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- GeoClub visited three farms on the Kaw Valley Farm Tour over October 6th weekend.
- Awards Lead to Marriage for Graduate Students
- Best wishes to Curt Sorenson on the occasion of his retirement from the Department of Geography after 32 years of service.
- 210 Lindley Hall is now the McColl Conference Room. Dedication activities were held on May 8, 2007 to honor Professor Emeritus Robert W. McColl.
- KU Geography graduate student Josh Campbell was awarded the 2007 Thesis Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Josh received his award at the CLAS Master's Hooding Ceremony on May 19, 2007 at 10 AM in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre of Murphy Hall. Congratulations Josh!
- Congratulations to Steve Egbert, Brian Wardlow and Jude Kastens for two awards received for an article published last year in Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing - they received the Leica Geosystems first place award for best scientific paper and the John I. Davidson President's first place award for best practical paper. Brian Wardlow (KU PhD, 2006, and currently at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln) was the lead author, and Jude Kastens of KARS/KBS and Steve Egbert were co-authors. Their paper is entitled "Using USDA Crop Progress Data for the Evaluation of Green-up Onset Data Calculated from MODIS 250-Meter Data."
Fall 2006
June 2, 2006
KU News Release:
KU professor’s research defies traditional thinking about agriculture in Amazonia
Research by a University of Kansas professor (William Woods) and his colleagues showing that ancient Amazonia may have supported large-scale agriculture is challenging conventional thinking and providing ideas for more efficient and environmentally friendly land use in the future. Please click here to read entire article.
Graduation 2006
The Department of Geography held its annual graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 21, 2006, on the East Lawn of Lindley Hall. There were 50 graduates--5 Geography Ph.D., 8 Geography M.A., 9 Geography B.S., 10 Geography B.G.S., 8 Geography B.A., and 10 Atmospheric Sciences B.S. After addresses by faculty and student representatives, there was a barbeque lunch for the graduates and their guests.
Graduation Photo Album
Graduate Teaching Assistant Honored for Service
Diana Carlin, dean of the Graduate School and International Programs, honored eight students with awards totaling more than $5,000 for their dedication and skill as teaching assistants in an April 28 ceremony at the Burge Union. Henry Way, in Geography, was one of two students to win a$1,250 Carlin Graduate Teaching Assitant Award. The teaching assistant award winners were recognized during commencement ceremonies May 21.
Teaching assistants were nominated from departments and programs throughout the university. A selection committee chose winners based on their commitment to teaching, departmental and student comments and level of responsibility.
Carlin sponsors the Carlin Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, which was first presented in 1993.
Spring 2006
Professor Johannes Feddema published papers in Science (cited in the AAAS Science Roundup and accompanied by a piece from Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.) and in Climate Dynamics showing that anthropogenic land cover change could have a significant effect on the global climate.
Professor William I. Woods is the 2006 Robert McC. Netting award recipient.
Fall 2006
James Shortridge wins
$10,000 Higuchi Research Achievement Award
J. Christopher Brown receives Kemper Fellowship
Fall 2005
Professor
Steve Egbert recieved a Kemper
Award for outstanding
teaching.
Summer 2005
Ph.D. student Joel Plummer received a NASA
Fellowship for his
research with Prof. David Braaten on Ice Sheet Mapping and Mass
Balance Analysis
Ph.D.
students Sarah Smiley and Angela Gray both
recieved Fulbright Scholorships to support their ongoing research in
Africa.
Spring 2005
Senior
James Dietrich received an Undergraduate Research Award
to support his research on beach nourishment projects on the Outer Banks
of North Carolina.
Professor
David Braaten is part of a team of scientists at KU who
will study the melting of polar ice caps. The new Center for Remote Sensing
of Ice Sheets is funded by the National
Science Foundation.
2005 AAG Faculty and Student Awards
AAG Participation by Faculty and Graduate Students, 2005
The Department won the 2004 Excellence in Undergraduate Advising Award
from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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 Professor Kevin
Price works with distinguished national and international research
teams to study the impacts global change on natural and agroecosystems.
Since 1995, he has led efforts to develop a national vegetation monitoring
program called the GreenReport.
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Bill
Woods, of Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, joined our
faculty
and will serve as the Director of the Environmental Studies Program starting
January, 2005. He is a world expert on prehistoric settlement and agricultural
systems at Cahokia and
on the so-called ancient "black
earths" of Amazonia.
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| Professor Bill
Johnson is a part of a multidisciplinary team that procured a $492,000
from the Keck Foundation which, together with NSF and KU awards, is being
used to develop a state-of-the-art
stable isotope facility. |
 GIS Day was a Tremendous Success
Hundreds of students, professors, professionals, and other visitors from on campus and off
participated in making this year's GIS Day a stimulating venue for new important research
in the field of Geographic Information Science (GIS).
|  Globe-O-Mania Results
Twenty-four teams participated in the event including 100 players. Winning teams were: " I (heart) France" in first place, "Team Egbert" in second place, and "Team Ramrod" in third place. Thanks to all who participated in the event!
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 Community Outreach: The department hosted 250 South West Junior High students and their teachers on Nov 11-12. Geography undergraduate and graduate students met with the visitors and demonstrated some of the department's geographical visual applications.
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