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Organization profile
Organization profile
Geography, Environment & Society at the University of Minnesota is a top-ranked department that provides a setting for academic study or professional training in one of the nation's outstanding public land-grant research universities. Our programs in geography, urban studies, and geographic information science prepare students for careers in academia, industry, government, and nonprofit sectors.
Our faculty have expertise in geo-visualization spatial thinking and complexity; nature, society, health, and environment; environmental dynamics; geographies of globalization and new cultural formations; and global-urban laboratory and metropolitan studies.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Profiles
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International Population and Agricultural Census Data for Environmental Health Research
Kugler, T. A., Cleveland, L. L., Dorelien, A. M., Grace, K. L., King, M. L., Manson, S. M., Schroeder, J. P. & Searle, K.
NIH NATL INST OF ENVIRON HEALTH SCIENCES
12/23/22 → 10/31/23
Project: Research project
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Fire history and chronology development in a ponderosa pine forest in Crater Lake National Park
9/30/22 → 9/30/24
Project: Research project
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Cahuas: A "Latinx Geographies Specialty Group" In-Person Writing Retreat in Los Angeles
9/29/22 → 12/31/23
Project: Research project
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A generalized heterogeneity model for spatial interpolation
Luo, P., Song, Y., Zhu, D., Cheng, J. & Meng, L., 2023, In: International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 37, 3, p. 634-659 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
3 Scopus citations -
Articulation work: Value chains of land assembly and real estate development on a peri-urban frontier
Gidwani, V. & Upadhya, C., Mar 2023, In: Environment and Planning A. 55, 2, p. 407-427 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2 Scopus citations -
Can synoptic drivers explain rotor-area wind conditions and predict energy output?
Coburn, J. & Klink, K., May 2023, In: Wind Energy. 26, 5, p. 429-445 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Datasets
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Gigapixel macro photography of tree rings
Griffin, D., Porter, S. T., Trumper, M. L., Carlson, K., Crawford, D., Schwalen, D. & McFadden, C., Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, Apr 16 2021
DOI: 10.13020/rep3-nf86, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219375
Dataset
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Century-scale wood nitrogen isotope trajectories from an oak savanna with variable fire frequencies
Trumper, M., Griffin, D., Hobbie, S. E., Howard, I. M., Nelson, D. M., Reich, P. B. & McLauchlan, K. K., Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, 2020
DOI: 10.13020/428b-8h51, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/216183
Dataset
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DynamoVis - Dynamic Visualization of Animal Movement Data
Somayeh, D., Xavier, G. & Wong, W. Y., Data Repository for the University of Minnesota, 2018
DOI: 10.13020/D6PH49, http://hdl.handle.net/11299/197620
Dataset
Activities
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The impacts of heat waves on child health in Africa
Kathryn L Grace (Speaker), Frank Davenport (Speaker), Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (Speaker), Ruth A Burrows (Speaker), Benjamin F. Zaitchik (Speaker) & Christopher Funk (Speaker)
2021Activity: Talk types › Submitted presentation or panel
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A Framework for Handling Data Quality Issues in Smartphone-based Travel Survey Data
Ying Song (Speaker), Y. Zhang (Speaker) & Y. Fan (Speaker)
Nov 8 2020 → Nov 11 2020Activity: Talk types › Submitted presentation or panel
Press/Media
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Local professor's 'Minneapolis Uprising Syllabus' offers a historic look at the present
Adam C Bledsoe & Brittany M Lewis
6/16/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment or Interview
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Is Minneapolis prepared to dismantle — not just acknowledge — structural racism?
Kirsten M Delegard & Kevin P Ehrman-Solberg
6/1/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment or Interview
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Warfare dendrochronology and the German super battleship Tirpitz’s deployment to Norway
Scott St. George
4/11/18 → 4/19/18
5 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment or Interview
Prizes
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Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
St. George, Scott (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Institute for Advanced Study Interdisciplinary Doctoral Graduate Fellows, 2022-23
Calhoun, Liz (Recipient), Csr, Shankar (Recipient), King, Dewitt (Recipient), Lopez Torres, Valeria (Recipient) & Peterson, Nina (Recipient), Sep 1 2022
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Talle Faculty Research Award, 2019-2020
Yahav, Amit S (Recipient), Lovejoy, Alice (Recipient), Rahaim, Matthew (Recipient), Ma, Ning (Recipient), Syed, Moin (Recipient), Viestenz, William R (Recipient) & Grace, Kathryn L (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)