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DEPARTMENT EVENTS
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DEPARTMENT NEWS
OCTOBER 2008 - JEFF PHILLIPPE (Geography) is the 2008 recipient of the
WAGS/UMI Distinguished Masters Thesis Award. This was a campus-wide
competition and now Jeff will go on to compete across all western US
universities. His thesis is entitled Present-day and Future Contributions
of Glacier Melt to the Upper Middle Fork Hood River: Implications for Water
Management.
SEPTEMBER 2008 - Congratulations to the following Geosciences faculty members who were recognized with College of Science awards!
JUNE 2008 - JOHN KLOCK (Geography) won a $12,000 fellowship for
internatonal leadership from the Sasakawa Foundation. This award is given
to approximately 5 recipients annually throughout the Oregon University
System.
Similarly, ELINA LIN (Water Resources) won a $6,000 dollar fellowship
for her future work related to China.
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JUNE 2008 - STEVE COOK (Geography) has won the first annual sustainability award
for his work in environmental sustainability and education in the Corvallis
city community. This award was created and presented by the
First Alternative Coop and is awarded to those who "Walk the Walk" in the
community.
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April 2008 - ED BROOK (Geology) was honored with a Leopold Leadership Fellowship. "Leopold Leadership fellowships focus on training, networking and outreach to help leading environmental scientists move ideas into action and advance science-based decision-making. Through a competitive application process, up to 20 scientists from the U.S., Canada and Mexico are selected each year as Leopold Leadership Fellows, participate in the training and become members of the Leopold Leadership network." (leopoldleadership.org)
April 2008 - KYLE HOGREFE (Geography) won FIRST PRIZE in the extremely competitive 2008 Honors
Competition for Student Papers on Geographic Information Science, at the
Association of American Geographers in Boston, surpassing doctoral students
from USC, the University of Michigan, Arizona State, and UT-Dallas. To our
knowledge, he is the first M.S. student to ever win this competition in
its 17 year history (we have had 1 prior M.S. student who was the first M.S.
student to be named a finalist and one prior doctoral student who won). Kyle
was judged on both the quality of his 7500-word paper and his oral
presentation. In addition to a $500 travel grant to attend the meeting, he
received $500 for winning the competition, plus a $45 ticket to the AAG Awards
Luncheon on Saturday, where he was duly recognized.
DYLAN KEON (Geography) was awarded a $10,000 research grant from the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium for a project related to his dissertation, "Web-based Educational Tools for Understanding Climate Variability."
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April 2008 - Geosciences and Water Resources Science PhD student JAY ZARNETSKE recently received a research grant from the Geological Society of America. The grant is titled Toward Robust Estimates of Stream-Groundwater Exchange: Innovative Hyporheic Geophysics and Transport Modeling of a Key Nutrient. This grant will help advance his dissertation research which focuses on constraining and assessing the complexities of water and solutes exchanging between stream water and adjacent groundwater, and how these exchange dynamics relate to stream biogeochemistry, especially the removal of excess Nitrogen. Jay is also a Fellow in the Ecosystems Informatics NSF IGERT program at OSU <http://ecoinformatics.oregonstate.edu/>. More information about his current and previous research is available at <http://oregonstate.edu/~zarnetsj/>.
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November 29, 2007 - "DAWN WRIGHT, an Oregon State University professor of geography and oceanography, has been named Oregon Professor of the Year by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. An OSU faculty member since 1995, Wright is a marine and coastal geography expert so passionate about her subject that she is known as 'Deepsea Dawn'"
- November 26, 2007 - CONGRATULATIONS to CUB KAHN (Geography) who has won the Vice-Provost and
Directors Award for Outstanding Achievement in On-line Teaching Innovation.
The OSU Division of Outreach and Engagement recognizes outstanding
contributions by faculty and staff that significantly advance the mission of
outreach and engagement through presentation of Awards for Outstanding
Achievement.
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