ESS Presents at the 2024 AAG Annual Meeting

On October 26th, faculty and students from ESS attended the American Association for Geographers (AAG) Great Plains Rocky Mountain regional meeting at Utah Valley University. GPRM represents approximately 200+ members from Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. ESS faculty members Alexander Hohl, Matt Fry, and postdocs Ning Xiong, Makaio Kimbrough, and Jaydee Dolinar showcased their current research. Graduate students Marissa Greer, Ashley Green, and Yu Wang shared their graduate work in paper presentations. A special shoutout to Ashley Green for her outstanding achievement, placing second in the graduate student paper competition! Those who attended noted that it was a worthwhile event, providing a chance to see current research and connect with others in our region. 

A list of presentations can be found below: 

• Dolinar, Jaydee - "Navigating Change: Modeling Adaptive Diversity, Social Stressors, and Climate Resilience in Late Holocene Intermountain North America using the Environmental Archaeology Heuristic"
• Fry, Matthew - "The Institutionalization of Shade Trees in Cities"
• Green, Ashley - "Curating Place Identity: Texas State Parks and Place-based Narratives"
• Greer, Marissa - "Grid Resiliency: Identifying demand-side management strategies amongst western energy imbalance market members"
• Hohl, Alexander - "Developing and validating an anti-Asian area racism index"
• Kimbrough, Makaio - "Residential Vulnerabilities: Toxic release exposures in the United States"
• Wang, Yu - "Teleworking, Social Capital and Subjective Well-being - Evidence from US County-level Data"
• Xiong, Ning - "Neighborhood Intergenerational Mobility and Population Health Inequality"