For students attending the 2018 AAG Conference in New Orleans:
The Landscape Specialty Group of the AAG is pleased to announce the 2018 Student Oral Presentation Competition. This competition is open to students of all levels presenting on the topic of landscape. We encourage submissions on theoretical, conceptual, and methodological developments in the role of landscape in geography. Possible topics: human or physical geography problems over broad spatial scales or multiple scales, interactions among components of cultural-ecological systems and impacts of human modifications to environmental systems, boundary and cross-boundary problems of all types, conceptions of landscape and their application in research and or teaching, and methodological approaches to working at broad spatial scales, multiple scales, across boundaries, and/or across and among disciplines. This competition is open to students of all levels. Participants should submit an abstract for a paper to the Annual Meeting <http://annualmeeting.aag.org/AAGAnnualMeeting/Call_for_Submissions/Submit_an_Abstract/AAGAnnualMeeting/How_to_Submit_an_Abstract.aspx?hkey=2ddb8b77-96dd-483f-950a-086823af2336> and provide us with the PIN number assigned to them by Nov 8, 2018. The deadline for submitting abstracts is November 8, 2017. The prize for the winning presentation is $250 and $100 will be awarded for second place. Awards will be announced after the AAG meeting. For more information, please see here <https://sites.google.com/site/aaglandscape/student-award-competitions>.
