News
Over winter break, UI Geography Professors R. Rajagopal and Ed Brands led a team of 23 Iowans for a 3-week period to Tamil Nadu, India to study social entrepreneurship.
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Dr. Naresh Kumar recently received a seed grant from the Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC) to develop indirect methods of estimating indoor and outdoor air quality in Iowa City area. The UI press release may be read by clicking here.
Welcome to Geography at Iowa!
We live on a dynamic planet, one that is constantly changing in response to complex human and natural processes. Geographers study the interactions of people with each other and their environment to better understand these intricately related processes.
At The University of Iowa, we conduct research and teach students about social and biophysical systems and the events that shape the world in which we live. Our focus is on understanding these dynamics with a special emphasis on human-environment interactions as well as the science and the technologies that are needed to analyze, model, and visualize geographic processes.
We offer research opportunities and areas of emphasis in:
• Environmental
Studies,
• Geographic Information Science,
• Geography of Health, and
• International Development.
Our undergraduate program aims to provide the breadth of knowledge needed to understand contemporary social and environmental problems and the skills needed to work in geographic professions. This program will, for example, introduce students to issues related to environmental monitoring and policy, climate change, ecosystem processes, population dynamics, international development, remote sensing, and geographic information systems.
Our graduate program is focused on the environmental consequences of human decisions at local, regional, and global scales and the application of GIScience to the study of these consequences. Examples of recent work by our graduate students includes the representation of digital agents that are geographically-aware, mobile and intelligent, models of carbon sequestration and transport, the spatial analysis of cancer in Iowa, grid computing for geographic analysis, and models of how mountain ecosystems adapt in response to global climate change.
Faculty research is supported by grants from the US National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, among others, to study human-environment interactions and the development of computational theories and tools to support this research.
We invite you to explore all of our programs and the field of Geography!
