Educators and researchers in GEM study and teach all aspects of coupled earth systems, focusing on human interactions with terrestrial and marine processes, from mountaintops to mid-ocean.

Teaching and Research Faculty

Andrea Allan, Larry Becker, Laurie Becker, Michael Campana, Lynette de Silva, Kelsey Emard, Erica Fleishman, Matthew Goslin, Hannah Gosnell, Michael Harte, Demian Hommel, Julia Jones, Robert Kennedy, Tara Massad, Tyler McFadden, Andrew Meigs, Phil Mote, Park Muhonda, Peder Nelson, Laura Peters, Mark Raleigh, Mary Santelmann, Jim Thatcher, Jenna Tilt, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Kuuipo Walsh, James Watson, Aaron Wolf, David Wrathall, Kaplan Yalcin

Fall 2023 Geography Symposium (GEOG 4/5/607)

Wednesdays from 3 to 3:50 p.m. in Burt 193
(except on November 8 when it will be in Wilkinson 235)

September 27
Julia Jones – The Lookout Fire: Climate change and wildfire in Oregon
Lynette de Silva – It’s a Process

October 4
Aaron Wolf – Water, War, and Worldviews
David Wrathall – Habitability

October 11
Matthew Goslin – Rivers, cows and collaborative science: Long-term patterns of change in the Middle Fork John Day River
Robert Kennedy – Sophisticated satellite sensor seeks serious surface substantiation

October 18
Jamon Van Den Hoek – Expanding the Humanitarian Horizon
Tara Massad – Conservation Biology in a National Park in Mozambique

October 25
Laura Peters – Disasters in Divided Societies
Peder Nelson – Generational Science with Earth Observations

November 1
Jim Thatcher – From critical data studies to digital political ecologies: What spatial data can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our environment... and what they can't
Tyler McFadden – Making space for biodiversity in human-dominated landscape

November 8 (in Wilkinson 235)
Larry Becker – No Trees, No Butter: Shea's Trouble's in a Shifting Geography
Kelsey Emard – Crops, blights, and extreme weather - shifting geographies of agriculture

November 15
Mark Raleigh – Snow, snow, everywhere, but how much is there to drink?
Erica Fleishman – Navigating through a bumpy ecosystem

November 29
Mary Santelmann – The Beauty of Biogeography
Park Muhonda – Investigating the inclusiveness of the usipa value chain in Malawi

December 6
Hannah Gosnell – An integral approach to understanding transformation on agricultural landscapes
Jenna Tilt – Co-producing equitable resilience for Oregon’s coastal communities