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Dr. Maya Weeks was commissioned to write a book review of Josie Iselin's "An Ocean Garden: The Secret Lives of Seaweed" for H-Net. The review is published here https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60256.  Congratulations Maya!

Congratulations to Dr. Alfonso Aranda who received a tenure track position as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Sacramento State! 

Congratulations to Kallee who recently published in one of the top Geography Journals:  A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023 - Kallee Bareket-Shavit, 2024 (sagepub.com)

GGG PhD Candidates Ryan Miller and Mitchell Snyder were recently interviewed by NPR's national desk about their experience researching wildfire recovery, which focuses primarily on the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County, California.

PhD student, Chevon Holmes, received two awards at the APCG conference in October. The first award was the Students of African Descent and the second award was the Women's Network award.   Both awards are competitive travel grants to support students that present during the conference.  

PhD candidate, Mitchell Snyder, received the Tom McKnight and Joan Clemens award for Outstanding Graduate Paper for his paper titled: "The Missing Middle of Disaster Displacement: Migration, Place Attachment and Satisfaction following the 2018 Camp Fire."

Dr. Sasha Pesci recently started her new position as an Assistant Professor of Sustainability, focused on eco-agriculture and sustainable food systems at Hofstra University.

Also, the first chapter of her dissertation titled, "A digital divide in direct market farmers’ online sales and marketing: Early pandemic evidence from California." was just published in the Journal of Rural Studies. (link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103038)

Congratulations!!!

https://civileats.com/2023/06/12/bringing-oats-back-to-american-farms/

The AGU would like to recognize the outstanding work of Emma Forester (GGG PhD student) as a participant in our 2023 Voices for Science cohort. The AGU Voices for Science program was launched in 2018 to equip scientists with valuable communications and outreach skills, enabling them to engage with a variety of audiences, from legislators to the public. We are thrilled to have Emma join our community of over 180 past and present Voices for Science fellows. 

Dr. Alfonso Aranda was promoted from a Gerardo Marín Postdoctoral Fellow to Assistant Professor (for the ’23-24 AY with potential renewal) in the Department of Environmental Studies at University of San Francisco. Dr. Aranda is scheduled to teach undergraduate courses on food systems, nature and society, and environmental health while publishing dissertation material and exploring new research opportunities in the Central Valley.