Geography Department 75th Anniversary

Augustana College will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its geography department April 26-27, with alumni from the Quad-Cities and across the country returning to mark the occasion. The public is invited to presentations at the John Deere Planetarium on Saturday, April 27, to hear how Augustana alumni are leading and contributing to important work in their chosen fields today.

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Presentation schedule:

• 9-9:45 a.m.: Norm Moline, professor emeritus, "The 75 Year History of the Geography Department"
• 9:50-10:15 a.m.: Paul Brinkman '91, head of the Environmental Humanities Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, "Now Is the Time to Collect: Salvage Zoology and the Colonial Geography of Extinction"
• 10:15-10:40 a.m.: Tom Klak '79, professor of environmental studies, University of New England (Biddeford, Maine), "Speed Breeding Transgenic American Chestnut: A Missing Keystone Species of the Eastern U.S."
• 10:55-11:20 a.m.: Dawn Carlson '90, traffic engineer at RK&K Civil Engineering (Atlanta, Ga.)
• 11:20-11:45 a.m.: Kirk Huiffaker '92, principal of Kirk Huffaker Preservation Strategies (Salt Lake City, Utah), "Past Forward – The Power of Preservation"
• 11:45 a.m.-12:10 p.m.: Brad Jokisch '89, associate professor of geography, Ohio University, "International Migration: A Geographer’s Perspective and Experience (Latin America focus)"