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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.”
 

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."
 

What FEMA's New Flood Risk Rating Means for Californians | UC Davis

Risk Rating 2.0: A first look at FEMA’s new flood insurance system | California WaterBlog

Analysis finds heat inequities in Southwest

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/. 

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 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.

Professor Ryan Galt from the Department of Human Ecology and the Chair of the Geography Graduate Group was interviewed on NPR this past week.

https://www.kvpr.org/post/valley-bursting-produce-fruit-veggie-subscrip…