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 the 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:
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’!
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| 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. |
GIS Day @ KU is November 19th!
KU Geography is proud to be a key sponsor of GIS Day. Sign up now and check back for a detailed schedule: http://www.gis.ku.edu/gisday/2008/index.shtml
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The GIS Day Student Presentation Competition is open now! Prizes total $500 and include an undergraduate award: http://www.gis.ku.edu/gisday/2008/studentcomp/index.shtml.
| Congratulations to Prof. Shannon O'Lear on her Kemper Fellowship! The Kemper fellowships recognize outstanding teachers and advisers at KU as determined by a seven-member selection committee. Now in their 13th year, the awards are supported by $650,000 in gifts from the William T. Kemper Foundation (Commerce Bank, trustee) and $650,000 in matching funds from KU Endowment. Click here to see the video of the presentation of her award. |  |
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Geography Professor Bill Johnson is involved in trying to unravel the playa phenomenon in Lane County, Western Kansas. Click here to read article. |
Geography welcomes new faculty members Dan Hirmas, Jay Johnson, and Barney Warf to the department.
Upcoming event: Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Houston, TX, October 3-9, 2008.
Papers will be presented by Dan Hirmas, Bill Johnson, Mark Bowen and Alan Halfen.
See titles here.
Congratulations to Ava Dinges and Andrew Oberthaler who have won American Meteorological Society Undergraduate Scholarships! Congratulations also to Sylvia Davison who has won an AMS Minority Scholarship and plans to come to KU.
Terry Slocum has been named a 2008-2009 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. Read more here.
Jerome E. Dobson, professor of geography, has received the 2008 CaGIS Award of Distinction.
Dobson is well-known for his tenure at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1975-2001), where he established himself as an advocate for maintaining a tight bond between GIS and geography. He has also helped found the Association of American Geographers GIS Specialty Group and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, subsequently holding leadership roles in both organizations.
Quote from June 9, 2008 issue of Oread, KU People page.
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Research Matters broadcast features Geography Professor Johannes Feddema speaking about Landcover and Climate Change. |
photo courtesy of University Relations |
LAWRENCE — On May 20, David Braaten and Johannes Feddema, both professors of geography at the University of Kansas, met for the first time with other members of the Kansas Energy and Environmental Policy Advisory Group in Wichita. Earlier in the month, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius named the two KU experts to the panel that is tasked with exploring how the state could cut greenhouse gas emissions. Click for entire article.
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Congratulations to the Atmospheric Science Program on receiving the Cooperative Observer Award from the National Weather Service for the University's weather station near Lindley Hall. The station is one of the oldest of Kansas' stations. Pictured, left to right, are Richard McNulty, Johannes Feddema, Curtis Hall, Bill Newman of the National Weather Service, David Mechem, Donna Tucker and Terry Slocum. To read more, please click here. |
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!
