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All photos in this section
were taken by Susan Baumgart, the Department's artist, unless noted
otherwise. Lighting was often too low for the camera to focus: thus,
many of the photos are blurry or grainy. The story seemed more important
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Because of the terrorist
attacks Tuesday morning, September 11, the conference began with
a memorial to Robert LeBlanc, a retired Geography professor from
New Hampshire who died in one of the hijacked crashed jets. He was
en route to Santa Barbara to attend APCG 2001. The address was delivered
by Keith Clarke. |
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France Cordova, Vice Chancellor
for Research, extolled the virtues of UCSB Geography Department's
research accomplishments during the Wednesday night plenary session. |
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Joel Michaelsen gave a history
of the Department. He had been a student in the Geography Program
in the late 1960s, and witnessed the near demise of Geography altogether
on campus. He became a professor here a few years after deliberate,
strategic building had begun in the early 1970s. Thus, he knew firsthand
the why and how this Department has grown so large and strong. |
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Jim Newman, Board Member
and former Executive Director of Santa Barbara Economic Community
Project, gave an energetic talk about planning and geography in
southern Santa Barbara County. |
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Thursday morning, attendees
went on field trips. Six had been scheduled, but two had to be canceled
due to the shutdown of airports, nationwide. The Channel Islands
Tour and the hike in the mountains were cancelled, but the Riviera,
Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara Water History, and Coastal Wetlands
tours went forward. To the left is a photo of all but two of those
who went on the walking tour of the Riviera - after the walk. |
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Thursday evening was the
"zoo-b-que," a barbecue picnic at the Santa Barbara Zoological
Gardens. The photo at left is of some of the people who set up the
picnic, relaxing just before guests arrive. Left to right: Scott
Crozier, David Jones, and Ed Collins (graduate students); LaNell
Lucius and Christian Brown (Geography staff). |
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Alex Keuper and Jorge Sifuentes, graduate students, relax. Waldo
Tobler, Professor Emeritus, is in the background.
Other than zoo security and the animals, we had the zoo to ourselves,
well into the evening.
The rest of the zoo-b-que photos are included without commentary.
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Starting Friday morning,
people gave papers. This one is given by David Lulka, a student
at San Diego State University, and is titled "Meat, Autonomy
and Control: Representing Bison." |
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David Lulka answered questions
after his talk. |
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Christina, Tianna, and Melisa
Kennedy's paper was presented by Tianna Kennedy: "From Wilderness
to City: Vilification, Idealization, and Parody." |
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Of course, what's a conference
without a lot of setting up, taking down, and fiddling with audiovisual
equipment? |
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Stuart Aitken delivered
the paper by himself and Jim Craine: "Creating Soundspaces
of Lust and Despair." |
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Stuart Aitken's presentation
included some strident, pungent rock music that, in sound and poetry,
conveyed urban angst. The audience felt it. |
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Stuart Aitken changed the ending of his talk because of the jet-bombing
of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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At noon, Chancellor Yang
coordinated a time of grieving for those affected by the terrorist
acts. Representatives of diverse religions, including Islam and
Judaism, stood shoulder-to-shoulder. |
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At the service, which was
held in Storke Plaza on campus, the many hundreds who gathered listened
to poetry and music. |
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UCSB Professor Golledge
gave a talk on blind navigation with the aid of wearable computers
and talking signs. |
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The room was filled for
Friday's Presidential Plenary Session. |
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Robert Sollen, a local environmental
journalist and writing instructor, spoke of the 1969
oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel, which instigated the
establishment of Earth Day. Walter Hickel, former Secretary of the
US Department of Interior and former Governor of Alaska, and who
was scheduled as the main speaker, could not get to Santa Barbara
due to the national grounding of air travel. A microphone was twisted
down over a speaker phone, and he delivered his talk via phone from
Alaska. He spoke about Alaska's unique land ownership decisions,
designating major portions for Native Alaskans, Federal and State
governments. |
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Students explained their
posters during the poster session. |
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The poster session had fewer
posters, but plenty of enthusiasm . . . |
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. . . and food. |
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On Wednesday evening, when
conferees began arriving and less than 36 hours after the New York
and Washington D.C. terrorist attacks, only 32 participants checked
in. By the end of the conference, 130 people managed to attend --
an amazing feat in light of the difficulties with travel and emotions.
The box in this photo holds the badges of all the people who had
registered, but were not able to come. Almost all of them had needed
an airplane to get here. |
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A geographer's tie. |
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The Geography Bowl transpired,
even though one team was entirely from UCSB and the other had some
UCSB students within it. |
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Students wrestled with a
question during the Geography Bowl, Saturday afternoon. |
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More food and drinks: a
"social hour" in the patio before the Awards Banquet. |
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At the banquet Saturday
night, we were treated to music by a local women's chorus, the Santa
Barbara Treble Clef. LaNell Lucius, a UCSB Geography employee, who
contributed greatly to the coordination of APCG2001, is the Director
of the chorus. |
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Matt Rice, a Geography graduate
student, received an engraved plaque, in recognition and gratitude
for the tremendous work he did on behalf of this conference. |
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