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Editor:
Tonya Allen
allen@pop.psu.edu
PRInformation
Fall 2002
Articles of Interest
2002 National Symposium on Family Issues
The 2002 National Symposium on Family Issues, entitled "Work-Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and their Children," was held October 10-11, 2002 at the Nittany Lion Inn, Penn State. Lead speakers were Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute; Susan Clampet-Lundquist, University of Pennsylvania; Kathryn Edin, Northwestern University; Aletha Huston, University of Texas-Austin; and Harriet Presser, University of Maryland.
The 2003 Symposium will be entitled "Creating the Next Generation: Social, Economic, and Psychological Processes Underlying Fertility." Further details will appear on the National Symposium on Family Issues home page.
GIS Workshops at PAA
The GIA Core coordinated the pre-conference workshop on GIS in Demography at the Population Association of America meetings in Atlanta in May, 2002. GIA Core consultants Stephen Graham, Michelle Zeiders and Jason Smith, as well as Paul Voss, professor of rural sociology and Director of the Applied Population Laboratory, Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin, led various sections of the workshop.
GIS-Driven Groundwater Modeling for Source Water Protection of Large Water Supply Systems in PA
Dr. Stephen Graham, GIA Analyst/Programmer, is working as part of a team headed by Dr. Chris Duffy (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Penn State) on this project funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The project will develop advanced modeling tools to assess potential contamination threats to large drinking water systems in Pennsylvania.
Consortium for Atlantic Region Assessment (CARA)
Dr. Stephen Graham, GIA Analyst/Programmer, and Dr. Stephen A. Matthews, senior research associate, associate professor of demography and sociology (adjunct geography), and director of the GIA Core, are part of the Penn State research team in a multi-site project known as Consortium for Atlantic Region Assessment (CARA) funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Based at Penn State, CARA includes researchers at Carnegie Mellon, University of Rhode Island and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science as major partners. The CARA team will investigate the ability of individuals and institutions vulnerable to the evolving mix of climate and other stressors to use the best information and projections when making decisions that influence future outcomes.
Geo-Referenced Digital Libraries
Dr. Stephen A. Matthews, senior research associate, associate professor of demography and sociology (adjunct geography), and director of the GIA Core, is part of an international team of geographers (affiliated with the Worldwide Universities Network) that will focus on developing geo-referenced digital libraries in support of innovative approaches to teaching and learning in Geography. The project, funded by the Joint Information Systems (JISC-UK) and National Science Foundation (NSF-USA), includes collaborators at the University of Leeds, the University of Southampton, and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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