- Congratulations to Austin Harris, a geography undergraduate who recently recived a scholarship from Gamma Theata Upsilon, the honor society for geography.
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Korine Kolivras of the Lyme disease research team has received $20,000 to support preliminary analyses and data collection on the project from VT's Institute for Biomedical and Public Health Sciences. The research team is Jim Campbell, Steve Sedlock (CGIT), Dana Hawley (biology), Eric Smith and Pang Du (statistics), and David Gaines ( Virginia Dept of Health).
- Bob Morrill and Bill Carstensen have been awarded up to $50,000 from the Virginia Geographic Alliance to run next summer's World Landscapes course to New England, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Quebec.
- Larry Grossman presented the paper "Soil Conservation in the Windward Islands, Eastern Caribbean, in the 1930s and 1940s" at the conference EUROSOIL 2008: SOIL - SOCIETY - ENVIRONMENT held in Vienna, Austria, 25 - 29 August 2008
- Kirsten deBeurs article with G.M. Henebry, "Northern Annular Mode Effects on the Land Surface Phenologies of Northern Eurasia" has just appeared in the Journal of Climate and her paper "Estimating the effect of gypsy moth defoliation using MODIS" has appeared in Remote Sensing of Environment
- Students and teachers have a successful World Landscapes trip to the UK. This group shot was taken at the Blencathra Field Studies Centre, Cumbria, UK. (click image below for more)
- Lynn Resler along with graduate students Emily Smith, Amos Desjardins and Allisyn Hudson-Dunn spend the summer in the Rockies at Glacier National Park studying White Pine Blister Rust Disease
- Kirsten de Beurs has recently launched the mid-atlantic phenology network website.
- Kirsten de Beurs interviewed by Noah Adams on NPR's "All Things Considered" - Friday March 21, 2008. Kirsten discusses the early arrival of spring from the perspective of Phenology on National Public Radio
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Geography Alumni - For all who attended, the faculty all had a wonderful time getting back together with you in D.C. For those who were unable to come, we offer a few pictures from the events to entice you to join us next time.
Who are We?
Founded in 1975, the Geography Department at Virginia Tech is part of the College of Natural Resources. Department offices, labs, and facilities are located in Major Williams Hall in the Upper Quad area of the Virginia Tech Campus (building #7 grid 3M).
The Department offers both B.A. and M.S. degrees. We participate in the College of Natural Resources doctoral program in Geospatial and Environmental Analysis. At the undergraduate level, our basic goals are to foster a liberal education in Geography balanced with preparation for more advanced study and the increasing variety of careers the discipline offers. At the graduate level, the M.S. program in geography emphasizes developing professional confidence in the tools, substance, methodology, and theory of the discipline. Thesis and non-thesis options in a 30 semester-hour program prepare students for a variety of careers in teaching, research, planning organizations, business, and government.
What do we do?
We work in a wide variety of careers in teaching, research, planning organizations, business, Information Technology,and government. To explore further, look at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) website on careers.
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