PANGEA Detailed Schedule

8:00am - 9:00am REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
Room: ELA 344

8:30am - 8:50am WELCOME TO PANGEA
Room: ELA 344
Hosts: Grayson Wylie and Garrett Pugh

9:00am - 10:20am

PAPER SESSIONS I & II & III (CONCURRENTLY)

Paper Session I: Environmental and Health Observation 
Room: ELA 311
Judges: Dr. Sarah Blue, Dr. Benjamin Zhan

9:00-9:20 Abigail Edgar
Invisible Footprint: methane emissions from marginal oil wells

9:20-9:40 Adriana Montoya
Texas’s Forgotten Parks: Maintaining Cemeteries for Sustainable Natural and Cultural Resource Management

9:40-10:00 Chad Ramos
Neighborhood-Scale Wildfire Evacuation Vulnerability in Hays County, Texas

10:00-10:20 Pingping Wang
Impact of Summer Temperature and Socioeconomic Status on Human Mobility Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Major U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Paper Session II: Public Health, Hazards, and Urban Geography 
Room: ELA 312
Judges: Dr. Dane Atkins, Dr. Injeong Jo

9:00-9:20 T M Junaid Bashar
An Examination of Hospital Accessibility and It’s Relationship with Socioeconomic Factors in Central Texas

9:20-9:40 Adam Clark
The Use of Hazard Imagery as Metaphor in the Houston Chronicle

9:40-10:00 Easton Moore
Small Transit, Big Impact?

10:00-10:20 Bren Vander Weil
Advanced Placement Human Geography: Program Access and Effectiveness by Grade Level, 2001–2020

Paper Session III: Physical Geography
Room: ELA 315
Judges: Dr. Rich Dixon, Dr. Edwin Chow

9:00-9:20 Michael Boyles
Resurveying the Faynan: Using GIS and remote sensing to monitor contemporary threats to an ancient landscape

9:20-9:40 Brock Burford
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Development and Behavior in the Presence of Glyphosate, Copper, and Lead

9:40-10:00 Marie White
The Land of Enchantment: A preliminary investigation of Holocene paleoenvironments in the Tularosa Basin and the state of geoarchaeology in the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico

10:00-10:20 Roger Sigler
Antidunes in the Widespread Corbula “Marker” Bed of the Glen Rose Formation, Lower Cretatceous, Central Texas: Patterns Indicative of Tsunami Deposition

10:00am – 11:20am
Big Bend Visit Student Presentations
Room: ELA 384
Host: Dr. Christi Townsend 
Join us for a special 'Big Bend' morning session during PANGEA where students will showcase their creative projects inspired by the course trip to Big Bend. All attendees are welcome to witness the unique presentations starting at 10 am.

10:30am – 11:50am/12:10pm
PAPER SESSIONS IV & V & VIRTUAL SESSION I (CONCURRENTLY)

Paper Session IV: Cultural and Political Geography 
Room: ELA 315
Judges: Dr. Jennifer Devine, Dr. Osvaldo Muniz

10:30-10:50 Josie Cohen
The Catholic Church’s Response to Immigration Policies of Expulsion and Strategic Neglect: Understanding Asylum Governance in the Lower Rio Grande Valley

10:50-11:10 Najmeh HeidarianBaei
The Woman Life Freedom Social Movement in Iran: A Geospatial and Historical Analysis

11:10-11:30 Laura Parchman
Every Day Becoming Vegan

11:30-11:50 Emily Rhodes
Movement and the Modern Frontier: Discursive and Material Transformations of Oklahoma City Since the 1960s

11:50-12:10 Mandy Truman
Blues music, uneven development, and cultural economy in Clarksdale, Mississippi

Paper Session V: Water Conservation and Climate Change 
Room: ELA 311
Judges: Dr. Sam Krause, Dr. Rebecca Davio

10:30-10:50 Priyanjali Bose
A New Water Budget for Texas

10:50-11:10 Alain Elegbe
Water Justice in the Republic of Benin: Spatial Analysis of Unequal Access to Drinking Water in Changing Climate

11:10-11:30 Tighearnan Juarez-Murphy
Geomorphic Response to Saltcedar Management in the Upper Brazos River

11:30-11:50 Sophia Staska
Connecting Texas: The Geography of Water Transfers

Virtual Session I 
Simulcast viewing for in person participants available in ELA 312
Zoom link
Judges: Dr. Michael Solem, Dr. Ron Hagelman

10:30 - 10:50 Alisa Hartsell
Legal Bordering of Asylum through Liminality

10:50 - 11:10 Mohd Amin Khan - Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT)
Applications of Geospatial Technology in Understanding Wildfire Dynamics

11:10 - 11:30 Dustin Sanchez
Triangulating the Impact of Corruption on Regional Economic Resilience in the Kosovo Wine Sector

11:30 - 11:50 Sanju Purohit - Akamai University
TBD

12:00pm – 1:00 pm 
LUNCH BREAK
Room: ELA 344 –Lunch will be available for pick-up for registered presenters and attendees.

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
POSTER SESSION (In Person)
ELA Third Floor

Judges: Dr. Ben Prince, Dr. Shelly Wernette, Dr. Rich Dixon,Dr. Dane Atkins, Dr. Su Han, Dr. Alberto Giordano, Dr. Nate Currit, Dr. Eric Sarmiento

Undergraduate Student Poster Presenters

CJ Cranor
The Big Bend

Mikael Lopez
Spatial Analysis for Sustainable Viticulture: Optimizing Grape Cultivation in Texas Wine Country 

Graduate Student Poster Presenters

Hilary Ansah
Modeling Spatial Accessibility to Ethnic Food Stores Within Immigrant Communities in Austin, Texas

Anupa Bhatta
Geodemographics and Spatial Inequity of Urban Blue and Green Spaces in San Marcos, Texas

Wyatt Bradley
TBD

Fahmina Binte Ibrahim
Utilizing GIS to determine the clustering of fire burn risk in California

Sadia Islam Ritu
Spatiotemporal analysis of land cover dynamics and quantification of urban heat island (UHI)

Diane Nunez
Sociodemographic Disparity of Asthma Calls in Wichita, Oklahoma, and Tulsa

Mina Ojha
Land use land cover change detection analysis: A case study of Lekhnath Metropolitan city, Kaski, Nepal

Taraja Oliver
Examining Human-Environment Interactions in the Southeastern United States: A Case Study of Kisatchie National Forest

Md Tousif Tanzir
Vulnerability Assessment of Urban and Peri-Urban Areas in Dhaka: Exploring Ecosystem Service Loss

Xiu Wu
Case Study on Spatial Mismatch between Multivariate and Student-Teacher Rate in U.S Public School Districts

2:00 – 2:20pm 
COFFEE BREAK
Room: ELA First Floor Atrium

2:20pm - 3:20pm
KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND AWARD CEREMONY

3:45 pm – 5:00 pm
GEOBOWL
Room: Meet in Room ELA 311 for Instructions
Judges: Dr. Sarah Blue, TBD