Tag Archive for ‘Geography’
Leading Natural Hazards Scholar to Visit Geography March 21 and 22
Graham Tobin, a nationally recognized environmental geographer and professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Planning, and Vice Provost for Strategic and Budget Planning at the University of South Florida, will visit UND March 21-23. He will present at the Forum for Contemporary Geographic Issues on Thursday March 21, at 11 a.m. in 100 [...]
February 13th Geography Forum will Discuss Prairie Landscape Assessment
Geography invites you the next Forum for Contemporary Geographic Issues on Wednesday, February 13, at 3:00 p.m., in 157 O’Kelly-Ireland Hall. Rebecca Phillips, plant physiologist of USDA ARS, Northern Great Plains Research Lab (Mandan, N.D.), and adjunct faculty member of UND Geography, will present “New Geospatial Approaches to Dakota Prairie Landscape Assessment.” All are welcome [...]
October 10 Geography Forum will Focus on Climate and Hill Slope Development
Geography invites you to its October 2012 Forum for Contemporary Geographic Issues at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, in 157 O’Kelly-Ireland Hall. Debasree Chatterjee-Dawn from Kennesaw State University (Georgia) will present “Effects of Climate on Slope Morphology and Hill Slope Development.” This forum will present research that was carried out in northeastern Japan showing the [...]
UND and NASA Celebrate 40 Years of LANDSAT – the Pioneer to Google Maps
If you’ve used Google Maps, you’re not far from Landsat, the granddaddy of all Earth-observing satellites that changed the way we view the home planet. NASA and the Interior Department this week marked the 40th anniversary of the Landsat program. The first Landsat satellite was launched July 23, 1972, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in [...]
Speaker on Integrating Field Observation, Remote Sensing and Modeling for Wetland Ecosystem Services Evaluation in the Prairie Pothole Region
Geography invites you to its February 2012 Forum for Contemporary Geographic Issues at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, February 16, in Education Building, room 115. Shengli Huang, Research Scientist from USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, will present “Integrating field observation, remote sensing and modeling for wetland ecosystem services evaluation in the Prairie Pothole Region.” [...]
Geography Students Win Academic Awards
Two Geography graduate students recently garnered four awards for their research. Matthew Dinger, a Wisconsin native and a master’s of science degree candidate, won first place in the student research poster competition of the North Dakota Geographic Information Systems Users Conference, held in Grand Forks in October. The award was for his poster titled “Identifying [...]
Geography Forums Set for October 18th and 21st
The Department of Geography invites you to its October 2011 Forums for Contemporary Geographic Issues. On Tuesday, October 18, Kamlesh Lulla, Chief Scientist for Earth Observations and Director of the University Outreach, Collaborations, and Partnerships Office, NASA Johnson Space Center, will present “Emerging Trends in Geospatial Technologies: Are Geographers Ready?” The forum starts at 12:30 [...]
North Dakota GIS Users Conference is set for October 11-13, 2011
The Geography Department, along with the State of North Dakota and the U.S. Geological Survey are proud to host the North Dakota GIS Users Conference October 11-13 in the Alerus Center. The conference is designed to bring together a wide range of professionals, researchers, educators and students who are interested in geographic information systems and their [...]
UND Geography Students Attend the Midwest Undergraduate Geography Symposium
Four undergraduate students from the UND Geography Department, Amber Boll, Mei-Hui Huang, Nicholas Kludt, and Matthew Fahrenbruch, attended the Midwest Undergraduate Geography Symposium (MUGS) in St. Peter, Minnesota, on April 30, 2011, at Gustavus Adolphus College. MUGS is an annual opportunity for undergraduates in geography to present their research to other colleagues in the discipline. [...]
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