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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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Biomass Burning
In this project a change detection algorithm has been developed to make spatially explicit maps of burned areas.
Amazon Deforestation
Coarse resolution MODIS satellite data is used to efficiently monitor deforestation. This research aims to improve operational monitoring in the Amazon basin.
Low-cost Remote Sensing
In this project airborne multispectral imaging is being assessed for applications in agriculture.
VIIRS Environment Data
Researchers assess the suitability of the NPP VIIRS implementation of heritage algorithms and the stability of the resulting EDRs for the long term climate data record.

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