Department of Geography

Bethani Turley's PhD Proposal Defense will be held Tuesday June 7th, please see the attached flier for additional information as well as how to attend!

Jola Ajibade, Geography faculty, was interviewed by Architectural Record on June 1 about “Climate Change and the Crisis of Inequity: A Call to Action” architecturalrecord.com/articles/15678…

The Geography department is hiring! If you are an interested student who is work-study eligible please see the flyer below.

Jola Ajibade, Geography faculty, was interviewed by Vermont Public Radio on May 20 about “What is climate change? But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids. vpr.org/podcast/but-wh…

Jillian Farley's Master's Thesis Proposal Defense will be held May 25th, please see the attached flier for additional information as well as how to attend!

Jola Ajibade, geography faculty, served as a panelist on “Sea level rise and Brooklyn’s Jamaica Bay Communities: examining models for transformative adaptation." at the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center Annual Conference, New York. May 13.

Alida Cantor coauthored an article in Environment and Planning E titled "Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai'i" with colleagues Chris Knudson (University of Hawai'i) and Kelly Kay (UCLA).

Andrés Holz and Sebastian Busby were recently featured in KPIC article "Heading into wildfire season: What can we expect in the Pacific Northwest?" kpic.com/news/local/hea…

Jola Ajibade, geography faculty, served as a panelist on “Policy consultation on the limits of adaptation: Planned relocations and resettlement” organized by the Africa Climate Mobility Initiative, IOM, the World Bank and African Union.

Jola Ajibade, geography faculty, authored an essay titled “Building Back Better From Cascading Climate-Covid Disasters: An Intersectional Lens Matters for Equitable Resilience. Published by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU). equitableresilience.mit.edu/insights/build…

Meghan Sullivan's Master's Thesis Defense will be held Friday May 6th, please see the attached flier for additional information as well as how to attend!

Save the date for our End of Year Celebration, Tuesday, June 7th! All recent and upcoming Geography and Systems Science Grads are Encouraged to Attend!

Jola Ajibade, Geography faculty, gave an invited talk titled “Radical Imaginings: Global Climate Relocations and Transformative Justice” at Geography Seminar Series, Oregon State University. April 29.

Jola Ajibade, Geography faculty, served as a panelist and role model expert on Environmental Science Camp for high school students organized by Career Girls. April 28. careergirls.org/environmental-…

Paul Loikith, geog faculty was featured in OPB article "It’s too early to tell whether April snow in Portland is linked to climate change, scientists say" opb.org/article/2022/0…

Claire Brumbaugh-Smith's Master's Thesis Proposal will be held Thursday April 14th, please see the attached flier for additional information as well as how to attend!

Bethani Turley and Alida Cantor published a new article titled “Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States" in Energy Research & Social Science. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…

Jola Ajibade, Geography Faculty, gave an invited talk titled “The Resilience Fix to Climate disasters: Recursive Relations with Equity and Justice-Based Transformations in the Global South", at the RISE Seminar Series, University of Colorado. April 11