Humboldt Geography

05/05/2022

YOU are invited!

05/05/2022

Senior Geography major OTTO SCHMITT’s award-winning research poster, 2022 California Geographical Society conference. .z34

05/05/2022

YUICHI AMBIRU’s award-winning map (1st place Professional Paper Cartography), California Geographical Society 2022 conference.

05/04/2022

Geography major ANTHONY LUCERO award-winning research, California Geographical Society 2023 conference

05/04/2022

04/19/2022

Geography Film Series:
Roots of Russian Rage
With discussion led by Professor Matthew Derrick

Wed., 4/20 @ 3 p.m. in Founders Hall 25
BROTHER (1997, 95 min.)
After finishing his military service, young Danila Bagrov (Sergey Bodrov) seeks help from his older brother (Viktor Sukhorukov), a gangster in St. Petersburg, who puts him to work as a hired gun.
Wed., 4/27 @ 3 p.m. in Founders Hall 25
The OUTSKIRTS (1998, 95 min.)
Russian farmer Filipp Safronov (Yuri Dubrovin) is dispossessed of his land by a shadowy group of government officials who hand it over to a powerful oil company.
Wed., 5/4 @ 3 p.m. in Founders Hall 25
LEVIATHAN (2014, 141 min.)
A Russian fisherman (Alexey Serebryakov) fights back when a corrupt mayor tries to seize possession of his ancestral home.

04/18/2022

04/18/2022

GEOGRAPHY ALUM AMONG FIRST PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS TO RETURN TO SERVICE OVERSEAS
April 13, 2022 Humboldt Now
“I am excited for service, and am ready to work hard," says alumnus Samuel King (‘21, Geography), who will serve as a volunteer in Zambia.
Cal Poly Humboldt alumnus Samuel King (‘21, Geography) is among the first Peace Corps volunteers to return to overseas service since the agency’s unprecedented global evacuation in March 2020. The Peace Corps suspended global operations and evacuated nearly 7,000 volunteers from more than 60 countries at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I am excited for service, and am ready to work hard. I want to make meaningful connections with the people I live and work with,” said King, who will serve as a volunteer in Zambia in the environment sector. “I hope to gain language, cultural and technical skills; gain personal resiliency through the hardships I will experience; communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds; and witness the beauty of nature and wildlife. I also hope that the Peace Corps will give me the time to reflect on my future career direction.”
In 2020, Cal Poly Humboldt ranked No. 16 among medium schools on the agency’s list of top Peace Corps volunteer-producing colleges and universities. HSU has been a top school for over 10 years. Since the agency’s founding in 1961, around 880 alumni from the University have served abroad as Peace Corps volunteers.
The volunteer cohorts serving in the Dominican Republic and Zambia are made up of both first-time volunteers and volunteers who were evacuated in early 2020. Upon finishing a three-month training, volunteers will collaborate with their host communities on locally prioritized projects in one of Peace Corps’ six sectors – agriculture, community economic development, education, environment, health or youth in development – and all will engage in COVID-19 response and recovery work.
See full article at now.humboldt.edu/news/alum-among-first-peace-corps-volunteers-return-service-overseas

04/18/2022

Update from SAM KING (Geography '21) in Zambia!

“I am excited for service, and am ready to work hard," says alumnus Samuel King (‘21, Geography), who will serve as a volunteer in Zambia.

04/17/2022

This is an animation of a 3D reconstruction of Cal Poly Humboldt created by a Geography, Environment
& Spatial Analysis (GESA) undergraduate named Anthony Lucero. This project was completed in the fall
of 2022 with drone imagery. Over the course of 100 hours, 1,700 images were taken of the 144 acres
campus, and processed using photogrammetry, computer vision, and Structure-from-Motion to
demonstrate the potential capabilities of in-house data creation that can be used to represent the
underrepresented.

A special acknowledgment to the following faculty for your support:
Dr. Matthew Derrick, Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis (GESA)
Dr. James Graham, Environmental Science & Management (ESM)
Dr. Rosemary Sherriff, Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis (GESA)

Participant acknowledgment for your hard work:
Stephen Borcich for your Emlid Surveying and ground control points creation/post-corrections.
Cody Valcarcel as a Visual Observer during flight operations.

This is just a glimpse of what the Geography, Environment & Spatial Analysis departments have to offer
within the curriculum.

If you would like to obtain the rights to this video, please contact Anthony Lucero. All rights reserved. Without
permission, the use of this video is a violation of the US Copyright laws, which states that copyright
applies to original works of creative expression that are captured in a tangible form. The copyright goes
to the original creator of the work, who can choose to sell their rights to other parties.