3.00-5.00pm, Monday afternoon, 5th July @ Rydges Hotel
Open to all postgraduate Geography students
A networking workshop covering issues of interest for postgraduate students in Geography. More detail to follow in due course at: http://www.nzgs2010.org.nz/nzgs2010_wksh.htm
Cost: No Charge for conference registrants.

The biennial conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society in conjunction with the Institute of Australian Geographers will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand 5-8 July 2010. Full details about the conference can be found at http://www.nzgs2010.org.nz/ and further information concerning keynote speakers and field trips will be added in due course. The call for panel proposals and individual abstracts on any geographic theme is now open. The conference is open to geographers anywhere in the world and we especially encourage graduate students as well as established faculty to attend and present their work.

Panel proposals

Conference attendees are invited to submit proposals for panels, special sessions or workshops. Once approved by the programme committee, convenors will be responsible for issuing a call for papers and finding speakers. Each approved panel will be given one or two 80 minutes sessions of four speakers per session.

Panel proposals of a maximum of 400 words should be submitted through the conference website at http://www.nzgs2010.org.nz/ no later than 31 January 2010. Early submission is welcome and encouraged.

General abstract submission

Speakers who are not assigned to a specific panel should submit an abstract of 250 words through the conference website at http://www.nzgs2010.org.nz/ and the programme committee will assign the paper to an appropriately themed session. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 April 2010.

If you have any questions about the conference programme, please contact Julie Cupples at julie.cupples@canterbury.ac.nz. If you have any questions about registration, the website, accommodation or any other conference-related matter, please contact the conference manager Eddy van Til at eddy@eenz.com.

We look forward to welcoming you in Christchurch in July 2010.

The NZGS2010 Organizing Committee
Department of Geography
University of Canterbury
Christchurch
New Zealand

“Corresponding Fellows are scholars living outside the UK who have attained high international standing in any of the branches of study which it is the object of the Academy to promote [i.e. across the humanities and the social sciences]. This is taken to mean even greater distinction that that required for Ordinary Fellowships. Up to ten elections are made in each year to the Corresponding Fellowship. There are currently 307 Corresponding Fellows”.

The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, announced on 22 June 2009, in a ceremony at Parliament House, that 15 world-leading scholars will be awarded Australian Laureate Fellowships worth around $2.7 million each.

One of the scholars awarded a Fellowship is the President of the Institute of Australian Geographers, Professor Lesley Head.

In announcing the awards Senator Carr said that the Australian Laureate Fellowship scheme takes the best elements of the previous Federation Fellowships scheme and adds a focus on team work, career paths and leadership. ‘As part of the Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme, successful fellows will lead and mentor the next generation of research leaders, helping to build Australia’s international competitive research capacity. The work will focus on areas of national economic, environmental, cultural and social benefit …’

The 15 successful Australian Laureate Fellows were selected from a highly competitive field of 148 researchers, and the Fellowships are worth around $2.7 million each.

Professor Head was awarded her Fellowship for work in the area of cultural environmental research: the missing link in multidisciplinary approaches to sustainability. The announcement of her award provided the following biographical information.

Professor Head is Professor and Head of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Wollongong. Her research has focused on long-term changes in the Australian landscape and the material and conceptual interactions that both prehistoric and contemporary peoples have had with these environments.

Professor Head’s project will bring together two main intellectual currents; geographical and archaeological understandings of long term environmental change, including anthropogenic contributions, combined with a critical social sciences perspective on relations between human and non-human worlds. This research will contribute to building Australia’s international research presence in the cultural dimensions of environmental sustainability, with particular strengths in ethnographic and related social science methods.

Professor Head was awarded her PhD in Geography from Monash University. She was appointed the King Carl XVI Gustaf Visiting Professor of Environmental Science at Kristianstad University, Sweden. She is the only Australian to have received this award. Professor Head was Director of the GeoQuEST Research Centre and has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and is currently the President of the Institute Australian Geographers.

Professor Head has been involved in a number of committees, and has been the Chair (2006-08) of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Geography.

‘Balancing Choices and Effects in a Dynamic World’
Cairns IAG 2009 Conference
James Cook University
Cairns
28 September - 1 October, 2009

The official conference website, with details of the programme and registration, can be found at: http://www.iag.org.au/conferences-events/iag-conference-cairns-2009/

We are very pleased to announce that, in cooperation with our publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, Geographical Research will now be available electronically, online, in ‘Early View’ (previously termed ‘Online Early’ but changed following the merger of Blackwell Synergy into Wiley InterScience).

Early View papers are produced individually or in small batches. Papers are dealt with in the usual way: submitted to editors, refereed, returned to authors for revision, revised papers are copy-edited by the editors and returned to authors for approval, often with further queries, and then forwarded to the publisher once authors and editors are satisfied. Proofs will be sent from the publisher to authors and the relevant editor as they are prepared individually or in small batches, and the editor will incorporate all the changes into the proof and send the corrections back to the publisher. Authors are asked to note that only errors may be corrected at the proof stage: this is not the time to rewrite the paper. Once the paper is finalised it is published online, and at that point the article is considered fully published and no further changes can be made. When it is time to collate the issue, papers will be paginated and published in print and in the issue table of contents online. If there is an error in a paper published in Early View it would need to be corrected with an erratum, just as if it had been published in a hard copy issue.

There are two main benefits for authors, as we see it. First, most papers will be published more quickly than at present. There will no longer be a lag between final acceptance and copy-editing, and publication; whereas at present this lag may extend over several months.

Second, authors’ papers receive two exposures: once when the article is placed in Early View, and second when it appears in the printed version. Early View papers are cited by their digital object identifier (doi) number: at that stage they will not have volume, issue or page numbers. In all other respects they are full publications.

Geographical Research Articles on Early View:

Commentary
 An Inconvenient Truth (2006) (Directed by Davis Guggenheim and Al Gore, Paramount Pictures, USA): Review Symposium (p)
JON BARNETT, PETER CHRISTOFF, HARIPRIYA RANGAN, ELISSA SUTHERLAND
Published Online: Jan 6 2009 5:54AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00560.x

Papers
 Imizamo Yethu: a Case Study of Community Resilience to Fire Hazard in an Informal Settlement Cape Town, South Africa (p))
E. WENDY HARTE, IRAPHNE R.W. CHILDS, PETER A. HASTINGS
Published Online: Jan 6 2009 5:53AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00561.x

 Factors Affecting Late Twentieth Century Land Use Patterns in Kamakura City, Japan (p)
OH IWATA, TAKASHI OGUCHI
Published Online: Jan 6 2009 5:52AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00559.x

 The Role of Fire Disturbance on Runoff and Erosion Processes – a Long-Term Approach, Mt. Carmel Case Study, Israel (p)
LEA WITTENBERG, MOSHE INBAR
Published Online: Nov 28 2008 1:18AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00554.x

 The Role of Land Management in Shaping Arid/Semi-arid Landscapes: the Case of the Catholic Church (CICM) in Western Inner Mongolia from the 1870s (Late Qing Dynasty) to the 1940s (Republic of China) (p)
XIAOHONG ZHANG, TAO SUN, JINGSHU ZHANG
Published Online: Nov 28 2008 1:17AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00558.x

 Planning to Reduce Risk: The Wildfire Management Overlay in Victoria, Australia (p)
RACHEL HUGHES, DAVID MERCER
Published Online: Nov 28 2008 1:15AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00556.x

 Human Adaptive Responses to Catastrophic Landscape Disruptions During the Holocene at Numundo, PNG (p)
J.F. PARR, W.E. BOYD, V. HARRIOTT, R. TORRENCE
Published Online: Nov 28 2008 1:14AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00553.x

 MODIS-derived NDVI Characterisation of Drought-Induced Evergreen Dieoff in Western North America (p )
ANDREW N. YUHAS, LOUIS A. SCUDERI
Published Online: Nov 28 2008 1:14AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00557.x

 The Design and Development of a Closed Chamber for the in-situ Quantification of Dryland Soil Carbon Dioxide Fluxes (p)
STEPHEN R. HOON, ANDREW D. THOMAS, PATRICIA E LINTON
Published Online: Nov 28 2008 1:13AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00551.x

 A Strategic Framework for Monitoring Coastal Change in Australia’s Wet-dry Tropics – Concepts and Progress (p )
C. MAX FINLAYSON, IAN ELIOT, MATTHEW ELIOT
Published Online: Nov 28 2008 1:13AM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00549.x

 Chemical Weathering of Detrital Sediments in the Taklamakan Desert, Northwestern China (p)
BINGQI ZHU, XIAOPING YANG
Published Online: Oct 23 2008 8:29PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00555.x

 History of Deforestation and Reforestation in the Dinaric Karst (p)
ANDREJ KRANJC
Published Online: Oct 23 2008 8:28PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00552.x

 Drivers of Unsustainable Land Use in the Semi-Arid Khabur River Basin, Syria (p)
FRANK HOLE
Published Online: Oct 23 2008 8:28PM
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00550.x

Arthur Conacher, George Curry and Roy Jones (editors)

Call for Abstracts closes Friday 6 March 2009
Conference Website: http://www.promaco.com.au/2009/soac