Geography Blog

Category: Student & Faculty highlights

  • Geography Majors Present Research

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    averslui

    Fourteen geography majors participated in this year’s Celebration of Creative Inquiry at Gustavus. Here is a sample of some of their studies.    

  • Undergraduate Geography Conference Held at Macalester

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    averslui

    The annual Midwest Undergraduate Geography Symposium (MUGS) was held at Macalester College on Saturday, April 28, 2013. Gustavus Geography Professors Drs. Bjelland, Versluis, and Bergstrom attended along with eleven Geography majors. Senior Matt Bye gave an excellent presentation on the spatial distribution of Twin Cities evangelical church members, a study he has conducted with Dr.…

  • Melissa Wygant (’12) Wins Fellowship

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    averslui

    Congratulations to Melissa Wygant, Gustavus Geography Major of 2012, who has won a Graduate Research Fellowship at the North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute. Melissa is currently in graduate school at the University of North Dakota where she is uses geospatial techniques to understand changes in flood risk and vulnerability. For a summary of Melissa’s…

  • Quirk Becker assists Minneapolis neighborhood organization

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    averslui

    Gustavus Geography major Miranda Quirk Becker recently completed an internship with the Corcoran Neighborhood Organization in south Minneapolis. During January 2013, Miranda undertook a project to study the the spatial distribution of conditions and rents of multifamily housing in the neighborhood. Miranda was responsible for creating high quality maps and data tables describing and analyzing…

  • Geosciences take over Chapel

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    averslui

    A trifecta of Gustavus geography and geology professors will be headlining the 10am daily Chapel time this week and next: Dr. Mark Bjelland (Geography) will be speaking on Friday, Feb. 22, Dr. Ryan Bergstrom (Geography) on Monday, Feb. 25, and Dr. Julie Bartley (Geology) on Tuesday, Feb. 26. Come join us for the Geosciences’ three-day…

  • Dr. Bjelland authors urban books review

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    averslui

    Geography Professor Mark Bjelland has published a comparative book review of Justice and the American Metropolis and Searching for the Just City: Debates in Urban Theory and Practice. The review appears in the October 2012 edition of the Journal of Regional Science.

  • The Geographic Center of Hipness

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    mbjellan

    Geography major Jory Birkeland did a class project exploring the geographic center of hipness for the Twin Cities. The theoretical basis for his work is found in the writings of economic geographer/urban planner Richard Florida who argues that the future of cities lies in attracting creative workers. Creative class workers are the core of the…