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Department Newsletter 2009
Department Events
Department Colloquium
Friday, February 5, 2010, 2:30 PM, Bellamy Room 116
The presenters: Victor Mesev, Aaron Binns, Sunny Sim, and Mike Sims
Department Announcements
Congratulations to undergraduate Brandy Saffell, who was just awarded funding from the Swiss Institute of Forest Research. Brandy will be assisting their research staff on tree ring projects in Spain and Switzerland this summer (January 2010)
Congratulations! The Best Poster Award at the Florida Society of Geographers was given to undergraduate Brandy Saffell and PhD Candidate Heather Gamper for their poster entitled: Using Geovisualization and Spatial Autocorrelation to Describe Distributional Dynamics of an Ecologically Important Scale Insect in Tropical Montane Forests of Mexico (January 2010)
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate John Sulik, whose article entitled “Feature Extraction for Darfur: Geospatial Applications in the Documentation of Human Rights Abuses” is accepted for publication in the International Journal of Remote Sensing. John is the leading author, and his co-author Dr. Scott Edwards is from Amnesty International, USA (November 2009)
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate John Sulik who gave an Ignite Talk at the first International Conference on Crisis Mapping
http://www.crisismappers.net/video/iccm-2009-crisis-mapping-1 (November 2009)
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Derek Morgan for having his article "A Visual Time Geographic Approach to Crime Event Profiling" accepted in Crime Mapping: A Journal of Practice and Research(October 2009)
Congratulations to Charles Layman to having his paper entitled "Comparing methods for measuring excess commuting and jobs-housing
balance: An empirical analysis of land use changes" accepted for
presentation at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research
Board (TRB).
Also of note, FSU geography Alum Michael Widener (M.S. 2009) had his
paper entitled "Modeling hurricane disaster relief distribution with a
hierarchical capacitated-median model" accepted for presentation at the
same TRB meeting(October 2009)
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