Graduate student Raquel Bryant and Professor Dr. Michele Cooke were awarded competetive Outstanding Achievement awards by the College of Natural Sciences (CNS) at U-Mass Amherst. Raquel was recognized for her achievments in furthering diversity and inclusion in CNS, while Dr.
A new paper by Dr. Forrest Bowlick and Dr. Dawn Wright (ESRI) in The Professional Geographer discusses the frontiers of geography and how skills in research computing and programming operate in geography and GIS, especially given the rise of data-centric approaches to research in these realms.
Geologist and geochemist Dr. Isaac Larsen is used to tramping around in the dirt to conduct his soil research, but satellite photos of the Iowa farmhouse where he grew up have added a new dimension to the work, and he now has a grant from NASA to study soils in a whole new way, from space.
Several of our Geosciences students, and other students that our faculty have sponsored, are presenting today at the Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference in the U-Mass Campus Center. Pop on by to hear about their great research:
Eight UMass Geosciences undergraduates presented their research at the 5 College Geology Symposium at Amherst College on Tuesday, April 24th, 2018:
Postdoctoral researcher Will Daniels is about to spend 45 days "away from Earth" - without ever leaving the ground - as part of NASA's 17th Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) mission at NASA - Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Read more...
Several of our faculty and students are presenting at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) general assembly in Vienna, Austria, this week:
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In New Orleans this week for The Association of American Geographers (AAG) annual meeting? Check out these presentations by U-Mass fauclty and students:
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We're proud to announce that graduate student Kaitlyn Suarez has been awarded a 2017 Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation, which will fund her graduate research for 3 years. Kaitlyn is among 8 fellows who are pursuing their graduate degrees at U-Mass Amherst.
A new paper in Nature Communications by Dr. Haiying Gao correlates earthquake distribution in the Cascadia Subduction Zone with 3D variations in the geometry of the subducting slab. Read more...
Dr. Christine Hatch (of U-Mass RiverSmart Communities) will be co-teaching a workshop from May 23-25 on deploying Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) networks. Deadline to register is April 21.
UMass Geography students Kevin Bean and Owen Bragdon represented New England at the National World Geography Bowl competition at the AAG Annual Meeting in Boston on April 8, 2017.
The School of Earth & Sustainability (SES) announces a Call for Submissions for the Student Showcase that is part of the SES Launch on Wednesday, April 19th
Submissions accepted until April 12 at 5 pm. Submit here.
A new paper by post-doctoral researcher Nick Scroxton and faculty member Steve Burns uses isotope variations in stalagmites to document monsoon variability in the southern hemisphere over the past 2000 years.
The paper can be read, for a limited time, here.
A permanent link to the paper is here.
"Computer Science and Programming Courses in Geography Departments in the United States", by new faculty member Dr. Forrest Bowlick and colleagues, was published this past month in The Professional Geographer. The paper summarizes research into how professionally-required computer science and programming skills are integrated into the degree requirements of over 50 GIST and Geography programs in the United States.Read the paper here.
Geologist and geochemist Isaac Larsen has received a five-year, $542,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation to address basic research questions about soil production, soil erosion, agricultural landscape evolution and human impact in these areas.
The UMass Amherst Libraries host an interactive sustainability event, “A Climate for Change: Research, Reflection and Action Around Climate Change,” on Saturday, April 1, 2017, from 4 – 7 p.m. on the Lower Level of the W. E. B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Seating is limited.
Forrest Bowlick, a 2016-17 Innovation Fellow at U-Mass Amherst, discusses how he uses student feedback to improve accessibility to his course content and improve his engagement with students. A recording of his talk can be found here.
From Source to Sink: Exploring the impact of climate and landscapes on water's journey
Where does water go when it rains? Where does your drinking water come from? Where does it go after you wash the dishes or take a shower?
Michael Rawlins has received a five-year, $370,000 grant from the National Science Foundation as part of a multi-institution effort to better understand biological processes and land-ocean interactions controlling the structure and function of coastal lagoons in northern Alaska. Read the full story here and here.
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