BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Geography, Environment, & Sustainability Department - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ges.uncg.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Geography, Environment, & Sustainability Department REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T183000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20260428T165607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T165609Z UID:10000020-1778085000-1778092200@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Departmental Graduation Celebration DESCRIPTION:109 Graham Building \n\n\n\nHonoring our fall & spring graduates\, showcasing your accomplishments\, as well as presenting awards! \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be served. Hope you can join us! \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP by May 1st: GES Departmental Graduation RSVP Form URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-departmental-graduation-celebration/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T120000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20260121T034446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T035012Z UID:10000014-1772020800-1772020800@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Club - Lunch and Learn Series DESCRIPTION:GES Club – Lunch and Learn Series: Topics TBD! Free pizza lunch!\n\n\n\nJoin us at Noon in Graham 109 on the following dates:\n\n\n\nFebruary 25\n\n\n\nMarch 18\n\n\n\nApril 1 URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-club-lunch-and-learn-series-2/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:GES Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T163000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20260205T213106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T152950Z UID:10000017-1771601400-1771605000@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Spring Colloquium speaker series DESCRIPTION:TOPIC: Theory Becoming Action: Embodying Interdependency through Queer Anarchy \n\n\n\nGraham 106 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. For disability accomodations\, contact mlreaga2@uncg.edu / 336.334.5388 \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\n\nDr. Cara Judea Alhadeff URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-spring-colloquium-speaker-series-3/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:Colloquium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T130000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20260205T213854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T154947Z UID:10000018-1770984000-1770987600@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Club - Lunch and Learn Series DESCRIPTION:GES Club – Lunch and Learn Series: Summer Field Course opportunities Free pizza lunch!\n\n\n\nJoin us at Noon in Graham 106 on Friday\, February 13th URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-club-lunch-and-learn-series-5/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:GES Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T120000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20260121T033637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T212328Z UID:10000012-1770811200-1770811200@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Spring Colloquium speaker series DESCRIPTION:TOPIC: the geography of nuclear energy (RISE co-sponsorship) \n\n\n\nGraham 106 \n\n\n\nFree pizza lunch will be served \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. For disability accomodations\, contact mlreaga2@uncg.edu / 336.334.5388 \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\n\nLisa Marshall\n\n\n\nCSU Nuclear Engineering Extension\, former Co-Chair of the AAG Diversity & Inclusion Committee; Energy and Environment URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-spring-colloquium-speaker-series-2/ LOCATION:NC CATEGORIES:Colloquium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T120000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20260121T034402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260130T171752Z UID:10000013-1769601600-1769601600@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Club - Lunch and Learn Series DESCRIPTION:GES Club – Lunch and Learn Series: Topics TBD! Free pizza lunch!\n\n\n\nJoin us at Noon in Graham 109 on the following dates:\n\n\n\nFebruary 4\n\n\n\nFebruary 25\n\n\n\nMarch 18\n\n\n\nApril 1 URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-club-lunch-and-learn-series/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:GES Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T153000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20260121T033019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T034850Z UID:10000011-1769182200-1769182200@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Spring Colloquium speaker series DESCRIPTION:Topic: Freshwater biology and biogeochemistry\n\n\n\nCarbon from the Upside Down: How Ecosystem Ecology Questions the Spatiotemporal Extent of Streams\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Amanda DelVecchia\, UNC Geography and Environment\n\n\n\nStreams are broadly conceptualized as well-oxygenated\, flowing waters with life sustained by modern photosynthesis. In the past decade\, evidence of methane presence and contributions to stream processes has caused us to question this paradigm. Methane is produced in conditions without oxygen and it can be cycled through food webs\, transported downstream\, or released to the atmosphere as a potent greenhouse gas. \n\n\n\nIn this talk I will discuss our work on how methane\, tied to the dark anoxic regions of streams\, has caused us to reconsider the extent of what constitutes a stream ecosystem. We will discuss two primary topics: how the dark and anoxic regions of streams can support stream food webs (including Bristol Bay salmon)\, and where these regions might occur and be relevant to stream carbon cycling. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. For disability accomodations\, contact mlreaga2@uncg.edu / 336.334.5388 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmanda DelVecchia\n\n\n\nDepartment of Geography and Environment\, UNC Chapel Hill URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-spring-colloquium-speaker-series/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ges.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GES-2026-01-26-feature.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T140000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20251112T183627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251112T183630Z UID:10000010-1763121600-1763128800@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:Alumni All Access: Peabody Park Ivy Pull DESCRIPTION: URL:https://alumni.uncg.edu/event/peabody-park-ivy-pull/#new_tab LOCATION:NC ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ges.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ivy-pull.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T130000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20250730T212937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T162024Z UID:10000008-1762344000-1762347600@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Club: Lunch & Learn Series DESCRIPTION:Join us for pizza and community as we welcome speakers from various backgrounds on topics that pertain to geography\, environment & sustainability. Meetings will take place in Graham 109. \n\n\n\nTopics TBD – stay tuned! URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-club-lunch-learn-series-5/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:GES Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T153000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20251015T162840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251015T162845Z UID:10000009-1761319800-1761319800@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:Fall 2025 Colloquium Series: Research as principled engagement DESCRIPTION:Graham Building\, Room 106 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFall 2025 Colloquium Series\n\n\n\nResearch as principled engagement: Reflections on two decades of participatory action research on tourism microentrepreneurship\n\n\n\nIn this presentation\, Duarte B. Morais of NC State University reviews two decades of scholarship grounded in reciprocal collaboration with tourism microentrepreneurs and destination communities. The People-First Tourism Lab at NC State University has developed and adapted a participatory methodology that integrates critical pedagogy\, mixed methods\, and social entrepreneurship to examine the under-studied domain of tourism microentrepreneurship and to foster endogenous community development. \n\n\n\nMorais will summarize key findings from this body of work concerning tourism microentrepreneurs’ motivations\, self-determination\, social capital\, and self-representation. The presentation concludes with an invitation to reflect on how scholar–practitioner–activists can influence knowledge creation and instigate\, through their practice\, transformative change toward a more equitable world. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. For disability accomodations\, contact mlreaga2@uncg.edu / 336.334.5388 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDUARTE B. MORAIS\n\n\n\nNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/research-as-principled-engagement/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ges.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ges-2025-10-24.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T130000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20250730T212907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T162016Z UID:10000007-1761134400-1761138000@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Club: Lunch & Learn Series DESCRIPTION:Join us for pizza and community as we welcome speakers from various backgrounds on topics that pertain to geography\, environment & sustainability. Meetings will take place in Graham 109. \n\n\n\nTopics TBD – stay tuned! URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-club-lunch-learn-series-4/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:GES Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251001T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251001T130000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20250730T212836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T161912Z UID:10000006-1759320000-1759323600@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Club: Lunch & Learn Series DESCRIPTION:10/1 Topic: “My Teaching and Research Interests”\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Bhuwan Thapa\, GES Assistant Professor\n\n\n\nSee more Lunch & Learn Events here! Join us for pizza and community as we welcome speakers from various backgrounds on topics that pertain to geography\, environment & sustainability. \n\n\n\nMeetings will take place in Graham 109. URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-club-lunch-learn-series-3/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:GES Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T130000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20250730T212809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T161846Z UID:10000005-1758110400-1758114000@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Club: Lunch & Learn Series DESCRIPTION:9/17 Topic: “Development In Liberty NC”\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Janie Konyek\, Liberty NC Assistant Town Manager\n\n\n\nSee more Lunch & Learn Events here! Join us for pizza and community as we welcome speakers from various backgrounds on topics that pertain to geography\, environment & sustainability. \n\n\n\nMeetings will take place in Graham 109. URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-club-lunch-learn-series-2/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:GES Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250903T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250903T130000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20250730T212509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250820T200623Z UID:10000004-1756900800-1756904400@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:GES Club: Lunch & Learn Series DESCRIPTION:9/3 Topic: “GIS and Guilford County”\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Marlena Isley\, Guilford County GIS Manager\n\n\n\nSee more Lunch & Learn Events here! Join us for pizza and community as we welcome speakers from various backgrounds on topics that pertain to geography\, environment & sustainability. \n\n\n\nMeetings will take place in Graham 109. URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ges-club-lunch-learn-series/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:GES Club END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250328T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250329T170000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20250225T133703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T153011Z UID:10000002-1743166800-1743267600@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:Ocean Advocacy Workshop 2025 DESCRIPTION:March 28-29\, 2025 at the Summit Environmental Education Center at Haw River State Park\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2025 Ocean Advocacy Workshop (OAW) builds on the successes of prior OAWs\, also supported by the Green Fund and highly rated by participants. This event will include short\, TED-like talks and breakout sessions led by speakers that reflect the diversity and mindsets of North Carolina’s population. Motivated college students and community members will learn about the current state of marine fisheries and wetland loss in NC. Discussions of ecogrief allow for awareness of the emotional aspects of environmental awareness and productive ways to cope. Expert environmental advocates will equip students to become informed\, engaged civic leaders through skills-building workshops. \n\n\n\nRegistration is required and includes all meals\, snacks\, and lodging for the duration of the event. \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, March 28\nTimeDescriptionLocation1:00 p.m.Registration OpensMain Lodge2:00 p.m.River HikeMain Lodge3:00 p.m.Welcome and IntroductionsGrove Auditorium3:30 p.m.North Carolina Wildlife FederationGrove Auditorium4:00 p.m.Save Our SoundsGrove Auditorium4:30 p.m.Emotional Resilience in AdvocacyGrove Auditorium5:00 p.m.Break5:30 p.m.DinnerCafeteria\, Main Lodge6:45 p.m.Art in Advocacy – Paperhand Puppet ProjectGrove Auditorium7:45 p.m.Trivia & BonfireHeron’s Roost (Trivia)Outside (Bonfire)\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 29\nTimeDescriptionLocation7:30 a.m.BreakfastCafeteria\, Main Lodge8:45 a.m.UNCG Office of SustainabilityGrove Auditorium9:00 a.m.SOS Video ChallengeGrove Auditorium10:00 a.m.Marine Science and FisheriesGrove Auditorium10:30 a.m.How Ideas Become PolicyGrove Auditorium11:15 a.m.Advocate SpotlightGrove Auditorium12:00 p.m.LunchCafeteria\, Main Lodge1:30 p.m.Breakout Session 1 (Advocacy Skills Training)101: Introduction to state legislature201: SOS messaging and resolution strategy2:40 p.m.Breakout Session 2 (Putting Your Skills to Work)101: Practice scenarios & advocacy action plan201: Practice scenarios & plan chapter advocacy day3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Closing Ceremony followed by distribution of Certificates of CompletionGrove Auditorium\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick Here to Register!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\noceanadvocacyworkshop@gmail.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Last Year’s Workshop \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe annual Ocean Advocacy Workshop brings NC Wildlife Federation\, partner grassroots organizations\, university students\, researchers\, and wildlife advocacy professionals together to equip the next generation of advocates with the network and skills they need to create change. Whether you are brand new to environmental advocacy\, or are a seasoned volunteer and community organizer\, all experience levels are welcome (ages 18+). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is required and space is limited.  \n\n\n\nYou may register at a discounted early bird rate through March 12.  \n\n\n\n\nClick Here to Register! URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/ocean-advocacy-workshop-2025/ LOCATION:Summit Environmental Education Center at Haw River State Park\, 339 Conference Center Dr\, Browns Summit\, NC\, 27214\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ges.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Ocean-advocacy-workshop.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250306T153000 DTSTAMP:20260518T220903 CREATED:20250225T134042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250730T184618Z UID:10000003-1741275000-1741275000@ges.uncg.edu SUMMARY:Spring 2025 Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Illegalities from Above and Below: Making a City for Contraband in the Paraguay-Brazil Borderlands\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 6 @ 3:30 p.m. in Graham 106\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOutlaw Capital (University of Georgia Press\, 2023) shows how transgressive economies and gray spaces are central to globalized capitalism. With an enthography of the largest contraband economy in the Americas running through Ciudad del Este\, Paraguay\, Outlaw Capital shows how conflicts over everyday illegalities shape urban development. By studying the differential treatment of ‘elite illegalities’ and the ‘street illegalities’ of street vendors\, Outlaw Capital shows how racialized narratives of economic legitimacy across scales – not legal compliance – sort whose activities count as formal and legal\, and whose are targeted for reform or expulsion. Ultimately\, reforms criminalized the popular economy while legalizing\, protecting\, and ‘whitening’ elite illegalities. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. For disability accomodations\, contact mlreaga2@uncg.edu / 336.334.5388 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer L. Tucker\, PhD\n\n\n\nAssociate Professor of Community & Regional Planning\, University of New Mexico URL:https://ges.uncg.edu/event/spring-2025-colloquium/ LOCATION:Graham Building\, 1009 Spring Garden Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ges.uncg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-03-06-colloquium.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR