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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

Martha Geores Elected Vice Chair of the Middle Atlantic Division of the AAG
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

Geography Department holds reception to honor and thank Dr. John Townshend

2009 GEOGRAPHY CAREER FAIR PICTURES

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Featured Department Projects
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Low-cost Remote Sensing
In this project airborne multispectral imaging is being assessed for applications in agriculture.
MODIS Rapid Response
The Web Fire Mapper displays interactive maps incorporating fire detection points data. Users can identify attributes over time spans and query information for individual points.
National Forest
This study examines the socio-economic and political context of the Jefferson National Forest, and the role of stakeholders and of the public in decision-making.
Data Assimilation System
We are reformulating the analysis of EOS data in this project by developing a prototype data assimilation system to generate an improved suite of land products from multiple EOS data sets.

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