Following up from my last post, the American Association of Geographers has now cancelled its annual meeting in Denver, scheduled for April 6-10. This was the right call, and over 60 percent of respondents to the AAG's one-question survey a few days ago survey said they were cancelling or discouraged from attending. Now across the … Continue reading Coronavirus 2
Tag: Environment
Coronavirus
I received word a couple days ago that the American Association of Geographers (AAG) is proceeding with its annual meeting in Denver in April, unlike many groups and companies that have spent the last week cancelling events because of the threat of coronavirus. The American Physical Union (APU) was set to host its annual conference … Continue reading Coronavirus
Two years and some links
I have now been doing this blog, with an increasingly haphazard publication schedule, for two years. The pace of writing has slowed considerably as I have taken on more administrative duties in my department, where I am now undergraduate program chair and the principal academic advisor, tried to buckle down and refocus some effort on … Continue reading Two years and some links
Ecological dystopia
On October 8, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report detailing the urgent need to curb greenhouse gas emissions and limit anthropogenic global warming to 1.5ºC, with immediate and dramatic action necessary by 2030. You would never know this from the report's official title, which straddles the line between the nomenclature … Continue reading Ecological dystopia
Outer Banks and then some
I recently had a chance to travel to the Outer Banks, a string of barrier islands along the coast of North Carolina. There was an elemental feeling to standing on the beach at Nags Head with the waves crashing against the breakwater just a few yards away, the sea foam rushing around my calves as … Continue reading Outer Banks and then some
Early April snippets
I am currently sitting in the Detroit airport, on my way to New Orleans for the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), where I will be presenting a paper on collective bargaining and institutional culture in the Canadian foreign service, co-written with a former research assistant. It has been a hectic few … Continue reading Early April snippets
The coal miner’s helmet
This is a brief post, picking up on a theme I discussed a few posts ago and which is increasingly at the center of my research focus, though in a slightly different way in this example. I have been doing, as I've noted, research on the embodied knowledge of labor and workers in the workplace, … Continue reading The coal miner’s helmet
