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Achievements
Find out what our students, faculty, and staff are being recognized for.
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
As editor of The California Geographer, Matthew Derrick guided the 2020 edition (Vol. 59) of the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the California Geographical Society to completion and publication this past summer.
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Matthew Derrick, chair of the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis, was invited to the First International Congress of Geography of ApurÃmac and South
of Peru, College of Geographers of Peru, where he delivered a talk titled "Adventures and Applicability in Geographic Research: Faculty-Undergraduate Collaboration at Humboldt State University" on August 30, 2020.
Ahmed Foggie
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Ahmed Foggie, lecturer in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis, recently published an article title "Why the Translantic?" in the 2020 (Vol. 59) edition of the California Geographer, the flagship peer-review journal of the California Geographical Society.
Amy Rock
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Amy Rock, along with co-author James Taber, recently published "Home Tweet Home: Can Social Media Define a Community?", in the Journal of Appalachian Studies. The study used Twitter data to investigate whether the boundaries of a cultural region could be identified from geotagged tweets and hashtags. (Spoiler alert: it can!)
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Matthew Derrick, chair of the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Analysis, was elected to the executive committee of the CSU Academic Council on International Programs for the 2020-21 academic year.
Gil Trejo, Grace Hall, Melody Dick, Sean Fleming, Melissa Collin, Theresa Brakeman, Zach Porteous, Amy Rock, Nick Perdue,
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
GESA Faculty Amy Rock and Nick Perdue recently took geospatial students from several departments to the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) conference in Tacoma, WA, where they had the opportunity to get feedback on their maps and interact with mapping professionals from National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, NASA, and more.
Nicolas Malloy, Amy Rock
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Nicolas Malloy and Amy Rock have just published Geospatial Concepts: The Fundamentals of Geospatial Science, a low-cost, interactive text on the foundational knowledge of geospatial science. Topics include cartography, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and mobile mapping with GPS.
This book uses the ePub 3.0 specification, which is natively accessible to screen readers, and allows for many interactive options that enrich the reading experience, such as links to external resources, files, and videos.
To learn more, watch the following video: https://youtu.be/_5l9na4DLyM. The book is available through Amazon.com.
Amy Rock
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Amy Rock was recently appointed to the American Association of Geographers' Committee on the Status of Women in Geography. The focus of this standing committee is to monitor and promote opportunities for women, and identify outstanding mentorship within the discipline.
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Matthew Derrick, chair of Geography, was elected as president of the California Geographical Society at the organization's annual meeting May 3-5.
Summer Owen
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Summer won third place in the Digital Map Competition at the California Geographic Conference in Big Bear Lake, CA with her map The Impact of the Thomas Fire.