Geography News
Prof. Jim Murphy (with co-PI
Padraig Carmody of Trinity College in Dublin Ireland) has been awarded
a $230,000 research grant from the National Science Foundation's Geography and
Spatial Sciences and Science, Technology, and Society programs. Their project,
title The Role of Information-Communication Technologies in Enterprise
Development and Industrial Change in Africa: Evidence from South Africa and
Tanzania, will examine how mobile phones, computers, and the internet are
influencing industrial development and the socio-spatial characteristics of
business activities in Tanzania and South Africa. More information can be found
at
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0925151
Economic Geography, the journal owned
by Clark University and housed at GSG since 1925, is pleased to announce that
the 2008 ISI impact factor placed the journal 4th in Geography and 7th
in Economics, with the impact factor of 2.968.
Mary Lawhon (with Jim Murphy
as PI) has received a $12,000 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation
Research Improvement Grant (#0927837) from the Geography and Spatial Science and
Collaborative Research programs. Her project, Electronic Waste Recycling in
South Africa: Transition Management in Practice?, will examine the
efficacy, equity, and sustainability of electronic waste management policies and
practices in South Africa. Details can be found at:
http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0927837&WT.z_pims_id=5410.
Rory Horner won this year's Economic Geography Specialty
Group Best Student Paper Competition at the 2009 AAG Convention in Las Vegas,
NV with his paper, "The emerging geography of India's pharmaceutical firms
in the global economy".
Clark Labs is pleased to announce the creation of a blog devoted to the
exploration of trends in the earth system as seen through the lens of the Earth
Trends Modeler software, a new vertical application integrated with the IDRISI
Taiga software, released in February. Dr. J. Ronald Eastman,
Director of Clark Labs, will be the author of this blog. You can visit the
System Trends blog at
www.earthsystemtrends.org
Congratulations to Claire Griffin ('10, Geography major, ES
minor), Blaize Denfeld ('10, ESS major, Geography minor), and
Boyd Zapatka ('10, Geography major, ES minor) on being selected
for the summer 2009 Polaris Project.
Professor Karen Frey is featured in a four-part NOVA
special talking about her climate-change research. Watch the series.
Zunguo Dai received a CHANS Fellowship under the program
“International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems”
supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation to assist outstanding junior
scholars in attending US-IALE 2009 (the 24th annual conference of the U.S.
Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology), in
Snowbird, Utah, from April 12-16, 2009.
Colin Polsky and John Rogan received a 440K REU
undergraduate training award.
Katherine Willis, Boyd Zapatka, and Karen Frey were
mentioned in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette for their work with the Polaris
Project this summer. Read the article
here.
Colin Polsky awarded an LTER grant ($20,000) to train
students to use fine-scaled imagery of lawns for his work on suburbanization and
water.
Colin Polsky awarded, in collaboration with colleagues at
the US Forest Service, Arizona State Univ., Florida International Univ., and
Indiana Univ., $20k from NSF's LTER program to host two conferences (one at
Clark U.) on the topic of methods for integrating social and ecological science
analyses of lawn management and associated consequences.
Kelsey Herrington '09 has been named a Mosakowski HERO
Fellow.
Read more.
Colin Polsky & Gil Pontius receive $11,991 from the National
Science Foundation for additional support for their project entitled CNH:
Suburbanization, Water Use, Nitrogen Cycling, and Eutrophication in the 21st
Century.
Colin Polsky is co-recipient of the 2008 Hodgkins Junior
Faculty Research Award.
James Murphy has been appointed to the Editorial Board of
The Professional Geographer.
John Rogan given best paper award for Early Career Scholars
by the Association of American Geographers Remote Sensing Specialty Group for
Remote Sensing: A Comparison of Linear Change Detection Methods for Mapping
Multiple Types of Land-Cover Change in California.
Dominik Kulakowski awarded $150,000 NSF grant for Ecology
program collaborative research on Wildfire and Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks in
Subalpine Forests: Cross-Scale Interactions under Varying Climates.
B.L. Turner II elected to inaugural class of the
Massachusetts Academy of Sciences.
Ron Eastman & Clark Labs, $1.2 million, Moore and Google
Foundations, to Develop Early Warning System Technology.
John Rogan, $989.934, Moore Foundation Grant on the Impact of
Extreme Weather Events on the Forests of Yucatan (co-PI with Rutgers and ECOSUR).
Colin Polsky & Gil Pontius, $1.4 million, CNH-NSF grant on systems competition, for project entitled
Suburbanization,
Water-Use, Nitrogen Cycling and Eutrophication in the 21st Century.
Karen Frey's article on the potential impact of nitrogen and
phosphorus increases off Siberia's coast, in the Journal of Geophysical
Research, has been selected by Nature [450 (18): 138] as a must
read science article.
Ron Eastman has been appointed as the Landry University
Professor.
Karen Frey, NSF grant award for collaborative research. IPY:
The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic.
Karen Frey, NSF/Arctic Natural Sciences Program grant for
Sea Ice Variability and Polynya Formation on Biological Productivity in the
Northern Bering Sea.
Jim Murphy, 2007 Hodgkins Junior Faculty Award.
Deborah Martin, Geog.-Reg. Sci.+ Law & Soc. Sci., NSF grant
for Legalizing Community: Lawyers and Citizen Activism in Neighborhood Disputes.
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