2009 November
Sean Tanner won the student paper award at this year's AAG middle states conference in New Paltz, N.Y.
The title of his paper was, "Lawless Lands: the experience of land titles in Guatemala"
2009 October
Mapping New Jersey, An Evolving Landscape is published
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2009 May
James Jeffers, doctoral student in the Department of Geography, has been awarded a PERISHIP Fellowship in Hazards, Risks and Disasters. The award, up to $10,000, supports Jim's dissertation entitled "Confronting Climate Impacts: Local Decision-making, Adaptation and Vulnerability to Climate Change in Ireland's Coastal Cities." The fellowship was inaugurated in 2004 as a collaboration between the Public Entity Risk Institute, University of Colorado's Natural Hazards Research and Applications Center, the National Science Foundation and SwissRe (one of the world's largest reinsurance companies.) Among its missions, the fellowship "supports research that is crucial to advancing the knowledge in the hazards field, as well as ensure that the next generation of interdisciplinary hazards professional has a source of financial and academic support to foster sound development."
Mark Barnes, doctoral student in the Department of Geography, Rutgers University, has been awarded an Eagleton Governor’s Executive Fellowship for the 2010 academic year. Established in 2003, the fellowships are awarded to twelve graduate students from various disciplines and supported by Eagleton and the New Jersey Governor’s Office. Governor’s fellows are provided stipends and participate in the Eagleton Seminar in American Politics in the fall semester and, in the spring semester, each fellow is placed in a NJ state agency or the Governor’s Office.
Adelle Thomas, graduate student in the Department of Geography, Rutgers University, has been awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship for her proposal Climate Change: Implications for Caribbean Tourism and Society. The award, totaling over $100,000 includes stipend, tuition and travel support over three years The NSFGRFP “recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in the US and abroad.”
Neiset Bayouth, doctoral student in the Department of Geography, Rutgers University, has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for the Arabic Intensive Summer Institute in Amman, Jordan. The Program is sponsored by the US Department of State and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). As part of the program, Neiset will be traveling to Jordan where she will receive instruction in Modern Standard Arabic and participate in socio-cultural, and political excursions aimed at exploring Jordan's history, and its geographical and archeological sites, including the Dead Sea, Madaba, Umm Qais, Ajloun, Dana Nature Reserve, Shawbak Castle, Beidha, Petra, Wadi Ramm, and coastal Aqaba.
2009 April
MaGrann Conference on Climate Change & South Asia (April 16-17, 2009)
"Climate Change In South Asia: Governance, Equity and Social Justice"
Global Goods Workshop (April 23-24, 2009)
"Global Goods: Changing Perspectives on Trade, Human Rights and the Environment"
Robin Leichenko's book "Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures" has been selected for the 2008 AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography.
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Joanna Regulska's book is now available "Cooperation or Conflict? The Union, The State and Women, 2008"
co-authored by Malgorzata Fuszara, Magda Grabowska, Joanna Mizielinska
Kevin St. Martin receives tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.
David Robinson, Chair of the Geography Department and State Climatologist,
received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the AAG's Climate Specialty Group.
Dr. Robinson was also received an Environmental Hero Award from NOAA. http://www.noaa.gov/earthday/
Dinali Nelun Fernando, has been awarded the inaugural William H. Greenberg Fellowship for research on climate and environmental change. The fellowship is awarded to a post-qualifying student in a Rutgers Ph.D. program. Administered by the Rutgers Climate and Environmental Change Initiative, the fellowship includes six (6) tuition credits and a twelve (12) month stipend to support Ms. Fernando's research on predicting and monitoring drought in the humid tropics. Ms. Fernando was selected by a committee of faculty members appointed by the CECI leadership.
Elizabeth S. Barron, a doctoral student in the Department of Geography at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, working under the supervision of Richard Schroeder, was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2007 Canon National Parks Science Scholarship. The project is titled "Our Morel Dilemma: A Theory of Macro-Fungi Conservation for the U.S. National Park Service." The $80,000 award is for three (3) years and will examine the emergence and development of fungal management and conservation in the US and elsewhere from both sociological and ecological perspectives, using morel mushrooms as a case study.
Laura Schneider, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is the Principal Investigator on a new Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation three-year grant totaling $989,934. The project is titled "Ecosystem-level Response to Large Scale Natural Disturbance in Southern Yucatàn: Evaluating Forest Resilience in Protected Areas." Co-PIs on the project are John Rogan (Clark University), Deborah Lawrence (University of Virginia) and Birgit Schmook (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur). The award underwrites investigation into the impact of weather extremes on forests in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula following hurricane events. The research seeks to increase understanding of the forest ecosystem and landscape- level responses following large-scale disturbances and to increase the technical and scientific capacity for science-based approaches to long-term management at agencies at the Calakmul and Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserves.
Kevin St. Martin, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is the PI on a $74,108 grant from the Marine Ecosystem-based Management Tool Innovation Fund underwritten by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Called the "Communities-at-Sea Mapper," this project aims to develop a computer-based tool to automate mapping the at-sea domains of fishing communities. The software will serve as a resource for fisheries and marine scientists, fisheries managers, marine-protected area initiatives and coastal communities. Co-PIs on this grant are Bonnie McCay, Human Ecology, also at Rutgers, and Julia Olson, NOAA-Fisheries, Northeast Fisheries Science Center.
