{"id":1233,"date":"2018-04-25T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:45:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T17:45:27","slug":"april-25-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/2018\/04\/25\/april-25-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"April 25, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Achievement<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Please join us in congratulating the following students for their successful presentation of their capstone geography projects during the COLA Conference on Friday, April 20th:<\/span><\/p>\n

Kara Scott<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Othering of Others: Japan\u2019s Struggle to Improve Immigration<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shannon Spencer<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Is There a Universal Benchmark to Evaluate Habitat Quality in Coalfield Streams?<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Brian O\u2019Keefe<\/span><\/strong> – \u00a0The Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Poverty and Population Size<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keith Zeigler<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 The Expansion and Spatial Distribution of Internet Connectivity in Africa<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jerome Larcher<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Does Interntet Access Impact Migration?<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Andry<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 The Impact of Weather on the Ridership of Chicago\u2019s Rail Transit System<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

All students were guided and supervised by Dr. Walz<\/a> throughout the 2017-2018 academic cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, on Wednesday April 18th Nicholas Adkins successfully defended his master\u2019s thesis The Influence of Northern Hemisphere Teleconnections on the Geography of Pacific Tropical Cyclone Genesis<\/span><\/em>. His thesis was guided and supervised by Dr. Law<\/a> and used statistical and spatial analysis methods to test the influence of six Northern Hemisphere teleconnection patterns on the latitude and longitude components of tropical cyclogenesis occurring in the eastern and western North Pacific Ocean basins for the period 1979-2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

Job Opportunities<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

GIS\/Policy Intern \u2013 City of Durham, Durham, NC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

GIS Analyst, Risk Mitigation Consulting, Inc., Arlington, VA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

GIS Project Manager, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

GIS Specialist, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u200bShould you have any questions about any of these opportunities, do not hesitate to get in contact.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The Geography Department<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Student Achievement Please join us in congratulating the following students for their successful presentation of their capstone geography projects during the COLA Conference on Friday, April 20th: Kara Scott \u2013 Othering of Others: Japan\u2019s Struggle to Improve Immigration. Shannon Spencer \u2013 Is There a Universal Benchmark to Evaluate Habitat Quality in Coalfield Streams? Brian O\u2019Keefe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography-department-weekly-news"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}