GEOG | Geographical Sciences Department

Dr. Catherine Nakalembe Receives and Presents the Inaugural GEO Individual Excellence Award to the Ugandan Ministry

Geographical Sciences receives a Major Endowment from Jingli and Peter Li to Support our Graduate Students

The Assessment aims to support better decisions about land use and recovery of degraded land.

UMD Geographical Sciences makes major contributions to the United Nations IPBES Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Restoration

The GEOGLAM Crop Monitor Bulletin Cited by the BBC

Department Researchers Awarded Funding through NASA's Carbon Monitoring System

Dr. Ellicott Funded by NSF to Study Wildfires

UMD Researchers Join Effort to Make Water, Nutrients go Further on South Plains Farms

New IDB Funded Project to Carry Out a Water-Energy-Food Nexus Analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean Using a Coupled Physical and Socio-economic Accounting Framework

Escaped fire in Serra Ricardo Franco State Park, Mato Grosso State, Brazil.

An interpretation of recent Amazon Basin fires by Researchers in the Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland

News & Events

Geography Club National Geographic Museum Trip

Last Saturday, members of the Geography Club took a trip to the National Geographic Museum. Students visited the museum which is currently featuring the exhibition, Women: A Century of Change, focused on women of the world.

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Artist's impression of NASA's Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation Satellite-2

ICESat-2 Celebrates One Year on Orbit!

NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite mission was successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, on September 15th, 2018. The spacecraft carries the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (“ATLAS”) which obtains precise elevation measurements of ice surfaces, vegetation, land, water, and clouds.

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Alumni Spotlight-Piyali Kundu

Congratulations to our newest Alumni Spotlight recipient, Piyali Kundu! Piyali graduated from the MPSGIS program in 2015 and is currently employed by ESRI as a Solution Engineer. What is a recent project that you have worked on that you have drawn on skills from the Masters program?

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Peter Potapov 2019 Web of Science Highly-cited Researcher

GEOG Research Professor, Peter Potapov is recognized in the newly published Web of Science 2019 list of highly cited researchers along with 9 other scientists from UMCP.

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