This semester SIUE geography 408 students continued a long standing tradition by participating in the Geography Field Program in Silverton Colorado. The program is a joint research venture involving eight universities designed to teach students the basics of mountain geography and cryospheric science.
The program was started over thirty years ago by Arizona State University’s Melvin [...]
The College of Arts and Sciences has a busy schedule of events coming up between now and the end of the semester. Coming up this Monday and Tuesday is this year’s CAS Colloquium titled, “Thinking About the Book,” with a wide variety of lectures and events by SIUE faculty will look at the role of [...]
Saturday March 23 the SIUE Geography Club lent a hand with the Fifth Annual Confluence Trash Bash. This one day event is part of an effort from local communities to clean up river waste. The event includes lunch and prizes for best trash.
“One of the things I’m really passionate about is community service,” club faculty [...]
From October tenth through twelfth the Association of American Geographers (AAG) held their annual applied geography conference in Minneapolis. This conference is an opportunity for geography scholars to gather and discuss their current work.
The AAG is a nonprofit scientific and educational society dedicated to promoting scholarly discussion among geographers both in private industry and academia. [...]
Last Tuesday Mark Hildebrandt and Randall Pearson of the SIUE Department of Geography teamed up with Columbus Elementary and Edwardsville High School for a synchronized weather balloon launch. Students and faculty built, launched, chased, and retrieved balloons carrying global positioning and weather monitoring instrumentation for an over the top science experiment.
The research group in the village of Nace in Manang. From left, back row: Dr. Oliver Bond (University of Surrey), Dr. Dubi Nanda Dhakal (Tribhuvan University), Dr. Kristine Hildebrandt, Dr. Shunfu Hu , Prita Malla. From left, front row: Prabal Malla, Ritar Lhakpa Lama, Kali Lama. Photo courtesy of Shunfu Hu.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) [...]
Mark Hildebrandt recently returned from Joplin, MO where he and his students engaged in post storm assessment of the town one year after the EF 5 tornado that caused massive destruction. The visit was part of a course in Storm Chasing and Assessment taught by Hildebrandt since 2007 in response to hurricane Katrina.
Possessing a facination with [...]
Wednesday March 28, 2012 Bin Zhou of the geography department and Carly Foster of the department of political science presented for the spring 2012 colloquium with the shared topic of “Complimentary Human Spaces.” Both presentations dealt with understanding the perception of class and gender roles and their connection too space within culture.
Zhou presented first with [...]
Two presenters spoke about natural spaces as part of the 2012 Spring Colloquium. On Tuesday, Aldemaro Romero, dean of the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences, and David Israelitt, a student at SIUE, spoke to a small crowd about two distinctly different types of natural spaces. The session was simply entitled Natural spaces.
Romero, who has [...]
SIUE recently received a $215,000 research grant from the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) to identify available methodologies for collecting and storing highway inventory data. Working on the project are Shunfu Hu, professor of geography, and his graduate assistant Kamiliah Logralso, as well as Huoguo Zhou, assistant professor of civil engineering; Jie Gong, assistant professor of construction; [...]
