Achievements

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.

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.