral

2:10

Graham Dalldorf
Topographic Controls on Aeolian Deposition in the Connley Hills, Fort Rock Basin, Oregon

2:30

Jim Labbe
Riparian Vegetation, Bank Materials, and Channel Change in a Willamette Valley Lowland Stream

   

Friday, September 14
Presidential Plenary Session
Corwin Pavilion
3:00 - 4:15 pm

Introduction to the Santa Barbara Oil Spill, Robert Sollen, Journalist and Author
Address by The Honorable Walter J. Hickel, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and former Governor of Alaska.

Arrangements are underway to have the Honorable Walter J. Hickel, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and former Governor of California, address the conference via either video or audio communication.

   

Friday, September 14
Poster Session and Student Map Competition (with reception)
University Center Mezzanine
4:30 - 6:30 pm

Posters
University Center Mezzanine
4:30 - 6:30 pm

 

Daniel Arreola, John Benetiz, Alex Oberle, and Susan Sargent
Geographical Differentiation of Latino Immigrant Population in Phoenix

 

Wendy Bigler
Step Pool Geography in Desert Mountains: The Role of Lithology

 

Gerald Hannes
Recent Seasonal Air Temperature Variations in Northern Orange County, California

 

John H. Pine
Roads and Railroads: The Impacts of Transportation Choices on the Upper Bear Creek Valley Near Ashland, Oregon

 

Duncan Shaeffer
Evidence of Town Rivalry: Place-Promoting Billboards along the Interstate

 

James Sullivan and Richard Tull
The Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan

 

James Wanket
Pleistocene Forests of the Siskiyou Mountains

 

Elizabeth B. Watson, Frances Malamud-Roam, and Roger Byrne
Calibration of Microfossil Assemblages with an Environmental Gradient in the Marshes of the San Francisco Estuary

   

Student Map Competition
University Center Mezzanine
4:30 - 6:30 pm

   

Saturday, September 15
Paper Session IV: 8:30 - 10:10 am

Interpreting California: Past and Present
Santa Barbara Harbor Room

Chair: Philip R. Pryde, San Diego State University

8:30

William Preston
Native Californians and Game Predation: Implications for Environmental Reconstruction

8:50

John W. James
The Beginnings of Geography at UCSB 35 Years Ago

9:10

Thomas Ellrott
Southern California Surf Culture Through the Construction and Deconstruction of Surf-Place Images in Huntington Beach, California

9:30

James Allen and Eugene Turner
Changing Population Patterns in Los Angeles

   

Political Transitions
State Street Room

Chair: Kyle Evered, University of Oregon

8:50

Joan Hackeling
Imagining Life Otherwise: Practicing Comparative Politics in East Germany under Late Socialism

9:10

Jeff Boggs
Not in a Vacuum: Lock-in, Path Dependency and Regional Decline in a
Cultural Products Industry - The Case of Leipzig’s Book Publishing
Industry

9:30

Ed Jackiewicz
The Sound of Ideologies Clashing: The Cuban State and Paladares

   

Health and Society
Corwin Pavilion West

Chair: Sean Benison, University of California, Santa Barbara

8:30

Julienne Gard
Fever Trees: The Geography of Malaria

8:50

Donald Pyles
Autism in California: Epidemic or Illusion?

9:10

Jim Marston
Equal Access to Urban Opportunities: Measurement and Mitigation of Travel Barriers for People with Restricted Vision

9:30

Sandra Holland
Highway Facilities for an Aging Arizona Population

   

Saturday, September 15
Paper Session V
10:30 - Noon

The 'New' Ethnic Geography: Theory, Method, Analysis
Corwin Pavilion West

Organizer: Susan Hardwick, University of Oregon
Chairs: Gwen Scott and Susan E. Hume, University of Oregon

10:30

Susan E. Hume
Spatial Data Sources for Immigration Research

10:45

Margaret Knox
The Legacy of Historical Perceptions of the Kalapuya People

11:00

Gwen Scott
The Asia-Pacific Triangle: Constructing the Pacific 'Savage and Reconciling' Racism in U.S. Immigration Policy

11:15

Emily Skop
Settling in the Suburbs: Asian Indian Immigrants in Phoenix

11:30

Susan Hardwick and Erin Aigner
A Spatial Analysis of Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the 'New Oregon'

   

Urban Sprawl: Policy, Promotion, and Planning
Santa Barbara Harbor Room

Chair: Keith C. Clarke, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:30

Larry R. Ford and Brenda A. Kayzar
Myths and Realities: The Invention and Promotion of Downtown Living

10:50

Matt Rice
Panoramic Maps and the Promotion of Urban Living in Late 19th and Early 20th Century America

11:10

Keith C. Clarke
Historic Urban Growth of the Santa Barbara / South Coast Region

   

Urban Landscapes in Arizona: Real and Imagined
State Street Room

Organizer and Chair: Kevin McHugh, Arizona State University

10:30

Kenneth Madsen
Native American Cultural Landscapes of North Central Phoenix

10:50

Timothy Collins
Toxic Landscapes, Race, and Environmental Justice in South Phoenix

11:10

Kevin Romig
Anthem: Tomorrowland in Arizona

11:30

Kevin McHugh
Three Faces of Ageism: Society/Image/Place

11:50

Alex Oberle
Envios a Mexico: Money-Wiring and Check-Cashing as Part of Phoenix's Landscape of Immigration

   

The Endangered Species Act in California
Corwin Pavilion East

Organizers: James Sullivan, Coachella Valley Association of Governments
Nanette Pratini, University of California, Riverside
Chair: Walter Wehjte, University of California, Riverside

10:30

Tom Scott
Why are There So Many Endangered Species in California?

10:45

Stephanie Pincetl
From ESA to NCCP; The Origins of Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Planning

11:00

Katja Kryvaruchka, James Sullivan, and Tom Scott
Regional Habitat Conservation Plans in California

11:30

Nanette Pratini and Larry La Pre
A Tortoise-Eye View of the Endangered Species Act: Planning for Species and Habitats in the California Desert

11:45

James Sullivan
The Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan

   

Saturday, September 15
Paper Session VI
1:30 - 3:10 pm

Measuring, Monitoring, and Modeling Change in Vegetation Cover
Santa Barbara Harbor Room

Chair: Robert T. Richardson, California State University, Sacramento

1:30

Roscoe Moss
Recent Developments in the Use of Historic Aerial Photography

1:50

John Rogan and Janet Franklin
Operational Monitoring of Forest Cover Disturbance in California Using Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data

2:10

Ethan Frommholz
Modeling Spatial Patterns and Abundance of Yellow Starthistle

2:30

Carolyn Daugherty
Mistletoes in the Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands of the Coconino National Forest, Arizona: A Significant Forest Health Issue?

   

Geographers Build Learning and Research Resources for the Social Sciences
Corwin Pavilion West

Organizer: Donald G. Janelle, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: Stuart Sweeney, University of California, Santa Barbara

Panelists:

1:30

Michael F. Goodchild
Conceptualizing Spatial Analysis for Social Science

1:50

Donald G. Janelle
Building Infrastructure for Spatial Social Science

2:10

Matt Rice
Learning Resources for Teaching and Self Study

2:30

Ann Ricchiazzi
Using the Web to Disseminate Spatial Analytic Resources

   

Species Distribution, Diversity, and Habitat Planning
Corwin Pavilion East

Chair: Ross Meentemeyer, Sonoma State University

1:30

Walter Wehtje
The Range Expansion of the Great-Tailed Grackle in the Western USA

1:50

Susan Miles
Avian Diversity Increase in a Small, Restored Wetland: Regulatory Implications

2:10

Katsiaryna Kryvaruchka and Thomas A. Scott
Using Geostatistical Estimation Tool to Model Species Distributions

2:30

John Gallo
Place-based Regional Conservation Planning

   

Boas and Nietschmann: The Cultural Tradition in American Geography
State Street Room (this session may run till 3:30 pm)

Chair: Donald F. Lynch, University of Alaska

1:30

William Koelsch
Franz Boas, Accidental Geographer

2:00

Terry Simmons
Bernard Nietschmann: Geographer and Fourth World Activist

2:10

A 50-minute filmed conversation between Bernard Nietschmann and David Stoddart, followed by discussion

   

Closing Events

Saturday, September 15

Geography Bowl
Multicultural Center Theatre
3:30 - 4:45 pm

 
 

APCG Annual Business Meeting
Santa Barbara
4:45 - 5:45 pm

 

Social Hour (cash bar)
Corwin Plaza
5:30 - 8:00 pm

 

Annual Awards Banquet and Presidential Address
Corwin Pavilion
7:00 - 9:00 pm

Santa Barbara Treble Clef Women's Chorus, directed by LaNell Lucius, followed by speaker Roger W. Pearson, President, APCG.
Local Guest of Honor: UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang

   

Credits

APCG 2001 Organizing Committee:

Susan Baumgart

Donald Janelle

Keith Clarke

Xiaohang Liu

Reginald Golledge

LaNell Lucius

Michael Goodchild

Matt Rice

Special thanks are extended to the following individuals for their assistance:

Ian Bortins

Melissa Kelly

Darren Breit

Hugo Loaiciga

Christian Brown

Dan Montello

Edward Collins

Val Noronha