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GeoVISTA Center Open House
Saturday, Oct. 20, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., room 206 Walker Building
The forests we walk through today are not the same as the ones that existed hundreds of years ago. Human activities such as agriculture, development, and logging have changed them. Fire, or really the lack of it, also changed forests, to the detriment of some species like Oaks and Pines.
Can we use fire to turn back time, bring forests closer to their original state, and maintain these ecosystems over the long term?
The Department of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor specializing in geographic information science (GIScience). We are interested in candidates who will strengthen the department’s research and teaching program and help build strong connections to other relevant science communities. Candidates with an emphasis in any area associated with GIScience will be considered.
Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG) is sponsoriong a free, three-part Climate Change workshop including lunch. Everyone is invited no matter your discipline, knowledge level, or university affiliation (e.g. students, faculty, staff).
YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP.
We are capping attendance at 35 people in keeping with the interactive, hands-on nature of the event. Please register here.
Penn State has launched its first cancer-related Story Map, “The Story of Cancer in Central Pennsylvania.” The interactive geospatial map illustrates the extent of the cancer problem in the region. It also highlights patient navigators who help people overcome barriers to cancer care and action steps to help address cancer in the community.
Using a browser-based software called Esri ArcGIS Online, the Story Map pairs geospatial data with text and multimedia content. It allows viewers to drill down to population and cancer data at the county and sub-county levels.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to an interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers to create a new graduate program that will train students to find solutions to real-world problems facing Food-Energy-Water (FEW) systems.
The project, “Landscape-U, Impactful partnerships among graduate students and managers for regenerative landscape design,” focuses on societal issues around food, energy and water in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and globally.
The Department of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University invites applicants for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Climate Variability and Change, to join the physical geography group. Applicants should have the potential and desire to collaborate with colleagues across disciplines who are engaged in understanding how climate change reshapes physical and human environments. Candidates will contribute to the Dual-Title Doctoral Climate Science program within the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
The Department of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant or associate professor rank. We seek an established scholar whose research and teaching contributes to the area of Environment and Society as a subfield of Geography. Areas of investigation could include water, sustainability, health, urbanization, social justice, globalization, global environmental change, political ecology, planning, or governance.
As the 2016 presidential election was heating up, the statistical news website FiveThirtyEight released a projection map asking what if only women voted.
The map, sent out in a tweet by FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver, quickly went viral on social media and was viewed millions of times. That viral cartography event, and what quickly followed, is the subject of research conducted by Anthony Robinson, assistant professor of geography at Penn State.
