Tags: Stories from the Field

This past June, students and faculty from universities across the Southeast united at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District on St. Helena Island, SC for a series of discussions, community conversations, workshops, educational excursions, and place-based studies on the themes of Land, Liberation, and Justice. The Penn Center, formerly one of the nation’s first schools for formerly enslaved people, is now the site of a litany of…

UGA Geography and Anthropology professor Dr. Suzanne Birch has been named Co-Principal Investigator for a substantial National Science Foundation (NSF) grant with the purpose of establishing novel data communication and networking infrastructure between historically sectioned disciplines. The stated mission of the NSF grant falls in line with a global trend towards increased transparency, interchange, and ethical collection of data in scholarly…

Over a decade ago, Dr. John Knox saw a joke on Facebook comparing the phenomenon of runaway bounce houses to the scientific study of dust particles in the atmosphere. Several years and hundreds of hours of intensive, intricate research later, Dr. Knox now admits that bounce houses are no joke. The results of his recently published study reveal a plethora of injuries and deaths caused by a volatile combination: windy weather and large inflatable…

Fausto O. Sarmiento, professor of mountain science and director of the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory, at the Department of Geography of the University of Georgia, has received a Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar Award to Austria, Japan and Chile. Sarmiento will research and lecture at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the World Heritage Studies UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and…

Dr. Sergio Bernardes from the Center for Geospatial Research (CGR) is training federal and state agencies on the use of geospatial tools to monitor the performance of mitigation features associated with large engineering projects. The series of workshops offered by Dr. Bernardes focus on the ongoing Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) and include the monitoring of fish populations using capture/tagging, spatio-temporal tracking of sturgeon…