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GGG PhD Student, Kallee Bareket-Shavit won the top 2025 GeoSystems award for her paper "Hazardous Growth: Analyzing Projected Urban Expansion in California’s Flood-Prone and Vulnerable Communities."

GGG PhD Candidate, Gulnara Nabiyeva won second place in the 2025 Tom McKnight graduate student award for her paper "Open Government Data as a Tool for Planning and Sustainability in US Cities." Gulnara also won a CGS travel award. 

GGG Program Coordinator, Carrie Armstrong-Ruport, was honored with the 2025 Friend of Geography award.  

The University of Montpellier (UM) in France and the University of Pretoria (UP) in South Africa launched this initiative to connect the next generation of sustainability scientists in equitable partnerships and lifelong networks of expertise and influence. The platform is a response to the global imperatives of open science and open education, focusing on the interconnected societal missions of feeding, caring for, and protecting people, places, and the planet.

For Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea, I used my skills as a creative geographer to discuss the context of the novel with fellow writer Andrew Chater. This was published as the endnote to Smith and Taylor Classics' publication of the novel. 

http://www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/toilers-of-the-sea

PhD Candidate Marisa Raya and PhD Student Chevon Holmes received multiple awards at the APCG 2024 conference held at Cal Poly Humboldt in October.  

Marisa received the Margaret Trussell Scholarship which honors the past President of Pacific Coast Geographers who broke into an all-male organization and established their Women's Network.  Marisa also won a Student Travel Award to attend the conference and the APCG Award for Best Poster - PhD level, for her ArcGIS StoryMap, Reparative Geographies of California. 

http://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00885-9

Jonathan London (CDGG and GGG) and some members of the Justice-Lab celebrate the conclusion of their spring writing retreat at Quail Ridge. The lab has bi-annual writing retreats mixing writing, team-building , game playing, sharing meals, and enjoying nature. Pictured here are: Coco Herda, Heather Lieb, Lupe Franco, Sadaf Sinambari, Megan Williams. Sudikshya Bhandari and Gaurav Thapa (on Zoom). 

http://www.spaceonspace.com/current-issue/three-poems-by-maya-weeks

The Geography Graduate Group made a great showing at this year’s California Geographical Society meeting, held at Shasta College in Redding, CA in April 2024.

PhD Candidate Ryan Miller’s Disaster Diaspora Research Featured on the CBS Evening News 

6/12/2024

http://guardian.ng/reimagining-food-security-towards-equitable-food-systems-by-emmanuel-momoh/

Dr. Maya Weeks was commissioned to write a book review of Josie Iselin's "An Ocean Garden: The Secret Lives of Seaweed" for H-Net. The review is published here http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60256.  Congratulations Maya!

Congratulations to Dr. Alfonso Aranda who received a tenure track position as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Sacramento State! 

Congratulations to Kallee who recently published in one of the top Geography Journals:  A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023 - Kallee Bareket-Shavit, 2024 (sagepub.com)

GGG PhD Candidates Ryan Miller and Mitchell Snyder were recently interviewed by NPR's national desk about their experience researching wildfire recovery, which focuses primarily on the 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County, California.

PhD student, Chevon Holmes, received two awards at the APCG conference in October. The first award was the Students of African Descent and the second award was the Women's Network award.   Both awards are competitive travel grants to support students that present during the conference.  

PhD candidate, Mitchell Snyder, received the Tom McKnight and Joan Clemens award for Outstanding Graduate Paper for his paper titled: "The Missing Middle of Disaster Displacement: Migration, Place Attachment and Satisfaction following the 2018 Camp Fire."