Past Events
Fall 2020 Colloquium Series
Fridays 2:30-3:30 p.m. (Via Webex)
- September 4 – From GEOBIA to Mechanical Turks: Quantifying Human-Environment Interactions from Remote Sensing, Dr. Jessica L. McCarty, Miami Ohio University
- September 18 – Rebekah Jones: A Geographer, Through and Through, Rebekah Jones, Founder - Florida COVID Action, The COVID Monitor
- October 2 – Housing Vacancy in Ohio, Dr. Victoria Morckel, University of Michigan-Flint
- October 16 – Thoughts on Social/Racial Justice: Examining a Body of Work, Dr. Rickie Sanders, Temple University*
- October 23 – The Humanitarian Crisis at the US/Mexico Border, Dr. Scott Warren, University of Arizona*
- November 6 – Gyms, Bars, and Screaming Guitars: The Geography of the 1970s Rock Music Industry, Dr. Jimmy Wilson, Northern Michigan University
*Also part of the College of Arts and Letters Fall 2020 Racial Justice Virtual Brownbag Speaker Series
Topic: "Rebekah Jones: A Geographer, Through and Through"
Friday, September 18, 2020 2:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Watch this lecture: https://youtu.be/TVuHQ6BGgl0
Speaker: Rebekah Jones, Founder -Florida COVID Action, The COVID Monitor Fired for "insubordination" from her job as a geographer for the state of Florida, Rebekah Jones says she was asked to falsify data about the state's true number of COVID-19 cases. When she refused, she was fired. Since then, she has developed her own COVID tracking dashboard and is compiling data for every school district in America.
Past Events