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The question of what lies ahead is of particular concern for Latin Americanists. The last decade has witnessed a serious erosion of both the popularity of their specialty, and an equally troublesome reduction in employment opportunities. This paper uses Association of American Geographers (AAG) data bases to document the age-gender structure of contemporary Latin Americanist geographers, and projects likely compositional changes through the end of the century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BITNET is a telecommunications network for higher education. The network's general characteristics, services, the availability of BITNET to academic geographers , and their use of the system are examined. Although more than 80% of geography faculty in the United States and Canada are at BITNET supported institutions, a survey of AAG Specially Group chairs suggests that geographers' actual use of BITNET is relatively low. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the Third International Symposium in Medical Geography held August 7 to 11, 1988, hosted by the Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. History of the symposium; Number of papers presented at Kingston; Overview of a typical day's agenda at Kingston.

Highlights the sixth annual Applied Geography Conference hosted by the Department of Applied Geography in Toronto, Ontario. Number of registrants attended; Features of th conference; Discussion of land use problems and resource management problems in other conference sessions.

The article focuses on the development of geography as an academic discipline in Canada. Geography has been an established subject in the elementary and secondary schools of Canada throughout this century. Education at these levels is controlled by provincial governments and the curriculum varies across the country. In some provinces geography is merged into social studies, particularly in Western Canada, whereas in Ontario it has remained a strong element in the schools. Each province has a different course content, but geography of Canada is taught once or twice in nearly every province, but at different grade levels.