BSU @ Detroit -- AAG March 2025

BSU undergraduates, graduate students, staff, and faculty in geography will be well represented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Detroit, which is taking place March 24-28, 2025. 

Abstracts of the 12 works we are presented are among the 3,954 entries in the searchable Abstract Gallery. Links to each BSU contribution are available below (alphabetical by first author; BSU affiliates unless noted otherwise) or by using this Bridgewater search link in the database. 

Meanwhile, please also see the BSU to Detroit post on the help BSU Honors Colloquium students are providing to help prepare for travel to the Motor (and Arts) City.

Detroit flag image by James Hayes-Bohanan

Regina Christen and Thilina Surasinghe: Mammalian community motifs as a driver of tick-borne disease hazard in urban environments

Keeley Cote: Assessing the Accuracy of Spectral Indices for Wetland Habitat Differentiation Using Open-Source Satellite Data

Luke Davies and Jenalyn Warcup: Bridging Climate Justice and Research through Film: Elevation-Dependent Warming in the Cordillera Blanca and Global Engagement for Vulnerable Mountain Communities

Ashleigh Hartsfield and Callie Milliard: How Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Targets Climate Anxieties in Peru and New England

James Hayes-Bohanan and Harvey Hayes (BSU and University of Rhode Island): From Liquidation to Little Village: The Arts in Detroit 

Robert Hellström, Bryan G Mark  (Ohio State), Edwin Julio Palomino Cadenas  (Universidad Nacional Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo), Abigail E Bulman, Luke Davies, Marlene Coral Granados  (Universidad Nacional Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo), Ashleigh Hartsfield, Jenalyn Warcup, Callie Milliard, Ethan Medeiros: Collaborative Research on Elevation-Dependent Climate Change in the Peruvian Andes 

Emily Mazan (Ohio State), Bryan Mark (Ohio State), Robert Hellström, and Alfonso Fernández  (Universidad de Concepción): Dynamical downscaling to assess climate change impacts on diurnal winds in the Tropical Andes 

Elise Ober, Luke Davies, and Samuel Costa: Environmental Literacy and Research 

Matthew Potvin, Darcy Boellstorff, and Thilina Surasinghe: A Cost-Effective Standardized Framework for Post-Restoration Monitoring Using Point Extractions of Remotely Sensed Spectral Indices 

Eric Stockwell: Reducing Environmental Impact in Next-Gen Microchip Manufacturing

 

Erik Sundell: Unveiling Environmental Racism in Greater Boston: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Copious Pollution in Marginalized Communities 

Jenalyn Warcup and Luke Davies: Bridging Climate Justice and Research through Strategic Communication: Video-work on Elevation-Dependent Warming in the Cordillera Blanca and Global Engagement for Vulnerable Mountain Communities

BSU to Detroit for AAG -- March 2025

BSU will be well represented at one of the world's greatest geography meetings in March of 2025, when the American Association of Geographers holds its annual meeting in Detroit. See the BSU @ Detroit AAG post for details about the research we are presenting. 

Professors and students will be presenting on a variety of topics, from community change in Detroit itself to climate change in Peru. 

Image: Belle Isle, Downtown, and Detroit River

Fortunately, students from many majors who are participating in our second-year honors colloquium on Detroit are helping to prepare the travelers. The course is entitled Detroit: Arts City, exploring the role of the arts in the redevelopment of a city that had famously been in decline over the past half-century.

Commonwealth Honors students have begun to identify places that the geographers might wish to visit during the conference. The emphasis is on arts, food, and locally-owned businesses. The students are, of course, making a map!

This map will be the focus of a joint meeting of the traveling students (mostly majors) and the honors students (mostly not majors, at least not yet!).