Important Events and Achievements
- Click here to access the waiting list for Fall 2008 classes.
- Kite Photography and Image Enhancement for Estimation of Productive Ground Cover in Virginia’s Pastures by Arvind Bhuta, Candice Luebbering, Andrew Foy and Jim Campbell was awarded 1st place in the VAMLIS Poster competition on May 7th (higher education category)
- Kirsten de Beurs has recently launched the mid-atlantic phenology network website.
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Larry Grossman gave an invited talk "Inequality, Environment, and Food on St. Vincent" at Washington and Lee University on April 22.
- Lynn Resler has recently been invited to be the Marsico Visiting Scholar at the University of Denver. She will be visiting, interacting with students and colleagues, and giving lectures from May 10 - 14.
- VT Geographers well represented at the AAG in Boston, April 14-19.
- 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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Graduate student Sherry Tejada recently returned from
a Poole Scholarship supported trip to East Tennessee to continue her field work on the burial practices of the Melungeon community. "I had an incredible time getting lost on back roads, crawling through poison ivy, trying to avoid stampeding cattle, and more importantly, speaking with those informants most familiar with a disappearing cultural practice."
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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).
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 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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