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Members of the Keweenaw Time Traveler team and Michigan Technological University’s Social Sciences Department attended the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting In Detroit this past week. Over the course of the week students and faculty have presented in or helped facilitate 27 sessions! Below is a list of work presented at the conference:
- Victor Humanes Fuente: Influence of Fire Regimes and Human Migrations on Pine Regeneration in Northern Michigan
- Mark Rhodes: Printing the Historical Geographies of the State: The temporalities, spatialities, and bureaucracies of the National Museum Wales Press
- Don Lafreniere: FV 3-2: Explore the "World in 2 square Miles"- the unique enclave of Hamtramck Michigan
- Kathryn Hannum: Experiential Learning in Geography: The World as Our Classroom (BOOK) Meet the Authors
- Dan Trepal: Mapping IPUMS Census Microdata at Micro-Scales: Challenges and Opportunities
- Kathryn Hannum and Erin Loeschmann: Adapting the IPL-12 for Qualitative Insights into Refugee Integration
- Esther Acheampong: Enhancing Stakeholder Participation in Geospatial Coastal Vulnerability Indices for Shoreline Management on Lake Michigan’s Coastline
- Grace Murray: Living Memorials and Their Potential for Community Connections and Representative Memorialization
- Roman Sidortsov: Harnessing Community Power: Exploring Community-Based Approaches to Energy Justice
- Grace Griffin: Developing a National Soundscape Model for US National Parks
- James Juip: Interpreting the Absent: The use of digital story trails and deep mapping to resurrect a former lumber mill landscape
In partnership with the Hamtramck Historical Museum and Wayne State University the Keweenaw Time Traveler hosted “Explore the ‘World in 2 square miles’ - the unique enclave of Hamtramck Michigan” a field trip to the community of Hamtramck was one of the highlights of the week. Visitors used the Hamtramck Explorer on their mobile phones to explore the temporal and spatial changes Hamtramck has experienced. Participants received a personal tour of the Hamtramck Historical Museum and wrapped up their excursion with a trip to the Polish Village Cafe.
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