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Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Welcome back everyone and welcome to all our new students. This is a weekly tradition in the Geography Department: we send news and items of general interest to the department. We also are in the…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
We are delighted to report that Dan D’Amico has successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled: “Dissolved oxygen in the oceans: An examination of the Late Ordovician and near future using an…

Congratulations to Dan D'Amico
Please join us in congratulating Dan D’Amico who earlier today successfully defended his PhD dissertation entitled: “Dissolved oxygen in the oceans: An examination of the Late Ordovician and near…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
I am delighted to report that our new colleague Madhumita Dutta will be arriving, as planned, near the beginning of the new term. Her office will be 1049A beside Ola Ahlqvist’s office. We are…

Chairman O'Kellys News Brief
Lots of news with an interdisciplinary flavor this week. Anurag Mazumdar (adviser: Nancy Ettlinger) has published a book review on: Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India by…
Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Lots of great developments this week. Good news from Desheng Liu: he has received official notification from NSF of a new award.This is for collaborative research on: Hydrologic and Permafrost…
Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
The intrepid Great Basin team returned from a soggy trip to the field. Unusual to get rain there, but so it was. Here is what the National Park Service says about the park: “Weather conditions in the…
Dan Sui on Location-Spoofing in Social Media
Daniel Sui, professor, geography, is co-author of the article, “True lies in geospatial big data: detecting location spoofing in social media,” published in the Jan. 31, 2017 issue of the journal…

Chairman O'Kelly's News Brief
Bonnie Bounds spent last week in L'Aquila, Italy for a week-long economic geography summer school. It was hosted by the Gran Sasso Science Institute for PhD students and early-career researchers…