Dr. Frank Witmer discusses his research analyzing causes of violence in Sub-Saharan Africa and Dr. Jennifer Schmidt discusses climate adaptation in the Arctic and TUNDRA Dr. Frank Witmer is a computational geographer who conducts research studying violent conflict and human-environment interactions using spatial statistical methods, remote sensing data, and simulation. He teaches in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, UAA. One of his recent projects studies climate variability and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, both historically and for future scenarios. The second guest speaker (starting at 41:29) is Dr. Jennifer Schmidt who works at the UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER). She is the lead Alaska researcher for an international Arctic projects called CONNECT and TUNDRA. Note: both presentations examine interactions among socio-economic conditions, governance, and connectivity and their influence land use and harvest by communities in the Arctic and both are also posted in the iTunes podcast collection. --