Biogeography Specialty Group Officers
 

Current Officers
 

  President

  David Cairns

Texas A&M University

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 Board members

  Kurt Kipfmueller

University of Minnesota

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  Lynn Resler

Virginia Tech

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  David Goldblum

Northern Illinois University

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  Ross Meentemeyer

Univ. of North Carolina - Charlotte

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 Graduate Student 

   Clayton Whitesides

 Texas State University-San Marcos

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 Secretary/Treasurer 

  Taly Drezner 

York University

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 Newsletter editor

  Joy Nystrom Mast 

Carthage College

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Former Officers

 President

2009-2011
 Lesley Rigg
 Northern Illinois University
2007-2009  Lori Daniels  University of British Columbia
2005-2007
 Joy Nystrom Mast    
 Carthage College

2003-2005

 John Kupfer

 University of South Carolina

2001-2003

 Ken Young

 University of Texas

1999-2001

 Glen MacDonald

 University of California, Los Angeles

1997-1999

 George Malanson

 University of Iowa

1995-1997

 Melissa Savage

 University of California, Los Angeles 

1993-1995

 Sally Horn

 University of Tennessee-Knoxville

1991-1993

 Alan Taylor

 Pennsylvania State University

1989-1991

 Susan Beatty

 University of Colorado

1987-1989

 Thomas Veblen

 University of Colorado

1985-1987

 Albert Parker

 University of Georgia

1983-1985

 Dean Wilder

 University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse

1981-1983

 Jerry McDonald

 Radford University

  Board Members

2009-2011
Amy Hessl
West Virginia University

Gabrielle Katz
Appalachian State University
2008-2010
David Butler
Texas State University

Colin Long
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
 2007-2009
Michelle Goman
Cornell University

Henri Grissino-Mayer

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

 2006-2008
Catherine Yansa
Michigan State University

Rosemary Sherriff
University of Hawaii, Hilo
2005-2007
Jim Speer
 Indiana State University

Charles Lafon

 Texas A&M University

2004-2006

David Cairns

Texas A&M University

 

Mary Ann Cunningham

Vassar College

2003-2005

Lesley Rigg

Northern Illinois University

 

Joy Wolf

University of Wisconsin - Parkside

2002-2004

Karen Arabas

Willamette University

 

Lori Daniels

University of British Columbia

2001-2003

Mark Cowell

University of Missouri

 

Susy Svatek Ziegler

University of Minnesota

2000-2002 

James Dyer

Ohio University

 

Joan Welch

West Chester University

1999-2001

Keith Hadley

Portland State University

 

Katrina Moser

University of Utah

1998-2000

Philip Keating

University of Miami

 

John Kupfer

University of Arizona

1997-1999

Kimberly Medley

Miami University

 

Cathy Whitlock

University of Oregon

1996-1998

Joy Nystrom Mast

Northern Arizona University

1995-1997

Jacob Bendix

Syracuse University

 

Ken Young

University of Maryland Baltimore County

1994-1996

Patricia Fall

Arizona State University

1993-1995

David Shankman

University of Alabama

 

Susanna Tong

University of Cincinnati

1992-1994

Melissa Savage

University of California, Los Angeles

1991-1993

Janet Franklin

San Diego State University

 

Kam-Biu Liu

Louisiana State University

1990-1992

Kathy Parker

University of Georgia

1989-1991

Robert Frenkel

Oregon State University

 

Lisa Graumlich

University of Arizona

1988-1990

Sally Horn

 University of Tennessee-Knoxville

1987-1989 

Susan Beatty

University of California, Los Angeles

 

George Malanson

University of Iowa

1986-1988 

Deborah Elliot-Fisk

University of California, Davis

1985-1987

Robert Frenkel

Oregon State University

 

Garry Rogers

Columbia University

1984-1986

Larry Price

Portland State University

1983-1985

Deborah Elliot-Fisk

University of California, Davis

 

Albert Parker

University of Georgia

1982-1984

Jeanne Kay

University of Utah

1981-1983

Thomas Veblen

University of Colorado-Boulder

 

Hartmut Walter

University of California, Los Angele

  Newsletter (The Biogeographer ) editors

2000-2008

 Duane Griffin

Bucknell University

1997-2000

 Eric Edlund

University of Montana

1991-1997 

 Michael DeMers

New Mexico State University

1985-1991

 Susan Woodward 

Radford University

1981-1985

 Lee Henry Slorp

Miami University

  Secretary-Treasurers

2000-2004

Scott Mensing

University of Nevada, Reno

1994-2000

Darrel McDonald 

Stephen F. Austin State University

1990-1994

William Baker

University of Wyoming

1988-1990

Clarissa Kimber

TexasA&M University

1986-1988

Laura Conkey

Dartmouth College

1984-1986

Jeanne Kay

University of Utah

1982-1984

Tom Vale

University of Wisconsin - Madison

1981-1982

Dean Wilder

University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse

Graduate Student Representatives

 2010-2011
 Arvind Bhuta
 Virginia Tech
 2009-2010
 Stockton Maxwell
 West Virginia University
 2008-2009
 Jacquelyn Gill
 University of Wisconsin-Madison
 2007-2008
 Jenn Marlon
 University of Oregon
2005-2007 Chad Lane University of Tennessee-Knoxville

 

The BSG was formally organized on April 21, 1981 during the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles.

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If you have information to fill in the gaps in this history, please contact John Kupfer
last update: June 27, 2011.