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Professor Dave Siegel is quoted in the two articles below about the impacts of COVID-19 on the NASA EXPORTS (EXport Processes in the Ocean from Remote Sensing) research cruise, which was postponed from its April departure.   Washington Post: Coronavirus is wreaking havoc on scientific field work VICE: Scientists Are Stuck on an Ice-Locked Ship in the Arctic Due to Coronavirus   Learn more about the EXPORTS mission...

As part of GEOG 197 (Careers in Geography), Professor Jennifer King organized a panel titled “Careers of Geographers”, which took place on March 25th. Professor King noted the intentionality of calling the panel “Careers of Geographers” not “Geography Careers”. She gave an example about how if you searched on LinkedIn for jobs with the keyword geography, you will get a limited number of results. Not...

Noah Gluschankoff graduated in 2018 with a B.S. in Physical Geography and a minor in Earth Science. After working as a lab technician, he now is a PhD student at Stanford studying Marine Biogeochemistry. Why did you choose the Geography major? Growing up I always knew I wanted to study something in the environmental sciences. From a very young age I always claimed that I would grow up to become a “marine biologist” without necessarily...