Jessica Burns in Brazil with a family of Kiaowa-Guarani Indians studying land and resource conflicts in this area. Jessica is an undergraduate majoring in Geography and Spanish and Portuguese.
Urban sprawl. Immigration. Global warming and climate change. Weather forecasting. Sustainable economic development. Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
These are more than "buzz" words. They are serious issues that governments and citizens grapple with to grow or sustain a desired quality of life.
They also are some of the key issues that Department of Geography students concern themselves with as part of a diverse and dynamic program at Ohio State.
In the Department of Geography, we envision the geographer as a key problem solver of societal and environmental issues. For example:
- How can atmospheric science and weather data and imagery help inform long-term weather forecasting and atmospheric dynamics?
- How do the dynamics of urban growth and decline, land use and population shifts affect a region?
- What will climate change mean for future generations?
- How can research, using theoretical and substantive analysis tools such as Spatial Analysis Methods (SAM) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS), influence and impact critical regional planning decisions?
These questions are appropriately applied to our primary areas of geographical study covering four undergraduate and graduate programs:
- Urban and Regional Studies
- Spatial Analysis Methods
- Atmospheric and Climatic Studies
- People, Society, and Environment
If you're looking for a field of study that translates into exciting hands-on opportunities and career choices with meaningful outcomes, the Department of Geography can map it all out for you.
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GUGGENHEIM SCHOLAR TO LEAD CENTER FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL ANALYSIS (CURA)
Daniel Sui has joined The Ohio State University Center for Urban and
Regional Analysis (CURA) as its director. He has also been named
Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the
Department of Geography. A 2009 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Sui is a
widely respected scholar in many aspects of technology, spatial
sciences, urban, and regional research. Sui's research interests include
the integration of spatial analysis and modeling with GIS for
socio-economic and environmental applications, theoretical issues in
geographic information science (GIScience), GIS in public health, urban
geography, information ecology, and emerging geographies of the
information society. He is currently working on legal and ethical issues
of using geospatial technologies to track people, animals, and
commodities. Sui serves as the editor-in-chief for GeoJournal and a
contributing editor of GeoWorld.
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