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Department Events
Friday 9, May 10:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Bellamy Building, Room 317
A MINICONFERENCE :
REVITALIZING ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY
organizers: Jonathan Leib and Barney Warf
The spring 2008 colloquia will continue most Fridays at 3:30
Department Announcements
Congratulations to Barbie Bischof and Phil Steinberg for having been awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant for Barbie's study of "Knowledge, Networks, and the Spaces of Coral Reef Conservation."
Congratulations to Bernadette Marion for being offered (and now accepting) a Post-Doctoral Research Appointment at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), beginning Fall 2008. Bernie will join a multi-disciplinary team of researchers investigating ways of measuring socioeconomic and transport-related accessibility issues. Her primary appointment will be in the Department of Civil Engineering and she will be affiliated with the University's Center for Transportation Studies. (March 27, 2008)
Congrats to Bernadette Marion for having her paper 'A Spatial Dissimilarity - Based Index of Jobs-Housing Balance: Conceptual Framework and Empirical Tests' accepted for pulbication in Urban Studies. This paper is related to her ongoing dissertation research (March 17, 2008).
Congrats to Joni Downs. She has been offered (and now accepted) a tenure-track assistant professorship at the University of South Florida, beginning Fall 2008. Joni will be teaching in the areas of GIScience and environmental geography. She joins a Ph.D.-granting geography department of approximately 20 faculty members.
Congrats to Joni Downs for having her first-author paper entitled 'Estimating carrying capacity for sandhill cranes using habitat suitability and spatial optimization models' accepted for publication in Ecological Modelling. The paper is coauthored with Bob Gates and Alan Murray, both of The Ohio State University.
Kudos to Kelly Watson. She is the first author on "Context and contingency: the coffee crisis for conventional small-scale coffee farmers in Brazil", a paper accepted for publication in The Geographical Journal.
Kudos to Heather Gamper and Tony Stallins. Heather’s proposal for doctoral dissertation research “Engineering Effects of Scale Insects on Forest Dynamics in Fragmented Tropical Montane Oak Forests of Veracruz, Mexico?was accepted for funding by the National Science Foundation Geography and Regional Science Program.
Kudos to Barbie Bischof. Barbie’s short essay and photography were published in the Dec/Jan issue of Natural History magazine.
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