To keep the largest water system in America clean and healthy, contaminated areas around the Great Lakes, known as “Areas of Concern,” need a lot of care from local stakeholders. But, just how do you find stakeholders to participate in the clean up? And once you have them, how do you keep them? Geography associate professor Ryan Holifield tackles those questions in his latest research paper.
Study co-authored by Prof. Woonsup Choi recieving attention from news outlets
“The effect of the famine on North Korea’s landscape seems to have been uneven. Woonsup Choi, a researcher at UW Milwaukee, co-authored a study in 2017 using satellite data showing that the “Arduous March” had a small net effect on overall forest cover in North Korea, even though it caused a substantial amount of change in ground cover. During the 1990s and early 2000s, he said, some areas appear to have lost their forests, while others became overgrown — possibly as a result of mass deaths and abandonment of land formerly under cultivation.
Woonsup said any effort to interpret the findings for land changes would be speculative.
‘I think this is a limitation of this data set,” he told E&E News. “Obviously it is almost impossible to go and see what’s going on.'”
Anne Bonds: MUGS Keynote Speaker
Midwest Undergraduate Geography Symposium, Madison Wisconsin
MUGS is an academic forum where undergraduate geographers present research as well as meet and learn from other geographers in the region. MUGS has been an annual event since 2005 that has consistently welcomed geographers from large universities and smaller liberal arts colleges throughout the Midwest.
The University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI) Geography Department and MUGS Planning Committee welcome the 2019 keynote speaker, Anne Bonds, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, UW-Milwaukee.
Mark Schwartz Named a 2019 AAG Fellow
Mark Schwartz is named an AAG Fellow for his strategically important research and for his successful effort to defend and promote geographic research and education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Mark Schwartz to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Professor Mark Schwartz has been selected for the AAG 2019 Climate Specialty Group Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations! More information to come after the AAG Annual Meeting in April.
Professor Rina Ghose Received Distinguished Community Scholar Award
Professor Rina Ghose has received the Distinguished Community Scholar Award from Citizen Science GIS.
Read the opening remarks from the award presentation .
Professors Mansson McGinty and Sziarto Awarded C21 grant
Professors Anna M Mansson McGinty and Kristin M Sziarto, in collaboration with Professor Caroline Seymour-Jorn (FICL, Director of Global Studies) have been awarded a C21 grant for their Muslim Milwaukee Project, a multi-stage demographic and ethnographic project exploring the complexity of Muslim identities in the city. In this stage of the project, they will deepen community involvement through participation in visiting artist Salam Yousri’s in March 2019.
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Professor Donnelly Partners with International Space Agencies to Study Shrubs
Listen to W51ÁÔÆæ 89.7 interview with Geography Professor Alison Donnelly, “51ÁÔÆæ Partners With International Space Agencies To Study Shrubs.” Donnelly’s research team uses satellite data, in situ observations, and lab analysis to study the contribution of shrubs to forest phenology to better understand carbon budgets.
Donna G Genzmer, GISP, GIS Interview on Wisconsin Public Radio
In the lead up to UW-Milwaukee’s annual GIS Day event, Donna G Genzmer, Director of the Cartography & GIS Center, was interviewed about GIS (geographic information systems) on Wisconsin Public Radio’s The Larry Meiller Show on November 13, 2018.
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