GLOBAL

The Geographical Legacy Of the Benevolent Aggies League is better known as the GLOBAL: geography club. A student organization at UC Davis that works to unify people with an interest in geography as an academic discipline. GLOBAL hosts exploration trips, work to support members traveling to academic conferences and advocate for geography education both in the University of California and the community as a whole.

The modern club was formed in Fall 2007. In the spring of 2007 the UCD Geography Club was established to assist students in the Geography Graduate Group with transportation to the Association of American Geographers conference that was held in San Francisco. The club was reformed in the fall and renamed GLOBAL. The goals were expanded and regular meetings established.

Date	Title	Description	Contact
TBA	Physical Geography Research Group	10:00am - GSA Lounge	MicheleTobias
5/19	Human Geography Research Group	11:00 -Coffee House (upstairs at outdoor tables)	StaceyEllis
5/16	(Speaker) OpenStreet Map Founder - Steve Coast (more info), cosponsored with LUGOD	7pm - Giedt 1006	AlexMandel
SOON!	Meeting	Time and place TBA	StaceyEllis or MicheleTobias

We're working on creating and editing the club's bylaws on the wiki.

Provide a forum to learn, teach and spread the love of geography.

• Build cohesion and community among geographers in Davis
  

• Advancing professional opportunities through conferences, networking, and research.
  

• Socializing and networking
  

• Making geography visible in the community

Members and Officers with their selected Geography Monikers

• Stacey - Derwent Whittlesey (There's no wikipedia article - we better write one)
  

• Michele - Davis
  

• Cherry - Dangermond
  

• Alex - Powell or is it Fuller
  

• Michael - Humboldt
  

• Benita -
  

• Amy - Adams
  

• Alyssa

• Geography Symposium
  

  - GSA, Grad Council, GGG ExComm want this to happen this year
  

  - Funding from GSA
  

• tshirts
  

• new workshop ideas
  

  - intro to GIS (possibly open source options)
  

  - geocaching
  

  - GPS scavenger hunt
  

• Picnic day - How it went?
  

  - provide maps, open source GIS info, & a box to put donations in
  

• Should we have a June party??? Help plan!
  

• Next year's officers/plan

• World Record Bicycle Parade - Social?
  

• Continue planning for travel to the AAG Conference
  

  - Accommodations
  

  - Travel funding
  

• GPS Workshop Adventure

• AAG travel commitee reports - don't forget to post to the travel page
  

• No Lurking on the email list (if you join the list you're not anonymous) - AlyssaNelson
  

• Bylaws - Unanimously approved by vote ending January 16
  

• Bylaws - New amendment per Alex's comments (No Financing)
  

• What became of the t-shirt contest?
  

• Adventures (aka Field Trips)
  

• Workshops, sparked by a conversation that the general UCD workshops aren't specific enough for geographers

• Learning Esperanto for Boston
  

• Meeting day and time for Winter Quarter
  

• AAG travel committee reports
  

• Fundraising & Outreach
  

  - Mistletoe report
  

  - Picnic Day &/or Whole Earth Festival
  

• TShirt Contest - who else should we contact?
  

• Advertising to other groups
  

  - GGG faculty don't know about us!!!
  

  - Ecology
  

  - Animal Behavior Grad Group
  

  - CRD
  

  - LDA
  

  - Outside UCD?
  

• Review of bylaws

• results of the course discussion at the GGG Executive Committee Meeting
  

• Fundraising - need to work out details of mistletoe sale
  

• Yolo Research Tour - we have a request from one of the participants for compensation for one of the hosts of one stop on our adventure This issue has been solved: we have no money to spend.
  

• TShirts - winning design gets a free shirt, submission can be hand drawn, written or otherwise conveyed to Alex who will make the design work on a shirt
  

• AAG - when do we start forming committees?
  

• Advertising to other grad groups and departments - who? when to start? which ones? how to go about it?

• Welcome to the Club

There are many professional and academic organizations for geographers.

Association	Acronym	Website	Meeting Dates	Meeting Location
California Geographical Society	CGS	http://www.csun.edu/~calgeosoc/	May 2-4, 2008	Chico, CA
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers	APCG	http://www.csus.edu/apcg/	October 2008
American Geographical Society	AGS	http://amergeog.org/
National Geographic Society		http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
Association of American Geographers	AAG	http://aag.org	April 15 - 19, 2008	Boston, MA
National Council for Geographic Education	NCGE	http://www.ncge.org/	October 2008	Dearborn, MI
Open Source Geospatial Foundation	OSGeo	http://www.osgeo.org/	September 2008	Cape Town, South Africa

• In the long tradition we must Go and See!

10/27/07 - Cool Patch Pumpkin maze and Pumpkin Carving