Today is the second-year anniversary of the earthquake that killed thousands in Haiti. Following the earthquake, massive sums of money were promised for reconstruction. Where…

January 12, 2012, marks the two-year anniversary of the deadly earthquake near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Yesterday’s Mankato Free Press (January 10, 2012) features Geography Prof. Anna…

For stadium guidance, Minneapolis should look to Vancouver, writes Prof. Bjelland. Read Dr. Mark Bjelland’s letter to the editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune on…

China now has an operational satellite-based navigation system called Beidou (translation: Big Dipper) to rival the US government’s GPS (Global Positioning System). See http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/beidou-chinas-gps-equivalent-is-operational-20111230/ for…

Just like water cycles from the atmosphere to soil to groundwater, living creatures, streams, and the ocean, we can follow the cycles of other nutrients…

British neuroscientists have shown that the brains of taxi drivers grow when they study for their taxi license exam. To be licensed to drive the…

Have you moved recently? Check out this map showing net migration between all U.S. counties for recent years. According to the map, in 2009 Nicollet…

It’s Geography Awareness Week, so let me present the current faculty teaching in the Geography department at Gustavus. Below I give a brief description of…

  Congratulations to Amy Hughes for winning the raffle-trivia contest on Tuesday! Trivia questions and answers: 1. Which US state has the biggest dairy industry?…

It’s Geography Awareness Week! So what can you do with a degree in Geography? Geography provides a broad base that allows graduates to work in…