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Geography and Geosciences has a full line-up of courses offered online this summer. Classes offered online this summer also contribute to the Geospatial Technology certificate. For the full summer schedule, visit http://louisville.edu/summerterm.
Geography and Geosciences will be offering the following courses in Summer 2020. Please note that there are no prerequisites for GEOG 355. Please contact Katrina Elliott – our advisor – to enroll in the course.
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Dr. Wei Song was on sabbatical in spring 2019. His research activities during the sabbatical leave were focused on three related issues: (1) analyzing urban infrastructure and accessibility, (2) assessing urban economic performance and resilience using new sources of data (e.g. nighttime light remote sensing data), and (3) exploring spatial organization of urban functionalities based on network big data.
Learn more about the project here.
Drs. Gaughan and Stevens, along with UofL graduate students, work with an interdisciplinary team to study how communities and their households, land use, and climate interact to create or mitigate vulnerability in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Area of Southern Africa. The primary outcomes of this work makes important contributions to advancing the land system science field by conducting a comparison of land use/land cover change in the broader context of socio-ecological vulnerability for Africa’s largest transboundary conservation area.
Find out more about the project, including recent publications, here.
Jason Naylor, Aaron Sexton, "The Relationship between Severe Weather Warnings, Storm Reports, and Storm CellFrequency in and around Several Large Metropolitan Areas"
Margath Walker, "Is who you know as important as what you know? Mapping the invisible colleges supporting academic prestige"
Wei Song, “Influence of space-time differentiation of frontal area index on surface temperature” and “Landscape-Based Assessment of Urban Resilience: A Case Study of the Central City of Shenyang”
Carrie Mott, Daniel Cockayne,"Conscientious disengagement and whiteness as a condition of dialogue"
Rochner, M.L., Merrill, Z.A, and Smith, L.G.,"Dendrochronological Investigation of the Knob Creek Cabin at President Abraham Lincoln’s Boyhood Home, Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA"
Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Pricope, N., Hartter, J., Cassidy, L., and J.D. Salerno,"Operationalizing Vulnerability: Land System Dynamics in a Transfrontier Conservation Area"
Liu, D., W. Song, J. Lu, C. Xie, and X. Wen., A New Geographical Cluster View on Passenger Vehicle Purchasing in Chinese Cities
Renda, W., Zhang, C.H., Spatiotemporal analysis of firearm discharge recorded by gunshot detection technology in Jefferson County, KY
Geographers investigate the character and possible associations between a subject and its environment. The Department of Geography and Geosciences educates students to view the world in a spatial and time-dependent context to determine relationships between people and their immediate and global environment.
Bachelor of Science: The department offers Bachelor of Science degrees in four different concentrations:
The M.S. in Applied Geography is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and background knowledge needed to solve real-world problems with geographic dimensions. Graduate students experience a nucleated body of coursework designed to foster and support the theoretical knowledge and advanced skill sets demanded for the professional and academic/research fields. Coupled with the enhanced level of course content; quantitative, qualitative and spatial data analysis applications; and the Departmental emphasis upon critical reasoning, effective writing and communication skills, graduates will be capable and prepared for effective integration into a broad diversity of professional fields.
The Department of Geography and Geosciences offers two minors:
Learn more about a Minor in Geography or Environmental Analysis
Our graduates work for local, state and federal governments; environmental consulting firm;, retail businesses; and research and educational organizations. Departmental graduates also have been admitted to some of the nation’s finest graduate programs.
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