Today in Geography - Remembering A Sand County Almanac with Alanna Post

Today, we welcomed Alanna Post to the show. Alanna is a PhD student in the MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences with a dual major in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. She received her B.S. in Ecology and Environmental Biology from the Biology department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her M.S. in Biology from Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, CA). She is interested in forest ecology, disturbance ecology, and remote sensing. Alanna's research focuses on understanding post-fire forest recovery dynamics through the lens of forest structure.

Alanna discussed her research as well as the influence she experienced from reading A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold. On April 14, 1948, Oxford University Press informed Leopold that it wished to publish his manuscript. One week later, Leopold suffered a fatal heart attack while fighting a grass fire that had escaped from a neighbor’s farm near the shack. In the months that followed, Leopold’s son, Luna, took the lead in getting the manuscript into print.

If you would like to learn more about Alanna’s research, please visit the Ecological Remote Sensing and Modeling Lab at https://www.ersamlab.com/. If you would like to learn more about Aldo Leopold and A Sand County Almanac, visit https://www.aldoleopold.org/.

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