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Dr. Celeste Winston’s Disseratation Now Available on CUNY Academic Works: Marronage and Anti Police Struggles

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“How to Lose the Hounds”: Tracing the Relevance of Marronage for Contemporary Anti-Police Struggles  by Celeste Winston. Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore Committee Members: Katherine McKittrick, Marianna Pavlovskaya, and Robyn Spencer. Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the interconnected practices of flight from slavery and flight from policing. Focusing on Black communities within Montgomery County, Maryland, I provide evidence for how local legacies of enslavement and flight from slavery have empowered later generations of residents, including people still living there today, to practice safety and security on their own terms, beyond policing. I draw on archival and ethnographic research in seven Black communities …

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Professor Khandaker elected to GSA Fellowship!

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Professor Nazrul Khandaker has been named a GSA Fellow! The GSA Fellowship is given only to 3% of the membership (over 20,000) and it is a prestigious award. “GSA Fellowship is an honor that is bestowed on the best of our profession. GSA members are elected to Fellowship in recognition of a sustained record of distinguished contributions to the geosciences and to the Geological Society of America. The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a global professional society with a membership of more than 20,000 individuals in more than 100 countries. GSA provides access to elements that are essential to the …

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#EESpublishes: Profs Cheng, Groffman and Muth, Post Doc Deeb and Prithiviraj, and PhD student Paltseva on Green Infrastructure Design Influences Urban Soil Bacteria Communities

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Another publication is forthcoming from our Urban Soils group headquartered at Brooklyn College; “Green Infrastructure Design Influences Urban Soil Bacteria Communities” is the new work by Joyner, Kerwin, Deeb, Lozefski, Paltseva, Prithiviraj, McLaughlin, Cheng, Groffman, and Muth. The importance of natural ecosystem processes is often overlooked in urban areas. Green Infrastructure (GI) features have been constructed in urban areas as elements to capture and treat excess urban runoff while providing a range of ancillary benefits, e.g., ecosystem processes mediated by microorganisms that improve air and water quality, in addition to the associations with plant and tree rhizospheres. The objective of …

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#EESPublishes: Profs. Norouzi and Khanbilvardi on A Global Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Diurnal Cycle Using MODIS Observations

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Profs. Norouzi and Khanbilvardi  are coauthors on a new publication entitled ‘A Global Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Diurnal Cycle Using MODIS  Observations‘  published in American Meteorological Society Journal. Abstract: Diurnal variations of land surface temperature (LST) play vital role in a wide range of applications such as climate change assessment, land-atmosphere interactions, and heat-related health issues in urban regions. This study uses fifteen years (2003–2017) of daily observations of LST Collection 6 from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments onboard the Aqua and the Terra satellites. A spline interpolation method is used to estimate half-hourly global LST from the …

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Geography-Related Film Studies Course Offerings, Fall 2019

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FSCP 81000/African Film History and Theory, 1950-1990, [3 credits], Mondays, 4:15pm-8:15pm. Cross listed with THEA 81600 and CL 80100.  Instructor: Boukary Sawadogo The birth and development of African cinema in the 1950s started against the backdrop of the discourse of othering in colonial cinema. This is evident in the underlying civilizing mission of documentaries (education, health, agriculture) and travelogues. In addition, there is the quest for exoticism in Hollywood adventure/action film subgenre that prominently feature the three figures of the blonde, the safari hunter, and the native. African cinema started gaining international attention and recognition in the 1960s, with the works …

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Fall 2019 Courses

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EES 70900 – 59979    Sem:  Geographic Thought/Theory GC:    R, 2:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Prof. Gilmore, Course open to EES Students only.   EES 71600 – 59980     Earth Systems I GC:    W, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., Rm. TBA, 3 credits, Profs. Lindo Atichati/Salmun, Course open to EES Students only.   EES 79901 – 59985    Current Issues in EES GC:    R, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Rm. TBA, 1 credit, Prof. Katz, Course open to EES Students.   EES 79903 – 59981    The Nature of Scientific Research GC:   W, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., 3 credits, Prof. Carmalt, Course …

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#EESPublishes: Prof. Peter Groffman on Roots Mediate the Effects of Snowpack Decline on Soil Bacteria, Fungi, and Nitrogen Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest

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Check out this new article co-authored by Prof Groffman in Frontiers in Microbiology | Terrestrial Microbiology ! Roots Mediate the Effects of Snowpack Decline on Soil Bacteria, Fungi, and Nitrogen Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest, Abstract: Rising winter air temperature will reduce snow depth and duration over the next century in northern hardwood forests. Reductions in snow depth may affect soil bacteria and fungi directly, but also affect soil microbes indirectly through effects of snowpack loss on plant roots. We incubated root exclusion and root ingrowth cores across a winter climate-elevation gradient in a northern hardwood forest for 29 …

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Ruth Wilson Gilmore profiled in the NYT Magazine

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The New York Times Magazine just published a major profile of our very own Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore!  It is a terrific article highlighting Ruthie’s long and highly influential work in prison abolition.  Make sure you check it out:  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html.  Congratulations, Ruthie!!

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#EESpublishes: Prof PeterGroffman on Contribution of non-native plants to the phylogenetic homogenization of U.S. yard floras

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Contribution of non-native plants to the phylogenetic homogenization of U.S. yard floras Abstract. Cultivation and spread of non-native plant species may result in either phylogenetic homoge- nization (increasing similarity) or differentiation (decreasing similarity) of urban floras. However, it is unknown how non-native species influence homogenization of cultivated versus spontaneously occurring species in cities, and which traits are associated with species that promote homogenization versus differentia- tion. In this study, we compared homogenization effects of cultivated and spontaneous non-native species in yard floras across and within seven widely distributed U.S. cities. Additionally, we explored which traits explained their particular contribution to …

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