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April 24, 2020 at 12:01 pm

Abbiw, Johnson Named Outstanding Teaching Assistants in Geography

Two Geography graduate students were named Outstanding Teaching Assistants in 2019-20.

Edward Abbiw, portrait

Edward Abbiw

Graduate student Edward Abbiw was named Outstanding Teaching Assistant by the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University.

“My interest is in environmental geography—investigations into effect of land-use on the decline in biodiversity and species extinctions,” Abbiw says.

Darby Johnson, portrait

Darby Johnson

Graduate student Darby Johnson was named Outstanding Teaching Assistant by the Geography Department at Ohio University.

Her research interests are in severe convective meteorology, specifically supercells and tornadoes.

“I will be studying how surface roughness and terrain influence tornado genesis and decay,” she says.

 

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