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Department Newsletter 2008

 

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Department Events

 

Monday, August 17, 2009, 9:30 a.m., Bellamy Room 023
New Geography Graduate Student Orientation
Attendance mandatory for all new geography graduate students.

 

Department Announcements

 

On behalf of the International Cartographic Association, Dr. Xiaojun Yang co-chaired the Scientific Committee for the Second International Conference on Earth Observations for Global Changes which was held in Chengdu, China, May 25-29, 2009(June 2009)

Congratulations to Dr. Xiaojun Yang who is a key member for the International Partnership Project "Ecosystem Processes and Services" funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA). This project is for the period of 2009-2013 with a total amount of $878,477(June 2009)

Congratulations to Sunny Sim for being selected to be a Program Excellence (PIE) Associate for 2009-2010(June 2009)

Congratulations to Phil Steinberg for receiving a $376,779 grant from the National Science Foundation's Geography & Spatial Science and Arctic Social Science Programs to conduct research on "Territorial Imaginaries and Arctic Sovereignty Claims." Dr. Steinberg is lead PI on this research, which is being undertaken in collaboration with geographers Hannes Gerhardt (West Georgia) and Jeremy Tasch (Towson), historian Ron Doel (FSU), and sociologist Rob Shields (Alberta)(June 2009)

Congratulations to Julie Mura who becomes Chief Fnancial Officer for COGS. She is the first female and first person outside the Business School to hold the position(June 2009)

Congratulations to Victor Mesev, Joni Downs (USF) and Pete Shirlow (Queen’s, Belfast). They have had their paper, “The Geography of Conflict and Death in Belfast, Northern Ireland,” accepted in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Special Issue on Conflict (April 2009)

Congratulations to Derek Morgan. He was awarded an NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant for his research on "A Visual Time Geographic Approach to Crime Mapping," and his paper "Locating Pickpockets: A Visual Time Geographic Approach" was accepted at the annual National Institute of Justice Crime Mapping Conference (April 2009)

Congratulations to Dr. Mark W. Horner for receiving a Developing Scholar Award for 2009-2010 from the FSU Council on Research and Creativity. Developing Scholars are mid-career associate professors who have been singled out by their peers for recognition. Each receives a $10,000 award to be used in their research program (April 2009)

Congratulations to Tony Stallins, Michael Nesius, and Kelly Watson. Their paper titled "Biogeomorphic characterization of floodplain forest compositional change in response to reduced flows along the Apalachicola River, Florida" was recently accepted for publication in the journal River Research and Applications(April, 2009)

 

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