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GEOG Faculty Participate in New BSOS Resilience Research Hub

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BSOS Resiliency Research Hub

Researchers in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) are doing multidisciplinary, foundational work in the crucial area of resilience–why and how humans adapt, evolve and thrive in challenging environments and circumstances. Six researchers from the Department of Geographical Sciences are a part of the new BSOS Resiliency Research Hub, which highlights full-time faculty members who are actively engaged in resilience research across BSOS departments, and shows the connections among individuals and units. 

Participating GEOG faculty and a description of their research are listed below:

Headshot of Tatiana Loboda

Tatiana Loboda, Professor and Department Chair

Multi-scale impacts of socio-economic and environmental factors on wildland fire occurrence; impacts of land use and land cover change on human health; impact of climate change on arctic ecosystems

 

 

Headshot of Julie Silva

Julie Silva, Professor

Poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability; nature conservation initiatives; environmental injustice on Native American Reservations in Montana; human dimensions of global change in sub-saharan Africa

 

 

Headshot of Laixiang Sun

Laixiang Sun, Professor

Climate change mitigation and adaptation; regional sciences and regional economics; agricultural economics

 

 

 

Headshot of Mehdi Hosseini

Mehdi Hosseini, Associate Research Professor

Rapid response to flood security; Iowa derecho and impacts on corn and soybean fields; spring planted fields detection over Ukraine

 

 

 

Headshot of Catherine Nakalembe

Catherine Nakalembe, Research Professor

Agricultural monitoring with remote sensing and machine learning

 

 

 

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Ritvik Sahajpal, Associate Research Professor

Modeling and application domains; crop yields; conservative agricultural practices; soil health; land use; land-cover change; impacts on carbon-climate system

 

 

 

 

 

Learn more about the BSOS Resiliency Research Hub here. 

Published on Wed, 09/28/2022 - 10:39

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