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Six New
Members Increase SWG Diversity
MARLA R. EMERY, (ATLARGE, Active)
holds a PhD. in Geography from Rutgers University, with field
specialization in non-timber forest products and livelihoods, and
declares her geographical areas of specialty as “political ecology,
First World.” She speaks French and Spanish, has lived, traveled and
conducted research in such diverse countries as France, Morocco,
Scotland and Mexico, where she was a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar
2003. Upcoming lectures and consultancies will take her to China and
Bhutan. Her list of publications is extensive, as is her list of
professional and public service work, and her numerous awards, which
include grants from the United Kingdom Forestry Commission, the
National Park Service, and the Northeastern States Research
Cooperative. Upcoming publications include the co-authored article
entitled “Gathering in Thoreau’s Backyard: Non-timber product
harvesting as practice and tactics,” in
Area,
the journal of the Royal Geographical Society She has been a U.S.
Forest Service research geographer at the Northern Research Station
since 1998.
LYNDA LYNCH LA ROCCA (FL., Active)
is a freelance photographer, videographer, translator and artist who
is described as having a “holistic view of the world and its
inhabitants.” Born in Brazil, she is fluent in Portuguese and
Spanish, speaks French, and has a wide-ranging interest in the
ceramics, conchology, archaeology and ethnic arts of the region, in
addition to her special interest in botany and the natural world.
With a B.F.A. and extensive training in photography, she has
produced a documentary,
Windows to the Tropics
about the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s award-winning 2000
entry in the Chelsea Flower Show, translated and produced nature
DVD’s in Spanish, English and Portuguese, and has published
photographs in several publications. They include
Tropical Garden Magazine, Kampong Publications, Miami Herald
and
Ohio Paper.
She was a contributing photographer and the translator (Portuguese
to English) of
Brazilian Fruits
by Harri Lorenzi, 2006.
PATRICIA GRACE LODGE, (FL., Associate)
is a freelance photographer who from 1995 to the present has
traveled and photographed in Canada to Latvia, Beijing, France,
Japan, England and Mexico. But her real specialty is Russia and
Mongolia, and she has explored Lake Bikal, the deepest fresh water
inland lake in the world. She has degrees in Communications from the
Universities of Delaware and Maryland, and specialized training as a
photographer. Her photographs have appeared in many travel
publications including
Recommended International Travel, Florida Vacation Guide, Frequent
Flyer Magazine
and
Town and Country,
and her work is represented in several books. Her interests also
include the historic Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, where she
is a guide, the Japanese Garden in Miami, the nesting season of sea
turtles, and the Florida alligator and its habitat.
EDITH MIRANTE (At-Large, Active)
is a writer, artist, long-term environmentalist and investigator of
human rights in Burma. She has traveled, worked and written widely
in Southeast and South Asia in countries from China to India to
Bangladesh and Thailand while pursuing her work for Burma,
especially concerning conditions on its northern and western
frontiers. She has written and contributed to many articles, and has
authored two books including
Down a Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma’s Frontier
(1992)
and
Burmese Looking Glass: A Human Rights Adventure
(2005), and has lectured widely on Southeast Asia, human rights and
deforestation Her third book will be about the first prehistoric
people to reach Asia from Africa, whose descendants still survive in
India’s Andaman Islands, Malaysia and the Philippines. She has a
degree in art/art history from Sarah Lawrence College and is the
founder/director of Project Maje, (www.projectmaje.org.)
an information project on Burma.
ELIZABETH SHAPIRO, (BAY AREA, Student)
has a B.A. in Biology /Environmental Studies from Oberlin College,
an MESC from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies,
and is a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley in Environmental Science,
Policy & Management. She has a distinguished history in research and
community work in Latin America. Her current research focuses on the
impacts and drivers of market-based conservation programs, including
organic coffee certification in El Salvador.
SYLVIA
TOGNETTI, (D.C., Active)
appropriately first met an SWGer at a symposium in Hawaii where
Sylvia gave a paper on “Tropical Montane Cloud Forests.” Holding
degrees in Environmental Studies (B.A.) and Geography (M.A.) with
special interests in Marine, Estuarine and Environmental Studies,
Sylvia has also given papers and participated in working group
meetings in countries as far-ranging as Peru, Zimbabwe, Malaysia,
Canada and Italy, and works as an environmental science and policy
consultant. Her writing includes
The Post-Normal Times – Putting Science into Context,
an environmental science and policy blog;
Ecosystem Changes and Water Policy Changes; Four Scenarios for the
Lower Colorado River
(Sonoran Institute and Island Press), and the forthcoming
Linking Plots to Landscapes: Compensation for Ecosystem Services
associated with agricultural soil and water management practices.
She also served as a lead author for a chapter on freshwater in the
Policy Responses report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
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Fellowship Reports
are now Posted. - January 2007
Begum Basdas
(UCLA)
is finishing her dissertation, “Cosmopolitanism in Istanbul: Everyday Claims to
Bodies, Sexualities and Mobility in the City.”
Zhihong Chen
(University of Oregon) is starting her dissertation, “Going to the Frontier:
Chinese Intellectuals’ Reconceptualization of Chinese Geography and
Peoples During the Nanjing Decade (1927- 1937).”
Jennifer Clare
(Berkeley) has studied Tamil and Sanskrit literature and is looking at the role
of literature in Tamil culture in South India for her PhD.
Megan Dixon
(University
of Oregon) is researching Russian culture, studying the experience of
Chinese migrants to Leningrad/St. Petersburg.
Rebecca R.
Hernandez
(California State
University, Fullerton) is interested in global environmental change, and
biological plant invasions in particular. She is working on a Masters of Science
in Biology.
Sandra Kerr:
(York University, Toronto) is in the Masters of Environmental Studies Program
working on a degree in Urban Planning.
Sara Beth Keough
(University of Tennessee) is completing a dissertation on the impact of
globalization on cultural policy in Canada, using the Canadian content
regulations for radio as her base.
Miri Lavi-Neeman
(Berkeley) is pursuing a doctorate on the role of Zionist environmental
education in the contested land of Israel’s Negev desert— Israel’s last land
reserve.
Jessica
Whitehead (Pennsylvania State
University) is working on a dissertation about the capacity of
community drinking water systems to adapt to climate change
Fernanda Santos
(Hunter College) is the New York group’s $5,000 grant winner. She is working on
her Master’s degree; her thesis topic is entitled, “Quantifying the scales
of the land surface heterogeneity.”
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Idell Conaway’s
exhibit of
30 photos,
Undersea Oasis: Coral Reef Communities,
has
opened at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The
pictures, which show the invertebrate life that flourishes in the
unique ecology of coral reefs, will be on display through
next January. Idell traveled to many areas in the Philippines,
including Batangas and the Sulu Sea, on the Philippines’ southern
perimeter near Borneo, for some these photos. Idell is planning a
trip to the Mergui Archipelago in late April.
This same presentation will be on
exhibit from September 1, 2007 - January 7, 2008, at the Brazos
Valley Museum, in Bryan, Texa, where her exhibition will be
accompanied by earlier ethnographic photographs. Ms. Conaway
also will make a presentation on her craft of underwater photography
and the remote Sea Gypsies of Southeast Asia. These brilliant color
photographs by underwater photographer Idell Conaway capture the
dazzling invertebrate life that flourishes in the unique ecology of
coral reefs, from purple anemones to pale yellow sea squirts.
Thirty photographs are now on display in the Akeley Gallery of the
American Museum of Natural History (NYC), with other selections at
the Port of Call Gallery in Warwick, NY and at the Society of Women
Geographers in Washington, DC. Admission is $5 for adults and the
museum is open Monday - Saturday, 10 to 5 and Sunday, 1-5.
SWG member and Curatorial Associate
Monica Barnes has arranged the Brazos Valley Museum exhibition.
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Women Who Dare: Women
Explorers, which
features photographs and stories on
Annie Smith
Peck, Alexandra David-Neel, Harriet Chalmers Adams,
and other SWG members, is now available from the Library of
Congress. Author Sharon M. Hannon did some of her research at SWG
headquarters….
Mechtild Rossler
writes from France that
the archives of the late
Ingeborg de Beausacq’s
photos have been found, and a small exhibit of them is planned for
this summer in the south of France. She is looking for a
historian/ geographer who would be interested in working on the de
Beausacq archives. You can contact her at m.rossler@unesco.org…
The
late
Marie Tharp
was featured in the annual New York Times Magazine special obituary
edition in December, under the headline “The Contrary Map Maker:
Other Scientists Dismissed Her Work as ‘Girl Talk,’ but She Refused
to Back Down – And Changed the Way We See the Planet.”
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