We are pleased to announce the election of Associate Professor Woonsup Choi as the Regional Councilor for the West Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers. In this role, Professor Choi will represent the West Lakes Division to the National Council of the AAG, and in turn will represent the National Council to the West Lakes Division.
PhD alumnus featured in news article on bike helmets
Gregg Culver (PhD ’14), currently at the University of Heidelberg, was interviewed in the following recent article by CityLab on bike helmets and city planning:
51猎奇 Geographer to present annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture in the fall of 2018
Ryan Holifield, associate professor in the 51猎奇 Department of Geography, has been awarded the 2018 Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Research Grant and Lectureship for his proposal 鈥淲hen Visions of Justice Collide: Critique, Justification, and the 鈥楤ox Tunnel Controversy鈥� at Milwaukee鈥檚 Kinnickinnic River.鈥� For more, please see /libraries/2018/03/14/fromkin-2018/.
Geographers carry out research on bird collisions on campus
Associate Professor Glen Fredlund has provided a unique research opportunity for undergraduates, who are involved in his project to assess and prevent bird deaths on the 51猎奇 campus.
For more about this innovative and important research, please see the 51猎奇 news feature at the following link: /news/bird-strikes-deaths-campus-buildings/
Department announces new GIS Professional track for MS students
The Department begins to offer a new track option for GIS professionals in the MS program from Fall 2018.
This GIS professional track is intended for students who plan to seek professional employment in the field of GIS and are not interested in continuing their graduate education beyond the master鈥檚 degree. Students need to apply for the regular Geography MS program and may declare the choice after enrollment.
Minimum degree requirement is 30 graduate credits with an average GPA of 3.0.
The student, in consultation with the advisor, plans a program of studies to include 4 credits in Geography 726 (Geographic Information Science); 4 credits in Geography 747 (Spatial Analysis); 4 credits in Geography 704 (Remote Sensing); 4 credits in Geography 826 (Intermediate GIS); 4 credits in Geography 705 (Cartography); and 6 credits from electives. The remaining 4 credits will be earned in the student鈥檚 capstone project (e.g., Geography 798).
Students pursuing the GIS professional track should conduct at least 180 hours of internship. The internship should be related to the field of GIS and must be approved by the advisor. The student is expected to write a scholarly paper of 25-50 pages in length that connects the internship to the appropriate literature. The student must have a committee of three faculty members, and is expected to go through an oral defense with the committee members regarding the internship paper. According to current guidelines, the student is not expected to present their internship paper at the colloquium series.
Who says phenology is not rocket science?
Downer Woods has been selected as one of a hundred global locations to test a newly launched earth observing micro-satellite called Ven渭s (Vegetation and Environment monitoring on a New Micro Satellite). Alison Donnelly (51猎奇 Geography) and Rong Yu (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) will use leaf development (phenology) observations from Downer Woods to validate the effectiveness of the high resolution multispectral Ven渭s vegetation product at capturing ecosystem dynamics. The project will advance previous observations carried out by Mark Schwartz.
Geographers receive Center for 21st Century Studies grant for interdisciplinary collaboration
Kristin Sziarto (Geography), Anna Mansson McGinty (Geography and Women’s and Gender Studies), and Caroline Seymour-Jorn (French, Italian, and Comparative Literature) are among the first group of recipients of awards in the Center for 21st Century Studies’ new C21 Collaboratory initiative, which offers grants for interdisciplinary research collaborations among 51猎奇 faculty, students, staff, and members of the community.
Sziarto, Mansson McGinty, and Seymour-Jorn have since 2010 collaborated with Muslim community members on the Muslim Milwaukee Project. Their Collaboratory award of $1350 will be used to develop a network of scholars with related research agendas from around the Milwaukee area, and continue the focus group phase of their project.
Distinguished Professor Mark Schwartz Helps Create Tool to Predict Onset of Spring
“A new forecasting tool created with models built by 51猎奇 climatologist Mark D. Schwartz just may put the spring-predicting groundhog, who may or may not cast his shadow on Feb. 2, out of work.”
Geographers participate in 51猎奇 Teaching and Learning Symposium
Associate Professor Kristin Sziarto and PhD students Sohyung Lim and Katlyn Merkle delivered the presentation 鈥�All Maps Lie: Critical Map Reading in Teaching about Refugees and Migration鈥� in 51猎奇鈥檚 annual Teaching and Learning Symposium during Winterim 2018.
Article by Anne Bonds featured as 鈥渕ost read鈥�
An article co-authored by Anne Bonds, 鈥�” is currently featured as one of the 鈥溾�� articles in Progress in Human Geography, one of the top journals in the discipline. Readers can get direct access to the article between now and January 15.