Spring Classes Begin
Holiday - University Closed
Join us for a Brown Bag Talk by Dr. Stephen Przybylinski, who will discuss his recently co-edited book. In addition to the book content, Dr. Przybylinski will share valuable insights on book editing and publishing, providing an excellent opportunity for grad students interested in the publishing world.
An oral comprehensive examination is scheduled for Nidhi Kalani on January 18, 2024, at 1:00 PM.
Join the MSU GEO DEI Committee for coffee and an informal discussion on DEI topics. This month we will discuss "Exploring Persistent Racial and Ethnic Disparity in U.S. Geography Doctoral Programs: The Disciplinary Underrepresentation Gap," by Demetrice R. Jordan, Ashton Shortridge, and Joe T. Darden
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, January 19, 2024, at 4:00 PM, as MSU Geography Professor Emeritus David Lusch and Dr. Randy Schaetzl present Late Port Bruce - Mackinaw Phase Drainage of Glacial Lake Roscommon.
Join us to learn about the cutting-edge research that Theuerkauf Lab conducts on coastal environments, featuring Dr. Ethan Theuerkauf and his team, including grad students, coordinators, and technicians.
An oral comprehensive examination is scheduled for Angie Sanchez on Monday, January 29, 2024, at 2:00 p.m.
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, February 2, 2024, at 4:00 PM, as MSU Geography Professor Emeritus Dr. Bill Lovis presents "A Multiproxy Analysis of Indigenous Maize (Zea mays) Use on the Bay City Moraine, Lower Saginaw River Drainage, Michigan."
Join us for the 2024 Geography Career Day and Job Fair.
Interested in applying to become a member of the International Geographical Honor Society, Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) - Beta Chi Chapter? We are accepting membership applications until February 10, 2024.
Meicheng Shen will defend her dissertation proposal, "How Much Complexity Do We Need To Model Canopy Radiation And Carbon Fluxes Across Eastern US Temperate Forests?" on Monday, February 12, 2024, at 2 p.m.
Join the MSU GEO DEI Committee for coffee and an informal discussion on DEI topics. These events will be held monthly during the spring semester.
Join the MSU Geography Graduate Group for a Triple G Colloquium session featuring Dr. Sara Safransky from Vanderbilt University as she discusses her new book on Detroit, "The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit".
Spring Break - No Classes
The MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences offers a variety of scholarships and funding sources for undergraduate and graduate students. The 2023-24 GEO Awards Committee is now accepting applications for several student awards. Deadline is Thursday, March 1, 2024.
The deadline to apply for the 2024 College of Social Science Outstanding Student Achievement Awards is March 4, 2024.
Join the MSU Geography Graduate Group for a Triple G Colloquium session featuring Dr. David Kaplan, a political geographer and past president of the AAG. His talk is entitled "Programs in Peril: How to Avert the Current Threats to Geography."
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, March 22, 2024, at 4:00 PM, as MSU Geography Professor Emeritus Dr. Randy Schaetzl (MSU Geography) and Dr. Andrew Finley (MSU Forestry) present "The Complex Pattern of Loess Deposits in the State of Wisconsin."
Join Supporting Women in Geography (SWIG) with support from Triple-G as they welcome Dr. Somvilay Chanthalounnavong from the National University of Laos to speak on Friday, March 29th, from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in GEO Room 126.
Join the MSU Geography Graduate Group and the African Studies Center for a presentation by Dr. Ellis Adams.
CarLee Stimpfel will defend his Master's thesis "Mapping Annual to Decadal Geomorphic Changes of a River Mouth Bar to Evaluate the Role of these Landforms in Altering Littoral Sediment Budgets," on Friday, April 5, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
QUIDDERS Talk: More than Iron in Iron Mountain! with John Esch from the Michigan Geological Survey.
An oral comprehensive examination is scheduled for Nicole Dear on Monday, April 8, 2024, at 9:30 a.m.
An oral comprehensive examination is scheduled for Jessie Pink on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time).
Mehmet Eroğlu will defend his doctoral dissertation defense, "Orphans of the State: The Decline of the State-Owned Coal Industry and the Emergence of Informal Mining in the City of Zonguldak, Turkey," on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at 1:00 PM.
Sarvar Khamidjonov will defend his Master's Thesis, "Geospatial Technologies for Conservation Agriculture in Arid Environment: A Case Study of Urtachirchik District, Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan," on Friday, April 12, 2024, at 9:30 a.m.
Join us on Friday, April 12, 2024, for the GEO-GTU Annual Spring Reception. All are welcome! RSVP's requested by April 5th.
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, April 19, at 4:00 PM, as the students of the GEO 871 graduate seminar class will present their work on Late Pleistocene permafrost and gully formation across northern Lower Michigan.
Final Exams
Xiumin (Mia) Cai will be presenting a Straight-to-Ph.D. pre-proposal entitled "WEF Nexus pattern and process across Urban-Rural Continuum systems in the Southeast Asia," on Monday, April 22, 2024 at 9:30 a.m.
Raven Mitchell will defend her doctoral thesis, "Periglacial Facies and Altitudinal Trends in Alaska and the Appalachian Highlands," on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 10:30 a.m.
Commencements
An oral comprehensive examination is scheduled for Vasily Tolmanov on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
A doctoral dissertation proposal defense is scheduled for Katie Brown on Monday, May 6, 2024, at 11:00 a.m.
A doctoral dissertation defense is scheduled for Rui Zhang on Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 10:00 AM.
The onGEO Professional Certificate Session 424 begins and runs until August 9, 2024.
Holiday - University Closed
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Anthony Bowman will defend his master’s thesis, “Drivers of 3-D Canopy Functional Diversity in a Temperate Forest: Mapping Function with Hyperspectral and Lidar Remote Sensing,” on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, at 9:00 am.
Visit MSU’s campus and discover what it means to be a Spartan during our biggest open-house events of the year. Green and White Days repeat daily on July 19 and 22-26, with programs starting at 9 a.m. and concluding by 4 p.m.
Join the College of Social Science as we welcome you to campus for the start of the Fall Semester!
Holiday - University Closed
Unlock the power of 3D scanning! Dive into the fundamentals of 3D scanning technology, learn step-by-step how to create a digital replica of real-world objects, and discover when to choose 3D scanning over traditional 3D modeling.
Join us for coffee, tea, and conversation! All are welcome.
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, September 20, 2024, at 4:00 PM, as MSU Geography Professor Alan Arbogast presents "There’s no place like home: The geology and geomorphology of Kansas."
An Oral Comprehensive Examination has been scheduled for DeVon Overton on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, beginning at 2:00 p.m.
Learn the basics of QGIS, the free open-source geospatial software. This workshop will demonstrate how to make a choropleth (color-shaded) map, load shape files, and .csv table files into QGIS, join data to spatial information, and edit features.
Join us for our next Colloquium session when we welcome Molly Sears from the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Department of Agriculture, Food, and Resource Economics as she presents “ Are Farmers Adapting to Drier Conditions? Crop Choices and Irrigation Adoption in the Danube.”
In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of ArcGIS Online, a simple browser-based tool for making maps with data. Because this tool is browser-based and requires no software to be installed, has built-in datasets, and is easy to use, it provides the capacity to create mapping data projects and share them on the web very quickly.
An oral comprehensive examination is scheduled for Michaela Shope on Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 1:00 p.m.
Join us for our next Colloquium session when we welcome Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences faculty members Dr. Erin Bunting and Dr. Sue Grady for an engaging session of presentations.
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, October 18, 2024, at 4:00 PM, as University of Iowa’s Phil Kerr presents “Using the modern drainage network to recognize pre-Illinoian ice margins.”
Fall Break - No Classes
Join us for our next Colloquium session when we welcome Samantha Gailey, 1855 Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Equity and member of the MSU Department of Forestry and the C.S. Mott Department of Public Health for "Flint in Transition - Residential Mobility and Urban Greening after the Flint Water Crisis."
Like hiking? Or mountains with vineyards? How about geospatial analysis? Visiting Professor Klemen Prah, from the University of Maribor in Slovenia, will present an informal and general brown bag talk entitled "Hiking Trails in Slovenia." He will discuss methods and preliminary results on fractal dimensions of trails for a case study on the Donacka Gora mountain in eastern Slovenia.
Join us for coffee, tea, and conversation! All are welcome.
Mehmet Eroğlu, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department, will be presenting a brown bag talk this Thursday, November 7, at 12:00 p.m. as part of the Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives Brown Bag Series. The talk is entitled “Abandoned by the State: Deindustrialization, Informalization, and Coal Miners' Lives in Zonguldak, Turkey."
An oral comprehensive examination is scheduled for Hyunseo Park on November 8, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
Join us for our next Colloquium session when we welcome Dr. Luisa Gensch for "From Policy to Practice: An Agent-Based Approach to Modeling Organic Farming Conservation in Europe" and Dr. Kyla Dahlin for "Forest Structure in the Carbon Cycle."
We will have an informational meeting for the 2025 Arts, Culture and Urban Sustainability in Rome program on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, from 5:00 to 6:00 PM on Zoom.
ESRI and Knight Labs Story Maps combine narrative text, images, and other content with maps to create spatially based narratives for the web. They are an easy-to-use, powerful tool for presenting all kinds of information to a public audience and are great for classroom projects. In this workshop, we will compare the ESRI and JS versions of StoryMap and learn how to use Story Maps incorporating a variety of media types and formats.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER !14! Don't miss the deadline for the MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Science 2024 Geography Awareness Week Geovisualization Competition.
A doctoral dissertation proposal defense is scheduled for Angie Sanchez on Friday, November 15, 2024, at 12:00 p.m.
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, November 15, 2024, at 4:00 PM, as MSU Professor Emeritus David Lusch presents “Documenting the lithofacies associated with the major landforms in the Houghton Lake Basin, using Wellogic water well data.”
The Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences is excited about the annual celebration of Geography Awareness Week.
A doctoral dissertation proposal defense is scheduled for DeVon Overton on November 18, 2024, at 2 p.m.
Drones are important and exciting tools for research, infrastructure and more. Please join the MSU GIS Users Community to learn about drones from a panel discussion in celebration of GIS Day 2024. Robert Goodwin of RSGIS will lead a discussion on drone applications for research and provide an overview of MSU drone regulations. There will be drones on hand and a video demonstrating their operation. The panel speakers include: Assistant Professor of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences Erin Bunting and Assistant Professor of Plant and Microbial Sciences Addie Thompson. Refreshments will be served after the panel discussion.
The MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Science DEI Committee will be hosting two movie sessions, a lunch and chat between sessions, followed by a volunteer opportunity for Haven House, and a casual dinner in East Lansing.
An oral comprehensive examination is scheduled for Yousef Khajavigodellou on November 26, 2024, at 11:00 a.m.
Holiday - University Closed
A doctoral dissertation proposal defense is scheduled for Veda Hawkins on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at 1:30 p.m.
Join us for coffee, tea, and conversation! All are welcome.
An oral comprehensive examination is scheduled for Alanna Post on Friday, December 6, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
The MSU GEO Poster Symposium, open to all students and faculty, will be held on December 6, 2024, from 4 - 5 p.m. on the first floor of the geography building. Light refreshments will be provided.
Final Exams
A doctoral dissertation proposal defense is scheduled for Karine Torosyan on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
Commencements
Join the Quaternary Landscapes Research Group (QLRG) on Friday, December 13, 2024, at 4:00 PM, as MSU Fulbright Scholar Beáta Farkas presents “Micro-scale frost weathering as an indicator of past permafrost - A comparative study.”