Geography Blog

Author: mbjellan

  • Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

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    The Geography Club brought Christian Gilbert (2000 Geography Graduate) and his climbing partner Brian Honkomp to campus on Monday March 2nd.  They gave an inspiring multi-media presentation with video clips, slides, maps and gear from their recent climb of Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas.  Christian Gilbert teaches world geography at Clearwater Middle…

  • Gusties Study Agricultural Diversification in Wales

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    In America, we expect National Parks to be uninhabited and wild and used for hiking or backpacking. But, in Great Britain, things are a bit different. Their national parks are more about conserving landscapes and allowing traditional farming to continue. We visited the Llangeli Valley Farm in the Brecon Beacons National Park near Abergavenny, Wales.…

  • Geographers Do Field Sketching in Britain

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    Dr. Bjelland’s January Term class worked on learning to see the design elements of British cities and landscapes through sketching and mapping exercises.

  • Dr. Versluis Delivers Lecture at MSU-Mankato

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    Dr. Anna Versluis of Gustavus gave a colloquium lecture to the geography department at Minnesota State University at Mankato. She lectured to a packed room on “We All Live Downstream: Land Change and Disaster in a Haitian Watershed.” Eight Gustavus students from the Geography Club went along to show their support.  Bob Douglas entertained students…

  • Welcome Dr. Anna Versluis: An Interview with Angie Magnusson

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    Meet new Geography faculty member, Anna Versluis! Originally hailing from Michigan and Pennsylvania, Anna received her B.A. in Biology from Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA. After graduation in 1997, Anna left the States to work for a human rights organization in Haiti for three years, which would subsequently become the location for her later…

  • Kitty Hurley ’07 in GIS Grad School

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    Kitty Hurley ’07 is at MGIS student at St. Mary’s University working on GIS for homeland security/emergency management.  She is also a student intern in the Water Resources Engineering group at the MN Department of Transportation.  She also was awarded an assistantship to work at at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego.

  • Geography Students Attend GIS Meeting

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    Bob Douglas and GEG-342 students attended the MN GIS/LIS meeting at the Rochester Civic Center on October 2nd.  The students went to hear presentations on GIS analysis of crime in preparation for their class projects.  In attendance were a number of former geography students doing a variety of GIS activities including Joel Koepp (environmental consultant),…

  • Kyle Chester ’07 Interns at NASA

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    Kyle Chester, a  ’07 geography graduate, is working as an intern at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountainview, California.  He is working with satellite remote sensing for earth science research projects.  Kyle is also working on a Master’s in GIS at the University of Minnesota.

  • Ann Fletchall ’00 Wins Paper Award

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    Ann Fletchall ’00 won the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Student President’s Award for Outstanding Paper by a Ph.D. Student.  Ann is a Ph.D. student at Arizona State University and her winning paper was given in 2007 at the APCG meeting.  Her paper was a study of the Arizona Renaissance Festival and was entitled, “The…

  • Nick Jost ’08 to Madagascar

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    Geography graduate Nicholas Jost ’08 was recently assigned to Madagascar where he will work as a Peace Corps environmental education specialist.  He leaves on February 10, 2009.  During fall 2008 he will audit French classes at Gustavus to get ready for Madagascar where Malagasy and French are the primary languages.