GEOG | Geographical Sciences Department

Undergraduate Adrian Seemangal Wins $10,000 Scholarship

Shifts Towards Healthy Diets in the US Can Reduce Environmental Impacts but Would be Unaffordable for Poorer Minorities

NSF EarthCube Award for ICESpark: A Next-Generation Computing Platform for Science Discoveries in the New Arctic and Beyond

Professor Chris Justice Named as Distinguished University Professor

Two Volume Books on Biomass Burning in South/Southeast Asia : Editors Krishna Vadrevu, Toshimasa Ohara, Chris Justice

Yiqun Xie Receives NSF Award to Investigate Novel Spatial Data Science Techniques for Complex Mixture Patterns

GEOG Researchers Selected to Lead Multiple NASA Carbon Monitoring System Projects

South America Lost 21.6 Soccer Fields of Natural Land Per Minute for 34 Years

Meredith Gore Examines the Illegal Trade of Africa's Wild Meat

News & Events

Dr. Meredith Gore Gives Lecture on Conservation Criminology

Dr. Meredith Gore, Associate Professor in the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, presented a lecture on the topic of Interdisciplinary Intelligence Mapping of Illicit Global Environmental Change on Wednesday, September 29, 2021.

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Dr. Jonathan Resop Publishes Paper on Assessing the Potential Herbaceous Feedstock Supply for Biorefineries in the Piedmont Region

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Spatial distribution of outcompeted cropland between 2011–2311 under the baseline economic scenario.

Dr. Rachel Lamb leads paper on the economic potential of reforestation in Maryland

Researchers in the Department of Geographical Sciences (GEOG) have long been innovating and harnessing advanced NASA Carbon Monitoring System

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MS GEOINT students win 2021 USGIF Scholarships

The MS GEOINT program is proud to announce that two of our current students, Katie Toren and Dave Cook, have been awarded USGIF Graduate scholarships for 2021! Congratulations to them both for this impressive achievement! For a complete listing of this year's award recipients, go to the USGIF scholarship page

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