H U N T E R C O L L E G E
Depar t ment
THIS ISSUE
Mapping Ground Zero—p. 1
Chair’s Column—– p.2
Editor’s Column—–p. 2
Technical Column—p. 2
Hunter Geographers Help NYC
OEM With "Ground Zero" Re-
covery—p. 5
Geography Awareness
Week—see insert
USACE-CUNY internship pro-
gram—p. 6
Where are they now?—p. 7
Position notices—p. 7
GeoClub goes to the Grand
Canyon—p. 8
USA Today Competition—p.
10
Professor Profile: Dr. Haydee
Salmun—p. 11
NYC Walking Tours—p. 12
MSD—AAG meeting—p. 12
of G e ogr a ph y
Volume 15, number 1, October 2001
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Above: LIDAR image of WTC after the attack, with superimposed planemet-
rics (outlines) of where the buildings once stood. Numbers indicate locations.
Mapping Ground Zero
By Maddalena Romano
Last spring, Hunter College's Center for the Analysis and Re-
search of Spatial Information, or CARSI, introduced the NY-
CMap, an ortho-rectified photograph of the five boroughs of New
York City accurate to within 18 inches. On September 11, the
geographers at CARSI used this map to aid in the rescue effort
at the World Trade Center (WTC) attack site, now commonly re-
ferred to as “Ground Zero”. Jeff Bliss, a research associate at
the CARSI Lab, gave a timeline of the development, and ex-
plained how the visual spectrum, LIDAR (Light Detection and
Ranging), and thermal imagery were brought into play to detect
areas of possible collapse.
September 11—Researchers began at 7 pm on the day of the at-
tack, assisting the New York City Office of Emergency Manage-
ment (OEM) by printing 54” by 70” cartographic maps from the
(Continued on page 3)
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Chair’s Column
By Charles Heatwole
A warm welcome to the 2001-
2002 academic year to all
members of the Geography
family. Special greetings to
our new faculty members,
Haydee Salmun and Ropal
Oza (joint with Women’s
Studies), new graduate stu-
dents, and newly declared
majors.
Chair’s columns have a his-
tory of being almost insuffera-
bly upbeat, but I think you will
understand if this one is a bit
subdued, even by my stan-
dards. The world has
changed since the first day of
class. Lots of things that mat-
tered to me on September
10th don’t seem very impor-
tant now, while basic things I
took for granted have gained
in value. Things like friends
and family and neighbors and
attachment to place. I could
go on about this but I suspect
just about all of you feel the
same.
The first order of business is
to say “Thank you!” to Sara
McLafferty for serving as
Chair last year and for being
a terrific colleague for . . .
what? 15 years? It seems like
just yesterday when she
walked in the door. As most
of you know, Sara and family
left NYC last summer for the
relative tranquility of the Corn
Belt. But Sara assures me
she is and always will be a
(Continued on page 9)
Editor’s Column
By Maddalena Romano
Fall 2001 marks the start of
my appointment as editor of
GeoNews. I want to thank
Anthony Grande, the Assis-
tant to Chair of the Geogra-
phy Department and this
newsletter’s faculty advisor,
for the opportunity.
This issue focuses on the
World Trade Center disaster,
and particularly with the arti-
cle Mapping New York, we
will see how Hunter College’s
CARSI, located in the Geog-
raphy Department is aiding in
the rescue efforts.
As with any change in admini-
stration, there are a few
(Continued on page 6)
Editor:
Maddalena Romano
Faculty Advisor:
Anthony F. Grande
All submissions are welcome.
Alumni are invited to keep us
apprised of their activities.
Send all submissions and
correspondence to:
GeoNews
Department of Geography
Hunter College
City University of New York
695 Park Avenue, 10th Fl
New York, NY 1002, USA
Phone: 212.772.5265
E-mail GeoNews:
news@geo.hunter.cuny.edu
E-mail Editor:
mromano@geo.hunter.cuny.edu
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Technical Column
By Rita Noorzad
This semester there have
been quite a few changes on
the technical side of the de-
partment. We have new
computers, new web pages
and new departmental com-
puting policies.
First of all, the department
has hired a new NT systems
administrator this past sum-
mer: Pete Bartling. He will be
working full-time as our win-
dows systems administrator.
Tom Walter, our UNIX/Linux
systems administrator, is now
working half-time for the Ge-
ography department and half-
time for the Computer Sci-
ence Department.
With the addition of our new
staff member, we now have a
new server and a few new
PC’s in the department. The
new PC’s are Dell Precision
330 Workstations. They have
a 1.7 Ghz Intel Pentium 4
Processor and 512MB of
RAM; one has a 20GB hard
drive and the other has a
70GB hard drive.
As with every other semester
we have a new flavor of virus
to look out for. The Nimda vi-
rus was detected in mid Sep-
tember and had spread
around the world. Nimda is a
complex virus with a mass
mailing worm component that
spreads itself in attachments
named README.EXE. It af-
(Continued on page 10)
(Mapping Ground Zero, Continued from page 1)

NYCMap database. Specifi-

cally, these maps contained
building “footprints” (outlines
of buildings, street center-
lines, curb lines, etc.) This is
a planimetric or blue-print su-
perimposed over the original
ortho-rectified photograph of
the area. Once completed,
these maps were delivered to
bunkers at the temporary
command center at the policy
academy.

September 13—Daily Fly-

overs of the WTC site took
aerial photographs of the de-
bris surface, yet in printing
out these new ortho-rectified
images, a good portion of the
images were smoke-
compromised, and thus it was
difficult to get a good idea of
what the site looked like. It
was at this time that LIDAR Above:
Above: Aerial
Aerial photograph
photograph ofof Ground
Ground Zero.
Zero. Notice
Notice the
the noise
noise created
created by by the
the
level
level of smoke, and the reduction in visibility. Below: Cut-away profile of
of smoke, and the reduction in visibility. Below: Cut-away profile of the
was suggested as a way to debris
the
penetrate the smoke. debris surface
surface as
as seen
seen by
by LIDAR.
LIDAR. The
The tall
tall triangular
triangular “building”
“building” is
is actually
actually not
not
a building at all—the LIDAR pass detected and depicted
a building at all—the LIDAR pass detected and depicted a constructiona construction
crane.
crane. Arrows indicate depths of 50-60 feet below sea level.
September 15—The first LI-
DAR dataset is produced
from the EarthData Interna-
tional flyovers. LIDAR meas-
ures the time it takes for a la-
ser pulse to travel to the
ground and back. Not only
can LIDAR penetrate the
smoke, but global positioning
instruments on the plane give
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the locations coordinates and
elevations, producing 3-
plaza
dimensional dataset accurate
to within six inches. A grid of passes have been done about a weekly basis. These
about 100,000 points spaced every other day. images are produced in 8-bit
about a yard apart is pro- grayscale, with brightness
duced, and then analyzed by September 16—Thermal im- levels of 0-255, 0 being the
CARSI. Colors were used agery measures the progres- hottest and expressed as
Since September 15, LIDAR sion of underground heat on (Continued on page 5)

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Left: Thermal Imagery of the pro-
gression of molten steel hotspots
from September 18 to September
25. Notice how the heat becomes
concentrated towards the center
from the fringe areas. The thresh-
old between color ranges was 1/2
of the energy, so that in a range of
0-255, everything above 127.5 was
kept (0-127.5) and everything below
was ignored.
(Mapping Ground Zero, Continued from page 3)
pure white. This is known as
emissive data, or heat being
given off from the structure
from underlying hot debris or
Hunter Geographers Help NYC Office of Emergency
Management With "Ground Zero" Recovery
by Maria Terrone, Director of
PR, Hunter College
This was the press release
issued by Hunter at www.
hunter.cuny.edu/news.
New York, September 26,
2001 -- Within hours of the
September 11 attack on the
World Trade Center, Hunter
College's Center for the
Analysis and Research of
Spatial Information (CARSI),
directed by geography profes-
sor Sean Ahearn, was using
its technology and expertise
to help city officials map the
shifting terrain of "ground
zero"--and warn firefighters
and rescue workers of danger
zones.
An expert on remote sensing
and geographic information
systems, particularly for envi-
ronmental-monitoring pro-
jects, Professor Ahearn is
providing direct support to
molten steel. Smoldering is
yet undetectable, because
potential fires appear cold un-
til they are exposed to air.
The first thermal images pro-
duced began on September
16, and are repeated on two-
day intervals.
I would like to thank Jeff Bliss
for the wonderful information
and imagery he provided for
this story, and acknowledge
the 16-20 hours days CARSI
Lab director Dr. Sean Ahearn
has been putting in at the
Alan Liedner, director of city-
wide geographic information
systems for DoITT and a key
official in the recovery effort.
Every two days, the Hunter
scientists are monitoring
changes in elevation at the
Ground Zero site to detect
any settling or collapsing,
which may indicate weakness
in the underground infrastruc-
ture. The data is derived from
laser-based instruments
called LIDAR, short for Light
Detection and Ranging.
"We're also analyzing thermal
imagery of the site to deter-
mine where fires may still be
smoldering, and are monitor-
ing the damage of every
building and the progress of
debris removal," says Profes-
sor Ahearn.
An essential tool being used
is the NYCMap (pronounced
"nice map"), a database of
highly detailed geographic in-
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OEM. I would also like to
credit Jeff Bliss, Constandi-
nos Theophilides, and Bob
Sklar for their tireless analy-
sis. For a more in-depth look
on CARSI, see the upcoming
January special issue.
See the article by Kenneth
Chang in the Sunday New
York Times on September
23, 2001, entitled, From
5000 feet up, Mapping Ter-
rain for Ground Zero Work-
ers, available for sale at
http://www.nytimes.com.
formation on the entire city,
accurate to within 18 inches.
This database was created
over a period of five years by
combining thousands of aerial
photographs with information
about the city's surface fea-
tures (such as buildings,
parks, alleys, even curbs) and
subsurface features (such as
water mains, sewers and gas
lines. The map was a joint
project of the New York City
Department of Information
Technology and Telecommu-
nications (DoITT), the Depart-
ment Environmental of Pro-
tection, and Hunter's CARSI
lab.
Immediately following the dis-
aster, Professor Ahearn
moved computers containing
the NYCMap data to the city's
emergency command center,
where its physically detailed
information on the World
Trade Center area is continu-
ing to prove invaluable.

CUNY Launches
Joint Summer
Internship with
USACE
By Dr. Jeffrey Osleeb
The Graduate Center, City
University of New York
(CUNY) has entered into an
agreement with the Coastal
and Hydraulics Laboratory
(CHL) of the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers to provide highly
qualified students (graduate
and advanced undergradu-
ate) to assist the CHL in the
wide variety of research and
development activities. In
this manner CUNY students
have an opportunity to work
on actual projects hands on,
gaining valuable research ex-
perience and the CHL can
meet its temporary staffing
needs in an effective way.
Students are paid between
$8,000 and $12,000 plus
travel expenses, for the sum-
mer depending on level of ex-
perience and amount of time
expended.
This was the first year of four
years for this project. Last
summer four graduate stu-
dents were accepted into the
program: Joshua Caulkins,
Geography Department,
Hunter College; Peter
Fleischer, Earth and Environ-
mental Sciences, CUNY
Graduate Center; Maddalena
Romano, Earth and Environ-
mental Sciences, CUNY
Graduate Center; and Eric
Sorenson, Graduate School
of Education, Brooklyn Col-
lege. Students were as-
signed to work on projects
based on their experience
and their interests. Each of
the students worked for ap-
proximately 2-months as in-
terns in Vicksburg, Missis-
sippi at the Waterways Ex-
perimental Station.
The projects the students
worked on included:
• A GIS to estimate sand
transported and deposited
on a spit in Texas.
• A rejoinder to those who
claim that beach nourish-
ment programs under-
taken by the Corps of En-
gineers have minimal
value.
• Development of a physical
model for erosion and
channel filling of an inlet
on the Washington Coast.
• The potential impacts of a
storm surge in the New
York Bight under condi-
tions of sea level rise.
• A science web page for K-
12 grades demonstrating
the environmental value of
beaches and the need for
beach protection.
In at least one case, fieldwork
was required and the student
went offsite to work on the
project. Several of the stu-
dents are pursuing ideas from
this research experience for
master's theses and doctoral
dissertations. In some cases
the Corps of Engineers plans
to continue to fund the stu-
dents as they pursue their
work.
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This is a wonderful opportu-
nity for students to learn first
hand how to evaluate and
solve a wide variety of prob-
lems. Any students inter-
ested in becoming an intern
for next summer should con-
tact Professor Jeffrey Osleeb,
Earth and Environmental Sci-
ences, CUNY Graduate Cen-
ter, at josleeb@gc.cuny.
edu.
(Editor’s Column, Continued from page 2)
changes. We have a new
logo, the newspaper and
globe. Another new and
regularly occurring feature is
the Technical Column by Rita
Noorzad, which will highlight
the non-geographic yet im-
portant computer-related side
of the department. In addi-
tion, a new piece called Pro-
fessor Profiles will become a
regular feature as we inter-
view the new additions to our
faculty, as well as learn about
those who are already in our
department.
My intention is to put out two
issues per semester, with a
special issue in January and
during the summer. This
January we will focus more
intensely on the CARSI lab,
the history of the NYCMap
and its creation, as well as
applications of both the map
and other technologies to the
study of geography.
I hope you enjoy all of our ef-
forts, and I encourage you to
contact us with comments,
ideas, and submissions.—MR
 Where are they now?

Amy Jeu, (Hunter College, BA

Geography, 1999).

Pictured here straddling the prime

meridian in Greenwich, UK during
her trip to London in August 2001,
Amy is now a graduate student at
the University of Minnesota.

Patrick Florence (Hunter College,

MA Geography, 2000).

“I am a Digital Cartography Spe-

cialist working for the Harvard Map
Collection of the Harvard College
Library in Cambridge, MA.

“I manage electronic geospatial re-

sources at the Harvard Map Col-
lection and help coordinate GIS at
Harvard University. Specifically, I
manage a small Geospatial Com-
puting Lab, teach introductory GIS
and cartography, and create in-
structional materials. Part of my
job is to develop historical GIS and
Internet mapping applications and
applications that improve access
to geospatial data. In addition, I
recommend the acquisition of car-
tographic and GIS software, data,
and books.”

Position available: The Sanborn Map Company, the oldest and one of the fastest growing map
companies in the United States, seeks individuals to work in its Pelham, New York, office. This is
an exciting opportunity with tremendous growth potential for a highly professional, organized and
enthusiastic individual.

Founded in 1866, the Sanborn Map Company specializes in all areas of geographic information
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Please send your resume by e-mail to tdalexander@sanmap.com or by fax to 914.738.1680.

Visit their website at www.sanbornmap.com to learn more about them.

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GeoClub Goes
to the Grand
Canyon
By Rita Noorzad
The GeoClub worked hard to
organize a trip to the Grand
Canyon. With funds raised
from the AAG 2000 t-shirt
sales, the GeoClub budget,
and some out of pocket ex-
penses, we were able to send
six members on this field ex-
cursion. The six members
were Luz Mendez, president,
Rita Noorzad and Pauline Lo,
co-treasurers, Tracy Chan,
member, Thresine Chitan-
gala, public relations man-
ager, and Nora Donnelly, ad-
ministrative assistant. Anyone
in the Geography Department
that was interested was wel-
come to join us.
We started out our trip in Las
Vegas, Nevada on June 12th.
After two nights of fun in the
city, we left for the Grand
Canyon on the 14th. Driving
over the Hoover Dam,
through historic Route 66,
Above: Noorzad beside drawing on
the wall of the Desert View Tower,
located on East Rim of the Canyon.
through expensive tele-
scopes, hiked partially in the
canyon, went on a geology
walk and a fossil walk, and of
course stopped at every view
point along the way for a pic-
ture. While sitting on the
edge of the Coconino Pla-
teau, I considered myself very
lucky to see one of the
Earth’s most spectacular
creations. I hope to go back
Above: Geoclub members (top, l-r)
there soon.
Chitangala, Donnelly; (bottom, l-r)
Lo, Chan, Noorzad, Mendez
Here are some comments
from the other members:
and through an Indian reser-
vation, we began to realize
‘The four days in Grand Can-
how different New York City
yon was really too short al-
was from this part of the US.
though we already well used
The first day at the Canyon
every minutes in this beautiful
we hiked all day along the
nature. I missed the “big hole”
West Rim Drive and arrived
of the canyon, the morning
at Hermit’s Rest just in time to
mist, the sunset scene, the
watch the sunset and to see
star sky, the fresh air, the
rapids on the Colorado River.
mountain, the stones, the
The next day we had hoped
birds, the deer, and the six
to hike down the Bright Angel
trail to the bottom of the can-
hours trail walk and many
more. Grand Canyon is a
yon and camp overnight, but
great place. By comparison,
unfortunately the rangers in
the back country office in-
formed us of a water pipe
leak at Phantom Ranch. So
we were eager to camp on
the rim that night since we
lugged all our camping gear
from New York City. Along
with the 30-degree tempera-
ture at night and our close en-
counter with two voracious
looking coyotes on the way to
the campground, we made a
unanimous decision to sleep
at our hotel. For the remain-
der of the trip we visited an
Indian ruin, saw condors from
the top of the desert view
tower, viewed distant galaxies
Above: Hoover Dam
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Las Vegas is just too bored. ’
-Tracy Chan
‘Just looking out over this
Grand Canyon makes you re-
alize your human insignifi-
cance.’
-Nora Donnelly
‘All I have to say is that the
Grand Canyon was very
beautiful.’
-Pauline Lo
Above and below: Picturesque views of the Grand Canyon. Below you can
see the Colorado River as it meanders through the canyon. This erosive
process is what was responsible for the Canyon’s formation.
Above: Chan ‘getting her kicks’ on
the Historic Route 66 in Arizona
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(Chair’s column, Continued from page 2)
New Yorker. Especially after
what’s happened.
So life goes on. If it’s the be-
ginning of fall term, then you
just know that Geography
Awareness Week (GAW)
cannot be far way. This
year’s activities will run from
November 7th through the
16th. Now, those of you who
are not quantitatively chal-
lenged will quickly discern
that the “Week” is actually 10
days. Are we adjusting for in-
flation? Are we making the
transition to Geography
Awareness Fortnight (GAF)?
No, we just have a lot of
things we’d like to squeeze in,
and a week is not enough.
Stay tuned for the posting of
the official schedule; and
“posting” reminds me to en-
courage all students to par-
ticipate in the annual poster
contest. As always, the GAW
highlight will be our Annual
Dinner. Please mark your cal-
endar for Tuesday, November
13 from 7-9PM. Better still,
plan to join us, and bring a
friend.
Finally, I want to thank Mad-
dalena Romano for taking
over as Editor-in-Chief of
GeoNews, and say “Thanks
and well done!” to Michael
Morgan for doing such a
great job last year. I’m sure
both will join me in saying,
however, that the success of
this venture ultimately de-
pends on the contributions of
people like you. So please
contact Maddalena and plan
to pitch in.
(Tech Column, Continued from page 2)
fects Windows 95, Windows
98, Windows Me, Windows
NT 4 and Windows 2000 us-
ers. You can read more about
it on http://www.f-secure.
com.
There are also new depart-
ment computing policies that
are already in effect. Two
new help desks have been
created to request service or
report a problem, GEOHELP
and CLTHELP. To request
computer related services,
you must send an email to
geohelp@geo.hunter.cuny.
edu and in the email you
should give details of the
problem and an indication of
USA To d a y
Competition
By L. Michael Griffel, Associ-
ate Dean for Academic Af-
fairs, SAS
USA TODAY is running a
competition to select "the na-
tion's best and brightest col-
lege students." Sixty students
will be named to the First,
Second, and Third Teams of
the 2002 All-USA Academic
Team. They will be featured
in a two-page spread in the
USA TODAY newspaper in
February 2002. The 20 mem-
bers of the First Team will
each receive a $2,500 cash
award.
The criteria are designed to
find students who excel not
only in scholarship but also in
leadership roles on and off
the seriousness of the prob-
lem. I am working full-time
for the department as the Col-
lege Laboratory Technician
(CLT). To request course
and output related services,
send an email to
clthelp@geo.hunter.cuny.
edu. For more information on
this, please pick up a copy of
the flyer outside the lab
rooms.
Finally, we will be launching
our new websites soon.
Frances Santiago was an in-
tern this summer from Con-
tinuing Ed. She helped us
give our web pages a whole
new look. One of the main
changes that was incorpo-
campus. A key element given
most weight by the judges will
be a student's outstanding
original academic or intellec-
tual product. The judges will
be influenced by the student's
ability to describe that out-
standing endeavor in her/his
own words.
If you know of a deserving
student, you may wish to
nominate her/him. I have
some nomination forms in my
office and would be happy to
provide you with one if you
are interested. You can also
send a deserving student to
me, and I will get her/him
started with the nomination
process. More information is
available at: http://allstars.
usatoday.com.
Any full-time undergraduate
of a four-year institution in the
10
rated was a switch from the
drop down menu on the top to
a clickable side menu that
stays in its own frame when
you move to a new page.
The web pages work best in
Internet Explorer because the
side menu mouse over script
has an animation-like effect
where as in Netscape the text
is just highlighted when you
move the mouse over it. I
hope to have the new pages
up and running with in the
next two weeks.
AAG 2001 meeting T-shirts
are still available in the De-
partment of Geography Of-
fice for $5.00. Contact Rita
Noorzad at rnoorzad@geo.
hunter.cuny.edu.
U.S. or its territories is eligi-
ble. U.S. citizenship is not re-
quired. A full-time under-
graduate is one carrying at
least 12 credits in pursuit of
an undergraduate degree or
one who anticipates earning
an undergraduate degree at
the end of the current semes-
ter. Students in 5-year pro-
grams who have not received
a baccalaureate degree are
eligible. Students who already
have a baccalaureate and are
pursuing another are not. Stu-
dents graduating in Decem-
ber 2001 are eligible.
Winners will be selected by a
panel of educators. Nomina-
tions must be postmarked by
Friday, November 30, 2001.
Please call Carol Skalski at
703-276-5890 or e-mail all-
stars@usatoday.com if you
have any questions.

Professor Profile:
Haydee Salmun
By Maddalena Romano
Professor Salmun joins this
department this Fall, bringing
her knowledge of Environ-
mental Fluid Mechanics and
Global Climate Models, as
well as an emphasis on
women in sciences and the
message that science can be
accessible to all.
Born in Miramar, Argentina,
Professor Haydee Salmun at-
tended the University of Bue-
nos Aires and obtained a BS
in Physics in 1977. The at-
mosphere of Argentina in the
late 1970s was one of uneasi-
ness where human rights was
concerned. Having the op-
portunity to go to St. Louis,
MO, she left Argentina in
1977.
Speaking no English at the
time, Salmun studied for
Above: Salmun with daughter Delfina, 11, at their home in Baltimore, MD.
Above: Salmun on a recent trip to
the South of France. This photo
was taken near Nice..
seven months to pass the
TOEFL exam, and was ac-
cepted into the Masters Pro-
gram in Physics at the Uni-
versity of Missouri-St. Louis,
and found that she was the
only woman in the depart-
ment at the time. Her inter-
ests were in the physics of
fluids, but she learned quickly
that, in traditional American
universities, one does not do
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physics of fluids in a physics
department. It was at this
time that she met Gerald
North (now at Texas A&M), a
physicist doing climate re-
search, who encouraged her
to continue her studies in an
Earth Sciences department.
Taking his advice, she moved
on to the Earth and Planetary
Sciences Department at
Johns Hopkins University af-
ter receiving her MS from the
University of St. Louis. Find-
ing a mentor in Owen Philips-
a highly regarded contributor
to the field of geophysical
fluid dynamics—she com-
pleted her dissertation in
1989.
Salmun is interested in how
to link the different scales at
which fluid processes occur.
Global Climate Models, or
GCMs, is another of her inter-
ests. She is working with col-
leagues to improve upon how
GCMs reflect fundamental
processes. In both cases,
she is interested in how to
properly model the effect of
unresolved processes (in this
case, small-scale processes)
on a larger scale.
Coming to Hunter from her
position in the Geography
and Environmental Engineer-
ing Department at John’s
Hopkins University, Salmun’s
first impressions of the De-
partment of Geography was
one of a friendly and welcom-
ing department. She lives in
Manhattan with her husband,
geographer David Harvey,
and daughter Delfina, 11.
 UPCOMING NEW YORK CITY WALKING TOURS
With Prof. Jack Eichenbaum
Frontiers of Central Flushing
10:30-1PM Sat, October 27
Explores the area between the
19th century industrial River
front and the early 20th century
railroad suburb that developed
around the Murray Hill LIRR
station. Sponsor: Municipal Art
Society 212-935-3960 Fee:
$12/15 Member/Nonmember.
Flushing, Whitestone & Malba
2:30-5:30 PM Sun, October 28.
A three mile walk through
diverse well-landscaped
residential neigh borhoods
sporting fall foliage. Begins at
the Queens Historical Society
and includes admission to the
exhibits (come at 2PM). This
walk features the intense
“cathedral” building activity by
immigrants in North Flushing,
Victoriana in Whitestone,
bridge views and Malba’s
e xc e s s e s. T he Q u een s
Historical Society (718-939-
0647) is the sponsor and
starting point. Fee TBA
For more information contact Jack
Eichenbaum at Jaconet@aol.com
or (718) 961-8406. 2001 Annual Meeting
The department's an- Middle States Division of the
nual dinner and awards Association of
American Geographers
presentation will be
Tuesday, Nov. 13 from Brookville, New York,
7-9 PM in the Faculty October 19 - 20, 2001
Dining Room, 8th floor C. W. Post Campus,
of West Building. Long Island University
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