Professor Fosdick will be giving a colloquium to the Earth & Environmental Sciences Department at Wesleyan University on Nov 9th, 2017.  The title of her talk is:  Tectonic insights from integrated sedimentary provenance: from orogenic growth of the Patagonian Andes to Quaternary faulting along the San Andreas Fault. If you are interested in attending, the […]

Congratulations to Shamayeta Bhattacharya who recently won 2nd place in the NESTVAL student paper competition. Her paper is titled:  Exploring and operationalizing the beach walkability construct based on tourist’s perception:  An empirical study conducted in the east Midnapore beaches.

Professor Foote was recently interviewed for an UConn Today posting regarding memoral sites and the Las Vegas shooting. You can find the posting here:  http://today.uconn.edu/2017/10/vegas-mass-murder-memorialized.

Google Earth: Strategies for Active Pedagogy In and Out of the Classroom Ken Foote, Geography Wednesday, September 13, 2017 1:30 – 3:30 pm – Laurel Hall 302 Registration is required. Google Earth offers remarkable worldwide imagery that can help students understand and apply important concepts drawn from many disciplines. This workshop offers examples how Google Earth […]

Congratulations to Chuanrong (Cindy) Zhang (PI), Tian Zhao and Weidong Li (Co-PIs) for receiving a USGS grant award for a project titled Processing and optimization of spatial knowledge queries of The National Map. The objective of this research is to develop new approaches for spatial knowledge queries of the National Map.  Zhang and her research […]

Ken Foote recently appeared in a C-SPAN broadcast.  It was about a talk he delivered in Salem, MA, in June on the 325th anniversary of the killing of Bridget Bishop, the first victim of the witchcraft scare.  Here is the Salem talk:  https://www.c-span.org/video/?429605-9/memorializing-salem Ken was also interviewed for a podcast about the efforts to create […]

Congratulations to Ruiting Zhai for winning the Third-Place award in a student paper competition at the 25th International Conference on Geoinformatics (Aug 2-4, 2017, Buffalo, NY, USA). Her paper is titled:  Predicting land cover change in Long Island Sound Watersheds and its effect on invasive species: A case study for glossy buckthorn

Professor Mark Boyer recently had op-ed published in the Stamford Advocate concerning the swift path to global irrelevance for the United States under the leadership of President Trump.  His op-ed piece can be found linked below. http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/Mark-A-Boyer-Not-America-first-but-rather-11305384.php  

Alex was recently featured among the CLAS Class of 2017 student profiles.   See his feature here:  http://clas.uconn.edu/class-of-2017/#bauer