Hot off the press! The Department of Geography is happy to announce the following faculty publications for the fall semester.

Elliott, Grant. Windows of opportunity: a new tree-shrub dynamic at alpine treeline? National Science Review 10, 10 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad212

Fillingim, H., Knapp, B.O., Kabrick, J.M., Stambaugh, M., Elliott, G., and Day, D. Direct and indirect effects of fire on germination of shortleaf pine seeds. Fire Ecology 19, 53 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00214-2

Guhlincozzi, Aída. Geospatial technologies and public health. In The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society, A. Kent and D. Specht, eds. (2023). Milton Park, UK: Routledge.

Guhlincozzi, Aída. “It's better if you have more hands!”: Latina healthcare access barriers and community organization interventions in Chicago suburbs. Geoforum 146 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103863

Oprean, D., Gould, H., Brown, D., McGorry, N., & Larsen, S. Collect that coin: efficacy testing of platformer game mechanics with adult learners. Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Games Based Learning, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.

Oprean, D., Gould, H., Brown, D., McGorry, N., & Larsen, S. Exploring in-game scaffolds for higher-order learning in a case-based RPG learning game. Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Games Based Learning, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.

New blog sponsored by the Rural Geography Specialty Group (RGSG) of the American Association of Geographers and co-edited by our very own Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi. Just Rural Futures is a collective thought-project that aims to counter-narrate what it means to be rural in the 21st century. The blog is free and accessible for anyone to read. Dr. Guhlincozzi would like to encourage MU Geography students and colleagues to submit their research/rural geography-related ruminations -- the first research blog post was written by an undergraduate! Support the project by reading, subscribing, and, if you have a counter-case to share, writing for us." - https://justruralfutures.substack.com/about . Here is a link to the blog’s first post, co-written by Dr. Guhlincozzi: https://justruralfutures.substack.com/p/introducing-just-rural-futures-a