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Dr. Carrie Mott is the recipient of the 2023 College of Arts & Sciences Innovative Teaching Award. The award recognizes the importance of teaching excellence among UofL faculty and offers individual recognition to instructors who explore new methods for fostering learning and improving teaching. Award winners each will receive a $1,000 cash award and be invited to share their work in a dedicated session at the 2024 Celebration of Teaching and Learning. Their work also will be featured in one or more Delphi Center newsletters or publications. The 2023 TILL Teaching Innovation Award will include innovations implemented during the 2021-22 and 2022-23 academic years.
Dr. Maegen Rochner recently traveled to Ashland, Kentucky with DGES undergraduate and senior Jerry Sanders, as well as field and lab assistant Jordan Sharp (Sustainability) to sample tree rings from multiple historic structures at Wolfpen Woods Pioneer Village. Sanders will be processing and analyzing the core samples to determine the felling dates of timbers used to construct the buildings, informing the history of each structure, as part of a senior thesis project in the department. Any student interested in participating in multiple ongoing tree-ring projects (archaeology, climate, disturbance, urban forests) should contact maegen.rochner@louisville.edu .
Dr. Rochner, M.L., *Patterson, T.W., *Heeter, K.J., and *Harley, G.L. 2023. Increased growth synchrony of red spruce in response to acid deposition recovery and climate change across its southern range extent, southeastern USA. The Southeastern Geographer, 63(1), 78–97.
Dr. Christopher Day had a paper published with Quint Long, one of our former graduate students, in the journal Physical Geography. Full article: A GIS-based approach for estimating fallow-season cropland soil erosion based on rainfall erosivity (tandfonline.com)
Dr. Jason Naylor, & Mulholland, J. P. (2023). The Impact of Vertical Wind Shear on the Outcome of Interactions Between Squall Lines and Cities. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD037237
Dr. Charlie Zhang, Zierold, K.M., Myers, J.V., Brock, G.N. Sears, and Sears, L. 2022. Indoor coal ash and school and social competency among children aged 6–14 years. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
Dr. Wei Song, Sun, X., Y, Wei, Y. Jin, and X. Li. (2022). The evolution of structural resilience of global oil and gas resources trade network. Global Network, 1-21.
Dr. Carrie Mott, Theft: Grave robbery, territorial conquest, and irrigation. Env. and Planning E. Nature and Space. (2022)
Dr. Maegen Rochner has a new publication out with colleagues, The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data.
Dr. Charlie Zhang and colleagues have recently published two new articles in high-ranking journals including Exposure and Health and Environmental Research . In addition, Dr. Zhange advises two students who have also recently led publications. Mr Gregory Hess – Geography and Environmental Sciences and Ms. Janna Meiman – School of Medicine have recently published articles in International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research and Prenatal Diagnosis .
Geographers investigate the character and possible associations between a subject and its environment. The Department of Geographic and Environmental Sciences educates students to view the world in a spatial and time-dependent context to determine relationships between people and their immediate and global environment.
Bachelor of Science: The department offers Bachelor of Science degrees in four different concentrations:
The M.S. in Applied Geography is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and background knowledge needed to solve real-world problems with geographic dimensions. Graduate students experience a nucleated body of coursework designed to foster and support the theoretical knowledge and advanced skill sets demanded for the professional and academic/research fields. Coupled with the enhanced level of course content; quantitative, qualitative and spatial data analysis applications; and the Departmental emphasis upon critical reasoning, effective writing and communication skills, graduates will be capable and prepared for effective integration into a broad diversity of professional fields.
The Department of Geography and Geosciences offers two minors:
Learn more about a Minor in Geography or Environmental Analysis
Our graduates work for local, state and federal governments; environmental consulting firm;, retail businesses; and research and educational organizations. Departmental graduates also have been admitted to some of the nation’s finest graduate programs.
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