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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!

Prof. Mark Bjelland’s new Human Geography textbook has been published and is now available! Congratulations, Mark!

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.”

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…

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…

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…

The Geography Department celebrated the end of a successful Spring Semester with a picnic in Linnaeus Arboretum.

Dr. Anna Versluis presented a paper at the 2009 meeting of the International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change in Bonn, Germany. The meeting is a gathering of geographers, political scientists, anthropologists and other social scientists who are studying global environmental change and its ramifications.

A group of GEG-105 students visited Glacial Lakes State Park in west-central Minnesota this week. The park showcases some lovely glacial depositional landforms–kames, kettles,  and eskers–all created when the last glacier of the Pleistocene Ice Age retreated about 11,000 years ago.