GEOG | Geographical Sciences Department

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

Department of Geographical Sciences Presents at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting

News & Events

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

MS GEOINT students win 2021 USGIF Scholarships - Read more

Dr. Jonathan Resop Publishes Article on Quantifying Riverscape Vegetation Change with Drone Laser Scanning

Senior Lecturer Dr.

Dr. Jonathan Resop Publishes Article on Quantifying Riverscape Vegetation Change with Drone Laser Scanning - Read more

$Mapped differences (in fractions of each 0.25 degree grid cell) between new LUH2-GCB2019 and previous LUH2 v2h datasets for cropland and grazing land in year 2000 and 2009.$

Dr. Louise Chini and other GEOG researchers publish paper on Land-Use Harmonization dataset updates for use in the Global Carbon Budgets

Associate Research Professor Louise Chini, along with GEOG researchers

Dr. Louise Chini and other GEOG researchers publish paper on Land-Use Harmonization dataset updates for use in the Global Carbon Budgets - Read more

All states in the region belong to one or more multi-state coalitions, including the United States Climate Alliance (USCA), Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the Under 2 Coalition of state and regional governments. Note that while Virginia has recently become a member of RGGI, it was not included in this study.

Dr. Rachel Lamb Leads Review Paper on The Role of Forest Carbon in Sub-National Climate Mitigation Planning

Rachel Lamb, George Hurtt

Dr. Rachel Lamb Leads Review Paper on The Role of Forest Carbon in Sub-National Climate Mitigation Planning - Read more