Middle States Division of the
Association of American Geographers

Middle States Geographer Volume 44, 2011
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Journal of the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Examining the Spatial Distribution of Federal Stimulus Funds. M. Katirai and J.L. Osgood Jr.

The Dynamic Hinterland of New York City: The Transition from Farming to WAtershed Protection and Recreation in Delaware County, NY. Claire Jantz

Environmental and Economic Impacts of a Carbon Tax: An Application of the Long Island Markal Model. David Friedman, Yehuda Klein and Guodong Sun.

Football Discipline as a Barometer of Racism in English Sport and Society. 2004-2007 Spatial Dimensions. M.T. Sullivan, J. Strauss and D.S. Friedman

Assessing the Influence of Weather Type and Rural Land Cover on a Small Urban Heat Island. Timothy W. Hawkins and Olivia A. Braun.

Using a Bioblitz to Connect Species Richness and Environmental Characteristics in an Urban Watershed. John Dobosiewicz, Daniela Shebitz and Janet Tuohy

Patterns of Plan Species Richness in the Contiguous United States. Erika Y. Chin

Urban Revitalization and Neighborhood Dynamics in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 2006-2011. Brandon Duxbury and Claire Jantz

Urban Food Access and the Potential of Community Gardens. Kristen B. Crossney and Emily Shellenberger

"It's Hard to Balance it": Cultural Identity Production Among Youth of the South Asian Diaspora in Metropolitan New York and Oslo. Kari B. Jensen.

Using Learning Communities as a Recruitment Strategy for an Undergraduate Geography Program. Wendy Miller, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo and Kathleen Lawrence,

2011 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MIDDLE STATES DIVISION
OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS
November 11-12, 2011
Kean University
Union, New Jersey

2011 OFFICERS OF THE MIDDLE STATES DIVISION

President: John F. Dobosiewicz, Kean University
Vice-President: Paul Marr, Shippensburg University
Secretary: Kelly Frothingham, Buffalo State College
Executive Director: Jo Margaret Mano, SUNY New Paltz
Regional Councilor: Laurel Hummel, U. S. Military Academy at West Point
Past President: Amy Krakowka, U. S. Military Academy at West Point
Past President: Lawrence McGlinn, SUNY New Paltz
Past President: Kathleen Schreiber, Millersville University

Middle States Geographer Editors:
Adam Kalkstein, U. S. Military Academy at West Point
Paul Marr, Shippensburg University

About the cover: The 2011 Annual Meeting was hosted by the School of General Studies on the Kean University campus in Union, New Jersey. Kean was founded in 1855 as the Newark Normal School and moved to its current location on the historic Kean Estate in 1958. With an enrollment of over 13,000 undergraduate and 3,200 graduate students Kean is currently the third largest institution of higher education in New Jersey. The cover photograph is of Kean University’s STEM building which opened in September of 2010. In addition to housing the New Jersey Center for Science, Technology, and Mathematics (NJCSTM) the building has over 100,000 square feet of classroom space.

ISSN 1067-2230

MIDDLE STATES GEOGRAPHER, Volume 44, 2011

REVIEWERS

Robert Brinkmann - Hofstra University	Michael Pendleton - Buffalo State College
John Brockhaus - United States Military Academy	Grant Saff - Hofstra University
John Dobosiewicz - Kean University	Dona Schneider - Rutgers University
Kurt Fuellhart - Shippensburg University	Steven Schnell - Kutztown University
Zilkia Janer - Hofstra University	Derek Shanahan - Millersville University
Kari Jensen - Hofstra University	John Sharp - SUNY New Paltz
Ola Johansson - University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown	Andrew Trgovac - SUNY Buffalo
Amy Krakowka - United States Military Academy	Richard Wolfel - United States Military Academy
Lawrence McGlinn - SUNY New Paltz