Month: May 2015

  • Faculty-Student Research on Glacier Change in Ecuador

    Congratulations to Geography Professor Jeff La Frenierre and Geography and Environmental Studies double major Helen Thompson (’17) for being awarded a Gustavus Presidential Faculty-Student Collaboration Grant for 2015 for their study Hydrological Implications of Glacier Retreat on Andean Volcanoes. They will travel to Ecuador in June for a three-week field season at Volcán Chimborazo. Their…

  • Meg Wika (’14) awarded Patricia Lindell Research Prize

    Congratulations to Geography and Environment Studies graduate Meg Wika (’14) for winning the Patricia Lindell Research Prize for 2014. Meg’s senior geography honors thesis–Family, Patriotism, and Land Stewardship: Employing the Rural Ideal to Champion Corn Ethanol in Minnesota–was chosen as the outstanding research paper as determined by the Gustavus Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library selection committee.

  • Talk: Drones for Science? Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Glacial Watershed Mapping in the Peruvian Andes

    Gustavus Adolphus Geography and Environmental Studies present: Drones for Science? Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Glacial Watershed Mapping in the Peruvian Andes Oliver Wigmore, Department of Geography, Ohio State University Thursday May 7, 2015 at 7:00 pm Location: TBD The glaciers of the Peruvian Andes are rapidly retreating, transforming the hydrology and impacting the socio-economic…