Johannes Feddema, a UD alumnus, delivered the inaugural John R. Mather Visiting
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From the XVIII INQUA-Congress (International Union for Quaternary Research) in Bern, Switzerland: Congratulations to Alan Halfen on his poster award. Each day of the conference, 2-4 students received awards for his/her poster presentation. Out of the hundreds of posters, Alan won for his poster on his dissertation research. It appears that he was the only US student to receive an award throughout the entire conference. His award was sponsored by Nature Geoscience. |
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From the Lawrence Journal World - Sept. 7, 2011:
• KU has a representative in a Hall of Fame that I bet you didn’t even know existed.
It’s the GIS (that’s geographic information system to you) Hall of Fame, and Barry Wellar, a former KU geography professor is in it. Here’s a complete write-up.
Wellar, who was on the faculty here from 1969 to 1972, helped form some of the very first GIS courses in the country, according to the information from the GIS Hall of Fame, which would probably know this kind of thing.
After leaving KU, Wellar went on to teach at the University of Ottawa in Canada, where is now retired as a professor emeritus.
GIS systems have since become much more widely adopted, including being used by the City of Lawrence. http://lawrenceks.org/information_systems/gis
They have applications in urban planning, transportation and many other areas, too. It's a nice recognition for an early adopter of the technology here at KU.
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Geography Students Receive Geological Survey Outstanding Achievement Awards
Scott Klopfenstein, a master’s student in geography from Lawrence, received the Jack Dangermond/ESRI Geospatial Technologies Student Award for his work in Cartographic Services. He has refined and documented procedures to improve map quality and efficiency. He also helped prepare several surficial geology maps, including the recently released Geary County map. Klopfenstein received a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from KU in 2008. He is the son of Larry and Diana Klopfenstein and a Lawrence High School graduate. The award was established by Dangermond, president of the Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., to recognize student accomplishments in the application of geospatial technologies.
Robert Zane Price, a doctoral student in geography from Bates, Mo., received the Norman Plummer Outstanding Student Award for his assistance in Cartographic Services in streamlining the process of creating the Kansas Geological Survey’s digitized maps, including the county geologic map series. He developed ways to improve the identification and classification of roads data, created documentation for mapping procedures and proofing, and digitized several county geologic maps and other Kansas Geological Survey map products. Price has a 2003 bachelor’s degree from University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. Plummer was a Kansas Geological Survey employee from 1936 to 1969.
http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/june/13/kgsawards.shtml for entire article.
May 24, 2011
Contact: Brendan M. Lynch, University Relations, 785-864-8855
Students send balloons with cameras to near space for research project
Project GeoHawk
University of Kansas Geography 726 Mission to Near Space
This class has been tasked with designing, constructing and launching a remote sensing platform into near space and finding applications for the imagery acquired. The project is continually evolving and this blog will be a forum to publish our progress.
Professor James (Pete) Shortridge has 2 books on the Kansas State Library's list of the 150 most popular Kansas books. The complete list is available at www.kslib.info and www.ks150.kansas.gov
Meteorology students at the Univ. of Kansas planning trip to help tornado victims in Alabama
Professor Terry Slocum bringing 3-D to geography classrooms
With the recent popularity of stereoscopic 3-D movies like “Avatar” and “Alice in Wonderland,” a new generation of Americans are donning plastic, polarized glasses and enjoying images that seem to spill from the screen into the theater itself.
Now, supported by a two-year, $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, some of that stereoscopic pizzazz is finding its way into geography classrooms at KU and Haskell Indian Nations University.
Congratulations to John Biersack on his Fulbright Scholarship! He will be researching Geopolitical Narratives in Contemporary Ukraine.
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Atmospheric science grad students working with Prof. David Mechem do the heavy lifting to install a disk array in the Atmospheric Science Linux cluster. The disk server provides an additional analysis capacity and 60 Terabytes of storage for regional climate simulations, cloud-resolving models, and eddy-covariance tower data. These computing resources support our research projects funded by NSF EPSCoR, NOAA, Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, and NASA. Pictured, from left to right in the photo, are Halley Holmes, Prescott Bishop, David Huber, and Kathryn Clark. |
Project GeoHawk Balloon Launch!
See photos from the first successful launch!
Congratulations are in order for Mike Dunaway, who has received a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Mike will examine Native American reservations’ ability to use solar power to refine biodiesel by using GIS and geospatial analysis to show areas of confluence with respect to solar density and fuel crop growth density and potential.
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Assistant Professor Margaret Pearce has been awarded a Franklin Research Grant for $6,000 from the American Philosophical Society. The grant will support her collaborative research with the Penobscot Nation Cultural & Historic Preservation Department to design and create a Wabanaki place names map of Maine. As in other Indigenous languages, Wabanaki toponyms comprise an ancient archive describing the look, use, and feeling of places in the landscape at different spatial and temporal scales. 
Their interrelationships and structure form a traditional Wabanaki cartography of place. As in other Indigenous territories across North America, these toponyms have been replaced, erased, misinterpreted, and misrecorded in the maps, documents, and public memory since the 16th century.
The project goals are to: visualize the locations and interconnections of Wabanaki place names by locating, translating, and symbolizing them through mapping; develop symbolization and design techniques that visually encode these interconnected significances; and share that map with Penobscot Nation, Wabanaki peoples, the people of Maine, and the world in printed form and on the web.
More about the cultural projects of the Penobscot Nation can be found at penobscotculture.com. For more about the Franklin Research Grants, see the American Philosophical Society's website.
Today's KU News Release: Radar developed at KU revolutionizes study of melt water under glaciers
Just an FYI for those who read the Daily Kansan and/or are interested: KU Atmo 605 students are now the forecasters for the Kansan newspaper! (the paper is no longer using weather.com). You can find our forecasts today on page 2, at the top. We hope to make this a year-round thing, where KU ATMO majors will be producing forecasts for the paper in addition to recording for the KU Weather line.
As a reminder, anytime you need a forecast, you can call the Weather Line at 864-3300.
Project GeoHawk
University of Kansas Geography 726 Mission to Near Space
This class has been tasked with designing, constructing and launching a remote sensing platform into near space and finding applications for the imagery acquired. The project is continually evolving and this blog will be a forum to publish our progress.
Doctoral student Alan F. Halfen has received the honor of being invited to present a paper entitled “The Past, Current, and Future of North American Great Plains Dune Field Research: Linking Chronological Data to Climate” at the 18th International Union for Quaternary Research Congress to be held this summer in Bern, Switzerland. He will be traveling there with his advisor, Bill Johnson, who will also be giving presentations on human adaptation to environmental change in Afghanistan and on paleosols (ancient soils) in the central Great Plains.
Congratulations to Alan Halfen on being selected to present at the 8th Annual Capitol Graduate Research Summit in Topeka on February 17th. Alan will be one of eight presenters from KU.
Congratulations to Julia Guard on her National Geographic internship. She says, "Due to all of the great professors, advisors, and classes I have had in the geography department at the University of Kansas, I am excited to announce that I was recently offered, and accepted an internship for National Geographic in the Fall of 2011!! I just wanted to let everyone in the department (especially Garth Myers & Margaret Pearce for their exceptional involvement in my education) know just how thankful I am for their work in preparing me for such an exciting position! I also want to thank Bev M. personally for making the internship information known to me in the first place; the up-to-date emails are incredible!" You're so welcome, Julia!!
http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/february/18/natlgeographic.shtml
Geography PhD student Alan Halfen and Steve Hasiotis have the BIOone-featured Palaios article this month. This site features the top article in each major biological journal for each month.
http://www.bioone.org/action/showDois
On Monday, November 29, Dr. Soren Larsen from the University of Missouri will be presenting “Amenity Development and Landscape Change in the American West: Research from the KU Field Camp in Colorado”. Dr. Larsen’s talk will take place in 317 Lindley Hall at 3:00 pm. Light snacks and refreshments will be served prior to the talk in 317.
Following Dr. Larsen’s talk at 4:00 pm, the department will hold an open forum to discuss field camp. All interested parties should be in attendance.
Rolfe Mandel has received the Geological Society of America’s Kirk Bryan Award. Rolfe is an alumnus of the department and currently an adjunct faculty member. Please join us in congratulating Rolfe.
Below is some information regarding the award. (Thanks to Ashley Zung for providing this info.)
From the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology website, "Established in 1951, the Kirk Bryan Award is the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division's only named GSA award. The Kirk Bryan Award is bestowed upon the author or authors of a published paper of distinction advancing the science of geomorphology or some related field, such as [Pleistocene] Quaternary geology."
The list of GSA awardees this year, including Rolfe's award, can be found at http://www.geosociety.org/awards/divisions.htm. Here is the link to his abstract for the presentation he gave for the award: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/abstract_179363.htm.
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The November issue of National Geographic just arrived in the mail. It has an nice large map of the world and guess who is listed under Map Production? Our own Travis White! Way to go, Travis! |
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Assistant Professor Margaret Pearce has been awarded a Franklin Research Grant for $6,000 from the American Philosophical Society. The grant will support her collaborative research with the Penobscot Nation Cultural & Historic Preservation Department to design and create a Wabanaki place names map of Maine. As in other Indigenous languages, Wabanaki toponyms comprise an ancient archive describing the look, use, and feeling of places in the landscape at different spatial and temporal scales. Their interrelationships and structure form a traditional Wabanaki cartography of place. As in other Indigenous territories across North America, these toponyms have been replaced, erased, misinterpreted, and misrecorded in the maps, documents, and public memory since the 16th century.
The project goals are to: visualize the locations and interconnections of Wabanaki place names by locating, translating, and symbolizing them through mapping; develop symbolization and design techniques that visually encode these interconnected significances; and share that map with Penobscot Nation, Wabanaki peoples, the people of Maine, and the world in printed form and on the web.
More about the cultural projects of the Penobscot Nation can be found at penobscotculture.com. For more about the Franklin Research Grants, see the American Philosophical Society's website.
Today's KU News Release: Radar developed at KU revolutionizes study of melt water under glaciers
Just an FYI for those who read the Daily Kansan and/or are interested: KU Atmo 605 students are now the forecasters for the Kansan newspaper! (the paper is no longer using weather.com). You can find our forecasts today on page 2, at the top. We hope to make this a year-round thing, where KU ATMO majors will be producing forecasts for the paper in addition to recording for the KU Weather line.
As a reminder, anytime you need a forecast, you can call the Weather Line at 864-3300.
Project GeoHawk
University of Kansas Geography 726 Mission to Near Space
This class has been tasked with designing, constructing and launching a remote sensing platform into near space and finding applications for the imagery acquired. The project is continually evolving and this blog will be a forum to publish our progress.
Doctoral student Alan F. Halfen has received the honor of being invited to present a paper entitled “The Past, Current, and Future of North American Great Plains Dune Field Research: Linking Chronological Data to Climate” at the 18th International Union for Quaternary Research Congress to be held this summer in Bern, Switzerland. He will be traveling there with his advisor, Bill Johnson, who will also be giving presentations on human adaptation to environmental change in Afghanistan and on paleosols (ancient soils) in the central Great Plains.
Congratulations to Alan Halfen on being selected to present at the 8th Annual Capitol Graduate Research Summit in Topeka on February 17th. Alan will be one of eight presenters from KU.
Congratulations to Julia Guard on her National Geographic internship. She says, "Due to all of the great professors, advisors, and classes I have had in the geography department at the University of Kansas, I am excited to announce that I was recently offered, and accepted an internship for National Geographic in the Fall of 2011!! I just wanted to let everyone in the department (especially Garth Myers & Margaret Pearce for their exceptional involvement in my education) know just how thankful I am for their work in preparing me for such an exciting position! I also want to thank Bev M. personally for making the internship information known to me in the first place; the up-to-date emails are incredible!" You're so welcome, Julia!!
http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/february/18/natlgeographic.shtml
Geography PhD student Alan Halfen and Steve Hasiotis have the BIOone-featured Palaios article this month. This site features the top article in each major biological journal for each month.
http://www.bioone.org/action/showDois
On Monday, November 29, Dr. Soren Larsen from the University of Missouri will be presenting “Amenity Development and Landscape Change in the American West: Research from the KU Field Camp in Colorado”. Dr. Larsen’s talk will take place in 317 Lindley Hall at 3:00 pm. Light snacks and refreshments will be served prior to the talk in 317.
Following Dr. Larsen’s talk at 4:00 pm, the department will hold an open forum to discuss field camp. All interested parties should be in attendance.
Rolfe Mandel has received the Geological Society of America’s Kirk Bryan Award. Rolfe is an alumnus of the department and currently an adjunct faculty member. Please join us in congratulating Rolfe.
Below is some information regarding the award. (Thanks to Ashley Zung for providing this info.)
From the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology website, "Established in 1951, the Kirk Bryan Award is the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division's only named GSA award. The Kirk Bryan Award is bestowed upon the author or authors of a published paper of distinction advancing the science of geomorphology or some related field, such as [Pleistocene] Quaternary geology."
The list of GSA awardees this year, including Rolfe's award, can be found at http://www.geosociety.org/awards/divisions.htm. Here is the link to his abstract for the presentation he gave for the award: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/abstract_179363.htm.
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Project GeoHawk
University of Kansas Geography 726 Mission to Near Space
This class has been tasked with designing, constructing and launching a remote sensing platform into near space and finding applications for the imagery acquired. The project is continually evolving and this blog will be a forum to publish our progress.
Doctoral student Alan F. Halfen has received the honor of being invited to present a paper entitled “The Past, Current, and Future of North American Great Plains Dune Field Research: Linking Chronological Data to Climate” at the 18th International Union for Quaternary Research Congress to be held this summer in Bern, Switzerland. He will be traveling there with his advisor, Bill Johnson, who will also be giving presentations on human adaptation to environmental change in Afghanistan and on paleosols (ancient soils) in the central Great Plains.
Congratulations to Alan Halfen on being selected to present at the 8th Annual Capitol Graduate Research Summit in Topeka on February 17th. Alan will be one of eight presenters from KU.
Congratulations to Julia Guard on her National Geographic internship. She says, "Due to all of the great professors, advisors, and classes I have had in the geography department at the University of Kansas, I am excited to announce that I was recently offered, and accepted an internship for National Geographic in the Fall of 2011!! I just wanted to let everyone in the department (especially Garth Myers & Margaret Pearce for their exceptional involvement in my education) know just how thankful I am for their work in preparing me for such an exciting position! I also want to thank Bev M. personally for making the internship information known to me in the first place; the up-to-date emails are incredible!" You're so welcome, Julia!!
http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/february/18/natlgeographic.shtml
Geography PhD student Alan Halfen and Steve Hasiotis have the BIOone-featured Palaios article this month. This site features the top article in each major biological journal for each month.
http://www.bioone.org/action/showDois
On Monday, November 29, Dr. Soren Larsen from the University of Missouri will be presenting “Amenity Development and Landscape Change in the American West: Research from the KU Field Camp in Colorado”. Dr. Larsen’s talk will take place in 317 Lindley Hall at 3:00 pm. Light snacks and refreshments will be served prior to the talk in 317.
Following Dr. Larsen’s talk at 4:00 pm, the department will hold an open forum to discuss field camp. All interested parties should be in attendance.
Rolfe Mandel has received the Geological Society of America’s Kirk Bryan Award. Rolfe is an alumnus of the department and currently an adjunct faculty member. Please join us in congratulating Rolfe.
Below is some information regarding the award. (Thanks to Ashley Zung for providing this info.)
From the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology website, "Established in 1951, the Kirk Bryan Award is the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division's only named GSA award. The Kirk Bryan Award is bestowed upon the author or authors of a published paper of distinction advancing the science of geomorphology or some related field, such as [Pleistocene] Quaternary geology."
The list of GSA awardees this year, including Rolfe's award, can be found at http://www.geosociety.org/awards/divisions.htm. Here is the link to his abstract for the presentation he gave for the award: http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/abstract_179363.htm.
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The November issue of National Geographic just arrived in the mail. It has an nice large map of the world and guess who is listed under Map Production? Our own Travis White! Way to go, Travis! |
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GIS Day@KU Student Presentation Competition
Congratulations are in order for Nate Brunsell, who has just received an NSF Ecosystems grant (with Paul Stoy at Montana State University) for a project entitled “Scaling ecosystem function: Novel approaches from MaxEnt and Multiresolution.”
On Tuesday, September 21, Geography graduate student Alan F. Halfen served as a panelist for an American Geological Institute and United States Geological Survey cosponsored GeoConnection Webinar discussion on the history, future, and benefits of the USGS Educational Mapping program. Alan, a student who has worked with the program for two years, shared his personal experiences with the program to a national audience of geological professionals and university researchers.
In the upcoming year, Alan will be working closely with the USGS to promote the EDMAP program and to ensure that future students who work with the program continue to receive a quality educational experience.
The Webinar can be viewed through the AGI website: www.agiweb.org/workforce/webinars.html
Dobson reflects on year in D.C. as Jefferson Science Fellow
Orientation session for new graduate students will be held on Monday,
August 16th from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM in room 228 Lindley.
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Congratulations to doctoral students Lisa Rausch and Andy Hilburn on earning Fulbright research grants! Lisa will study in Brazil and Andy will study in Mexico.
| Alan Halfen has been awarded one of 20 (109 submissions) National Science Foundation Geography and Spatial Sciences Program Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants for his proposed research: “Holocene Megadroughts of the central Great Plains”. He has also been awarded a Geological Society of America Research Grant and an American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Field Research Grant, which will support his research on Late Quaternary eolian landscapes in Kansas. To support his travel to Brisbane, Australia, where he will present his research on soil bioturbation and ecosystem engineering at the 19th World Congress of Soil Science, Alan has been awarded the Wilford Gardner Fellowship. |  |
Congratulations to Terri Woodburn, who received the Lee C. and Darcy Gerhard Field Research Student Award from the Kansas Geological Survey. Terri was honored with this much deserved award for her work on ten county surficial geology maps which she has completed for the survey over the last several years.
Congratulations, Terri!
Stefan Petrovic, a 6th grade student at Broken Arrow Elementary, recently won the Kansas Geography Bee in Abilene. Andy Allen, a KU Geography graduate student, has been tutoring him in the basics of physical, regional, political, and human (religion, language, etc.) geography since last fall. Andy has been delighted to see an intense interest in geography from someone so young. While he would like to say that his tutoring helped Stefan win, Stefan’s work ethic and determination were crucial for his success. Andy and the Department of Geography wish him the best of luck at the National Geographic Bee in Washington, D.C., next month. He will be competing for a $25,000 scholarship. Congratulations Stefan.
Read more here.
Congratulations to Garth Myers on being named the 2010 (and the first) recipient of the Kwadwo Konadu Agyemang Distinguished Scholar Award.
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Nate Brunsell and Dr. Xingong Li have been awarded tenure at KU! Congratulations to both of them.
Congratulations to Ashley Zung who is the recipient of a C-Change IGERT award.
Congratulations to Nate Brunsell for receiving the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. The fellowship was awarded for his proposal: "Using Maximum Entropy Production to assess heterogeneity, optimality, and extreme events in land-atmosphere dynamics". This work will be conducted during a year long stay at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany.
Research shows white roofs cool cities but aren't needed everywhere
Barbara McCorkle's "Cartobibliography" added to KU Scholarworks
Announcements
The following graduate students recently received academic appointments:
- Josh Long—Visiting Assistant Professor, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
- Henry Way—Assistant Professor, Geography, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia
- Lucius F. Hallett, IV—Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Wyoming
- Sarah Smiley—Assistant Professor, Department of History and Geography, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland
- John Kostelnick—Assistant Professor, Department of Geography-Geology, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
- Jared Beeton—Adams State College, Alamosa, Colorado
- John Bauer—Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Earth Science, University of Nebraska-Kearney
- Chris Post—Assistant Professor, Department of Geography; Geography Program Coordinator, Kent State University—Stark Campus
- Matt Ramspott—Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Frostburg State University
- Brian Wardlow—Assistant Research Professor, National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Also note that Matt Koeppe is now a senior project manager at the AAG and an Assistant Professorial Lecturer at The George Washington University.
8th Annual GIS Day @ KU
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Alderson Auditorium
4th Floor - Kansas Union
GIS Day @ KU is part of a nationwide event to promote awareness of geographic information systems (GIS), and how we use this evolving tool to analyze our world. We continue our tradition of bringing together a community of GIS users from academia, business and government.
The 2009 symposium will also include an information fair with vendors from academia and local business that will run throughout the day. As always, GIS Day @ KU is FREE and open to the public. Please register so we can plan for ample refreshments and provide pre-printed name tags.
KU News Release
Professors selected for Chancellors Club awards
http://www.news.ku.edu/2009/september/22/chancellorsclub.shtml
Team Forming Now
If you would like to get better at weather forecasting, the WxChallenge is a very good opportunity. The WxChallenge is a national forecast contest administered by the University of Oklahoma, which allows you to compete against some of the best collegiate forecasters in the country.
For more information, please visit the Atmospheric Science homepage or e-mail nlock@ku.edu
Congratulations to Atmo major Anne Alexandra Glanville on her C.E. Spahr Scholarship in the Sciences, John P. Feighner Scholarship and Veta B. Lear Memorial Award. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas honored 73 students with more than $77,000 in scholarships and awards this spring. All the scholarship recipients and most award winners are attending classes at KU this fall. The scholarships and awards, which are made possible by gifts to KU Endowment from alumni and friends, were awarded based on merit, need or both. “These students represent the most talented young scholars in the College. I am grateful that we are able to offer this support to foster their success,” said Interim Dean Gregory B. Simpson.
Today's Kansas City Star front page article, "Advocates of geoengineering work on man-made fixes for global warming," features Geography Professor Johan Feddema.
Johan Feddema will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Linda Hall Library Climate Change Symposium to be held Friday, October 16, 2009.
Please join us in congratulating Pete Shortridge who has been selected as a 2009 Chancellors Club Teaching Award recipient. The formal award will be presented at a reception in the Kansas Union prior to the football game and again on the field during the game on October 10th. Pete has been a great contributor and example to our Department, and is very deserving of this unique award. We can be proud to have such an outstanding colleague, teacher and friend. Please congratulate Pete the next time you see him.
Congratulations to our 2009 Geography and Atmospheric Science Graduates!
Photo used with the permission of Stephanie Meador
Congratulations are in order for Dave Mechem who received the J. Michael Young Academic Advisor Award for 2008-2009 in the Natural Sciences Division of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences! The award honors exemplary advising by a faculty member in each of the three divisions of the college.
The following are some grants, awards and honors that our graduate students have received during the past couple of months:
- Eric Weber was awarded a Lortz scholarship for graduate research by the ASPRS Central Region.
- Mark Bowen won a 2009 Summer Research Fellowship from the University of Kansas.
- Josh Campbell received a Vespucci Fellowship.
- Brett Chloupek received a summer FLAS Fellowship to Poland and a Boren Fellowship for dissertation research next year in Slovakia.
- Andy Hilburn won the 2009 Conference of Latin Americanist Field Research Award.
- Megan Holroyd received a summer FLAS Fellowship.
- Hilary Hungerford received a Fulbright to conduct her dissertation research in Niger. Hilary also received a summer FLAS Fellowship.
- Aubrey Jones won the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences 2009 Outstanding Thesis Award.
- John Kelly was runner-up in the 2009 KU Latin Americanist Graduate Research Competition.
- Heather Putnam received the 2009-2010 Pruitt Fellowship for Dissertation Research from the Society of Women Geographers. Heather also received the 2009 Howard Baumgartel Peace and Justice Award.
- Jamie Shinn received a year-long FLAS.
- 2009 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants were awarded to Andy Hilburn, John Kelly, Andrew Norris, Heather Putnam, Aida Ramos Viera, and Lisa Rausch
- Trish Jackson was invited to make a presentation at the 2009 IGERT Principal Investigators Meeting in Washington, DC.
Congratulations everyone!
Congratulations to Jerry Dobson on being named Jefferson Science Fellow by U.S. State Department
Congratulations to Kees van der Veen on his promotion to Full Professor.
Dan Hirmas, Bill Johnson and Steve Bozarth launch a new Soil Geomorphology Research Group website.
See who came to the Atmo Reunion.
Congratulations to Jerry Dobson on his receipt of the 2009 AAG GISSG Robert T. Aangeenbrug Distinguished Career Award.
Congratulations to Garth Myers for being named a Hall Center Fellow for one semester during the 2009-2010 academic year.
Congratulations are in order for Andrew Allen -- Andrew was a member of the University of Wyoming World Geography Team, which won the Association of American Geographers (AAG) regional geography bowl competition for the second consecutive year.
Congratulations to Dan Rose, who, (on behalf of the City of Topeka ) recently received KAM’s ( Kansas Association of Mappers) prestigious 2008 ‘Outstanding Kansas Mapping Project Award’!
Attending a reception for KU Kemper award winners for 2008 is (l to r) Geography Department Chair Terry Slocum with former Kemper winners Garth Myers (2000), Steve Egbert (2005), Chris Brown (2006), and this year's winner Shannon O'Lear.
Congratulations are in order for awards recently received by students and faculty:
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Graduate Students
Megan Holroyd has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad fellowship to study KiSwahili this summer in Arusha, Tanzania.
Brett Chloupek has received another $27,000 FLAS award to continue his study of Polish.
Heather Putnam has received a $6,500 FLAS to study KiSwahili for the summer term at the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI).
Luke Struckman has received a $6,500 FLAS to study 3rd year Arabic in Morocco.
Hilary Hungerford has earned a 2nd year $27,000 FLAS to study Hausa. She has also received the 2008 Outstanding Thesis Award from the College, and the Howard Baumgartel Peace and Justice Award for 2008.
Ryan Good and Megan Holroyd earned $4000 fellowships from the African Studies Center, for Applied Research on African Health and Development through funding from the Oswald Family Foundation.
Undergraduate Students
Jennifer Kongs and Lucas Culbertson have been selected from the Geography Department to receive Harley S. Nelson Scholarships for 2008-2009.
Faculty
Chris Brown has received the 2008 John C. Wright Graduate Mentor Award. "This annual award is given to honor a faculty member in the College who demonstrates exceptional effort, care and guidance in the advisement of his/her graduate students." The award includes a prize of $500.
Bill Johnson has received the 2008 Byron A. Alexander Graduate Mentor Award. "This annual award is given to honor a faculty member in the College who demonstrates exceptional effort, care and guidance in the advisement of his/her graduate students." The award includes a prize of $500.
Thanks to those graduate students who nominated Chris and Bill!
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Congratulations to Terry Slocum on the release of the third edition of his book Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization. Three of our alumni, Robert McMaster, Fritz Kessler, and Hugh Howard are co-authors..
- Geography Ph.D. student Lilian Rebellato (a Bill Woods advisee) was the co-winner of the 2008 KU Latin Americanist Graduate Research Competition held March 7th on campus for her research presentation “Precolonial Settlement Dynamics in Central Amazonia” (see <http://www2.ku.edu/~latamst/>). Fifteen MA and Ph.D. students presented original field or archival research on Latin America in an invited competition judged by an interdisciplinary Faculty Panel. Other invited Jayhawk Geographers were Aida Ramos Viera, Andy Hilburn, Lisa Rausch, Jonathan Thayn, and John Kelly.
- Jon Thayn has received the the 2008 Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship (for $5,000) from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Congratulations Jon!
- Jerry Dobson is featured in March 2008 issue of Kansas Alumni magazine.
- Brett Chloupek was awarded the $500.00 first prize in the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2008 Essay Contest. His essay was titled: "Slovakia's Gypsies: Centuries of Problems, Few New Solutions." He will give the last CREES brownbag of the year on May 6th. Read more about it.
- David McDermott has been selected to be the 2008 recipient of the $1000 PhD-level Cartography and Geographic Information Society Scholarship. The award will be presented at the AAG meeting in April. Congratulations Dave!
- Jerry Dobson has received the 2008 Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) Distinguished Career Award, which is intended "to honor the accomplishments of senior professionals in areas that deal with aspects of cartography, GIS or GIScience, particularly those that address the interface between cartography and GIScience." Jerry is the first person ever to receive this award and the award will only be bestowed to one person every two years.
- Josh Long has received the 2008 Carlin Graduate Teaching Assistant Award; only two GTAs in the entire university were chosen for this award. The fact that two of our students have received this award in the last three years (Henry Way received the award in 2006) is a clear indication of the high quality of instruction by GTAs in our department. Thanks to all of our GTAs for the wonderful work that you do.
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GLOBALIZATION(S) SEMINAR--Johannes Feddema, Department of Geography presented "Conveying Science to a Global Audience: Inside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" at the Hall Center Conference Hall on March 3rd.
- Kees van der Veen plays role in February 19th being proclaimed Polar Education and Research Day by the State of Kansas.
- Geography graduate student Cristin Burke has been awarded a 2008 AAG Dissertation
Research Grant to support her project in Kazakhstan.
- Kees van der Veen quoted in February 4, 2008 issue of the Oread.
- Shannon O'Lear quoted in Kansas Alumni magazine article on Center for Teaching Excellence.
- Professors Feddema and Dobson quoted in Jan. 21, 2008 issue of the Oread.
- KU prof: Global warming not sole culprit. Kees van der Veen quoted in Journal World article of 12/13/07.
- GIS Day @ KU - Information also available at www.gis.ku.edu
- Globe-O-Mania 2007 - A Huge Success!
- Jerry Dobson was awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Jerry was one of only two geographers to receive the award this year. Congratulations Jerry!
- Shannon O'Lear named as one of first CTE Faculty Fellows.
- Garth Myers has been named a 2007-2008 senior administrative fellow. The program allows selected faculty the opportunity to explore senior administration through meeting with senior administrators, visiting administrative units across campus and discussing national trends in higher education.
- 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."
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KU Geography's Ph.D. student Andy Hilburn was named recipient of the 2006 Ralph D. Cross Award for Excellence in Geography from the Department of Geography and Geology at The University of Southern Mississippi, awarded to the department's outstanding graduate student each year.
- Congratulations are in order for Bill Woods who has been named the 2006 recipient of the Carl Sauer Award for outstanding Latin American scholarship by the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. The Award will be presented at the CLAG meeting May 31 to June 3, 2007 in Colorado Springs.
- The 2007 Meeting of The AAG, April 17-21 2007, San Francisco, CA
University of Kansas Presenters
- Lawrence Journal-World article features Peter Herlihy, Jerome Dobson, and research in Mexico
- Oread article features Garth Myers and travel during state department travel advisories
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.
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.
- Lawrence Journal-World Article
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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