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Find out what our students, faculty, and staff are being recognized for.
Amy Rock
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Amy Rock recently published a chapter entitled Community-Based Learning as Experiential Learning in Geography. The chapter is part of a new book from Springer in Experiential Learning in Geography: The World as Our Classroom, edited by Jonathan Wessell, and compiling domestic and international examples of engaging geography students with local communities. A Meet the Authors session will be held at the upcoming American Association of Geographers annual meeting in Detroit, March 24-28.
Gabi Kirk
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Gabi Kirk has a new peer-reviewed article out in The Journal of Political Ecology. Titled "'A fairly good crop for white men:' The political ecology of agricultural science and settler colonialism between the US and Palestine," it details the connections between the agricultural colonization of California and Zionist agricultural settlement in Mandatory Palestine. This article was the basis of her talk given as part of the Decolonizing Sustainability Speaker Series in the Native American Forum on October 24. It is available free through open access.
Rosemary Sherriff, Nicholas Perdue
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Rosemary Sherriff and Dr. Nicholas Perdue, Department of Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis, organized and hosted the 86th Annual Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Conference at Cal Poly Humboldt campus from October 3rd to 5th. The conference included local field trips, paper and poster sessions, and keynote speakers. Multiple Cal Poly Humboldt graduate and undergraduate students presented at the conference.
Dr. Amy Rock
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
PI Dr. Jieun Lee (University of Northern Colorado), along with co-PIs Dr. Gary Langham (American Assoc. of Geographers), Dr. Amy Rock (UCGIS), and Dr. Laxmi Ramasubramanian (CUNY-Staten Island) have received a $1 million NSF ADVANCE grant to support women in geography and geospatial sciences. Building on the Golden Compass project and UCGIS' TRELIS program, the 4-year project works with departments to support increased representation and advancement for women in STEM, specifically examining opportunities for equity and inclusion for foreign-born women faculty. More details can be found on the AAG site: https://www.aag.org/aag-embarks-on-national-partnership-to-support-fore…;
Amy Rock
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Amy Rock moderated a roundtable discussion entitled, "The Golden Compass Onward: Enabling Equitable and Inclusive Faculty Success through Supportive Departmental Leadership," held at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) annual meeting. This interactive session was part of a larger initiative to support foreign-born faculty in geography and geospatial departments at US institutions of higher education, jointly supported by AAG and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS).
Amy Rock
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Amy Rock was invited to speak on a panel on Teaching Modern GIS: Approaches and Perspectives. She also moderated a talk on Teaching Ethics in GIS and Geography Courses, both at the American Association of Geographers conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 16-20.
Gabi Kirk
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Gabi Kirk has two new publications out on political ecology and agrarian issues in Palestine. The first is co-authored with Dr. Paul Kohlbry, "Situating the Transnational in Agrarian Palestine," in the edited volume Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism (IB Taurus/Bloomsbury). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/resisting-domination-in-palestine-9780755…;
The second, "Trains, Trees, and Terraces: Infrastructures of Settler Colonialism and Resistance in the Refaim Valley, Palestine-Israel," is in the edited volume Gendered Infrastructures: Space, Scale, and Identity (West Virginia University Press). https://wvupressonline.com/gendered-infrastructures
Both chapters look critically at settler colonial dispossession in rural parts of the Occupied West Bank.
Stephen Cunha
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Stephen Cunha’s paper, Field Notes: Visualizing the Record 2022-23 Record Snowpack in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California (The California Geographer 62: 65-86) combines snow survey data from eight Sierran watersheds, NASA Landsat and NOAA imagery, and his own annotated photographs from skis, aerial outings, and roads, to portray the record snowpack in the Eastern and Southern Sierra from Yosemite south to Mt. Whitney. Every watershed exceeded 250 percent of normal, with the Kern River (326 percent) leading the Western Sierra and the Owens River (318 percent) foremost on the Eastside. Below-average spring temperatures partially mitigated high-water flooding.
Gabi Kirk
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Gabi Kirk was awarded the 2023 Eric Wolf Prize of the Political Ecology Society (PESO). This annual award is given to an article-length paper based in substantive field research that make an innovative contribution to political ecology to authors within two years of receiving their Ph.D.
She will deliver a keynote address, “ ‘A fairly good crop for white men’: The political ecology of agricultural science and settler colonialism between the US and Palestine” on March 28 at the Society for Applied Anthropology Conference in Santa Fe. Additionally her article is under review at the Journal of Political Ecology.
Amy Rock
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Amy Rock was invited to participate in a panel discussion on DEI in the geospatial industry, entitled "The Geospatial Inclusion Imperative: Diverse Leadership Shaping Tomorrow" hosted by the World Geospatial Industry Council at GeoWeek 2024 in Denver, CO. The panel discussed the critical importance of fostering a diverse and inclusive geospatial industry, and included academic and industry speakers to explore insights and best practices for implementing DEI initiatives and overcoming challenges, following on WGIC's policy report on leadership diversity in the geospatial industry.