EESG Member Highlights

Our very own member of the EESG Board of Directors, Dr. Heather Bedi, has won the 2021 AAG Harm de Blij Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching!!! Congratulations, Dr. Bedi!

This annual award recognizes outstanding achievement in teaching undergraduate Geography including the use of innovative teaching methods. The recipients are instructors for whom undergraduate teaching is a primary responsibility. The award consists of $2,500 in prize money and an additional $500 in travel expenses to attend the AAG Annual Meeting, where the award will be conveyed. This award is generously funded by John Wiley & Sons in memory of their long-standing collaboration with the late Harm de Blij on his seminal Geography textbooks.

Dr. Heather Bedi is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Dickinson College where her teaching and research focus on peoples, places, and environments and the many connections between them. Students and faculty colleagues recognize her passion for teaching and her dynamic approach. She not only creates fresh ways for students to engage with course material in the classroom, but also provides opportunities for them to actively contribute to the local community using tools and knowledge obtained in the numerous courses she has developed. Dr. Bedi’s teaching and community outreach are well-informed by her research into relationships among civil society, socio-environmental movements, and natural resource and landscape modifications. Moreover, she successfully obtains teaching related grants and student-faculty-community collaboration grants to advance the work. Dr. Bedi is already making a strong mark on geography teaching and is poised to make an even more distinguished impact into the future.

EESG Outreach Coordinator and Post-Doc Representative, Dr. Marissa Bell, received the #AAG2021 Gilbert F. White Dissertation Award from the AAG Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group! Congratulations, Marissa!

Marissa's dissertation is titled: "Energy Justice, Nuclear Landscapes and Consent: An Examination of Canadian Nuclear Waste Siting".