Colloquia
Abstract: Simple relationships between mean climate and erosion rates have failed to emerge from either historic sediment yield studies or millennial-scale erosion rate studies using cosmogenic radionuclides. One
Abstract: Nepal鈥檚 2015 earthquakes killed more than 9000 people, damaged more than half a million homes and destroyed nearly half of Nepal鈥檚 GDP. The earthquakes struck Nepal at a time when the country was experiencing two
Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of recent work on spatial distribution dynamics considering the evolution of cross-sectional spatial distributions over time. Families of new analytics based on rank concordance and discrete Markov
The 2007 Ny茅l茅ni declarations identify fighting against the 鈥減rivatisation and commodification of food, basic and public services, knowledge, land, water, seeds, livestock and our natural heritage鈥 as central to food
Abstract: Increasing evidence from experimental and non-experimental research has shown that children residing in low resource neighborhoods exhibit decreases reading and math scores, above and beyond individual
Abstract: "There has been little debate about U.S. drone policy in Congress and in the mainstream media, but drones are changing the practice of war. Drone warfare has turned soldiers into commuter killers while
Abstract: This paper will examine a selection of visual texts that seek to intervene in the optical regime that supports the Indian occupation of Kashmir, one that succeeds in eliciting widespread support within India, in part by effecting a
Abstract: The deluge of readily available, large spatio-temporal data from both air- and space-borne sensors, high fidelity in situ sensor networks, citizen science-driven in situ observations and social media platforms,