Entries tagged with ‘Environment Geography and Earth Sciences’
Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Grobelski
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
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
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
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
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.
Erik Gulbranson, 2023 Mansergh Faculty Scientific Research Award Winner
Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) was selected as the 2023 recipient of the Mansergh Faculty Scientific Research Award. Presented each year at the final faculty meeting, this award recognizes a Gustavus faculty member for an outstanding peer-reviewed publication that contributes to the scholarly achievement and reputation of the faculty and the College.
Joaquin Villanueva, 2023 Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award Winner
Joaquín Villanueva (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) was selected as the 2023 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award. Presented each year at Honors Day, this award is the highest accolade a Gustavus faculty member can receive for distinguished scholarly achievements.
Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson
Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) was invited to present at the Goldschmidt 2023 Conference in Lyon, France. This talk, “A global perspective of soil-forming conditions during the late Pennsylvanian: potential stochastic forcing by geosphere–biosphere carbon pools,” will be presented in early July 2023.
Faculty Spotlight: Tiffany Grobelski and Anna Versluis
Tiffany Grobelski and Anna Versluis (both Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences), along with former Gustavus visiting faculty member Jesse McClelland, have published an article in the Journal of Geography, “Discovering Geography through Doing Geography: Project-Based Learning in an Introductory Undergraduate World Geography Course.”
Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson
Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) will publish “A global perspective of soil-forming conditions during the late-Pennsylvanian: potential stochastic forcing by geosphere–biosphere carbon pools,” in the Journal of the Geological Society of London. While specific in scope, this paper introduces two new concepts related to paleoclimate research that will interface with paleoclimate simulations to […]