DEPARTMENT OF
GEOGRAPHY
DIRECTORY
Department of Geography
University of Idaho
McClure Hall 203
P.O. Box 443021
Moscow, ID 83844-3021
Phone: (208) 885-6216
Fax: (208) 885-2855
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Geography explores the distribution and interaction of natural and human systems on global, regional, and local scales. Environmental issues involving natural resources, population, political, and economic systems are the subjects of geography, along with practical issues in planning and resource management. Selecting locations or designing optimal development or delivery systems are geographic problems common to business and government around the world. Geographic training in geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and spatial analysis, along with knowledge of patterns and processes inherent in natural and human social systems provides the background necessary to work in the expanding fields of GIS applications and scientific or applied geography.
To prepare students for many rewarding and important career opportunities, the Department of Geography within the the College of Science offers the B.S. Geography with options in physical science and environment, global and regional studies, and GIS.
Geography now has strong programs in GIS, climatology, remote sensing, and economic geography.
A certificate program is offered in GIS and is available in addition to our degree programs. Requirements for this program are listed at http://www.scihome.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=89249.
Why Geography?
Are you looking for an interesting career? Geography may be the field for you, and the Geography Department at the University of Idaho is the place to find it. We are the only degree-granting geography department in Idaho. We have students in B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. programs from throughout the U.S. and many other countries. Our department is recognized for our long history as a leader in digital mapping, GIS, resources and regional development, and local and global climate change. Our students get experience as interns in many settings and as research assistants on projects in the department.
Geographers Get Jobs
Our graduates have a nearly 100 percent employment record in their field. The job market continues to expand as geographic analysis technologies are discovered in new applications. Our graduates have the skills and substantive knowledge to fit these expanding opportunities and our reputation has continually improved as a source of capable graduates. Consequently, our network of alumni is large and growing and this benefits our current students in the form of internship and job prospects.
What Can I Do With Geography?
A few examples from our recent graduates:
GIS Analyst
Urban Planner
Remote Sensing Analyst
Community Planner
Transportation Planner
Site Selection Analyst
Academic Professions
Where Are The Jobs?
Our graduates are working throughout the world, including the Pacific Northwest, the rest of the USA, and abroad.
How can YOU get there? Join Idaho's Geography Department! Write, call or visit:
Geography Department
University of Idaho
McClure Hall, Room 203
PO Box 443021
Moscow, ID 83844-3021
Phone: 208-885-6216
E-mail: geog@uidaho.edu
Fax: 208-885-2855
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Jeff Hicke, Geography faculty, recently published a research paper in the journal Forest Ecology and Management, entitled "Mapping lodgepole pine stand structure susceptibility to mountain pine beetle attack across the western U.S." Dr. Hicke's research is supported by funding from the USDA Forest Service, USGS Western Mountain Initiative, and the National Science Foundation. In an interview recently, he commented "Our results show that a large proportion of logepole pine forest is in a condition susceptible to outbreak. The combination of increasingly suitable climate and large amount of susceptible host trees will lead to severe and frequent outbreaks (of mountain pine bark beetles) in the future."
Von Walden, Geography faculty, is currently on sabbatical in Switzerland stationed at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. Dr. Walden is helping to conduct experiments on the surface energy balance under stable conditions over snow on the Plaine Morte Glacier in the Swiss Alps. He is working with Dr. Michael Town to understand how stable water isotopes get incorporated into snow and how they change with time. These studies are important for improving global climate models and for interpreting information about past climates from ice cores. He plans to return to Moscow, Idaho and his teaching/research duties in August, 2008. More...
Harley Johansen's NSF-sponsored research on foreign investment adaptation and survival in ex-Soviet Baltic countries and Russia is featured in the latest issue of the Financial Times Magazine, FDI. The story is available here.
Vladimir Aizen, leading US scientist in studying climate, glaciers, and water resources in Central Asia, and research faculty in Geography, was recently awarded $900,000 from NASA. The award is to facilitate the study of climate change impact on water resources and land surface degradation in the Pamir and Amy Dariya River Basin in Central Asia. Dr. Aizen's research in Central Asia has been widely supported by several national and international agencies. His research also focuses on natural processes in the arid and semi-arid regions of Asia and their possible social and economical consequences in industrial and pre-industrial time. Dr. Aizen and his team use modern satellite and glacier ice-coring technology to achieve their goal. Including this new award, Dr. Aizen's team has four active research projects totaling $2M for the last three years.
Gundars Rudzitis, Professor, has co-authored with several undergraduate and graduate students on a forthcoming paperback, Future Visions of a Sustainable Palouse? Dr. Rudzitis is also one of 15 Senior Scholars funded by NSF/AAG to present a talk at the International World Geographical Congress in Tunis, Tunisia this summer. At the Understanding and Managing Amenity-Led Migration in Mountain Regions Conference at the Banff Centre in Canada, he has been invited as Plenary Speaker.
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