Research Scientist Opening at Phipps Conservatory

Phipps is seeking applications for a 2-year Research Scientist in the topics of Biophilia and Mindfulness to join the growing Research Institute at Phipps, which is focused on interdisciplinary research in the fields of ecology, human health and wellness, environmental education, science communication and outreach, and social justice. In line with its focus on sustainability and health, Phipps’ Research Institute looks to expand its research program related to biophilia and connections to human and ecological health. Phipps seeks integrative and multidisciplinary research to bridge the gap in our understanding between the built and natural environments and effects on mental and physical well-being. …

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#EESPublishes: EES student Yi Tang & Prof Stewart on Particle Characteristics in the N. Atlantic

EES Student Yi Tang and Professor Gillian Stewart published a paper in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers entitled The influence of particle concentration and composition on the fractionation of 210Po and 210Pb along the North Atlantic GEOTRACES transect GA03. Congratulations Yi! Article highlights include: Provide links between particle features and 210Po and 210Pb activities in N. Atl. Particle characteristics, relationships with isotopes varied geographically. Particle characteristics, relationships with isotopes varied with particle size. Particle composition, especially litho and opal, could predict sorption of 210Pb. Sorption of 210Po is more complicated, but consistently related to POC content.  

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#CfP: @AAG session RENT, RENT-SEEKING, AND RENTIERSHIP IN GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE

Call for papers for AAG 2018: RENT, RENT-SEEKING, AND RENTIERSHIP IN GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE. Organized by: Kean Birch (York University, Canada) Callum Ward (KU Leuven, Belgium) Christian Zeller (Universität Salzburg, Austria). Outline Unicorns stalk Silicon Valley (promising huge returns to investors), big pharma ramps up drug prices on the back of knowledge monopolies (buying back their shares with the profits), multinational corporations hide ‘their’ intellectual property in offshore shell companies (avoiding much-needed taxes), and governments turn the air we breathe into a financial asset (giving it away to polluters). Contemporary capitalism is different; it is increasingly dominated by forms of rentiership rather …

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EES Meagan (Mae) Miller Student wins @WomanGeographer New York Fellowship for 2017/18

ESS Student Meagan Miller has been selected as a Society of Woman Geographers New York Fellowship awardee for 2017-2018.  Mae will receive support for research on the role of colonial seamen in anti-racist and anti-colonial activism in the early twentieth century. SWG has awarded over a hundred fellowships to women studying for advanced degrees in geography or its allied fields, as part of carrying out the vision of our founders to “further geographical work, to spread geographical knowledge, and to encourage geographical research.” Congratulations Mae!

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Now Hiring: Assistant Professor in #CulturalGeography & #GIS @ManhattanEdu

Manhattan College is seeking applications for a full-time, tenure track assistant professor of cultural geography with research and teaching proficiency in GIS. The successful applicant will join a multi-disciplinary Department of Sociology and play a key role in developing our new geography curriculum as well as the expansion of the department’s social analytical emphasis into socio-spatial analysis. Applicants must possess a Ph.D. in geography or a related field by the time of employment. Areas of specialization are open, but we are particularly interested in applicants with expertise in critical and cultural geography (including global and political economic), as well as …

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EES & @JohnJayCollege Prof. Monica Varsanyi wins @nehgov grant for #immigration work!

Monica Varsanyi, a Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her research project, “The Contentious Evolution of Hispanic Identity During the Chicano Movement in New Mexico, 1962-1974,” which she worked on this past summer. The project is inspired by research Professor Varsanyi first conducted for Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines, which she co-authored with Doris Marie Provine (along with Paul Lewis and Scott Decker), who is also part of the NEH project. During her earlier research, Varsanyi became fascinated with the dynamic between New Mexico and Arizona, two …

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