Studying Geography
Geographers are first and foremost fascinated by the diversity of patterns and processes across the earth's surface. The discipline spans environment and physical systems at one pole and social and cultural change across the globe at the other. We are intrigued by scale and how worldwide processes shape, but don't always determine the fortunes of local places. Most of all we are interested in understanding the world in ways that allow sustainable change and development to occur. Faculty members teach and carry out research on many different topics, including:
globalization- regional economic development
- geopolitics
- water and land struggles
- health and disease ecology
- climate change
- weather systems
- watershed processes political ecology
- biogeography
- island development
- industrial geography
- geographies of land and agriculture
- cities and urban life
- immigration
- borders and citizenship
- nationalism and identity
- geographical information systems and remote sensing
