Professor Annemarie Schneider presents the keynote at the Geospatial Summit

Annemarie Schneider gave the invited keynote address at this spring's University of Wisconsin-Madison's Geospatial Summit, on April 24th.  Her talk Mapping a decade of change: urban expansion in East Asia, 2000-2010 focused on recent work to understand urbanization processes in East and Southeast Asia.  The talk is now posted online at the UW Geospatial Alliance website.

Congratulations to Professor Mutlu Ozdogan

Congratulations to collaborator and colleague Mutlu Ozdogan on his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure!  To learn more about Professor Ozdogan's cutting edge research, click here.

New NASA funding to understand land cover change teleconnections

Annemarie Schneider and collaborators received a NASA grant for their project Forest, agricultural, and uban transitions in Mainland Southeast Asia: synthesizing knowledge and developing theory. The project is designed to enhance the conceptual underpinnings of land change science by integrating aspects of land teleconnections, land use transitions, and political ecology to explicitly link land changes in SE Asia to local, national, and international drivers. The work will study transitions in forests, boom crops, and periurban areas using remote sensing imagery, socioeconomic data, focus group discussions and surveys designed to harness local knowledge.

New article published on rapid urbanization in Chinese Cities

Annemarie Schneider and Carly Mertes' article Expansion and growth in Chinese cities, 1978-2010, was published in Environmental Research Letters.  The article can be downloaded at http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/9/2/024008/

Caitlin Kontgis receives Vilas Travel Award

Caitlin Kontgis was selected to receive a Vilas Research Travel Award.  Caitlin will use the funds to travel to Vietnam to collect field survey data for her dissertation research in February, 2014.

Chaoyi Chang graduates with MS in Environment & Resources

A huge congratulations to Chaoyi Chang, who successfully defended his Master's thesis Understanding spatial and temporal patterns of urban expansion in Western China during the post-reform era.  With his degree from the Nelson Institute in hand, Chaoyi will move on to graduate research work with Professor Adena Rissman.

Caitlin Kontgis receives NASA fellowship

Congratulations to Caitlin Kontgis (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Geography) on her recent NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship!   This highly competitive fellowship will fund Caitlin’s research at the Center for Sustainablility and the Global Environment (SAGE) for the next 3 years, where she will integrate findings on agricultural land lost to urbanization, future land cover and climate scenarios, and simulations from a crop systems model, to determine the sustainability of rice systems in Vietnam in coming decades.  For more information on this project, go to http://landcoverchange.com/gallery_post/vietnam/.