Today in Geography
Today in Geography is a podcast produced by the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Each episode features conversations with community members about their research and interests, followed by spotlights on events and celebrations that have shaped the field of geography.
Episodes
Today in Geography - Celebrating the Anniversary of Landsat 1 with Erin Bunting
Today, we welcomed Erin Bunting, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Bunting’s areas of study include leveraging big data geospatial analysis, modeling, and statistics to understand environmental change, climate impacts, and human–environment connections. Dr. Bunting is co-editor of a newly released book title
Today in Geography - Celebrating World Environment Day with Leo Zulu
Today, we welcomed LeoZulu, a professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences , and the Director of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University.Dr. Zulu’s areas of study include Political ecology, environment and development, resource management in rural Africa, remote sensing, and GIS. Leo discussed World Environment Day, a celebration observed annually
Today in Geography - Celebrating National Drinking Water Week with Angelique Willis
Today, we welcomed Angelique Willis to the show. Angelique is a dual-major PhD student in the MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences and the Environmental Science and Policy Program. Angelique is strongly committed to leveraging her expertise in Geography, Public Health, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, and GIS to enhance drinking water quality and safeguard human health
Today in Geography - Celebrating International Workers' Day with Mehmet Eroğlu
Today, we welcomed Mehmet Eroğlu, a recent graduate of the Ph.D. program at the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University.Mehmet is a human geographer whose research focuses on power struggles in the production of landscapes, particularly in relation to workers and working-class communities. His work seeks to understand how, to what extent, and und
Today in Geography - Celebrating Earth Day with Leo Baldiga
Today, we welcomed Leo Baldiga to the show. Leo is a dual-major PhD student in the MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences and the Environmental Science and Policy Program. His research interests include the areas of Agrarian Change, Natural Resource Rights, Commons Politics, Development, and Demographic and Cultural Shifts in Southeast Asia. Leo graduated with a BA in Compa
Today in Geography - Remembering A Sand County Almanac with Alanna Post
Today, we welcomed Alanna Post to the show. Alanna is a PhD student in the MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences with a dual major in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. She received her B.S. in Ecology and Environmental Biology from the Biology department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her M.S. in Biology from Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, CA). She i
Today in Geography: Remembering the declaration of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Today, we welcomed Dr. Sue Grady, a professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Grady is a health and medical geographer. Her research focuses on women’s health, specifically maternal and infant health. She is interested in understanding how local environments in which women live impact their health (i.e., increase the opportunity f
Today in Geography - Remembering the failed launch of the first Orbiting Carbon Observatory with Kyla Dahlin
Today we welcomed Kyla Dahlin an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Dahlin is also a member of AgBio Research, the Department of Plant Biology, the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB) program, and the Environmental Science and Policy Program (ESPP) at MSU. Dr. Dahlin’s research aims to better understand and qu
Today in Geography - Celebrating the founding of the American Association of Geographers with Katie Brown
Today, we welcomed Katie Brown, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Katie is a health geographer interested in how the places we interact with impact our health. While pursuing her PhD, her work has focused on how urban transformations may affect residents' mental health in the city of Detroit, Michigan, which is
Today in Geography - Celebrating the 26th Anniversary of the launch of ArcGIS with Sandhya Sharma
Today we welcome Sandhya Sharma, a dual-major Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences and the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University. She earned her master's degree in forestry from the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun, India, and her bachelor's degree in forestry from Kathmandu Forestry College in Nepal. Her r
Today in Geography - Marking Homeless Persons Memorial Day with Stephen Przybylinski
Today we welcomed Stephen Przybylinski, a professor of urban and political geography in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Przybylinski is broadly interested in the ways in which liberal democracies both enable injustices and how such political systems mediate responses to injustices within their frameworks. Before arriving at MSU, he
Today in Geography - Celebrating Native American Heritage Month with Angie Sanchez
In this episode, we welcome Angie Sanchez, a PhD student in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Angie’s research focuses on health and medical geography with an emphasis on Indigenous communities and access to breastfeeding support resources and other health disparities.We also discuss the evolution of Native American Heritage Month, the obs
Today in Geography - Celebrating Geography Awareness Week with Alan Arbogast
This week in Today in Geography, host Nathan Moore sits down with Alan Arbogast, professor and geomorphologist in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. He is best known for his research on the geomorphic history of coastal sand dunes along Lake Michigan. This work has demonstrated that the dunes are much younger than originally thought and tha
The Gales of November - The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald with Ethan Theuerkauf
In this episode, we welcome Ethan Theuerkauf, a coastal geomorphologist in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Dr. Theuerkauf’s research focuses on how and why coastal landscapes, such as beaches, barrier islands, and wetlands, change across timescales ranging from storms to millennia.We also discuss the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the
Today in Geography - Celebrating David Harvey with Mehmet Eroğlu
Today we welcome Mehmet Eroğlu, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Mehmet is a human geographer with a research focus on power struggles in the production of landscapes, particularly in relation to workers and working-class communities. His work seeks to understand how, to what extent, and under what structural constrai
Today in Geography - Introduction
Hello and welcome to Today in Geography—a podcast produced by the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. Each episode, we talk with members of our community about their research and interests, and then we spend some time spotlighting events and celebrations that have shaped the field of geography. Join host Nathan Moore, an Associate Professor in t
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