Geoffrey Henebry presents ESSP spring colloquium


Geoffrey Henebry, professor of Biology and Geography at South Dakota State University, will present "Changing Land Surface Phenologies across Asia: The Challenge of Attribution" at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 30, at Clifford Hall Auditorium, Room 210. Refreshments will be served a half-hour before the presentation.

He earned his master's and doctoral degrees in environmental sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the senior research scientist at the Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence in Brookings, SD. Dr. Henebry is also currently an editor for BioScience, Landscape Ecology, and Applied Vegetation Science.

Dr. Henebry will discuss how land surface phenologies enable detection, analysis, and modeling of land change through examples, both retrospectve and prospective, from the Northern Great Plains and Central Asia.

This 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