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“A lot of what we care about in neighborhood and health research is how people actually interact with the people and places around them—and that’s really hard to get at when someone’s just sitting across from you describing it after the fact,� Sagehorn says.
“For the first time, we were able to measure how quickly the river cut into the ice shelf to form the estuary, which revealed more complex estuary behavior than was previously suggested,â€� said Michela Savignano, ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ Geography and CIRES PhD student and lead author of the study.
Congratulations to Yuying Ren and Alek Berg for winning the 2026 Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Summit Student Pitch Competition! WUI fires present a complex set of challenges that require an
Congratulations to our Geography Ph.D. Student, Esmee Mulder, for receiving the Society of Woman Geographers' Evelyn L. Pruitt Fellowship for 2026-2027!Esmee's project is titled, "Seeing like a Satellite, Knowing Like a
In Professor Truelove’s Fall 2025 graduate water seminar, GEOG 5100: The Politics of Water, students (Em Wright, Laine Sullivan, Anshul Sharma, Marc Sailer, Zach Schaad), spanning social, physical, and engineering sciences engaged with hydrosocial
Hayes Hart-Thompson is a master’s student studying Geography. Dr. Jessica Finlay (Assistant Professor in Geography) nominated Hayes for their roles as a teaching and research assistant. Across both positions, Hayes consistently exceeds expectations,
Aleksander Berg is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography advised by Stefan Leyk. He has been a graduate research assistant since 2023 on a National Institute on Aging grant studying the midlife (aged 25-64) mortality crisis in the United
Four Geography graduate students were awarded the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! The National Science Foundation’s GRFP is to help ensure the quality, vitality, and strength of the scientific and
Annika is a PhD candidate in the doctoral program of Geography at ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ working with Prof. Jill Harrison and Prof. Joe Bryan. Her dissertation project titled “Solar Possibilities: Community Solar Against Monopoly Powerâ€� investigates the
A new satellite could transform how water is studied worldwide. But to help unlock its capabilities, scientists first needed to take critical measurements on a mountaintop.
By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey