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2008

Two Graduate Students Receive Awards to Support Field Work

Geography's work on fire highlighted by President Mote

Brazilian fire scientists visit the Department

Six High-Level Delegates from the Chinese Embassy Visit the Department

Ruth DeFries Recognized as Distinguished University Professor

2007

Recent Research Awards

Geography Department celebrates GIS Day

High Turnout for the Department of Geography Fall Career Fair

NSF Grant of $63,191 Awarded to Assistant Professor Naijun Zhou.

Ruth DeFries Elected Fellow of AAAS

Maryland Geography Department helps fight the California fires

Chenqquan Huang and John Townshend receive award from USGS

John Townshend Appointed as Honorary Professor of Wuhan University

Alumnus Frank Galgano to Become Chair of Geography at Villanova

Csiszar, Sun and Loboda awarded a sub award from the University of Virginia

Drs Goward, Vermote and Justice receive awards to continue Landsat 7 work from USGS

Three Department Graduate Students win highly competitive NASA Fellowships

Three Funded Research Projects

Ruth DeFries and Jan Dempewolf receive grant from from Conservation International

Faculty and Students Attend Drylands Ecosystem Meeting in China

Ruth Defries Wins MacArthur Genius Award

Shunlin Liang and John Townshend receive NOAA award

Dr. Naijun Zhou receives award from NSF

Alumnus Lieutenant Christopher Whong visits Department

Chris Justice Co-Edits Special Edition of Remote Sensing of Environment on Fires in the Eastern United States

Success at 2007 AAG Conference in San Francisco

Another Successful Maryland Reception at 2007 AAG

Eric Kasischke Appointed to US Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group

Diane Davies Works with Smithsonian Institution on Fires in Tropical Parks Research

Visiting Research Scientist Emilio Chuvieco Returns to Spain

Dr. Kinerney Retires

Faculty Position - Full Professor in Human Geography

Successful Career Fair and Open House

Vivre Bell Receives BSOS's Outstanding Staff Member Award for 2007

Map donation from Joe Trocino

Geography Department Web Fire Mapper in in the news

Appointment of faculty to advisory committees

In Memoriam: Adjunct Faculty Frederick Broome

Join Us for the Alumni Reception at AAG 2007

Spring 2007 Career Fair

Another Successful Career Fair

Didier Devers presents paper on state of Congo Basin forests

Another Successful Career Fair

Introducing Dr. Emilio Chuvieco

Geography at Maryland Ranked in Top Ten

Ryan Pavlick Wins International Max Planck Research School Fellowship

Diane Davies and Inbal Reshef Demonstrate NASA-UMD Projects

GEOG 328 Winter Term: Put on Your Slickers, We're Sailing to the Carribbean!

2006

Prince, Safriel and Reshef attend United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Conference

Joint Chinese-US Workshop: Federated Approach for Improved Use of Environmental Information in China

Drs Goward, Vermote and Justice receive awards to continue Landsat 7 work from USGS

Join Us for Fall 2006 Career Day

Dr. Goward Co-Edits PE&RS Special Issue on Landsat

Doug Morton and Ruth DeFries Publish Study on Amazon Deforestation Dynamics

Field work in the Russian Far East: fires, tigers, and forests

Grad Students Complete Field Validation for Analysis of Agricultural Burning

Geography Students Participate in USDA - NASS Internship

Dr. Goward to receive the 2006 John Wesley Powell Award from USGS

Dubayah and Hofton Use Laser Sensor in Search for Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

Graduate Student Orientation, Fall 2006

Department Hosts Forestry Delegation from Indonesia

Highly Successful Field Class to Puerto Rico

Sohlberg, Justice and Townshend receive three year award under under NASA's AIST

Dr. Kasischke successfully wins NASA award

Department Has Record Year for Research Funding

Summer Session II Courses

Scenes for Spring Commencement 2006

Department Sponsors Booth for Maryland Day 2006

Three Geography Graduate students awarded NASA fellowships for Fall 2006

Yolande Munzimi Joins Department as Summer Intern for the CARPE

Professor Ruth DeFries Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Department Holds Honors Program Reception

Dr. Guoqing Sun receives NASA award entitled Model Inversion Of Multiple-Sensor Data For Forest Biophysical Parameters Retrieval

Faculty Co-Chair Integrated Global Observation of Land Team Meeting in Beijing

Students Fare Well at 2006 AAG Annual Meeting

Middle School Girls Explore Careers in Geography

Department to Offer First Study Abroad Class--The Geography of Puerto Rico

Employers and Recruiters Invited to Participate in the Spring 2006 Career Fair

All Students Invited to Participate in the Spring 2006 Career Fair

John Townshend started the 2006 Smithsonian Space Lecture Series

2005

Seven Doctoral Candidates Hooded at Fall 2005 Commencement!

Fall 2005 Career Day Features Alumni and Student Recruiters

Samuel Goward Receives NASA Landsat Award

Ivan Csiszar To Study Land Cover in the Far East

John Townshend Wins 2005 Pecora Award

USDA Funds Air Quality Study of Cropland Burning

Department Receives 3 NASA Awards

Researchers'Work Reported in Nature

Fall 2005 Geography Career Day, Nov. 4

Ralph Dubayah and Peter Hyde Featured in NASA Wildlife Habitat Study

Research of Doug Morton and Ruth DeFries Highlighted by NASA

BSOS Sponsors Series on Hurrican Katrina

Welcome Reception for New Grads

Young Scholars Tour Department Facilities

Mike Kearney and Hurricane Katrina

Five Recieve Their PhDs in Summer 2005

Doug Morton Wins Award for Bests Presentation

More Geography Grads Win Fellowships

New Grants Reach Department

Welcome New Grads, Fall 2005

Grants Reach Almost $15 Million

Department Mourns Loss of Student

Scenes From Spring Commencement 2005

Faculty, Student, and Alumni Presentations at AAG Annual Meeting

Cathy Carter and James Wilson Win AAG Research Awards in Denver

John Townshend Receives AAG Remote Sensing Award

Mr. Ainong Visits Department

Professor Donatien Njomo Visits Department

GLCF to Disseminate Satellite Imagery for Protected Areas Hit by Tsunami

Join Us at the AAG Meeting in Denver

Professor Christiane Schmullius Visits Department

Dr. Glen MacDonald, UCLA, Is Springn 2005 Distinguished Visitor

Article on Landsat by Samuel Goward in Space News

2004

Ruth DeFries Edits Volume on Ecosystems and Land use Change

Chris Justice Co-Edits RSE Volume on Fire Danger Assessment, Fire Monitory and Prevention

Departmental Contributions to Land Use Science

Department Again Well Represented as Rainmakers

Eric Kasischke Co-Authors Special Section of Journal of Geophysical Research

Samuel Goward Appointed to Second Term on NSLRSDA Advisory Committee

Stephen Prince to Develop Watershed Classification System for the Chesapeake Bay

Ralph Dubayah to Study Carbon Cycling and Biodiversity

Diane Davies Studies Effect of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in Gabon

Matt Hansen Appointed Director of GIS Center of Excellence at SDSU

Departmental Activities Featured in "Our Changing Planet"

Shunlin Liang Co-Chairs Working Group of ISPRS

Samuel Goward and Paul Davis Receive NASA Group Achievement Award

New Land Surface Topography Data Set Available Through GLCF

RESAC's Sprawl Map Featured in Washington Post

Dr. Geores Becomes Regional Councillor for the AAG

Departmental Faculty Highly Successful in NASA's Carbon Program

New Earth Science Fellowships Awarded to the Department

Femke Reitsma To Teach at Edinburgh Univesity

Spring 2004 Commencement and Honors Reception

Department Celebrates 2003-2004 Academic Year

Three Seniors Elected to Phi Beta Kappa

Ronald Luna and Barbara Kearney Win Distinguished TA Honors, Present Papers at PIERS

Tatiana Loboda Wins GRID Competition

CARPE: Department Moves to the Congo

Department Has Big Presence at AAG Centennial Meeting

Department Hosts Annual Meeting of Mid-Atlantic Division of AAG

Black Saga Competition Spring 2004 a Huge Success

Barbara Kearney Receives Dissertation Research Grant

Department Hosts External Reviewers

Department Research on Indeonsian Forest Loss Reported in Science

Campus Returns to Western Hemisphere

Department Receives Over $13 Million in 16 New Awards

2003

Chair Visits Minister of Science and Technology in China

Dr. Goward Edits Special Issues of Remote Sensing of Environment

Scenes From Fall 2003 Graduation

UMD and Brazilian Collaborators Conduct Experimental Fires in the Amazon

Dr. Liang Publishes Book on Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces

Cathy Carter Wins PhD Competition at Mid-Atlantic AAG Meet

Geography Student Aimee Huddleston Makes All-ACC Volleyball First Team

Five University Rainmakers from the Department

Dr. Prince To Inventory Chesapeake Bay Palustrine Wetlands

Geography Career Day Fall 2003

Department's Maps in New National Geographic Atlas

Dr. Dubayah Receives Grant to Study Carbon Cycling and Biodiversity

Dr. DeFries to Study Carbon Emissions from Historical Changes in Global Agricultural Land

Alumni Alan Turnbull Speaks to Urban Transportation Class

Dr. Kleidon Receives NSF Grant to Study Atmosphere

Success for Department in New NASA Science Team

Department Receives NASA Grant to Join Amazonia LBA Project

Researchers Prepare for Isabel

Femke Reitsma Makes Presentation at International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute

Department Wildfire Research Featured in Science Channel Documentary

Students Tour Port of Baltimore

Dr. Justice Featured on NASA Earth Science Update on Wildfire

Wall Street Journal Reports on Emerging Role of GIS

Two More Grads Win NASA Graduate Student Fellowships

UMD and INPE Researchers Map Tree Canopy Cover in the Brazilian Amazon

Dr. DeFries Co-Convenes AGU Chapman Conference

Geography Department Holds Commencement Ceremony Spring 2003

Faculty, Staff, Grads, and Alumni Celebrate the Year at the Spring Department Reception

Femke Reitsma to Work in Goddard's Graduate Summer Program in Earth System Science

NASA Funds Study on Sea Level Rise on the Chesapeake Bay

Dr. Ralph Dubayah Promoted to Full Professor

Dr. Goward To Study Mid-Atlantic Forest-Cover Change

Claire Jantz Wins BSOS Outstanding Advisor Award

Three Geography Seniors Win Dean's Spring 2003 Honors

Dr. Larry Band Is Spring Distinguished Visitor

GLCF Wins High Praise for Its Free Satellite Data

Department Presence and Presentations at New Orleans Meet

Spring 2003 Career Day, April 4

Geography Departmental Honors Program

Drs. Prince and Kleidon Publish on Global Desertification

Graduate Students Presented Research at the Feb. 27 Departmental Seminar

2002

Fall 2002 Graduation Ceremony

Intercalibration of AVHRR and MODIS Fire Products Begins

Department to Develop system to Monitor World's Agricultural Regions

Senior Lynn Scharf Wins Polakoff Scholarship Award

Grad Student Barbara Kearney Wins at MAD-AAG

Visit of the Director of EROS Data Center

Visit of Minister of Science and Technology of China

UMD Land Cover Product Featured in Latest Edition of National Geographic Atlas

NASA Funds Production of Improved PAR Products

Department Has Another Successful Geography Career Fair

NASA Funds Study of Land Cover Change in Amazonia

Department Opens New Computer Lab

Office of Naval Research Grant Seeks To Enhance Modeling Capabilities

NASA Funds Study on Effects of Sea Level Rise in Chesapeake Bay

NASA Grant Augments Rapid Response Program

Assistant Professor Catherine Dibble awarded EPA MARS grant

Cohort Program with NIMA Wins Continuing Education Award

FRAs Participate at WSSD in Johannesburg, South Africa (PDF file)

Middle Atlantic AAG to Meet in Richmond on November 24-26

Alumni Dianne Thompson Publishes Work on Congressional Redistricting

Dr. Thompson Attends UN Disaster Management Workshop

Rob Sohlberg Named Deputy of New NASA Wildfire Response Team

Three Grads Win NASA Earth System Science Graduate Student Fellowships

Associate Research Scientist Ivan Csiszar Gets NASA's New Investigator Progam in Earth Science Grant

Dr. Jochen Albrecht Joins Geography Faculty

Research Associate Accepts Academic Appointment

FRAs Complete Firefighting Training

Department and Alumni Plan New Alumni Chapter

Annual Department Awards

Seal-Level Rise Threatens Marshes in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays

President Visits Black Saga Exhibit on Maryland Day

First Harper Award Given at Departmental Dinner

Grads Receive Instructional Improvement Grants

Distinguished Teaching Assistants

Dr. John Adams Concludes This Semester's Distinguished Visitor Series

Distinguished Visitor Series Begins with Dr. Lawrence Brown

Dr. DeFries Selected as Leopold Leadership Program Fellow

10th Annual Black Saga Competition a Great Success

Audio presentation on RESAC watershed mapping

Dean's Scholar Award recipient Sharon Anastasi

Congratulations to Lieutenant Colonel Frank Galgano

Spring 2002 Black Saga competition to take place on March 23

Congratulations to the Four Geography Ph.D.s hooded at the fall graduation ceremonies.

Dr. Martha Geores elected as vice-president of the Mid-Atlantic Division of the AAG for year 2002

Award for Geography graduate program

2001

Geography researchers featured in Bioscience

AAG student paper competition awards

Praise for Departmentally authored book on Sea Level Rise

Dr. Shunlin Liang receives accolade

Dr. John Townshend appointed Chair of Department

Department of Geography helps fight forest fires

Geography Career Day November 9

Pictures from the recent tornado at UMD

2000

Spring Career Fair At Deparment Of Geography

Black Saga Competition on Maryland Day

Outreach That's Making A Difference

Prince/Goetz Project Wins $1,730,000 Grant from NASA