Department News
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Lessons from the lockdown on resilient GIScience education
Dr. Forrest Bowlick and colleagues recently published findings on resilient teaching experiences and barriers during the 2020/21 COVID-19 epidemic in the Journal of Geography in Higher Education. -
New study examines how global warming is altering Earth's carbon cycle
In a pair of recently published papers, Michael Rawlins, a professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s geosciences department and associate director of the Climate System Research Center, has made significant gains in filling out our understanding of the Arctic’s carbon cycle -
Hot New England summers are no longer unusual
Dr.'s Michael Rawlins and Ambarish Karmalkar are in The Boston Globe this past week discussing this year's record-breaking temperatures in the context of climate change. -
Department at NESTVAL 2021
Dr. Eve Vogel and PhD student Shanai Sadai will be presenting at this year's Association of American Geographers' NESTVAL conference, in addition to Geography students participating in the 2021 World Geography Bowl. -
Department members presenting research at 2021 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.
Click here to see which department members are presenting talks, posters, chairing sessions, or leading field trips at this year's annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA Connects) in Portland, OR, and online, October 10-13 2021.C -
Simplifying uncertainty in mapping urban land use
With a new paper in Environmental Modelling & Software Dr. Seda Şalap-Ayça tests the efficacy of different ways to visualize error and uncertainty in GIS analysis. -
Discussing environmental education at the collegiate level
Dr. Britt Crow-Miller was a recent guest on a special episode of the popular Dive in with Seaside podcast. -
How much does Earth's crust deform near a fault?
Graduate student Hanna Elston and Dr. Michele Cooke recently co-authored a paper in the Earth and Space Science Open Archive on using analog modeling and a 2D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to predict off-fault deformation near a strike-slip fault. -
Virginia riverbanks tell the story of past large earthquakes
For the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Virginia earthquake, PhD student Laura Fattaruso discusses what paleoseismology can tell us in Temblor. -
What drives the exceptional coastal warming of the northeastern United States?
The northeastern United States and the adjacent Northwest Atlantic Shelf have emerged as warming hotspots. Dr. Ambarish Karmalkar explores the connection with a new paper in Nature. -
How did climate play role in settlement of northernmost Arctic?
Dr. Ray Bradley & team receives a $2.5 million grant from NSF to study paleoclimate and settlement of Peary Land (northernmost Greenland) ~4500 years ago -
PhD student aims to prevent water shortages
Marsha Allen’s research focuses on fractured-rock aquifers that can store and transport large amounts of water. -
Associate Director of the Climate System Research Center is interviewed
Climate researcher Michael Rawlins discusses the warming planet and its repercussions for the Northeast. -
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Findings reveal how New England beaches are shaped
Researchers discover the relationship between grain size of sand and beach slope. -
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