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Public Presentations            

2020              Presenter: Rivers with Rights and People with Voice. Dare to Dream in the Anthropocene. Miami Dade College. November 4

2019              Presenter: Internal Review Board (IRB) Training. For Randall Casino, Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota. October

2019              Presenter: Indian Water Rights 101. Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota. May 28

2019              Presenter: Water Talk III. Oceti Sakowin – Brave Heart Society – Native Organizers Alliance. Chamberlain, South Dakota. April

2019              Presenter: Global Water-related Terrorism: 1970-2016 American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Webinar. World Wide Web.

                      February.

2018              University of Birmingham Nile Workshop. Presenter Water Development Opportunities and Challenges: a question of water

                      ethics in the Nile River Basin. June 15. Birmingham, UK.

2018              University of Birmingham Nile Workshop. Presenter Water Development Opportunities and Challenges: a question of water

                      ethics in the Nile River Basin. June 15. Birmingham, UK.

2018              Brave Heart Society and Yankton Sioux Tribe. Water Talk I. Water from a Global Perspective, a Decolonized Approach. May 2-3.

Ihanktonwan Territory, South Dakota.

2018              International Studies Association Annual Convention, Panelist: A Global Analysis of Water-related Terrorism 1970-2016. 

Environment and Conflict Session. April 4. San Francisco, California.

2018              International Studies Association Annual Convention, Panelist: Countries at Risk: Assessing Vulnerability and Resilience to Water-

related Instability and Conflict. Water Governance Across Scales Session. April 5. San Francisco, California.

2018              International Studies Association Annual Convention, Discussant: Water Governance Across Scales. April 5. San Francisco,

California.

2018              Earth Ethics Institute, Miami-Dade College, Speaker: Water Rights as Human Rights. Urban Resiliency Symposium, the Rights of

Nature. March 22-23. Miami, Florida.

2017              Florida International University, Panelist. World Water Security Panel, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

Global Water Security Forum. November 15, Miami, Florida.

2017              Oregon State University, Presentation to Undergraduate Course: Applications of Geography in Social Justice. May

25, Corvallis, Oregon. 

2017              Oregon State University, Presentation to Honors Course: Standing Rock and the Case of Water Security. May

25, Corvallis, Oregon. 

2017              Oregon State University, Presentation to Graduate Course: Dancing the Line Between Scientist and Advocate. May

24, Corvallis, Oregon.

2017              Portland State University, Resistance GIS Conference. Keynote Speaker: On Resistance Mapping. May 20, Portland, Oregon.

2017              Clark University Decolonizing the Academy Workshop, Speaker: Using maps to decolonize how we see the world around us. April

9 & 10, Worcester, Massachusetts. 

2017              Association of American Geographers Annual Conference. Moderator. Panel: Water Security and Standing Rock, Using

Geography to be Good Allies. April 7, Boston, Massachusetts.

2017              Miami Dade College, Presentation to Undergraduate Ethics Course: Water Ethics. 22 March, Miami, Florida. 

2017              Florida International University, Moderator. Panel: Standing Rock, the Way Forward. 13 February, Miami, Florida.

2017              Global Indigenous Forum, Florida International University Presentation: Art, Science, & Advocacy. January 23, Miami, Florida. 

2016              Curtiss Mansion. Update on Standing Rock. December 14, Miami Springs, Florida.

2016              Florida International University, Moderator. Panel​Indigenous Water Protectors and the Dakota Access Pipeline Controversy:

Implications for Protecting Global Water Security, People, and Environmental Resources. November 30, Miami, Florida.

2016              Smithsonian Waterways Exhibition, Curtiss Mansion. Moderator. Panel: Sea Level Rise in South Florida. Miami Springs, 

Florida.

2016              Luna Star Cafe Presentation: Indigenous Movement at Standing Rock, Water Security Threats from DAPL, and fundraiser for the

International Indigenous Youth Council. November 5, North Miami, Florida.

2016              Smithsonian Waterways ExhibitionCurtiss Mansion Combining Science and Photography for Social Advocacy. Miami

Springs, FL, USA. October 13.

2016              Nile Forum Seed Camp. Presenter: Nile Basin-based Research. March 23, 2016, Ajelika Eco-village, Aswan, Egypt.

2016              Goldcoast Train Museum. Presenter: Faith in the Dreaming: a walkabout through hope, fear, faith, and self discovery. Ladies

Brunch Series, January 17, 2016, Miami, FL, USA. 

2015              American Water Resources Association Webinar Presenter: Water Security in the Amazon, Nile, and Mekong Rivers. August

18, 2015. 

2015              Paper Presentation: Water Conflict and Cooperation: Lessons from Around the World.” at the Workshop

on “Water Politics and Regional Stability,” National University of Singapore, 21-23 May 2015. (Presented by Aaron  Wolf) 

2015              River Geography and Water Security: Multiple Applications in Different Locations. December 14, 2015,

SERC Department Seminar, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.

2015              Water Wars: Conflict Over the Nile River and Prospects for Cooperation. Panel Discussion, October 22,

2015 Ruth K. and Shepard Broad Distinguished Lecture Series, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.

2014              Local Scale Impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Xayaburi Dam May 19, 2014

Geography Day, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.

2014              Research in East Africa on Water Development Projects. Oregon’s Africa Interest Group. October 2014,

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.

2014              Human Security Impacts from Dam Development: PhD Dissertation Research. National  Socio-

Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), August 2014, Annapolis, MD, USA.

2014              Countries at Risk: Human Security Risk to States With Transboundary Water Resources and Instability.

October 2014 Hydrophiles Fall Meeting, Old World Deli, Corvallis, OR

2014              Countries at Risk: Human Security Risk to States With Transboundary Water Resources and Instability.

October 2014, Grace Center, Corvallis, OR  

2014              Poster Presentation: Countries at Risk: Heightened Human Security Risk to States With Transboundary

Water Resources and Instability. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA December  14-18, 2014.

2014              Paper Presentation: Water Resource Management Mechanisms for Intrastate Violent Conflict Resolution:

the Capacity Gap and What To Do About It. American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA,  USA, December 14-18 2014.

2014              Paper Presentation: Scales of Human Security Stability in Dam Development: Nile and Mekong Rivers.

Annual Water Resources Association (AWRA) Conference, Tysons Corner, VA, USA, October 2014.

2014              Paper Presentation: Human Security Dimensions of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam American

Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference, Tampa, FL, April 2014.

2013              Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and Xayaburi Dam Human Security Analysis 2013 National

Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), New Campus East, Washington, DC, USA.

2013              Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Nile Project Workshop, January, 2013, Fekra Arts Center, Aswan,

Egypt.

2012              Human Security Dimensions of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, December 2012 Addis Ababa

University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

2012              Human Security Dimensions of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, December 2012 Wondo Ganet

College, Wondo Ganet, Ethiopia.

2012              Human Security Dimensions of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, December 2012 Wondo Ganet

College, Wondo Ganet, Ethiopia.

2012              Field Methods, December 2012 Wondo Ganet College, Wondo Ganet, Ethiopia.

2011              Human Geography of Water Security National Geospatial­Intelligence Foundation, Reston, VA, USA.

2011              Paper Presentation: Resilience Theory and the Columbia River Treaty Renegotiation. American

Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference, Seattle, WA, USA, April 15, 2011.

2004              Lake Ohrid Watershed International Management, August, 2004, University of New Haven, West Haven,

CT, USA.

2004              Lake Ohrid Watershed International Management, August, 2004, Central European University, Budapest,

Hungary.

2004              Lake Ohrid Watershed International Management, August, 2004, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,

Budapest, Hungary.

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