Graduate Student News

Chuck Colvard is keeping pretty busy these days after spending part of last summer on the road with Tom Estilow. For a record of their crosscountry adventure see: <geography.rutgers.edu/publiclands/lite>
This fall he's back in the classroom teaching his famous field methods/rain monitoring course (that's a joke), in addition to serving as webmaster/ newsletter editor/gruntboy for the NJ Geographic Alliance.
Chuck's dissertation research is centered on deer density and herd management strategies in NJ. Right now he's pulling together population estimates over time. When he's not begging NJ Fish and Game for data, Chuck works with his local shade tree board to develop a GIS street tree inventory in Palmyra, NJ. <http://crssa.rutgers.edu/people/chuck>

John Dobosiewicz writes: I'm teaching full time at Kean University (Climatology, Geography of Man). Had an article published in Environmental Geosciences (March 2001). Finishing Ph.D dissertation. Have a wife and three kids, girl-6, boy-3, boy 1.5.

Daniel Falvo writes that he is continuing his upland rice research for the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, and to advance his genotype by environment approach to biogeography. His latest article is forthcoming in "Social Science Diliman", one of the leading social science journals in the Philippines.

Peter Kabachnik writes: I have finally completed my thesis, entitled "An Earth Without Maps: The Alternative Geographies of 'The English Patient'." I defended my thesis successfully and will receive my Masters in January. As a gift to myself for all my toilings, I will be traveling this Winter to New Zealand and Fiji. In December it will be one year since I last traveled (to Central America), so it is certainly time for me to leave again, as I desperately need my travel fix.

The two groups I helped begin/run, Social Theory and Brown Bag, seem to be successful and will continue in the Spring. In October, I gave my first conference presentation, and will be presenting again next March at the AAG's in LA. Now I must learn Powerpoint. I actually published something, albeit co-authored. It is entitled "The Quantitative Other: The EU's Discourse in the 1997 Commission Opinions." For those interested in having a look, it can be found at < www.ce-review.org >

Junko Noguchi writes: I am about to finish my master's program, working on thesis on the Kyoto Protocol / climate change issues. I love outdoor activities!

Erika Poulsen writes: We have established the Crime Mapping Research Lab up here at the School of Criminal Justice (Rutgers-Newark). I am the research director of the lab and really like it.

Bradley Wilson studies the production of space and knowledge, feminist geography, and Latin American Political Economy. Recently an Undergradute at Bates College and working toward an extensive research project on social development, social movements and the drug war in Bolivia. Looking forward to endless bouts of conflict over post-structuralism, objective science, and racquet ball with Tom, Chuck, Wendy and Josh.

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