Geography
Indiana University Bloomington's 2012-13 Outstanding Junior Faculty awards will support the creation of innovative textile art and research on public investments in energy, the worldwide loss of coastal mangrove forests, the development of anti-malarial drugs, the relationship between vision and balance, and the appropriateness of cancer screenings.
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Dave Rosgen looks, dresses and talks like a cowboy, has little formal training and often angers academic critics, yet his Natural Channel Design system has become the dominant approach to stream restoration in the U.S. How did this happen? What does it say about the way scientific knowledge is produced and disseminated? Rebecca Lave, an assistant professor of geography at Indiana University, examines those questions and more in a new book.
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More than 30 Indiana University faculty members and graduate students will present research this week during the 97th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. The meeting, themed "Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystems," got under way Aug. 5 and is expected to attract about 4,000 scientists from around the world during the six-day event.
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A NASA-funded project by Indiana University Bloomington researcher Rinku Roy Chowdhury and colleagues at three other institutions will add to scientists' understanding of mangrove forests in the Americas. The study will combine large-scale remote sensing with detailed social and ecological investigations at locations in seven countries.
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A NASA-funded project by Indiana University Bloomington researcher Rinku Roy Chowdhury and colleagues at three other institutions will add to scientists' understanding of mangrove forests in the Americas. The study will combine large-scale remote sensing with detailed social and ecological investigations at locations in seven countries.
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Considered a treasure trove of American history sought after by genealogists, urban planners, sociologists and a gamut of other researchers, Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, first created beginning in 1867 for assessing fire insurance liability for buildings in U.S. cities, are now available to the public for more than 300 locations in Indiana. The Sanborn Company designated Indiana University's Herman B Wells Library Map Collections as the repository for the original Indiana Sanborn paper maps which the company produced between 1883 and 1966. A recent joint project between IU and Historical Information Gatherers Inc. now provides digital color versions of the maps to the Indiana Spatial Data Portal (ISDP).
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