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Find out what our students, faculty, and staff are being recognized for.
Rosemary Sherriff
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Rosemary Sherriff (Geography) co-authored a new perspective paper titled "Advancing Dendrochronological Studies of Fire in the United States" in the new journal Fire. http://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/1/11/html
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Geography professor Matthew Derrick delivered a conference paper presentation titled "Territorial Politics of Mosques in Post-Soviet Central Asia" at the Central Asia Fulbright Seminar for U.S. Scholars and Students, held April 9-12 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Derrick is currently spending his sabbatical year as a Fulbright Scholar based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Associate professor of Geography Matthew Derrick presented a paper titled "Mosques and Monumentality in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan" at the South and Central Asia Fulbright conference, held in New Delhi, India, February 26-28. Derrick is currently a Fulbright scholar based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Rosemary Sherriff
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Rosemary Sherriff, Geography faculty and chair, has two new publications in disturbance ecology. (1) A co-authored article on bark beetle impacts on socio-ecological systems in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (January 2018, volume 16, doi: 10.1002/fee.1754). (2) A co-authored chapter on deciphering the complexity of historical fire regimes in the co-edited book: Dendroecology: Tree-ring Analyses Applied to Ecological Studies (2017, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61669-8_8).
Chelsea Teale, Amy Rock
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
With the help of the Center for Community Based Learning, Drs. Chelsea Teale and Amy Rock of the Geography Department facilitated lesson planning and school pairings for 50 students as part of Geography Awareness Week (November 13-17). Groups of future educators enrolled in GEOG 470, Geography for Teachers, took giant floor maps into nine K-12 schools to conduct interactive lessons including a "tour" of indigenous lands in Humboldt County, California’s climate and weather, Coronado's quest for gold in the Southwest, the American Revolution, and the European theater of World War II.
Rosemary Sherriff
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Rosemary Sherriff published "Warming drives a front of white spruce recruitment near western treeline, Alaska" with National Park Service collaborators in Global Change Biology. Warming has increased productivity near the boreal forest margin in Alaska. However, the effects on seedling recruitment has received little attention, in spite of forecasted forest expansion. The study of 95 sites across a longitudinal gradient in southwest Alaska shows a differential relationship between longitude and life-stage (seedling, sapling, tree) abundance that suggests a moving front of white spruce establishment through time, driven by changes in environmental conditions near the species’ range limit. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13814/full
Matthew Derrick
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
On Oct. 18, Geography professor Matthew Derrick delivered a featured public lecture, titled “Post-Soviet Central Eurasia’s New Religious Landscapes: A View from Tatarstan," at American University of Central Asia (AUCA) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where he is a visiting scholar during his sabbatical for the current academic year.
Nathaniel Alexander Douglass
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Nathaniel Alexander Douglass, a student in HSU Geography, won the Best Cartographic Design at the North American Cartographic Information Society's 2017 Student Map and Poster Competition in Montreal, Canada. He received a $500 award and interest from organizations such as National Geographic, Esri Maps and Data, and several grad schools. He poured his heart and soul into the map he presented, depicting a snow-covered Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Laura Johnson
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Laura Johnson published an article in the Journal of Rural Studies titled 'Gendering strategies for civic agriculture: The case of Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture and the High Country Farm Tour.' The article can be accessed here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Vecm2eyKFS0m2
Stephen Cunha, Mary Beth Cunha
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
The National Geography Society invited geography faculty Mary Beth and Stephen Cunha on a recent five-week voyage to Greenland, Baffin, and Ellesmere Islands. Mary served as a cartographic expert, helping guests utilize a mapping phone app. She also provided interpretation for scores of hard copy historic and electronic maps of this Arctic region. Stephen lectured on glaciers, mountain environments, and the evolution of parks and protected lands across the globe. The ship reached 78°45’ North before pack ice blocked further progress.