Geography News
Katherine Willis, Boyd Zapatka, and Karen Frey were
mentioned in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette for their work with the Polaris
Project this summer. Read the article
here.
Colin Polsky awarded an LTER grant ($20,000) to train
students to use fine-scaled imagery of lawns for his work on suburbanization and
water.
Colin Polsky awarded, in collaboration with colleagues at
the US Forest Service, Arizona State Univ., Florida International Univ., and
Indiana Univ., $20k from NSF's LTER program to host two conferences (one at
Clark U.) on the topic of methods for integrating social and ecological science
analyses of lawn management and associated consequences.
Kelsey Herrington '09 has been named a Mosakowski HERO
Fellow.
Read more.
Colin Polsky & Gil Pontius receive $11,991 from the National
Science Foundation for additional support for their project entitled CNH:
Suburbanization, Water Use, Nitrogen Cycling, and Eutrophication in the 21st
Century.
Colin Polsky is co-recipient of the 2008 Hodgkins Junior
Faculty Research Award.
James Murphy has been appointed to the Editorial Board of
The Professional Geographer.
John Rogan given best paper award for Early Career Scholars
by the Association of American Geographers Remote Sensing Specialty Group for
Remote Sensing: A Comparison of Linear Change Detection Methods for Mapping
Multiple Types of Land-Cover Change in California.
Dominik Kulakowski awarded $150,000 NSF grant for Ecology
program collaborative research on Wildfire and Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks in
Subalpine Forests: Cross-Scale Interactions under Varying Climates.
B.L. Turner II elected to inaugural class of the
Massachusetts Academy of Sciences.
Ron Eastman & Clark Labs, $1.2 million, Moore and Google
Foundations, to Develop Early Warning System Technology.
John Rogan, $989.934, Moore Foundation Grant on the Impact of
Extreme Weather Events on the Forests of Yucatan (co-PI with Rutgers and ECOSUR).
Colin Polsky & Gil Pontius, $1.4 million, CNH-NSF grant on systems competition, for project entitled
Suburbanization,
Water-Use, Nitrogen Cycling and Eutrophication in the 21st Century.
Karen Frey's article on the potential impact of nitrogen and
phosphorus increases off Siberia's coast, in the Journal of Geophysical
Research, has been selected by Nature [450 (18): 138] as a must
read science article.
Ron Eastman has been appointed as the Landry University
Professor.
Karen Frey, NSF grant award for collaborative research. IPY:
The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic.
Karen Frey, NSF/Arctic Natural Sciences Program grant for
Sea Ice Variability and Polynya Formation on Biological Productivity in the
Northern Bering Sea.
Jim Murphy, 2007 Hodgkins Junior Faculty Award.
Deborah Martin, Geog.-Reg. Sci.+ Law & Soc. Sci., NSF grant
for Legalizing Community: Lawyers and Citizen Activism in Neighborhood Disputes.
Ron Eastman, 2007 UCGIS Research Award for the research
contribution to GIScience embodied within the IDRISI software.
John Rogan, 2007-08 Hayden Junior Faculty Fellow for
excellence in teaching and scholarship.
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