Oct. 23: Geography Colloquium Hosting Expert on Urban Ecology

Friday, October 23, 2020
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Virtual event

Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State Mankato’s Department of Geography is holding a fall 2020 Geography Colloquium that features events from 3-4:15 p.m. each Friday during the fall. The events are available online on Zoom and are open and free to all.

The geography colloquium, the longest-running speaker series at the University, began Sept. 18 and will run each Friday (except Nov. 27) through Dec. 4.

This week’s geography colloquium subject is “Urbanization: Challenges and Opportunities of a Rapid Geographic Transformation” which will be presented Friday, Oct. 23 from 3-4:15 p.m. by Gad Perry, professor of conservation biology at Texas Tech University.

Friday’s event is available on Zoom: https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/99070205470. The passcode is 518731.

This presentation will explore the growth in human populations and examine the consequences of that growth. Perry will also discuss his work with the U.S. Department of State as a Jefferson Science Fellow exploring how urbanization should affect U.S. foreign assistance.

A complete list of this fall’s geography colloquium events is available at https://sbs.mnsu.edu/academics/geography/geography-colloquia/.

For more information about the geography colloquium, please contact Don Friend, professor in the Department of Geography, by phone at 507-389-2618 or by email at donald.friend@mnsu.edu.

The Department of Geography is part of Minnesota State Mankato’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 14,604 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which includes 30 colleges and seven universities.