Geography Blog

Author: averslui

  • Quincy Yangh (’21): Working for equal access to justice

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    Geography major Tori Franciosi (’21) interviewed Quincy Yangh (’21) about his fall 2019 internship with iProbono, an NGO in New Delhi, India. The internship was part of a one-month Independent Study Period of the School for International Training (SIT)’s Nepal and India: Tibetan and Himalayan Peoples study away program. Please describe the internship you participated…

  • James Miller: GIS for recycling and waste disposal

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    We regularly feature geography related student internships on this blog. Today we hear from James Miller (‘21), a double major in Geography and Biology, who participated in a GIS internship for Nicollet County, MN, this summer.  Describe the internship you participated in this summer. I spent ten hours a week working with Nicollet County Property…

  • Introducing Prof. Tiffany Grobelski

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    averslui

    Prof. Tiffany Grobelski is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography. She recently interviewed with student Tori Franciosi (’21): Where did you study for your degrees? As an undergraduate, I studied at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL– about an hour north of where I grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago—and got…

  • Science Magazine features climate change research of Prof. La Frenierre

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    averslui

    Science, the leading academic journal for the sciences, is featuring Prof. Jeff La Frenierre’s research studying glacial retreat in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. Congratulations, Jeff!

  • The changing landscape of southern Minnesota agriculture

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    averslui

    The Gustavus Möbius Initiative is featuring a short video on the interdisciplinary research of Geography professor Dr. Anna Versluis, Anthropology professor Dr. Annika Ericksen, and Gustavus students on “The Changing Agricultural Landscape of Southern Minnesota: Farmers’ Perspectives.” Dr. Greg Kastor, Professor of History and Hanson-Peterson Chair of Liberal Studies, calls the research project “an interesting,…

  • Michelle Simms (’19): Renewable energy in Minnesota

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    averslui

    We regularly feature geography-related student internships on this blog. Today we hear from Michelle Simms (’19), a double major in Biology and Religion, who interned in renewable energy infrastructure last summer. Who did you intern for and what does this company do? I worked at Geronimo Energy in Edina, MN. Geronimo Energy is a utility-scale…

  • BBC features GAC climate change research

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    averslui

    We are excited to share this five-minute BBC video, part of the BBC’s Earth From Space series, on the research of Prof. Jeff La Frenierre and colleagues on how climate change is impacting tropical glaciers. In the clip, Jeff and recent Gustavus graduates Casey Decker (’18) and Abby Michels (’18) can be seen piloting the…

  • Imagining responses to climate change through agriculture

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    averslui

                  Students in the GEG-150 Culture, Self, and Agriculture 2019 January-term course studied agriculture’s role in society and developed proposals to respond to climate change through agriculture. The course combined themes from last year’s Nobel Conference on soils and the coming Nobel Conference on climate change. Read more about…

  • On top of the world: Gusties measure glacier melt in the Andes

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    Gustavus students Chloe Shaw (’19) and Hanna Albers (’19), working above the clouds at 16,000 feet on Volcán Cayambe, Ecuador, show off their crampon style after installing this glacier melt sensor earlier this month. The two are in Ecuador for a January field season with Prof. Jeff La Frenierre to study tropical glacier response to…

  • Students network with remote sensing scientists

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    The GEG-345 Remote Sensing of the Environment class took a field trip to the USGS EROS Center near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to tour the facility and network with data information, remote sensing, and international relations professionals. EROS Center processes, stores, and makes available to scientists and the public petabytes* worth of environmental data and…