This week's Geography blog post.

Faculty News: 

Becky Mansfield published a paper "Deregulatory science: Chemical risk analysis in Trump’s EPA," in the Social Studies of Science. Analyzing how the Trump EPA approaches scientific risk analysis, the paper concludes that contesting deregulation by declaring it anti-science reflects an impasse, as deregulatory approaches also take the mantle of science. The alternative is to make explicit the interests shaping practices of regulatory science.

Steven Quiring has a new project funded by the National Science Foundation (Physical and Dynamic Meteorology program): “Improving Process-Level Understanding of Surface-Atmosphere Interactions Leading to Convection Initiation in the Central United States.“ This is a collaborative project with Trent Ford (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

Student News: 

Zhiying Li (PhD candidate, ASP) won 1st place at PhD Student Paper Award at the East Lakes Division of the AAG ($100). Her paper was "Developing Impacts-based Drought Thresholds for Ohio."

Sreya Juras (BA student, International Studies) also won an award at the East Lakes meeting for her undergraduate thesis supervised by Alvaro Montenegro. Her poster was titled, ”Understanding the pre-historic presence of the sweet potato in Polynesia: Experimental determination of seed floatability and impacts of contact with seawater on seed viability.” Her coauthor is MA student, John Temmen. 

Upcoming Events: 

Our next virtual speaker is Clio Andris of Georgia Institute of Technology, presenting "Spatial Social Network Analysis: A Story of the American Mafia in the 1960s" on Friday, November 20th from 3:30 - 5 pm. Click HERE to register.

Geography Blog: 

This week's Geography blog was penned by Josh Sadvari, OSU's Geospatial Information Librarian, "Making Sense of Census Data Resources."

Darla Munroe
Professor and Chair