Archive for Anna Versluis
GIS Day
Today is GIS day–Geographic Information Science/Systems/Studies day, that is. The Geography Club is hosting GIS demos in the Campus Center. Stop by and check it out! Don’t worry, that bearded guy only looks crazy. . .
Dr. Douglas: Pioneer of Service-Learning at Gustavus
Geography Professor Bob Douglas has long been a proponent of service-learning. His World Regional Geography students participate in tutoring for English-language learners who have immigrated to Minnesota from around the world. Prof. Douglas was featured in this Gustavian Weekly article. “You don’t have to go to Africa to study Somali culture or Sudanese culture or [...]
Geography Club: Trivia tonight!
Join the Geography Club for trivia today, Nov 10, from 5-7 pm in the Map Library of Nobel Hall. Come for food, fun and fascinating facts!
Mark Bjelland’s new book is out!
Prof. Mark Bjelland’s new Human Geography textbook has been published and is now available! Congratulations, Mark!
Prof. Bjelland at professional meeting
Dr. Mark Bjelland is in Denver, Colorado attending the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. He is presenting a research paper titled “Urban Change and Congregational Diversity: A Study of Lutherans in Minneapolis.”
Gusties go for Geographer Graf
Geographer Will Graf of the University of South Carolina gave the culminating lecture at the Nobel Conference 45 Banquet on October 7. His talk, “Where the Wild Things Are: Dams, Rivers, and Wildlife Preservation,” was a beautifully structured and informative overview of the state of dams and welfare of wildlife dependent on river systems in [...]
Collecting Oral Histories in Haiti
This summer, Dr. Anna Versluis continued to study land change, especially agricultural expansion into former pine forest, in a watershed in southeast Haiti. In a previous study, Anna and a colleague used satellite images to document the region’s transition from a mixed forest and agriculture landscape in the 1970s to a landscape dominated by agriculture [...]
Early Career Faculty Workshop
Dr. Anna Versluis spent last week at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she participated in a workshop for early career faculty sponsored by the Geography Faculty Development Alliance (GFDA). It was an excellent week, full of meeting other new geography professors from institutions across the United States and Canada, discussing how to improve our [...]
Geography Picnic 2009!
The Geography Department celebrated the end of a successful Spring Semester with a picnic in Linnaeus Arboretum.