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PhD Candidates Gabrielle Kirk and Gwyneth Manser win Graduate Studies Travel Awards

Congratulations to PhD Candidates Gabrielle Kirk and Gwyneth Manser who recently received travel awards from the Office of Graduate Studies to present their research at the Association of American Geographers in March 2023. 

Gabrielle's presentation is titled: The University of California as Settler Colonial Model: Ideologies of Yield and Cultivation from California to Palestine-Israel, 1917-1967

UC Davis Geography faculty member Mark Cooper was awarded the 2021-22 Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Students by the UC Davis Graduate Student Association.

UC Davis Geography faculty member Mark Cooper was awarded the 2021-22 Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Students by the UC Davis Graduate Student Association.  The award is the only university-wide award for graduate mentoring and service and is based on nomination and selection by the graduate student community.

 

Cooper is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Ecology and the Department of Animal Science, and serves as Geography Vice-Chair and Lead Graduate Advisor.

 

UC Davis Geography PhD candidate Mitchell Snyder recently won first place in the Landscape Photography Competition, hosted by the American Association of Geographers' Landscape Specialty Group

UC Davis Geography PhD candidate Mitchell Snyder recently won first place in the Landscape Photography Competition, hosted by the American Association of Geographers' Landscape Specialty Group.

 

Mitchell's winning photo was titled, "Rodeo." The judges commented that his photo “captures the character of a region, conveying movement and a timelessness that is captivating.”
 

GGG PhD Candidate, Lauren Asprooth Selected to Receive Sustainable Agriculture Grant from NCR-SARE and a grant from the foundation Farmers Advocating for Organic through Organic Valley for $25,000

Asprooth Selected to Receive Sustainable Agriculture Grant from NCR-SARE
 
(November 10, 2021) - Lauren Asprooth along with Dr. Ryan Galt at the University of California, Davis in Davis, CA has been selected to receive a $14,850 grant from the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NCR-SARE) for the project, "Identifying Determinants and Opportunities for Expansion of Organic Small Grain Acreage in Wisconsin."
 

Congratulations to Geography postdoc and grad group alumni, Erica Orcutt, Sarah Byer and Laura Daly, who are winners of the CA Election 2020 Data Challenge!

Congratulations to Geography postdoc and grad group alumni, Erica Orcutt, Sarah Byer and Laura Daly, who are winners of the CA Election 2020 Data Challenge! They will present their project at the Challenge’s finale – a public webinar on Wednesday evening, Oct 21st (free but registration required). Below is the full event announcement, and you can find out more about the Challenge on our website: https://datalab.ucdavis.edu/ca-election-2020-data-challenge/

 

Gwyneth Manser, has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Gamma Theta Upsilon Buzzard Graduate Scholarship.

Congratulations to PhD student, Gwyneth Manser, who has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Gamma Theta Upsilon Buzzard Graduate Scholarship.

Each year Gamma Theta Upsilon International Geography Honorary Society recognizes five GTU members who have demonstrated academic and service excellence to their departments, their GTU chapter, their community, and geography as a whole.  Four of these scholarships are awarded to undergraduate students and the Buzzard Graduate Scholarship is awarded to a continuing graduate student.

Professor Art Shapiro writes about butterfly study in Argentina

Professor Art Shapiro was invited to write as the person who reinvigorated butterfly study in Argentina after decades of dormancy! In fact, virtually nothing had been done since WWII except by a British expat, Kenneth Hayward (and one of my tasks was correcting some of his mistakes!). Sorry, no Nobel Prize this year. I also gave about 7 oral presentations to Master Gardeners' groups and the like and participated in a WWF-sponsored "Monarch butterfly summit" held here at UCD.

PhD Students Organize First Climate Change Communication Summit in Mexico as Part of Their Work in Plneteando

Geography graduate students Raiza Pilatowsky and Bernie Bastien recently organized the first climate change communication summit in Mexico as part of their work in Planeteando, an online platform of climate change communication. The summit was sponsored by the American Geophysical Union Centennial Grant that they won earlier this year and it took place within the Mexican Geophysical Union Annual Meeting in Puerto Vallarta Mexico.

Geography PhD Candidate Clancy McConnell wins the men's individual NIRCA title

Geography PhD Candidate Clancy McConnell won the men's individual title at club cross country Nationals (NIRCA) in Richmond, Virginia, on November 16th. Clancy and the rest of the UC Davis team qualified for the National meet at the Pacific Regional meet in October in the bay area, where he won the men's individual title as well.

Clancy is a member of Dr. Steven Greco's lab and studies ecological restoration and landscape change. His dissertation will analyze the historical geography of Putah Creek to create a landscape model and restoration design for the creek.