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Carrie Schmitt earned a BS in Environmental Science in December 2019, after having participated in UA's Accelerated Master's Program. The AMP program allows advanced undergraduate students to take graduate level courses and then apply them towards a master's degree. Carrie is now a full-time master's student and is preparing her thesis proposal defense. Carrie spent the summer of 2019 working for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), which helped develop her interests in wildlife conservation, endangered species, and natural protected areas. Currently, her research examines natural protected areas and wildlife conservation in the United States.
Katie Jack (alumnus) defended her master's thesis in 2020 and was a member of Geography's first cohort of graduate students in UA's Accelerated Master's Program (AMP). Katie completed her Bachelor of Science in Geography with minors in Anthropology and Geographic Information Systems. Her master's thesis explored environmental justice in Alabama and the spatial relationships between pollution and demography, their cultural origins and geographic manifestations.
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James Misfeldt (alumnus) successfully defended his master's thesis in Geography from UA in 2019, after graduating with a BS in Geography from UA in 2017. His research interests are in human geography, specifically environmental justice issues and the movements of people. James' master's thesis was titled, Acculturation in a Community Garden: The Shifting Role of Hmong Gardens in Eastern Wisconsin. The work investigated spatial aspects of the complex roles of small-scale gardens and garden plots among Hmong-American communities. James is also coauthor with Dr. LaFevor on two articles, the partial result of some of their fieldwork together in Mexico. James now works for the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI).
(right) James keeping his ear to the ground while measuring runoff from the rain simulator at the Alabama's NOAA National Water Center Summer Institute. |
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