Denver, CO

April 5-9, 2005

Sessions and Presentations

(1) Paper Session: 3637 Reconstructing Mountain Ecosystem Functioning under Climate and Land Use Changes
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 5:00 PM - 6:40 PM
Organizer(s): Jörg Löffler - University of Bonn
Chair(s): Jörg Löffler - University of Bonn
Co-sponsored by SGs Climate; Cryosphere

Presenters(s):
5:00 PM   Annette Bär: Reconstruction of spatio-temporal changes in high mountain ecosystems using a combined dendro-ecologic and microenvironmental approach
5:20 PM   Jörg Löffler: Landscape Changes under Grazing Pressure in the Norwegian Mountains
5:40 PM   Kerstin Potthoff: Changes in grazing and vegetation in a mountain summer farming landscape in Western Norway
6:00 PM   Sebastian Eiter: Land cover and land use in the Norwegian mountains: How to relate material and non-material landscape diversity?
6:20 PM   Ole Rößler: 50 Year of Treeline Development in Central Norway with Focus on the Effects of Climate and Land Use Change
 

(2) Paper Session: 3536 The Crown of the Continent Ecosystem: New Insights from Recent Research – I
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 3:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Organizer(s): Ulrich Kamp - DePaul University; Daniel B. Fagre - United States Geological Survey
Chair(s): Daniel B. Fagre - United States Geological Survey
Co-sponsored by SGs Climate; Cryosphere

Presenters(s):
3:00 PM   Daniel B. Fagre: Crown of the Continent Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change
3:20 PM   Karen Holzer: Monitoring Alpine Plants in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem: The Glacier National Park GLORIA Project.
3:40 PM   Gregory Pederson: Fire and Ice: Understanding the Legacy of the Little Ice Age for Contemporary Landscape Patterns and Processes in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
4:00 PM   Jeremy Littell: Climate Change, Climate Variability, and Douglas-fir Growth in Mountain Ecosystems of Northwestern North America
4:20 PM   Sunday Goshit: Climate Variability in Montana 1951-2000

(3) Paper Session: 3636 The Crown of the Continent Ecosystem: New Insights from Recent Research – II
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 5:00 PM - 6:40 PM
Organizer(s): Ulrich Kamp - DePaul University; David R. Butler - Texas State University - San Marcos
Chair(s): David R. Butler - Texas State University - San Marcos
Co-sponsored by SG Cryosphere

Presenters(s):
5:00 PM   David R. Butler - Texas State University - San Marcos: Active Frost Processes and Fine-Scale Polygonal Patterned Ground on Turf-Banked Terrace Treads, Eastern Glacier National Park, Montana
5:20 PM   Dawna L. Cerney - Texas State University - San Marcos: Digital Image Processing of Repeat Photographs: A Case Study from Glacier National Park, Montana
5:40 PM   Blase Reardon - US Geological Survey: "Rain last night and hell this morning:" Patterns of Large Magnitude Natural Avalanches in Glacier National Park, U.S.A.
6:00 PM   Carol F. Sawyer - Texas State Department of Geography: Snow-avalanches in southern Glacier National Park, Montana: revisiting a historical account using newspaper reports
6:20 PM   Daniel J. Weiss: A Multivariate Analysis of Turf-Bank Terraces in Glacier National Park Montana, USA
 

(4) Paper Session: 3105 Geographic Information Science in Mountain Geography
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Organizer(s): Ulrich Kamp - DePaul University
Chair(s): Michael P. Bishop - University of Nebraska-Omaha
Co-sponsored by SGs Remote Sensing; GIS; Spatial Analysis and Modeling

Presenters(s):
8:00 AM   Jose G. Roa: Vulnerabilty vs. predictability in landslide hazard zonation: a comparison between “inclusive” statistical and “exclusive” topographical approaches
8:20 AM   Suzanne Schmidt: Mesoscale Snow Cover Monitoring with Digital Terrestrial Images in a high Alpine Valley (Loetschental, Switzerland)
8:40 AM   Tobias Bolch: Using DEMs, Landsat and ASTER Data to study and visualize Geomorphology and Glaciers in Northern Tien Shan (Kazakhstan/Kyrgyzstan)
9:00 AM   Michael P. Bishop: Studying Climate Forcing and Surface Processes using a Mountain Hillslope Evolution Model
 

(5) Paper Session: 1632 Resource Degradation and Conservation in the Himalayas and Pamirs
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/5/05, from 4:00 PM - 5:40 PM
Organizer(s): Ulrich Kamp - DePaul University; Marcus Nüsser - University of Bonn, Germany
Chair(s): Marcus Nüsser - University of Bonn, Germany
Co-sponsored by SG Cultural and Political Ecology; Asian Geography

Presenters(s):
4:00 PM   Alton C. Byers: Contemporary Human Impacts on Alpine Ecosystems in the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park, Khumbu, Nepal  CANCELLED
4:20 PM   Keith Bosak: Nature, Conflict and Biodiversity Conservation in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve
4:40 PM   Marcus Nüsser: Changing Land Use in the Periphery of the Central Himalayas (Gori Valley, Uttaranchal, India)
5:00 PM   Ian Snider: A Political Ecology of Transhumance in the Niti Valley of India’s Garhwal Himalaya
5:20 PM   Cyrus Samimi: Eastern Pamirs of Tajikistan: Changing Land Use Practices and Environmental Degradation(?)
 

(6) Paper Session: 1548 Mountain Waters: A Resource of Political Significance
is scheduled on Tuesday, 4/5/05, from 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Organizer(s): Ulrich Kamp - DePaul University
Chair(s): Patricia Benjamin - Worcester State College
Co-sponsored by SGs Political Geography; Water Resources; Cultural and Political Ecology

Presenters(s):
2:00 PM   Jayanta Bandyopadhyay: Rethinking Water Management in the Himalayan Rivers Through the Dams vs. Environmental Flow Debate in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin
2:20 PM   Matthew John Sanford: Drinking Water Resources in Post-Soviet Naryn, Kyrgyzstan: A Tien Shan Mountain Community  CANCELLED
2:40 PM   Chad Staddon: Struggles Over Water Resources in the Mountains of Postcommunist Bulgaria  CANCELLED
3:00 PM   Patricia A. Benjamin: Water Conflict in Northern Tanzania

(7) Paper Session: 5207 Mountain Geography: The Physical Dimension
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Organizer(s): Ulrich Kamp - DePaul University
Chair(s): Carol P. Harden - University of Tennessee
Presenters(s):
10:00 AM   Ellen Stein: Mountain Studies Institute: Advancing Geography Field Studies in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
10:20 AM   Friederike Grüninger: Scale dependant aspects of plant diversity in semiarid high mountain regions; an exemplary top-down approach for the Great Basin
10:40 AM   Carol P. Harden: Cajas National Park as Water Source: Soil-water Relationships in a Glaciated, Andean Watershed
11:00 AM   Scott F. Burns: Slope stability of the Castle Lake debris dam, Mt. St. Helens National Monument, Washington
11:20 AM   Jeff Deems: Spatial and historical contingency of snowpack properties
 

(8) Paper Session: 5107 Mountain Geography: The Human Dimension
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Organizer(s): Ulrich Kamp - DePaul University
Chair(s): Barbara Brower - Portland State University
Presenters(s):
8:00 AM   Jack D. Ives: Bhutan and the Repression of Its Hindu Minority
8:20 AM   Jennifer K Lipton: Management and land cover change in Huascaran National Park, Peru
8:40 AM   Irena Mrak: Mountain tourism development potentials in Central Asia
9:00 AM   Peter Anderson: Mountains and Mountaineering
9:20 AM   Barbara Brower: Inventing a Region: Defining and Selling High Asia
 

(9) Paper Session: 4537 Climate and Cryosphere IV: Snow System Science
is scheduled on Friday, 4/8/05, from 4:00 PM - 5:40 PM
Organizer(s): Frederick E. Nelson - University of Delaware; Ulrich Kamp - DePaul University
Chair(s): Jeff Deems - Colorado State University
Co-sponsored by SGs Climate; Cryosphere

Presenters(s):
4:00 PM   Allan Frei: Snow mass over North America: observations and results from the second phase of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP-2)
4:20 PM   Anne W. Nolin: Mapping "At Risk" Snow Cover in the Pacific Northwest
4:40 PM   Kalle Kronholm: Temporal evolution of the spatial variability of the snow stability and its relationship to snow avalanche potential
5:00 PM   Spencer Logan: Spatial and temporal variations of shear strength within avalanche study plots
5:20 PM   David Selkowitz: Measuring and modeling snow cover variability across a range of vegetation zones and climate regimes in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
 

Posters (to be found in various Non-MGSG poster sessions)

(a) Leland R. Dexter: Observations and Measurements of Rock Glacier Energy Budgets and Surface Flow Rates, San Juan Mountains, Colorado

Poster Session: 2551 Geomorphology and Agriculture
is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/6/05, from 3:00 PM - 4:40 PM
 

(b) Kathy Hansen, Eric Lutz, Karl Birkeland, Spencer Logan: Snow Stability Geography: a Slope-scale Analysis of Variability across Space and over Time

Poster Session: 2451 Climatology
is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/6/05, from 1:00 PM - 2:40 PM

(c) Ted Wachs: The Journal 'Mountain Research and Development'

Poster Session: 2551 Geomorphology and Agriculture
is scheduled on Wednesday, 4/6/05, from 3:00 PM - 4:40 PM

MGSG Papers in Sessions of Other Specialty Groups

(a) Eric Lutz, Kalle Kronholm, Kathy Hansen: Automated Delineation of Snowpack Stratigraphy Using a High-Resolution Snow Penetrometer

Paper Session: 5232 High Technology and the Cryosphere
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM

SG Cryosphere

Sessions Co-sponsored by MGSG

Paper Session: 5407 Mountain Glory: Cultural Geographies of High Peaks and Ice

is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Veronica Della Dora and Denis Cosgrove (University of California – Los Angeles)

Cultural Geography Specialty Group

Paper Session: 3205 Mountain Tourism: Aspects of Change
is scheduled on Thursday, 4/7/05, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Sanjay Nepal (Texas A&M University)

Recreation and Tourism Specialty Group

Paper Session: 4437 Climate and Cryosphere III: Measuring, Monitoring, and Modeling Snowpacks
is scheduled on Friday, 4/8/05, from 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM

Fritz Nelson (University of Delaware)

Specialty Groups Cryosphere, Climate, Geomorphology

Paper Session: 5110 Mountain Rivers I: watershed dynamics and regional relationships
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM

Paper Session: 5210 Mountain Rivers II: hydraulics and sediment transport
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM

Paper Session: 5410 Mountain Rivers III: channel dynamics and adjustment
is scheduled on Saturday, 4/9/05, from 2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Anne Chin (Texas A&M University) and Ellen Wohl (Colorado State University)

Geomorphology Specialty Group