Department of Geography

Connecting people with the world around them, all in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon.

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Bethani Turley's PhD Proposal Defense will be held Tuesday June 7th, please see the attached flier for additional information as well as how to attend!

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Jola Ajibade, Geography faculty, was interviewed by Architectural Record on June 1 about “Climate Change and the Crisis of Inequity: A Call to Action” https://t.co/HE0tetOHn3

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The Geography department is hiring! If you are an interested student who is work-study eligible please see the flyer below.

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Jola Ajibade, Geography faculty, was interviewed by Vermont Public Radio on May 20 about “What is climate change? But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids. https://t.co/LpDv3Uwu7I

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Jillian Farley's Master's Thesis Proposal Defense will be held May 25th, please see the attached flier for additional information as well as how to attend!

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Jola Ajibade, geography faculty, served as a panelist on “Sea level rise and Brooklyn’s Jamaica Bay Communities: examining models for transformative adaptation." at the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center Annual Conference, New York. May 13.

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Alida Cantor coauthored an article in Environment and Planning E titled "Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai'i" with colleagues Chris Knudson (University of Hawai'i) and Kelly Kay (UCLA).

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Andrés Holz and Sebastian Busby were recently featured in KPIC article "Heading into wildfire season: What can we expect in the Pacific Northwest?"
https://t.co/zuEw6N7fYs

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Jola Ajibade, geography faculty, served as a panelist on “Policy consultation on the limits of adaptation: Planned relocations and resettlement” organized by the Africa Climate Mobility Initiative, IOM, the World Bank and African Union.

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Jola Ajibade, geography faculty, authored an essay titled “Building Back Better From Cascading Climate-Covid Disasters: An Intersectional Lens Matters for Equitable Resilience. Published by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU). https://t.co/GPDNH0Yqcb

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Meghan Sullivan's Master's Thesis Defense will be held Friday May 6th, please see the attached flier for additional information as well as how to attend!

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Save the date for our End of Year Celebration, Tuesday, June 7th! All recent and upcoming Geography and Systems Science Grads are Encouraged to Attend!

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Jola Ajibade, Geography faculty, gave an invited talk titled “Radical Imaginings: Global Climate Relocations and Transformative Justice” at Geography Seminar Series, Oregon State University. April 29.

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Jola Ajibade, Geography faculty, served as a panelist and role model expert on Environmental Science Camp for high school students organized by Career Girls. April 28.
https://t.co/oGIgjDhTc5

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The Geography department is hiring! If you are an interested student who is work-study eligible please see the flyer below.

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Paul Loikith, geog faculty was featured in OPB article "It’s too early to tell whether April snow in Portland is linked to climate change, scientists say" https://t.co/01gvIdeA0a

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Claire Brumbaugh-Smith's Master's Thesis Proposal will be held Thursday April 14th, please see the attached flier for additional information as well as how to attend!

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Bethani Turley and Alida Cantor published a new article titled “Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States" in Energy Research & Social Science. https://t.co/gqqoDPqEwT

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Jola Ajibade, Geography Faculty, gave an invited talk titled “The Resilience Fix to Climate disasters: Recursive Relations with Equity and Justice-Based Transformations in the Global South", at the RISE Seminar Series, University of Colorado. April 11