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PhD Candidate Marisa Raya and PhD Student Chevon Holmes received multiple awards at the APCG 2024 conference held at Cal Poly Humboldt in October.  

Marisa received the Margaret Trussell Scholarship which honors the past President of Pacific Coast Geographers who broke into an all-male organization and established their Women's Network.  Marisa also won a Student Travel Award to attend the conference and the APCG Award for Best Poster - PhD level, for her ArcGIS StoryMap, Reparative Geographies of California. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00885-9

Jonathan London (CDGG and GGG) and some members of the Justice-Lab celebrate the conclusion of their spring writing retreat at Quail Ridge. The lab has bi-annual writing retreats mixing writing, team-building , game playing, sharing meals, and enjoying nature. Pictured here are: Coco Herda, Heather Lieb, Lupe Franco, Sadaf Sinambari, Megan Williams. Sudikshya Bhandari and Gaurav Thapa (on Zoom). 

https://www.spaceonspace.com/current-issue/three-poems-by-maya-weeks

The Geography Graduate Group made a great showing at this year’s California Geographical Society meeting, held at Shasta College in Redding, CA in April 2024.

PhD Candidate Ryan Miller’s Disaster Diaspora Research Featured on the CBS Evening News 

6/12/2024

https://guardian.ng/reimagining-food-security-towards-equitable-food-systems-by-emmanuel-momoh/

Dr. Maya Weeks was commissioned to write a book review of Josie Iselin's "An Ocean Garden: The Secret Lives of Seaweed" for H-Net. The review is published here https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60256.  Congratulations Maya!

Congratulations to Dr. Alfonso Aranda who received a tenure track position as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Sacramento State! 

Congratulations to Kallee who recently published in one of the top Geography Journals:  A review of Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1977–2023 - Kallee Bareket-Shavit, 2024 (sagepub.com)