/news-archive/tag/earthtalk-lecture-series/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:13:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/03/11/urban-farming-little-rock/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:13:34 +0000 /news/?p=73674 ... Lecture to discuss urban farming in Little Rock]]> Urban farming in Little Rock will be the topic of the next at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.聽 The lecture, 鈥淔arming in the Rock,鈥� will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in the College of Engineering and Information Technology Auditorium. Chris Hiryak of Little Rock Urban Farming will share lessons learned from a decade of producing and marketing organically grown flowers and vegetables in the capital city. Hiryak is an organic farmer, pragmatic food activist, minimalist, artist, and yoga practitioner. He graduated from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock with bachelor鈥檚 degrees in Spanish, history, and international studies. He participated in the LeadAR, a leadership program through the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension, and an apprenticeship program at Dripping Springs Garden, an organic farming operation in the Ozark Mountains. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Department of Earth Sciences at 501-569-3546 or visit the.]]> /news-archive/2018/11/08/earthtalk-lecture-baylis/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 18:21:59 +0000 /news/?p=72608 ... EARTHtalk! lecture to discuss the role of maps in modern society]]> Dr. David Baylis, assistant professor in 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Department of History, will discuss the importance of maps in a modern setting and how map-making techniques and technologies can evolve to meet those needs. 鈥淢aps are indeed a complex and highly nuanced form of infographic,鈥� stated Baylis. 鈥淭hat being said, the ability to think spatially and create maps that have meaning, that matter, and that speak to contemporary social and environmental concerns is a task that should extend beyond the expert map-maker and to the general populace as a whole.鈥� Baylis鈥� presentation, 鈥淢aps that Matter: GeoLiteracy, Geospatial Technologies and the Democratization of Mapping,鈥� will make the case for more accessible mapping technologies and skills in order to best serve an increasingly diverse society. His lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in the George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology Auditorium. Baylis is a human geography and cartography expert who obtained his Ph.D. in geography from Michigan State University. He joined 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 faculty this semester. For more information, contact the Department of Earth Sciences at 501-569-3546 or visit the EARTHtalk! website.  ]]> /news-archive/2018/09/17/toltec-mounds-earthtalk-series/ Mon, 17 Sep 2018 20:52:25 +0000 /news/?p=71863 ... Toltec Mounds researcher to kick off 2018-19 EARTHtalk! series]]> An archeologist researching the Toltec Mounds will start off the 2018-19 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Department of Earth Sciences EARTHtalk! lecture series on Wednesday, Sept. 19.聽 The talk, 鈥淭he First Farmers and Lost Crops of Arkansas,鈥� will begin at 6 p.m. in the Engineering and Information Technology Building auditorium. It is free and open to the public. Dr. Elizabeth Horton, an archeologist at Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park and research assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, studies paleoethnobotany, the study of the relationship between people and plants, with a special interest in the use of plants for technological purposes. She earned her master鈥檚 degree and Ph.D. in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied the 3,000-year-old fabric technologies of basketry and textiles and plant fiber use in the Ozark Plateau of Arkansas and Missouri. After completing a post-doctoral position with the Arkansas Archeological Survey in 2010, she was hired as the station archaeologist for the Arkansas Archeological Survey鈥檚 Toltec Mounds Research Station. She continues to research the people-plant interactions of the Native Americans who once lived at Toltec Mounds and runs a publicly accessible research garden. For more information, contact Michael DeAngelis at 501-569-3542 or mtdeangelis@ualr.edu or visit the.]]>