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Click HERE to view the research interests of our current graduate students. Click HERE to view the website of Dr. David Chicoine's Caylan Archaeological Project in Peru. Equipment Enhancement for Geospatial Data Management in CADGIS Funded by a Louisiana Board of Regents Grant Thanks to the efforts of Farrell Jones, the LSU CADGIS Research Laboratory, the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute, and LSU Center for Computation & Technology have been awarded a Louisiana Board of Regents Grant, “Equipment Enhancement for Geospatial Data Management,” to fund the purchase of 3 new servers that will allow the CADGIS Research Laboratory to keep pace with the explosion of geospatial data that is becoming available in the state and to provide adequate access to existing data sources. MORE
Dr. Melanie Gall, very recently transferred to the Department and a leading member of the Disaster Science Management Center in G&A has just received a $679,896 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) to develop a hazard mitigation plan for the LSU System. The award is for a 3-year period. Dr. Kristine DeLong, Atlantic Studies MHI and new faculty in G&A publishes paper with colleagues Poore, Richey, and Quinn in Geo-Marine letters entitled "Evidence of multidecadal climate variability and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation froma Gulf of Mexico sea-surface temperature-proxy record." See: DOI10.1007/s00367-009-0154-6. Patrick Hesp and Steven Namikas along with Dr Yuxiang Dong (Sun Yat-Sen University) and Graziela Miot da Silva (Nicholls State University) have received $80,000 USD (560,000 RBM Yuan) for 3 years from the China Natural Science Foundation for a new project entitled “Development of a Surfzone-Beach-Dune Interactions Model for China”. Rubin and Hesp Publish Nature Paper about Dunes on Titan A new, and likely controversial paper has just been published online in Nature Geoscience (DOI: 10.1038/ngeo610) by USGS scientist David Rubin and LSU’s Department of Geography and Anthropology’s Patrick Hesp. The paper, “Multiple origins of linear dunes on Earth and Titan” examines a possible new mechanism for the development of very large (~250m high) linear dunes formed on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. MORE
A recently released major scientific report detailing the impacts of climate change on the United States was authored by 31 leading climate scientists, including Dr. Lynne Carter, Associate Director of the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program (SCIPP) in the Department of Geography and Anthropology, and Associate Director of the Coastal Sustainability Agenda at LSU. MORE Barry Keim, Kevin Robbins, and David Brown, along with colleagues at the University of Oklahoma, are the principal investigators on a new 5-year, $3.8 million grant to study climate science and local-level climate hazard planning processes. MORE People who live in urban areas are more likely to develop late-stage cancer than those who live in suburban and rural areas, according to a study published in CANCER by Sara L. McLafferty, a professor of geography at Illinois, and Fahui Wang, of Louisiana Sate University. MORE New 3D Digital Imaging Lab Funded by a Louisiana Board of Regents Grant
Heather McKillop and colleagues (Chicoine, Hesp, Mann, Saunders, Tague) were awarded a Louisiana Board of Regents grant “Digital Imaging and Visualization in Archaeology (DIVA) lab” to start a 3D digital imaging and visualization lab in the department. MORE.
Dydia DeLyser and co-workers obtained a Women in Film grant to help them complete their documentary, “The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club,” set to debut first in film festivals, and then on PBS later this year. Dydia, who was Associate Producer on the film, utilized her research expertise on gender issues among early women pilots to provide historical input on the research, script, and editing. She also engaged her connections to the aviation and aviation-museums communities in fundraising and hosting screenings. Dr. Craig Colten has received a grant from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and has been working the Community and Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI). Dr. Colten and others contributed a report based on the events which occurred in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. MORE Three Board of Regents Grants awarded to Geography & Anthropology: Andrew Sluyter has been awarded his BoR grant, Heather McKillop and colleagues (Chicoine, Saunders, Tague, Mann and Hesp) were awarded a BoR digital imaging equipment grant, and Farrell Jones was awarded a BoR grant for CADGIS. Dr. Michael Leitner named editor of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS), one of the premier international journals in Cartography and GIS. Dr. Jay Edwards and Dr. Barrett Kennedy (LSU School of Architecture) received a grant of $52,700 from the Division of Historic Preservation to support a study of an historic New Orleans neighborhood, and particularly their shotgun houses. MORE Prehistoric Archaeology on Continental Shelf. Visit the Archives page for past highlights. Sophia Renke received the prestigious Acorn Research Grant from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences! The award is for an "investigator [to] initiate original problem oriented research" in the forensic sciences. They accepted her Master's Thesis research here at LSU, which is "Using Algae to Estimate Postmortem Submersion Interval in a Louisiana Bayou". Dr. Fahui Wang has been awarded the Overseas Outstanding Young Scientist Award of 200,000 RMB for two years from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Spring 2009 Student Awards Announced. MORE
Geography graduate student Jorn Seemann has been awarded an LSU Graduate Dissertation Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. This is a signal honor which underscores his exceptional academic record to date. The nominations for this award are evaluated by a committee of faculty drawn from a range of disciplines across campus and his selection reflects the fact that the quality of his scholarship, and the evidence of his future potential, impressed the scholars outside his field as much as it did those who nominated him. Geography graduate student Brandon Edwards recently received two research grants. The National Science Foundation awarded him a research grant that provides support for travel and instrument development for his dissertation research in coastal geomorphology, which will be conducted at Padre Island, TX and St. Joe's, FL during the next year. The Sigma Xi Committee on Grants-in-Aid of Research also awarded him funding for his grant proposal. The Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research program has a highly competitive application process and only approximately 20% of applicants receive any level of funding. Boyd Professor Dr. Jesse Walker was awarded the 2009 Francois Emile Matthes Award from the Cryosphere Speciality Group of the Association of American Geographers. The award was presented to Jesse at the AAG in Las Vegas in March 2009. The award is given for recognition of his extraordinary dedication and outstanding scholarly achievement to the advancement of cryospheric science. Dr. William Rowe is a recipient of the 2009 Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award. Each recipient was selected for demonstrating outstanding teaching. Geography graduate student Anzhelika Antipova has been chosen as the 2009 recipient of the WTS Houston Chapter-Helene M. Overly Memorial Graduate Scholarship.This scholarship was established in 1981 to encourage women pursuing career paths in transportation. It is awarded to women pursuing graduate studies in transportation or a related field.
Katherine Renken, a Geography doctoral student, tied with Ginette Wessel from UNC-Charlotte for the Best Masters paper in the Student Honors Competition at the 2008 SEDAAG meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 24. Her paper was entitled "Alongshore variation of beach and dune changes at microtidal inlets along the Outer Banks of North Carolina," which discussed her Master's thesis research conducted at East Carolina University. Dr. Jay Edwards and the Kniffen Lab inducted into the "Order of the Palmetto" and awarded the James William River Prize. More.
Professors Barry Keim, Patrick Hesp and Heather McKillop were named LSU "Rainmakers" at a reception in October. The LSU Office of Research and Economic Development, announced that Rainmakers are faculty who are nationally and internationally recognized for innovative research and creative scholarship, who compete for external funding and awards at the highest levels, and who attract and mentor exceptional graduate students. LSU awarded 100 faculty with this prestigious title.
Geography doctoral student Amy E. Potter received the Hubert G. H. Wilhelm Student Research Award at the 2008 Pioneer American Society Meeting on October 18 in Baton Rouge. She won the award for her paper "There's No Place Like Home: Rebuilding Community in the Lower Ninth Ward," which reports on research conducted in New Orleans for Prof. Joyce Jackson's Spring 2008 Urban Ethnographies course. The award was established in 2006 in honor of long-time PAS member, Hubert Wilhelm, a cultural geographer who received his PhD from LSU under the auspices of Prof. Fred B. Kniffen and whose enthusiasm for teaching has had a global impact.
Professor Emeritus Jesse Walker is the 2008 recipient of the Royal Geographic Society's Patron's Medal for the encouragement, development and promotion of coastal geomorphology. Click here to read the full story. |
Fall 2009
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Friday Forum: Dr. Mark Macauda, Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Human Ecology, LSU, speaking on "Everybody Got Somebody Extra: Cultural Models of Sex and Cheating Among Inner City Emergent Adults." 3:30pm, Friday, November 20, E130 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex. Happy 80th Birthday LSU Geography & Anthropology!!!
Ryan Brasseaux, who received his M.A. in Anthropology at LSU in 2004, has recently had his thesis published as a book by Oxford University Press: Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-made Music. Dr. Jay Edwards was Ryan’s advisor for the thesis, which began as a research project for Dr. Heather McKillop’s quantitative project in Anthropology 4020. Congratulations, Ryan! Rachel Watson and Cory Sills, geography Ph.D. students, hosted a booth at the Annual Career Fair on Tuesday 3 November, 2009 at the LSU Laboratory School. Approximately 735 students from grades five through 12 attended the fair. Many stopped to talk and see the displays at the Geography and Anthropology booth to learn more about careers in archaeology, as well as, the fields of geography and anthropology. The booth highlighted LSU’s archaeologist work on the LSU campus mounds and in southern Belize. Click HERE to view one of the displays “There are Jobs in Archaeology, especially if you have a graduate degree.” Students Dig Port Hudson History
Dr. Heather McKillop has been appointed to the LSU Graduate Council. She will be representing the College of Arts and Sciences. Geography & Anthropology kicks off the semester with its annual Fall Party. Click HERE to view pictures. LSU Scholars Join Forces to Create Coastal Sustainability Studio. MORE. Three geographers from the Department of Geography and Anthropology have published two new books on Hurricanes and New Orleans. MORE. Mary Manhein's forensic work featured on ABC's Nightline. MORE. G&A PhD Student Ryan Orgera Official Interpreter at the Prix Louisiane Ceremony. MORE. RECENT GRADUATES. Click HERE to view 2007-08 Geography & Anthropology degrees awarded. More media coverage of Dr. Rob Mann's Galveztown project. Click HERE to read the article in Louisiana Cultural Vistas. Elvis at AAG pictures now available! Click HERE. Jay Grymes has been selected as this year’s winner of the National Hurricane Conference’s “Outstanding Achievement Award for News Media.” He was nominated by the EBR Office of Homeland Security for community service outside the normal parameters of TV weathercasting. The National Hurricane Conference is an annual meeting focused around the emergency-management community for topics including tropical weather preparedness, mitigation and operational forecasting and response. Dr. Dydia DeLyser is LSU’s Faculty Athletics Representative. More Dr. Kent Mathewson was recently invited to a special conference on Alexander von Humboldt at Vanderbilt (Jan. 15-17) where he gave an invited paper entitled "Humboldt, Guano, and the Origins of U.S. Overseas Expansion” Dr. Rob Mann leads group searching for artifacts from lost village of Galveztown in Ascension Parish. MORE. Disaster Science and Management (DSM) program is now hosted by the Department of Geography and Anthropology and the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute (SDMI). Dr. Patrick Hesp (G&A) and Dr. Rachel Dowty (SDMI) are co-directors of the program. Go to http://www.dsm.lsu.edu for details. Department of Geography and Anthropology’s Krewe du Monde float in the Baton Rouge Southdowns parade awarded the ‘Best Riot’ award! Geology and Geomorphology of Holocene Coastal Barriers of Brazil. New publication by Patrick Hesp and Sergio Dillenburg. More. G&A hosts four visiting scholars Spring 2009. More. Anthony J. Lewis has been appointed Emeritus Professor of Geography.. Geography & Anthropology celebrates Christmas at Dr. Barry Keim's house. Click HERE for pictures. Kniffen Lab publishes The Louisiana Catahoula Leopard: A Geographical Investigation, No. 6 in the Monograph Series. More. Sophia Renke, forensic anthropology graduate student, competed in a Scottish Highland dancing competition at the Clanjamfry Highland Games in Memphis in September. More. Graduate Student Invited to Speak at 5th NRF Open Assembly. Dr. Tony Lewis retires after 30 years at LSU. The Department of Geography & Anthropology KREWE DU MONDE enters its first float ever in the Baton Rouge Southdowns Mardi Gras parade February 1, 2008. More Graduate Student Wins McColl Family Fellowship
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The American Geographical Society has launched a new online job listing for geographers. If you are graduating soon, post a resume and keep an eye What Can I Do With This Degree? Career2Geaux (LSU's job/internship database) |
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