William Wyckoff, author of How to Read the American West: A Field Guide, will be the speaker for the Douglas C. Ridgley Distinguished Geography Lecture on Thursday, October 1.
The Archives offers volunteer and internship opportunities to students who want to learn about the archives profession, working with historic materials, and what goes into ‘processing’ a collection. Five students, along with an Archives & Manuscripts class, are working hard on projects.
Justin Schoof of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale will present Large Scale Climate Variability and U.S. Winds in Observations and Climate Models at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, in room 133 of the Felmley Hall of Science Annex.
William “Bill” Shields of the Department of Geography-Geology is the recipient of the Stan and Sandy Rives Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award.
Catherine O’Reilly, associate professor in the Department of Geography-Geology, is part of a global scientific effort to help people living around Lake Tanganyika in East Africa.
Assistant Professor of Geology Lisa Tranel devotes her research to studying the slow rise of mountains, and the impact it has on their surfaces. With the help of an American Chemical Society grant, Tranel will return to the Guadalupe Mountains in Texas to study the connection between mountain uplift and erosion.
