Annual Meeting – Geography Section Oregon Academy of Science
Concordia University, Portland
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Geography Professor Heejun Chang gave a talk on climate change policy at a conference on prospects for expanding the United States and Republic of Korea partnership hosted by the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy at The Asia Foundation, Washington, D.C. on Jan. 5th, 2010. The conference was video taped by C-SPAN, which can be viewed at http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/291081-1
Beth Chappell and Shannon McDonald both received a $600 NSF funded scholarship to attend the
18th Annual North American Dendroecological Fieldweek (NADEF), in
Apex Mountain, British Columbia, Canada, June 13th through June 21st 2008.
Congratulations, Beth and Shannon!
Two Geography graduate students have been honored with prestigious awards for foreign
language study:
Lindsay Skog has been selected for a Foreign Language and Area
Studies Fellowship to study Tibetan at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison this summer.
Joe Narus received a Boren NSEP Fellowship to study
Chinese at Tsinghua University for the 08-09 academic year.
Deborah Tolman, adjunct faculty in the Geography Department and students Michelle Lasley and Joe Parker have just published a guide created as part of a Natural Resources class: The Tolman Guide to Green Living in Portland: Simple Sustainable and Affordable Practices.
It is a do-it-yourself guide to projects that will enhance the sustainability of your home and garden. An article in the May 15th Portland Tribune provides a further description of the guide.
For more information visit www.tolmanguide.geog.pdx.edu
or contact tolmanguide@pdx.edu
Scott Smith received a SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ACTIVITY GRANT
FOR UNDERGRADUATES from PSU to work with Dr. Heejun Chang on Multi-scale analysis of water quality
in the Willamette River basin. This will help fund research to identify landscape variables
affecting regional water quality characteristics at multiple spatial scales using GIS and spatial
statistics. Congratulations, Scott!
