Environmental Geography Student, UGM, selected as the Indonesian delegate in the Tribal Climate Camp 2017 forum in Washington, USA on July 30-August 7, 2017. Aditya Pradana (GEL2014) was elected as Indonesia’s representative after previously being awarded as the Best Delegate in Youth Leadership Camp for Climate Change 2017 held at Cibodas Biosphere Reserves by UNESCO, UNITAR, UN CC: Learn and The Climate Reality Project Indonesia. Aditya Pradana and Futuha Helen Sara (GEL2014), along with Irvandias Sanjaya (Psychology), Sapnah Rahmawati (SV) and Noviana Nur Sari (Biology) also won the Team of the Year category in the Cibodas event held on February 4-6 2017. Awards given because the Team succeeded in showing active dedication and contribution through making programs for 3 months, including organizing peer education forums, disability for climate change, climate campaigns, and community programs based on climate change issues. read more

Mini Orienteering Excursion 2018 held on Saturday, September 29^th 2018 at 07.00 until 15.00. The participants are students of the Department of Environmental Geography 2018.

Mini Orienteering was held as an introduction to the environment of the Faculty of Geography campus and its surroundings. This activity is carried out by inviting students of the 2018 Environmental Geography around the campus environment by walking along the route and following the instructions given. The instructions given are in the form of coordinates. Travel routes include posts that have been provided by the committee, containing geography learning posts filled in by the committee. Geography learning held in this activity includes spatial thinking, meteorology and climatology, cartography, and interpretation of remote sensing images. read more

Soil Science field course 2018 was held at Bompon Magelang Watersheds, Central Java. Participants included 3 lecturer, 191 students, 16 practicum assistant and 2 laboratory staff.

Day one (Friday, August 24^th 2018)

Disaster management students along with Environmental Geomorphology and Disaster Mitigation Laboratory implement field practicum of Disaster Management studies in Donoharjo Village, Ngaglik Sub-District, Sleman District on Friday, November 23th 2018.

The field practice contains observation activities such as interviews with residents and local village institutions. Then proceed with the presentation of material from Pujiono Centre located in Donoharjo Village.

The discussion in field practice contains application of Resilient Villages or Desa Tangguh Bencana (Destana) which are adapted to the regulation of the Chairperson of BNBP No.1 in 2012. Students which are involved at this event delivered mind map about Donoharjo’s Desa Tanggap Bencana and presented at the end of the event. read more