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Celebrate #ASUGISDay on Nov. 18! 🌎 Join us from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. at ASU’s Tempe campus for a free, public event featuring GIS presentations, vendors, drones and networking opportunities. Presentations will also be livestreamed!
🗺️ Calling all students! Enter the Student Map Competition celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. Map a changing landscape and tell its story! Deadline: Nov. 11.
👉 RSVP and submit your map: sgsup.asu.edu/ASUGISDay
#GISDay is hosted by ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and ASU Geospatial Research & Solutions, in partnership with ASU Enterprise Technology’s Next Lab and Maricopa County Regional GIS with sponsorship from Sanborn.
#Geography #GIS #ASU
Congratulations to assistant professor Salma Elmallah who received a $1 million grant from the Sloan Foundation for a four-year interdisciplinary project examining how natural gas, backup generators and deliverable fuels such as propane and diesel continue to persist and expand as the U.S. pushes toward electrification and decarbonization.
Working with collaborators at Temple University, UPenn and MCubed Consulting, the team will explore where these “shadow grids” are growing, who relies on them and what their expansion means for rural, suburban and lower-income communities.
Read more: bit.ly/4xT7HLh
We're one week away from Career Navigator! Here are tips to make the most of this event.
Connect with 40+ employers and community partners, explore career and internship opportunities, and engage with alumni and experts in your field.
🗓️ Tuesday, Oct. 27
⏰ 2:30–5 p.m. MST
📍 #ASU Tempe Campus, MU, Arizona Ballroom
👤 Open to ASU students, alumni and staff
🔗 View employer list and RSVP: bit.ly/4j698lY
#ASUTheCollege #ASU #ArizonaStateUniversity #Tempe #Phoenix #Smiski
We’re continuing National Community #PlanningMonth with a spotlight on undergraduate student Olaf Rosas Rios, who is majoring in urban planning with a minor in sustainability and a certificate in GIS at #SGSUP. 🌎⭐️
This fall semester, Olaf is a planning intern with @MaricopaCounty Planning & Development, where he assists with code enforcement cases, property development inquiries and land-use compliance.
His advice to students: Network with professionals, ask questions, seek new opportunities and explore different ways of thinking. 🔱
#ItTakesaPlanner #UrbanPlanning #ASU
SGSUP was well represented at #ACSP2026 in Pittsburgh! 🌎
Our faculty, students and alumni shared research on housing affordability, flood insurance and green infrastructure planning.
Presenters included Meagan Ehlenz, Deborah Salon, David King, Hue-Tam Jamme, MUEP student Insoo Kim, PhD student Ian Njuguna and MUEP alumnus Julius Addai. PhD student Aurelie Knecht also participated in the doctoral workshop and volunteered.
Congratulations to Kai Hsu who received the Gill-Chin Lim Best Dissertation in International Planning Award!
#ItTakesaPlanner #PlanningMonth #UrbanPlanning #ASU
Meet #SGSUP alumni Madison Macias and Terri Hogan! 🔱
🎓 Madison (MUEP ’23) is a community planner at Logan Simpson. Her advice to students: Build practical skills in GIS mapping and graphic design.
🎓 Terri Hogan (MEP ’00) is now a principal planner for the city of Peoria and SGSUP faculty associate teaching public participation planning this fall. She credits SGSUP with strengthening her planning and research skills and encourages students to explore diverse coursework.
#ItTakesaPlanner #PlanningMonth #UrbanPlanning #ASU
Meet Lorena Figueroa, a second-year Master of Urban and Environmental Planning student at #SGSUP. 🌎⭐️
Lorena serves as a fellow and a project manager with RUMBO, a community-led nonprofit initiative in Maryvale that partners with #ASU to research extreme heat mitigation, energy and climate resilience.
Her advice to students: Stay true to your values, advocate for yourself and build meaningful relationships that create lasting community impact. 🔱
#ItTakesaPlanner #PlanningMonth #UrbanPlanning #HispanicHeritageMonth
PHX-DUST records the 15th dust storm of the year and first of the post-monsoon season!
A short-lived Category 1 dust storm moved through Phoenix on Saturday afternoon ahead of a line of thunderstorms, making it an isolated, short-duration, high-wind-gust event.
📍 Dust concentrations peaked at 1,021 µg/m³ southwest of downtown Phoenix.
📡 The storm was recorded at one monitoring site.
⏱️ Elevated dust concentrations lasted one hour at the monitoring site.
💨 A gust front moved through the valley with strong winds and rain.
📸 Footage by Reagan Cawley, Mike Olbinski, Ariana Pup and ADOT.
⚡ The Phoenix Dust Storm (PHX-DUST) Scale classifies dust storms after they occur, ranking them from Category 1 to Category 5 based on dust concentrations. Subcategories describe each storm's geographic extent, duration and wind gusts.
⛈️ Explore the data and submit your monsoon footage at PhoenixDust.asu.edu.
⚠️ Follow @NWSPhoenix for real-time weather alerts.
#PHXDust #AZWX #ASU #Monsoon2026 #Haboob #DustStorm
Welcome to ASU, Cheng-Kai ("Kai") Hsu! 🔱 🎉
Kai joins SGSUP as an assistant professor bringing expertise in urban climate, transportation and public health. His research explores how extreme heat, air pollution and urban environments influence travel behavior, road safety and human health across Latin America, the U.S. and Taiwan.
Kai is also the recipient of the 2026 ACSP Gill-Chin Lim Best Dissertation in International Planning Award! His dissertation, “Extreme Heat and Road Safety in the Era of a Changing Climate and the Precariousness of the Gig Economy—Evidence from Taiwan and Latin America,” exemplifies superior scholarship in international planning. Kai will present his award-winning research at #ACSP2026 in Pittsburgh.
👉 Read more: acsp.org/page/Hsu2026
#ItTakesaPlanner #PlanningMonth #UrbanPlanning #ASU
Looking for networking opportunities? Here’s why we recommend #SGSUP’s annual Career Navigator event. Don't forget to RSVP!
SGSUP alumni Anthony Winston, Juliana Likourinou, Cole Brown and Noah Golinko share how connections made through Career Navigator led to internships and job opportunities in their fields of study.
👤 Open to ASU students, recent alumni and staff
🗓️ Tuesday, Oct. 27
⏰ 2:30–5:00 p.m. MST
📍 Tempe Campus, Memorial Union, Arizona Ballroom
🔗 RSVP today: bit.ly/SGSUPCareerNavigator2…
#Geography #GIS #Meteorology #UrbanPlanning #ASU #CareerFair
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WeatherBrains 1081 is LIVE tonight at 8 ET/7 CT.
Tom Hultquist joins us to revisit the 1871 Peshtigo Fire, then Dr. Stephanie Hoekstra and Robyn Heffernan help bring the conversation into today’s world of fire weather and decision support.
youtube.com/@WeatherBrains #podcast
How did #Prince help create the iconic “Minneapolis sound”? 🎶
At last week’s SGSUP Colloquium Lecture, Associate Professor Rashad Shabazz explored how #Minneapolis’ culture, racial dynamics and education systems shaped Prince’s sound and inspired his ASU course, “The Geography of Music.”
Shabazz dove deeper in his new book, “Prince’s Minneapolis: A Biography of Sound and Place.”
Stay tuned for our final fall Colloquium Lecture on Oct. 23 with Yoonjung Ahn of KU: “Unlocking Real Estate Data for Climate and Built-Environment Research.” Email [email protected] for details.
#ASU #Geography
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Got a story to tell & a little free time? We're giving you a lot of latitude here.
Submit to the ASU GIS Day Map Competition. All the cool kids are doing it, and I hear the bar is set to scale.
Submissions are due Nov 11 so get to mapping! #GIS #GISDAY
@ASU_SGSUP
The ASU GIS Day 2026 Student Map Competition is now open! We challenge you to pick a location, find something that has changed and tell a story through a map. 📍🗺️🇺🇸
This year’s theme, “America’s 250th: Mapping America’s Historic Changing Landscape,” invites students who are new to GIS including those interested in geography, history, planning or environmental science, to explore a topic that interests you and tell its story through geography.
All students can participate, and no prior GIS experience is required. GIS instructors and professionals are not eligible to compete and mentorship is welcome.
🔱 Competition opens: Sept. 18
🔱 Submission deadline: Nov. 11
🔱 Winners announced: Nov. 17
👉 Enter now: sgsup.asu.edu/ASUGISDay
🌎 Celebrate GIS Day at ASU!
Join us Nov. 18 for vendors, drones and presentations.
🗓️ Nov. 18, 2026
⏰ 10 a.m.- 3 p.m.
📍 Tempe campus, Sun Devil Fitness Center & Online
👉 Register here: bit.ly/ASUGISDay2026
Images from @ASULibraries Map and Geospatial Hub
#ASUGISDay #GIS #GISDAY #Esri #Geography
@MaricopaCounty @ASUTheCollege @ASUGradCollege @ASUResearch @Ten_Across @SRPconnect @Int_Machines @dbgphx @Tempegov @CITYOFMESA @scottsdaleazgov @AZSurprise @MyGlendale @asuonline @ASUStudentLife @SundevilCareers
#ASU is taking a major step toward helping communities prepare for #ExtremeHeat with the launch of its new Center for Heat Preparedness. 🌡️
Led by Patricia Solís, the center will connect nearly 170 ASU researchers with community leaders, health officials, energy experts and policymakers to turn heat research into real-world solutions.
📺 Learn more about ASU’s work to strengthen heat preparedness and reduce heat-related deaths in @azfamily: azfamily.com/2026/10/01/how-…
🔗 Explore the Center for Heat Preparedness and its work: heat.asu.edu
#HeatPreparedness #UrbanResilience #Geography #Phoenix
October is National Community #PlanningMonth! 🏙️
We’re celebrating the SGSUP students and faculty working to address today’s biggest planning challenges, from housing and transportation to climate resilience, and helping build more sustainable, resilient communities.
Follow along all month for weekly student and faculty spotlights!
#ItTakesAPlanner #UrbanPlanning #ASU
ASU launches first-of-its-kind Phoenix Dust Storm Scale to classify haboobs
Research for the project aims to boost public awareness about the weather events.
Read more from Lidia Cifuentes Santander and @lexijanusee:
statepress.com/article/2026/…
A piece of exploration history is coming to #ASU. 🌎
Through a new 10-year partnership with @AmericanGeo, ASU will co-steward the iconic Fliers & Explorers Globe, arriving on the Tempe campus this winter.
The nearly century-old globe features the signatures and routes of 80+ legendary explorers, including Amelia Earhart, Sir Edmund Hillary, Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 8 astronauts. Former #NASA astronaut and oceanographer Kathy Sullivan added her signature during a Sept. 15 ceremony in NYC.
At ASU, the Globe will become an interactive, living resource through a permanent exhibit, legacy globe replicas at the ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub and Coor Hall, a digital twin, coursework, K–12 programming and public events.
Stay tuned as this new chapter of #Exploration, #Cartography and #GeospatialInnovation takes shape at ASU!
Read more: news.asu.edu/20260929-arts-h…
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Did you know there are many different types of lightning?⚡️
In this episode of "Arizona Climate Corner," Juliana and Kayla dive into the science behind one of the atmosphere's least understood phenomena: lightning!🌩️ #azwx #monsoon #lightning