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DGES Upcoming Events

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GES Club Meeting

GES Club is meeting on Thursday, November 21st at 5 P.M. in SEC 442. There will be free food and a game of environmental jeopardy with prizes!

Uncomfortable conversations in comfy chairs, definitly earned it: tokenization or weaponization, a speakeasy series led by DGES students, Sarkeys room 442, thursday sep 26th 12:30 - 2:30, contact Jay Wimhurst and Gloria Nakyagaba for more details.
Uncomfortable Conversations in Comfortable Chairs

Join us Thursday, September 26th in Sarkeys Room 442 at 12:30 P.M. for our next session of Uncomfortable Conversations in Comfy Chairs. This session's topic is "Definitly Earned it: Tokenization or Weaponization." 

October 31 Tree Walk 2024 Celebrate the trees on campus! Join us on the south oval at 1:00 PM.
OU Crimson and Green 2024 Tree Walk

Join OU Crimson and Green for their 2024 tree walk at 1:00 PM on the South Oval!

Dept of geography and environmental sustainability Faculty showcase Dr. Selena Feng, enhancing accessibility of spatial optimization techniques through large language models: a case study in conversational agent guidance for regionalization, Dr. Dawn Drake a tour through research in food and agriculture, sec M204, oct 18 4 - 5 p.m.
DGES Faculty Showcase: Dr. Selena Feng & Dr. Dawn Drake

Join us October, 18th for a DGES Faculty Showcase with Dr. Selena Feng and Dr. Dawn Drake!

The faculty showcase is in SEC M204. Learn more about our outstanding professors and the work they've been doing.

DGES presents Second Monday Coffee Hours 9:30 am - 12 pm
Second Monday Coffee Hours

Coffee hour is back! Join us Monday, October 14th in Sarkeys Room 410 at 9:30 A.M. for our next Second Monday Coffee Hours in the student lounge.

DGES Calendar Events

DGES News

congratulations "boomer zoomers" Geo Bowl Team, 2nd place champions 2024.
Two DGES Undergraduate Students Awarded Engineering Just Futures Fellowship

Congratulations to Bria Dillard and Abby Williams, two DGES undergraduate students who successfully applied for the Engineering Just Futures Fellowship! The EJF program is a year-long professional learning experience for students interested in Transdisciplinary and Convergent Systems Thinking.

Learn more

congratulations "boomer zoomers" Geo Bowl Team, 2nd place champions 2024.
DGES Places Second in the 2024 GeoBowl Competition

Congratulations to the "Boomer Zoomers" for representing DGES and winning second place in the GeoBowl competition at the 2024 SWAAG | AGX Conference.

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DGES Ph.D. Student Paulina Cwik Published in Early Career Climate Network

The blog entry in Early Career Climate Network (ECCN) news from July 2024 titled "Rising Tides: The Growing Challenge of Overwash in the Pacific Islands" was written by Paulina Ćwik, who is advised by Dr. Renee McPherson.

Read the Article Here

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DGES Undergraduate Student Places 1st at SWAAG Paper Competition

Congratulations to Noah Stilwell for winning 1st place in the SWAAG Undergraduate Student Paper Competition AND Best Paper by an undergraduate student from the Applied Geography Group!

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DGES Attends 2024 SWAAG/AGX Conference

DGES faculty, undergraduate, master's, and doctorate students traveled to San Marcos, Texas for the 2024 SWAAG|AGX Joint Conference to present research, compete, and participate in spreading geographic knowledge.

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DGES Alumni Dr. Aparna Bamzai-Dodson is featured in a USGS Scientist Spotlight

DGES alumni Dr. Aparna Bamzai-Dodson, who earned her Ph.D. in 2020, is now the Assistant Regional Administrator of the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center and is featured in a USGS Scientist Spotlight.

Read the spotlight here

DGES Team at the SWAAG Conference Geobowl.
Adam Anwar Awarded Fifth Place in Individual Scoring for the GeoBowl

Adam Anwar won fifth place in individual scoring for the GeoBowl at the 2024 SWAAG | AGX Joint Conference. He will receive support from SWAAG to attend the AAG conference in Detroit.

Congratulations! América R. Gaviria Pabon.
DGES Ph.D. Student América R. Gaviria Pabon has been accepted into The William Averette Anderson Fund (BAF) Fellowship

The fellowship provides robust support to minority graduate students who are underrepresented in the field of hazards and disaster research. As a BAF Fellow, América will join a diverse network of over 100 scholars across 20 disciplines who are committed to advancing disaster risk reduction and environmental justice.

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DGES Faculty Dr. Wang Awarded $100,000 NASA Research Grant

Congratulations to DGES faculty Dr. Wang on being awarded a $100,000 grant from NASA - Headquarters | NAS-HDQ for his research project titled "Compound heat and ozone pollution episodes in the urban environment: dynamics, mechanisms, and mitigation with nature-based solutions."

Read more here

From the College


From the Express

Chloe Arroyo in front of the green screen at OU Nightly.

Spotlight: Chloe Arroyo

October 31, 2023

Chloe Arroyo fell in love with weather in the process of learning how not to be afraid of it. Around age five, she found even the sight of a cloud to be frightening, a threat of impending weather. During visits to her local library, she would check out different books about weather, and the more she learned about it, the more interested she became and safe she felt.

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Spotlight: Charity Battise

September 29, 2023

Charity Battise, an undergraduate studying GIS in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, spent her summer thinking about fire. Fighting fire, studying fire, and making plans for fire.

Student Spotlight: Braelon Palmer
April 29, 2023

Freshman Braelon Palmer has only been at the University of Oklahoma for two semesters, but he's already working hard to make himself part of the community.

Read moreStudent Spotlight: Braelon Palmer

Student Spotlight: Caylin Cannady
March 30, 2023

Caylin Cannady came to OU because it was the perfect blend of everything she wanted from a university. She knew she wanted to pursue air traffic control, but she also knew she wanted the true undergraduate college experience.

Read moreStudent Spotlight: Caylin Cannady


Upcoming Events

Attendees talking to broadcast meteorologists.
National Weather Festival

Saturday, Oct. 26th
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
National Weather Center

A&GS Grad cap with "Two Degrees HOTTER" written on the top.
A&GS Fall Commencement

Saturday, Dec. 14
2:30 p.m.
Lloyd Noble Center

A student with their diploma.
A&GS Graduate Brunch Reception

Saturday, Dec. 14th
10: a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Lloyd Noble Center