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Spring 2008

April 25, 2008
Land Use Planning

Beaches vs. Buildings: Coastal Management in North Carolina
Andy Coburn, Assoc. Director, Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, Western Carolina University

GIS in Support of Regional Planning
Tom Tribble, Manager, Asheville Field Office, NC Center for Geographic Information & Analysis  (CGIA)

A Hedonic Valuation of Open Space in Buncombe County
Christie Gonzales, UNC Asheville Math Major and Farmland Values Project Undergraduate Research Student

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April 4, 2008
Improving Science and Math Education

Civil Rights and the Algebra Project
Harry Harrison, Executive Director YMI Cultural Center, Former CEO, African American Museum of Philadelphia; VP Museum of African American History in Detroit

Improving STEM Education at UNC Asheville
Sam Kaplan, Associate Professor Mathematics,UNC Asheville

NSF REU Students at UNC Asheville Perform Original Research in Mathematics
Patrick Bahls, Assistant Professor Mathematics, UNC Asheville

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March 28, 2008
Water Resources

Water Quality Trends in Buncombe County Streams
Marilyn Westphal, Volunteer Water Information Network(VWIN) Coordinato, Environmental Quality Institute, UNC Asheville

Watershed Assessment and Restoration: An Overview of Typical State-Level Programs
Barry Evans, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment (PSIE)

Challenges of Water Resource Management: A Regulator's Perspective
G. Landon Davidson, NCDENR - Division of WAter Quality, Aquifer Protection Section

Models for Management, the Owasco Lake Watershed View
Bob Brower, CEO and Chair, Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT), Cayuga Community College

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February 22 , 2008
Urban Sustainability:
The Built Environment

Sustainability in Asheville Policy Making
Robin Cape, Asheville City Council

The Contribution of Eco-Neighborhoods to Urban Sustainability
Bill Fleming, Westwood Cohousing Community

Adding Up the Built Environment
Joe Minicozzi, Projects Director, Public Interest Projects

The Youth Climate Movement: Mobilizing for the 21st Century and Beyond
Ellie Johnston, Co-Chair of Active Students for a Healthy Environment (ASHE)

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February 8, 2008
Climate: Asheville's Economic Development

A Vision for Asheville’s National Leadership in Climate for the Public Good
Ron Gordon Centers for Environmental & Climate Interaction (CECI) Program Manager;The North Carolina Arboretum Director of Economic Development

NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center – Climate Services and Drought
Tim Owen, Educative Officer, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)

Climate Change and Society Masters Program: An Asheville Graduate Center Update on the UNC Office of the President Planning Grant
Sandra Byrd, Assistant Provost for Graduate and Continuing Education and Associate Professor of Education, UNC Asheville

A Most Convenient Truth: As global attention focuses on climate change, Asheville continues its efforts to attract weather, climate,and environmental technology companies to the area.
Pamela McCown, Director of Marketing, Education and Research Services

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Fall 2007

December 7, 2007
Biosphere

No more magic bullets? Try the magic shotgun! ... the Bent Creek Institute's unique approach to developing next-generation treatments for human disease
Jeffrey D. Schmitt, PhD,  Bent Creek Institute

The NC Arboretum: Tapping Regional Uniqueness and Opportunity
George Briggs, Executive Director, The NC Arboretum

Monitoring invasive exotic plant species in the National Forests of the Southern Appalachians
Andy Brown, President of Equinox Environmental

Dissection of a Molecular Communication Pathway in Cancer Cells
Thomas E. Meigs Assistant Professor of Biology UNC Asheville

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November 16, 2007
GIS Day

Mapping the Past: GIS Use by the Warren Wilson College Archaeology Crew
David Moore, Archaeology Faculty, Warren Wilson College
Andrea Glenn, Warren Wilson College student, Sociology and Anthropology Major

Geo 101, Is It GIS or Geospatial?
Greg Dobson, GIS Research Associate, NEMAC

Integrating GIS and Multimedia
Egg Davis, UNC-Asheville Student/NEMAC Research Student

Mashing Up GIS in the World of Web 2.0
Todd Pierce, Research Scientist, NEMAC

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October 26, 2007
The Day After Yesterday: A Look at Different Aspects of Weather

Observing Hurricane Winds from Space
Christopher C. Hennon, Assistant Professor, UNCA Department of Atmospheric Sciences  

If a raindrop falls in the middle of Haywood County, does it make a splash?
Douglas K. Miller, Associate Professor and Chairperson
UNCA Atmospheric Sciences Department

Impact of the Southern Appalachian Mountains on the SEMPE IOP-4 event
Christopher McCall Majoring in Atmospheric Science

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September 28, 2007
Arts in Economic Development

A Dynamic Performance Center's Impact on the Regional Arts Scene
Carol A. McCollum, Active Community Volunteer

State of the arts in Asheville: arts as a local asset
Adrienne Crowther

Creation of UNCA's Interdisciplinary Craft Campus
Brent Skidmore and Jon Keenan

The Economic Impact of the Arts
Jenny Moore Associate Director of Handmade in America

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September 14, 2007
Cutting Edge Visualization

Interactive Visualization Techniques
Mark Phillips, Research Scientist NEMAC and NCDC

Displaying the Brain's Fiber Tracts
David C. Banks, UT/ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences

Radar Data Visualization and Interoperability Tools at NOAA's NCDC
Steve Del Greco Data Processing Branch Chief/ NEXRAD Program Manager NCDC

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Sustainability at UNCA: Opportunities for synergies among education, finance, community, and improved campus environmental performance
Dee Eggers, UNCA Faculty, Environmental Studies

A Report Card on Sustainability
Susan Fox, US Forest Service, Southern Research Station

The Sustainability Tsunami
Steve Cochran, Sustainability Strategies

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Spring 2007

April 27, 2007

A new paradigm for therapeutics discovery
Jeff Schmitt, Founding Director, Bent Creek Institute (the institute for natural biotechnology and integrative medicine)

The Management of Early Successional Habitat and the Spread of Autumn Olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) in Pisgah National Forest
April Pallette, UNCA Environmental Studies and NEMAC Internship Student

RFID in the Bonsai Exhibition Garden, and the Human Centrifuge in the Health AdventureSusan Reiser, Lecturer in UNCA Computer Science Dept and Associate Director Multimedia Arts & Sciences Dept

Rebecca Bruce and Susan Reiser co-developed and taught two of this year's new Computer Science courses:  Radio Frequency  IDentification and 3D Modeling.  Projects like the design of a context sensitive tour and a museum exhibit allow UNCA students to use technology in service to the Asheville community.

April 13, 2007

Renaissance Computing Institute Engagement Site at UNC Asheville
Update and Overview by Jim Fox NEMAC
Introductions of newest members of NEMAC Mark Phillips and Todd Pierce.

Digital models of Asheville with GIS and SketchUp by Egg Davis and Lisa Schleicher UNCA/NEMAC Students

UNCA Campus Map
by Josh O'Connor UNCA/NEMAC Student

The Applied Visualization Lab
by Alison Watson The Media Arts Project

RENCI Outreach Van for Education and Research
by Bridget O'Hara NEMAC

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March 16, 2007

The Farmland Values Project: A Report from the Field
Leah Greden Mathews, UNCA Associate Professor of Economics

Three-Dimensional Zoetropes
Stewart Dickson, Lecturer, UNCA Department of Computer Science; Research Associate, National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center

Leveraging geographic Internet growth as it relates to social networking, to increase awareness of local social fabric
Terry Riney, Owner and CEO, I Go Geo

February 23, 2007
Geographical Information Systems

GIS has become a critical and fully integrated tool for research at NEMAC.  A variety of projects are currently underway within NEMAC involving various applications of GIS.  While GIS has previously been viewed as primarily a method for spatial analysis research, NEMAC has fully embraced it as an integrated method for Geovisualization.  Locally beyond NEMAC, GIS is a widely used and highly dynamic tool for a variety of applications.

mapAsheville - From Data Discovery to Service Delivery
Jason Mann, GIS Coordinator, City of Asheville

Integrating Bayesian Belief Networks into a GIS
Jeff Hicks, UNCA Environmental Studies and NEMAC Intern

GIS at NCDC
Steve Ansari, Physical Scientist, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center 

February 2, 2007
Technology Cluster of the HUB

Building & using AshevilleHub.com: an old dog & some new tricks
Sean McDonald, Business Development TopFloorStudio (UNCA 2004)

The Vision: Centers for Environmental and Climatic Interaction
Steve Doty, retired meteorologist (NCDC) and volunteer Executive Director, CECI
Bob Shepherd, retired community leader and volunteer Vice-Chairman, CECI and retired Executive director of Land-of-Sky Regional Council.

The state of the ERC Broadband Network
Hunter Goosman, Director of Network Operations ERC Broadband

Fall 2006

December 1, 2006

A Short History of the Steel Pan
Susan Weatherford, Program Manager, NEMAC & Mary Hart, Attorney, Hart Law Offices

A Concept for Real-Time Sediment Prediction
Tom Burnet, Chief Hydrologist, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems

Educational Opportunities at NOAA
Carmella Davis Watkins, National Climatic Data Center Educational Outreach Team Leader

November 17, 2006

Integrating Techniques to Predict and Visualize Biodiversity Loss in a Protected Andean Landscape
Brandie L. Fariss, Instructor of Environmental Studies at UNC-Asheville

WRF-NMM MCS Sensitivity in Complex Terrain with Varying PBL Schemes
Jacob Carley, UNCA Atmospheric Science and NEMAC research student

The Climate of Citizenship Education: A longitudinal study 
Sandra Byrd, UNCA Assistant Provost for Graduate and Continuing Education &
Associate Professor of Education 

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October 27, 2006

Assessing Engineering Related Hurricane Risks Along the Gulf Coast
Mike Squires Climatologist, National Climatic Data Center

Adopting a Daughter from China
Marvin Feinblatt, NEMAC Director of Finance/Project Manager

Transportation Planning: Health, Environment, and Equity and Financial savings
Yuri Koslen, UNCA Transportation Planner Harry Johnson, former Transportation Planning Intern, UNCA Environmental Studies student and SGA Senator

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October 13, 2006

Historic sedimentation in the southern piedmont: A legacy for modern streams
Karin Lichtenstein, NEMAC Project Manager/ Research Associate

Atmospheric modeling supporting state implementation plans for regional haze, PM2.5, and ozone
Pat Brewer, VISTAS Technical Coordinator

Satellite Data Services from NCDC and CLASS
Axel Graumann, Meteorologist, NOAA National Climatic Data Center

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September 22, 2006

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Archer Gravely, Director UNCA Office of Institutional Research

Flood Modeling in a Mountain Environment: A Case Study on the Watauga River in Western North Carlina
J. Greg Dobson, GIS Research Associate, NEMAC

A Cadastral-Based Change Analysis of the French Broad River Basin of Western North Carolina
Carolyn Fryberger, Environmental Studies Major

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September 8, 2006

EFETAC Project – NEMAC Collaboration with the US Forest Service
James Fox, Director of Operations, NEMAC

The British are coming! The British are coming!
Paul Revere, noted silversmith (a.k.a. Douglas Miller, Associate Professor, Atmospheric Sciences Department)

ENC Intranet - A MediaWiki Based Intranet
Kenneth Roberts, Jr., Computer Science major and NEMAC research student