Kelley Crews presents ESSP spring colloquium Kelley Crews, associate professor of geography and the environment at the University of Texas in Austin, will present "Land Cover/Land Use Change in Tropical Systems: The Human Dimensions" at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, in Room 210, Clifford Hall Auditorium. Refreshments will be served a half-hour before the presentation. Dr. Crews received her Ph.D. in geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000, and also holds degrees in marine science and public policy. She founded and directs the new University of Texas Geographic Information Science Center. Her thematic research interests include remote sensing, population-environment interactions, landscape ecology, and policy analysis. Geographically, her work focuses on tropical and subtropical forest/savanna/wetland ecotones in the western Amazon, the Okavango Delta of Botswana, and northeast Thailand. The presentation is part of the UND Earth System Science and Policy Spring 2009 Colloquium Series. For more information contact Michael Hill at 777-6071, or hillmj@aero.und.edu. -- Kathy Ebertowski, Admin. Secretary, Center for People & the Environment, ebertowski@aero.und.edu, 701-777-2490