Examining and addressingglobal environmental changes Featured Stories MENA Space Leaders Visit UMD’s GeoCenter Professor Laixiang Sun Co-Authors Model for Least-Cost, Plant-Level Decarbonization of Steel Assistant Professor Catherine Nakalembe Featured in TED Fellows Film Series UMD Researchers Among First to Receive $45M to Decode the Global Carbon Cycle Jane Goodall’s Conservation Legacy Lives on at GEOG Read all Stories Upcoming Events Nov 07 UMD Science Policy Group: Think Tank Career Panel Nov 12 Geography Club hosts GeoGuessr Tournament Nov 13 GEOG Seminar 11/13: Tess McCabe & Shane Coffield Nov 18 UMD GIS Week Talk on Geospatial Analysis in Action: Terrain, Change Detection and 3D Modeling View All Events Publications The magnitude of legal wildlife trade and implications for species survival Read moreEncoding and decoding illegal wildlife trade networks reveals key airport characteristics and undetected hotspots Read moreMapping the global dimensions of US wildlife imports Read more Profiles Showcase Our students, faculty, and alumni are making a difference in the world. Tali Schwelling, Faculty Specialist Daniel O'Neill, Geography/Geospatial Data Science '26 Dave Grubman, MPS-GIS '12 Aaron Goldman, Financial Research Coordinator Teddy Jorgensen, Geography Club President '25 Jayne Brown, MS GIS '19 Yazan Hasan, EST/Geospatial Data Science '24 GEOG Graduate Student Organization Jannitta Graham, Faculty Affairs Manager Beverly Bolster, Geospatial Data Science '25 View All Profiles