GEOG | Geographical Sciences Department

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

Geographical Sciences Graduate Ambassadors Program: UMD PhD Students Lead Technical Workshop for Chiang Mai University Students

NASA Harvest Conference Brings Together Voices from Across the Spectrum of Food Systems and Satellites

UMD and SERVIR-Mekong Organized Technical Workshop in Myanmar

News & Events

DGSAC Dinner Connects Department Faculty and Students

On November 5th, 2019 faculty and students from across the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences met for the annual Faculty-Student dinner hosted by the Dean's Student Advisory Council (DSAC).

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Mapping the Vulnerable: PhD Candidate Amanda Hoffman-Hall Published in Remote Sensing of Environment

The 2013 Ebola outbreak across West Africa brought into focus a major information gap that impeded effective response to the crisis – a lack of reliable population maps.

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Ph.D. Student Jennifer Kennedy Accepted into UMD Global STEWARDS Program

Ph.D student Jennifer Kennedy was accepted into the 2020 cohort of the UMD Global STEWARDS Program.

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GEOG Visiting Scholar Jingxu Wang published in Science Bulletin (Impact Factor: 6.23) with Dr. Kuishuang Feng and Dr. Giovanni Baiocchi

Jingxu Wang from Peking University visited our department for one year under Dr. Kuishuang Feng’s supervision.

GEOG Visiting Scholar Jingxu Wang published in Science Bulletin (Impact Factor: 6.23) with Dr. Kuishuang Feng and Dr. Giovanni Baiocchi - Read more