UC Davis Geography Graduate Group

The City of Turlock, Development Services Department, Planning Division is accepting applications for the position of Associate Planner through WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2021 BY 5:00 P.M. The incumbent performs a broad range of professional planning and technical assignments supporting the development review, long-range and special projects programs of the city. This is the journey level class within the professional planning series. This class is distinguished from the Assista...Continue reading

PhD Candidate, Yuhan Huang had a research paper (co-authoring with three other faculty members in GGG) published an Environmental Research Letter. See the letter here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aba6af and the press release here: https://www.ucdavis.edu//wildfire-rise-1984-northern-cali/. Congratulations to Yuhan and Professors Yufang Jin, Mark Schwartz and Jim Thorne.

Congratulations to Professor Amanda Crump! https://www.facebook.com//congratulation/3743442559016261/

Geography and Community Development Professor Martin Kenney has been very productive this year. Below are his accomplishments to date. Congratulations Martin! Kenney, M., Bearson, D., and Zysman, J. 2020. The Platform Economy Matures: Exploring and Measuring Pervasiveness and Power. Socio-Economic Review (forthcoming). 194. Kenney, M. and Zysman, J. 2020. Covid-19 and the increasing centrality and power of platforms in China, the USA, and beyond. Management and Organization...Continue reading

PhD student, Sasha Pesci received received Annie’s sustainable agriculture scholarship ($10,000) this summer. https://www.annies.com/agriculture-scholarships/

PhD Candidate, Maya Weeks has been very busy... she recently had numerous publications released: An excerpt from the long poem that is part of my dissertation project, Hold Fast, published in Rare Earth: The Ground is Not Digital, publication number 5, from Living Room Light Exchange. The poem title is "Hold Fast (Temporary Painting)." I also performed at Living Room Light Exchange's October 2020 event. An excerpt from my manuscript Myth of the Garbage Patch was published in... Tarpaulin Sky Magazine this year. Two paintings, "I Have Been Being Demanded To Be Absolutely Tuned Into My Intuition At All Times" and "Adult Lamprey Sighted in San Luis Obispo Creek, Cries 'Loosen Up'" were published in Two if By Sea, Volume One. And I have a poem, "Vortex of Light (Ice Memoriam)," in Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond, edited by Imre Szeman and Jeff Diamanti, published November 2019 on West Virginia University Press.