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  • Faculty Spotlight: Julie Bartley

    Faculty Spotlight: Julie Bartley

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    Julie Bartley (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) presented a lecture to the Minnesota Geological Society titled “Stromatolite morphology and diversity–How did (mostly) brainless pond scum build large, complex structures?”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Grobelski

    Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Grobelski

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    Tiffany Grobelski (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences & Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies) published a research article entitled “Changing the coal status quo through scalar practices: The anti-smog movement’s contributions to Polish energy transition” in the journal Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

    Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) was invited to serve as a panel member for the Life and Environments through Time (LET) program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). LET is one of the new programs in the Division of Earth Sciences at NSF that consolidates two or more previous programs.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jeff La Frenierre

    Faculty Spotlight: Jeff La Frenierre

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    Jeff La Frenierre (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) is the co-author of a paper recently published in the Annals of Glaciology, “Automated ablation stakes to constrain temperature-index melt models.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jeff La Frenierre

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    Jeff La Frenierre (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) is a co-author of the article “Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data,” recently published by the journal The Cryosphere.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Grobelski

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    Tiffany Grobelski (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences & Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies) presented a webinar entitled “Project-Based Learning in the World Geography Classroom” for the National Council of Geographic Education. The NCGE is a non-profit organization chartered in 1915 to enhance the status and quality of geography teaching and learning.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jeff La Frenierre

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    Jeff La Frenierre (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) and his student Scott Knowlton were featured in a story that aired on Swedish public television. The story, about glacier change in Sweden, includes brief comments from Jeff and footage of Scott. The broadcast is in Swedish and the Gustie portion begins at the 28-minute mark.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jeff La Frenierre

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    Jeff La Frenierre (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences)and collaborators from the University of Minnesota, Penn State University, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina were awarded a National Science Foundation grant totaling $2.99 million for the four-year project, “From Peaks To Slopes To Communities, Tropical Glacierized Volcanoes As Sentinels of Global Change: Integrated…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) recently co-authored a manuscript entitled “A lithostratigraphic reappraisal of a Permian-Triassic fluvial succession at Allan Hills (Antarctica) and implications for the terrestrial end-Permian extinction event” in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) has been invited to serve on the Editorial Board for the Nature Portfolio journal Scientific Reports. His term on the Board began in June 2023.