Geography Student Receives Earth Science Award

Jacob Arndt, a graduating senior in Geography, was recently awarded the Newton H. Winchell Award for Excellence in Earth Science at the Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium that took place at Coffman Memorial Union on Friday, April 29. He won the award for his poster, which outlined how the upper-level jet affects commercial flight times in the Minneapolis-Seattle corridor. The poster was a part of his senior project. Congratulations Jacob!

Brown Day 2016

The annual GES Brown Day celebration was Friday, April 22. The day included student posters and presentations in the morning and early afternoon, followed by the Ralph H. Brown Memorial Lecture, Modeling Land-Change Processes Across Disciplines and Scales, presented this year by Professor Dan Brown of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.

GIS at UMN featured in Esri video

Esri, builder of ArcGIS - the most powerful mapping software in the world, recently released a video featuring University Services of the Twin Cities campus.  The film, which includes past and present MGIS students and faculty, shows how U Services utilizes GIS for asset management.

GES student receives NSF

GES Doctoral Fellow, Jessica Finlay, was recently awarded the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the Division of Geography and Spatial Sciences.  This grant will help her continue analysis of individual, household and neighborhood-level factors affecting the health and well-being of older adults.  Congratulations Jessica!

Geography Undergrad to present at Interdiciplinary conference

Geography student, Talia Anderson, will present a paper at the 4th annual Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Conference.  The conference, hosted by the Departments of Asian Languages, and Literatures, French and Italian, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, and the Institute for Global Studies, will be held April 6 - 8th in 1210 Heller Hall.  Talia's paper, titled: Mexican Immigration to the United States: An Open Gateway or a Closed Door?, will be part of a larger panel on Friday, April 8th from 10:45 - 12:15 p.m.  A full conference program will be available at  http://spanport.umn.edu/ugrad/UICProg2016.html.  Congratulations Talia!

Geography student in the media

PhD candidate and Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow, Jessica Finlay's research is featured on the Graduate School's website.  The story, Aging in the Right Place, will also appear in the next edition of The Synthesis, the weekly grad school electronic magazine. 

GES faculty member quoted in "The Best of the Twin CIties"

Assistant Professor, Brenda Kayzar, was recently quoted in the in MplsStPaul Magazine.  The article entitled "What is North?"  appeared as part of the magazine's "Best of the Twin Cities, 2015".  Professor Kayzar's has also been quoted in 2 different Strib articles this fall regarding public art. 

UMN Geographer in the news!

Dr. Arun Saldanha is quoted in a recent LA Times article that discusses renaming Geographic sites.

Building a More "Workable World"

Geography Emeritus, Professor Joseph Schwartzberg, was instrumental in developing the Workable World Trust and Fellowship to support students and others who work to improve global governance through peaceful evolutionary processes.  The WWT's inaugural conference, Creating a Workable World, will take place Friday & Saturday, Oct. 9 & 10, at the Humphrey School. See the recent Global Spotlight article about this impressive accomplishment. Congratulations Joe!

Geography and MGIS Students to Participate in SUN Delegation

Nine GES students have been selected to be part of the University's SUN delegation! Seven Undergraduates, one MGIS student, Ethan Mooar, and Class of 2015 graduate Connor Schaefer (Geography BA, Urban Studies minor ), who is now pursuing a Masters in Urban Planning at Humphrey. Jacob Arndt, Erin Saatela, Coleman Shepard, and Clayton Watercott are currently Geography majors, Brady Steigauf is an Urban Studies major, and Kayla Chapman and Tyler Redden are pursuing their Bachelor's in Biology, Society, and Environment. The goal of the SUN delegation is to have the University of Minnesota invest in, or build, at least 1 megawatt (MW) of solar energy. Learn more about SUN.

Welcome to the newest GES PhD students!

GES student published in Journal of Hydrology

Kudos to Emma Bialecki, one of our new Geography PhD students. Her co-authored article "A multi-century tree-ring record of spring flooding on the Mississippi River” appears in the October 2015 issue of Journal of Hydrology.  Outstanding work in an excellent venue, the study combines analyses of tree-ring wood anatomy, flood hydrology, and synoptic climatology.  Congratulations Emma!

One Way to Fight California Drought: Study Trees!

GES faculty member, Dan Griffin's research is the subject of a short documentary from FiveThirtyEight and ESPN Films.  Congratulations Dan!

GES alumus in Minneapolis Tribune

Kenny Blumenfeld, GES PhD graduate and climatologist with the Minnesota DNR, appeared in an article in today's Minneapolis Star/Tribune today, Thursday, August 27, 2015.

Another article about GES PhD student in the field

Read the latest article about incoming PhD student Chelsea Cervantes De Blois' work with Soya farmers in Southern Kyrgyzstan. 

Geography Undergraduate's on-line piece

A story, debunking the suggestion of the upcoming 'mini ice age', submitted by Geography undergraduate, Andrew Urevig, appeared recently on Medium.com.  Before you decide to buy a new winter jacket, be sure to read Andrew’s reality check.

Incoming PhD student in the field

Chelsea Cervantes De Blois, who will be joining the GES department in Fall 2015, is currently in Osh Kyrgyzstan, working as an agricultural consultant with local farmers. The group is investigating how to grow soy in soil of the Karasuu and Aravan districts, while implementing different irrigation practices. Chelsea will work with the farmers, for three months, with the goal of developing  innovative approaches in regard to their agricultural production.

What does your front yard say about you? GES PhD in Minneapolis newspaper article

Ursula Lang stood in her yard in Minneapolis, on Thursday June 4, 2015. Lang studied the cultural geography of yards in Minnesota and urban environmentalism while receiving her PhD in geography at the University of Minnesota. "How people cared for their lawns varies a lot based on ideas about environmentalism and pressures from other neighbors" said Lang.  Read complete article

GES Grad Student Research: Theraputic Landscapes in Later Life

Jessica Finlay, GES Doctoral Candidate, recently published a paper in Health & Place based upon her RA work in Vancouver Canada the summer of 2013. It is entitled "Therapeutic Landscapes in Later Life: Impacts of Blue and Green Spaces for Older Adults". Currently she is interviewing seniors in the Minneapolis area as part of her doctoral research.
 

GES Professor Scott St. George and Undergraduate, Dan Crawford, convey climate change through music.

A string quartet from the University of Minnesota's School of Music performed "Planetary Bands, Warming World", Dan Crawford's latest musical arrangement. The piece conveys how climate in the Northern Hemisphere has changed over time. Read more and listen to the entire composition.