Unearth and analyze the complex relationship between humans and their environment and the spatial dimensions of our world’s most pressing challenges.Department of Geography faculty members possess a range of interdisciplinary strengths and expertise in the areas of human, human-environment and physical geography, supported by the use of computational technologies such as geographic information systems, remote sensing, modeling and data analytics. The faculty is renowned for its teaching and mentoring, with individual members having garnered university, state and national teaching awards.<br><br>Department research specialties span the full range of the discipline, including: Hydrologic modeling, Urban and economic geography<br> Cultural and historical geography, Political geography and geopolitics, Qualitative methods, Human-Environment relations and political ecology, Urban and regional planning, GIS and geotechnologies, Climatology, Biogeography, wildlife, and landscape ecology