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Ask the Experts: Duane Griffin on Global Warming

    Duane Griffin was featured on "Ask the Experts," a regular web feature that highlights the expertise of various Bucknellians in a range of topics related to current news events and other timely subjects. || Read the Q&A

    In addition, Griffin recently pesented new research on biodiversity gradients at the International Biogeography Society conference in Heraklion, Crete. The project uses fossil pollen data to reconstruct the development of the latitudinal plant diversity gradients in eastern North America over the past 21,000 years. This is the first study to reconstruct the evolution of biodiversity patterns in response to climate change (the end of the last Ice Age). The findings have important implications for biodiversity conservation and management in the face of global warming.

    Learn more about Duane Griffin.

Ben Marsh: GIS Mapping

    Ben Marsh recently published two new articles on uses of GIS mapping to identify and respond to racial and ethnic discrimination.

    "Institutionalization of Racial Inequality in Local Political Geography" with Allan Parnell and Ann Joyner, in Urban Geography shows how municipalities disenfranchise minorities by excluding them from the boundaries of growing cities.

    "Institutionalizing Disparities in Education: A Case Study of Segregation in Wayne County, North Carolina High Schools" with Ann Joyner in InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information demonstrates how the move to "neighborhood schools" in North Carolina cities creates a segregated and under-resourced school landscape.

    See maps from these and other similar projects. || Learn more about Ben Marsh.

Karen Morin: Book Publication

    Karen Morin published a book in March 2011 from Ashgate entitled: Civic Discipline: Geography in America, 1860-1890. This text explores how geographical knowledge and practices took shape as a civic enterprise by the American Geographical Society, under the leadership of Charles P. Daly.

    Find out more about the book. || Learn more about Karen Morin.

Adrian Mulligan: Course Development


    Adrian Mulligan     has been designing a new course, Historical Geographies of the Susquehanna: Interconnection, Identity and Place. The course considers how a number of key events in the history of the Susquehanna region were shaped by the fact that they happened in the Susquehanna region, a forgotten yet immensely important river valley in the history of the United States and the broader Atlantic World. The course focuses on periods of Colonial encounter, African-American escape, and Irish American embeddedness.

    Learn more about Adrian Mulligan.

Ask the Experts: Paul Susman on Haiti relief efforts

    Paul Susman was featured on "Ask the Experts," a regular web feature that highlights the expertise of various Bucknellians in a range of topics related to current news events and other timely subjects.

    Read the Q&A. || Learn more about Paul Susman.

Peter Wilshusen: Professorship in Environmental Studies

    Affiliated faculty member Peter Wilshusen was selected as the first recipient of the David and Patricia Ekedahl Professorship in Environmental Studies. The position provides him an annual stipend of $5,000 for three years.

    Read more about this professorship in the Winter 2011 issue of Bucknell Magazine. || Learn more about Peter Wilshusen.