Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis
Student Presenters at California Geographical Society Annual Conference
Nine students from the Geography and Geospatial Science and Technology programs represented the department at the California Geographical Society Annual Conference in Huntington Beach, California, where they presented original research and cartographic work.
Drought resistance is greater in montane conifers compared to coastal conifers in northern California
Gabriel Roletti (ESM BS 2020, Forestry MS 2022) published his Master's thesis in Forest Ecology and Management with his co-advisors Rosemary Sherriff (GESA) and Lucy Kerhoulas (Forestry), along with other Humbo
Talk given at Cardiff University workshop "Evanescent and Emerging Spaces: Land/World Struggles of Palestinians and Guarani"
Dr. Gabi Kirk will be presenting a virtual talk at the international workshop "Evanescent and Emerging Spaces: Land/World Struggles of Palestinians and Guarani" at Cardiff University (Wales) on April 22.
Dr. Amy Rock co-author of framing article for special issue on women in geography
The framing article for a special issue in the Professional Geographer has been published.
Dr. Amy Rock co-author of article on historic patterns of gender imbalance in academic geography
Minding the Gender Gap: Working Toward Parity for Women in U.S. Academic Geography (Mossa, J., B. Dixon, S. Sultana, A. Rock, and B. Kar, 2026) has just been released in electronic format.
Margaret Wickens Pearce, Geography
Former Geography faculty (1998-2001) and Potawatomi Nation tribal member Margaret Wickens Pearce was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for her “Foregrounding Indigenous understandings of land and place in maps that visualize Native Peoples’ knowledge, history, and stories.” The
Dr. Amy Rock presented on building gender parity in Geography programs
Dr. Amy Rock presented "Minding the Gender Gap: Working toward parity for women in U.S. academic geography", as part of the Stories and Status of Women in Geography session at the Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference in Albuquerque, NM, on November 6-7, 2025.
Faculty: Laura Johnson, Geography
Dr. Laura Johnson was honored when her Old Town Eureka-based yoga studio, A Restful Space, won Best of Humboldt in the annual North Coast Journal contest.