Overdue for an update . . .
Oh my goodness, it has been more than a year since posting to the blog. That is not good. It is as if nothing of consequence to UW-Eau Claire Geography has occurred since October 2014. That is hardly the case. In October 2015, the department hosted another regional conference of the West Lakes Division Association of American Geographers (WLAAG). See geography major Andee Erickson's nice article reporting on this event. Last April, we also co-hosted a mini-conference on the “geospatial confluence” of GIS, remote sensing, and photogrammetric professionals with the Western Great Lakes Region of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (easier to say WGL-ASPRS) on campus. Also in the spring, we hosted a colleague from our sister geography department at the University of Aberdeen as well as a geographer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru , with whom we are also building a relationship. This past year, two graduates of our...