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Geographers who focus on Natural Resources and Environmental Issues study the geospatial dimensions of landscapes including soils, vegetation, water resources, land use, natural hazards, climate and related areas.
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| Geography & GIScience Faculty Area Leader | |
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Jim Merchant |
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306 Hardin Hall 3310 Holdrege Street Lincoln NE 68583-0973 |
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| Phone: 402-472-7531 | |
| Fax: 402-472-2946 | |
| E-mail: jmerchant1@unl.edu | |
Geography & GIScience News
Sharmistha Swain, geography Ph.D. candidate, will defend her dissertation, “Evaluating vegetation response to water stress using close-range and satellite remote sensing,” at 8 a.m. Thursday, May 17 in 228 Hardin Hall. Her advisors are Sunil Narumalani and Brian Wardlow.
Scott Josiah, Nebraska State Forester and director of the Nebraska Forest Service, will present "Fire, Floods and Bugs: Nebraska's Forests - Past, Present and Future" on Wednesday, April 25, at 2 p.m. in 901 Hardin Hall, as a Geography general seminar.
Brian Wardlow grew up in a small farming town and got interested in how people use land. Academic experiences expanded that interest to the very big picture. Now now Wardlow uses remote sensing data from satellites and other sources to detect drought and other changes in land use and land cover.