More good news this week indicating the tremendous national and international impact of our faculty:

Becky Mansfield will be giving the 2016 Mayer Lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee today (Friday). This prestigious lecture series is made possible by an endowment from Harold and Florence Mayer. Harold Mayer (1916–1994) was a Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and one of the leading scholars in the field of urban geography in the twentieth century. He specialized in Urban and Transport Geography of North America with a focus on New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and British Columbia. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago. You can find a complete list of past lecturers (including names you will recognize!) here.

Darla Munroe attended the 3rd Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme in Beijing (10/24-27) where she delivered a keynote address. Her talk was on "Telecoupled Land Systems." Current post doc Yuxi Zhao was also there, and presented "Entrepreneur-led land system changes during the amenity transition." Former post docs Derek Van Berkel (NC State U) and Hongshuo Wang (China Agricultural University) were also at this meeting, so there was an OSU Geography reunion!

As mentioned in last week's bulletin, Alvaro Montenegro's research been reported through The Conversation and has now been taken up in the New York Times.
"How Ancient Humans Reached Remote South Pacific Islands" – New York Times (1 Nov 2016) It's great to read the NYT report -- and when you click the hyperlink you get Alvaro's home page!

This week Yongha Park and Morton O'Kelly have a paper on the topic of air transport accessibility accepted in a good journal (Environment and Planning A). This is the second part of series of papers under review on related topics.

Max Woodworth has provided commentary following a showing of the movie Anthropocene. We forgive the Lantern for mistakenly calling Max a geologist. This is not their first typo.

Thanks to the undergraduate Meteorology Club for running a very tempting bake sale and good luck with planning for next year's Severe Weather Symposium March 24, 2017.

Our two faculty search committees are now in full swing and there is an approaching deadline for the submissions. Please consider making a final push to ensure that we have encouraged all eligible applicants to write to us through your networks.