An EPA-funded initiative to monitor air quality on the East Side of Buffalo. This project aims to help improve health outcomes in neighborhoods whose residents are more likely to suffer chronic, serious diseases.
Congrats to Youngseob for successfully defending his Ph.D.!
Dr. Youngseob Eum will be working as a postdoc fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Climate change: Extreme heat linked to more mental health emergencies.
Medical News Today↪
The Temperature Toll
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AAG 2022 – Qiang entered finalist of John Odland student paper competition.
Congrats to Qiang who was selected as the finalist (10 out of 25) of the John Odland paper competition (the Spatial Analysis and Modeling specialty group ). His presentation is entitled: “A hybrid approach to estimate spatially and temporally resolved PM2.5 distributions from multi-sourced AOD data”. Time & Location: 1:40 – 1:55 PM, Feb. 25, 2022, Online.
Congratulations Youngseob! Dr. L. Michael Trapasso Award for Weather and Climate Impacts.
Youngseob Eum (GEOEH member, Ph.D. Candidate) was the recipient of the Dr. L. Michael Trapasso Award for Weather and Climate Impacts. The Dr. L. Michael Trapasso award is offered by the UB Department of Geography in order to advance the awardee’s research involving the use of meteorological or climatological data in the following year.
Dr. Yoo, an invited speaker at a Workshop primer
organized by The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine (NASEM) on “Leveraging Advances in Remote Geospatial Technologies to Inform Precision Environmental Health Decisions”
The workshop primer can be found here: Applications of Geospatial Methods in Environmental Science (~14 mins).
Congrats, Xiangyu! Barry Fallon Memorial International Student Assistance Award.
Congratulations to GEOEH member – Xiangyu Jiang (Ph.D. Candidate) who was awarded the Barry Fallon Memorial International Student Assistance Award.
The award was made possible under the generous donation of the estate of Barry Fallon, UB, doctorate of Psychology, 1974, who returned to his native Australia to become an eminent teacher and researcher and president of the Australian Psychological Society (1994 – 1996). This award is used to support International Students. This award represents a singular recognition by the department of geography and the College of Arts and Science.
Joint research finding reported by The Washington Post
New publication on Current Biology: A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds. This study explored the large-scale self-organization of a vast array of soil mounds constructed by termites (Syntermes dirus) that has persisted for up to 4000 years and covers an estimated 230,000 km² of seasonally dry tropical forest in a relatively undisturbed and climatically stable region of Northeast Brazil.
This work received immediate attention from both science fields and mass media once published. The Washington Post reported this work on science section and Dr. Yoo, one of the corresponding author of the study, was interviewed to disscuss the scientific findings. News coverage is entitled: “This ‘wonder of the Earth’ is the size of Minnesota and built by bugs” and is reported by Ben Guarino, a science reporter.
- A similar report can be also found New York Times.
- A video abstract can be found at Youtube.
- Continuous report from UB News Center “In a vast, ancient network of termite mounds, UB geographer finds a pattern“