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Asst. Prof. SUNY-ESF. | Urbanization, Resource Development, Climate, Adaptation | First gen. from the Wyoming/Colorado borderlands now in Central New York |
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Mark your calendars for the 2025 Unruly Natures Party @geographers.bsky.social!

Syracuse has gone into its seasonal element.

The Center for Native Peoples and the Environment @sunyesf.bsky.social is offering funded graduate study opportunities for Indigenous and Native students in STEM fields.

I’ve been away from here for a while and it’s looking pretty good over here.

Delighted that this paper is out in the world. In it, I present findings from a #photovoice project in #WV and discuss how this method and region can help us tell more inclusive climate stories to build more just climate futures. journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

I have a new paper out on just nature-based solutions @ Landscape & Urban Planning. I outline a framework for just nature-based solutions and climate resilience development. Get a copy here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iloOcUG5W...

A new pub out from my student Asif Mehmood @ Human Geography. He develops the concept of the "lactosocial" - borrowed from hydrosocial - to contribute to debates on more-than-human geographies journals.sagepub.com/eprint/BQHFC...

New paper out! Lead by my grad student Asif Mehmood. Energizing dissensus: Socio-technical (counter) imaginaries along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor out now in Environment and Planning D journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Reposting because today is the deadline to get applications in. TT job in Environmental Justice @ SUNY-ESF.

Job Alert: TT Job in Environmental Justice @sunyesf. Applications are due at the end of the week. We're interested in wide range of applicant interests esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

#geosky we are hiring a new director at Arizona Geography! Tucson is pretty great and so is our community check it out! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Job Alert! Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice @ SUNY-ESF. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=168927

Here's a great opportunity to work at the NYS Water Resources Inst. @ Cornell on water equity. The extension specialist will have a big role in engaging underserved communities on how to access State funds for water infrastructure improvements. #waterequity #geosky Careers (myworkdayjobs.com)

Love logging into the other place to see that it's mostly bots trying to get me to buy bitcoin.

I submitted an article with a student today and it feels just as good today as it did when I submitted my first.

organizing a #aag2024 session with Bertha Hernandez on "Sustainability and Informal Urbanization: Opportunities to Transform Urban Equity" send us abstracts by Oct 31 - see more #Geosky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The application deadline has been extended for this Assistant Prof. position in my department! We are a dynamic group of human geographers and earth system scientists and have a strong bench of assoc. profs to mentor early career faculty.

Reposting to look at later.

The latest by ESF's Robin Wall Kimmerer

Place your thumb over Paul Simon's face to reveal the most impressive moustache in musical history

Learned so much today about #HousingJustice, #GreenSpace, #ClimateChange, and #CommunityHealth in Syracuse at our Y1 community event. It was a culmination of rounds of focus groups across the city. Thanks so much for those who came, shared, and are looking to mobilize for change in the next year.

Who controls the seeds? A guy named Bill is increasingly looking like the gatekeeper.

For those of you in Syracuse looking for a lunch break activity, come join us for our Seminar Series where Kyrstin Mallon Andrews will be talking about "Ecologies of Mistrust"

Donate and request invitation codes on this Google form! ⤵️ academics and scientists, share the word. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please help me spread the word! UIUC is hiring 4 assistant faculty in a new Climate Cluster: -Climate change & climate projections -Climate-driven hazards -Climate justice -Climate journalism +3 related searches in bio publish.illinois.edu/2023climatec... Details below. Contact me for Qs 1/12

CSSN is hiring a program coordinator. Come join our team! brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/staff-career...

Reposting this, which works very well.

This NY Times opinion piece on fertilizing the ocean with iron in order to combat climate change neglects to mention that there's mixed evidence of effectiveness. For ocean fertilization to work as a carbon sink, the carbon has to literally sink to the deep ocean. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/o...

Come join our team! The NW Climate Adaptation Science Center is seeking a postdoctoral fellow w/ experience analyzing climate data to help develop the next version of the Climate Change Vulnerability Index - a tool used to assess species climate vulnerability to inform management and adaptation. 🧪🌎

Kramer's influence on apartment design now in NYT. Because we all want shower salad. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/d...

Some great info-graphics here on US groundwater situation. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Day 1 feel good teaching moment: Student comes up to me after class and says that the prior courses they took with me landed them a job (a semester ahead of graduation mind you). YES! Easy and obvious takeaway: Employers want to hire students with good critical thinking *and* applied skills.

The CFP for the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowships is up! The PPFP is a fantastic opportunity for emerging scholars to spend a year at a UC campus working with a faculty mentor. The program also has a hiring initiative. Deadline: Nov 1, 2023. ppfp.ucop.edu/info/documen...

It’s happening.

We're hiring! The Department of Geography & GIS at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is looking for an assistant professor with expertise in climate justice and/or environmental justice: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... (1/2)

Which folks here specialize in geography, environmental humanities, anthropology, sociology, political ecology, climate justice, environmental politics/justice, feminisms, post-colonial studies, decolonial scholarship, degrowth/postgrowth, urban studies or international development? Please say hi!🙋🏽🙋🏻‍♀️