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Congratulations to our 2018 Geography scholarship recipients! At the annual awards BBQ, scholarships and awards were distributed thanks to the generosity of alumni and other donors. A new Kosmos award was created this year for leadership and creativity in geospatial science and cartography. Congratulations to recipients Miyako Namba (Dr. John L. Harper Memorial Scholarship), Hartford Johnson (Herring Geography Scholarship), Quint Migliardi (Dr. Joseph S. Leeper Scholarship), Kevin Greer (Suzanne Wetzel Seemann Scholarship), Amy Lautamo (Webb Bauer Award), Andrew Gibbs (Excellence of Scholarship, National Council for Geographic Education), Joshua Shindelbower and Gilbert Trejo (Kosmos Awards)

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Humboldt came home with several top awards from the 72nd Annual California Geographical Society meeting in Sacramento. The 18 current students, along with alumni, who attended represented Humboldt Geography with strong enthusiasm and professionalism.

We had three student awardees. Samuel Wood won first place for the Cartography Paper Competition. Joshua Shindelbower won second place for the Cartography Paper Competition. Quint Migliardi won third place for the Digital Cartography Competition, and several of our students landed Student Travel Awards. Well done!

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Humboldt Geography Announces China/Tibet Field Studies Program for Summer 2019. As part of its continuing global outreach, the Humboldt Geography Department is again offering the China/Tibet Field Studies Program. Since the beginning of the program in 2000 Humboldt undergraduate students have pursued a wide range of topics while exploring and documenting the rapidly changing natural and cultural landscapes of these regions. The design and implementation of a community service project on the Tibetan Plateau will be a hallmark of next year’s program. Open to all majors, prerequisite courses are scheduled for Spring 2019. For more information, contact Tony Rossi, program director at afr2@humboldt.edu 

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Alum Michael Vernon (MS 2017) with Rosemary Sherriff (Geography), Jeff Kane (Forestry), and Phil van Mantgem (USGS) published a paper titled “Thinning, tree-growth, and resistance to multi-year drought in a mixed-conifer forest of northern California” in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.03.043

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Rosemary Sherriff (Geography) co-authored a new perspective paper titled “Advancing Dendrochronological Studies of Fire in the United States” in the new journal Fire. http://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/1/11/html

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On March 8 at 7pm, Dr. Ray will be talking on “Coming of Age at the End of the World: Eco-Grief, College Students, and Climate Change” for the “My Favorite Lecture” series at the Plaza Grill in Arcata.

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Amy Rock and Ryan Malhoski have co-authored Mapping with ArcGIS Pro, a practical approach to cartographic design and decision-making with tutorials for ArcGIS Pro and integration into ArcGIS Online.

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Geography professor Matthew Derrick delivered a conference paper presentation titled “Territorial Politics of Mosques in Post-Soviet Central Asia” at the Central Asia Fulbright Seminar for U.S. Scholars and Students, held April 9-12 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Derrick is currently spending his sabbatical year as a Fulbright Scholar based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

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Dr. Ray was invited to give a public lecture, “Coming of Age at the End of the World: Eco-Grief and the Climate Generation,” at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

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Associate professor of Geography Matthew Derrick presented a paper titled “Mosques and Monumentality in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan” at the South and Central Asia Fulbright conference, held in New Delhi, India, February 26-28. Derrick is currently a Fulbright scholar based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

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