UW Geography Bowl to be Held Nov. 19

Nov. 12, 2008 -- The University of Wyoming Geography Club's major event of the year, the Geography Bowl, will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Wyoming Union Gardens. The event is among activities scheduled during Geography Awareness Week and is open to all UW students.

The Geography Bowl features teams (three participants per team) competing in a battle of geographic wits. Questions encompass the entire field of geography -- maps, countries, climate, history, sports, cultural issues, language, biology and a few of the typical questions about state capitals and gross national products.

There are prizes for the top three winning teams and the top individual scorer, questions and prizes for audience members (a visual element will be included this year): Teams can sign up in the Department of Geography office in Room 207 of the College of Arts and Sciences Building. There will be a maximum of 10 teams.

The Geography Bowl is supported by the Geography Club, the University of Wyoming Department Of Geography, ASUW and the Wyoming Geographic Alliance.

Other Geography Awareness week events include GIS Day Lecture at noon Wednesday, Nov. 19, at the Wyoming Union Senate Chambers. The event will feature Carl Reed, chief technology officer of Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. of Fort Collins, Colo. He will discuss "Geographic Information Systems: Moving to the Geospatial Web."

John Allen, Department of Geography professor emeritus, will discuss "Division of the Waters: Defining the North American Continental Divide 1540-1890" at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in Room 220B of the Wyoming Union.
For more information, e-mail Jill Walker at jrwalker@uwyo.edu.

Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008

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