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Achievements
Find out what our students, faculty, and staff are being recognized for.
Chelsea Teale
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Dr. Chelsea Teale, Geography, published “Wetlands of New Netherland” in the Hudson River Valley Review, relating colonial Dutch terms for wetlands to their modern-day US Fish and Wildlife classifications. Another paper also accepted for publication by New York History examines the uses and modifications of wetlands in pre-1800 agriculture. Geography major Dan Cooper (‘16) also worked as a research assistant under an Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities grant and continuing an Island Invasives and Eradication Programs database project by Dr. Teale that began at the University of Georgia Institute of Ecology.
Patrick Wood
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Congratulations to HSU Geography major Patrick Wood, 2016 Winner of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Student Map Competition! The competition included 19 entries (12 graduate students, 7 undergraduates), traveling from 9 university programs including the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Penn State University, University of Oregon, University College London, and the University of Toronto. The prestigious award includes a cash prize of $500, and was presented at the annual NACIS conference this year in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Over 320 private sector, academic, and public sector cartographers gathered this year for 5 days of presentations, workshops, and networking.
Rosemary Sherriff
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Rosemary Sherriff co-authored a new paper in Ecological Applications titled “Tree-ring isotopes reveal drought sensitivity in trees killed by spruce beetle outbreaks in south-central Alaska” that is part of an on-going collaborative project evaluating climate change and disturbance effects in white spruce forests in southwest and south-central Alaska.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.1365/full
Monica Moreno-Espinoza, Stephen Cunha
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Geography senior Monica Moreno-Espinoza and Professor Stephen Cunha presented papers at the 79th Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG) meeting at Portland State University. For Mediterranean Refugee Crisis: Italian Student Attitudes Towards Political Migrants, Moreno-Espinoza surveyed 844 students from eight universities across Italy. The findings reveal positive sentiment towards political refugees, strong opinions towards other EU countries’ responsibility for assisting Italy in aiding refugees, and mixed attitudes on governmental intervention of refugee flow.
As presiding APCG President, Cunha’s Presidential Address documented 25 years of land protection efforts
Matthew Derrick and Rosemary Sherriff
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Matthew Derrick and Rosemary Sherriff, Geography Department, are taking over as editors (co-editors) of the California Geographer, a long-standing peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles on all aspects of California geography and beyond. There will be a new format that includes not only geographic scholarship, education, and book reviews, but also welcomes non-scholarly essays, photo essays, and geo-visualizations.
Jenny Novak
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Jenny Novak, ‘07 HSU Geography Alum, will be receiving an award for Community Preparedness at the White House on behalf of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Her experience as a Geography student Humboldt State led her to a career in reducing risk and planning for natural disasters. She is the Emergency Preparedness Manager at Cal State Northridge.
Link to the press release: http://www.fema.gov/news-release/2016/08/24/fema-honors-achievements-community-preparedness
Stephen Cunha
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Geography Professor Stephen Cunha's "Phase Change: The Western Ski Industry in Transition" appears in the Spring 2017 issue of Pacifica. The alpine ski industry in the west began in 1927 with a modest rope tow up a 164-foot hill near Lake Tahoe. Today, 125 resorts blanket 11 western states, BC, and Yukon. Changes during the last decade include the consolidation of resorts under corporate ownership, annual passes that apply to multiple areas across several states, the vertical integration of resort operations, and adaptations to a warming climate.
Dept. of Geography Faculty & Students
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
A large contingent of HSU faculty, students, and alumni recently attended the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in San Francisco. A record 9,000+ attendees from over 80 countries created an intellectual tour-de-force on topics from climate change, to human migration, natural resource exploitation, regional conflicts, the mapping sciences, and much more.
HSU Faculty presenters included:
* Matt Derrick: W(h)ither Post-Soviet Islam?
* Amy Rock: Citizen Participation and Public Funding in Ohio
* Erin Kelly: Re-shaping a regional market: Marijuana cultivation in far northern California at the precipice of legalization
* Laurie Richmond: It's a Trust Thing: Exploring the disconnect between fishermen's perceptions of and impacts from the California North Coast Marine Protected Area Network
* Stephen Cunha: Perestroika to Parkland: Evolving Land Protection in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan.
In addition, HSU student Emma Lundberg presented: Using Q-methodology to Understand Social Conflict in Wilderness Fisheries Management of Northern California.
HSU alumni attending included Professors Shannon Cram (Univ. Washington-Bothell) and Aquila Flowers (Western Washington), along with Nathanial Kelso (Mapzen), Kevin Flaherty (PGE), and doctoral students Aghaghia Rahimzadeh (UC Berkeley), and Joel Correia (Fulbright-Hayes Scholar, CU Boulder), among others.
Rosemary Sherriff
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Rosemary Sherriff, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, published a viewpoint paper with co-authors titled "Toward a more ecologically informed view of severe forest fires" in Ecosphere. February 2016. "http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.1255/full":http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.1255/full.
Chelsea Teale
Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Chelsea Teale was accepted to attend an NSF-funded summer program on assimilating long-term data into ecosystem models, hosted by the University of Notre Dame and the Paleoecological Observatory Network.