Rebecca Chapman pets a sturgeon at Freshwater Farms of Ohio in Urbana, OH. This farm is a great example of diversified farm structure, offering tourism, fresh and prepared trout, and supplies for ponds and aquariums.

Faculty News:   

OSU Geography and CURA collaborated (along with other university partners) in organizing this year's GIS Day. One highlight of the day is the Map Gallery. Votes are tallied for two People's Choice Awards (to be named today). Our own John Rayner (professor emeritus) contributed one of this year's entries, a hand-drawn map from his 1958 PhD Dissertation.

Max Woodworth will be host and panelist Monday, November 22 from 7pm - 8pm in an online event with Taiwan Digital Minister Audrey Tang and Wei-Ting Yen (Franklin & Marshall College). The panel is titled "Digital Democracy and Covid-19 in Taiwan: A Conversation with Audrey Tang." Over the last decade, Tang has been a prominent global activist pushing government transparency and policy innovation using digital tools. Tang has also been a central architect of the Taiwan government's Covid-19 response. The panel will cover her work in network-enabled policy making reforms and its intersections with Covid-19 policy. The event is free and open to the public. For more information and to register click here.

Student News:

Yuechun Wang (PhD candidate, ASP) successfully defended her dissertation titled "Investigating Soil Moisture–Precipitation Feedback on the North American Monsoon System" yesterday. Her committee consisted of Alvaro Montenegro, David Bromwich, Zhengyu Liu, Karen Mancl (Grad School Representative) and advisor Steven Quiring. Yuechun has accepted a position with Amazon Web Services and will be starting in January

Upcoming Events: 

Today is our last speaker of 2021, Mae Miller (BA Geog, 2013), On Safe Harbors, Worlding Education, and Transnational Black Feminist Geographies in the Early Twentieth Century.

Our next external speaker will be Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, on March 4.

Geography Blog: 

This week's contribution to our Then and Now themed blog (100 Years of the Geography Department) was written by Patricia Gober (PhD Geog, 1975), But Can She Type?

Darla Munroe
Professor and Chair