Announcements

Graduate student Yanlei Feng and Professor Jeff Chambers published work on Hurricane Maria impacts on Puerto Rico forests

March 2, 2018

Article: https://peerj.com/preprints/26597/

Pre-hurricane vs Post-hurricane Satellite images: https://ngee-tropics.lbl.gov/hurricane-maria-impacts-to-puerto-rico/#

Berkeley Lab press release: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2018/03/01/assessing-impact-hurricanes-puerto-ricos-forests/

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Geography alum Julie Klinger wins AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography

April 10, 2018

Julie Klinger’s Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (Cornell University Press, 2017) wins AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography.

Read more: http://news.aag.org/2018/03/2018-aag-book-awards-announced/

Emeritus Professor Roger Byrne has passed away. His passion for research and dedication to his students will be greatly missed.

March 15, 2018

Roger Byrne (1940-2018)

Roger Byrne passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, at his home in Berkeley on March 11, 2018. Roger is survived by his children, Todd Byrne, Brendan Byrne, Kevin Byrne, and Angela Sotelo.

Roger began his career as professor in the Geography Department at U.C. Berkeley in 1973 after finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. He established the Quaternary Paleoecology...

Emeritus Professor Richard Walker published new book on Bay Area Tech and ‘the Dark Side of Prosperity’

April 19, 2018

http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/04/17/in-gone-city-geographer-questions-silicon-valleys-boom-times/

Social Science Matrix features graduate student Jesse Rodenbiker's research on ecological planning in China

May 30, 2018

Jesse Rodenbiker, a Ph.D. student in the UC Berkeley Department of Geography, studies the process of ecological planning in China's growing urban areas.

Read more: http://matrix.berkeley.edu/research/urban-planning-chinas-ecological-civ...

http://matrix.berkeley.edu/research/urban-planning-chinas-ecological-civilizatio…

Professor Emerita Gillian Hart awarded 2018 Vega Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

April 24, 2018

Professor Emerita Gillian Hart was awarded the 2018 Vega Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography for her contributions to Human Geography. The award is made in Human Geography every three years. Previous recipients include Carl Sauer and Allan Pred.

Professor Hart delivered a keynote address, led a symposium, and received the medal from the Crown Princess of Sweden on April 24, 2018. Click ...

Alumna Camilla Hawthorne and graduate student Kaily Heitz publish commentary about the Berkeley Black Geographies Symposium

July 10, 2018

Alumna Camilla Hawthorne and graduate student Kaily Heitz publish commentary for Dialogues in Human Geography about the Berkeley Black Geographies Symposium and the limits to "calls to dialogue."

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2043820618780578?journalCode=dhga

Alumnus Trevor Paglen has mid-career survey exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

August 17, 2018

"Trevor Paglen blurs the lines between art, science, and investigative journalism to construct unfamiliar and at times unsettling ways to see and interpret the world around us. Inspired by the landscape tradition, he captures the same horizon seen by American photographers Timothy O’Sullivan in the nineteenth century and Ansel Adams in the twentieth. Only in Paglen’s photographs is the infrastructure of surveillance also apparent—a classified military installation, a spy satellite, a tapped communications...

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/paglen

Watch Geography Lecturer Diana Negrín da Silva speak about her course "The Southern Border"

September 14, 2018
Fall 2018 Education 186AC(link is external) / Ethnic Studies 159AC(link is external) /...
https://americancultures.berkeley.edu/node/283?ct=t%28AC_Fall_2018_Newsletter%29

Professor Jeff Chambers and his lab produce new satellite images of Camp Fire as it burned through Paradise

November 15, 2018

With tools developed by his UC Berkeley lab in Geography using the Google's Earth Engine platform, Professor Jeff Chambers developed a set of initial images that illustrate the staggering losses to the city of Paradise and the impact of the Camp Fire on the surrounding environment. His lab will be further developing this work, and providing additional tools and analysis to the community in the coming weeks. More information in the link below.

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https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/11/15/new-satellite-view-of-camp-fire-as-it-burne…