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Faculty in the Department of Geography are at the forefront of the discipline's future with projects that literally encompass the whole Earth. By dissolving the boundary between social and physical science we are exploring the human dimensions of global change. Our goal is to better understand the Earth's land surface and the way humans interact with it.

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Department News

Sohlberg Receives NASA Ames Honor Award as Part of Wildfire Team
Julie Silva to join department faculty in Fall 2010
John Townshend is Named Dean of the College of Behavioral & Social Sciences
Elizabeth Hoy awarded NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
Colorado State University grant awarded to Guoqing Sun
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center award grant to Robert Sohlberg
The Department of Geography attends the 2009 Association of American Geographer's Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV.

Department Events

2009 GEOGRAPHY CAREER FAIR PICTURES

Organize Special Events for the 2010 AAG Conference

Grad Team Places 2nd in Regional Geography Bowl Competition; Two Go to World Geography Bowl
 
Featured Department Projects
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Carbon Cycle Studies
A unique three dimensional, high-resolution radar backscatter model and a lidar waveform model have been developed at UMD and GSFC.
CARPE: UMD & NASA
Central Africa Regional Project for the Environment - faculty from UMD and NASA Goddard have been involved with research in the Congo Basin since 1985.
Carbon Cycling & Biodiversity
Researchers use lidar remote sensing of forest structure to explore the effects of this structure on species richness and distributions.
Dynamics of Change in Boreal Forests
Dr. Kasischke is carrying out research on the affects of variations in climate on the fire regime of the North American fire regime

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