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GCU 583 Sonora Field Seminar, Accessing data

Graduate students benefit from a wide variety of course work and research opportunities in five broad interdisciplinary themes that span the expertise of the faculty within the School of Geographical Sciences.

  • Climate Science
  • Cultural Geography
  • Environmental and Landscape Dynamics
  • GIScience and Spatial Analysis
  • Urban and Regional Analysis

The faculty currently includes a President’s Professor and Foundation Professor, two National Science Foundation CAREER award winners, a past executive officer of the Association of American Geographers, a Guggenheim scholar, and members of national and international committees and panels such as the National Research Council Geographical Sciences Committee and Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change (IPCC). The school is also the editorial home of the Journal of Urbanism, the International Regional Science Review and Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences. The faculty exposes graduate students to a marked variety of research interests and methodologies. Resources include state of the art geographic information science laboratories and computational facilities. See the associated information regarding faculty and courses for more detailed information regarding the depth and breadth of the school.