/geography/ en /geography/2025/04/21/recipients-spring-2025-james-and-jeanne-b-desana-conference-travel-award <span>Recipients of the Spring 2025 James A. and Jeanne B. DeSana Conference Travel Award</span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-04-21T07:47:11-06:00" title="Monday, April 21, 2025 - 07:47">Mon, 04/21/2025 - 07:47</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2025-04/2.png?h=b92db31b&amp;itok=Exqrnzni" width="1200" height="800" alt="Recipients of the Spring 2025 James A. and Jeanne B. DeSana Conference Travel Award"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1428"> Grad-Awards </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1430" hreflang="en">Alek Berg</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1395" hreflang="en">Christopher Picard</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1376" hreflang="en">Drolma Gadou</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1358" hreflang="en">Ethan Carr</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1189" hreflang="en">Fan Li</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1117" hreflang="en">Holly Roth</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1440" hreflang="en">Lauren Thomas</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1127" hreflang="en">Luca Anna Palasti</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1408" hreflang="en">Mallory Sagehorn</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1352" hreflang="en">News</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1372" hreflang="en">Nic Tarasewicz</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1474" hreflang="en">Sherrie Liu</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1111" hreflang="en">Xiaoling Chen</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1455" hreflang="en">Yanxiao Liu</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1303" hreflang="en">Zhongying (Steven) Wang</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div> <div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/2025-04/2.png?itok=CoGUzndq" width="750" height="482" alt="Recipients of the Spring 2025 James A. and Jeanne B. DeSana Conference Travel Award"> </div> <span class="media-image-caption"> <p>Recipients of the Spring 2025 <span>James A. and Jeanne B. DeSana Conference Travel Award: Alek Berg, Ethan Carr, Xiaoling Chen, Drolma Gadou, Fan Li, Sherrie Liu, Luca Palasti, Chris Picard, Holly Roth, Mallory Sagehorn, Nic Tarasewicz, Lauren Thomas, and Zhongying Wang</span></p> </span> </div> <p><span>This award, made possible by an anonymous donor, is to be used to 鈥渟upport graduate student research.鈥�&nbsp; To honor the donor鈥檚 wishes, the Department makes this award late in the Spring semester so that it can be used for conference travel through the end of Fall 2025.</span></p><p><span>Spring 2025 Recipients:</span></p><p><a href="/geography/aleksander-berg" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="9cc30333-f83b-4143-8374-d6b9b144c00b" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Aleksander Berg"><span>Alek Berg</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/ethan-carr" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="cc2185a4-2efc-4411-b36b-27825f087bb0" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Ethan Carr"><span>Ethan Carr</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/xiaoling-chen-0" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="612d539e-9087-4989-bb57-1495afb7131e" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Xiaoling Chen"><span>Xiaoling Chen</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/drolma-gadou" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="873fbbbd-df60-4163-ba01-d7b0051418a5" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Drolma Gadou"><span>Drolma Gadou</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/fan-li" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="6161f3a1-fd80-47df-8df3-8c6d0621f351" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Fan Li"><span>Fan Li</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/yanxiao-sherrie-liu" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="28bd4e80-1f2a-4567-8ffc-510cecc1b480" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Yanxiao (Sherrie) Liu"><span>Sherrie Liu</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/luca-anna-palasti" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="325a530a-9d2c-41ee-b2f7-16aef099b192" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Luca Anna Palasti"><span>Luca Palasti</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/christopher-picard" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="89185bf8-83de-45df-9670-f90940a6ccbd" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Christopher Picard"><span>Chris Picard</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/holly-roth" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="e48f59e9-cade-4f7e-8846-8bbdfd7d5056" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Holly Roth"><span>Holly Roth</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/mallory-sagehorn" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="bb3f258d-bfbe-4659-9ed5-1ebad0337ba9" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Mallory Sagehorn"><span>Mallory Sagehorn</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/nic-tarasewicz" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="908af2a1-77ae-4215-9dbf-b5faecdcf337" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Nic Tarasewicz"><span>Nic Tarasewicz</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/lauren-thomas" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="4550e7a5-2b4f-4df1-a074-bb6779a4e091" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Lauren Thomas"><span>Lauren Thomas</span></a></p><p><a href="/geography/zhongying-stephen-wang" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="4d61a191-20a1-4cc8-b24a-8497229c2f62" data-entity-substitution="canonical" rel="nofollow" title="Zhongying (Stephen) Wang"><span>Zhongying Wang</span></a></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>This award, made possible by an anonymous donor, is to be used to 鈥渟upport graduate student research.鈥� To honor the donor鈥檚 wishes, the Department makes this award late in the Spring semester so that it can be used for conference travel through the end of Fall 2025.</div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:47:11 +0000 Gabriela Rocha Sales 3835 at /geography /geography/2020/09/02/welcome-2020-graduate-students <span>Welcome 2020 Graduate Students!</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2020-09-02T19:25:30-06:00" title="Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - 19:25">Wed, 09/02/2020 - 19:25</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/2020_grad_group_photo_v3_0.png?h=623c7882&amp;itok=DPLhOJq3" width="1200" height="800" alt="Fall 2020 Graduate Students Group Photo - Left to Right: David Bachrach, Jessica Voveris, Taylor Johaneman, Andrew Eiswerth, Behzad Vahedi, Ethan Burns, Emma Reives, Kathryn Tyler, Eric Kennedy, Emma Loizeaux. Natasha Harvey, Fan Li, Viviana Huili帽ir-Curio (inset)"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/4"> Other </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1179" hreflang="en">Andrew Eiswerth</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1199" hreflang="en">Behzad Vahedi</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1175" hreflang="en">David Bachrach</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1191" hreflang="en">Emma Loizeaux</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1195" hreflang="en">Emma Rieves</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1187" hreflang="en">Eric Kennedy</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1177" hreflang="en">Ethan Burns</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1189" hreflang="en">Fan Li</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1201" hreflang="en">Jessica Voveris</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1197" hreflang="en">Kathryn Tyler</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1181" hreflang="en">Natasha Harvey</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1193" hreflang="en">Somayeh Nikoonazari</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1185" hreflang="en">Taylor Johaneman</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1183" hreflang="en">Viviana Huilinir-Curio</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><div class="image-caption image-caption-none"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/2020-grad-group-photo-v4.jpg?itok=OsliUQGh" width="750" height="335" alt="Fall 2020 Graduate Students Group Photo - Left to Right: David Bachrach, Jessica Voveris, Taylor Johaneman, Andrew Eiswerth, Behzad Vahedi, Ethan Burns, Emma Reives, Kathryn Tyler, Eric Kennedy, Emma Loizeaux. Natasha Harvey, Fan Li, Viviana Huili帽ir-Curio (inset)"> </div> <span class="media-image-caption"> <p>Fall 2020 Graduate Students Group Photo - Left to Right: David Bachrach, Jessica Voveris, Taylor Johaneman, Andrew Eiswerth, Behzad Vahedi, Ethan Burns, Emma Reives, Kathryn Tyler, Eric Kennedy, Emma Loizeaux. Natasha Harvey, Fan Li, Viviana Huili帽ir-Curio (inset)</p> </span> Fall 2020 Graduate Students Group Photo - Left to Right: David Bachrach, Jessica Voveris, Taylor Johaneman, Andrew Eiswerth, Behzad Vahedi, Ethan Burns, Emma Rieves, Kathryn Tyler, Eric Kennedy, Emma Loizeaux. Natasha Harvey, Fan Li and Viviana Huili帽ir-Curio&nbsp;(insets) </div><table><thead><tr><th><strong>Name</strong></th><th><strong>Advisor</strong></th><th><strong>Degree</strong></th><th><strong>Previous Degree From</strong></th><th><strong>Interest Area</strong></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>David Bachrach</td><td>Oakes</td><td>PhD</td><td>Univ of Oregon</td><td>urban geography</td></tr><tr><td>Ethan Burns</td><td>Barnard</td><td>MA</td><td>University of the South</td><td>hydrology</td></tr><tr><td>Andrew Eiswerth</td><td>O'Loughlin</td><td>MA</td><td>Georgia College &amp; State University</td><td>political geography</td></tr><tr><td>Natasha Harvey</td><td>Blanken</td><td>MA</td><td>Univ of Sydney</td><td>hydrology</td></tr><tr><td>Viviana Huili帽ir-Curio</td><td>Bryan</td><td>PhD</td><td>Universidad de la Frontera</td><td>cultural geography</td></tr><tr><td>Taylor Johaneman</td><td>Lininger</td><td>MA</td><td>University of Denver</td><td>hydrology</td></tr><tr><td>Eric Kennedy</td><td>Molotch</td><td>MA</td><td>Seattle Univerity</td><td>hydrology</td></tr><tr><td>Fan Li</td><td>Yeh</td><td>PhD</td><td>University of Oslo</td><td>political ecology</td></tr><tr><td>Emma Loizeaux</td><td>Yeh</td><td>MA</td><td>Middlebury College</td><td>Environment-Society Relations</td></tr><tr><td>Somayeh Nikoonazari</td><td>Ranjbar</td><td>MA</td><td>Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University</td><td>political geography</td></tr><tr><td>Emma Rieves</td><td>Reid</td><td>MA</td><td>Bowdoin College</td><td>Environment-Society Relations</td></tr><tr><td>Kathryn Tyler</td><td>Buttenfield</td><td>MA</td><td>Mount Holyoke College</td><td>GIS</td></tr><tr><td>Behzad Vahedi Torghabeh</td><td>Karimzadeh</td><td>PhD</td><td>UC Santa Barbara</td><td>GIS</td></tr><tr><td>Jessica Voveris</td><td>Serreze</td><td>MA</td><td>Univ of Oklahoma</td><td>Climatology</td></tr></tbody></table></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Thu, 03 Sep 2020 01:25:30 +0000 Anonymous 2927 at /geography