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Achievements
Find out what our students, faculty, and staff are being recognized for.
Rosemary Sherriff
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
A study by Rosemary Sherriff, Associate Professor and Chair Geography Department, was recently highlighted in an article on PLOS, a nonprofit open access scientific publishing project. Read the full text at https://ecologyfieldreports.plos.org/mountain-ecosystems-respond-to-a-changing-climate-the-plos-ecological-impacts-of-climate-change-7c58598a6382#.b3ebc5qi7
Stephen Cunha
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Geography Professor Stephen Cunha's critical book review of "The Future of Mountain Agriculture" appears in the Journal of Mountain Research & Development 35:2.
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Matthew Derrick, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, recently published a chapter titled “Territoriality and the Muslim Spiritual Boards of Russia” in The Changing World Religion Map (New York: Springer), edited by Stan Brunn.
Ivan de Soto, Paradise Martinez Graff
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Students Ivan de Soto and Paradise Martinez Graff have been chosen to attend the California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education at Sonoma State on April 18-20, where they'll learn about the challenges and opportunities of pursuing grad school. They also received a competitive CAHSS research award to attend the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference in Idaho in June with ENST Program Leader Sarah Jaquette Ray, where they'll be participating in "Latin@ Environmentalisms: A Pedagogy Workshop." Ivan has also been elected co-director of CCAT.
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Matthew Derrick, assistant professor of Geography, published an article titled "The Muslim Spiritual Board of Tatarstan, Political-Territorial Transformation, and the Changing Character of Tatar Islam" in the December 2014 issue of The Journal of Central Asian and Caucasian Studies, an international scholarly journal.
Sarah Jaquette Ray
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Ray was recently elected Vice President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment for a two-year term beginning January 2015. Also this past month, her article, "Rub trees, Crittercams, and GIS: The Wired Wilderness of Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Alison's Bear 71" was published in the scholarly journal, "Green Letters."
Lucas Reyes, Hailey Lang, Conor Handley, Jared Whear, Jenny Zorn & Stephen Cunha
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Six Geography students, alumni, and faculty represented HSU at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers at the University of Arizona, in Tuscon.
Senior Lucas Reyes took home the top undergraduate research prize for his paper and presentation on “The Dawn of the Greenhouse on Rural Tibetan Landscapes.”
Hailey Lang (’14, Geography), a graduate student at San Jose State University, won the top Masters of Arts award for “Analyzing the Foreclosure and Crime Burden of Stockton, California.”
HSU Senior Rangeland Resource Science student Conor Handley won the Indigenous Peoples Travel Grant. He presented his paper on The Role of Indigenous Fire Ecology and Culturally Based Prescribed Fire in the Reintroduction of the California Condor.
Jared Whear (’13, Geography), a graduate student at the University of Missouri, presented “Rural Protest, Environmental Activism, and ‘Sacred Water’: A Case Study of the Las Vegas/Snake Valley Rural-Urban Water War.”
HSU Interim Provost and former CSU San Bernardino Geography professor Jenny Zorn presented her research on Internationalization Programs in U.S. Higher Education.
Finally, Professor Stephen Cunha was elected APCG’s Vice-President. Cunha will be the organization's 79th President.
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Geography faculty member Matthew Derrick was awarded a Kennan Institute grant, a division of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, that will support archival research in the Library of Congress on "Territory, Islam, and the Muslim Spiritual Boards of Russia: A Comparative Study of Four Muslim-Majority Regions.” He also served as editor for and published research in the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations edition on Perspectives on the State of Jefferson, in addition to publishing “Islam as a Source of Unity and Division in Eurasia” in the edited book Corridor of Interconnections: Eurasia from South China to the Caspian Sea.
Rosemary Sherriff
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Geography Professor Rosemary Sherriff has co-authored a peer-reviewed research article in the online journal PLOS ONE examining the severity of wildfires along Colorado's Front Range. The paper is titled "Historical, Observed, and Modeled Wildfire Severity in Montane Forests of the Colorado Front Range" and can be read online at plosone.org.
HSU geographers
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Sixteen geography students, along with two faculty members (Chris Haynes and Matthew Derrick), attended the 68th annual meeting of the California Geographical Society, held May 2-4 at Los Angeles City College. Eight of the HSU student geographers, along with Professor Derrick, presented research papers; another five students presented cartography projects or research posters. Marlyn Montgomery was awarded first place in the digital cartography competition for her project titled “Community Cartography in California,” and Will Firch was awarded third place in the research poster competition for his project titled “Urban Geography of a Gold Rush Town: Weaverville, California in 1860.”