- PhD Student Rachel Lamb presents research on a Framework for Social- Ecological Hotspots at the 2017 AAAS annual meeting
- GIS Student Zainab Sherani Evaluates Water Dynamics Map with the Summer Research Initiative
- PhD Student Yi Zhang presents research on Photosynthetically Active Radiation at Agro-Geoinformatics 2017
- August Alumni of the Month: Matthew Silski
- Farewell to Research Associate Zhen Song
- PhD candidate Kristofer Lasko and colleagues publish paper entitled "Satellites may underestimate rice residue and associated burning emissions in Vietnam"
- GEOG Researcher awarded grant from NASA
- International collaboration with Vietnam National University: Hanoi
- Simulating microbial denitrification with EPIC: Model description and evaluation
- July Alumni of the Month: Paul Lai
- July Undergraduate of the Month: Sam Powell
- George Hurtt to Chair University Research Council
- 4-H Students Help Fight Malaria while visiting Geographical Sciences Department
- PhD student Suzanne Marselis awarded NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship 2017-2018
- June Alumni of the Month: Trevor Olexy
- June Undergraduate of the Month: Lindsay Braviak
- Meredith Brown wins O. E. Baker Award 2016-2017
- Alysha Heckman wins Outstanding MPSGIS Student Award 2016-2017
- Katherine Haviland wins James R. Anderson Award 2016-2017
- Yuan Zhou wins Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award 2016-2017
- James Moy wins Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award 2016-2017
- Carrie Lewey and Emma Minnis win Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Awards 2016-2017
- Graduate Students Chen, Hall, Qi, Cao, Hoffman-Hall, and Noojipady win Excellence in Graduate Research Awards 2016-2017
- Qing Ying wins Jingli Yang Geographical Sciences Summer Research Fellowship 2016-2017
- David Miles and Caroline Bruchman awarded Brian R. Melchior Memorial Endowed Research Fund 2016-2017
