FACULTY NEWS Promotions PROMOTIONS Desheng Liu was promoted to Professor with research interests in remote sensing, spatial statistics, GIScience, and land cover change. He focuses on developing geospatial data analysis methodologies for monitoring and modeling environmental and ecological processes.
Alvaro Montenegro was promoted with tenure to Associate Professor with research interests in climate change, paleoclimatology, and climate modeling. His research encompasses various aspects of climate change and climate variability. His research focuses on the physical and biogeochemical processes occurring at the global and continental spatial scales.
Awards and Recognition AWARDS & RECOGNITION Morton O’Kelly is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis Award from the INFORMS Section on Location Analysis. This is a triennial award for significant contributions, and cites pioneering efforts on hub network location.
Former colleague John Arnfield has been awarded the AAG Climate Specialty Group Lifetime Achievement Award.
Publications PUBLICATIONS Steven Quiring and Jordan Pino were featured in a NASA documentary on the Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite mission (SMAP). In the documentary, Steven talks about its use in power outage modeling.
APPOINTMENTS Harvey Miller has been invited to serve on the editorial boards of the Annals and also Applied Geography.
Darla Munroe has accepted the position of Interim Chair of the Department of Geography. She will serve a one-year term beginning on July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019. A search for a new chair will get underway in the fall of 2018. In addition, she has been asked to join the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Land Programme (GLP) for a three-year term beginning in June. Morton O’Kelly has agreed to assume the role of SBS Divisional Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, beginning July 1, 2018. He will serve a five-year term.
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Daniel Sui co-edited a book with Shih-Lung Shaw titled Human Dynamics Research in Smart and Connected Communities. The book addresses accelerating advances in information and communication technology that have fundamentally changed the way transportation systems work. Madhumita Dutta co-edited: Strikes in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Perspective. Published by Rowman & Littlefield International. The collection of essays spans countries across the global South and North, providing an account of strikes and the working class resistance in the 21st century.
