Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief

A big week for departmental publications!
Kendra McSweeney’s research team just published a paper in Environmental Research Letters that is featured in a Science news article; meanwhile, their earlier paper in Science is cited in a Washington Post article. Details and the story can be found following this link.
Debangana Bose has written a report on her ongoing research in Delhi for The Wire: “Why Do Girls Drop Out of School in Delhi’s Resettlement Colonies?”
Jay Hobgood was invited to participate in a summit on "Meteotsunami Forecasting and Warning System for the Laurentian Great Lakes: New Paradigm for Big Data Challenges and Analytics" run by the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research. This work relates to the development of a warning system for Great Lakes tsunamis. It was held in Ann Arbor.
Jinhyung Lee just had a paper based on his Master’s thesis published in Professional Geographer. We are pleased to note this is under his OSU affiliation. Jinhyung is currently a PhD Student in our department and a Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA)
Bryan G. Mark and Alfonso Fernández have a paper in the Geomorphology and Hydrology section of Geography Compass: “The significance of mountain glaciers as sentinels of climate and environmental change.”Version of Record online: 21 JUN 2017 | DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12318