David Salisbury Receives Grant for Amazon River Workshop
February 7, 2012
David Salisbury, assistant professor of geography and the environment at the University of Richmond, has been awarded an $8,000 grant from the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH) to organize and lead a one-week workshop in Pucallpa, Peru this spring.
The workshop will bring together representatives from Acre, Brazil and Ucayali Peru, the two countries containing the largest portion of the Amazon River basin. Salisbury hopes they will formalize an agreement to share cartographic data, apply participatory mapping and build an integrated formal map of the region.
One outcome of the workshop, Salisbury said, will be a plan for trans-boundary Amazon cooperation along Peru’s and Brazil’s central Amazon border which could lead to future meetings and workshops among all nine Amazonian states.
Salisbury has taught at Richmond since 2007, after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. He also held a 2010 Fulbright Scholar Award at the Universidad Nacional de Ucayali (UNU) in Peru, where he has been an honorary professor for four years.
PAIGH, an institute of the Organization of American States, was created in 1928 to encourage, coordinate and publicize cartographical, geographic, geophysical and historical studies in the Americas, as well as cooperation among organizations interested in those fields.
The workshop will bring together representatives from Acre, Brazil and Ucayali Peru, the two countries containing the largest portion of the Amazon River basin. Salisbury hopes they will formalize an agreement to share cartographic data, apply participatory mapping and build an integrated formal map of the region.
One outcome of the workshop, Salisbury said, will be a plan for trans-boundary Amazon cooperation along Peru’s and Brazil’s central Amazon border which could lead to future meetings and workshops among all nine Amazonian states.
Salisbury has taught at Richmond since 2007, after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. He also held a 2010 Fulbright Scholar Award at the Universidad Nacional de Ucayali (UNU) in Peru, where he has been an honorary professor for four years.
PAIGH, an institute of the Organization of American States, was created in 1928 to encourage, coordinate and publicize cartographical, geographic, geophysical and historical studies in the Americas, as well as cooperation among organizations interested in those fields.