UTK Geography & Sustainability

Geography and Sustainability Department at @utknoxville. A student-centered department where one can VOLUNTEER to explore, study, and make a better world 🌎

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Meet our 2025-2026 graduate students! 🧡🌎 Got our traditional picture outside of BGB just in time for #GeographyAwarenessWeek!

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

“‘A Place in This World’: Critical Placemaking and Identity Formation at Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour” was co-authored by Dr. Katrina Stack while she was completing her PhD in our department!

Read it at the 🔗 here: https://t.co/dguTMgc54r

[Derek Alderman @MLKStreet]

What's in a name? Florida airport renamed for Trump. Thanks @fionahearst & @rte for the chance to contribute ideas about place naming, branding, and social power along with the talented @R_RoseRedwood. Honored to represent @UTKGeography @theAAG in piece https://t.co/M91h4uaQs9

[Derek Alderman @MLKStreet]

Writing for @ConversationUS is form of scholarship in its own right, helping generate new lines of traditional research as part of the two-way collaboration between public & scholar, backbone of modern land grant univ. Thanks @DondePlowman for supporting
https://t.co/IbOrCiy0HN

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Dr. Seth Kannarr (PhD, Spring ‘26) and Dr. Derek Alderman just published a new article for @ConversationUS, “Summer camps remain a battleground over what it means to be American.” Read it now at the 🔗 below!
https://t.co/jv9pOV44OY

[Derek Alderman @MLKStreet]

Geographers @theAAG @UTKGeography write: As we approach #America250 worth asking: What kinds of citizens are summer camps trying to prepare? And whose vision of America do they communicate to young people. Possible interest to @ACAcamps @boyscouts https://t.co/gboBisfE2c

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Can you believe it’s been exactly a month since the doctoral hooding ceremony? We’re so proud of UTK Geography’s newest PhDs — Drs. Caleb Gore, Katrina Stack, and Seth Kannarr! 🎓🍊

[Qiusheng Wu @giswqs]

I am very excited to release GeoLibre v1.0 🌍

GeoLibre is a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform for visualizing, exploring, and analyzing geospatial data. One application that runs everywhere: in your web browser, as a native desktop app, on your phone, and inside a Jupyter notebook. No account, no server, no cost. Everything runs locally and your data stays private.

In this video, I walk through GeoLibre 1.0 step by step: how to install and run it, load vector and raster data, stream gigabyte-scale cloud-native datasets without downloading them, edit attributes and geometry, work with PMTiles, 3D tiles, LiDAR point clouds, and DuckDB, and share your projects as static links.

GeoLibre is built on MapLibre GL JS, React + TypeScript, Tauri (Rust), DuckDB, and https://t.co/Iu3zs18MyS.

Try it: https://t.co/7VA2AQpaJK
GitHub: https://t.co/VXq8c1oACL
Full video tutorial: https://t.co/nmlHL8I80Y

If you have feature requests or run into bugs, leave a comment or open an issue on GitHub. And if you find GeoLibre useful, please give it a star.

#GIS #OpenSource #Geospatial #MapLibre #Python #DataVisualization #GeoLibre

[Geographical Review @Geog_Review]

A recent article in the GR by Jack Swab explores #Northwestern University as a preeminent center for geographic thought in the U.S. Read it here: https://t.co/9LWrm3CXaT

@UTKGeography @AmericanGeo

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Dr. Derek Alderman (@MLKStreet) was quoted in this recent @nytimes article, offering insight into Nauru’s decision to officially adopt the name “Naoero” — a change that better reflects what the island’s people have long called it.
https://t.co/dFHzmMJUXa

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Congratulations to Ian Scott, who received an Achievement Award in Natural Sciences 2026 Exhibit of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURECA). Ian worked with Professor Sally Horn to develop a long-term fire history from a lake sediment core. • • 📸: Sally Horn

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

🚀 Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD): Michael Camponovo

[UTK Geography & Sustainability @UTKGeography]

Congratulations to everyone recognized at this year’s department awards ceremony! ✨🌎🧡 Scroll this 🧵 to see this year’s graduate, undergraduate and faculty awards recipients!

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🎓 Outstanding Graduate Advocate: LaToya Eaves

🍎 Outstanding Faculty Teaching (Undergraduate): Jack Swab