Kei Yamato, a Junior majoring in geography, has worked with Dr. Bruce Rhoads and PhD candidate Tanya Shukla using historical land survey records to see if human impact has changed the configuration of rivers in the Midwest.
Stefan Ilic, also a junior, is helping Dr. Marynia Kolak by wrangling data, appending that data to a larger data frame, and creating metadata for multiple projects within the Healthy Regions & Policies Lab
Amer Islam is a senior working with Dr. Jim Best on quantifying sand mining in Bangladesh through remote sensing. His scholarship will facilitate a transcontinental flight, enabling field work abroad.
We’ll also hear an “audio postcard” from Giovanni Gianneli, a sophomore studying abroad in Heidelberg, Germany. He’s just arrived there and has started an intensive language course to prepare for coursework which will begin mid-April. He’s looking forward to taking Geopolitics of Sustainability and Geoscripting with Python, as well as more niche, specialty topic human geography courses.
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