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Graduate instructors, teaching assistants, and faculty will share their experiences teaching in fall 2020. This will be organized to provide a space to communicate challenges while brainstorming in preparation for next semester.
Tips and suggestions for publishing our research within academic peer-reviewed journals. Panelists will include a managing editor for Social Science & Medicine.
How can we continue with our research given existing constraints to travel and data collection? This session will share potential resource from Google Earth Engine, archival data collection, and secondary data sets, while also brainstorming strategies to continue our research activities.
This upcoming Monday (9/28) we will be holding a Geography Clubs Zoom meeting starting at 7:30PM EST.
In the meeting, all clubs will be discussing the topic of AAG and providing information regarding the upcoming conference in 2021.
Along with this, GTU will answer any questions you may have regarding induction, fees, membership, etc.
Please feel free to let us know if you have any questions prior to the meeting and we hope to see you all on Monday!
On October 13, at 4 p.m. Eastern time, we'll be offering an overview of the applications and admissions process for resident M.S. and Ph.D programs in Geography at Penn State. We'll go over the requirements for applicants, help you understand how we evaluate applicants, and there will be plenty of time for Q&A about academic life as a graduate student in our Department.
A warming climate and more frequent wildfires do not necessarily mean the western United States will see the forest loss that many scientists expect. Dry forest margins may be more resilient to climate change than previously thought if managed appropriately, according to Penn State researchers.
This Coffee Hour is co-sponsored by: the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; the Department of Asian Studies; the Rock Ethics Institute, and the Center for Global Studies.
by Qiusheng Wu, University of Tennessee
Todd Bacastow, teaching professor in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State, has been appointed to the board of directors of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) for a three-year term.
USGIF is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting geospatial intelligence training and education and building a stronger community of interest across industry, academia, government, professional organizations and individual stakeholders. Since 2007, Bacastow has also served as a member of USGIF’s Academic Planning Committee.
